Abstract #0221

Physiological Noise Effects on the Flip Angle Selection in BOLD FMRI.

Jerzy Bodurka¹, Peter Bandettini^1,2

¹Functional MRI Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA; ²Section on Functional Imaging Methods, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Here we have considered theoretically and experimentally the physiological noise effects on the flip angle selection. We will shown that for given TR, temporal signal to noise ratio (TSNR=mean voxel time course signal/time course standard deviation)