Martin
Krmer1, Thies Halvor Jochimsen1, Marc Roth1,
Jrgen Rainer Reichenbach1
1Medical Physics Group, Department of
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology,
A
method to improve spatial and temporal resolutions in fMRI using
PROPELLER-EPI. First results are shown which demonstrate that a sliding
window reconstruction of high resolution long-axis propeller (LAP) data is
suitable for simple fMRI experiments. Additionally the results achieved by
the LAP measurements are compared to the standard 64x64 EPI sequence which is
usually used in fMRI. From there it is shown that the activation maps created
from the LAP scans are better localized along the cortex.