FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING WITH ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING

In this report, a review is made of the mechanism behind the functiona l MRI (fMRI) signals and the advances made in many different areas of fMRI. Such areas include understanding and compensating for artifacts specific to fMRI, postprocessing of fMRI images, the application of fM RI to areas of interest in neuroscience, some interesting new glimpses on the frontiers of studying hemodynamics and metabolic responses, an d the effort to combine fMRI results with magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG).