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Abstract #0221

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

Jerzy Bodurka1, Peter Bandettini1,2

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)