Abstract #0584

Localization of Neural Activity Using DANTE-Prepared Multi-slice EPI (DANTE-EPI) for BOLD Detection

Linqing Li¹, Christine Law², Karla Miller³, and Peter Jezzard³

¹National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Health, Rockville, MD, United States, ²Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab, Stanford University, CA, United States, ³Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

To assess whether DANTE-EPI (Delay Alternating with Nutation for Tailored Excitation) sequence for moving blood suppressed fMRI images can effectively reduce inflow effects and, physiological noise originating from intravascular blood signal, and spurious (false positive) functional activation resulting from draining vein effects. Results were compared with images from conventional gradient echo planar imaging (GE-EPI).

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