Intervoxel Heterogeneity of Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Responses as a Function of T 1 Weighting

@article{Lu2002IntervoxelHO,
  title={Intervoxel Heterogeneity of Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Responses as a Function of T
 1 Weighting},
  author={Hanzhang Lu and Xavier Golay and Peter C. M. van Zijl},
  journal={NeuroImage},
  year={2002},
  volume={17},
  pages={943-955},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6195814}
}
Numerical simulations were performed based on a physiological multicompartment model, including pure tissue, large vessels, microvessels, capillaries, venules, and cerebrospinal fluid to aid in the interpretation of experimental results.
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