Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Principles and Techniques [Hardcover]

This second edition is an invaluable guide to fMRI, from introducing the basic ideas and principles to the underlying physics and physiology.Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become a standard tool for mapping the working brain's activation patterns, both in health and in disease. In this second edition, Richard Buxton provides an invaluable guide to how fMRI works, from introducing the basic ideas and principles to the underlying physics and physiology.Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become a standard tool for mapping the working brain's activation patterns, both in health and in disease. In this second edition, Richard Buxton provides an invaluable guide to how fMRI works, from introducing the basic ideas and principles to the underlying physics and physiology.Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become a standard tool for mapping the working brain's activation patterns, both in health and in disease. It is an interdisciplinary field and crosses the borders of neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, radiology, mathematics, physics and engineering. Developments in techniques, procedures and our understanding of this field are expanding rapidly. In this second edition of Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Richard Buxton  a leading authority on fMRI  provides an invaluable guide to how fMRI works, from introducing the basic ideas and principles to the underlying physics and physiology. He covers the relationship between fMRI and other imaging techniques and includes a guide to the statistical analysis of fMRI data. This book will be useful both to the experienced radiographer, and the clinician or researcher with no previous knowledge of the technology.Part I. An Overview of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Section 1. Introduction to the Physiological Basis of Functional Neuroimaging: 1. Neural activity and energy metabolism; 2. Cerebral blood flow and brain activation; Section 2. Introduction to Fló-