Chapter 18

Author: Keith R. Thulborn and Antonio Gisbert (University of Pittsburgh)

Section 18.1. Introduction
Section 18.2. Quality Assurance for Clinical fMRI
18.2.1: Personnel
18.2.2: Patient preparation
18.2.3: Patient safety
18.2.4: Paradigms
18.2.5: Scanner
18.2.6: Control system
18.2.7: Data analysis
18.2.8: Data presentation

Section 18.3. Mechanism of BOLD fMRI and its Assumptions in Clinical Applications
18.3.1: Spatial resolution
18.3.2: Haemodynamic coupling in disease

Section 18.4. Clinical Cases Demonstrating fMRI Applications
18.4.1: Presurgical planning
18.4.2: Diagnosis
18.4.3: Rehabilitation therapy

Section 18.5. Conclusions