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Abstract #3352

The Effects of Receive Field Contrast on Motion-Corrected EPI Time Series: A Simulation of a 32 Channel Receive Array

Daniel J. Sheltraw1, Ben Inglis1

1Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

The combination of receive field contrast and motion correction can introduce temporal modulations in fMRI data. In this work we report on simulations which estimate the size of this effect and its potential consequences to fMRI data acquired using a 32-channel head array.

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