Effect of Physiological Noise on Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in 3T Magnetic Field.
Hamed DehghaniMohammad Ali OghabianSeyed Amir Hossein BatouliJalil Arab KheradmandAli KhatibiPublished in: Basic and clinical neuroscience (2020)
In summary, our results indicate great respiration effects on the lumbar and thoracolumbar spinal cord fMRI, and its contribution to the heartbeat effect can be a significant variable in the individual fMRI data analysis. Displacement of the spinal cord and the effects of this noise in the thoracolumbar and lumbar spinal cord fMRI results are significant and cannot be ignored.