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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-9-13
pubmed:abstractText
Recent studies of blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal responses averaged over a region of interest have demonstrated that the response is nonlinear with respect to stimulus duration. Specifically, shorter duration stimuli produce signal changes larger than expected from a linear system. The focus of this study is to characterize the spatial heterogeneity of this nonlinear effect. A series of MR images of the visual and motor cortexes were acquired during visual stimulation and finger tapping, respectively, at five different stimulus durations (SD). The nonlinearity was assessed by fitting ideal linear responses to the responses at each SD. This amplitude, which is constant for different SD in a linear system, was normalized by the amplitude of the response to a blocked design, thus describing the amount by which the stimulus is larger than predicted from a linear extrapolation of the response to the long duration stimulus. The amplitude of the BOLD response showed a nonlinear behavior that varied considerably and consistently over space, ranging from almost linear to 10 times larger than a linear prediction at short SD. In the motor cortex different nonlinear behavior was found in the primary and supplementary motor cortexes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1053-8119
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
14
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
817-26
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Spatial heterogeneity of the nonlinear dynamics in the FMRI BOLD response.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National institute of Mental Health, NIH Bethesda, Maryland , USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article