fMRI and PET

[Julian Neumann]

I just applied for a lab internship in a Brain Imaging Center in Copenhagen.

Does anybody of you know a good review in the field of brain imaging?

It would be nice if somebody could give a short introduction here,
maybe I´m not the only one, who finds it interesting!?

Anyways is there somebody from Copenhagen here in the forum!??

[Tatiana]

Hey! That sounds cool.

for fMRI try this paper by Logothetis: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=14977420&ordinalpos=11&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

its a classic one: Interpreting the BOLD signal.

Otherwise I've got book now to read: "Functional MRI: An introduction to methods" (by Peter Jezzard, Paul M. Matthews, Stephen M. Smith). Should be good as an introduction too.

For PET cannot say.

[BenediktS]

If your library offers access to Springer-E-Books, chapters 2, 3, 6 and 7 of the following german book may be interesting for you:

Funktionelle MRT in Psychiatrie und Neurologie
Schneider, Frank; Fink, Gereon R. (Hrsg.)
2007, XIV, 689 Seiten, 664 Abb., meist in Farbe., Geb.
ISBN: 978-3-540-20474-9

But it is only about fMRI.

[neutrino]

There's a nice paper by Robert Savoy on experimental design for fMRI:

DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2005.06.008

Experimental design in brain activation MRI: cautionary tales.

The use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in cognitive neuroscience has expanded at an amazing rate in the past 10 years. Current research includes increasingly subtle and specific attempts to dissect the cognitive and emotional mechanisms called into play when humans make decisions. The present essay will briefly review some of the general considerations and domains of information needed when one designs fMRI-based experiments. However, the main theme will be the difficulties associated with designing, conducting, analyzing and interpreting such research. Functional MRI is an unusually complicated technique, and there are numerous ways for experiments to go wrong. As well as demanding exceptional care in maintaining the quality of one's own research, this makes the universal problem of evaluating other peoples' research particularly challenging.


http://tinyurl.com/2v4ess (link to pubmed)