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@ARTICLE{Shah:136206,
author = {Shah, N. Jon and Jäncke, Lutz and Grosse-Ruyken,
Maria-Liisa and Müller-Gärtner, Hans-Wilhelm},
title = {{I}nfluence of acoustic masking noise in f{MRI} of the
auditory cortex during phonetic discrimination},
journal = {Journal of magnetic resonance imaging},
volume = {9},
issn = {1053-1807},
publisher = {Wiley},
reportid = {PreJuSER-136206},
pages = {19 - 25},
note = {Record converted from JUWEL: 18.07.2013},
abstract = {he application of functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) to study activation of auditory cortex suffers from
one significant confounding factor, namely, that of the
acoustic noise generated by the gradient system, which is an
integral part of the imaging process. Earlier work has shown
that it is indeed possible to distinguish cortical
activation resulting from presentation of auditory stimuli
despite the presence of background noise from the gradient
system. The influence of acoustic noise from the gradient
system of the MRI scanner on the blood oxygen
level-dependent (BOLD) response during functional activation
of the auditory cortex has been investigated in six healthy
subjects with no hearing difficulties. Experiments were
performed using gradient-echo echoplanar imaging (EPI) and a
verbal, auditory discrimination paradigm, presented in a
block-wise manner, in which carefully aligned
consonant-vowel syllables were presented at a rate of 1 Hz.
For each volunteer the experiment was repeated three times
with all parameters fixed, except slice number, which was 4,
16, or 64. The positioning of the central four slices in
each experiment was common. Thus, the fraction of TR during
which the stimulus is on but no imaging is being performed,
varies from almost zero, in the case of 64 slices, to over 8
seconds, in the case of four slices. Only the central four
slices were of interest; additional slices simply generated
acoustic noise and were discarded. During the four-slice
experiment, all subjects showed a robust BOLD response in
the superior temporal gyrus covering the primary and
secondary auditory cortex. The spatial extent and the
z-scores of the activated regions decreased with longer
duration of gradient noise from the scanner. For a phonetic
discrimination task, the results indicate that presentation
of the stimulus during periods free from scanner noise leads
to a more pronounced BOLD response.},
keywords = {cerebral blood flow / auditory cortex / acoustic noise /
gradient noise / functional magnetic resonance imaging},
cin = {INM-4},
ddc = {500},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-4-20090406},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000080144300003},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/136206},
}