International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 516359, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/516359
Research Article

Cerebral Blood Flow Measurement Using fMRI and PET: A Cross-Validation Study

Jean J. Chen, Marguerite Wieckowska, Ernst Meyer, and G. Bruce Pike

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, H3A 2B4, Canada

Received 4 June 2008; Accepted 22 July 2008

Academic Editor: Yantian Zhang

Copyright © 2008 Jean J. Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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