Part I. An Overview of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Section 1. Introduction to the Physiological Basis of Functional Neuroimaging: 1. Neural activity and energy metabolism; 2. Cerebral blood flow and brain activation; Section 2. Introduction to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: 3. Nuclear magnetic resonance; 4. Magnetic resonance imaging; 5.

Imaging functional activity; Part II. Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Section 1. The Nature of the Magnetic Resonance Signal: 6. Basic physics of magnetism and NMR; 7. Relaxation and contrast in MRI; 8. Diffusion and the MR signal; Section 2. Magnetic Resonance Imaging: 9. Mapping the MR signal; 10.

MRI techniques; 11. Noise and artifacts in MR images; Part III. Principles of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Section 1. Perfusion Imaging: 12. Contrast agent techniques; 13. Arterial spin labeling techniques; Section 2. Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Imaging: 14. The blood oxygenation level dependent effect; 15.

Design and analysis of BOLD experiments; 16. Interpreting the BOLD response; Appendix. The physics of NMR.