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Asian Americans have greater prevalence of metabolic syndrome despite lower body mass index by Palaniappan, L.P, Wong, E.C, Shin, J.J, Fortmann, S.P, Lauderdale, D.S

“…Objective: To examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and metabolic syndrome for Asian Americans and non-Hispanic Whites (NHWs), given that…”
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Involvement of striate and extrastriate visual cortical areas in spatial attention by Hillyard, S. A, Martínez, A, Anllo-Vento, L, Sereno, M. I, Frank, L. R, Buxton, R. B, Dubowitz, D. J, Wong, E. C, Hinrichs, H, Heinze, H. J

“…We investigated the cortical mechanisms of visual-spatial attention while subjects discriminated patterned targets within distractor arrays. Functional…”
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Collateral Circulation Imaging: MR Perfusion Territory Arterial Spin-Labeling at 3T by Wu, B, Wang, X, Guo, J, Xie, S, Wong, E.C, Zhang, J, Jiang, X, Fang, J

“…Current knowledge of the collateral circulation remains sparse, and a noninvasive method to better characterize the role of collaterals is desirable. The aim…”
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Dynamics of blood flow and oxygenation changes during brain activation: the balloon model by Buxton, R B, Wong, E C, Frank, L R

“…A biomechanical model is presented for the dynamic changes in deoxyhemoglobin content during brain activation. The model incorporates the conflicting effects…”
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A general kinetic model for quantitative perfusion imaging with arterial spin labeling by Buxton, R B, Frank, L R, Wong, E C, Siewert, B, Warach, S, Edelman, R R

“…Recently, several implementations of arterial spin labeling (ASL) techniques have been developed for producing MRI images sensitive to local tissue perfusion…”
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Thellungiella: an Arabidopsis-related model plant adapted to cold temperatures by GRIFFITH, MARILYN, TIMONIN, MARY, WONG, ANNIE C.E, GRAY, GORDON R, AKHTER, SAJJAD R, SALDANHA, MARSHA, ROGERS, MICHAEL A, WERETILNYK, ELIZABETH A, MOFFATT, BARBARA

“…Thellungiella salsuginea, a wild crucifer that grows in subarctic Canada and is closely related to Arabidopsis thaliana, was examined for its suitability as a…”
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Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging in the Diagnosis of Early Basal Ganglia Germinoma by Lou, X, Ma, L, Wang, F.-L, Tang, Z.-P, Huang, H, Cai, Y.-Q, Wong, E.-H.-C

“…Germinomas originating from the basal ganglia (BG) are rare. Early diagnosis is important for favorable prognosis, but it is difficult due to the slow clinical…”
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Quantitative imaging of perfusion using a single subtraction (QUIPSS and QUIPSS II) by Wong, E C, Buxton, R B, Frank, L R

“…In the pulsed arterial spin labeling (ASL) techniques EPISTAR, PICORE, and FAIR, subtraction of two images in which inflowing blood is first tagged and then…”
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Attentional Activation of the Cerebellum Independent of Motor Involvement by Allen, Greg, Buxton, Richard B., Wong, Eric C., Courchesne, Eric

“…The cerebellum traditionally has been viewed as a neural device dedicated to motor control. Although recent evidence shows that it is involved in nonmotor…”
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging of human auditory cortex by Binder, J R, Rao, S M, Hammeke, T A, Yetkin, F Z, Jesmanowicz, A, Bandettini, P A, Wong, E C, Estkowski, L D, Goldstein, M D, Haughton, V M

“…Magnetic resonance imaging methods recently demonstrated regional cerebral signal changes in response to limb movement and visual stimulation, attributed to…”
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Expressed sequence tags from the Yukon ecotype of Thellungiella reveal that gene expression in response to cold, drought and salinity shows little overlap by Wong, C.E, Li, Y, Whitty, B.R, Diaz-Camino, C, Akhter, S.R, Brandle, J.E, Golding, G.B, Weretilnyk, E.A, Moffatt, B.A, Griffith, M

“…Thellungiella salsuginea (also known as T. halophila) is a close relative of Arabidopsis that is very tolerant of drought, freezing, and salinity and may be an…”
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A loop of cancer-stroma-cancer interaction promotes peritoneal metastasis of ovarian cancer via TNFα-TGFα-EGFR by Lau, T-S, Chan, L K-Y, Wong, E C-H, Hui, C W-C, Sneddon, K, Cheung, T-H, Yim, S-F, Lee, J H-S, Yeung, C S-Y, Chung, T K-H, Kwong, J

“…Peritoneum is the most common site for ovarian cancer metastasis. Here we investigate how cancer epigenetics regulates reciprocal tumor-stromal interactions in…”
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Processing strategies for time-course data sets in functional MRI of the human brain by Bandettini, P A, Jesmanowicz, A, Wong, E C, Hyde, J S

“…Image processing strategies for functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) data sets acquired using a gradient-recalled echo-planar imaging sequence are…”
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Sleep deprivation-induced reduction in cortical functional response to serial subtraction by Drummond, Sean P. A, Brown, Gregory G, Stricker, John L, Buxton, Richard B, Wong, Eric C, Gillin, J Christian

“…THIRTEEN normal volunteers were studied with fMRI during arithmetic performance after a normal night of sleep and following sleep deprivation (SD). Aims…”
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A theoretical and experimental comparison of continuous and pulsed arterial spin labeling techniques for quantitative perfusion imaging by Wong, E C, Buxton, R B, Frank, L R

“…Under ideal conditions, continuous arterial spin labeling (ASL) techniques are higher in SNR than pulsed ASL techniques by a factor of e. Presented here is a…”
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Correction of off resonance-related distortion in echo-planar imaging using EPI-based field maps by Reber, P J, Wong, E C, Buxton, R B, Frank, L R

“…We present, here, a simple method for measurement and correction of off-resonance related geometric distortion in echo-planar imaging (EPI). This method uses…”
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Time course EPI of human brain function during task activation by Bandettini, P A, Wong, E C, Hinks, R S, Tikofsky, R S, Hyde, J S

“…Using gradient-echo echo-planar MRI, a local signal increase of 4.3 +/- 0.3% is observed in the human brain during task activation, suggesting a local decrease…”
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Hepatic steatosis in obese Chinese children by CHAN, D. F. Y, LI, A. M, NELSON, E. A. S, CHU, W. C. W, CHAN, M. H. M, WONG, E. M. C, LIU, E. K. H, CHAN, I. H. S, YIN, J, LAM, C. W, FOK, T. F

“…(1) to determine the prevalence of asymptomatic hepatic steatosis and presumed nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, in our local population of obese Chinese children…”
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Characterization of cerebral blood oxygenation and flow changes during prolonged brain activation by Bandettini, P A, Kwong, K K, Davis, T L, Tootell, R B, Wong, E C, Fox, P T, Belliveau, J W, Weisskoff, R M, Rosen, B R

“…The behavior of cerebral blood flow and oxygenation during prolonged brain activation was studied using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sensitized to flow and…”
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging of complex human movements by RAO, S. M, BINDER, J. R, WONG, E. C, HAUGHTON, V. M, HYDE, J. S, BANDETTINI, P. A, HAMMEKE, T. A, YETKIN, F. Z, JESMANOWICZ, A, LISK, L. M, MORRIS, G. L, MUELLER, W. M, ESTKOWSKI, L. D

“…Functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) is a new, noninvasive imaging tool thought to measure changes related to regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF)…”
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