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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 15.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2011 Oct 21;59(4):3933–3940. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.054

Table 1.

Parameters of the Obata model

Symbol Value Description
V0 - Resting venous blood volume fraction
r0 100 s−1 Taylor expansion of intravascular relaxation rate Δ R21
ν 0 80.6 s−1 Frequency offset at the surface of magnetized vessel
TE 20 or 30 ms Echo-time of the MRI sequence
ε 0.59 for TE=30ms
0.70 for TE=20ms
Intrinsic/Extrinsic signal ratio
E0 0.4 Baseline oxygen extraction fraction
k 1 4.3 · ν0· E0· TE Lumped constant
k 2 ε·r0·E0· TE Lumped constant
k 3 ε – 1 Lumped constant