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Forging a path to mesoscopic imaging success with ultra-high field functional magnetic resonance imaging
Authors:Kimberly B Weldon  Cheryl A Olman
Affiliation:1.Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;2.Center for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;3.Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Abstract:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies with ultra-high field (UHF, 7+ Tesla) technology enable the acquisition of high-resolution images. In this work, we discuss recent achievements in UHF fMRI at the mesoscopic scale, on the order of cortical columns and layers, and examine approaches to addressing common challenges. As researchers push to smaller and smaller voxel sizes, acquisition and analysis decisions have greater potential to degrade spatial accuracy, and UHF fMRI data must be carefully interpreted. We consider the impact of acquisition decisions on the spatial specificity of the MR signal with a representative dataset with 0.8 mm isotropic resolution. We illustrate the trade-offs in contrast with noise ratio and spatial specificity of different acquisition techniques and show that acquisition blurring can increase the effective voxel size by as much as 50% in some dimensions. We further describe how different sources of degradations to spatial resolution in functional data may be characterized. Finally, we emphasize that progress in UHF fMRI depends not only on scientific discovery and technical advancement, but also on informal discussions and documentation of challenges researchers face and overcome in pursuit of their goals.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Key relationships between non-invasive functional neuroimaging and the underlying neuronal activity’.
Keywords:ultra-high field  fMRI  layer dependent  cortical columns  spatial specificity
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