Pursuing Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields for Sensitivity and Contrast in Brain Imaging
Webinar Overview
Bridging and spanning the multiple spatial scales of organization is an essential, but a daunting task necessary for understanding brain function and ultimately dysfunction. Transformative changes have occurred in the last two decades in our ability towards achieving this task due to a push to exploit unique advantages available at ultrahigh magnetic fields despite the major challenges of imaging at the correspondingly high RF frequencies, and a plethora of novel imaging acquisition techniques that increase spatiotemporal sampling.
Latest in this progress is the effort to push the available magnetic field to 10.5 Tesla for human imaging and ~16 Tesla for animal models, potentially combining the MR measurements with non-MR modalities in case of animal model experiments. Kamil Ugurbil summarizes the state of these recent developments.
On Demand Session