A protocol for ultra-high field laminar fMRI in the human brain

Ke Jia; Elisa Zamboni; Catarina Rua; Nuno Reis Goncalves; Valentin Kemper; Adrian Ka Tsun Ng; Christopher T Rodgers; Guy Williams; Rainer Goebel; Zoe Kourtzi

doi:10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100415

A protocol for ultra-high field laminar fMRI in the human brain

Ke Jia^*, Elisa Zamboni, Catarina Rua, Nuno Reis Goncalves, Valentin Kemper, Adrian Ka Tsun Ng, Christopher T Rodgers, Guy Williams, Rainer Goebel, Zoe Kourtzi^*

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Abstract

Ultra-high field (UHF) neuroimaging affords the sub-millimeter resolution that allows researchers to interrogate brain computations at a finer scale than that afforded by standard fMRI techniques. Here, we present a step-by-step protocol for using UHF imaging (Siemens Terra 7T scanner) to measure activity in the human brain. We outline how to preprocess the data using a pipeline that combines tools from SPM, FreeSurfer, ITK-SNAP, and BrainVoyager and correct for vasculature-related confounders to improve the spatial accuracy of the fMRI signal. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Jia et al. (2020) and Zamboni et al. (2020).

Original language	English
Article number	100415
Number of pages	19
Journal	STAR protocols
Volume	2
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100415
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2021

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