Layer-specific, retinotopically-diffuse modulation in human visual cortex in response to viewing emotionally expressive faces

TT Liu, JZ Fu, Y Chai, S Japee, G Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Viewing faces that are perceived as emotionally expressive evokes enhanced neural
responses in multiple brain regions, a phenomenon thought to depend critically on the …

[HTML][HTML] Layer-fMRI VASO with short stimuli and event-related designs at 7 T

S Dresbach, LR Huber, OF Gulban, R Goebel - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Layers and columns are the dominant processing units in the human (neo) cortex at the
mesoscopic scale. While the blood oxygenation dependent (BOLD) signal has a high …

[HTML][HTML] Mesoscopic in vivo human T2* dataset acquired using quantitative MRI at 7 Tesla

OF Gulban, S Bollmann, LR Huber, K Wagstyl… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Mesoscopic (0.1-0.5 mm) interrogation of the living human brain is critical for
advancing neuroscience and bridging the resolution gap with animal models. Despite the …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the capabilities and challenges of layer-fMRI VASO at 3T

LR Huber, L Kronbichler, R Stirnberg, P Ehses… - Aperture …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sub-millimeter functional imaging has the potential to capture cortical layer-specific
functional information flow within and across brain systems. Recent sequence …

Acquisition and processing methods of whole-brain layer-fMRI VASO and BOLD: The Kenshu dataset

K Koiso, AK Müller, K Akamatsu, S Dresbach… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Cortical depth-dependent functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI), also known as layer-
fMRI, has the potential to capture directional neural information flow of brain computations …

Differential impacts of strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia on the mesoscale functional organization of the human visual cortex

S Nasr, J Skerswetat, ED Gaier, SN Malladi… - Journal of …, 2025 - jneurosci.org
We employed high-resolution fMRI to distinguish the impacts of anisometropia and
strabismus amblyopia on the evoked ocular dominance (OD) response. Sixteen amblyopic …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetization transfer weighted laminar fMRI with multi-echo FLASH

V Pfaffenrot, PJ Koopmans - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Laminar functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using the gradient echo (GRE) blood
oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) contrast is prone to signal changes arising from large …

Using high-resolution functional MRI to differentiate impacts of strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia on evoked ocular dominance activity in humans

S Nasr, J Skerswetat, ED Gaier, SN Malladi… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We employed high-resolution functional MRI (fMRI) to distinguish the impacts of
anisometropia and strabismus (the two most frequent causes of amblyopia) on the evoked …

Towards high-resolution quantitative assessment of vascular dysfunction

M Guidi, G Giulietti, E Biondetti, R Wise, F Giove - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Neurovascular alterations are increasingly recognized as a key feature of many brain
diseases. They can manifest as a reduction in resting cerebral blood flow or cerebrovascular …

Laminar multi-contrast fMRI at 7T allows differentiation of neuronal excitation and inhibition underlying positive and negative BOLD responses

X Shao, F Guo, JH Kim, D Ress, C Zhao… - Imaging …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
A major challenge for human neuroimaging using functional MRI is the differentiation of
neuronal excitation and inhibition which may induce positive and negative BOLD responses …