The investigation of whole human brains post mortem with large bore systems can achieve a resolution considerably superior to that achievable in-vivo. However, the achievable resolutions and contrast are limited, especially for diffusion MRI (dMRI), by gradient performance, non-optimized RF-coils, and RF-field inhomogeneity and decreasing T2 with increasing B0. Here we report on ultrahigh resolution (450µm) diffusion imaging of the whole human brain showing exquisite spatial definition. This is achieved using a specialized 9.4T 8Ch parallel transmit (pTx), 24Ch receive RF-coil and a diffusion weighted steady state free precession (dwSSFP) sequence extended with a kt-points excitation pulse for B1+ homogenization
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