Functional MRI of the human cerebellum is challenging at ultrahigh fields, since conventional RF head coils hardly cover the cerebellum with sufficient signal-to-noise ratio and B1+-inhomogeneities introduce challenges. In order to overcome these problems, a coil combination consisting of an 8ch transceiver head coil and a 7ch receive only array are combined to improve imaging of the whole brain with special focus on the cerebellum. A ‘semi-dynamic’ B1+-shimming technique is introduced which provides a tSNR-gain of 29 % and voxels with higher significance in a finger tapping fMRI experiment when comparing the coil combination to a 32ch receive head coil.
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