Current laminar BOLD fMRI studies at ultra-high field are typically carried out at sub-millimetre spatial resolution (~0.7mm isotropic), which, however, results in each voxel covering more than one cortical layer. Thus, layer-resolved activation profile can only be obtained if such data is analysed with post-processing tools at super-resolution. In this study, we demonstrate a novel functional mapping approach by acquiring fMRI data at true laminar resolution (100µm) in humans at 7T, compare it to the conventional high-resolution GE-EPI and analyse the depth-dependent BOLD signal change to visual stimulation.
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