The standing wave artefact affects SNR and contrast of the images in Ultra-high field (UHF) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). One way to mitigate this effect is to use parallel transmission (pTx). In this study, we evaluate the benefits of pTx for studies that investigate large-scale brain networks involved in motor control. We show that, compared to the standard circularly polarized (CP) mode, activation patterns in the posterior lobule of the cerebellum, produced by a coordinated finger flexion-extension task in both hands, are better captured using subject-specific pTx pulses.
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