In this post collects layer-fMRI abstracts of the main neuroimaging conferences. This is following the tradition of layer-fMRI abstracts in the previous years: layer-fMRI abstracts 2019, layer-fMRI abstracts 2020

Minnesota high field workshop 2021

Link to Workshop (Oct 20th- Oct 22nd): https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/minnesota-workshop/home

• 029 – Logan T. Dowdle (CMRR, UMN) Using ultra-high field fMRI to uncover layer-specific activation along the ventral temporal lobe, abstract PDF (gdrive mirror).
• 030 – Chengwen Liu (Central South University, China) 7T CBV fMRI reveal cortical microcircuits of bottom-up saliency in the human brain, abstract PDF (gdrive mirror).
• 005 – Laurentius (Renzo) Huber (Uni Maastricht) Measuring Changes in Arterial and Venous Cerebral Blood Volume in Human Dystonia Brain at 7T, abstract PDF (gdrive mirror).
• 034 – Logan Dowdle (CMRR, UMN) Gains in precision and signal for functional neuroimaging data after applying NOise reduction with DIstribution Corrected PCA (NORDIC). abstract PDF (gdrive mirror).

ESMRMB 2021

• S4.P16 – J. Heij (Spinoza) A framework for optimal planning during ultrahigh spatiotemporal resolution line-scanning. abstract pdf.
• S4.P18 – R. Huber (Uni Maastricht) Does the field strength matter? Comparing layer-fMRI VASO across 3 T, 7 T, and 9.4 T. abstract pdf.
• S6.O4 – Passarinho (Uni Lisbon) Noise removal in line-scanning fMRI. abstract pdf.

OHBM 2021

• 1286 – Omer Faruk Gulban (Maastricht) – Patch flattening for high resolution topographical surveys of MRI & histology without surface meshes, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored video (Youtube), mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 1287 – Omer Faruk Gulban (Maastricht) – In vivo human MRI at 035 mm reveals up to 15 ms T2* changes within gray matter’, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored video (Youtube), mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 1229 – Renzo Huber (Maastricht) – Evaluating the capabilities and challenges of layer-fMRI VASO at 3T, abstract, mirrored video (YouTube), mirrored poster (Gdrive), sparkle site.
• 1389 – Juliane Doehler (Magdeburg) – Layer-specific myeloarchitecture of human S1 hand area in younger and older adults at 7T-MRI, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored video (Youtube), mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 1537 – Salvatore Torrisi (Berkeley/NIH) – Creating Layered Surfaces to Visualize with AFNI + SUMA, with applications to laminar fMRI, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored video (YouTube), mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 1634 – Sebastian Dresbach (Maastricht) – VASO reveals distinct layer-connectivity between digit-representations in BA3b, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored video (YouTube), mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 1692 – Jennifer Yeo (Northeastern University, Boston) – Mapping cortical-depth-dependent vascular responses in cerebral amyloid angiopathy with 7T fMRI. abstract, sparkle site, mirrored video (YouTube), mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 1861 – Ittai Shamir (Tel Aviv) – Exploring the Laminar Connectome, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 1938 – Alessandra Pizzuti (Maastricht) – Mapping columnar axis of motion in human area MT using SI-SS-VASO at 7T, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored video (Gdrife), mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 2048 – Yinghua Yu (Osaka) – Layer dependent facilitation of neural activity during rhythmic movement in the human M1, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 2100 – Guoxiang Liu (NICT/Osaka) – Comparison of BOLD and VASO in submillimeter high-resolution fMRI Based on BISEPI at 7T, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored video (YouTube), mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 2177 – Daniel Haenelt (MPI/Leipzig) – Myelination Differences of Stripes in Human V2: Preliminary Evidence from 7 T Quantitative MRI, abstract, sparkle site, Poster mirror (gdrive).
• 2387 – Shinho Cho (CMRR) – Mapping Layer-specific Orientation Pinwheel Pattern in Cat Visual Cortex with Functional CBV Imaging, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 2524 – Yawen Wang (Maastricht) – Neural responses of illusory surface brightness perception at 7T fMRI, sparkle link.
• 2565 – Ji-Hyun Kim (Ulsan National Institute and Technology) – Laminar Representations of Vibrotactile Stimuli with Varying Frequency in S1: a 7T fMRI Study. abstract, sparkle site, mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 2632 – Yue Wang (UCAS) – Layer-dependent amblyopic deficits in feedforward and lateral processing in human early visual cortex, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored video (YouTube), mirrored poster (Gdrive).
• 2709 – Alessio Fracasso (Glasgow) – Point-spread function of the BOLD response across cortical depth in human area V2, abstract, sparkle site, mirrored poster (Gdrive).

ISMRM 2021

Abstracts are available to anyone. Videos are available for attendees, only (ask me for access).

• SIEMENS Lunch Symposium – David Feinberg (Berkeley) – Project to Develop a Next Generation 7T MRI Brain Scanner for High Resolution Imaging, video.
• E5857 – Kamil Ugurbil (CMRR) – 30 Years of fMRI: Historical Perspective I, video
• E5858 – Bruce Rosen (MGH) – 30 Years of fMRI: Historical Perspective II, video.
• Educational: E5861 – Emmanuel Barbier (Grenoble Institute Neurosciences) – Non-BOLD: Imaging Blood Volume & Perfusion, video.
• E5860 – Wietske van der Zwaag (Spinoza) – fMRI Acquisition Methods, video.
• 0096 – Faruk Gulban (Maastricht) – In vivo human T2* imaging at 0.35 mm reveals up to 15 ms of local variations within gray matter across depths at 7T, abstract, video.
• 0462 – Luca Vizioli (CMRR), A Paradigm Change in Functional Brain Mapping: Suppressing the Thermal Noise in fMRI, abstract, video.
• 0466 – Renzo Huber (Uni Maastricht) LayNii: A software suite for layer-fMRI, abstract, video.
• 0467 – Xingfeng Shao (UCSC) Layer-dependent 7T ASL reveals sensory input and motor output perfusion activity in human primary motor cortex, abstract, video.
• 0512 – Won Beom Jung (SKKU) – Neural activity-driven BOLD responses within the cortex occur first at synaptic input layers. abstract, video.
• 0513 – Shinho Cho (CMRR) – Layer-specific orientation selectivity in cat visual cortex using 9.4 Tesla fMRI and multi-photon optical imaging, abstract, video.
• 0514 – Sangcheon Choi (MPI Tuebingen) – Characterize laminar-specific interhemispheric functional coherence in resting-state fMRI using bilateral line-scanning fMRI (BiLS), abstract, video.
• 0629 – Suhyung Park (Berkeley) – Highly Accelerated Sub-millimeter Resolution 3D EPI using Variable Density CAIPI Sampling with Temporal Random Walk for Functional MRI at 7 Tesla, abstract, video
• 0630 – Anna Mueller (Maastricht) – Whole brain layer-fMRI: An open dataset for methods benchmarking, abstract, video
• 0631 – Fuyixue Wang (MGH) – Simultaneous pure spin-echo and gradient-echo BOLD fMRI using Echo Planar Time-resolved Imaging (EPTI) for mapping laminar fMRI responses, abstract, video.
• 0632 – Nils Nothnagel (Glasgow) – VASO-fMRI with Nordic-PCA for laminar sensory testing at 7 Tesla, abstract, video.
• 0633 – Yuhui Chai, (NIH) – Topographical and Laminar Distribution of Audiovisual Processing within Human Planum Temporale, abstract, video.
• 0634 – SoHyun Han (SKKU) – Double spin-echo EPI improves sensitivity and specificity for cortical depth-dependent BOLD fMRI in the human somatosensory cortex at 7 T, abstract, video.
• 0635 – Sebastian Dresbach (Maastricht) – Mapping digit-representations in BA3b during stimulation and investigating their intrinsic connectivity at rest using VASO, abstract, video.
• 0636 – Chencan Qian (Chinese academy of Sciences) – Layer- and column-resolved 7T fMRI reveals neural correlates of consciousness in human visual cortex and thalamus, abstract (no video available).
• 0637 – Nikos Priovoulos (Spinoza) -Submillimeter Arterial Blood Contrast fMRI at 7T, abstract, video.
• 0638 – Hsin-Ju Lee (Toronto) – Correlation between inter-cortical depth fMRI signals and oscillatory neuronal responses during music listening, abstract, video.
• 2858 – Atena Akbari (Queensland) – Modelling Depth-Dependent VASO and BOLD Signal Changes in Human Primary Motor Cortex, abstract, video.
• 2694 – Lasse Knudsen (Aarhus) A setup for 3 T submillimeter layer-dependent fMRI weighted toward microvasculature, abstract, video.
• 3126 – Jianbao Wang (MGH) – Evaluation of spatial blur induced by preprocessing and distortion in UHF fMRI data, abstract, video.
• 3368 – Miriam Heynckes (Maastricht) -Temporal deviant detection in human auditory cortex using high-field fMRI, abstract, video.
• 3369 – Jiajia Yang (Okayama) – Layer-specific activation of prediction in the human midcingulate cortex, abstract, video.
• 3373 – Jonathan Polimeni (MGH) – Dependence of CBV estimated from 7T Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast data on white matter tract and cortical gray matter orientation relative to B0. abstract, video.
• 3374 – An Vu (UCSF) – Combining BOLD and CBV for enhanced fMRI CNR, abstract, poster.
• 3375 – Jurjen Heij (Spinoza) – Combining functional and structural information for optimal planning during ultrahigh temporal resolution line-scanning, abstract, video.
• 3376 – Seong Dae Yun (Juelich) – Mapping of Whole-brain Resting-State Networks with Half-millimetre Resolution using TR-external EPIK at 7T, abstract, poster.
• 3377 – Luca Vizioli (CMRR) – New Frontiers of Human Neuroscience: 0.5 mm isotropic 7T in Vivo Human fMRI, abstract, Poster.
• 3378 – Luisa Raimondo (Spinoza) – Multi-echo line-scanning for ultra-high spatiotemporal resolution: optimal settings for BOLD sensitivity enhancement, abstract, video.
• 3379 – Hankyeol Lee (SKKU) – Laminar analysis of luminance-dependent visual activation in human V1 with voxel centroid mapping method, abstract, poster.
• 3398 – Avery Berman (MGH) – Biophysical simulations of the BOLD fMRI signal using realistic imaging gradients: Understanding macrovascular contamination in Spin-Echo EPI, abstract, video.