layer-fMRI abstracts 2026

This post summarized the layer-fMRI abstracts form major relevant conferences 2024, including ISMRM. This is following the posts of previous years 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. Edit suggestions are welcome (renzohuber@gmail.com)

ISMRM

Meeting website

Sunday

AMPC selected. Traditional Posters 07:00 – 14:00

• Rüdiger Stirnberg: In-vivo mapping of whole-brain venous angioarchitecture and T2* at 350 microns with servo navigation and pTX at 7T and 11.7T
• Johannes Franz: Cortical myeloarchitectural types in a 75μm isotropic whole human brain ex-vivo dataset
• Alessandra Pizzuti Layer-fMRI at 0.39 mm isotropic meets vascular mapping at 0.35 mm isotropic: Partners or Confounders?

Siemens Lunch Symposium: Auditorium 1 12:00 – 13:00

• Daniel Paech on 7T imaging

Brain function Study group meeting, Meeting Room 1.40, 13:15 – 15:15

Ultra-High Field MR (UHF) study group meeting, Hall 1B, 15:15 – 17:15

Monday

• Marshall Xu: Quantitative Analysis of Vascular Characteristics in Post-Mortem Human Midbrain T2*w MRI, Visualizing Intracranial and Carotid Arteries: MRA, VWI, and Beyond · Session: 2:45–3:40 PM · Digital Posters Row J
• Chenyang Zhao: Next Generation 7T Arterial Spin Labeling with Rotated Spiral Acquisition Enables Mesoscale Perfusion and fMRI Young Investigator Awards 9:58 AM–10:10 AM · Session: 8:20–10:10 AM · Auditorium 2

Tuesday

• Lasse Knudsen: Functional imaging of the cerebellum at 10.5T and 0.5 mm isotropic resolution, 8:31am, fMRI: Acquisition and Preprocessing · Session: 8:20–10:10 AM · Auditorium 2
• Renzo Huber LN2_FRISGO: A software solution for artifact mitigation in fast high-resolution fMRI, 2:35pm End-to-End Software Innovation · Session: 1:40–3:30 PM · Hall 1A
• Luca Vizioli: Human Functional Imaging at 350 µm Isotropic resolution – probing Laminar Modulation in Individual Participants, 1:54pm, · Session: 1:40–3:16 PM · Power Pitch Theatre 2
• Vinicius P Campos: Denoising submillimeter functional MRI with BM4D-PC, 2:12pm, · Session: 1:40–3:16 PM · Power Pitch Theatre 2

Wednesday

• Saskia Bollmann Mesoscale fMRI in Human Brains 7:30am, Educational, BALLROOM East
• Nadira Yusif Rodriguez, Characterizing improvements in temporal SNR and motion artifacts in FLASH-based fMRI using 1D phase-stabilization navigators · Session: Acquisitions for fMRI 8:20–9:15 AM · Digital Posters Row H · 6

Session: fMRI: Advanced Analysis 1:40–3:30 PM, Hall 1A

• Lasse Knudsen Bridging the gap with invasive imaging: promises and challenges of a new generation of ultrahigh resolution fMRI, 3:08pm,
• Daniel Haenelt Modeling of large-vessel BOLD contributions in Echo-Planar Time-resolved Imaging (EPTI) using subject-specific MR angiography, 2:24pm

Session: Mesoscale Functional MRI and Acquisition Strategies · Session: 1:40–2:35 PM · Digital Posters Row F  

• Dominik Zuschlag 3D EPI Enables Population Receptive Field Mapping with Ultra-High Spatiotemporal Resolution, Poster F-1
• Chen Liu Hierarchical processing of Chinese character in ventral temporal cortex: a laminar fMRI study at 7 Tesla, Poster F-2
• Daniel Marsh Establishing the path to concurrent EEG-VASO acquisition at 7T, Poster F-4
• Yuqi Feng Depth-dependent profiles of mesoscale color domains in macaque V2 and V4 revealed by 7T fMRI, Poster F-6
• Yuanyuan Jiang Mapping BOLD and CBV fMRI at the 100 µm isotropic resolution with the 14T Scanner, Poster F-7
• Dana Ramadan Absence of Evidence or Evidence of Absence? How B1+ Inhomogeneity Degrades Interpretability of fMRI at Ultra-High Field, Poster F-8
• Renzo Huber PNS Optimized Pulses of EPI (POPE): simple adjustment to gradient pulse shape for practical high-resolution fMRI, Poster F-9
• Florian Birk Cortical orientation and layer dependence of bSSFP profile asymmetries in gray matter at 9.4 T, Poster F-12

Chiara Mauri: Automatic and robust 3D vessel segmentation in time-of-flight magnetic resonance images. 2:02pm, Session: Cutting-Edge Techniques for Intracranial Artery Visualization, 1:40–3:30 PM · Ballroom East

Session: Mesoscale Functional MRI, 16:00 – 17:50, Ballroom West

• Jucha Willers Moore Ultra-high field fMRI characterisation of the cortical circuitry underpinning sensorimotor network development in neonates
• Alessandra Pizzuti Layer-fMRI at 0.39 mm isotropic meets vascular mapping at 0.35 mm isotropic: Partners or Confounders?
• Alexander Beckett Whole-brain, cerebral blood volume weighted imaging optimized for the study of cortical networks on NexGen 7T scanner
• Yulia Lazarova Imaging the Human Hippocampus at 10.5T fMRI: Surpassing Current Resolution Limits
• Grant Hartung Modeling effects of EPI readout on laminar profiles of spin-echo BOLD via biophysical simulations using realistic vasculature 
• Josh Wilhelm Stimulus-driven phase encoding to track temporal dynamics across cortical areas and layers using 7T fMRI 
• J. Karolis Degutis Layer-specific functional gradients reveal intrinsic network organization and feedback processing 
• Guoxiang Liu Multi-TR/Multi-TE 1D Line-Scanning for Rapid Simultaneous T1 and T2 Mapping of Cortical Layers at 7T
• Antonia Massmann A novel paradigm for ultra-high field cortical depth dependent fMRI studies of affective touch processing

Layer Beer, 6:300m, The Fireman’s Arms, 14 min walk from the convention center.

Thursday

Shahrokh Abbasi-Rad Towards dynamic arterial diameter measurements in humans with high-resolution motion-robust 1D line-scanning, 9:36am, Session: Motion Correction Across the Lifespan, 8:30–10:20 AM · Ballroom West