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

OHBM

Official conference website with abstracts (small thumbnails only) and posters.

Abstract Atlas with AI-assisted topic grouping (abstracts without figures).

Monday and Tuesday Posters:

• 0018 Resting state functional connectivity in neonatal congenital heart disease at 7 Tesla: A pilot study, Benjamin Clayden
• 0246 Laminar Hyperactivity in STS Underlying Face Pareidolia in Early Parkinson‘s Disease, Yifei Wang
• 0366 Beyond brain or vein: Novel visualization of fMRI signal drainage using subdural plots, Faruk Gulban
• 0375 A Framework for Real-Time Laminar fMRI at Ultra-high Field Strengths, Aslı Eroğlu
• 0376 Imaging human A1 at 0.35 mm in vivo using MRI 7T: Impact of equivolume vs equidistant layerification, Emily J Allen (presenter).
• 0792 Towards layer-dependent EEG-fMRI connectomics. Jonathan Wirsich.
• 0810 How Coil Design Shapes BOLD Sensitivity in High-Resolution fMRI?, Atena Akbari
• 0811 Vision Coil Increases Sensitivity in Occipital Regions and Allows for a Bigger Visual Field at 7T, Zirui Zhang
• 0900 Cortical myeloarchitectural parcellation in a 75μm isotropic whole human brain ex-vivo dataset, Johannes Franz
• 0901 Parametric depths of layers from BigBrain cortical areas via Bok’s equivolume principle. Dominic Padova
• 0902 Functional Mapping of Layer Dependent Connectivity During Movie Watching and Pain. Gianluca Guglietti
• 0904 Layer-specific functional gradients reveal intrinsic network organization and feedback processing. Karolis Degutis
• 0934 Layer-specific CA1 Microstructure and its relation to Memory Performance studied with 7 Tesla MR. Joseph Höpker Fernandes
• 0950 Imaging the human claustrum and its vasculature at 0.35 mm isotropic using 7 Tesla MRI, Alessandra Pizzuti
• 1027 Characterising mesoscale development of sensorimotor network organisation in neonates using 7T fMRI, Jucha Willers Moore
• 1255 Myelin density aligns with macro- and mesoscale motion-selective domains in the human visual cortex, Marianna Schmidt
• 1297 Distinguishing local and global prediction violations in the auditory cortex at 0.65 mm isotropic, Lonike Faes
• 1387 Investigating feedback processing underlying face detection with high-resolution fMRI, Esther Lin
• 1436 Training-induced enhancement of feedback to V1 during human visual skill learning, Kenshu Koiso
• 1611 Cylarim: A Novel Software for Spatially-Resolved Laminar fMRI Mapping, Gabriele Lohmann

Wednesday and Thursday Posters:

• 1768 Laminar fMRI investigation of auditory mismatch in psychosis under varying attentional states, Clement Abbatecola
• 1876 Layer-specific 7T functional connectivity of the medial temporal lobe with age and tau PET burden, Larissa Fischer
• 2028 Meso-vessels hidden in plain sight in the BigBrain dataset: Revealing and quantifying them, Omer Faruk Gulban
• 2030 LayNii IDA: A new tool for visualizing voxel-wise correlations for extreme fMRI, Omer Faruk Gulban
• 2178 Laminar MySN: moving beyond region-level similarity network modeling with multi-layer integration, Tongyu Zhang
• 2393 7T layer specific EEG-fMRI to study alpha oscillations: influence of deveining and GLM approaches, Daniel Marsh
• 2476 Challenges and strategies for 7T high-resolution fMRI in regions of large field inhomogeneity, Nadine Graedel
• 2480 Layer-fmri at 0.39mm isotropic meets vascular mapping at 0.35mm isotropic: Partners or Confounders. Alessandra Pizzuti
• 2499 Making Mesoscale fMRI More Accessible: Open-Source Implementation of 3D-VASO at 3.0 T Using Pulseq, Mengqi Jiang
• 2793 Laminar Segregation of Slow Hemodynamic Oscillations in Human V1 via Geometric and Dynamic Analysis, Nghi Nguyen
• 2911 The spatiotemporal dynamics underling contour integration in human visual system, Ya Li
• 2912 Studying cortical networks using whole brain cerebral blood volume weighted imaging on the NexGen 7T, Alexander Beckett
• 2917 Distinct Layer-specific Functional Profiles for Human Striate and Extrastriate Cortex, Mayra Bittencourt
• 2918 Contextual feedback signals during amodal completion and visual imagery in the early visual cortex, Yingying Huang
• 2941 Ultra-high field exploration of cortical depth dependent affective touch processing, Antonia Massmann
• 2497 Accelerated 3D Zoomed GRASE for Mesoscale fMRI using Self-Supervised Reconstruction (DeepGRASE), Hyunseung RYU
• 2965 Dissociable Dynamic Effects of Expectation During Statistical Learning Across Cortical Layers, Hannah McDermott
• 2970 Cortical laminar fMRI for investigating bottom-up and top-down processes in pain perception, Balint Kincses
• 3048 Cortical Depth Profiles of Mental Imagery in Domain-Specific and Domain-General Higher Visual Areas, Karolina Niessen
• 3090 Predictable acoustic content engages layer specific cortical hippocampal circuits, Santa Sozzi
• 3109 Preferential superficial-layer representation of attended working memory content in human PFC, Denis Chaimow
• 3280 Intracortical microstructure profiling: a versatile method for indexing cortical lamination, Casey Paquola
• 3317 Layer-specific contributions to object manipulation in the human primary motor cortex, Yinghua Yu

Thanks to Alessandra Pizzuti, Jucha Willers Moore, and Kenshu Koiso for curating this list and for organizing the layer beer.

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

Johannes Franz: Cortical myeloarchitectural types in a 75μm isotropic whole human brain ex-vivo dataset, 1:51pm Session Teasing Out the Microstructure of the Brain and Nervous System 1:51 PM, · Ballroom West

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