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Ultra-High Field Neuro MRI is a comprehensive reference and educational resource on the current state of neuroimaging at ultra-high field (UHF), with an emphasis on 7T. Sections cover the MR physics aspects of UHF, including the technical challenges and practical solutions that have enabled the rapid growth of 7T MRI. Individual chapters are dedicated to the different techniques that most strongly benefit from UHF, as well as chapters with a focus on different application areas in anatomical, functional and metabolic imaging. Finally, several chapters highlight the neurological and psychiatric applications for which 7T has shown benefits. The book is aimed at scientists who develop MR technologies and support clinical and neuroscience research, as well as users who want to benefit from UHF neuro MR techniques in their work. It also provides a comprehensive introduction to the field.

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Part 1: Benefits of Ultra-High Field
1. The way back and ahead: MR physics at Ultra-High Field
2. Translating UHF advances to lower field strength

Part 2: Acquisition at Ultra-High Field: practical considerations
3. Practical solutions to practical constraints: Making things work at ultra-high field
4. Practical considerations on ultra-high field safety
5. Bioeffects, patience experience and occupational safety

Part 3: Ultra-High Field Challenges and Technical Solutions
6. B0 inhomogeneity: Causes and coping strategies
7. B1 inhomogeneity: Physics background, RF pulse design and parallel transmission
8. RF coils for ultra-high field neuroimaging
9. Parallel imaging and reconstruction techniques
10. Motion correction

Part 4: Ultra-high field Structural Imaging: Techniques for neuroanatomy
11. High-resolution T1-weighted and T2-weighted anatomical imaging
12. Brain segmentation at ultra-high field: challenges, opportunities and unmet needs
13. Phase imaging: Susceptibility-weighted imaging and Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping
14. Quantitative MRI and multi-parametric mapping

Part 5: Ultra-high field Structural Imaging: Zooming in on the brain
15. Cerebellar imaging
16. Ultra-high field imaging of the medial temporal lobe
17. Imaging of the deep gray matter
18. Brain stem imaging
19. Spinal Cord Imaging

Part 6: Diffusion and Perfusion imaging at Ultra-High Field
20. Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance at ultra-high field
21. Ultra-high Field Brain Perfusion MRI

Part 7: Ultra-High Field Functional Imaging
22. BOLD fMRI: physiology and acquisition strategies
23. Sequences and contrasts for non-BOLD fMRI
24. Laminar and columnar imaging at UHF: considerations for mesoscopic scale imaging with fMRI
25. The power of gray-matter optimized fMRI at UHF for cognitive neuroscience

Part 8: Techniques for Ultra-High Field Metabolic Imaging and Spectroscopy
26. MR Spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging
27. Imaging with X-nuclei
28. Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer MRI in the human brain at ultra-high fields

Part 9: Benefits of Ultra-High Field in Clinical Applications
29. Epilepsy
30. Multiple sclerosis
31. Neurovascular diseases
32. Neurodegenerative diseases
33. Parkinson's disease and Parkinson-plus syndromes
34. Alzheimer's disease and ageing
35. Oncological applications
36. Psychiatric applications at UHF

Part 10: New Horizons
37. Human MR at extremely high field strengths