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A vendor-neutral functional MRI acquisition protocol for multi-site studies

2025-09-02 radiology and imaging Title + abstract only
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We present an open, vendor-neutral BOLD SMS-EPI protocol tailored for multi-site fMRI studies, intended as a drop-in replacement for conventional vendor-specific, black-box acquisition and reconstruction pipelines. Built on Pulseq--an emerging standard for cross-platform MRI pulse sequence development--our protocol ensures identical SMS-EPI pulse sequences and image reconstruction across scanner vendors. This provides, for the first time, known and consistent experimental conditions across sites...

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