High‐resolution whole‐brain diffusion MRI at 7T using radiofrequency parallel transmission

Investigating the utility of RF parallel transmission (pTx) for Human Connectome Project (HCP)‐style whole‐brain diffusion MRI (dMRI) data at 7 Tesla (7T).

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