Clinical Neuroimaging Using 7 T MRI: Challenges and Prospects

The aim of this article is to illustrate the principal challenges, from the medical and technical point of view, associated with the use of ultrahigh field (UHF) scanners in the clinical setting and to present available solutions to circumvent these limitations.

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