Quantitative T1 Mapping at 7 Tesla Identifies Primary Functional Areas in the Living Human Brain

Marcel Weiss¹, Stefan Geyer¹, Gabriele Lohmann¹, Robert Trampel¹, Robert Turner¹

Quantitativ T1 correspondes well with the presence or absence of myelin with in the human brain. We show how mapping T1 with the MP2RAGE sequence provides data of a quality suitable for identification of major primary functional areas on the basis of their structure in-vivo.