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RF transmit field inhomogeneities at 7T usually degrade the image quality in regions such as the cerebellum and brainstem, which has so far delayed its use to study cerebellar ataxias with higher fields. We present an optimized pipeline that maximizes the QSM contrast of nuclei in the cerebellum based on multi-echo MPM data. We show that averaging the individual susceptibility maps increases the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and reduces the group standard deviation. We introduced a weighted averaging based on the individual acquisition SNRs. Final maps presented high contrast of the dentate nucleus and a high delineation of its denticulated silhouette.
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