title: Recent progress in high-resolution functional MRI.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  For functional MRI (fMRI), as for any imaging technique, the higher the spatial resolution, the more the details it can reveal. This review will discuss the factors restricting the spatial resolution of fMRI, describe high-resolution fMRI (HR-fMRI) applications in neuroscience and outline a few research areas for future HR-fMRI studies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  HR-fMRI has been successfully used to map fine cortical architectures and reveal cortical laminar structures and subcortical structures. HR-fMRI has also played important roles in resolving controversies regarding modular representations in the ventral visual pathway and interpretations of multivariate pattern analysis results.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Real-time HR-fMRI as well as high-resolution anatomical MRI may emerge as indispensable tools for surgical planning, diagnosis of neurological diseases and targeting of deep brain stimulation.
authors: Support Unit for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Laboratory for Cognitive Brain Mapping, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan. kcheng@riken.jp
authors: Kang
authors: K
authors: Cheng
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*