About the Authors

David A. Feinberg

david.feinberg@advancedmri.com

Affiliations Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, California, United States of America, Helen Wills Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Steen Moeller

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Stephen M. Smith

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Edward Auerbach

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Sudhir Ramanna

Affiliation Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, California, United States of America

Matt F. Glasser

Affiliation Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Karla L. Miller

Affiliation Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kamil Ugurbil

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Essa Yacoub

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

Authors of this work, David Feinberg and Sudhir Ramanna, are employees of Advanced MRI Technologies, which is engaged in the development of magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequences. Some of the innovation and design of the pulse sequence presented in this work was done by Advanced MRI Technologies. This work was jointly developed with researchers at the University of Minnesota and Oxford University. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAF SMS KU EY. Performed the experiments: DAF SM EA SR EY. Analyzed the data: DAF SM SMS EY KLM MFG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DAF SM EA SR SMS MFG. Wrote the paper: DAF SM SMS KU EY KLM.