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Stripping away the mysteries of the brain’s insulation: might T1-FFLAIR improve our understanding of prenatal myelination?

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The author states that this work has not received any funding. This work was supported by the NIH (Human Placenta Project—grant 1U01HD087202-01), Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship (201374/Z/16/Z and /B), UKRI FLF (MR/T018119/1), DFG Heisenberg funding [502024488], EPSRC (EP/V034537/1), the NIHR Clinical Research Facility (CRF) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and by core funding from the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering [WT203148/Z/16/Z] and by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Facility based at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS or the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.

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  2. Biomedical Engineering Department, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, St Thomas’ Hospital, 1St Floor South Wing, London, SE1 7EH, UK

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Payette, K. Stripping away the mysteries of the brain’s insulation: might T1-FFLAIR improve our understanding of prenatal myelination?. Eur Radiol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-023-10450-4

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