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Achieva MR scanner and an eight-element RF head coil were used for all scans. At the first session around 2 weeks post-stroke, a T2-weighted multi-slice FLAIR scan (repetition time (TR)/echo time (TE)/inversion time (TI) = 11000/125/2800 ms, acquired voxel size = 0.65 × 0.94 × 4.0 mm
3, reconstructed voxel size = 0.45 × 0.45 × 4.0 mm
3, field-of-view (FOV) = 230 × 183 × 129 mm
3, transverse orientation) was acquired to localize the lesion. For anatomical reference, a 3D T1-weighted scan was acquired at each time point (TR/TE = 9.9/4.6 ms, flip angle = 8°, acquired voxel size = 1.0 × 1.0 × 1.0 mm
3, reconstructed voxel size = 0.88 × 0.88 × 1.0 mm
3, FOV = 224 × 168 × 160 mm
3, transverse orientation). For BOLD (Blood Oxygen Level Dependent) MRI during execution of language tasks (828 scans per task) and a breath hold paradigm (253 scans; see below), a 3D PRESTO-SENSE sequence (TE/TR = 33.2/22.5 ms, acquisition time per image = 609 ms, flip angle = 10°, FOV = 256 × 224 × 160 mm
3, voxel size = 4.0 mm
3 isotropic, sagittal orientation) was used
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