* Department of Radiology, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium † INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Projet Odyssée, France ¶ Département Traitement du Signal, ENST, Paris, France ♯ INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Projet Epidaure, France ◊ Department of Mathematics, The University of Hong-Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong. Research partially funded by European project MAPAWAMO (QLG3-CT-2000-30161), the Belgium Interuniversity Attraction Pole (IUAP) project (P5/04); coordinator and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Grant No. HKU 7046/03P The use of superresolution techniques to reduce slice thickness in functional MRI Ronald R. Peeters,* Pierre Kornprobst,† Mila Nikolova,¶ Stefan Sunaert,* Thierry Vieville,† Grégoire Malandain,♯ Rachid Deriche,† Olivier Faugeras,† Michael Ng ◊ and Paul Van Hecke * April 2, 2004 Corresponding Author: Dr. Ronald R. Peeters Department of Radiology University Hospitals Leuven Herestraat 49,LeuvenBelgium E-mail: Ronald.Peeters@uz.kuleuven.ac.be Phone: ++ 32-16-347753 Fax: ++ 32-16-343769