Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
304-02-002 ISMRM Abstract

Towards Reliable Plug-and-Play Spiral dMRI with Efficient Field Characterization and Reconstruction for Joint k-q Sampling

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Zachary Shah 1, Daniel R Abraham1, Matthew A McCready1,2, Nastaren Abad3, SEUNG-KYUN LEE3, Afis Ajala3, Eric Fiveland3, Thomas K Foo3, Qiang Liu4, Yogesh Rathi4, Adam B Kerr1,2, Kawin Setsompop1,5
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
2Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
3GE HealthCare Technology and Innovation Center, Niskayuna, United States of America
4Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America
5Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
Presenting Author: Zachary Shah

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