Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
467-05-009 ISMRM Abstract

Orthogonal local coils for cervical spinal cord shimming at 9.4T

Primary: Physics & Engineering - Shims
Secondary: Physics & Engineering - High-Field MRI
467-05-009 · Frontiers of System Design · Tuesday, 12 May, 4:00 PM–4:55 PM · Digital Posters Row H
Keywords: Ultra-high field B0 shimming Cervical Spinal Cord Multi-coil shimming
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Ali Aghaeifar1, Georgiy Solomakha 2, Klaus Scheffler2,3, Nikolai I Avdievich2
1MR Collaborations, Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany
2Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
3Department for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Presenting Author: Georgiy Solomakha

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