Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
365-01-005 ISMRM Abstract

Improved 4D flow MRI quantification in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Using Divergence-Free Neural Networks

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Javier Bisbal 1,2,3, Julio Sotelo4,5,6, Hernán Mella5,7,8, Oliver Welin Odeback9,10, Joaquin Mura11, David Marlevi10, Tetsuro Sekine12, Cristian Tejos1,3,13,14, Sergio Uribe5,6,15
1Biomedical Imaging Center, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2iHEALTH, Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering, Chile
3Department of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
4Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile
5Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, School of Primary Allied Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences,, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
6Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
7Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
8Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Well-Being (CID3B), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
9Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
10Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
11Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile
12Department of Radiology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
13Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
14Millennium Institute Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering (iHEALTH), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
15Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Presenting Author: Javier Bisbal

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