Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
631-03-014 / 631-03-014 ISMRM Abstract

MESMERISED with a spiral readout and multiband pTx-pulses for DWI with improved SNR and homogeneity at 7T

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Marten Veldmann 1, Luke J Edwards2, Alard Roebroeck2, Tony Stoecker1,3
1MR Physics, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE e.V.), Bonn, Germany
2Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Presenting Author: Marten Veldmann

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