Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
666-01-007 ISMRM Abstract

Multicenter evaluation of the POLARIS PHIP polarizer across models and imaging conditions

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Vencel Somai 1, Hadrien Dyvorne1, Galen Reed1, Christoph A Müller1, Catriona Rooney1, Meret Cepero Malo1, Andrei Chekushin1, Senay Karaali1, Zumrud Ahmodova1, Martin Grashei1, Jonas Handwerker1, Felix Josten1, Pascal P.R. Ruetten1, Luca Nagel2, Miriam Kirst2, Sandra Sühnel2, Martin Grashei3, Franz Schilling2, Stephen Y Lai4, Qing Wang4, Yunyun Chen4, José S Enriquez5, James A Bankson6, David Gomez-Cabeza7, Lluís Mangas7, Gergo Matajsz7, Alba Herrero Gómez7, Vincent Ribas7, Irene Marco-Rius8, Renuka Sriram9, Dan Vigneron10, Jeremy W Gordon9, Meetu Wadhwa9,11, Xiao Gao9,12, Tamara Vasilkovska9,11,12,13, Max Bullock, rafat chowdhury14, Shonit Punwani14, Mario C Chang15, Saket Patel16, Roberta Pigliapocchi16, Thasin Peyear16,17, Kayvan Keshari16, Ilai Schwartz1, Stephan Knecht1, Myriam Chaumeil1,12,18
1NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH, Ulm, Germany
2Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany
3Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
4MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, United States of America
5Cancer Systems Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, United States of America
6M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, United States of America
7Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
8Molecular Imaging for Precision Medicine, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
9Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University Of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America
10UCSF, San Francisco, United States of America
11University Of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America
12Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, University Of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America
13Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, United States of America
14University College London, London, United Kingdom
15Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States of America
16Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States of America
17Cornell University, Ithaca, United States of America
18Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
Presenting Author: Vencel Somai

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