Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
668-04-009 ISMRM Abstract

Uniquely soft: evidence of uniqueness in viscoelastic intrinsic MR elastography enabled by the ultra-soft brain

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Marius Burman Ingeberg 1, Elijah Van Houten2, Jaco J Zwanenburg1
1Translational Neuroimaging Group, Center for Image Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
2University of Strasbourg, CNRS, Inserm, ICube UMR 7357, Strasbourg, France
Presenting Author: Marius Burman Ingeberg

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