Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
404-04-010 ISMRM Abstract

Longitudinal Imaging of Iron and Myelin Maturation in Contact-Sport Athletes Using Source-Separated QSM

Primary: Neuro - White Matter
Secondary: Contrast Mechanisms - Susceptibility/QSM
404-04-010 · Applications of QSM and Iron in the Brain · Tuesday, 12 May, 4:00 PM–5:50 PM · Ballroom East
Keywords: Traumatic brain injury White Matter Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) Susceptibility source separation Longitudinal MRI
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Reese A Dunne 1, Marios Georgiadis2, Mahta Karimpoor2, Pascal Spincemaille 3, Alexey Dimov3, Brian Mills2, Maged Goubran2, Hossein M Taghavi2, Nicole Mouchawar2, Sohrab Sami2, Max Wintermark2, Gerald Grant4, David Camarillo5, Yi Wang3, Michael Zeineh2
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
2Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
3Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, United States of America
4Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
5Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
Presenting Author: Reese A Dunne

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