Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
505-03-001 ISMRM Abstract

Enabling clinical submillimeter FLAWS imaging at 7T with subject-specific dynamic parallel transmit and motion correction

Primary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Pulse Sequence Design: Neuro
Secondary: Neuro - White Matter
505-03-001 · Teasing Out the Microstructure of the Brain and Nervous System · Wednesday, 13 May, 1:40 PM–3:30 PM · Ballroom West
Keywords: 7T Ultra-high field PTx
Accepted
Gian Franco Piredda1, Thomas Yu1,2,3, Jocelyn Philippe1,2,3, Ludovica Romanin1, Natalia Pato Montemayor 1,2,3, Emilie Sleight4, Tommaso Di Noto1,2,3, Lina Bacha1,2,3, Bénédicte Maréchal1,2,3, Corrado Santarosa5, Felix T Kurz5, Marcel Dominik Nickel6, Patrick Liebig6, Jürgen Herrler6, Daniel M Polak6, Daniel Nicolas Splitthoff7, Bryan Clifford8, Robin Heidemann6, Tobias Kober7, Tom Hilbert1,2,3
1Swiss Innovation Hub, Siemens Healthineers International AG, Lausanne, Switzerland
2LTS5, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
3Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
4CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland
5Division of Neuroradiology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
6Siemens Healthineers AG, Erlangen, Germany
7Research & Clinical Translation, Magnetic Resonance, Siemens Healthineers AG, Erlangen, Germany
8Siemens Medical Solutions, Boston, United States of America
Presenting Author: Natalia Pato Montemayor

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