Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
365-05-010 ISMRM Abstract

Unpaired Physics- and Structure-Guided Learning for Synthetic Quantitative MRI

Primary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Quantitative Imaging: relaxometry, multi-parametric, MR Fingerprinting, and synthetic MRI
Secondary: Analysis Methods - Image Synthesis and Translation
365-05-010 · Novel Acquisition Methods · Monday, 11 May, 4:10 PM–5:05 PM · Digital Posters Row F
Keywords: Deep learning MR Physics Quantitative Mapping Image translation Generative adversarial network
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Qian Wang 1,2, Peiran Xu1,2, Yifan Gao2,3, Yufeng Wang2, Hsu-Lei Lee2, Sreekanth Madhusoodhanan 4, Pascal Sati4, Yibin Xie2, Debiao Li1,2
1UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
2Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, United States of America
3School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
4Department of Neurology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, United States of America
Presenting Author: Qian Wang

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