Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
666-04-001 ISMRM Abstract

Mapping the magnetic microstructure of the developing cortex

Primary: Contrast Mechanisms - Relaxometry
Secondary: Neuro - Development
666-04-001 · Neuroimaging of Brain Development from Fetal Life Through Adolescence: Structure, Function, and Prediction · Thursday, 14 May, 2:35 PM–3:30 PM · Digital Posters Row G
Keywords: Brain Relaxometry Human and non-human primates Oligodendrocyte Iron quantification
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Felix Büttner 1,2, Tilo Reinert3, Carsten Jäger2,3, Markus Morawski3, Ilona Lipp2, Gerald Falkenberg4, Dennis Brückner4, Remi Tucoulou5, Catherine Crockford6, Roman Wittig6,7, Renat Sibatulin8, Karl-Heinz Herrmann8, Jürgen R Reichenbach8, Pierre-Louis Bazin9, Nikolaus Weiskopf2,10,11, Evgeniya Kirilina2
1International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Germany
2Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
3Center of Neuropathology and Brain Research, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Paul Flechsig Institute, Leipzig, Germany
4Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
5European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, ESRF, Grenoble, France
6Ape Social Mind Lab, Institute of Cognitive Science Marc Jeannerod, Lyon, France
7Tai Chimpanzee Project, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
8Medical Physics Group, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
9Full Brain Picture Analytics, Leiden, Netherlands
10Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics, Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
11Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
Presenting Author: Felix Büttner

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