Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
661-01-004 ISMRM Abstract

Blood–Brain-Barrier Water Permeability Imaging Using An Accelerated Background Suppressed Stack-of-Spirals mTE-pCASL MRI

Primary: Neuro - Neurofluids
Secondary: Contrast Mechanisms - Perfusion
661-01-004 · Advances in ASL · Thursday, 14 May, 8:30 AM–9:25 AM · Digital Posters Row B
Keywords: Blood-brain barrier 3D-PCASL MRI Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL) Cerebral blood flow (CBF) Stack-of-spiral
Accepted
Yiran Li1, Bo Li1, Xiao Liang1, TIANYAO WANG2, Manuel Taso3, Amnah Mahroo4,5, Lucas Lemos Franco1, Yulin Chang3, Maria Fernandez-Seara6, Matthias Günther4,7,8, John Detre9,10, Ze Wang 1
1Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States of America
2Department of Radiology, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
3Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, United States of America
4Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Bremen, Germany
5University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
6Department of Radiology, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Spain, Spain
7Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany
8mediri GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
9Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America
10Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America
Presenting Author: Ze Wang

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