Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
605-01-007 ISMRM Abstract

Towards dynamic arterial diameter measurements in humans with high-resolution motion-robust 1D line-scanning

Primary: Neuro - Neurofluids
Secondary: Brain Function and fMRI - fMRI Acquisition
605-01-007 · Motion Correction Across the Lifespan · Thursday, 14 May, 8:30 AM–10:20 AM · Ballroom West
Keywords: Line-Scanning Vascular imaging Arterial Diameter
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Shahrokh Abbasi-Rad 1,2, Andre J van der Kouwe1,2, Mukund Balasubramanian2,3, Jonathan R Polimeni4,5, Robert Frost1,2
1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States of America
2Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America
3Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, United States of America
4Richard M. Lucas Center for Imaging, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
5Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
Presenting Author: Shahrokh Abbasi-Rad

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