Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
306-01-007 / 360-03-006 ISMRM Abstract

Overlap-Kernel EPI: Estimating MRI Shot-to-Shot Phase Variations from Overlap Regions at Arbitrary k-Space Locations

Primary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Artifacts and Correction Strategies
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Pulse Sequence Design and Spatial Encoding Methods
306-01-007 · Young Investigator Awards · Monday, 11 May, 8:20 AM–10:10 AM · Auditorium 2
360-03-006 · Young Investigator Awards Poster Session · Monday, 11 May, 1:50 PM–3:40 PM · Digital Posters Row A
Keywords: Self-navigation Diffusion GRAPPA ESPIRiT Multi-shot EPI
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Rui Tian 1, Martin Uecker2,3, Maxim Zaitsev4, Klaus Scheffler1,5
1High-Field MR Center, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
2Institute of Biomedical Imaging, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
3BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
4Division of Medical Physics, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
5Department for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Presenting Author: Rui Tian

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