Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
668-02-008 ISMRM Abstract

Capturing hippocampal inflammation using diffusion-weighted MR spectroscopy (dw-MRS) and multi-compartment diffusion metrics

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Jason Langley1, Ilana Bennett2,3, Xiaoping P Hu 1,4
1Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, University of California Riverside, Riverside, United States of America
2University of California Riverside, Riverside, United States of America
3Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, United States of America
4Department of Bioengineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, United States of America
Presenting Author: Xiaoping P Hu

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