Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
363-05-006 ISMRM Abstract

SynthScore: predicting reference-based motion artifact scores without a reference image

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Tamsin Edwards Lambourne 1, Yuh-Shin Chang2,3, Brooks Applewhite2,3, Malte Hoffmann1,3, Robert Frost1,3
1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
2Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States of America
3Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America
Presenting Author: Tamsin Edwards Lambourne

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