Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
661-01-011 ISMRM Abstract

Achieving Vendor-Agnostic Perfusion Imaging with PCASL using the Pulseq Framework

Primary: Contrast Mechanisms - Arterial Spin Labelling
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Open source software, sequences, and reconstruction algorithms
661-01-011 · Advances in ASL · Thursday, 14 May, 8:30 AM–9:25 AM · Digital Posters Row B
Keywords: Open-Source PCASL Pulseq Cross-vendor MRI Planning-free vessel-encoded ASL
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Jianing Zhang 1, Jun Wang2, Hongwei Li3, Shaoyou Ye1, Thomas Okell4, Xiaohu Li2, Yang Ji1
1Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China(USTC), Hefei, China
2Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
3Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
4Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Presenting Author: Jianing Zhang

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