Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
608-03-006 ISMRM Abstract

MWF-MIMOSA for Highly-efficient Joint Relaxometry and Myelin Water Fraction Mapping

Primary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Quantitative Imaging: relaxometry, multi-parametric, MR Fingerprinting, and synthetic MRI
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Pulse Sequence Design: Neuro
608-03-006 · Quantitative Imaging: Multiparametric and Synthetic MRI · Thursday, 14 May, 4:00 PM–5:50 PM · Meeting Room 1.60
Keywords: Quantitative Imaging Myelin water imaging Multiparametric quantitative MRI
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Yuting Chen1,2,3, Yohan Jun2,3, Hyeong-Geol Shin4,5, Shizhuo Li1,2,3, Shohei Fujita2,3, Xingwang Yong 2,3, Jiye Kim6, Jongho Lee6, Gian Franco Piredda7, Tom Hilbert7,8,9, Huafeng Liu1,10, Huihui Ye11, Borjan Gagoski3,12, Kwok-Shing Chan2,3, Berkin Bilgic2,3,13
1State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation,, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
2Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
3Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America
4Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States of America
5Kennedy Krieger Research Institute, Baltimore, United States of America
6Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
7Swiss Innovation Hub, Siemens Healthineers International AG, Lausanne, Switzerland
8Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
9LTS5, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
10Key Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
11School of Communication Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
12Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, United States of America
13Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, United States of America
Presenting Author: Xingwang Yong

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