Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
605-02-006 ISMRM Abstract

Phase-Pole-Free Images and Smooth Coil Sensitivity Maps by Regularized Nonlinear Inversion

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Moritz Blumenthal 1, Martin Uecker1,2
1Institute of Biomedical Imaging, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
2BioTechMed-Graz, Graz, Austria
Presenting Author: Moritz Blumenthal

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