Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
360-04-001 ISMRM Abstract

Phase-cycled bSSFP-based relaxometry and susceptibility mapping with periodicity-informed parameter estimation (PIPE)

Primary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Quantitative Imaging: relaxometry, multi-parametric, MR Fingerprinting, and synthetic MRI
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Quantitative Imaging: spine, MSK, others
360-04-001 · Quantitative Mapping: Acquisition and Reconstruction · Monday, 11 May, 4:10 PM–5:05 PM · Digital Posters Row A
Keywords: Relaxometry Musculoskeletal MRI Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) Phase-cycled bSSFP Multiparametric quantitative MRI
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Berk Can Acikgoz 1,2,3, Eva S Peper1,2, Gabriele Bonanno2,4,5, Tom Hilbert6,7,8, Suzanne Anderson1,9, Jessica Bastiaansen1,2
1Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Pediatric Radiology (DIPR), Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
2Translational Imaging Center (TIC), Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine, Bern, Switzerland, Switzerland
3Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
4Swiss Innovation Hub (SIH), Siemens Healthineers International AG, Lausanne, Switzerland
5Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
6Swiss Innovation Hub, Siemens Healthineers International AG, Lausanne, Switzerland
7Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
8LTS5, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
9Sydney School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Australia
Presenting Author: Berk Can Acikgoz

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