Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
365-03-007 ISMRM Abstract

Evaluation of generalist, on-the-scanner, deep learning recon for M2SE cardiac DTI

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Daniel P Atkinson 1, Peter Gatehouse1, Vanessa M Ferreira1, Elizabeth M Tunnicliffe1, Rebecca Mills1, Betty Raman1, Patricia Lan2, Haonan Wang3, Xinzeng Wang4, Stephen Jermy5,6,7, James T Grist1,8,9, Damian Tyler1,9, Margarita Gorodezky10, Stefan K Piechnik1
1Oxford Centre for Clinical MR Research (OCMR), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
2GE HealthCare, Menlo Park, United States of America
3GE HealthCare, San Ramon, United States of America
4GE Healthcare, Houston, United States of America
5Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
6Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
7Cape Universities Body Imaging Centre (CUBIC), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
8Department of Radiology, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
9Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
10GE Healthcare, Munich, Germany
Presenting Author: Daniel P Atkinson

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