Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
409-03-002 ISMRM Abstract

OpenMRF: A Modular, Vendor-Neutral Open-Source Framework for Reproducible Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting using Pulseq

Primary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Open source software, sequences, and reconstruction algorithms
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Quantitative Imaging: relaxometry, multi-parametric, MR Fingerprinting, and synthetic MRI
409-03-002 · Quantitative Imaging: Applications · Tuesday, 12 May, 1:40 PM–3:30 PM · Meeting Room 2.40
Keywords: MR Fingerprinting Pulse Sequence Design Relaxometry Open-source software Quantitative MRI
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Tom Griesler 1,2, Jannik Stebani3, Sydney Kaplan1,2, Ivaylo Angelov3, Petra Albert3,4, Martin Blaimer3,5, Peter M Jakob3, Tobias Wech6, Maxim Zaitsev7, Qingping Chen7, Xiang Wang7, Jesse Hamilton1,2, Jon-Fredrik Nielsen1, Peter Nordbeck4, Nicole Seiberlich1,2, Maximilian Gram3,4
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America
2Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America
3Experimental Physics 5, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
4Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
5Magnetic-Resonance and X-Ray Imaging Department, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Würzburg, Germany
6Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
7Division of Medical Physics, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Presenting Author: Tom Griesler

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