Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
406-01-009 ISMRM Abstract

Pressure Waves and Phase Locks: Revealing Brain-CSF coupling mechanisms with Single-Slice Ultrafast fMRI

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Joana Cabral 1
1Institute for Systems and Robotics – Lisboa and Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Presenting Author: Joana Cabral

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