Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
662-01-003 ISMRM Abstract

High-fidelity submillimeter-resolution 13-min quantitative and diffusion MRI for epilepsy diagnosis and lesion localization

Primary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Quantitative Imaging: relaxometry, multi-parametric, MR Fingerprinting, and synthetic MRI
Secondary: Neuro - Epilepsy
662-01-003 · Advanced Quantitative and Diffusion MRI for Epilepsy: From Lesion Detection to Clinical Translation · Thursday, 14 May, 8:30 AM–9:25 AM · Digital Posters Row C
Keywords: Epilepsy Diffusion MRI Quantitative MRI Hippocampus
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Yurui Qian 1, Kang Wang2, zihan zhou3, Xiaozhi Cao4,5, Dengchang Wu2, Yuehui Ma6, Mahmut Yurt5,7, Ting Gong8, Zheren Zhu1, Kawin Setsompop4,5, Salil Soman1, Sharmila Majumdar1, Yang Yang1, Congyu Liao1
1Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University Of California, San Francisco (UCSF), United States of America
2Department of Neurology, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
3GE Healthcare, MR Research China, Beijing, China
4Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
5Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
6Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurosurgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
7Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
8Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
Presenting Author: Yurui Qian

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