Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
370-09-065 ISMRM Abstract

Towards a Polyacrylamide-Based Modular Phantom for Interventional MR: Realistic Tissue Properties and Thermal Stability

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Florian Kehrein 1,2, Qizhe Xu1,2, Lars L Fäßler1,3, Daniel Schäfer1,3, Nga T Ly-Hartig4, Lothar R Schad1,2, Frank G Zoellner1,2
1Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
2Mannheim Institute for Intelligent Systems in Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
3Faculty of Information Technology, Technical University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, Germany
4Mannheim Institute for Innate Immunoscience, Department for Biochemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
Presenting Author: Florian Kehrein

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