Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
665-04-001 ISMRM Abstract

Development of a Dual-Tuned ¹H/²³Na Organoid MRI Platform at 14 Tesla for Hemodynamics-Independent Functional Mapping

Primary: Preclinical Animal & in vitro MR - Biology, Models, Methods
Secondary: Brain Function and fMRI - Functional Connectivity
665-04-001 · MR in Organoid/Phantom/Plant/Serum · Thursday, 14 May, 2:35 PM–3:30 PM · Digital Posters Row F
Keywords: Cerebral organoids MRI Sodium MRI Solenoid coil design Intracellular and extracellular sodium
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Grace YU1, Martin Thunemann2, Ella Zeldich2, Shira Klorfeld-Auslender3, Xiaochen Liu1, David Hike1, Chunqi Qian4, Anna Devor2, Xin Yu1, Xiaoqing A Zhou 1
1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, United States of America
2Boston University, Boston, United States of America
3Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States of America
4Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States of America
Presenting Author: Xiaoqing A Zhou

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