Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
605-02-005 ISMRM Abstract

Multi-Echo SSFP: A Method for Synthetic bSSFP MRI Contrast without Banding Artifacts at High Field

Primary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Pulse Sequence Design and Spatial Encoding Methods
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Signal Modeling
605-02-005 · Artifacts and Correction Strategies · Thursday, 14 May, 1:40 PM–3:30 PM · Ballroom West
Keywords: Banding artifacts MESS SSFP Balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) Multi-echo Acquisition
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Haotian Hong 1, Michael Hoff2, Wenchao Yang3, Yiyun Dong4, Zijian Zhou1, Peng Hu5
1School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
2University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States of America
3Central Research Institute, United Imaging Healthcare, Shanghai, China
4Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, United States of America
5ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
Presenting Author: Haotian Hong

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