Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
564-05-002 ISMRM Abstract

Impact of MRI resolution, field strength, and quantitative parameters on lesion-characterization in sclerotic hippocampus

Primary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Quantitative Imaging: relaxometry, multi-parametric, MR Fingerprinting, and synthetic MRI
Secondary: Contrast Mechanisms - Multi-Contrast
564-05-002 · The qMRI Variety Show: A Little Bit of Everything · Wednesday, 13 May, 4:00 PM–4:55 PM · Digital Posters Row E
Keywords: Relaxometry Diffusion MRI Ultra-high resolution Ex-vivo human brain Multi-contrast MRI
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Francisco J Fritz 1, Noémie Sura2, Nina Luethi3, Rafael Neto Henriques4,5, Cristina Chavarrías5, Ora Ohana6, Luke J Edwards7,8, Kerrin J Pine8, Noam Shemesh5, Evgeniya Kirilina8, Nikolaus Weiskopf8,9,10, Thomas Sauvigny2, Siawoosh Mohammadi8,11,12,13
1Institut für Systemische Neurowissenschaften, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
2Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
3Department of Neuroradiology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
4Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
5Champalimaud Research, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisboa, Portugal
6Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
7Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
8Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
9Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics, Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
10Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
11Department of Systems Neurosciences, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
12Max Planck Research Group MR Physics, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
13Institute of Neuroradiology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Presenting Author: Francisco J Fritz

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