Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
651-02-014 / 651-02-014 ISMRM Abstract

Simulating contributions of incoherent and coherent CSF motion to magnitude and phase of low-b-value diffusion-weighted MRI

Primary: Neuro - Neurofluids
Secondary: Diffusion - IVIM
651-02-014 · Diffusion Modeling To Map Tissue Microstructure · Thursday, 14 May, 1:40 PM–3:16 PM · Power Pitch Theatre 1
651-02-014 · Diffusion Modeling To Map Tissue Microstructure · Thursday, 14 May, 1:40 PM–3:16 PM · Power Pitch Theatre 1
Keywords: Neurofluids Velocity & Flow IVIM-DWI Cerebrospinal fluid flow Glymphatic system (GS)
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Megan Martin 1,2, Zhangxuan Hu1,3, Divya Varadarajan, Amelia Strom4,5, Carlos A Castillo-Passi1,3, Grant Hartung6, Laura D Lewis5,7,8, Jonathan R Polimeni1,3
1Richard M. Lucas Center for Imaging, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
2Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America
3Department of Radiology, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, United States of America
4Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States of America
5Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States of America
6Institute for Mechanics, Computational Mechanics Group, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
7Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States of America
8Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States of America
Presenting Author: Megan Martin

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