Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
465-06-010 ISMRM Abstract

Direction-interleaved spirals for direct estimation of mean diffusion-weighted images

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Hanne Baeyens 1,2, Johannes Devos2,3,4, Ahmed M Radwan2,3, Stefan Sunaert2,3,4, Daan Christiaens1,2,3
1Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
2Medical Imaging Research Center, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
3Department of Imaging & Pathology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
4Department of Radiology, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Presenting Author: Hanne Baeyens

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