Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
271-01-016 / 466-05-004 ISMRM Abstract

Characterising neurodevelopment in low and middle-income settings with ultra-low field MRI.

Primary: Pediatrics - Neuro
Secondary: Pediatrics - Normal Development
271-01-016 · ISMRM AMPC Selected Posters · Sunday, 10 May, 7:00 AM–2:00 PM · Traditional Posters
466-05-004 · Pediatric Low Field MRI · Tuesday, 12 May, 4:00 PM–4:55 PM · Digital Posters Row G
Keywords: Neurodevelopment Ultra-Low-Field MRI Low-Resource Settings Volumetry Global Health
Accepted
Firehiwot W Abate1, Kenneth A Ae-Ngibise2, Kwaku P Asante2, Florence AWEYO3, Victor Akelo3,4, Niall J Bourke5, Richard Beare6, Chiara Casella7,8, Sean Deoni 9, Kirsten A Donald10,11, Vanessa Cavallera12, Tarun Dua12, Laurel Gabard-Durnam13, Bethany Freeman14, Emmanuela Gakidou15, Zahra Hoodbhoy16, Margaret Kasaro14, Sidra Kaleem16, Hajer Karoui5, AMNA KHAN16, Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo17, Beena Koshy18, Anne C Lee19, Aksel Leknes20,21, Natasha Lepore22,23, Marius Linguraru24,25, Russell Macleod7, Yaw Mensah26, Jonathan O'Muircheartaigh27,28, Hans-Georg Müller29, Victoria Namazzi30, Margaret Nampijja17, Gloria Nandudu30, Victoria Nankabirwa30, Solomon Nyame2, Dickens Onyango3, Samuel A Oppong31, Salman Osmani16, Harun Owuour3, Sadia Parkar16, Joshua L Proctor9, Marc L Seal6, Emily R Smith32, Jamie Steinmetz15, Austin Tapp24, Jeffrey Tanedo33, Maclean Vokhiwa34,35, Steven C Williams5, Yidong Zhou29, Muriel Bruchhage21,36
1Training Division, Addis Continental Institute of Public Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2Kintampo Health Research Centre, Kintampo, Ghana
3Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya
4Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
5Department of Neuroimaging, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
6Developmental Imaging, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Australia
7Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
8Research Department of Early Life Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom
9Gates Foundation, Seattle, United States of America
10Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
11Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
12World Health Organization, Switzerland
13Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health, Northeastern University, Boston, United States of America
14University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States of America
15Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, United States of America
16Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan, Pakistan
17African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
18Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
19Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America
20Institute for Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, STAVANGER, Norway
21Department of Radiology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway
22CIBORG Lab, Los Angeles, United States of America
23Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States of America
24Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, United States of America
25Departments of Radiology and Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Health Sciences,, George Washington University, Washington, United States of America
26Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
27Department for Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom
28Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, King’s College London, United Kingdom, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom
29University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America
30Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Makerere University and Vilirana Hospital, Uganda, Uganda
31University of Ghana Medical Center, Accra, Ghana
32George Washington University, Washington, United States of America
33CIBORG Lab, Radiology Research Department, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America
34Paediatrics, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi
35Neuroscience, Training and Research Unit of Excellence, Blantyre, Malawi
36Institute of Psychology, University of Stavanger, STAVANGER, Norway
Presenting Author: Sean Deoni

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