Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
302-03-008 ISMRM Abstract

3D Distortion-Free Fetal Brain R2* Mapping Using Multi-Oriented Multi-Echo Radial FLASH and Slice-to-Volume Reconstruction

Primary: Pediatrics - Fetal
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Quantitative Imaging: relaxometry, multi-parametric, MR Fingerprinting, and synthetic MRI
302-03-008 · Next-Level Pediatric MRI: Technical Advances To Image Children Better · Monday, 11 May, 1:50 PM–3:40 PM · Hall 1B
Keywords: Slice-to-volume reconstruction Radial MRI Fetal brain R2star mapping Model-based reconstruction
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Haykel Snoussi1, Daniel Mackner2, Guanxiong Luo1, Hongli Fan3, Patricia E Grant1, Edward Yang1, Martin Uecker2, Ali Gholipour4, Simon K Warfield 1, Xiaoqing Wang1
1Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States of America
2Institute of Biomedical Imaging, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
3Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, United States of America
4School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, United States of America
Presenting Author: Simon K Warfield

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