Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
408-04-002 ISMRM Abstract

ASTRAD: Acquisition-Sequence and k-Space Trajectory Co-Design for Accelerated MR Fingerprinting

Primary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Quantitative Imaging: relaxometry, multi-parametric, MR Fingerprinting, and synthetic MRI
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - Pulse Sequence Design and Spatial Encoding Methods
408-04-002 · Quantitative Imaging: MR Fingerprinting · Tuesday, 12 May, 4:00 PM–5:50 PM · Meeting Room 1.60
Keywords: Acquisition Methods MR Fingerprinting Pulse Sequence Design Quantitative Imaging
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Xiang Wang 1,2, Qingping Chen2, Chenyang Liu1, Lu Wang3, Peilin Wang1, Xiangyu Zhou1, Yao Pu1, Maximilian Gram4, Tom Griesler5,6, Yimin Ni1, Peng Cao7, Sebastian Littin2, Jing Cai1, Maxim Zaitsev2, Tian Li1
1Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2Division of Medical Physics, Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
3College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China
4Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
5Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America
6Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America
7Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Presenting Author: Xiang Wang

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