Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
369-05-003 ISMRM Abstract

Hybrid CNN-Transformer Architectures Enable Superior Acceleration in Hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe MRI Reconstruction

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Ramtin Babaeipour1, Alexei Ouriadov2,3,4, Matthew Fox2,4,5
1Western University, London, Canada
2Physics and Astronomy, Western University, London, Canada
3Biomedical Engineering, Western University, London, Canada
4Lawson Research Institute, London, Canada
5Medical Biophysics, Western University, London, Canada
Presenting Author: Samuel Perron

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