Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
661-03-015 ISMRM Abstract

Self-Consistent Physics-Informed Distortion Correction for DW-PROPELLER-EPI Using Differentiable Field-Map Estimation

Primary: Diffusion - DWI/DTI/DKI
Secondary: Acquisition & Reconstruction - AI methods
661-03-015 · Noise and Artifact Mitigation in MRI · Thursday, 14 May, 1:40 PM–2:35 PM · Digital Posters Row B
Keywords: Off Resonance Correction B0 Inhomogeneity Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) AI PROPELLER-EPI
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HAILIN XIONG 1, Yi Li1, Chenglang Yuan1, Liyuan Liang1,2, Shihui Chen1,2, Tianbaige Liu1, Teng-Yi Huang3, Qi DOU4, Hing-Chiu Chang1,2
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
2Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, Shatin, Hong Kong
3Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
4Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong
Presenting Author: HAILIN XIONG

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