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Objectives Parametric tissue mapping enables quantitative cardiac tissue characterization but is limited by inter-observer variability during manual delineation. Traditional approaches relying on average relaxation values and single cutoffs…
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Automated extraction of quantitative parameters from Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Images (CMRI) is crucial for the management of patients with myocardial infarct. This work proposes a post-processing procedure to jointly analyze Cine and…
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How the human brain adjusts fuel handling and its bioenergetic state during changing glucose levels remains difficult to assess noninvasively. In this study, we established an interleaved multinuclear 7 T MR spectroscopy protocol to track a…
Cardiac magnetic resonance parametric T1 maps are typically reconstructed using non-linear fitting. However this method has limitations due to the high computational cost and robustness. In this study, a recurrent neural network (RNN) is…
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