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Abstract #1876

In Vivo Imaging of Fiber Pathways of the Human Brain with Ultra-High Gradients

Van J. Wedeen1, Lawrence L. Wald1, Julien Cohen-Adad1, M Dylan Tisdall1, Jennifer A. McNab1, Ruopeng Wang1, Thomas Witzel1, Ralph Kimmlingen2, Eva Eberlein2, Philipp Hoecht3, Boris Keil1, Juergen Nistler2, Dietmar Lehne2, Keith Heberlein3, Herbert Thein2, Franz Schmitt2, Jack Van Horn4, Arthur Toga4, Bruce R. Rosen1

1A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States; 2Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany; 3Siemens Healthcare, Boston, MA, United States; 4Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Dept. of Neurology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States

 

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