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Abstract #1024

Robust Myelin Quantitative Imaging Using Edge Preserving Spatial Priors

Xiaobo Shen1, Thanh D. Nguyen2, Susan A. Gauthier3, Ashish Raj4

1Cornell university, Ithaca, NY, United States; 2Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States; 3Weill Cornell Medical College, New York,, NY, United States; 4Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States

A novel multi-voxel algorithm to produce better MWF map by introducing "edge-preserving" prior to impose spatial consistency and smoothness constraints.

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