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Ultra-low-field (ULF, <0.1 T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems offer advantages in cost, portability, and accessibility, but their current utility is still limited by low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Deep learning (DL)-based…

Sizable hyperpolarisation, i.e. an imbalance of the occupation numbers of nuclear spins in a sample deviating from thermal equilibrium, is needed in various fields of science. For example, hyperpolarised tracers are utilised in magnetic…

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is one of the most successful methods to diminish late-stage Parkinson's Disease (PD) symptoms. It is a delicate surgical procedure which requires detailed pre-surgical patient's study. High-field Magnetic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-23 Tomás Lima , Igor Varga , Eduard Bakštein , Daniel Novák , Victor Alves

Optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) provides ultrasensitive means to detect and image a small number of electron and nuclear spins, down to the single spin level with nanoscale resolution. Despite the significant recent progress in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Aharon Blank , Guy Shapiro , Ran Fischer , Paz London , David Gershoni

Polarization transfers are crucial building blocks in magnetic resonance experiments, i.e., they can be used to polarize insensitive nuclei and correlate nuclear spins in multidimensional NMR spectroscopy. The polarization can be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Zhenfeng Pang , Sheetal Jain , Chen Yang , Xueqian Kong , Kong Ooi Tan

Purpose: Common to most MRSI techniques, the spatial resolution and the minimal scan duration of Deuterium Metabolic Imaging (DMI) are limited by the achievable SNR. This work presents a deep learning method for sensitivity enhancement of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Siyuan Dong , Henk M. De Feyter , Monique A. Thomas , Robin A. de Graaf , James S. Duncan

This paper introduces a method based on a deep neural network (DNN) that is perfectly capable of processing radar data from extremely thinned radar apertures. The proposed DNN processing can provide both aliasing-free radar imaging and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Christian Schuessler , Marcel Hoffmann , Martin Vossiek

Coupled electron-nuclear spins represent a promising quantum system, where the optically induced electron spin polarization can be dynamically transferred to nuclear spins via the hyperfine interaction. Most experiments on dynamic nuclear…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-13 A. N. Anisimov , A. V. Poshakinskiy , G. V. Astakhov

Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) offers exceptional contrast for magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) at high spatio-temporal resolution. A common procedure in MPI starts with a calibration scan to measure the system matrix (SM), which is then used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-04 Alper Güngör , Baris Askin , Damla Alptekin Soydan , Emine Ulku Saritas , Can Barış Top , Tolga Çukur

The coaxial cables commonly used to connect RF coil arrays with the control console of an MRI scanner are susceptible to electromagnetic coupling. As the number of RF channel increases, such coupling could result in severe heating and pose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Mingdong Fan , Robert W. Brown , Xi Gao , Soumyajit Mandal , Labros Petropoulos , Xiaoyu Yang , Shinya Handa , Hiroyuki Fujita

Polarized neutrons are a powerful probe to investigate magnetism in condensed matter on length scales from single atomic distances to micrometers. With the ongoing advancement of neutron optics, that allow to transport beams with increased…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-02 Jochen Stahn , Artur Glavic

Over almost five decades of development and improvement, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become a rich and powerful, non-invasive technique in medical imaging, yet not reaching its physical limits. Technical and physiological…

We propose a novel deformation corrected compressed sensing (DC-CS) framework to recover dynamic magnetic resonance images from undersampled measurements. We introduce a generalized formulation that is capable of handling a wide class of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Sajan Goud Lingala , Edward DiBella , Mathews Jacob

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is an established technique for studying tissue metabolism, particularly in central nervous system disorders. While powerful and versatile, MRS is often limited by challenges associated with data…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-29 Christopher J. Wu , Lawrence S. Kegeles , Jia Guo

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive imaging modality and provides comprehensive anatomical and functional insights into the human body. However, its long acquisition times can lead to patient discomfort, motion artifacts, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mojtaba Safari , Zach Eidex , Chih-Wei Chang , Richard L. J. Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang

We developed a new magnetic resonance imaging method called multinuclear fingerprinting (MNF) which leverages simultaneously-acquired proton (1H) and sodium (23Na) data to generate seven quantitative maps of the whole brain: proton density…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Gonzalo G. Rodriguez , Zidan Yu , Lauren O'Donnell , Martijn A. Cloos , Guillaume Madelin

Nuclear hyperpolarization is a known method to enhance the signal in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) by orders of magnitude. The present work addresses the $^{13}$C hyperpolarization in diamond micro- and nanoparticles, using the…

Achieving high-quality Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction at accelerated acquisition rates remains challenging due to the inherent ill-posed nature of the inverse problem. Traditional Compressed Sensing (CS) methods, while…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Pierre-Antoine Comby , Benjamin Lapostolle , Matthieu Terris , Philippe Ciuciu

We present a new, state-of-the-art computation of the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB), where we use neutrino spectra from multi-dimensional, multi-second core collapse supernova simulations - including both neutron-star and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Cecilia Lunardini , Tomoya Takiwaki , Tomoya Kinugawa , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Kei Kotake

This study addresses the challenge of analyzing the growth kinetics of carbon nanotubes using in-situ homodyne polarization microscopy (HPM) by developing an automated deep learning (DL) approach. A Mask-RCNN architecture, enhanced with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Vladimir Pimonov , Said Tahir , Vincent Jourdain