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Parallel transmission has been a very promising candidate technology to mitigate the inevitable radio-frequency field inhomogeneity in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at ultra-high field (UHF). For the first few years, pulse design…

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We study the polarization properties of 22 known rotating radio transients (RRATs) with the 64-m Parkes radio telescope and present the Faraday rotation measures (RMs) for the 17 with linearly polarized flux exceeding the off-pulse noise by…

We present mirror and beamsplitter pulse designs that improve the fidelity of atom interferometry and increase its tolerance of systematic inhomogeneities. These designs are demonstrated experimentally with a cold thermal sample of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Jack Saywell , Max Carey , Mohammad Belal , Ilya Kuprov , Tim Freegarde

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with asymmetric electric field pulses, such as monophasic, offers directional selectivity for neural activation but requires excessive energy. Previous pulse shape optimisation has been limited to…

It is well known that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7 Tesla (7T) and higher magnets can provide much better signal sensitivity compared with lower field strengths. However, variety of commercially available ultra-high-field MRI coils…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Akbar Alipour , Alan C Seifert , Bradley Delman , Gregor Adriany , Priti Balchandani

Scattering of ultraintense short laser pulses off relativistic electrons allows one to generate a large number of X- or $\gamma$-ray photons with the expense of the spectral width---temporal pulsing of the laser inevitable leads to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Daniel Seipt , Vasily Yu. Kharin , Sergey G. Rykovanov

Ultrahigh-field (UHF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), i.e., 7T MRI, provides superior anatomical details of internal brain structures owing to its enhanced signal-to-noise ratio and susceptibility-induced contrast. However, the widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Kwanseok Oh , Jieun Lee , Da-Woon Heo , Dinggang Shen , Heung-Il Suk

Purpose: This work proposes a novel RF pulse design for parallel transmit (pTx) systems to obtain uniform saturation of semisolid magnetization for Magnetization Transfer (MT) contrast in the presence of transmit field ($B_1^+$)…

Radiofrequency (RF) pulses are a critical part of every MRI pulse sequence, and must be specifically designed for ultrashort echo time (UTE) and zero echo time (ZTE) acquisitions. When considering the behavior of RF pulses, most often…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Peder E. Z. Larson

A novel approach of applying deep reinforcement learning to an RF pulse design is introduced. This method, which is referred to as DeepRF_SLR, is designed to minimize the peak amplitude or, equivalently, minimize the pulse duration of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Dongmyung Shin , Sooyeon Ji , Doohee Lee , Jieun Lee , Se-Hong Oh , Jongho Lee

Extreme ultraviolet pulses as generated by high harmonic generation (HHG) are a powerful tool for both time-resolved spectroscopy and coherent diffractive imaging. However, the integration of spectroscopy and microscopy to harness the…

The availability of intense, ultrashort coherent radiation sources in the infrared region of the spectrum is enabling the generation of attosecond X-ray pulses via high harmonic generation, pump-probe experiments in the "molecular…

The active manipulation of nuclear spins with radio-frequency (RF) coils is at the heart of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and spin-based quantum devices. Here, we present a microcoil transmitter system designed to generate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 K. Herb , J. Zopes , K. S. Cujia , C. L. Degen

Atom interferometers require both high efficiency and robust performance in their mirror pulses under experimental inhomogeneities. In this work, we demonstrated that quantum optimal control designed mirror pulse significantly enhance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Xueting Fang , Doudou Wang , Kun Yuan , Jie Deng , Qin Luo , Xiaochun Duan , Minkang Zhou , Lushuai Cao , Zhongkun Hu

The generation of accurate tip angles is critical for many applications of nuclear magnetic resonance. In low static field, with a linear rather than circular polarized rf field, the rotating-wave approximation may no longer hold and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Christopher P Bidinosti , Geneviève Tastevin , Pierre-Jean Nacher

The development of fast magnonic information processing nanodevices requires operating with short spin-wave pulses, but, the shorter the pulses, the more affected they are by information loss due to broadening and dispersion. The capability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Silvia Casulleras , Sebastian Knauer , Qi Wang , Oriol Romero-Isart , Andrii V. Chumak , Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero

To achieve high efficiency and good performance of spintronic terahertz sources, we propose and corroborate a remnant magnetization method to radiate continuously and stably terahertz pulses from W/CoFeB/Pt magnetic nanofilms without…

This paper introduces a computational approach to identify performance constraints in the time-domain, offering a way to design systems in pulse operation. This work presents a comprehensive application of convex optimization to determine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jakub Liska , Lukas Jelinek , Miloslav Capek

Background: Magnetization transfer (MT) saturation reflects the additional saturation of the MRI signal imposed by an MT pulse and is largely driven by the saturation of the bound pool. This reduction of the bound polarization by the MT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Gunther Helms , Nikolaus Weiskopf , Antoine Lutti

High-energy terahertz pulses are challenging to produce due to the low conversion efficiency and limited optical damage threshold of nonlinear crystals. Here, we describe the high-efficiency generation of terahertz radiation pulses with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Sida Cao , Matthew R. Edwards