English
Related papers

Related papers: Harmonic analysis of spherical sampling in diffusi…

200 papers

Purpose: To develop an efficient simultaneous multi-slab imaging method with blipped-controlled aliasing in parallel imaging (blipped-SMSlab) in a 4D k-space framework, and demonstrate its efficacy in high-resolution diffusion MRI (dMRI).…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Simin Liu , Jieying Zhang , Diwei Shi , Hua Guo

We propose a radical advance in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. MRI remains slow because it requires successive applications of magnetic field gradients to encode for spatial location. Parallel MRI accelerates imaging by permitting…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Michael Hutchinson , Ulrich Raff , Luis Osorio

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a popular modulation technique for transmitting digital data over wireless radio channels, including medical images due to its high transmission capacity, low interference, bandwidth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Nada Bouchekout , Abdelkrim Boukabou , Morad Grimes

In many applications data are measured or defined on a spherical manifold; spherical harmonic transforms are then required to access the frequency content of the data. We derive algorithms to perform forward and inverse spin spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-28 J. D. McEwen

Historically, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain has focused primarily on gray matter, particularly the cortical gray matter and associated nuclei. However, recent work has demonstrated that functional activity in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Zhiyuan Li , Kurt G. Schilling , Bennett A. Landman

In this work we present an alternative way to look at electron diffraction in a transmission electron microscope. In stead of writing the scattering amplitude in Fourier space as a set of plane waves, we use the cylindrical Fourier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-13 Roeland Juchtmans , Jo Verbeeck

Multi contrast MRI synthesis is inherently challenging due to the complex and nonlinear relationships among different contrasts. Each MRI contrast highlights unique tissue properties, but their complementary information is difficult to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Sanuwani Dayarathna , Himashi Peiris , Kh Tohidul Islam , Tien-Tsin Wong , Zhaolin Chen

A novel approach to improving the performances of confocal scanning imaging is proposed. We experimentally demonstrate its feasibility using acoustic waves. It relies on a new way to encode spatial information using the temporal dimension.…

Spherical deconvolution (SD) methods are widely used to estimate the intra-voxel white-matter fiber orientations from diffusion MRI data. However, while some of these methods assume a zero-mean Gaussian distribution for the underlying…

Subject-specific cardiovascular models rely on parameter estimation using measurements such as 4D Flow MRI data. However, acquiring high-resolution, high-fidelity functional flow data is costly and taxing for the patient. As a result, there…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Miriam Löcke , Ahmed Attia , Dariusz Ucínski , Cristóbal Bertoglio

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) can be used to characterise the microstructure of the nervous tissue, e.g. to delineate brain white matter connections in a non-invasive manner via fibre tracking. Magnetic Resonance…

Rotating-view thick-slice acquisition is highly SNR-efficient for mesoscale diffusion MRI (dMRI) but requires numerous rotating views to satisfy Nyquist sampling, resulting in long scan time. We propose a self-supervised Spatial-Angular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yinzhe Wu , Hongyu Rui , Fanwen Wang , Jiahao Huang , Zi Wang , Guang Yang

Optical diffraction tomography is an indispensable tool for studying objects in three-dimensions due to its ability to accurately reconstruct scattering objects. Until now this technique has been limited to coherent light because spatial…

This paper introduces a method to preform optical tomography, using 3D radiative transfer as the forward model. We use an iterative approach predicated on the Spherical Harmonics Discrete Ordinates Method (SHDOM) to solve the optimization…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Aviad Levis , Yoav Y. Schechner , Amit Aides , Anthony B. Davis

This paper is devoted to the error analysis of a time-spectral algorithm for fractional diffusion problems of order $\alpha$ ($0 < \alpha < 1$). The solution regularity in the Sobolev space is revisited, and new regularity results in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Hao Luo , Xiaoping Xie

The purpose of this study is to propose a brain tissue-selective, optimized slice-by-slice B0 field shimming for high-resolution brain diffusion MRI. We incorporated actual gradient fields of X, Y, and Z gradient coils in the calculation of…

Computed Tomography (CT) technology reduces radiation haz-ards to the human body through sparse sampling, but fewer sampling angles pose challenges for image reconstruction. Score-based generative models are widely used in sparse-view CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Junyan Zhang , Mengxiao Geng , Pinhuang Tan , Yi Liu , Zhili Liu , Bin Huang , Qiegen Liu

Accurately translating medical images between different modalities, such as Computed Tomography (CT) to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), has numerous downstream clinical and machine learning applications. While several methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Yuwen Chen , Nicholas Konz , Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Yaqian Chen , Lin Li , Jisoo Lee , Maciej A. Mazurowski

We present a simple and effective method to eliminate system aberrations and speckle noise in quantitative phase imaging. Using spiral integration, complete information about system aberration is calculated from three laterally shifted…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Inhyeok Choi , Kyeoreh Lee , YongKeun Park

Imaging with optical resolution through highly scattering media is a long sought-after goal with important applications in deep tissue imaging. Although being the focus of numerous works, this goal was considered impractical until recently.…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-10 Ori Katz , Eran Small , Yaron Silberberg