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Parallel magnetic resonance imaging has served as an effective and widely adopted technique for accelerating scans. The advent of sparse sampling offers aggressive acceleration, allowing flexible sampling and better reconstruction.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Xinlin Zhang , Di Guo , Yiman Huang , Ying Chen , Liansheng Wang , Feng Huang , Xiaobo Qu

Parallel MRI is a fast imaging technique that enables the acquisition of highly resolved images in space or/and in time. The performance of parallel imaging strongly depends on the reconstruction algorithm, which can proceed either in the…

Applications · Statistics 2013-10-07 Lotfi Chaari , Sébastien Mériaux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Philippe Ciuciu

Purpose: To develop an accelerated Cartesian MRF implementation using a multi-shot EPI sequence for rapid simultaneous quantification of T1 and T2 parameters. Methods: The proposed Cartesian MRF method involved the acquisition of highly…

High spatial and temporal resolution across the whole brain is essential to accurately resolve neural activities in fMRI. Therefore, accelerated imaging techniques target improved coverage with high spatio-temporal resolution. Simultaneous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Omer Burak Demirel , Burhaneddin Yaman , Logan Dowdle , Steen Moeller , Luca Vizioli , Essa Yacoub , John Strupp , Cheryl A. Olman , Kâmil Uğurbil , Mehmet Akçakaya

We introduce NeuV-SLAM, a novel dense simultaneous localization and mapping pipeline based on neural multiresolution voxels, characterized by ultra-fast convergence and incremental expansion capabilities. This pipeline utilizes RGBD images…

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In the last few years, with the rapid development of deep learning technologies, supervised methods based on convolutional neural networks have greatly enhanced the performance of medical image denoising. However, these methods require…

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Spatial transcriptomics (ST) measures mRNA expression while preserving spatial organization, but multi-slice analysis faces two coupled difficulties: large non-rigid deformations across slices and inter-slice batch effects when alignment…

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Purpose: In multi-spectral imaging (MSI), several fast spin echo volumes with discrete Larmor frequency offsets are acquired in an interleaved fashion with multiple concatenations. Here, a variable resolution (VR) method to nearly halve…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Nikolai J. Mickevicius , Azadeh Sharafi , Andrew S. Nencka , Kevin M. Koch

MRI and CT are essential clinical cross-sectional imaging techniques for diagnosing complex conditions. However, large 3D datasets with annotations for deep learning are scarce. While methods like DINOv2 are encouraging for 2D image…

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Multimode fibers (MMFs) provide a compact, high-throughput platform for minimally invasive imaging and information transmission. However, their utility is fundamentally constrained by mode mixing, which renders image transmission spatially…

This paper proposes a polyline shaped array based system scheme, associated with mechanical scanning along the perpendicular direction of the array, for near-field millimeter-wave (MMW) imaging. Each section of the polyline is a chord of a…

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Purpose: While spiral sampling offers SNR advantages for diffusion MRI, its acceleration with simultaneous multislice remains relatively unexplored. This study introduces Laterally Oscillating Trajectory for Undersampling Slices (LOTUS),…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Mayuri Sothynathan , Paul I. Dubovan , Corey. A. Baron

Iterative self-consistent parallel imaging reconstruction (SPIRiT) is an effective self-calibrated reconstruction model for parallel magnetic resonance imaging (PMRI). The joint L1 norm of wavelet coefficients and joint total variation (TV)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Ting Pan , Jizhong Duan , Junfeng Wang , Yu Liu

Label-free nonlinear optical microscopy has become a powerful tool for biomedical research. However, the possible photodamage risk hinder further clinical applications. To reduce these adverse effects, we constructed a new platform of…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-26 Geng Wang , Stephen A. Boppart , Haohua Tu

Reducing the scanning time of very-low field (VLF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, commonly employed for stroke diagnosis, can enhance patient comfort and operational efficiency. The conventional parallel imaging (PI) technique…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Lei Yang , Wei He , Sheng Shen , Yucheng He , Jiamin Wu , Zheng Xu

The non-interference three-dimensional refractive index(RI) tomography has attracted extensive attention in the life science field for its simple system implementation and robust imaging performance. However, the complexity inherent in the…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-13 Delong Yang , Shaohui Zhang , Yao Hu , Qun Hao

We propose a marginal super-resolution (MSR) approach based on 2D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for interpolating an anisotropic brain magnetic resonance scan along the highly under-sampled direction, which is assumed to axial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-16 Cheng Peng , Wei-An Lin , Haofu Liao , Rama Chellappa , S. Kevin Zhou

Motion remains a major challenge in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, particularly in free-breathing cardiac MR imaging, where data are acquired over multiple heartbeats at varying respiratory phases. We adopt a model-based approach for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Kwang Eun Jang , Mario O. Malavé , Dwight G. Nishimura

Purpose: To develop a fast, general-purpose framework for voxelwise noise characterization in linear and nonlinear iterative MRI reconstructions, recovering the image-domain noise variance from which SNR, $g$-factor, and related…

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