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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…
Compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) is applied to laser breakdown in argon and xenon under pressures up to 40atm to obtain 2D images of the plasma dynamics of single events with a spatial resolution of 250x100 pixels and an equivalent…
We introduce the first method to enable an optical amplification of a coherent Raman spectroscopy signal called radio frequency Doppler Raman spectroscopy. Doppler Raman measurements amplify the optical signals in coherent Raman…
Ultra Fast Astronomy is a new frontier becoming enabled by improved detector technology allowing discovery of optical transients on millisecond to nanosecond time scales. These may reveal counterparts of energetic processes such as fast…
Traditional spectral imaging methods are constrained by the time-consuming scanning process, limiting the application in dynamic scenarios. One-shot spectral imaging based on reconstruction has been a hot research topic recently and the…
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