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Purpose: This work aims to develop a novel distortion-free 3D-EPI acquisition and image reconstruction technique for fast and robust, high-resolution, whole-brain imaging as well as quantitative T2* mapping. Methods: 3D-Blip-Up and -Down…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Zhifeng Chen , Congyu Liao , Xiaozhi Cao , Benedikt A. Poser , Zhongbiao Xu , Wei-Ching Lo , Manyi Wen , Jaejin Cho , Qiyuan Tian , Yaohui Wang , Yanqiu Feng , Ling Xia , Wufan Chen , Feng Liu , Berkin Bilgic

Purpose: To rapidly obtain high isotropic-resolution T2 maps with whole-brain coverage and high geometric fidelity. Methods: A T2 blip-up/down echo planar imaging (EPI) acquisition with generalized Slice-dithered enhanced resolution…

Quantitative imaging in MRI usually involves acquisition and reconstruction of a series of images at multi-echo time points, which possibly requires more scan time and specific reconstruction technique compared to conventional qualitative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Jinwei Zhang , Hang Zhang , Chao Li , Pascal Spincemaille , Mert Sabuncu , Thanh D. Nguyen , Yi Wang

High-resolution medical images are beneficial for analysis but their acquisition may not always be feasible. Alternatively, high-resolution images can be created from low-resolution acquisitions using conventional upsampling methods, but…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Jörg Sander , Bob D. de Vos , Ivana Išgum

Imaging the structure and observing the dynamics of isolated proteins using single-particle X-ray diffractive imaging (SPI) is one of the potential applications of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). Currently, SPI experiments on isolated…

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a neuroimaging technique that records brain neural activity with high temporal resolution. Unlike other methods, EEG does not require prohibitively expensive equipment and can be easily set up using…

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Purpose: The expanded encoding model incorporates spatially- and time-varying field perturbations for correction during reconstruction. So far, these reconstructions have used the conjugate gradient method with early stopping used as…

Purpose: Stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) diffusion MRI can be advantageous over pulsed-gradient spin-echo (PGSE) for diffusion times that are long compared to $\ttwo$. It is important therefore for biomedical diffusion imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Daniel C. Alexander , Tim B. Dyrby

Light field (LF) imaging, which captures both spatial and angular information of a scene, is undoubtedly beneficial to numerous applications. Although various techniques have been proposed for LF acquisition, achieving both angularly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Trung-Hieu Tran , Jan Berberich , Sven Simon

Single-pixel imaging (SPI) is significant for applications constrained by transmission bandwidth or lighting band, where 3D SPI can be further realized through capturing signals carrying depth. Sampling strategy and reconstruction algorithm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Xinyue Ma , Chenxing Wang

Head movement during scanning impedes activation detection in fMRI studies. Head motion in fMRI acquired using slice-based Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) can be estimated and compensated by aligning the images onto a reference volume through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Yu-Hui Chen , Roni Mittelman , Boklye Kim , Charles Meyer , Alfred Hero

Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) is widely used for its rapid acquisition but suffers from severe geometric distortions due to B0 inhomogeneities, particularly along the phase encoding direction. Existing methods follow a two-step process:…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Wenqi Huang , Nan Wang , Congyu Liao , Yimeng Lin , Mengze Gao , Daniel Rueckert , Kawin Setsompop

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…

To reduce scanning time and/or improve spatial/temporal resolution in some MRI applications, parallel MRI (pMRI) acquisition techniques with multiple coils acquisition have emerged since the early 1990s as powerful 3D imaging methods that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-09-03 Lotfi Chaari , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Philippe Ciuciu , Amel Benazza-Benyahia

MRI systems are traditionally engineered to produce close to idealized performance, enabling a simplified pulse sequence design philosophy. An example of this is control of eddy currents produced by gradient fields; usually these are…

Cross-term spatiotemporal encoding (xSPEN) is a recently introduced imaging approach delivering single-scan 2D NMR images with unprecedented resilience to field inhomogeneities. The method relies on performing a pre-acquisition encoding and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-08-25 Eddy Solomon , Gilad Liberman , Zhiyong Zhang , Lucio Frydman

Purpose: Cross-term spatiotemporal encoding-xSPEN-is a single-shot imaging approach with exceptional resilience to field heterogeneities: its images do not require a priori information nor use post-acquisition corrections, to deliver…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 Zhiyong Zhang , Lucio Frydman

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.…

Expansion of diffusion MRI (dMRI) both into the realm of strong gradients, and into accessible imaging with portable low-field devices, brings about the challenge of gradient nonlinearities. Spatial variations of the diffusion gradients…