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Purpose: To evaluate safety of MRI in patients with fragmented retained leads (FRLs) through numerical simulation and phantom experiments. Methods: Electromagnetic and thermal simulations were performed to determine the worst-case RF…
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Purpose: To theoretically and experimentally study implant lead tip heating caused by radiofrequency (RF) power deposition in different wire configurations that contain loop(s). Methods: Maximum temperature rise caused by RF heating was…
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Significance: This work targets the contamination of optical signals by superficial hemodynamics, which is one of the chief hurdles in non-invasive optical measurements of the human brain. Aim: To identify optimal source-detector distances…
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Purpose: This study presents a variable resolution (VR) sampling and deep learning reconstruction approach for multi-spectral MRI near metal implants, aiming to reduce scan times while maintaining image quality. Background: The rising use…
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is a highly effective treatment for Parkinson's Disease (PD). Recent research uses reinforcement learning (RL) for DBS, with RL agents modulating the stimulation frequency and amplitude. But, these models rely…
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is an established and powerful treatment method in various neurological disorders. It involves chronically delivering electrical pulses to a certain stimulation target in the brain in order to alleviate the…
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has the potential to improve the quality of life of people with a variety of neurological diseases. A key challenge in DBS is in the placement of a stimulation electrode in the anatomical location that maximizes…
Safety assessment of patients with one-dimensionally structured passive implants, like cranial meshes or stents, exposed to low or medium frequency magnetic fields, like those generated in magnetic resonance imaging or magnetic…
Parkinson's Disease afflicts millions of individuals globally. Emerging as a promising brain rehabilitation therapy for Parkinson's Disease, Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation (CL-DBS) aims to alleviate motor symptoms. The CL-DBS system…
Objective: Closed-loop deep brain stimulation (DBS) may improve current clinical DBS treatment for neurological movement disorders, but control algorithms may perform differently across patients. New metrics are needed for comparing and…
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has shown great promise toward treating motor symptoms caused by Parkinson's disease (PD), by delivering electrical pulses to the Basal Ganglia (BG) region of the brain. However, DBS devices approved by the U.S.…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) relies on radiofrequency (RF) excitation of proton spin. Clinical diagnosis requires a comprehensive collation of biophysical data via multiple MRI contrasts, acquired using a series of RF sequences that…
While experiments on metals have been performed since the early days of NMR (and DNP), the use of bulk metal is normally avoided. Instead, often powders have been used in combination with low fields, so that skin depth effects could be…
The technology of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) based on Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) signal has been widely used in clinical treatments and brain function researches. The BOLD signal has to be preprocessed before…