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Medical Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Juergen Hennig , Antonia Barhoorn , Shuoyue Zhang , Maxim Zaitsev

Zero echo time (ZTE) sequences have proven a powerful tool for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of ultrashort T2 tissues, but they fail to produce useful images in the presence of strong field inhomogeneities. Here we present a method to…

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Lattices of odd-layered two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as WSe2 are non-centrosymmetric, and thus could possess linear piezoelectricity that is attractive for applications such as nanoelectromechanical…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-10 Ehsan Nasr Esfahani , Terrance Li , Bevin Huang , Xiaodong Xu , Jiangyu Li

2D single-slice abdominal computed tomography (CT) enables the assessment of body habitus and organ health with low radiation exposure. However, single-slice data necessitates the use of 2D networks for segmentation, but these networks…

In clinical practice, 2D magnetic resonance (MR) sequences are widely adopted. While individual 2D slices can be stacked to form a 3D volume, the relatively large slice spacing can pose challenges for both image visualization and subsequent…

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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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Efficient and accurate multi-organ segmentation from abdominal CT volumes is a fundamental challenge in medical image analysis. Existing 3D segmentation approaches are computationally and memory intensive, often processing entire volumes…

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Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Haoyang Pei , Timothy M. Shepherd , Yao Wang , Fang Liu , Daniel K Sodickson , Noam Ben-Eliezer , Li Feng

Time-series tasks often benefit from signals expressed across multiple representation spaces (e.g., time vs. frequency) and at varying abstraction levels (e.g., local patterns vs. global semantics). However, existing pre-trained time-series…

Purpose: To propose a B1+ mapping technique for imaging of body parts containing metal hardware, based on magnitude images acquired with turbo spin echo (TSE) pulse sequences. Theory and Methods: To encode the underlying B1+, multiple (two…

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Spin-echo functional MRI (SE-fMRI) has the potential to improve spatial specificity when compared to gradient-echo fMRI. However, high spatiotemporal resolution SE-fMRI with large slice-coverage is challenging as SE-fMRI requires a long…

A new method of measuring long spin-lattice relaxation times ($T_1$) is proposed. Being a single scan technique, the method is at least one order of magnitude faster than the conventional technique. This method (Single-Scan or Slice…

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Optically active solid-state spin systems play an important role in quantum technologies. We introduce a new readout scheme, termed Time to Space (T2S) encoding which decouples spin manipulation from optical readout both temporally and…

In clinical imaging, magnetic resonance (MR) image volumes are often acquired as stacks of 2D slices with decreased scan times, improved signal-to-noise ratio, and image contrasts unique to 2D MR pulse sequences. While this is sufficient…

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Simultaneous multislice (SMS) imaging is a one of the acceleration technique of magnetic resonance imaging. SMS requires accurate sensitivity distributions in the slice plane for each receiving coil. This requirement is difficult to satisfy…

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Three-dimensional biological microscopy has significantly advanced our understanding of complex biological structures. However, limitations due to microscopy techniques, sample properties or phototoxicity often result in poor z-resolution,…

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The technical advances in Computed Tomography (CT) allow to obtain immense amounts of 3D data. For such datasets it is very costly and time-consuming to obtain the accurate 3D segmentation markup to train neural networks. The annotation is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 Yaroslav Zharov , Alexey Ershov , Tilo Baumbach , Vincent Heuveline

Today the gold standard for in vivo imaging through scattering tissue is the point-scanning two-photon microscope (PSTPM). Especially in neuroscience, PSTPM is widely used for deep-tissue imaging in the brain. However, due to sequential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-03 Zhun Wei , Josiah R. Boivin , Yi Xue , Xudong Chen , Peter T. C. So , Elly Nedivi , Dushan N. Wadduwage

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a powerful, non-invasive tool for detecting and characterizing abdominal lesions to facilitate early diagnosis, but respiratory motion during a scan reduces image quality and…

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