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Purpose: To develop a cardiac T1 mapping method for free-breathing 3D T1 mapping of the whole heart at 3T with transmit B1 (B1+) correction Methods: A free-breathing, ECG-gated inversion recovery sequence with spoiled gradient-echo readout…
Recent advancements in neural network quantisation have yielded remarkable outcomes, with three-bit networks reaching state-of-the-art full-precision accuracy in complex tasks. These achievements present valuable opportunities for…
Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) offers a non-invasive and objective way to quantify tissue health. We recently presented a spatially adaptive regularization method for reconstruction of a single QUS parameter, limited to a two dimensional…
Quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) is an MRI phase-based post-processing method that quantifies tissue magnetic susceptibility distributions. However, QSM acquisitions are relatively slow, even with parallel imaging. Incoherent…
We introduce wave encoded acquisition and reconstruction techniques for highly accelerated echo planar imaging (EPI) with reduced g-factor penalty and image artifacts. Wave-EPI involves playing sinusoidal gradients during the EPI readout…
Quantitative cardiac magnetic resonance T1 and T2 mapping enable myocardial tissue characterisation but the lengthy scan times restrict their widespread clinical application. We propose a deep learning method that incorporates a time…
Increasing the size and complexity of quantum information systems requires highly-multiplexed readout architectures, as well as amplifier chains operating near the quantum limit (QL) of added noise. While documented prior efforts in KITWPA…
Accurate automatic segmentation of brain anatomy from $T_1$-weighted~($T_1$-w) magnetic resonance images~(MRI) has been a computationally intensive bottleneck in neuroimaging pipelines, with state-of-the-art results obtained by unsupervised…
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…
Purpose: To study the accuracy of motion information extracted from beat-to-beat 3D image-based navigators (3D iNAVs) collected using a variable-density cones trajectory with different combinations of spatial resolutions and scan…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a cornerstone of clinical neuroimaging, yet conventional MRIs provide qualitative information heavily dependent on scanner hardware and acquisition settings. While quantitative MRI (qMRI) offers intrinsic…
Purpose: To propose and evaluate an accelerated $T_{1\rho}$ quantification method that combines $T_{1\rho}$-weighted fast spin echo (FSE) images and proton density (PD)-weighted anatomical FSE images, leveraging deep learning models for…
Detailed whole brain segmentation is an essential quantitative technique, which provides a non-invasive way of measuring brain regions from a structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Recently, deep convolution neural network (CNN) has…
Quantization-aware training (QAT) is a representative model compression method to reduce redundancy in weights and activations. However, most existing QAT methods require end-to-end training on the entire dataset, which suffers from long…
Neuroanatomical segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain is a prerequisite for volume, thickness and shape measurements. This work introduces a new highly accurate and versatile method based on 3D convolutional neural…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has long been considered to be among the gold standards of today's diagnostic imaging. The most significant drawback of MRI is long acquisition times, prohibiting its use in standard practice for some…
Purpose: To develop and validate a multi-parametric SAturation-recovery single-SHot Acquisition (mSASHA) cardiac T1 and T2 mapping technique with high accuracy and precision in a single breath-hold. Methods: The mSASHA acquisition consists…
The substantial memory bandwidth and computational demands of large language models (LLMs) present critical challenges for efficient inference. To tackle this, the literature has explored heterogeneous systems that combine neural processing…
Early infancy is a rapid and dynamic neurodevelopmental period for behavior and neurocognition. Longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an effective tool to investigate such a crucial stage by capturing the developmental…
3D multi-slab acquisitions are an appealing approach for diffusion MRI because they are compatible with the imaging regime delivering optimal SNR efficiency. In conventional 3D multi-slab imaging, shot-to-shot phase variations caused by…