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We proposed a novel test-time optimisation (TTO) approach framed by a NeRF-based architecture for long-term 3D point tracking. Most current methods in point tracking struggle to obtain consistent motion or are limited to 2D motion. TTO…

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Deep learning approaches may help radiologists in the early diagnosis and timely treatment of cerebrovascular diseases. Accurate cerebral vessel segmentation of Time-of-Flight Magnetic Resonance Angiographs (TOF-MRAs) is an essential step…

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This paper proposes a statistical framework to optimize and evaluate the MR parameter $T_1$ and $T_2$ mapping capabilities for quantitative MRI relaxometry approaches. This analysis explores the intrinsic MR parameter estimate precision per…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-03 Yang Liu , John R. Buck , Shaokuan Zheng

Abstract Purpose The complex signal decay during the transient FLASH MRI readout can lead to artifacts in magnitude and phase images. We show that target-driven optimization of individual rf flip angles and phases can realize near-ideal…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Simon Weinmüller , Jonathan Endres , Nam Dang , Rudolf Stollberger , Moritz Zaiss

Recently, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) is revolutionizing the task of novel view synthesis (NVS) for its superior performance. In this paper, we propose to synthesize dynamic scenes. Extending the methods for static scenes to dynamic…

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Purpose: This study aims to develop a high-resolution whole-brain multi-parametric quantitative MRI approach for simultaneous mapping of myelin-water fraction (MWF), T1, T2, and proton-density (PD), all within a clinically feasible scan…

Accurate reconstruction of implanted knee models is crucial in orthopedic surgery and biomedical engineering, enhancing preoperative planning, optimizing implant design, and improving surgical outcomes. Traditional methods rely on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Viet-Dung Nguyen , Michael T. LaCour , Richard D. Komistek

Nuclear magnetic resonance signal dynamics as described by the Bloch equations are highly complex and often are without closed form solutions. This is especially the case for quantitative magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) scans in…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-10-05 Nikolai J. Mickevicius , Andrew S. Nencka , Eric S. Paulson

Quantitative magnetic resonance (MR) T1\r{ho} mapping is a promising approach for characterizing intrinsic tissue-dependent information. However, long scan time significantly hinders its widespread applications. Recently, low-rank tensor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Yuanyuan Liu , Dong Liang , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Yuxin Yang , Chentao Cao , Qingyong Zhu , Jing Cheng , Caiyun Shi , Haifeng Wang , Yanjie Zhu

Active stereo technique using single pattern projection, a.k.a. one-shot 3D scan, have drawn a wide attention from industry, medical purposes, etc. One severe drawback of one-shot 3D scan is sparse reconstruction. In addition, since spatial…

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Fast and Relaxed Vector Fitting (FRVF) is a frequency-domain system identification approach that has been widely adopted in electrical system modelling, while its application to mechanical systems has remained relatively unexplored. In this…

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Purpose To alleviate the spatial encoding limitations of single-shot EPI by developing multi-shot segmented EPI for ultra-high-resolution fMRI with reduced ghosting artifacts from subject motion and respiration. Methods Segmented EPI can…

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This study investigates the significance of flip angle, an imaging parameter, in enhancing Magnetic Resonance image quality under various imaging conditions. It specifically explores the extent to which the Ernst angle, an optimal flip…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Zhiyi Ding

This work proposes a self-navigated variable density spiral(VDS) based manifold regularization scheme to prospectively improve dynamic speech MRI at 3T. Short readout 1.3ms spirals were used to minimize off-resonance. A custom 16-channel…

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Fluid antennas (FAs) and movable antennas (MAs) have emerged as promising technologies in wireless communications, which offer the flexibility to improve channel conditions by adjusting transmit/receive antenna positions within a spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Rui Zhang

Current MRI super-resolution (SR) methods only use existing contrasts acquired from typical clinical sequences as input for the neural network (NN). In turbo spin echo sequences (TSE) the sequence parameters can have a strong influence on…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Hoai Nam Dang , Vladimir Golkov , Thomas Wimmer , Daniel Cremers , Andreas Maier , Moritz Zaiss

Patient motion is well-known for degrading image quality during medical imaging. Especially positron emission tomography (PET) is susceptible to motion due to its usually long scan times. In hybrid PET/MRI (magnetic resonance imaging),…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Lynn Johann Frohwein , Florian Büther , Klaus Peter Schäfers

Objective: To establish an automated pipeline for post-processing of quantitative spin-lattice relaxation time constant in the rotating frame ($T_{1\rho}$) imaging of knee articular cartilage. Design: The proposed post-processing pipeline…

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