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In some models of quantum gravity, space-time is thought to have a foamy structure with non-trivial optical properties. We probe the possibility that photons propagating in vacuum may exhibit a non-trivial refractive index, by analyzing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Ellis , N. E. Mavromatos , D. V. Nanopoulos , A. S. Sakharov

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…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Dinor Nagar , Moritz Zaiss , Or Perlman

Diffusion MRI tractography technique enables non-invasive visualization of the white matter pathways in the brain. It plays a crucial role in neuroscience and clinical fields by facilitating the study of brain connectivity and neurological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yiqiong Yang , Yitian Yuan , Baoxing Ren , Ye Wu , Yanqiu Feng , Xinyuan Zhang

We have investigated electron dynamics in top gated graphene by measuring the gate admittance of a diffusive graphene capacitor in a broad frequency range as a function of carrier density. The density of states, conductivity and diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-24 E. Pallecchi , A. C. Betz , J. Chaste , G. Fève , B. Huard , T. Kontos , J. -M. Berroir , B. Plaçais

We present an analytical study of the time dependent diffusion coefficient in a dilute suspension of spheres with partially absorbing boundary condition. Following Kirkpatrick (J. Chem. Phys. 76, 4255) we obtain a perturbative expansion for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-29 Jiang Qian , Pabitra N. Sen

Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) is a measure of the magnitude of diffusion of water molecules within tissues. We argue that ADC value contains information of both diffusion and T2 relaxation. In this letter, we list literature evidence…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yi Xiang J. Wang

The purpose of this study is to present and compare three denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) that generate 3D $T_1$-weighted MRI human brain images. Three DDPMs were trained using 80,675 image volumes from 42,406 subjects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Samuel W. Remedios , Aaron Carass , Jerry L. Prince , Blake E. Dewey

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable quality in multi-modal MRI synthesis, but their computational cost (hundreds of sampling steps and separate models per modality) limits clinical deployment. We observe that this inefficiency stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yalcin Tur , Mihajlo Stojkovic , Ulas Bagci

Diffraction in time manifests itself as the appearance of probability-density fringes when a matter wave passes through an opaque screen with abrupt temporal variations of transmission properties. Here we analytically describe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 Maximilien Barbier , Arseni Goussev

We study the non-Arrhenius behavior of surface diffusion near the second-order phase transition boundary of an adsorbate layer. In contrast to expectations based on macroscopic thermodynamic effects, we show that this behavior can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Vattulainen , J. Merikoski , T. Ala-Nissila , S. C. Ying

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) allows non-invasive investigation of whole-brain connectivity, which can potentially help to reveal the brain's global network architecture and abnormalities involved in neurological and…

Tissue microstructure has significance as a biomarker, however its accurate inference with diffusion magnetic resonance (MR) is still an open problem. With few exceptions, diffusion weighted (DW) MR models either process diffusion MR data…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Alpay Özcan

In vivo mapping of the neurite density with diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a high but challenging aim. First, it is unknown whether all neurites exhibit completely anisotropic ('stick-like') diffusion. Second, the 'density' of tissue components…

A diffusion-based molecular communication system has two major components: the diffusion in the medium, and the ligand-reception. Information bits, encoded in the time variations of the concentration of molecules, are conveyed to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Arash Einolghozati , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

Diffusion MRI is the modality of choice to study alterations of white matter. In past years, various works have used diffusion MRI for automatic classification of AD. However, classification performance obtained with different approaches is…

Diffusion encoding along multiple spatial directions per signal acquisition can be described in terms of a b-tensor. The benefit of tensor-valued diffusion encoding is that it unlocks the "shape of the b-tensor" as a new encoding dimension.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Filip Szczepankiewicz , Carl-Fredrik Westin , Markus Nilsson

Tract-specific diffusion measures, as derived from brain diffusion MRI, have been linked to white matter tract structural integrity and neurodegeneration. As a consequence, there is a large interest in the automatic segmentation of white…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-28 Bo Li , Marius de Groot , Meike Vernooij , Arfan Ikram , Wiro Niessen , Esther Bron

Finding an appropriate representation of dynamic activities in the brain is crucial for many downstream applications. Due to its highly dynamic nature, temporally averaged fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) can only provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Sikun Lin , Shuyun Tang , Scott Grafton , Ambuj Singh

Promising results have been reported in quantifying microstructural parameters (free diffusivity, cell size, and membrane permeability) in head and neck cancers (HNCs) using time-dependent diffusion MRI fitted to Random Walk with Barrier…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Jiaren Zou , Yue Cao

Introduction High performance gradients poses a promise for breast diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) but are restricted by physiological limits in whole body scanners. While local nonlinear coils offer higher amplitudes, they often suffer…