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Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently emerged as a promising metasurface-based physical-layer paradigm for wireless communications, enabling wave-domain signal processing through multiple cascaded metasurface layers.…

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Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers a cost-effective alternative for medical imaging in resource-limited settings. However, its widespread adoption is hindered by two key challenges: prolonged scan times and reduced image…

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The possibility of making an object invisible for detectors has become a topic of considerable interest over the past decades. Most of the studies so far focused on reducing the visibility by reshaping the electromagnetic scattering in the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Mingkai Liu , Alexander B. Kozyrev , Ilya V. Shadrivov

Free-positioning and multi-user supportive wireless power transfer systems represent the next-generation technology for wireless charging under the Qi standard. Traditional approaches employ multiple transmitting coils and multi-channel…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Hanwei Wang , Joshua Yu , Xiaodong Ye , Yun-Sheng Chen , Yang Zhao

Recent advancements in metamaterials have yielded the possibility of a wireless solution to improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Unlike traditional closely packed local coil arrays with rigid designs and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Xia Zhu , Ke Wu , Stephan W. Anderson , Xin Zhang

Metasurfaces offered great opportunities to control electromagnetic (EM) waves, but currently available meta-devices typically work either in pure reflection or pure transmission mode, leaving half of EM space completely unexplored. Here,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Tong Cai , GuangMing Wang , ShiWei Tang , HeXiu Xu , JingWen Duan , HuiJie Guo , FuXin Guan , ShuLin Sun , Qiong He , Lei Zhou

The fusion of metasurface antennas and computational imaging facilitates the design of microwave imaging systems which require no lenses, phase shifters or moving parts. The technique involves the generation of appropriately designed…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Toufiq M. Hossain , Andrey E. Miroshnichenko , David A. Powell

Metasurfaces consisting of electrically thin and densely packed planar arrays of subwavelength elements enable an unprecedented control of the impinging electromagnetic fields. Spatially modulated metasurfaces can efficiently tailor the…

Flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs) show great potential for improving the wireless network capacity in an energy-efficient manner. An FIM is a soft array consisting of several low-cost radiating elements. Each element can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jiancheng An , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) governs the quality of signal detection and directly impacts the clarity and reliability of the acquired images. Recent advances in metamaterials have enabled lightweight…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Yuhan Liu , Xia Zhu , Ke Wu , Stephan W. Anderson , Xin Zhang

Electromagnetic metasurfaces can be characterized as intelligent if they are able to perform multiple tunable functions, with the desired response being controlled by a computer influencing the individual electromagnetic properties of each…

A systematic approach is presented to exploit the rich field transformation capabilities of Electromagnetic (EM) metasurfaces for creating a variety of illusions using the concept of metasurface holograms. A system level approach to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Tom. J. Smy , Scott A. Stewart , Shulabh Gupta

Infrared imaging is indispensable for its ability to penetrate obscurants and visualize thermal signatures, yet its practical use is hindered by the intrinsic limitations of conventional detectors. Nonlinear upconversion, which converts…

The technology of magnetic resonance imaging is developing towards higher magnetic fields to improve resolution and contrast. However, whole-body imaging at 7 T or even higher fields remains challenging due to wave interference, tissue…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 G. Solomakha , J. T. Svejda , C. van Leeuwen , A. Rennings , A. J. Raaijmakers , S. Glybovski , D. Erni

Ultra Low Field (64 mT) brain MRI improves accessibility but suffers from reduced image quality compared to 3 T. As paired 64 mT - 3 T scans are scarce, we propose an unpaired 64 mT $\rightarrow$ 3 T translation framework that enhances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Youngmin Kim , Jaeyun Shin , Jeongchan Kim , Taehoon Lee , Jaemin Kim , Peter Hsu , Jelle Veraart , Jong Chul Ye

Fetal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is crucial for assessing neurodevelopment in utero. However, fetal MRI analysis remains technically challenging due to fetal motion, low signal-to-noise ratio, and the need for complex multi-step…

Representation learning on large-scale unstructured volumetric and surface meshes poses significant challenges in neuroimaging, especially when models must incorporate diverse vertex-level morphometric descriptors, such as cortical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yujian Xiong , Mohammad Farazi , Yanxi Chen , Wenhui Zhu , Xuanzhao Dong , Natasha Lepore , Yi Su , Raza Mushtaq , Stephen Foldes , Andrew Yang , Yalin Wang

The terahertz spectral region, which bridges between electronics and optics, is poised to play an important role in the development of transformative wireless communication and imaging systems with unprecedented functionality. Currently, a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Chen Chen , Sai Chen , Yibo Ni , Yibao Xu , Yuanmu Yang

Different imaging modalities are used to extract the diverse information carried in an optical field. Two prominent modalities include bright field and phase contrast microscopy that can visualize the amplitude and phase features of a…

Access to and availability of MRI scanners is typically limited by their cost, siting and infrastructure requirements. This precludes MRI diagnostics, the reference standard for neurological assessment, in patients who cannot be transported…