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Leveraging the potential of low-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), our study introduces the multimodal surface RF coil, a design tailored to overcome the limitations of conventional coils in this context. The inherent challenges of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Yunkun Zhao , Aditya A Bhosale , Xiaoliang Zhang

Ultrahigh-field MRI, such as those operating at 7 Tesla, enhances diagnostic capabilities but also presents unique challenges, including the need for advanced RF coil designs to achieve an optimal signal-to-noise ratio and transmit…

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This study presents the design, simulation, and experimental validation of a novel multimodal concentric surface coil for MR imaging, developed to achieve higher B1 field efficiency while maintaining low SAR for enhanced imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Yunkun Zhao , Aditya A Bhosale , Xiaoliang Zhang

Purpose: One of the intrinsic limitations of low-field MRI is low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which can be further reduced by electromagnetic interference (EMI) due to the lack of a Faraday shielded room. To address this issue, we propose…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Jules Vliem , Najac Chloe , Beatrice Lena , Andrew Webb , Irena Zivkovic

The performance of radiofrequency (RF) coils has a significant impact on the quality and speed of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Consequently, rigid coils with attached cables are commonly employed to achieve optimal SNR performance and…

Wireless radio frequency coils provide a promising solution for clinical MR applications due to several benefits, such as cable-free connection and compatibility with MR platforms of different vendors. Namely, for the purpose of clinical…

Anatomy-specific RF receive coil arrays routinely adopted in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for signal acquisition, are commonly burdened by their bulky, fixed, and rigid configurations, which may impose patient discomfort, bothersome…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Ke Wu , Xia Zhu , Stephan W. Anderson , Xin Zhang

A volume coil with squared slots-end ring was developed to attain improved sensitivity for imaging of rat's brain at 7 T. The principles of the high cavity resonator for the low-pass case and the law of Biot-Savart were used to derive a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-08-14 S. Solis-Najera , R. Martin , F. Vazquez , O. Marrufo , A. O. Rodriguez

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is crucial in global healthcare, but the traditional receive coils, as a core component of MRI, SNR enhancement is limited due to the optimization of channel number and magnetic field strength faces high…

High impedance RF coils, such as self-decoupled coils, reduce the electromagnetic coupling between the coil elements and eliminates the use of complex decoupling technologies. Although the high impedance design promises excellent decoupling…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Aditya Bhosale , Xiaoliang Zhang

Modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) relies on application-specific multi-channel receive coils to achieve high performance, but these coils are typically costly, rigid, and difficult to generalize across anatomies. Recent wireless,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yuhan Liu , Xia Zhu , Ke Wu , Artem Kaliaev , Christina A. LeBedis , Stephan W. Anderson , Xin Zhang

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

Deep-learning-based brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction methods have the potential to accelerate the MRI acquisition process. Nevertheless, the scientific community lacks appropriate benchmarks to assess MRI reconstruction…

Purpose: Parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstructions of large MRI datasets often have a prohibitive computational cost that bottlenecks clinical deployment, especially for 3D non-Cartesian acquisitions. One common approach is to…

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In contrast to linearly polarized RF coil arrays, quadrature transceiver coil arrays are capable of improving signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), spatial resolution and parallel imaging performance. Owing to a reduced excitation power, low…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Komlan Payne , Aditya Ashok Bhosale , Xiaoliang Zhang

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) stands as a powerful modality in clinical diagnosis. However, it is known that MRI faces challenges such as long acquisition time and vulnerability to motion-induced artifacts. Despite the success of many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Lixuan Chen , Xuanyu Tian , Jiangjie Wu , Ruimin Feng , Guoyan Lao , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

It is well known that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7 Tesla (7T) and higher magnets can provide much better signal sensitivity compared with lower field strengths. However, variety of commercially available ultra-high-field MRI coils…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Akbar Alipour , Alan C Seifert , Bradley Delman , Gregor Adriany , Priti Balchandani

We convert the information-rich measurements of parallel and phased-array MRI into noisier data that a corresponding single-coil scanner could have taken. Specifically, we replace the responses from multiple receivers with a linear…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Mark Tygert , Jure Zbontar

This paper introduces a novel framework for image quality transfer based on conditional flow matching (CFM). Unlike conventional generative models that rely on iterative sampling or adversarial objectives, CFM learns a continuous flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Huu Tien Nguyen , Ahmed Karam Eldaly

Electromagnetic decoupling among a close-fitting or high-density transceiver RF array elements is required to maintain the integrity of the magnetic flux density from individual channel for enhanced performance in detection sensitivity and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Komlan Payne , Leslie L. Ying , Xiaoliang Zhang
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