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In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted cell-free multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system, where distributed multiple IRSs are dedicated deployed to assist distributed multiple base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Kun Yang , Z. Jane Wang

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-cell multiple-input single-output (MISO) system consisting of several multi-antenna base stations (BSs) each communicating with a single-antenna user, in which an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-10 Hailiang Xie , Jie Xu , Ya-Feng Liu

This paper presents a scalable beamforming design for maximizing the spectral efficiency (SE) of multi-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communications through joint optimization of the precoder and RIS phase shifts in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Mintaek Oh , Jinseok Choi

Purpose: Conventional MRI is relying on the assumption of the magnetic field being homogeneous in direction and amplitude. However, with the growing interest in portable, affordable point-of-care MRI systems, these assumptions do not…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Fabian Bschorr , Thomas Hüfken , Tobias Lobmeyer , Volker Rasche

Sensor-aided beamforming reduces the overheads associated with beam training in millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) communication systems. Most prior work, though, neglects the challenges associated with establishing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Kartik Patel , Robert W. Heath

Prepolarized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PMRI) is a long-established technique conceived to counteract the loss in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) inherent to low-field MRI systems. When it comes to hard biological tissues and solid-state…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) quality assessment is crucial for clinical decision-making, yet remains challenging due to data scarcity and protocol variability. Traditional approaches face fundamental trade-offs: signal-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Fankai Jia , Daisong Gan , Zhe Zhang , Zhaochi Wen , Chenchen Dan , Dong Liang , Haifeng Wang

Modern reconstruction methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exploit the spatially varying sensitivity profiles of receive-coil arrays as additional source of information. This allows to reduce the number of time-consuming…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Martin Uecker

An introduction of intelligent interconnectivity for people and things has posed higher demands and more challenges for sixth-generation (6G) networks, such as high spectral efficiency and energy efficiency, ultra-low latency, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Enyu Shi , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Bo Ai , Chau Yuen , Dusit Niyato , Khaled B. Letaief , Xuemin Shen

Multimode fibers recently emerged as compact minimally-invasive probes for high-resolution deep-tissue imaging. However, the commonly used silica fibers have a relatively low numerical aperture (NA) limiting the spatial resolution of a…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-09 Zhouping Lyu , Lyubov Amitonova

Multimodal medical image fusion facilitates comprehensive diagnosis by aggregating complementary structural and functional information, but its effectiveness is limited by resolution degradation and modality discrepancies. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Fayaz Ali Dharejo , Sharif S. M. A. , Aiman Khalil , Nachiket Chaudhary , Rizwan Ali Naqvi , Radu Timofte

Purpose: MRI gradients with a conventional, bipolar design generally face a trade-off between performance, encoding ambiguity, and circumventing the latter by means of RF selectivity. This problem is particularly limiting in cutting-edge…

Radiofrequency field inhomogeneity is a significant issue in imaging large fields of view in high- and ultrahigh-field MRI. Passive shimming with coupled coils or dielectric pads is the most common approach at 3 T. We introduce and test…

A novel framework is proposed that combines multi-resonance biosensors with machine learning (ML) to significantly enhance the accuracy of parameter prediction in biosensing. Unlike traditional single-resonance systems, which are limited to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-06 Majid Aalizadeh , Morteza Azmoudeh Afshar , Xudong Fan

Hybrid magnonic systems have emerged as a promising direction for information propagation with preserved coherence. Due to high tunability of magnons, their interactions with microwave photons can be engineered to probe novel phenomena…

Purpose: Spatio-temporal encoding (SPEN) experiments can deliver single-scan MR images without folding complications and with robustness to chemical shift and susceptibility artifacts. It is here shown that further resolution improvements…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-05-26 Gilad Liberman , Eddy Solomon , Michael Lustig , Lucio Frydman

The travelling-wave MRI approach is an alternative to overcome the B1 inhomogeneity at UHF MRI for human applications. More recently, this concept has been also used with animal MR imagers. We used a parallel-plate waveguide and a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-15 F. Vazquez , S. E. Solis-Najera , J. Lazovic , L. M. Zopf , R. Martin , L. Medina , O. Marrufo , A. O. Rodriguez

Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have demonstrated the potential to boost network capacity and expand coverage by adjusting their electromagnetic properties, existing RIS architectures have certain limitations, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Wanli Ni , Ailing Zheng , Wen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Merouane Debbah

The main disadvantage of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are its long scan times and, in consequence, its sensitivity to motion. Exploiting the complementary information from multiple receive coils, parallel imaging is able to recover…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Martin Uecker

We present novel reconstruction and stability analysis methodologies for two-dimensional, multi-coil MRI, based on analytic continuation ideas. We show that the 2-D, limited-data MRI inverse problem, whereby the missing parts of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 James W. Webber