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Dynamic imaging is a beneficial tool for interventions to assess physiological changes. Nonetheless during dynamic MRI, while achieving a high temporal resolution, the spatial resolution is compromised. To overcome this spatio-temporal…

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Purpose: This study presents a variable resolution (VR) sampling and deep learning reconstruction approach for multi-spectral MRI near metal implants, aiming to reduce scan times while maintaining image quality. Background: The rising use…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a pivotal clinical diagnostic tool, yet its extended scanning times often compromise patient comfort and image quality, especially in volumetric, temporal and quantitative scans. This review elucidates…

Purpose: In multi-spectral imaging (MSI), several fast spin echo volumes with discrete Larmor frequency offsets are acquired in an interleaved fashion with multiple concatenations. Here, a variable resolution (VR) method to nearly halve…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a vital role in diagnosis, management and monitoring of many diseases. However, it is an inherently slow imaging technique. Over the last 20 years, parallel imaging, temporal encoding and compressed…

Over almost five decades of development and improvement, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become a rich and powerful, non-invasive technique in medical imaging, yet not reaching its physical limits. Technical and physiological…

Three-dimensional electron microscopy (3DEM) is an essential technique to investigate volumetric tissue ultra-structure. Due to technical limitations and high imaging costs, samples are often imaged anisotropically, where resolution in the…

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This paper proposes a novel self-supervised learning method, RELAX-MORE, for quantitative MRI (qMRI) reconstruction. The proposed method uses an optimization algorithm to unroll a model-based qMRI reconstruction into a deep learning…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Wanyu Bian , Albert Jang , Fang Liu

Volumetric imaging by fluorescence microscopy is often limited by anisotropic spatial resolution from inferior axial resolution compared to the lateral resolution. To address this problem, here we present a deep-learning-enabled…

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In the realm of medical 3D data, such as CT and MRI images, prevalent anisotropic resolution is characterized by high intra-slice but diminished inter-slice resolution. The lowered resolution between adjacent slices poses challenges,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Wei Fang , Yuxing Tang , Heng Guo , Mingze Yuan , Tony C. W. Mok , Ke Yan , Jiawen Yao , Xin Chen , Zaiyi Liu , Le Lu , Ling Zhang , Minfeng Xu

Medical imaging is limited by acquisition time and scanning equipment. CT and MR volumes, reconstructed with thicker slices, are anisotropic with high in-plane resolution and low through-plane resolution. We reveal an intriguing phenomenon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Haofei Song , Xintian Mao , Jing Yu , Qingli Li , Yan Wang

Functional MRI (fMRI) is commonly used for interpreting neural activities across the brain. Numerous accelerated fMRI techniques aim to provide improved spatiotemporal resolutions. Among these, simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Omer Burak Demirel , Burhaneddin Yaman , Logan Dowdle , Steen Moeller , Luca Vizioli , Essa Yacoub , John Strupp , Cheryl A. Olman , Kâmil Uğurbil , Mehmet Akçakaya

Improving the image resolution and acquisition speed of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a challenging problem. There are mainly two strategies dealing with the speed-resolution trade-off: (1) $k$-space undersampling with high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Wenqi Huang , Sen Jia , Ziwen Ke , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Jing Cheng , Yanjie Zhu , Dong Liang

Accurately estimating and correcting the motion artifacts are crucial for 3D image reconstruction of the abdominal and in-utero magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The state-of-art methods are based on slice-to-volume registration (SVR) where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-29 Tong Zhang , Laurence H. Jackson , Alena Uus , James R. Clough , Lisa Story , Mary A. Rutherford , Joseph V. Hajnal , Maria Deprez

The removal of non-brain signal from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, known as skull-stripping, is an integral component of many neuroimage analysis streams. Despite their abundance, popular classical skull-stripping methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-27 Andrew Hoopes , Jocelyn S. Mora , Adrian V. Dalca , Bruce Fischl , Malte Hoffmann

Following the success of deep learning in a wide range of applications, neural network-based machine learning techniques have received interest as a means of accelerating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A number of ideas inspired by deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-03 Florian Knoll , Kerstin Hammernik , Chi Zhang , Steen Moeller , Thomas Pock , Daniel K. Sodickson , Mehmet Akcakaya

High-resolution (HR) 3D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide detailed anatomical structural information, enabling precise segmentation of regions of interest for various medical image analysis tasks. Due to the high demands of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Zhiyun Song , Yinjie Zhao , Xiaomin Li , Manman Fei , Xiangyu Zhao , Mengjun Liu , Cunjian Chen , Chung-Hsing Yeh , Qian Wang , Guoyan Zheng , Songtao Ai , Lichi Zhang

We present a tool for resolution recovery in multimodal clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Such images exhibit great variability, both biological and instrumental. This variability makes automated processing with neuroimaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Mikael Brudfors , Yael Balbastre , Parashkev Nachev , John Ashburner

Multi-contrast super-resolution (MCSR) is crucial for enhancing MRI but current deep learning methods are limited. They typically require large, paired low- and high-resolution (LR/HR) training datasets, which are scarce, and are trained…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is known to have reduced signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) at lower field strengths, leading to signal degradation when producing a low-field MRI image from a high-field one. Therefore, reconstructing a…

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