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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a potent diagnostic tool, but suffers from long examination times. To accelerate the process, modern MRI machines typically utilize multiple coils that acquire sub-sampled data in parallel. Data-driven…

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In Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), to achieve sufficient Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), the electrical performance of the RF coil is critical. We developed a device (microcoil) based on the original concept of monolithic resonator. This…

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Medical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. S. Zotev , P. L. Volegov , A. N. Matlashov , M. A. Espy , J. C. Mosher , R. H. Kraus

An extended aperture has the potential to greatly improve ultrasound imaging performance. This work extends the effective aperture size by coherently compounding the received radio frequency data from multiple transducers. A framework is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Laura Peralta , Alberto Gomez , Ying Luan , Baehyung Kim , Joseph V. Hajnal , Robert J. Eckersley

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…

Two-dimensional, resonant scanners have been utilized in a large variety of imaging modules due to their compact form, low power consumption, large angular range, and high speed. However, resonant scanners have problems with non-optimal and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Zhanghao Sun , Ronald Quan , Olav Solgaard

Sparse array design aided by emerging fast sensor switching technologies can lower the overall system overhead by reducing the number of expensive transceiver chains. In this paper, we examine the active sparse array design enabling the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Syed A. Hamza , Weitong Zhai , Xiangrong Wang , Moeness G. Amin

This paper studies the superdirectivity characteristics of uniform rectangular arrays (URAs) for holographic multiple-input multiple-output systems. By establishing a mathematical directivity model for the URA, an analytical expression for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Hang Lin , Liuxun Xue , Shu Sun , Ruifeng Gao , Jue Wang , Tengjiao Wang

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

In this paper we propose, design and test a new dual-nuclei RF-coil inspired by wire metamaterial structures. The coil operates due to resonant excitation of hybridized eigenmodes in multimode flat periodic structures comprising several…

Purpose: Neurovascular MRI suffers from a rapid drop in B1+ into the neck when using transmit head coils at 7T. One solution to improving B1+ magnitude in the major feeding arteries in the neck is to use custom RF shims on parallel transmit…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Matthijs H. S. de Buck , Peter Jezzard , Aaron T. Hess

Multi-nuclear radio-frequency (RF) coils at ultrahigh field strengths are challenging to develop due to the high operating frequency, increased electromagnetic interaction among the coil elements, and increased electromagnetic interaction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Andrew P. Leynes , Yiran Chen , Subramaniam Sukumar , Duan Xu , Xiaoliang Zhang

Organ-specific, targeted Field-of-View (FoV) Positron Emission Tomography (PET)/Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) inserts are viable solutions for a number of imaging tasks where whole-body PET/MRI systems lack the necessary sensitivity and…

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Because of its high directivity, free-space optical (FSO) communication offers a number of advantages. It can, however, give rise to major system difficulties concerning alignment between two terminals. During the link-acquisition step…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Hyung-Joo Moon , Hong-Bae Jeon , Chan-Byoung Chae

This letter presents an innovative design and implementation method for an ultra-wideband dual-polarized conformal phased array. The performance of single-layer continuous dipoles under bending conditions is evaluated through characteristic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Zhan Chen , Wei Hu , Yuchen Gao , Xiangbo Wang , Qi Luo

We present a conceptual framework of planar SIS mixer array receivers and the studies on the required techniques. This concept features membrane-based on-chip waveguide probes and a quasi-two-dimensional local-oscillator distribution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-18 Wenlei Shan , Shohei Ezaki , Jie Liu , Shinichiro Asayama , Takashi Noguchi , Satoru Iguchi

In Magnetic Particle Imaging, a field-free region is maneuvered throughout the field of view using a time-varying magnetic field known as the drive-field. Human-sized systems operate the drive-field in the kHz range and generate it by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Fabian Mohn , Fynn Förger , Florian Thieben , Martin Möddel , Ingo Schmale , Tobias Knopp , Matthias Graeser

One of the main challenges in magnonics is the efficiency of the conversion of microwave signals into spin waves. This efficiency is low due to the significant mismatch between microwave and spin wave wavelengths in the GHz range $10^{-2}$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Liubov Ivzhenko , Sergey Polevoy , Sergey Nedukh , Maciej Krawczyk

Sparse sensor arrays offer a cost effective alternative to uniform arrays. By utilizing the co-array, a sparse array can match the performance of a filled array, despite having significantly fewer sensors. However, even sparse arrays can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-14 Robin Rajamäki , Visa Koivunen

Modern MIMO communication systems are almost exclusively designed under the assumption of locally plane wavefronts over antenna arrays. This is known as the far-field approximation and is soundly justified at sub-6-GHz frequencies at most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson