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White matter structures composed of myelinated axons in the living human brain are primarily studied by diffusion-weighted MRI (dMRI). These long-range projections are typically characterized in a two-step process: dMRI is used to estimate…

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Microscopy imaging is vital in biology research and diagnosis. When imaging at the scale of cell or molecule level, mechanical drift on the axial axis can be difficult to correct. Although multi-scale networks have been developed for…

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Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a time-efficient approach to quantitative MRI, enabling the mapping of multiple tissue properties from a single, accelerated scan. However, achieving accurate reconstructions remains challenging,…

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Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) reduces radiation exposure but suffers from image artifacts and loss of detail due to quantum and electronic noise, potentially impacting diagnostic accuracy. Transformer combined with diffusion models…

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Low-field (LF) MRI scanners (<1T) are still prevalent in settings with limited resources or unreliable power supply. However, they often yield images with lower spatial resolution and contrast than high-field (HF) scanners. This quality…

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Multi-modality magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors. However, missing modalities are commonly observed due to limitations in scan time, scan corruption, artifacts, motion, and…

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Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is a powerful non-invasive tool which is widely used in clinical routine. Mostly, apparent diffusion coefficient maps are acquired, which cannot be directly related to cellular structure. More recently it…

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Tractography algorithms are used extensively to delineate white matter structures, by operating on the voxel-wise information generated through the application of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) or other models to diffusion weighted (DW)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-05 Richard G. Carson , Alexander Leemans

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is a non-invasive way of imaging white matter tracts in the human brain. DW-MRIs are usually acquired using echo-planar imaging (EPI) with high gradient fields, which could introduce…

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Accurate detection and segmentation of brain tumors in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are critical for effective diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite advances in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) such as U-Net, existing models…

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Clinical application of high-resolution diffusion MRI is hindered by hardware limitations and prohibitive scan times, motivating computational super-resolution. This study investigates the efficacy of a feature-based loss function in…

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Diffusion-weighted MRI is the forerunner of the rapidly developed microstructural MRI aimed at in vivo evaluation of the cellular tissue architecture. This brief review focuses on the spatiotemporal scales of the microstructure that are…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-08-14 Valerij G. Kiselev

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is the only non-invasive approach for estimation of intra-voxel tissue microarchitecture and reconstruction of in vivo neural pathways for the human brain. With improvement in…

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Purpose: To present a fully open-source framework for quasi-real-time streaming and cloud-based processing of low-field (LF) MRI data, addressing the growing computational demands of advanced reconstruction and post-processing pipelines in…

In this study, the performance of existing U-shaped neural network architectures was enhanced for medical image segmentation by adding Transformer. Although Transformer architectures are powerful at extracting global information, its…

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Confocal histology provides an opportunity to establish intra-voxel fiber orientation distributions that can be used to quantitatively assess the biological relevance of diffusion weighted MRI models, e.g., constrained spherical…