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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…

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…

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

Metasurfaces are artificial electromagnetic boundaries or interfaces usually implemented as two-dimensional periodic structures with subwavelength periodicity and engineered properties of constituent unit cells. The electromagnetic bandgap…

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

We use a radio-frequency $^{85}$Rb alkali-vapor cell magnetometer based on a paraffin-coated cell with long spin-coherence time and a small, low-inductance driving coil to create highly resolved conductivity maps of different objects. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-25 Arne Wickenbrock , Nathan Leefer , John W. Blanchard , Dmitry Budker

A periodic leaky-wave antenna (LWA) with tuning capability and enhanced scanning sensitivity is introduced in this paper. This antenna leverages the concept of active Gain-Loss C-section pairs to tune the group delay of each antenna unit…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Nghia Nguyen-Trong , Lianfeng Zou , Christophe Fumeaux , Christophe Caloz

Ultrahigh field magnetic resonance imaging (UHF MRI) has become an indispensable tool for human brain imaging, offering excellent diagnostic accuracy while avoiding the risks associated with invasive modalities. When the radiofrequency…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-10 Gyoungsub Yoon , Sunkyu Yu , Jongho Lee , Namkyoo Park

It is technically challenging to design efficient transceiver coil arrays for foot and ankle imaging at ultrahigh fields due to the irregular geometry of the anatomy. Shortened wavelength because of the high operation frequency at ultrahigh…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Aditya Bhosale , Leslie Ying , Xiaoliang Zhang

Interference phenomena render tailoring propagation of electromagnetic waves by controlling phases of several scattering channels. Huygens element, being a representative example of this approach, allows enhancement of the scattering from…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Dmytro Vovchuk , Sergei Kosulnikov , Roman E. Noskov , Pavel Ginzburg

A new X-band leaky-wave antenna has been developed using spin photonic topological insulators. This antenna features a hexagonal unit cell arranged in an armchair configuration. This arrangement provides advantages over the zigzag…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Sayyed Ahmad Abtahi , Mohsen Maddahali , Ahmad Bakhtafrouz

Recent advancements in metamaterials have yielded the possibility of a wireless solution to improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Unlike traditional closely packed local coil arrays with rigid designs and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Xia Zhu , Ke Wu , 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…

This work presents a non-local terahertz metasurface integrated into a leaky-wave antenna for robust, wide-angle beam steering. The metasurface encodes a holographic pattern by explicitly inducing tangential and normal susceptibilities,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Seokjun Kim , Haneul Ryu , Minseok Kim

We demonstrate an experimental method for direct 2D and 3D imaging of magnetic radio-frequency (rf) field distribution in metal-dielectric structures based on traveling wave (TW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at ultra-high field (> 7T).…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-19 A. Tonyushkin , D. K. Deelchand , P. -F. Van de Moortele , G. Adriany , A. Kiruluta

Emerging concepts of metamaterials for MRI offer improved image quality through enhanced RF field control. However, current designs are often limited by bulky configurations, dielectric losses, and limited adaptability. Patient-specific…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Santosh Kumar Maurya , Ilan Goldberg , Rita Schmidt

Periodic leaky-wave antennas can be realized with planar low-profile structures supporting the generation of highly directional beams with frequency scanning from backward to forward directions. We propose a method to generate leaky modes…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Yuhuan Tong , Beatrice Ambrogi , Davide Comite , Guido Valerio

The integration of a leaky-wave antenna with a ring resonator is presented using analytical guided wave models. The device consists of a ring resonator fed by a directional coupler, where the ring resonator path includes a leaky-wave…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-26 Caner Guclu , Ozdal Boyraz , Filippo Capolino

We design and implement a low-impedance, high-current radio-frequency (RF) circuit, enabling fast coherent coupling between magnetic levels in cold alkali atomic samples. It is based on a compact shape-optimized coil that maximizes the RF…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 F. Scazza , G. Del Pace , L. Pieri , R. Concas , W. J. Kwon , G. Roati

This study presents a novel discretely dielectric material-coated (DDMC) dipole antenna design for ultra-high-field (UHF) MRI applications. This design improves frequency tuning, lowers electric field intensity, and reduces SAR by including…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Aditya A Bhosale , Yunkun Zhao , Divya Gawande , Komlan Payne , Xiaoliang Zhang