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Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Yongxian Qian , Ying-Chia Lin , Xingye Chen , Yulin Ge , Yvonne W. Lui , Fernando E. Boada

Spin-lattice relaxation time ($T_1$) is an important biomarker in cardiac parametric mapping for characterizing myocardial tissue and diagnosing cardiomyopathies. Conventional Modified Look-Locker Inversion Recovery (MOLLI) acquires 11…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Nuno Capitão , Yi Zhang , Yidong Zhao , Qian Tao

Previous brain decoding research primarily involves single-subject studies, reconstructing stimuli via fMRI activity from the same subject. Our study aims to introduce a generalization technique for cross-subject brain decoding, facilitated…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-06 Matteo Ferrante , Tommaso Boccato , Nicola Toschi

Whole-brain proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (1H-MRSI) is a non-invasive technique for assessing neurochemical distribution in the brain, offering valuable insights into brain functions and neural diseases. It greatly…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Zhiwei Huang , Uzay Emir , Andre Doring , Antoine Klauser , Ying Xiao , Mark Widmaier , Lijing Xin

Purpose: The analysis of optimized spin ensemble trajectories for relaxometry in the hybrid state. Methods: First, we constructed visual representations to elucidate the differential equation that governs spin dynamics in hybrid state.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Jakob Assländer , Riccardo Lattanzi , Daniel K Sodickson , Martijn A Cloos

Multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in comprehensive disease diagnosis in clinical medicine. However, acquiring certain modalities, such as T2-weighted images (T2WIs), is time-consuming and prone to be with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Qi Wang , Zhijie Wen , Jun Shi , Qian Wang , Dinggang Shen , Shihui Ying

Recent studies on T1-assisted MRI reconstruction for under-sampled images of other modalities have demonstrated the potential of further accelerating MRI acquisition of other modalities. Most of the state-of-the-art approaches have achieved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Junwei Yang , Xiao-Xin Li , Feihong Liu , Dong Nie , Pietro Lio , Haikun Qi , Dinggang Shen

Hippocampal subfield segmentation requires high-resolution T2w turbo spin echo (TSE) MRI, yet this sequence is susceptible to motion artifacts, leading to substantial data loss. We developed a conditional generative model (MRecover) that…

Purpose: To develop a fast, general-purpose framework for voxelwise noise characterization in linear and nonlinear iterative MRI reconstructions, recovering the image-domain noise variance from which SNR, $g$-factor, and related…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Onat Dalmaz , Daniel Abraham , Alexander R. Toews , Akshay S. Chaudhari , Kawin Setsompop , Brian A. Hargreaves

Electron spin qubits operating at atomic clock transitions exhibit exceptionally long coherence times, making them promising candidates for scalable quantum information applications. In solid-state systems, interactions between qubits and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-12 Xiaoliang Zhang , Haechan Park

In this paper, we present our submission to the LUMIR25 task of Learn2Reg 2025, which ranked 1st overall on the test set. Extended from LUMIR24, this year's task focuses on zero-shot registration under domain shifts (e.g., high-field MRI,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Hengjie Liu , Yimeng Dou , Di Xu , Xinyi Fu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

The Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) approach aims to estimate multiple MR or physiological parameters simultaneously with a single fast acquisition sequence. Most of the MRF studies proposed so far have used simple MR sequence types…

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Quantitative T1rho mapping has shown promise in clinical and research studies. However, it suffers from long scan times. Deep learning-based techniques have been successfully applied in accelerated quantitative MR parameter mapping.…

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Purpose: To optimize the choice of the flip-angles of magnetization-prepared gradient echo (MP-GRE) sequences for improved accuracy, precision, and speed of 3D-T1rho mapping. Methods: We propose a new optimization approach for finding…

In MR fingerprinting (MRF) reconstruction, measured data is pattern-matched to simulated signals to extract quantitative tissue parameters. A critical drawback to this approach is the exponentially increasing compute time for mapping of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Victoria Y. Yu , Kathryn R. Tringale , Ricardo Otazo , Ouri Cohen

Purpose: To achieve automatic hyperparameter estimation for the joint recovery of quantitative MR images, we propose a Bayesian formulation of the reconstruction problem that incorporates the signal model. Additionally, we investigate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Shuai Huang , James J. Lah , Jason W. Allen , Deqiang Qiu

This work presents the initial results of the drift-scan observation for the neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping survey with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The data analyzed in this work were collected…

MRI provides superior soft tissue contrast without ionizing radiation; however, the absence of electron density information limits its direct use for dose calculation. As a result, current radiotherapy workflows rely on combined MRI and CT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zolnamar Dorjsembe , Hung-Yi Chen , Furen Xiao , Hsing-Kuo Pao

Objectives: To develop a joint k-TE reconstruction algorithm to reconstruct the T2-weighted (T2W) images and T2 map simultaneously. Materials and Methods: The joint k-TE reconstruction model was formulated as an optimization problem subject…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Yan Dai , Xun Jia , Yen-Peng Liao , Jiaen Liu , Jie Deng

SQUID-based MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) at microtesla fields has developed significantly over the past few years. Here we describe application of this method for magnetic relaxation measurements in the living human brain. We report…

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