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We report a method for accelerated nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance imaging by detecting several signals in parallel. Our technique relies on phase multiplexing, where the signals from different nuclear spin ensembles are encoded in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 B. A. Moores , A. Eichler , Y. Tao , H. Takahashi , P. Navaretti , C. L. Degen

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is universally acknowledged as an excellent tool to extract detailed spatial information with minimally invasive measurements. Efforts toward ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI are made to simplify the scanners and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Valerio Biancalana , Yordanka Dancheva , Antonio Vigilante

It is well known that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at 7 Tesla (7T) and higher magnets can provide much better signal sensitivity compared with lower field strengths. However, variety of commercially available ultra-high-field MRI coils…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Akbar Alipour , Alan C Seifert , Bradley Delman , Gregor Adriany , Priti Balchandani

Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) permits high quality images from fewer samples that can be collected with a faster scan. Two established methods for accelerating MRI include parallel imaging and compressed sensing. Two types of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Nicholas Dwork , Alex McManus , Stephen Becker , Gennifer T. Smith

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

Mapping blood microflows of the whole brain is crucial for early diagnosis of cerebral diseases. Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) was recently applied to map and quantify blood microflows in 2D in the brain of adult patients down to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Hugues Favre , Mathieu Pernot , Mickael Tanter , Clément Papadacci

Parallel imaging is a widely-used technique to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, current methods still perform poorly in reconstructing artifact-free MRI images from highly undersampled k-space data. Recently, implicit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Ruimin Feng , Qing Wu , Yuyao Zhang , Hongjiang Wei

Ultra-low-field (ULF) MRI is emerging as an alternative modality to high-field (HF) MRI due to its lower cost, minimal siting requirements, portability, and enhanced accessibility factors that enable large-scale deployment. Although ULF-MRI…

Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM) has recently enabled the mapping of the cerebral vasculature in vivo with a resolution ten times smaller than the wavelength used, down to ten microns. However, with frame rates up to 20.000 frames…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Erwan Hardy , Jonathan Poree , Hatim Belgharbi , Chloe Bourquin , Frederic Lesage , Jean Provost

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a unique imaging technique for in vivo characterization of tissue microstructure and white matter pathways. However, its relatively long acquisition time implies greater motion artifacts when imaging, for example,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Yoonmi Hong , Wei-Tang Chang , Geng Chen , Ye Wu , Weili Lin , Dinggang Shen , Pew-Thian Yap

Ultrasound is a widely accessible and cost-effective medical imaging tool commonly used for prenatal evaluation of the fetal brain. However, it has limitations, particularly in the third trimester, where the complexity of the fetal brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Naomi Silverstein , Efrat Leibowitz , Ron Beloosesky , Haim Azhari

We report the development of a multichannel microscopy for whole-slide multiplane, multispectral, and phase imaging. We use trinocular heads to split the beam path into 6 independent channels and employ a camera array for parallel data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-24 Jun Liao , Zhe Wang , Zibang Zhang , Zichao Bian , Kaikai Guo , Aparna Nambiar , Yutong Jiang , Shaowei Jiang , Jingang Zhong , Michael Choma , Guoan Zheng

Ultra-high field MRI (7T+) unlocks a new era of brain research with superior resolution and signal-to-noise. Capturing intricate neural activity and detailed soft tissue pathology, this technology, coupled with advanced RF coil arrays,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-08-31 Debolina De , Aditya A. Bhosale , Xiaoliang Zhang

The main disadvantage of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are its long scan times and, in consequence, its sensitivity to motion. Exploiting the complementary information from multiple receive coils, parallel imaging is able to recover…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Martin Uecker

We present an unsupervised single image bidirectional Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) synthesizer that synthesizes an Ultra-Low Field (ULF) like image from a High-Field (HF) magnitude image and vice-versa. Unlike existing MRI synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Pranav Indrakanti , Ivor Simpson

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

Recent developments in low-field (LF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems present remarkable opportunities for affordable and widespread MRI access. A robust denoising method to overcome the intrinsic low signal-noise-ratio (SNR)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Zheren Zhu , Azaan Rehman , Xiaozhi Cao , Congyu Liao , Yoo Jin Lee , Michael Ohliger , Hui Xue , Yang Yang

Magnetic resonance (MR) image acquisition is an inherently prolonged process, whose acceleration by obtaining multiple undersampled images simultaneously through parallel imaging has always been the subject of research. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Chun-Mei Feng , Zhanyuan Yang , Geng Chen , Yong Xu , Ling Shao

Ultra-high field MRI offers unprecedented detail for non-invasive visualization of the human brain. However, brain imaging is challenging at 7T due to the B$_1^+$ field inhomogeneity, which results in signal intensity drops in temporal…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Vladislav Koloskov , Wyger Brink , Andrew Webb , Alena Shchelokova

Robustness against data inconsistencies, imaging artifacts and acquisition speed are crucial factors limiting the possible range of applications for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Therefore, we report a novel calibrationless parallel…