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A novel method for fast and high-resolution metabolic imaging, called ECcentric Circle ENcoding TRajectorIes for Compressed sensing (ECCENTRIC), has been developed and implemented at 7 Tesla MRI. ECCENTRIC is a non-Cartesian…

Ultra-Low Field (ULF) MRI scanners offer a portable and cost-effective alternative to conventional MRI systems, but require careful calibration to compensate for reduced magnetic field strength and signal quality. In this paper, we present…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Jonathan W. Morris

A new high field spectrometer has been built to extend the capabilities of the $\beta$-detected nuclear magnetic resonance ($\beta$-NMR) facility at TRIUMF. This new beamline extension allows $\beta$-NMR spectroscopy to be performed with…

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), including diffusion MRI (dMRI), serves as a ``microscope'' for anatomical structures and routinely mitigates the influence of low signal-to-noise ratio scans by compromising temporal or spatial resolution.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Chenxu Wu , Qingpeng Kong , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

Early identification of neurodevelopmental disorders relies on accurate segmentation of brain structures in infancy, a task complicated by rapid brain growth, poor tissue contrast, and motion artifacts in pediatric MRI. These challenges are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Vladyslav Zalevskyi , Dondu-Busra Bulut , Thomas Sanchez , Meritxell Bach Cuadra

Upcoming radio interferometers are aiming to image the sky at new levels of resolution and sensitivity, with wide-band image cubes reaching close to the Petabyte scale for SKA. Modern proximal optimization algorithms have shown a potential…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin , Abdullah Abdulaziz , Arwa Dabbech , Audrey Repetti , Yves Wiaux

Purpose: To improve the accuracy of multiparametric estimation, including myelin water fraction (MWF) quantification, and reduce scan time in 3D-QALAS by optimizing sequence parameters, using a self-supervised multilayer perceptron network.…

Label-free nonlinear optical microscopy has become a powerful tool for biomedical research. However, the possible photodamage risk hinder further clinical applications. To reduce these adverse effects, we constructed a new platform of…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-26 Geng Wang , Stephen A. Boppart , Haohua Tu

Developments in metamaterials and related structures such as metasurfaces have opened up new possibilities in designing materials and devices with unique properties. The main progress related to electromagnetic waves applications was done…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Rita Schmidt , Alexey Slobozhanyuk , Pavel Belov , Andrew Webb

Ultrasound vascular imaging is limited by acoustic diffraction, restricting visualization of microvessels essential for understanding organ function and disease. Label-free super-resolution methods exploiting endogenous red blood cells have…

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a valuable imaging technique to study the brain in vivo. However, the resolution of dMRI is limited by the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of this technique. Various acquisition strategies have been developed to…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Sajjad Feizollah , Christine L. Tardif

Scanning superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscopy is a magnetic imaging technique combining high-field sensitivity with nanometer-scale spatial resolution. State-of-the-art SQUID-on-tip probes are now playing an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-03 M. Wyss , K. Bagani , D. Jetter , E. Marchiori , A. Vervelaki , B. Gross , J. Ridderbos , S. Gliga , C. Schönenberger , M. Poggio

MR data are acquired in the frequency domain, known as k-space. Acquiring high-quality and high-resolution MR images can be time-consuming, posing a significant challenge when multiple sequences providing complementary contrast information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Georgia Kanli , Daniele Perlo , Selma Boudissa , Radovan Jirik , Olivier Keunen

Parallel imaging accelerates MRI data acquisition by acquiring additional sensitivity information with an array of receiver coils, resulting in fewer phase encoding steps. Because of fewer data requirements than parallel imaging, compressed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Farhan Sadik , Md. Kamrul Hasan

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is central to the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, where the identification of biomarkers such as the central vein sign benefits from high-resolution images. However, most clinical brain MRI scans are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Matteo Cannas , Alice Mariottini , Luca Massacesi , Federica Porta , Simone Rebegoldi , Andrea Sebastiani

Medical images used in clinical practice are heterogeneous and not the same quality as scans studied in academic research. Preprocessing breaks down in extreme cases when anatomy, artifacts, or imaging parameters are unusual or protocols…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi , Mads Nielsen

In this paper, we propose a novel channel estimation scheme for pulse-shaped multicarrier systems using smoothness regularization for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC). It can be applied to any multicarrier system with or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Andreas Pfadler , Tom Szollmann , Peter Jung , Slawomir Stanczak

This study presents the design, simulation, and experimental validation of a novel multimodal concentric surface coil for MR imaging, developed to achieve higher B1 field efficiency while maintaining low SAR for enhanced imaging…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Yunkun Zhao , Aditya A Bhosale , Xiaoliang Zhang

There is a need for a cost-effective, quantitative imaging tool that can be deployed endoscopically to better detect early stage gastrointestinal cancers. Spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) is a low-cost imaging technique that produces…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Jane Crowley , George S. D. Gordon

Purpose: We present SCAMPI (Sparsity Constrained Application of deep Magnetic resonance Priors for Image reconstruction), an untrained deep Neural Network for MRI reconstruction without previous training on datasets. It expands the Deep…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Thomas M. Siedler , Peter M. Jakob , Volker Herold