医学物理
Background: Proximal Junctional Failure (PJF) is a post-operative complication in adult spine surgery, often requiring reoperation. Osteotomy is often used in revision surgeries, leading to 34.8% complications. Hence, suboptimal decisions…
This paper presents the results of radiation dose rate measurements taken by the author in various locations in South Korea and Japan, including near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant site. Air dose rates were measured in Seoul,…
This study evaluates the performance of a twisted pair transmission line coil as a transceive element for 7T MRI in terms of physical flexibility, robustness to shape deformations, and interelement decoupling. Each coil element was created…
Purpose: To develop a free-breathing myocardial T1 mapping technique using inversion-recovery (IR) radial fast low-angle shot (FLASH) and calibrationless motion-resolved model-based reconstruction. Methods: Free-running (free-breathing,…
This work introduced a stack-of-radial multi-echo asymmetric-echo MRI sequence for free-breathing liver volumetric acquisition. Regularized model-based reconstruction was implemented in Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox (BART) to…
As transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) advances as a precise, non-invasive neuromodulatory method, there is a need for consistent reporting standards to enable comparison and reproducibility across studies. To this end, the…
Deep neural networks used for reconstructing sparse-view CT data are typically trained by minimizing a pixel-wise mean-squared error or similar loss function over a set of training images. However, networks trained with such pixel-wise…
Background: Occupational safety and health institutions report that caregivers areparticularly at risk of developing work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) andpatient handling is often pointed out as one of the main causes. While…
Signal-to-noise ratio optimization, regarding repetition time selection, was explored mathematically and experimentally for single-voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Theoretical findings were benchmarked against phantom…
Radiation Therapy (RT) plays a pivotal role in the treatment of cancer, offering the potential to effectively target and eliminate tumour cells while minimizing harm to surrounding healthy tissues. However, the success of RT heavily depends…
Deep learning methods have impacted almost every research field, demonstrating notable successes in medical imaging tasks such as denoising and super-resolution. However, the prerequisite for deep learning is data at scale, but data sharing…
Presently, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) magnets must deliver excellent magnetic field (B0) uniformity to achieve optimum image quality. Long magnets can satisfy the homogeneity requirements but require considerable superconducting…
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm consists of a permanent dilation in the abodminal portion of the aorta and, along with its associated pathologies like calcifications and intraluminal thrombi, is one of the most important pathologies of the…
Monitoring the cardiac function often relies on non-invasive vital measurements, electrocardiograms, and low-resolution echocardiograms. The monitoring data can be augmented with numerical modeling results to support treatment-risk…
In this work, we present modeling and imaging performance of a dual panel limited-angle TOF-PET system for intraoperative surgical applications using GATE monte carlo toolkit. Several detector parameters such as detector pixel dimensions,…
Performance limitations for implanted antennas, taking radiation efficiency as the metric, are presented. The performance limitations use a convex optimization procedure with the current density inside the implant acting as its degree of…
Cardiac time intervals (CTIs) are important parameters for assessing cardiac function and can be measured using non-invasive methods such as electrocardiography (ECG) and seismocardiography (SCG). It is widely accepted that SCG signals,…
In this study, we develop a physics-informed deep learning-based method to synthesize multiple brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrasts from a single five-minute acquisition and investigate its ability to generalize to arbitrary…
MRI-linear accelerator (MRI-Linac) systems allow for daily tracking of MRI changes during radiotherapy (RT). Since one common MRI-Linac operates at 0.35T, there are efforts towards developing protocols at that field strength. In this study…
An alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) framework is developed for nonsmooth biconvex optimization for inverse problems in imaging. In particular, the simultaneous estimation of activity and attenuation (SAA) problem in…