医学物理
This pilot study aims to develop a deep learning model for predicting seismocardiogram (SCG) signals in the dorsoventral direction from the SCG signals in the right-to-left and head-to-foot directions ($\textrm{SCG}_x$ and…
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a life-threatening acute complication of diabetes in which ketone bodies accumulate in the blood. Breath acetone (a ketone) directly correlates with blood ketones, such that breath acetone monitoring could be…
The link between atherosclerosis and blood flow-induced haemodynamic luminal shear stresses is well established. However, this understanding has not been translated into clinical practice because of the interdependent effects of the complex…
Studies have shown marked sex disparities in Coronary Artery Diseases (CAD) epidemiology, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We explored sex disparities in the coronary anatomy and the resulting haemodynamics in patients with…
Material decomposition refers to using the energy dependence of material physical properties to differentiate materials in a sample, which is a very important application in computed tomography(CT). In propagation-based X-ray phase-contrast…
Time-of-flight (ToF) measurements is a possible alternative to anti-scatter grids in computed tomography (CT). Simulations have shown a possible 75% reduction in the detrimental scattering contribution with a 100 ps FWHM timing resolution.…
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is capable of non-destructively obtaining cross-sectional information of samples with micrometer spatial resolution, which plays an important role in ophthalmology and endovascular medicine. Measuring OCT…
Computed Tomography (CT) imaging, while essential for diagnostics, exposes patients to ionizing radiation. To accurately quantify radiation dosage, this study introduces MIDSX, a specialized open-source Monte Carlo (MC) photon transport…
Total-body positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has the potential to transform medical care of a number of diseases and augment our knowledge of systems biology. Various detector designs and geometries are currently under development…
Random matrix theory (RMT) combined with principal component analysis has resulted in a widely used MPPCA noise mapping and denoising algorithm, that utilizes the redundancy in multiple acquisitions and in local image patches. RMT-based…
The application of computer-vision algorithms in medical imaging has increased rapidly in recent years. However, algorithm training is challenging due to limited sample sizes, lack of labeled samples, as well as privacy concerns regarding…
The study shows a potential to monitor functional recovery of a muscle by its natural frequency measurement. A novel approach is presented, in which vibrations of the muscle of interest are measured in a contactless manner using laser…
The reconstruction task in photoacoustic tomography can vary a lot depending on measured targets, geometry, and especially the quantity we want to recover. Specifically, as the signal is generated due to the coupling of light and sound by…
7 Tesla (7T) apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps derived from diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) demonstrate improved image quality and spatial resolution over 3 Tesla (3T) ADC maps. However, 7T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)…
Metamaterials hold significant promise for enhancing the imaging capabilities of MRI machines as an additive technology, due to their unique ability to enhance local magnetic fields. However, despite their potential, the metamaterials…
MRI with hyperpolarized (HP) 13C agents, also known as HP 13C MRI, can measure processes such as localized metabolism that is altered in numerous cancers, liver, heart, kidney diseases, and more. It has been translated into human studies…
Planetary effects have been attributed to biological processes without scientific rigor. Some generic invisible slow matter from the dark Universe in the form of streams or clusters with occasional large flux enhancements due to planetary…
Off-resonance artifacts in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are visual distortions that occur when the actual resonant frequencies of spins within the imaging volume differ from the expected frequencies used to encode spatial information.…
Spectral computed tomography (CT) offers the possibility to reconstruct attenuation images at different energy levels, which can be then used for material decomposition. However, traditional methods reconstruct each energy bin individually…
A dataset of 3D-GRE and 3D-TSE brain 3T post contrast T1-weighted images as part of a quality improvement project were collected and shown to five neuro-radiologists who evaluated each sequence for both image quality and imaging artifacts.…