Browsing by Keywords "Magnetic resonance imaging"
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Accelerated phase-cycled SSFP imaging with compressed sensing
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)Balanced steady-state free precession (SSFP) imaging suffers from irrecoverable signal losses, known as banding artifacts, in regions of large B0 field inhomogeneity. A common solution is to acquire multiple phase-cycled ... -
Amphiphilic peptide coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for in vivo MR tumor imaging
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016)Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive imaging technique that provides high spatial resolution and depth with pronounced soft-tissue contrast for in vivo imaging. A broad variety of strategies have been employed ... -
Approximate fourier domain expression for bloch-siegert shift
(John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2015)Purpose: In this study, a newsimple Fourier domain-based analytical expression for the Bloch-Siegert (BS) shift-based B1 mapping method is proposed to obtain |B1+| more accurately while using short BS pulse durations and ... -
Biomacromolecules, molecules and functional nanoparticles for therapeutic and diagnostic applications
(Bilkent University, 2016-03)Cancer is one of the most important global health problem. In the last decade, researchers have focused on the development of novel sensitive diagnostic agents and potential therapeutic molecules to further contribute to ... -
Bismuth nano-Hall probes fabricated by focused ion beam milling for direct magnetic imaging by room temperature scanning Hall probe microscopy
(The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2001)Bismuth nano-Hall probes fabricated by using focused ion beam (FIB) milling were studied. The nano-Hall probes were used for direct magnetic imaging of domain structures in low coercivity garnets and demagnetized strontium ... -
BRAPH: A graph theory software for the analysis of brain connectivity
(Public Library of Science, 2017)The brain is a large-scale complex network whose workings rely on the interaction between its various regions. In the past few years, the organization of the human brain network has been studied extensively using concepts ... -
Compressed sensing techniques for accelerated magnetic resonance imaging
(Bilkent University, 2017-08)Magnetic resonance imaging has seen a growing interest in the recent years due to its non-invasive and non-ionizing nature. However, imaging speed remains a major concern. Recently, compressed sensing theory has opened ... -
Convection-reaction equation based magnetic resonance electrical properties tomography (cr-MREPT)
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014)Images of electrical conductivity and permittivity of tissues may be used for diagnostic purposes as well as for estimating local specific absorption rate distributions. Magnetic resonance electrical properties tomography ... -
Current constrained voltage scaled reconstruction (CCVSR) algorithm for MR-EIT and its performance with different probing current patterns
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003)Conventional injected-current electrical impedance tomography (EIT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques can be combined to reconstruct high resolution true conductivity images. The magnetic flux density ... -
Design of a Gd-DOTA-phthalocyanine conjugate combining MRI contrast imaging and photosensitization properties as a potential molecular theranostic
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2014)The design and synthesis of a phthalocyanine - Gd-DOTA conjugate is presented to open the way to novel molecular theranostics, combining the properties of MRI contrast imaging with photodynamic therapy. The rational design ... -
Design of a novel MRI compatible manipulator for image guided prostate interventions
(IEEE, 2005-02)This paper reports a novel remotely actuated manipulator for access to prostate tissue under magnetic resonance imaging guidance (APT-MRI) device, designed for use in a standard high-field MRI scanner. The device provides ... -
Disrupted network topology in patients with stable and progressive mild cognitive impairment and alzheimer's disease
(Oxford University Press, 2016)Recent findings suggest that Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a disconnection syndrome characterized by abnormalities in large-scale networks. However, the alterations that occur in network topology during the prodromal stages ... -
Effects of pulse duration on magnetostimulation thresholds
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2015-06)Purpose: Medical imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic particle imaging (MPI) utilize time-varying magnetic fields that are subject to magnetostimulation limits, which often limit the speed of ... -
Evaluation of internal MRI coils using ultimate intrinsic SNR
(John Wiley & Sons, 2004)The upper bounds of the signal-to-noise ratio (also known as the "ultimate intrinsic signal-to-noise ratio" (UISNR)) for internal and external coils were calculated. In the calculation, the body was modeled as a dielectric ... -
Experimental results for 2D magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MR-EIT) using magnetic flux density in one direction
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003)Magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MR-EIT) is an emerging imaging technique that reconstructs conductivity images using magnetic flux density measurements acquired employing MRI together with conventional ... -
Fluorescent heterodoped nanotetrapods as synergistically enhancing positive and negative magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents
(American Chemical Society, 2016)In this work, we report Mn-Fe heterodoped ZnSe tetrapod nanocrystals (NCs) synthesized to synergistically enhance contrast in both T1- and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The proposed NCs were prepared using ... -
Heterodoped manoparticles as dual-mode contrast agent for MRI
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018)The purpose of this work is to synthesize Mn-Fe heterodoped ZnSe tetrapod nanocrystals (NCs) as dualmode MRI contrast agent to offer synergetic beneficial over the single contrast tracer. Also, in vivo feasibility of the ... -
Heterogeneous multifrequency direct inversion (HMDI) for magnetic resonance elastography with application to a clinical brain exam
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)A new viscoelastic wave inversion method for MRE, called Heterogeneous Multifrequency Direct Inversion (HMDI), was developed which accommodates heterogeneous elasticity within a direct inversion (DI) by incorporating ... -
Highly monodisperse low-magnetization magnetite nanocubes as simultaneous T1–T2 MRI contrast agents
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015)We report the first study of highly monodisperse and crystalline iron oxide nanocubes with sub-nm controlled size distribution (9.7 ± 0.5 nm in size) that achieve simultaneous contrast enhancement in both T<inf>1</inf>- ... -
A hybrid method for 6-DOF tracking of MRI-compatible robotic interventional devices
(2006)This paper reports a novel hybrid method of tracking the position and orientation of robotic medical instruments within the imaging volume of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The method utilizes two complementary ...
