Publications related to Reducing acquisition time for microstructure imaging with spatially-regularized global optimization

Multi-temporal forest monitoring in the Swiss Alps with knowledge-guided deep learning

Devis Tuia, Thiên-Anh Claris Nguyen, Marc Conrad Russwurm, Gaston Jean Lenczner

Monitoring forests, in particular their response to climate and land use change, requires studying long time scales. While efficient deep learning methods have been developed to process short time series of satellite imagery, leveraging long time series of ...

Elsevier Science Inc2024

Pore size estimation in axon-mimicking microfibers with diffusion-relaxation MRI

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Muhamed Barakovic, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Marco Pizzolato, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

Purpose: This study aims to evaluate two distinct approaches for fiber radius estimation using diffusion-relaxation MRI data acquired in biomimetic microfiber phantoms that mimic hollow axons. The methods considered are the spherical mean power-law approac ...

Wiley2024

Robust gamma-aminobutyric acid and energy metabolism measurements by proton and phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy and fingerprinting

Songi Lim

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is the only technique that can detect endogenous metabolites directly and non-invasively in vivo. It allows to identify different metabolites and analyze the dynamic neurochemical processes in the brain, skeletal muscl ...

EPFL2023

3D reconstruction of curvilinear one-dimensional objects viewed in transmission electron microscopy

Gulnaz Ganeeva

To obtain a more complete understanding of material microstructure at the nanoscale and to gain profound insights into their properties, there is a growing need for more efficient and precise methods that can streamline the process of 3D imaging using a tr ...

EPFL2023

Compressed sensing (CS) MP2RAGE versus standard MPRAGE: A of derived brain volume measurements

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Gian Franco Piredda

Purpose: T1 Magnetization Prepared Two Rapid Acquisition Gradient Echo (MP2RAGE) with compress sensing (CS) has been proposed as an improvement of the standard MPRAGE sequence with multiple advantages including reduced acquisition time needed to provide a ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Validating atlas-based lesion disconnectomics in multiple sclerosis: A retrospective multi-centric study

Jonas Richiardi, Reto Meuli, Bénédicte Marie Maréchal, Tobias Kober, Mario Joao Fartaria de Oliveira

The translational potential of MR-based connectivity modelling is limited by the need for advanced diffusion imaging, which is not part of clinical protocols for many diseases. In addition, where diffusion data is available, brain connectivity analyses rel ...

2021

Simultaneous 3D acquisition of H-1 MRF and Na-23 MRI

Tom Hilbert

Purpose To develop a 3D MR technique to simultaneously acquire proton multiparametric maps (T-1, T-2, and proton density) and sodium density weighted images over the whole brain. Methods We implemented a 3D stack-of-stars MR pulse sequence which consists o ...

WILEY2022

Measuring compartmental T-2-orientational dependence in human brain white matter using a tiltable RF coil and diffusion-T-2 correlation MRI

Muhamed Barakovic

The anisotropy of brain white matter microstructure manifests itself in orientational-dependence of various MRI contrasts, and can result in significant quantification biases if ignored. Understanding the origins of this orientation-dependence could enhanc ...

2021

Simultaneous Reciprocal and Real Space X-Ray Imaging of Time-Evolving Systems

Marco Stampanoni, Goran Lovric

Imaging the (sub)micron scale over large areas with high temporal resolution becomes increasingly necessary for the development and investigation of novel materials under realistic operation conditions. Small angle x-ray scattering imaging methods provide ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Fat navigators based retrospective motion correction strategies for brain magnetic resonance imaging

Frédéric Gretsch

Magnetic resonance resonance (MRI) is a widely used modality to obtain in vivo tissue information. Clinical applications are near countless, and almost all body parts can be examined using an MR scanner. As the method is non invasive, does not use ionizing ...

EPFL2020

Accelerated T(2)Mapping of the Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Highly Undersampled K-Space Data for Robust T(2)Relaxation Time Measurement in Clinically Feasible Acquisition Times

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Michael Weber

Objectives T(2)mapping of the intervertebral disc (IVD) can depict quantitative changes reflecting biochemical change due to loss of glycosaminoglycan content. Conventional T(2)mapping is usually performed using a 2-dimensional multi-echo-spin echo sequenc ...

2020

NRStitcher: non-rigid stitching of terapixel-scale volumetric images

Anne Bonnin, Marco Stampanoni

A Summary: In modern microscopy, the field of view is often increased by obtaining an image mosaic, where multiple sub-images are taken side-by-side and combined post-acquisition. Mosaic imaging often leads to long imaging times that can increase the proba ...

2019

Controlling motion artefact levels in MR images by suspending data acquisition during periods of head motion

Bogdan Draganski

Purpose: Head movements are a major source of MRI artefacts. Prospective motion correction techniques significantly improve data quality, but strong motion artefacts may remain in the data. We introduce a framework to suspend data acquisition during period ...

Wiley2018

Development and Optimization of Methods for Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Tom Hilbert

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has yielded great success as a medical imaging modality in the past decades, and its excellent soft tissue contrast is used in clinical routine to support diagnosis today. However, MRI is still facing challenges. For exampl ...

EPFL2018

Optical projection tomography for rapid whole mouse brain imaging

Theo Lasser, Antonio Lopez, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Paul James Marchand, Jessica Sordet, David Nguyen, Jérôme Extermann, Miguel Sison, Marcin Antoni Sylwestrzak, Julia Sophie Katarina Nilsson, Arielle Louise Planchette

In recent years, three-dimensional mesoscopic imaging has gained significant importance in life sciences for fundamental studies at the whole-organ level. In this manuscript, we present an optical projection tomography (OPT) method designed for imaging of ...

Optical Soc Amer2017

A practical guide to in vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy at high magnetic fields

Lijing Xin

Localized proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) is a noninvasive tool for measuring in vivo neurochemical information in animal and human brains. With the increase of magnetic field strength, whereas localized (1)H-MRS benefits from higher sens ...

Elsevier2017

Optimizing the acceleration and resolution of three-dimensional fat image navigators for high-resolution motion correction at 7T

José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Daniel Gallichan

PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of spatial resolution and parallel imaging acceleration factor on the quality of the motion estimates derived from image navigators with a three-dimensional (3D) gradient-recalled echo (GRE) acquisition with fat excitatio ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

3D-Printed Shepp-Logan Phantom as a Real-World Benchmark for MRI

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, François Lazeyras, Jeffrey Adam Kasten

Purpose: As prescribed and reliable geometrical entities, phantoms have served as indispensable validation tools in a variety of MR-related topics. Though a number of phantoms have been conceived, certain applications may warrant highly customized geometri ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Touch-Based System for Beat-to-Beat Impedance Cardiogram Acquisition and Hemodynamic Parameters Estimation

David Atienza Alonso, Srinivasan Murali, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Dionisije Sopic

Among all cardiovascular diseases, congestive heart failure (CHF) has a very high rate of hospitalization and mortality. In order to prevent hospitalization, there is a strong need to identify patients at risk of a CHF event by estimating a set of relevant ...

IEEE/ACM Press2016

Dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Instrumentation for Real-time Enzymatic Reaction Rate Measurements by NMR

Arnaud Comment, Paul Romeo Vasos, Riccardo Balzan

The main limitation of NMR-based investigations is low sensitivity. This prompts for long acquisition times, thus preventing real-time NMR measurements of metabolic transformations. Hyperpolarization via dissolution DNP circumvents part of the sensitivity ...

Journal Of Visualized Experiments2016