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Individually optimized dynamic parallel transmit pulses for 3D high‐resolution SPACE imaging at 7T

Tom Hilbert, Bénédicte Marie Maréchal, Thomas Yu, Jocelyn Philippe

Purpose: Although clinical 7T MRI offers various advantages compared to lower field strengths, achieving spatially uniform flip angle distributions remains a challenge. Sampling Perfection with Application optimized Contrast using different flip angle Evol ...

Wiley2025

Deep-Learning Reconstruction for 7T MP2RAGE and SPACE MRI: Improving Image Quality at High Acceleration Factors

Thomas Yu, Jun Ma

American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR)2025

The 2024 Magnonics Roadmap

Dirk Grundler, Thomas Yu, Ping Che, Qi Wang, Wei Zhang, Benedetta Flebus

Magnonics is a research field that has gained an increasing interest in both the fundamental and applied sciences in recent years. This field aims to explore and functionalize collective spin excitations in magnetically ordered materials for modern informa ...

2024

In-Silico Trained AI for Enhanced T2Spectrum Imaging and Myelin Water Fraction Mapping in Preclinical 7T MRI

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Thomas Yu

This study introduces a Machine Learning (ML) approach for estimating the T2 spectrum and myelin water fraction (MWF) using multi-echo T2 (MET2) data from preclinical 7T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners. ML methods have shown promise in MWF estima ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Slice Estimation in Diffusion MRI of Neonatal and Fetal Brains in Image and Spherical Harmonics Domains Using Autoencoders

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Gabriel Girard, Thomas Yu, Hamza Kebiri

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) of the developing brain can provide valuable insights into the white matter development. However, slice thickness in fetal dMRI is typically high (i.e., 3-5 mm) to freeze the in-plane motion, which reduces the sensitivity of the dMRI s ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2022

Combining Model Driven and Data Driven Approaches for Inverse Problems in Parameter Estimation and Image Reconstruction: From Modelling to Validation

Thomas Yu

Machine learning has become the state of the art for the solution of the diverse inverse problems arising from computer vision and medical imaging, e.g. denoising, super-resolution, de-blurring, reconstruction from scanner data, quantitative magnetic reson ...

EPFL2022

A Fetal Brain magnetic resonance Acquisition Numerical phantom (FaBiAN)

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Thomas Yu

Accurate characterization of in utero human brain maturation is critical as it involves complex and interconnected structural and functional processes that may influence health later in life. Magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful tool to investigate equ ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Variability and reproducibility of multi-echo T2 relaxometry: Insights from multi-site, multi-session and multi-subject MRI acquisitions

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Gabriel Girard, Elda Fischi Gomez, Gian Franco Piredda, Thomas Yu, Takuya Morishita

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) can increase the specificity and sensitivity of conventional weighted MRI to underlying pathology by comparing meaningful physical or chemical parameters, measured in physical units, with normative values acqu ...

2022

Insights from the IronTract challenge: Optimal methods for mapping brain pathways from multi-shell diffusion MRI

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Gabriel Girard, Elda Fischi Gomez, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Thomas Yu, Marco Pizzolato, Gaëtan Olivier D Rensonnet

Limitations in the accuracy of brain pathways reconstructed by diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography have received considerable attention. While the technical advances spearheaded by the Human Connectome Project (HCP) led to significant improvements in dMRI da ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Comparison of non-parametric T2 relaxometry methods for myelin water quantification

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Gian Franco Piredda, Marco Pizzolato, Thomas Yu, Alessandro Daducci, Nicolas Kunz

Multi-component T2 relaxometry allows probing tissue microstructure by assessing compartment-specific T2 relaxation times and water fractions, including the myelin water fraction. Non-negative least squares (NNLS) with zero-order Tikhonov regularization is ...

2021