2024
Multimodality Molecular Imaging of Brain Tumor Using Simultaneous [18F]FET-PET/MRSI
Ma C, Han P, Marin T, Zhuo Y, Shih H, Fakhri G. Multimodality Molecular Imaging of Brain Tumor Using Simultaneous [18F]FET-PET/MRSI. 2024, 00: 1-2. DOI: 10.1109/nss/mic/rtsd57108.2024.10656528.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchList-mode dataMR spectroscopic imagingSpatial resolutionAccurate brain tumor delineationMR physicsIsotropic resolutionBrain tumor delineationImprove treatment planningSpectroscopic imagingTumor delineationSignal-to-noise ratioIntact blood-brain barrierImaging speedAmino acid radiotracerImaging timeMR signalHigher proliferation activityStructural MRTreatment planningBlood-brain barrierMR spectroscopic imaging dataMolecular imaging of brain tumorsTumor involvementTumor infiltrationTumor margins
2019
Arterial spin labeling MR image denoising and reconstruction using unsupervised deep learning
Gong K, Han P, Fakhri G, Ma C, Li Q. Arterial spin labeling MR image denoising and reconstruction using unsupervised deep learning. NMR In Biomedicine 2019, 35: e4224. PMID: 31865615, PMCID: PMC7306418, DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4224.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSignal-to-noise ratioImage denoisingReconstruction frameworkDeep learning-based image denoisingDeep learning-based denoisersMR image denoisingLearning-based denoisingLow signal-to-noise ratioK-space dataNoisy imagesTraining labelsTraining pairsNetwork inputNeural networkDenoisingIn vivo experiment dataSuperior performanceImaging speedReconstruction processImage qualityLong imaging timesNetworkFrameworkImagesSpatial resolution
2016
High‐resolution 1H‐MRSI of the brain using short‐TE SPICE
Ma C, Lam F, Ning Q, Johnson C, Liang Z. High‐resolution 1H‐MRSI of the brain using short‐TE SPICE. Magnetic Resonance In Medicine 2016, 77: 467-479. PMID: 26841000, PMCID: PMC5493212, DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26130.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSignal-to-noise ratioHigh-resolution spectroscopic imagingSpatiospectral correlationSpectroscopic imagingIn-plane resolutionSubspace-based techniquesAccelerated data acquisitionSignal processing algorithmsMetabolite signalsIn-planeProcessing algorithmsNuisance signalsLipid signalingBaseline signalDatasetData acquisitionProperties of water
2015
Improved Low-Rank Filtering of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Data Corrupted by Noise and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$B_0$</tex-math></inline-formula> Field Inhomogeneity
Liu Y, Ma C, Clifford B, Lam F, Johnson C, Liang Z. Improved Low-Rank Filtering of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Data Corrupted by Noise and$B_0$ Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLow-rank filterSignal-to-noise ratioConstrained Cramer-RaoDenoising MRSI dataFiltering methodLow-rank modelCramer-RaoDenoising performanceRank minimizationHigh-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopic imagingBoundary constraintsIn vivo MRSI dataData corruptionLow-rankMRSI dataFilterNoiseUpper boundB0 field inhomogeneityField inhomogeneity correctionDenoisingField inhomogeneityInhomogeneity correctionMethodMagnetic resonance spectroscopic imagingSpectral Estimation for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging with Spatial Sparsity Constraints
Ning Q, Ma C, Liang Z. Spectral Estimation for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging with Spatial Sparsity Constraints. 2015, 1482-1485. DOI: 10.1109/isbi.2015.7164157.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSignal-to-noise ratioState-of-the-art methodsState-of-the-artLow signal-to-noise ratioSpatial sparsity constraintsJoint estimation problemSpectral estimationRegularization frameworkSparsity constraintEstimation accuracyEstimation problemRobust solutionExperimental resultsSpatial constraintsModel nonlinearityConstraintsSpectral characteristicsQuantitative problemsImagesParametersNonlinearitySimulation
2014
Field-Inhomogeneity-Corrected Low-Rank Filtering of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Data
Liu Y, Ma C, Clifford B, Lam F, Johnson C, Liang Z. Field-Inhomogeneity-Corrected Low-Rank Filtering of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Data. Annual International Conference Of The IEEE Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society (EMBC) 2014, 2014: 6422-6425. PMID: 25571466, DOI: 10.1109/embc.2014.6945098.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2012
A mobile NMR system with full spectroscopy capability
Ma C, Liang Z. A mobile NMR system with full spectroscopy capability. Annual International Conference Of The IEEE Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society (EMBC) 2012, 2012: 4022-4025. PMID: 23366810, DOI: 10.1109/embc.2012.6346849.Peer-Reviewed Original Research