Publications related to Gallium scan

RibSeg v2: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Rib Labeling and Anatomical Centerline Extraction

Jiancheng Yang, Jason Ken Adhinarta, Ming Li

Automatic rib labeling and anatomical centerline extraction are common prerequisites for various clinical applications. Prior studies either use in-house datasets that are inaccessible to communities, or focus on rib segmentation that neglects the clinical ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

MRI characterization of in vitro clots at 3T and 7T: A technical note

Lijing Xin, François Lazeyras

In acute ischemic stroke, the composition of the occlusive clot can be associated with the underlying pathophysiology and the response to treatment. For these reasons, it is important to characterize the clot composition from clinical scans. We examine the ...

Masson Editeur2024

3D representation of meso-voids location and morphology within the fibrous pore space of three carbon fabrics

Véronique Michaud, Helena Luisa Teixido Pedarros

Segmented meso-voids from a tomography scan of preforms impregnated under capillary dominated conditions, combined to 3D scans of the initial prefrom dry state. ...

EPFL Infoscience2023

Efficient Lung Nodule Detection via 3D Deep Learning with Shifted Convolutions

Jiancheng Yang, Bo Du, Kang Yuan

The high computational costs of deep convolutional neural networks hinder their deployment in real-world applications, including pulmonary nodule detection from CT scans where large 3D image sizes amplify the issue. This paper presents a novel 3D method to ...

IEEE2023

Brain morphometry in older adults with and without dementia using extremely rapid structural scans

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert

T1-weighted structural MRI is widely used to measure brain morphometry (e.g., cortical thickness and subcortical volumes). Accelerated scans as fast as one minute or less are now available but it is unclear if they are adequate for quantitative morphometry ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2023

Medipix4, a high granularity four sides buttable pixel readout chip for high resolution spectroscopic X-ray imaging at rates compatible with medical CT scans

Viros Sriskaran

Medipix4 is the latest member in the Medipix/Timepix family of pixel detector chips aimed at high rate spectroscopic X-ray imaging using high-Z materials. The chip address the limitations of conventional hybrid pixel detectors for X-ray imaging. Its predec ...

EPFL2022

Towards quantum 3D imaging devices

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Paul Mos, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Michael Alan Wayne

We introduce a new generation of 3D imaging devices based on quantum plenoptic imaging. Position-momentum entanglement and photon number correlations are exploited to provide a scan-free 3D image after post-processing of the collected light intensity signa ...

2021

Model-informed machine learning for multi-component T2 relaxometry

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Elda Fischi Gomez, Gian Franco Piredda, Thomas Yu, Cristina Granziera, Muhamed Barakovic, Marco Pizzolato

Recovering the distribution from multi-echo magnetic resonance (MR) signals is challenging but has high potential as it provides biomarkers characterizing the tissue micro-structure, such as the myelin water fraction (MWF). In this work, we propose to comb ...

2020

Nanoscale Controlled Oxidation of Liquid Metals for Stretchable Electronics and Photonics

Stéphanie Lacour, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Louis Marie Philippe Martin-Monier

Liquid metals based on gallium have attracted considerable attention for soft and bioelectronics, thanks to their excellent combination of stretchability and conductivity. Nevertheless, owing to their large surface tension, these materials are notoriously ...

2020

Gallium-Based Thin Films for Wearable Sensors and Electronic Skins

Laurent Mirko Dejace

Integrated wearable electronics capable of providing biophysical information on complex and dynamic systems have attracted high interest in diverse fields such as healthcare, gaming and robotics. Wearable sensors can create artificial, electronic skins wit ...

EPFL2020

Bioluminescent-based imaging and quantification of glucose uptake in vivo

Riccardo Sinisi, Elena Goun, Pavlo Khodakivskyi, Arkadiy Bazhin, Aleksey Yevtodiyenko, Tamara Maric, Georgy Mikhaylov

Glucose is a major source of energy for most living organisms, and its aberrant uptake is linked to many pathological conditions. However, our understanding of disease-associated glucose flux is limited owing to the lack of robust tools. To date, positron- ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

The use of texture-based radiomics CT analysis to predict outcomes in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer treated with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy

Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge, Pierre Starkov

Objective: Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is being increasingly used as a non-invasive treatment for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). A non-invasive method to estimate treatment outcomes in these patients would be valuable, especi ...

BRITISH INST RADIOLOGY2019

Extra-axonal restricted diffusion as an in-vivo marker of reactive microglia

Gaëtan Olivier D Rensonnet, Anne des Rieux, Benoît Macq

Reactive microgliosis is an important pathological component of neuroinflammation and has been implicated in a wide range of brain diseases including brain tumors, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and schizophrenia. Mapping rea ...

Nature Research2019

Data-driven Measurement Designs for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Baran Gözcü

Despite being a powerful medical imaging technique which does not emit any ionizing radiation, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) always had the major problem of long scanning times that can take up to an hour depending on the application. It also requires u ...

EPFL2019

Neural network training for cross-protocol radiomic feature standardization in computed tomography

Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge

Radiomics has shown promising results in several medical studies, yet it suffers from a limited discrimination and informative capability as well as a high variation and correlation with the tomographic scanner types, pixel spacing, acquisition protocol, a ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2019

Gallium‐Based Thin Films for Wearable Human Motion Sensors

Stéphanie Lacour, Ivan Furfaro, Laurent Mirko Dejace, Nathan Joseph Laubeuf

Wearable electronic circuits based on the films of gallium and its alloys offer promising implementations in health monitoring and gaming sensing applications. However, the complex rheology of liquid metals makes it challenging to manufacture thin gallium‐ ...

2019

Stitched shape memory alloy wires enhance damage recovery in self-healing fibre-reinforced polymer composites

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Nathan Klaus Hostettler

A major issue in composite technology is matrix micro-cracking due to low-velocity impact damage, which may severely limit service lifetimes of composite parts. In a novel approach, remarkable levels of healing of impact damage are obtained using shape mem ...

2018

Assessing body image in anorexia nervosa using biometric self-avatars in virtual reality: Attitudinal components rather than visual body size estimation are distorted

Stephan Streuber

Background. Body image disturbance (BID) is a core symptom of anorexia nervosa (AN), but as yet distinctive features of BID are unknown. The present study aimed at disentangling perceptual and attitudinal components of BID in AN. ...

CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS2018

Inexpensive 1024-Channel 3D Telesonography System on FPGA

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Damien Doy, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim

Volumetric ultrasound (US) is a very promising development of medical US imaging. An under-exploited advantage of volumetric US is the mitigation of the strict probe positioning constrains necessary to acquire 2D scans, potentially allowing the decoupling ...

IEEE2017

Microcomputed Tomography Technique for In Vivo Three-Dimensional Fat Tissue Volume Evaluation After Polymer Injection

Harm-Anton Klok, Ioana Konz

Tissue engineering technologies are new and promising techniques in fat tissue reconstruction. However, to assess their efficacy before any clinical application, in vivo experiments are mandatory. This study assesses whether microcomputed tomography (CT) s ...

2017