Computational Biomedical Imaging Laboratory

Research Projects

 

Two-dimensional phase unwrapping

 

*  Executable Matlab file: Unwrap.dll

*  Compiled with Matlab 7.0

*  To use the function.

 

o   Scale the wrapped image to (-0.5, 0.5)

o   Save the wrapped image as “WrapImage

o   Type “Image=Unwrap(WrapImage);” to unwrap “WrapImage” and save as “Image”

*  For details on the approach used in the software, refer to.

o   L. Ying, Z.-P. Liang, D. C. Munson, Jr., R. Koetter, B. Frey, “Unwrapping MR phase images by a Markov random field model,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 128-136, January 2006.

 

Joint estimation of coil sensitivities and image in parallel imaging

*  JSENSE is a software package in Matlab for reconstruction of both the coil sensitivities and the final image simultaneously.

*  Download the software: JSENSE.zip

*  The details of JSENSE can be found in

*  Cartesian trajectories: L. Ying and J. Sheng, “Joint image reconstruction and sensitivity estimation in SENSE (JSENSE),” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 1196-1202, June 2007.

*  Arbitrary trajectories: J. Sheng, B. Liu, L. Ying, “Improved self-calibrated spiral parallel imaging using JSENSE,” Medical Engineering and Physics, vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 510-514, June 2009.

 Nonlinear GRAPPA: a kernel approach to parallel MRI reconstruction

*  Software implementation of nonlinear GRAPPA method

*  Matlab code and examples: NLGRAPPA.zip

*  The details of JSENSE can be found in

 

o   Y. Chang, D. Liang, L. Ying, “Nonlinear GRAPPA: a kernel approach to parallel MRI reconstruction,” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

o   Y. Chang, D. Liang, L. Ying, “A kernel approach to parallel MRI reconstruction,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, pp. 389-392, 2011

 

We welcome collaborations on applications of our developed techniques. Please contact Dr. Leslie Ying.