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Stephen E. Russek, Katy Keenan, Karl Stupic, Nikki Rentz, Michael Boss, Kevin J. Coakley, Amanda Koepke, Cassandra Stoffer
This document describes a calibration service to measure the water diffusion coefficient, or diffusivity, in reference materials and tissue mimics using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques. This calibration is restricted to materials which exhibit
Constantin-Cristian Topriceanu, Massimiliano Fornasiero, Han Seo, Matthew Webber, Katy Keenan, Karl Stupic, Rudiger Bruehl, Bernd Ittermann, Wenjie Pang, Alun Hughes, Reza Nezafat, Peter Kellman, Peter Gatehouse, Iain Pierce, James Moon, Gabriella Captur
Greta Babakhanova, Anant Agrawal, Deepika Arora, Allison Horenberg, Jagat Budhathoki, Joy Dunkers, Joe Chalfoun, Peter Bajcsy, Carl Simon Jr.
In the field of tissue engineering, 3D scaffolds and cells are often combined to yield constructs that are used as therapeutics to repair or restore tissue function in patients. Viable cells are required to achieve the intended mechanism of action for the
Where copper interconnects fabricated using superconformal electrodeposition processes have enabled dramatic advances in microelectronics over the last quarter century, gold filled gratings fabricated using superconformal 〖Bi〗^(3+)-mediated bottom-up
Jeeseong C. Hwang, Kimberly Briggman, Nikki Rentz, Hyun-Jin Kim, David W. Allen, Lee J. Richter, Sowon Yoon, John Lu
Medical imaging devices and systems must be calibrated to ensure uniformity and reliability of test results. A standard reference material (SRM) or "phantom", as it is known in the medical imaging community, is used to replicate fundamental characteristics
The mechanism that underlies 〖Bi〗^(3+)-stimulated extreme bottom-up Au filling of trenches and vias in slightly alkaline 〖Na〗_3 Au(〖SO〗_3 )_2+〖Na〗_2 〖SO〗_3 electrolytes is explored. The remarkable void-free feature filling and self-passivation behavior
Joseph Chue-Sang, Maritoni Litorja, Aaron Goldfain, Thomas A. Germer
Significance: Mueller matrix polarimetry (MMP) and spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) are wide-field optical imaging modalities that differentiate tissue primarily by structure alignment and photon transport coefficient, respectively. Because these
Purpose: To assess the reliability of measuring diffusivity, diffusional kurtosis and cellular-interstitial water exchange time with long diffusion times (100-800 ms) using stimulated-echo diffusion-weighted imaging. Methods: Time-dependent diffusion MRI (
Mark-Alexander Henn, Klaus Natorf Quelhas, Solomon I. Woods
Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) has in recent years been established as a powerful imaging tool that measures thenon-linear magnetic response of magnetic particles to an applied field. Obtaining quantitative information fromthese images in the form of a
Heather H. Chen-Mayer, Ronald Tosh, Fred B. Bateman, Paul Bergstrom, Brian E. Zimmerman
A portable calorimeter for direct realization of absorbed dose in medical computed tomography (CT) procedures was constructed and tested in a positron emission tomography (PET) CT scanner. The calorimeter consists of two small thermistors embedded in a
Sebastian Weingartner, Kimberly Desmond, Nancy Obuchowski, Bettina Baessler, Yuxin Zhang, Emma Biondetti, Dan Ma, Xavier Golay, Michael Boss, Jeffrey Gunter, Katy Keenan, Diego Hernando
Daniel Josell, Thomas P. Moffat, Carlos R. Beauchamp
An extreme bottom-up filling variant of superconformal Au electrodeposition yielding void-free filling of recessed features is demonstrated with diffraction gratings composed of a two-dimensional patterned "chessboard" array of square vias of aspect ratio
Nathan Castro, Greta Babakhanova, Jerry Hu, Kyriacos Athanasiou
Traditional testing methods have helped to elucidate and correlate the structure-function relationship of natural tissues and have guided the development of promising tissue-engineered medical products. From a manufacturing standpoint, such assays have
Katy Keenan, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Andrew Dienstfrey, Karl Stupic, Michael Boss, Stephen E. Russek, Thomas L. Chenevert, Pottumarthi V. Prasad, J Guo, Wilburn E. Reddick, Kim M. Cecil, Amita Shukla-Dave, David Aramburu Nunez, Amaresh Shridhar Konar, Liu M, S R. Jambawalikar, Lawrence H. Schwartz, Jie Zheng, Peng Hu, Edward F. Jackson
Aleksey Yevtodiyenko, Arkadiy Bazhin, Pavlo Khodakivskyi, Aurelien Godinat, Gyslain Budin, Marina Kunchulia, Giorgio Pietramaggiori, Sandra Scherer, Elena Goun, Sergey Polyakov, George P. Eppeldauer
Bioluminescent imaging (BLI) is one of the most powerful and widely used preclinical imaging modalities. However, the current technology relies on the use of transgenic luciferase-expressing cells and animals and therefore can only be applied to a limited
Maureen Ainslie, Michael A. Boss, Cecil Charles, Laurence Clarke, Jeffrey L. Evelhoch, Paul Finn, Derek L. Hill, Kathryn Keenan, Guoying Liu, Karl Stupic, Chun Yuan, Michele Martin, Maureen Ainslie, Nikki Rentz
A standard MRI system phantom has been designed and fabricated to assess scanner performance, scanner stability, scanner inter-comparability and accuracy of quantitative relaxation time imaging. The phantom is unique in having SI-traceability, a high level
Ana Rodriguez-Soto, Lauren Fang, Dominic Holland, Jingjing Zou, Helen Park, Katy Keenan, Hauke Bartsch, Joshua Kuperman, Anne Wallace, Michael Hahn, Haydee Ojeda-Fournier, Anders Dale, Rebecca Rakow-Penner