MREL Projects

Current

Superior Cardiac MRI using Wideband SSFP at 3 Tesla

Developing and validating a new technique, called Wideband SSFP, for rapid in-vivo cardiac imaging at 3 Tesla.

Sponsor: NIH / NHLBI

Team: Hsu-Lei Lee, Zungho Zun

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Coronary Magnetic Resonance Angiography at 3 Tesla

New methods for improved coronary magnetic resonance angiography at 3 Tesla, focusing on improvements in spatial resolution and vessel contrast, and the avoidance of image artifacts.

Sponsor: American Heart Association (AHA)

Team: Kyung Sung, Hsu-Lei Lee, Mahender Makhijani

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Comprehensive Assessment of Valvular Function with MR

Novel methods for assessing the function of heart valves using MRI.

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Team: Joao Carvalho, Taehoon Shin

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Dynamics of Vocal Tract Shaping

Novel methods for studying human speech production using realtime magnetic resonance imaging.

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Team: Yoon Kim

Collaborators: Shrikanth Narayanan (SAIL), Dani Byrd (Linguistics)

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Absolute Quantification of Fat Mass in Adipose Tissue with Chemical-Shift MRI

Development of methods to quantify abdominal fat deposition for studies in obesity and body composition.

Sponsor: USC Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer

Team: Houchun (Harry) Hu

Collaborators: Michael I. Goran

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Non-Invasive Airway Compliance Assesment Using Real-Time MRI

Designing and optimizing new real-time MR imaging techniques to non-invasively measure airway compliance, and visualize airway collapse in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Sponsor: Respironics, Inc.

Team: Houchun (Harry) Hu, Taehoon Shin

Collaborator: Ian Colrain (SRI International)

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