Improved MRI methods are needed to diagnose nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the most common cause of liver disease in the Western world. Promising studies have demonstrated the utility of Tl...
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Medical imaging to detect structural abnormalities of the placenta is crucial in at least two pathological cases. First, placenta accreta spectrum, where the placenta grows too deeply into the wall of...
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a diagnostic imaging technique that is especially effective for soft tissues such as the brain and other organs. To produce an MR image, the patient is subjected to...
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UW-Madison researchers have designed a sophisticated imaging fiducial with 3D helical patterns that stores geometric information directly within a single fiducial shape rather than an array of individ...
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Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technology is used to measure nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) from various substances in human tissue to produce medical images for qualitative and quantitative assess...
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X-ray mammography is currently the most popular method of detecting breast cancer. However, X-ray mammography requires painful breast compression and is not sensitive enough to detect some early-stage...
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A major challenge of T1 and T2 mapping in MR Imaging is that rapid methods must be used to acquire the data required to create the maps in a relatively short scan time, otherwise the data will reflect...
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UW Madison researchers have developed methods for generating patient-specific reports that correlate imaging data to underlying biology, physiology, and/or genetics to enhance precision medicine in pa...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a method for motion-robust MRI with multiple contrasts, using a short temporal footprint, simple post-processing and optimized SNR. The method uses multiple conse...
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UW-Madison researchers have designed a novel implantable microscale inductor-capacitor to enhance signal for neuro fMRI images. The device provides in vivo tissue monitoring and/or treatment using an ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a system and methods that incorporate data from a plurality of modalities into a hierarchal structure of machine learning models to construct one or more prognost...
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There is a critical need for significant improvements in image-based assessment of the prostate in men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). MRE has been used to image the prostate using a both ab...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed an automated process to accurately quantitate breast density using MR images.  The methods assess tissue properties within a region of interest (ROI) using chem...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel clinical MRI method for quantitative T2 mapping. The new T2 mapping method uses RF-phase modulated dual echo steady-state sequence (DESS). T2 information ...
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A UW researcher has developed a novel method for simultaneous T1 and T2 weighted imaging using RF phase modulated 3D gradient echo (GRE) imaging. The novel technique enables encoding the different wei...
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Proton density fat fraction (PDFF) and R2* estimated using quantitative chemical shift-encoded MRI (CSE-MRI) are well-established quantitative biomarkers of liver fat content. As such, CSE-MRI methods...
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NMR signal contributions from water and fat are separated using a model of the fat resonant frequency spectrum that has multiple resonant peaks. The relative frequencies of the multiple fat spectrum p...
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UW researchers have developed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) urodynamics method, as well as a patient specific MRI-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of bladder voiding. Before t...
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A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to understand the structure and function of the brain and the neurobiological correlates that give rise to cognition and behavior. The development of magnetic res...
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This case is joint and was filed by Columbia University. A UW researcher, in collaboration with researchers from Columbia University and Medical University of South Carolina, have created a system an...
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A UW-Madison clinician along with a group of BME students have developed two designs for new tools for breast MRI biopsies. The first utilizes compression controlled by elastic recoil of a memory foam...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel MR imaging method for use with DWI to optimize the magnetic field distribution in the presence of fat. The new method provides for acquiring diffusion wei...
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UW Researchers have developed a novel MRI diffusion mapping method using phase-based diffusion mapping (PBD.) The technique provides a novel way to measure the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of ...
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A UW-Madison researcher has devised a novel complex fitting method that addresses concomitant gradient (CG) phase errors in chemical shift-encoded (CSE) MRI estimation of proton density fat fraction (...
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An RF coil assembly for an MRI system includes a resonator formed by a cylindrical shield and pairs of opposing conductive legs disposed symmetrically around a central axis and extending the axial len...
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