TR&D 2: Unshackling the Scanners of the Future: Flexible, self-correcting, multisensor machines

TRD2项目摘要 我们高级成像创新与研究中心(CAI2R)的广泛使命是为 合作翻译研究团队共同开发高影响力的生物医学成像 技术，最终目标是改变日常临床实践。技术研究和 开发(研发)项目2旨在根据快速发展的情况重新评估生物医学成像硬件 用于图像获取和重建的现代能力。我们在开发方面拥有领先的专业知识 用于高性能磁体的新型和最先进的射频(RF)探测器和发射机 磁共振成像(MRI)。我们将继续开发先进的射频技术，以及使能工具 用于磁共振成像中基于生理的安全保证，以及用于评估和优化高级 成像方法。我们还将探索从新型传感器中可以收集到哪些信息，包括 非传统的柔性射频探测器阵列和广泛的其他新兴传感模式。这个 自动驾驶汽车的前景是，通过激光雷达和其他传感器不断探测它们的环境，已经 抓住了公众的想象力。我们将探索类似的“自动驾驶”模型所需要的条件 扫描仪，“配备了足够数量和种类的传感器，能够在 成像条件的不均匀性和动态变化。

TRD2 Project Summary The broad mission of our Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R) is to bring together collaborative translational research teams for the development of high-impact biomedical imaging technologies, with the ultimate goal of changing day-to-day clinical practice. Technology Research and Development (TR&D) Project 2 aims to re-evaluate biomedical imaging hardware in light of rapidly evolving modern capabilities for image acquisition and reconstruction. We have leading expertise in the development of novel and state-of-the-art radiofrequency (RF) detectors and transmitters for high-performance magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We will continue to develop advanced RF technologies, along with enabling tools for physiology-based safety assurance in MRI, and tools for evaluation as well as optimization of advanced imaging methods. We will also explore what information can be gleaned from new types of sensors, including unconventional flexible RF detector arrays and a broad array of other emerging sensing modalities. The prospect of self-driving cars, continuously probing their environment with LIDAR and other sensors, has captured the public imagination. We will explore what may be required for an analogous model of “self-driving scanners,” outfitted with a sufficient number and variety of sensors to be able to navigate through substantial inhomogeneities and dynamic variations in imaging conditions.