Medical Imaging
Reports
Refereed publications | Invited talks | Oral conference presentations | Posters presented at conferences | Student theses
Refereed publications
I.C. Ruset, L.L. Tsai, R.W. Mair, S. Patz, M.I. Hrovat, M.S. Rosen, I. Muradian, J. Ng, G.P. Topulos, J.P. Butler, R.L. Walsworth, F.W. Hersman,
A System for Open-Access 3He Human Lung Imaging at Very Low Field
Magn. Reson. Engineering 29B (2006) 210-221
I.C. Ruset, S. Ketel, F.W. Hersman,
Optical pumping system design fro large production of hyperpolarized 129Xe
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 053002
H. Zhu, I.C. Ruset, F.W. Hersman,
Spectrally-narrowed external-cavity high power diode laser arrays
Opt. Lett. 30 (2005) 1342
R.W. Mair, M.I. Hrovat, S. Patz, M.S. Rosen, I.C. Ruset, G.P. Topulos, L.L. Tsai, J.P. Butler, F.W. Hersman, R.L. Walsworth,
Orientation-Dependent 3He Lung Imaging in an Open Access, Very-Low-Field Human MRI System
Magn. Reson. Med. 53 (2005) 745
E. Babcock, I. A. Nelson, S. Kadlecek, B. Driehuys, L. W. Anderson, F. W. Hersman, and T. G. Walker,
Hybrid Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping of 3He
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (2003) 123003
G.P. Wong, C.H. Tseng, V.R. Pomeroy, R.W. Mair, D.P. Hinton, D. Hoffmann, R.E. Stoner, F.W. Hersman, D.G. Cory, and R.L. Walsworth,
A System for Low Field Imaging of Laser-Polarized Noble Gas
J. Magn. Reson. 141 (1999) 217
C-H Tseng, GP Wong, VR Pomeroy, RW Mair, DP Hinton, D Hoffmann, RE Stoner, FW Hersman, DG Cory, RL Walsworth,
Low-Field MRI of Laser Polarized Noble Gas
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 (1998) 3785
Invited talks
2004-02-06 Bates College Physics Department Colloquium
2003-11-20 New England Sectional Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2003-11-12 Durham Great-Bay Rotary Club
2003-11-12 UNH classroom, combined meeting of Physics 400 and Tech 400
2001-04-27 University of Rhode Island Cruickshank Distinguished Lecture
Biomedical Applications of Hyperpolarized Gas MRI
Oral conference presentations
2003-07-12 11th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, p514
Novel Low-Pressure Production Method for Hyperpolarized Xenon
2003-07-12 11th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, p750
Design and Testing of an Open, Human MRI System for Orientational Lung Study
2003-05-28 2nd International Conference of Xenon in Materials (XEMAT)
Design, Implementation, Performance and Numerical Simulation of a Low-Pressure High-Flow Xenon Polarizer
2003-05-28 2nd International Conference of Xenon in Materials (XEMAT)
Design and Operation of a Human-Scale, Open-Access Low-Field MRI System
RW Mair, FW Hersman, MI Hrovat, I Muradyan, S Patz, MS Rosen, IC Ruset, J Ng, LL Tsai, RL Walsworth
Posters presented at conferences
2004-04-22 45th Experimental NMR Conference (ENC)
High Polarization and Production of 129Xenon
2004-04-22 45th Experimental NMR Conference (ENC)
Initial Orientational Lung Imaging in an Open-Access Human-Scale Low-Field Scanner
2003-07-12 11th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, p1053
Signal Correction for Narrow-Bandwidth Coils
2003-03-30 44th Experimental NMR Conference (ENC)
Numerical Simulation of a Low-Pressure High-Flow Polarization Process
2003-03-30 44th Experimental NMR Conference (ENC)
First Results from a Low-Pressure High-Flow Xenon Polarizer
Student theses
Hyperpolarized 129Xe Production and Applications
Iulian C. Ruset, University of New Hampshire, Ph.D. Thesis (2005)
Spin-Exchange Polarized 3He Using Optically Pumped Alkali Atoms for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Neutron Spin Filters
Vance R. Pomeroy, U. New Hampshire Ph.D. thesis (1998)