In reverberant environments, the brain can suppress echoes so that auditory perception is dominated by the primary or leading sounds. Echo suppression comprises at least two distinct phenomena whose neural bases are unknown: spatial translocation of an echo toward the primary sound, and object capture to combine echo and primary sounds into a single event. In an electroencephalography study, we...

PURPOSE To assess the value of an added gradient echo in the same pulse sequence with a T1-weighted spin echo for determining the presence of an abnormal fluid collection in the temporomandibular joint with no additional imaging time. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using a standard T1-weighted sequence used in cine temporomandibular joint imaging, a readout gradient reversal was added and the resultin...

| Acoustic echo cancellation is an essential signal enhancement tool for teleconferencing applications such as hands-free telephony, tele-classing and video-conferencing. However, loudspeaker signals are picked up by a microphone and are fed back to the correspondent, resulting in an unde-sired echo. Nowadays, adaptive ltering techniques are typically employed to suppress this echo. In acoustic...

Introduction: Fast Spin Echo (FSE) could suffer from the non-CPMG condition that results in destructive echo interference, unstable echo train and signal cancellation. Diffusion-weighted (DW) PROPELLER [1], an FSE-based sequence, mitigates the non-CPMG issue by XY phase cycling [1] combined with split-blade acquisition [2]. However, XY phase cycling requires refocus flip angle be close to 180° ...

BACKGROUND Magnetic resonance (MR)-based attenuation correction is a critical component of integrated positron emission tomography (PET)/MR scanners. It is generally achieved by segmenting MR images into tissue classes with known attenuation properties (e.g., bone, fat, soft tissue, lung, air). Ultra-short echo time (UTE) have been proposed in the past to locate bone tissue. In this study, tri-...

IntRoductIon Violation of copyrights is a serious concern in the field of sound development of digital media contents. Digital watermarking is an important technique for protecting copyrights of digital

We report a case of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with chronic hepatitis C virus infection successfully treated with percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (RFA) under live four-dimensional (4D) echo guidance. A 65-year-old Japanese man had a HCC nodule in the liver S5 region 2.0 cm in diameter. We performed real-time 4D ultrasonography during RFA therapy with a LeVeen needle electrode. The echo...

A procedure to prevent the formation of image and spectral Nyquist ghosts in echo-planar spectroscopic imaging is introduced. It is based on a novel Cartesian center-out echo-planar spectroscopic imaging trajectory, referred to as EPSICO, and combined with a correction of the gradient-echo phase and time shifts. Processing of homogenous sets of forward and reflected echoes is no longer necessar...