26-30 July 2026

EMBC 2026

Toronto, Canada
Tu.2.4: Image Quality, Safety & Hardware
Tuesday, 28 July, 11:30 - 13:00
Location: Room 716B
Session Type: Oral
Session Co-Chairs: Russell Chan and Laleh Golestani Rad
Theme 2: Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing
Tue, 28 Jul, 11:30 - 11:45

Tu.2.4.1: A 16-Channel Flexible, Twisted-Pair-Based Transceiver Array for Torso Imaging at 7T
Thomas Mercer, Matt Waks, Russell Lagore, Alexander Bratch, Timothy Hasapopoulos, Gregory Metzger, Kamil Ugurbil, Gregor Adriany, Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, University of Minnesota
Tue, 28 Jul, 11:45 - 12:00

Tu.2.4.2: A Simulation-Free Method for RF Test Environment Construction: B1+ Phase Recovery Under Physical Constraints
Wanxuan Sang, Tiangang Long, Dongyun Ge, Changqing Jiang, Tsinghua University
Tue, 28 Jul, 12:00 - 12:15

Tu.2.4.3: WEIGHT-GUIDED CONSTRAINTS FOR BODY MODEL AND LEAD SELECTION IN PEDIATRIC CIED MRI SAFETY SIMULATIONS
Safa Hameed, Kaylee Henry, Fuchang Jiang, Northwestern University; Bhumi Bhusal, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Halley Dillenbeck, Lindsey Gakenheimer-Smith, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital; Gregory Webster, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Laleh Golestanirad, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Tue, 28 Jul, 12:15 - 12:30

Tu.2.4.4: Enabling X-ray Catheter Segmentation in Data-Limited Settings via Shape Priors and Enhancement Filters
Fuji Huang, University College London; Baixiang Zhao, University of Glasgow; Danail Stoyanov, Evangelos Mazomenos, University College London
Tue, 28 Jul, 12:30 - 12:45

Tu.2.4.5: Simultaneous Reduction of RF Heating and Artifacts in Deep Brain Stimulation at 3 T via Transmit-Coil Rotation
Sana Ullah, Bhumi Bhusal, Fuchang Jiang, Northwestern University; Boris Keil, Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences; Laleh Golestanirad, Northwestern University
Tue, 28 Jul, 12:45 - 13:00

Tu.2.4.6: A Multi-Frequency Balun Using MOSFETs
Benjamin Malone, Jacob Ruff, Kevin Black, Steven Wright, Texas A&M University