Yasmin Blunck

The "Spin-3/2 Bloch Equation": System matrix formalism of excitation, relaxation, and off-resonance effects in biological tissue

Chengchuan Wu, Yasmin Blunck, Leigh A Johnston

Journal article  |  2022  |  MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE

PURPOSE: This work proposes "Spin-3/2 Bloch Equation" (SBE), a consolidated formalism for spin-3/2 dynamics in biological environm..

Ultrahigh field brain magnetic resonance imaging using semiadiabatic radiofrequency pulses

Roger Ordidge, Yasmin Blunck, Rebecca Glarin, Bradford Moffat, Leigh Johnston

Journal article  |  2021  |  NMR IN BIOMEDICINE

Great attention is being paid to solving, or mitigating, the technical problems associated with MRI at ultrahigh field strengths o..

Ultra-high-field MRI using composite RF (STEP) pulses

Roger Ordidge, Jon Cleary, Rebecca Glarin, Yasmin Blunck, Shawna Farquharson, Brad Moffat

Journal article  |  2020  |  NMR IN BIOMEDICINE

Ultra-high field MRI offers many opportunities to expand the applications of MRI. In order for this to be realized, the technical ..

Microstructural correlates of 23Na relaxation in human brain at 7 Tesla.

Scott C Kolbe, Warda Syeda, Yasmin Blunck, Rebecca Glarin, Meng Law, Leigh A Johnston, Jon O Cleary

Journal article  |  2020  |  Neuroimage

23Na provides the second strongest MR-observable signal in biological tissue and exhibits bi-exponential T2∗ relaxation in micro-e..

Compressed sensing effects on quantitative analysis of undersampled human brain sodium MRI

Yasmin Blunck, Scott C Kolbe, Bradford A Moffat, Roger J Ordidge, Jon O Cleary, Leigh A Johnston

Journal article  |  2020  |  Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Purpose The clinical application of sodium MRI is hampered due to relatively low image quality and associated long acquisition tim..

Spin Lock Adiabatic Correction (SLAC) for B-1-insensitive pulse design at 7T

Edward M Green, Yasmin Blunck, Bahman Tahayori, Peter M Farrell, James C Korte, Leigh A Johnston

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Magnetic Resonance

A new framework for B1 insensitive adiabatic pulse design is proposed, denoted Spin Lock Adiabatic Correction (SLAC), which counte..

A continuum of T-2(*) components: Flexible fast fraction mapping in sodium MRI

Warda Syeda, Yasmin Blunck, Scott Kolbe, Jon O Cleary, Leigh A Johnston

Journal article  |  2019  |  MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE

PURPOSE: Parameter mapping in sodium MRI data is challenging due to inherently low SNR and spatial resolution, prompting the need ..

Zero-gradient-excitation ramped hybrid encoding (zG(RF)-RHE) sodium MRI

Yasmin Blunck, Bradford A Moffat, Scott C Kolbe, Roger J Ordidge, Jon O Cleary, Leigh A Johnston

Journal article  |  2019  |  MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE

PURPOSE: Fast bi-exponential transverse signal decay compounds sodium image quality. This work aims at enhancing image characteris..

3D-multi-echo radial imaging of Na-23 (3D-MERINA) for time-efficient multi-parameter tissue compartment mapping

Yasmin Blunck, Sonal Josan, Syeda Warda Taqdees, Bradford A Moffat, Roger J Ordidge, Jon O Cleary, Leigh A Johnston

Journal article  |  2018  |  MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE

PURPOSE: This work demonstrates a 3D radial multi-echo acquisition scheme for time-efficient sodium (23 Na) MR-signal acquisition ..

Techniques for signal acquisition, reconstruction and analysis in sodium magnetic resonance imaging

Yasmin Blunck

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2018

Over the last decades, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has undergone a high-paced development rendering it an extremely versatile..