Farewell to Metin Can Isik
Metin Can Isik left our research group after working with us as an engineer. He will be working at ASELSAN-UGES. We thank him for his contributions and wish him success in his professional career.
Our research group will present 4 abstracts in the 2026 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Cape Town, South Africa. Abstracts are: Metin Isik received an E. K. Zavoisky Stipend award. Abdullah Erkam received the trainee award
Purpose To enhance the SNR in MRI within a localized region of interest using a novel interventional wireless RF resonator probe combined with a dual-drive pTx system. Methods A dual-drive body birdcage coil was operated in a linearly-polarized mode to decouple a passive RF resonator probe from the transmit field while maintaining the resonator in…
Prof. Ergin Atalar received the Elginkan Foundation Technology Award. The recipients of the “Elginkan Foundation Turkish Culture Research and Technology Awards,” launched by the Elginkan Foundation in 2006, their 18th year, have been announced. The recipients of the awards, which will be given to contribute to studies, research, and services in the fields of science,…
Excitation using nonlinear gradient magnetic fields is investigated as a means of sub-volume magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Conventional gradient fields provide encoding along a single direction, whereas nonlinear gradient fields encode information simultaneously along at least two directions. This leads to excitation regions (FOX) that have curvilinear boundaries, which may be more tolerant to aliasing…
Ergin Atalar will be at NHLBI (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute), NIH from September 2024 to September 2025. During his stay at NHLBI, Dr. Atalar will collaborate with his colleagues Drs. Robert Lederman and Adrienne Campbell-Washburn and their teams. The NHBLI teams have significant contributions to the MRI-guided cardiovascular interventions field. Most recently, they…
Muhammad Ali Khan left our research group to return to Pakistan and reunite with his family. We wish him success in his professional career.