Farewell to Metin Can Isik

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…

Muhammad Ali Khan left our research group to return to Pakistan and reunite with his family. We wish him success in his professional career.

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…

Purpose The purpose of this study is to create an EM simulation model for the NOVA 8Tx/32Rx RF head coil to further develop its applications in research and clinical use. The developed EM model has been made publicly available. Methods The coil was modeled as a combination of microstrips in Ansys HFSS. The currents on…

The 34th Graduate Research Conference, organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EE) and the IEEE Student Branch, took place on Thursday, January 25 in the lecture halls on the ground floor of the EE building. Bilkent EE graduate students described their state-of-the-art research projects in oral and poster presentations during this day-long…