Browsing by Author "Wu, C.W."

Task-evoked and resting-state (rs) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques have been applied to the clinical management of neurological diseases, exemplified by presurgical localization of eloquent cortex, to assist neurosurgeons in maximizing resection while preserving brain functions. In addition, recent studies have recommended incorporating cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) imaging into clinical fMRI to evaluate the risk of lesion-induced neurovascular uncoupling (NVU). Although each of these imaging techniques possesses its own advantage for presurgical mapping, a specialized clinical software that integrates the three complementary techniques and promptly outputs the analyzed results to radiology and surgical navigation systems in a clinical format is still lacking. We developed the Integrated fMRI for Clinical Research (IClinfMRI) software to facilitate these needs. Beyond the independent processing of task-fMRI, rs-fMRI, and CVR mapping, IClinfMRI encompasses three unique functions: (1) supporting the interactive rs-fMRI mapping while visualizing task-fMRI results (or results from published meta-analysis) as a guidance map, (2) indicating/visualizing the NVUpotential on analyzed fMRI maps, and (3) exporting these advanced mapping results in a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format that are ready to export to a picture archiving and communication system(PACS) and a surgical navigation system. In summary, IClinfMRI has the merits of efficiently translating and integrating state-of-the-art imaging techniques for presurgical functional mapping and clinical fMRI studies. ? 2018 Hsu, Hou, Johnson, Wu, Noll, Prabhu, Ferguson, Kumar, Schomer, Hazle, Chen and Liu.

Extraction of coupling of modes (COM) parameters from the manufacturing process of a surface acoustic wave device (SAW) is important in practice. In this study, we employed an inverse algorithm to recover the COM parameters from the measured admittance of a one-port SAW resonator. For completeness, the COM equations, the P-matrix representation and the related COM parameters have been summarized. The admittance of a one-port resonator was derived based on the P-matrix representation. One-port and two-port SAW resonator filters were fabricated and the related responses were measured. The simplex method was then used to determine the COM parameters inversely. The recovered COM parameters of the one-port SAW resonator have been demonstrated to be applicable to simulate not only the frequency response of the one-port SAW resonator but also that of the two-port one.