Colloquium: Protecting quantum information against environmental noise

D Suter, GA Álvarez - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Quantum technologies represent a rapidly evolving field in which the specific properties of
quantum mechanical systems are exploited to enhance the performance of various …

The present and the future of microstructure MRI: From a paradigm shift to normal science

DS Novikov - Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
The aspiration of imaging tissue microstructure with MRI is to uncover micrometer-scale
tissue features within millimeter-scale imaging voxels, in vivo. This kind of super-resolution …

Map** mean axon diameter and axonal volume fraction by MRI using temporal diffusion spectroscopy

J Xu, H Li, KD Harkins, X Jiang, J ** mean axon diameter and intra-axonal volume fraction may have significant clinical
potential because nerve conduction velocity is directly dependent on axon diameter, and …

PGSE, OGSE, and sensitivity to axon diameter in diffusion MRI: Insight from a simulation study

I Drobnjak, H Zhang, A Ianuş, E Kaden… - Magnetic resonance …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To identify optimal pulsed gradient spin‐echo (PGSE) and oscillating gradient spin‐
echo (OGSE) sequence settings for maximizing sensitivity to axon diameter in idealized and …

Quantification of cell size using temporal diffusion spectroscopy

X Jiang, H Li, J ** of human spinal cord microstructure at 300 mT/m
T Duval, JA McNab, K Setsompop, T Witzel… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
The ability to characterize white matter microstructure non-invasively has important
applications for the diagnosis and follow-up of several neurological diseases. There exists a …

Profiling specific cell populations within the inflammatory tumor microenvironment by oscillating-gradient diffusion-weighted MRI

E Hoffmann, M Gerwing, S Niland… - Journal for …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The inflammatory tumor microenvironment (TME) is formed by various immune
cells, being closely associated with tumorigenesis. Especially, the interaction between tumor …

Maximizing information on the environment by dynamically controlled qubit probes

A Zwick, GA Álvarez, G Kurizki - Physical Review Applied, 2016 - APS
We explore the ability of a qubit probe to characterize unknown parameters of its
environment. By resorting to the quantum estimation theory, we analytically find the ultimate …