2024-08-31.
Accepted for publication in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Elsevier): "Insertable, dual-density dielectric barrier for acoustic pressure level reduction in high-performance human head-only MRI system" by S.-K. Lee, Matt Tarasek, Keith Park, Desmond Yeo, and Thomas Foo. This paper describes how a systematic and concerted effort to reduce acoustic noise and RF component heating can improve patient safety in high-performance brain MRI.
2024-07-16.
Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics: "Eddy current heating of metallic shells and plates: Application to gradient-induced conductor heating in MRI" by S.-K. Lee and other GEHC authors. This was previously rejected by Physics in Medicine and Biology for not disclosing gradient design information. IEEE accepted this without revision.
2024-06-20.
Accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physics: "Theory and mitigation of motional eddy current in high-field eddy current shielding" by S-K. Lee and Y. Hua. The journal is testing a new publication model called S2O, which allows charge-free, yet open-access publication in 2024!
2024-04-29.
Somewhat belated, but I was informed that a previously filed patent application was granted and registered in Korea in July 2023: https://patents.google.com/patent/KR102557556B1/ko. Congratulations to Byung-Pan Song who did most of the work!
2024-04-18.
Accepted for publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: "Modeling and measurement of lead tip heating and resonant length for implanted, insulated wires" by Lydia Bardwell-Speltz et al. This comes out of continued collaboration between GE and Mayo Clinic.
2024-03-28.
Accepted for publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: "Retrospective correction of second-order concomitant fields in 3D axial stack-of-spirals imaging on a high-performance gradient system" by Afis Ajala et al. This demonstrates a method to reduce blurring in certain images obtained by a very strong gradient system.
2024-01-15.
Dr. Seulki Yoo started her career as a clinical research scientist at GE HealthCare Korea in Seoul. Congratulations!
2023-10-15.
My first US patent since coming back to GE was published on Oct 3rd, 2023: US Patent 11,774,531 B1 (2023)
2023-05-25.
My educational video was selected as a finalist (https://www.ismrm.org/23m/magnetic-moments/) in the Magnetic Moments competition in the Annual Meeting of ISMRM, June 2023.
2023-04-12.
Accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Physics: "Generalized magnetostatic target field method for shielded magnetic field coils in a separable coordinate system", by S-K Lee and John Schenck. This was 11 years in the making!
2022-08-22.
Accepted for publication in MRM: "Calibration of concomitant field offsets using phase contrast MRI for asymmetric gradient coils" by Nastaren Abad, S-K. Lee, ..., and Tom Foo.
2022-08-17.
The DIANA paper that was 5 years in the making by Prof. Jang-Yeon Park got accepted by the journal Science. This is beyond exciting!
2022-08-08.
Dr. Seulki Yoo will receive a Korean government grant for new PhD's in the amount of 60 million KRW/year for the next two years, to conduct research titled "Investigation of brain structure-function coupling in atypical developmental conditions using multi-modal MRI and multi-scale neural features". Congratulations on this outstanding first milestone!
2022-07-04.
Accepted for publication in IEEE Access: "Multiturn Planar Inductor for the Improvement of Signal-to-Noise Ratio Response in Magnetic Resonance Microscopy" by Byung-Pan Song et al. This work demonstrated significant SNR enhancement for a histology coil, and nicely wraps up many years of efforts by Mr. Song on coil fabrication and testing.
2022-05-23.
Seulki Yoo successfully defended her thesis on Monday morning (Korea time), and is officially ready to receive her PhD degree. Congratulations Dr. Yoo!
2022-05-07.
Accepted for publication in MRM: "Systematic dimensional analysis of the scaling relationship for gradient and shim coil design parameters" by S-K Lee and Matt Bernstein (equal contribution). This was announced just in time for this year's ISMRM meeting.
2022-04-11.
Accepted for publication in IEEE Access: "Customized radiofrequency phased-array coil combining transmit-only, receive-only, and transmit/receive coils for magnetic resonance imaging of visual cortex at 7 Tesla" by Hyoung-Seop Kim et al. Congratulations to Mr. HS Kim on his first major publication!
2022-04-06.
Mr. Seok-Jin Yeo got admission for graduate program in University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Bioengineering Department. Congratulations!
2021-09-18.
Accepted for publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: "Rapid calculation of static magnetic field perturbation generated by magnetized objects in arbitrary orientations", by Seok-Jin Yeo, So-Hee Lee, Seung-Kyun Lee. An extensive list of Matlab files are uploaded as part of this work. Congratulations to Mr. Yeo on his first major publication!
2021-06-18.
Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering: "Therapeutic Quadrisected Annular Array for Improving Magnetic Resonance Compatibility". Professor Jinhyoung Park and Sonocare Lab students led the writing. Congratulations!
2021-04-03.
Patent application was filed to the Korean IP office, on the invention of a multi-turn flat histology coil. Byung-Pan Song was one of the lead inventors. Good luck with the application!
2021-03-14.
Accepted for publication in Neurological Sciences (Springer): "Extra-basal Ganglia Iron Content and Non-motor Symptoms in Drug-naïve, Early Parkinson’s Disease"
2021-02-25.
Accepted for poster presentation in the 29th Annual Meeting of ISMRM: abstracts by Seulki Yoo, Byeong-Pan Song, and Hankyeol Lee (one for each). Congratulations!
2021-02-01.
Accepted for publication in Scientific Reports: "Line scan-based rapid magnetic resonance imaging of repetitive motion"
2020-12-03.
Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging: "Radio-frequency vector magnetic field mapping in magnetic resonance imaging" by Seung-Kyun Lee, Sukhoon Oh, et al.
2020-10-09.
Accepted for publication in Scientific Reports: "Magnetic susceptibility imaging of human habenula at 3T" by Seulki Yoo et al.
2020-08-11.
Accepted for publication in Neuroimage: "Feasibility of head-tilted brain scan to reduce susceptibility-induced signal loss in the prefrontal cortex in gradient echo-based imaging" by Seulki Yoo et al.
2020-07-21.
Accepted for publication in Scientific Reports: "Strategies for Rapid Reconstruction in 3D MRI with Radial Data Acquisition: 3D Fast Fourier Transform vs. Two-Step 2D Filtered Back-Projection" by Jinil Park et al.
2020-06-23.The paper "Electrical properties tomography: available contrast and reconstruction capabilities" by Hancu et al. was selected as one of the top 100 most downloaded papers in MRM in 2018-2019. https://blog.ismrm.org/2020/06/23/top-downloaded-mrm-articles-from-2018-and-2019/
2020-03-31.
Accepted for publication in JKPS (official journal of Korean Physical Society): Inductively coupled RF coil for imaging 40 μm-thick histology sample in a clinical MRI scanner, by Byung-Pan Song et al.
2020-03-23.
Accepted for publication in Medical Physics (official journal of American Association of Physicists in Medicine): Experimental setup for bulk susceptibility-minimized, multi-orientation MRI of ex-vivo tissue samples, by So-Hee Lee et al.
2020-03-02.
Ji-sung Barg and Sung-joon Yoon, returning 3rd-year undergraduate students at GBME, joined the Lab as research interns. Both have worked in the Lab in the past, before going on leave for the mandatory military service. Welcome back to both!
2019-12-23.
The PLoS One paper and Jun-Ho Kim's profile were covered in the university news page as well as in the public media.
2019-07-29.
Do-yeun Kim, a senior from Gachon University, joined the lab as a summer intern until the end of August. Welcome!
2019-07-27.
Accepted for publication in PLoS One: Fabrication of a spherical inclusion phantom for validation of magnetic resonance-based magnetic susceptibility imaging, by Jun-Ho Kim et al. First and second authors are GBME juniors. Congratulations!
2019-07-19.
Dr. Lee SK was selected as one of the 15 recipients of SKKU intramural grant for academic research, "Samsung academic research grant", for studies of MR-based magnetic susceptibility measurement.
2019-05-01.
Soon-Ryeol Lee and Young-Wook Cho, sophomores in the department, joined the lab as undergraduate interns. Welcome!
2019-03-30.
Hankyeol Lee received one of the two best poster awards in the MR engineering session in the International Congress on MRI in Seoul. Congratulations!
2019-03-28.
Jun-Ho Kim and Jung-Hyun Kim were selected as the best 3rd year undergraduate research team in 2018 by the GBME department, with a total cash prize of 1 million KRW. Congratulations!
2019-02-24.
Seon-Ha Hwang will graduate tomorrow with the highest honor in the GBME department (GPA 4.3/4.5), as well as in the entire SKKU Institute for Convergence! Congratulations!
2019-02-01.
Accepted for publication in iMRI: High-resolution numerical simulation of respiration-induced dynamic B0 shift in the head in high-field MRI, by So-Hee Lee et al.
2018-11-20.
Mr. Kim Hyoung-Seop will join the lab as a graduate student from 2019. Welcome!
2018-11-10.
Dr. Lee SK gave an invited talk on MR-based tissue electrical properties mapping in a Medical Imaging session in the SMIT-IBEC joint international conference in Seoul.
2018-08-17.
Accepted for publication in iMRI, the official journal of KSMRM, as an original article: Efficient Experimental Design for Measuring Magnetic Susceptibility of Arbitrarily Shaped Materials by MRI, S-H Hwang and S-K Lee.
2018-08-01.
Mr. Hankyeol Lee has joined the MR physics group as a post-master researcher. He will start by working on simulations of neuronal current detection by MRI. Welcome!
2018-07-09.
Dr. Lee SK gave an invited lecture on MRI gradient coils at the biannual conference of Korean Superconductivity Society in YongPyong. Hosted by Prof. Lee, Hai Gun of Korea University.
2018-06-24.
Accepted for publication in MRM as a mini-review: "Electrical Properties Tomography: Available Contrast and Reconstruction Capabilities", Hancu et al. Dr. Lee was the corresponding author.
2018-06-09.
Dr. Lee's Google scholar citation count reached 1500.
2018-05-31.
Seul Lee and Do-yeun Kim will join the lab as summer interns in June-July. The internship announcement can be found at the CNIR homepage.
2018-04-20.
Mr. Hankyeol Lee (currently at UC Berkeley) will join the lab from the summer as a post-Master research fellow. Also Ms. Sohee Lee (senior at SKKU) will work in the lab as a research intern from May 1st. Welcome to both!
2018-03-02.
Two senior students from Gachon University, currently under supervision from Prof. Kyeong-Nam Kim, will spend two days a week in the lab working on ex-vivo MRI coil development. Welcome to Mr. Song, Byeong-Pan and Mr. Kim, Hyung-seop!
2018-02-20.
Accepted in MRM: "Lightweight, Compact, and High-Performance 3T MR System for Imaging the Brain and Extremities", Tom Foo et al., from 3T compact collaboration.
2018-02-10.
Dr. Lee's susceptibility-to-B0 calculation paper is accepted by MRM as a full paper. Congratulations to the undergraduate co-authors!
2018-02-03.
Two abstracts from the lab (first author from the lab) will be presented as posters at the upcoming ISMRM annual meeting in Paris in June. Congratulations to Ms. Yoo for her first successful abstract submission!
2018-01-02.
Dr. Lee's public article on MRI appeared in the January issue of the news magazine of Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics. See here.
2017-12-27.
Seokjin and Jisung, sophomores, got the Grand prize in the university-wide C school project competition for the undergraduate students. Congratulations!
2017-11-22.
Dr. Lee was an invited speaker at PIERS 2017, Singapore, presenting on electromagnetics of MRI gradient coils.
2017-11-13.
This year's MRI lab summer interns Park, Hyun-Seok and Jeon Gyoo-Sung won a Silver prize in a User-Created Content (UCC) Contest organized by the Korean Physical Society (KPS). The news was announced here. Their content was on physical principles of MRI. Congratulations!
2017-11-08.
Dr. Lee gave a colloquium lecture at the Applied Physics Department of Hanyang University at Ansan. The title of the talk was "Physics in Medicine: Magnetic Resonance Imaging".
2017-09-22.
Dr. Lee gave a lecture on MR systems hardware and susceptibility imaging at Samsung Medical Center.
2017-09-20.
Eight medical doctors from Samsung Medical Center Neurology department visited the N Center for a research collaboration discussion and a lab tour.
2017-09-15.
Dr. Lee gave an invited seminar at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) in Daejeon on MRI systems hardware.
2017-09-06.
[Correction: Appointment is pending approval from the Dean of College] Dr. Lee was recommended (by both departments) to serve as an adjunct professor at the physics department of SKKU, in addition to holding the current position in the GBME department and CNIR.
2017-07-27.
Seokjin and Jisung were selected as the 1st place winner of the 2017 sophomore research award by the BME department. Their research was on susceptibility-induced B0 calculation from a beating heart. They each got 1 million won for this award. Congratulations!
2017-06-23.
Seon-ha and Suzy got the Grand prize for their "MRI-based magnetic susceptibility measurement" in the area of "Health" in the university-wide C-School project competition on Friday June 23rd. Congratulations!
2017-05-23.
Accepted by MRM: "B_0 concomitant field compensation for MRI systems employing asymmetric transverse gradient coils", Paul Weavers et al.
2017-05-10.
US Patent issued to Dr. Lee as a co-inventor. Title: "Systems and methods for determining electrical properties using magnetic resonance imaging" US9645214
2017-04-05.
2017 IBS CNIR Summer Internship program is announced a few days ago. The official recruitment posters will be sent to universities across the country this week.
2017-03-25.
2017 ICMRI conference was held in Seoul. The participation was all-time high with over 1000 attending. From SKKU-BME, Mr. ByungJae Hwang got the best oral presentation award.
2017-01-31.
2017 ISMRM Annual Meeting Abstract decision was announced. Dr. Lee will give a talk on the NSS effect and present an e-poster on QSM of human habenula. Dr. Lee is also invited to teach at the weekend educational course.
2016-12-13.
US Patent issued to Dr. Lee as a co-inventor. Title: "Determining electrical properties of tissue using complex magnetic resonance images" by Hancu, Bulumulla, and Lee, US9513354
2016-12-08.
Another paper accepted on head-only gradient imaging, in Physics in Medicine and Biology. Title: Gradient nonlinearity calibration and correction for a compact, asymmetric magnetic resonance imaging gradient system, by S. Tao et al.
2016-11-16.
The nuclear paramagnetism paper was officially accepted by MRM with a very positive review.
2016-11-10.
Deadline (in Korean time) for the 2017 ISMRM Annual Meeting abstract submission. We submitted two + one (co-authored with Prof. JY Park's team) abstracts.
2016-11-05.
Interviews were held for the 2017 BME graduate school applicants. A total of 12 students participated. The admission decision will be announced before the end of the month.
2016-09-28.
Dr. Lee delivered an invited talk at the 4th International Workshop on MRI Phase Contrast and QSM at Graz, Austria. Separately, Dr. Lee also presented a poster during the workshop (9/25-9/28) on what is now named as the "Nuclear Susceptibility Shift (NSS)", a phenomenon that was first observed by Dr. Lee and students at CNIR.
2016-08-30.
The nuclear paramagnetism frequency shift abstract was accepted for poster presentation at the 4th International Workshop on MR Phase Contrast and QSM, to be held on 9/26 - 9/28.
2016-07-06.
Dr. Lee hosted the first day session of the IBS-CNRI Neuroimaging Workshop on MRI at the Chemistry Auditorium, with about 100 in the audience and four speakers. Dr. Lee delivered the first lecture on the Principles of MRI Signal Generation.
2016-06-10.
The breast EPI distortion correction paper led by Dr. Hancu was officially accepted by MRM. Dr. Lee is listed as an equal-contribution co-author in this paper.
2016-06-01.
The concomitant gradient correction paper where Dr. Lee is a co-author with the team at Mayo Clinic was accepted for publication as a full paper in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. This is the third publication this year from the 3T head-only gradient project that Dr. Lee was leading in GE.
2016-05-20.
The Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research has finalized and will announce its first summer internship grant recipients soon. Two students, Jung Hyun Uk and Yoo Seul ki, will work with Dr. Lee for 4 weeks from June 27th.
2016-05-16.
Dr. Lee became the first Deputy Editor of the journal Magnetic Resonance in Medicine residing in Asia.
2016-05-16.
Dr. Lee joined the editorial board of the journal iMRI, the official journal of the Korean Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (KSMRM).
2016-05-02.
Mr. Anup Bidesi will join Dr. Lee's MRI research lab as a Research Fellow from June. Mr. Bidesi has more than 12 years of academic and industrial MRI research. Welcome!
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