Thermalphysics.org - Pierre-Marie Robitaille, Ph.D.

Partial Listing of Publications

The worth of any human endeavor is and always must be the results which it has obtained.

Max Planck, The New Science, 1959.

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Abstracts on Thermal Physics:

Solar Structure

The Temperature of the Universe

The MAP Satellite

Book Chapters:

1. Robitaille, P-M.L.. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging." in McGraw-Hill 2000 Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, N.Y.

2. Robitaille, P-M.L. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy at Very High Fields: A Step Towards 8 Tesla in "Proceedings of Physical Phenonema at High Magnetic Fields-III (Zachary Fisk, Lev Gor’kov, David Meltzer and Robert Schrieffer, eds), World Scientific, London, in press (1999), 421-426.

Scientific Articles: (8 Tesla Only)

1. Robitaille P-M.L., Abduljalil A.M., Kangarlu A., Zhang X., Yu Y., Burgess R., Bair S., Noa P., Yang L., Zhu H., Palmer B., Jiang Z.,Chakeres D.M., and Spigos D. (1998) Human Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Eight Tesla. NMR Biomed. 11, 263-265.

2. Abduljalil, A.M., Kangarlu A., Zhang X., Burgess R.E., and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) Acquisition of Human Multislice MR Images at 8T, J. Comp. Assist. Tomog. 23, 335-340.

3. Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) Response to ‘Does RF brain heating decrease at 8 T’. NMR Biomed. 12, 256.

4. Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) On RF Power and Dielectric Resonances in UHFMRI. NMR Biomed. 12, 318-319.

5. Burgess R.E., Yu Y., Abduljalil A.M., Kangarlu A., and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) High Signal to Noise FLASH Imaging at 8 Tesla. Magn. Reson. Imag. 1999;17:1099-1103.

6. Kangarlu A., Abduljalil A.M., Norris D.G., Schwartzbauer C., and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) Human rapid acquisition with relaxation enhancement imaging at 8 T without specific absorption rate violation. MAGMA 9:81-84.

7. Norris D.G., Kangarlu A., Schwartzbauer C., Abduljalil A.M., Christoforidis G., and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) MDEFT Imaging of the Human Brain at 8 tesla. MAGMA 9:92-96.

8. Kangarlu A., Burgess R.E., Zhu H., Nakayama T., Hamlin R.L., Abduljalil A.M., and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) Cognitive, Cardiac and Physiological Safety Studies in Ultra High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging. J. Magn. Reson. Imag., 17:1407-1416.

9. Robitaille P-M.L., Warner R., Jagadeesh J., Abduljalil A.M., Kangarlu A., Burgess R.E., Yu Y., Yang L., Zhu H., Jiang Z., Bailey R.E., Chung W., Somawiharja Y., Feynan P., and Rayner D. (1999) Design and Assembly of an 8 Tesla Whole Body MRI Scanner. J. Comp. Assist. Tomog. 23:808-820.

10. Kangarlu A., Baertlein B.A., Lee R., Ibrahim T., Yang L., Abduljalil A.M., and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) Dielectric Resonance Phenomena in Ultra High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr. 23:821-831.

11. Abduljalil A.M. and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) Macroscopic Susceptibility in Ultra High Field MRI. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr. 23:832-841.

12. Abduljalil A.M., Kangarlu A. Yu Y., and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) Macroscopic Susceptibility in Ultra High Field MRI - II: Acquisition of Spin Echo Images from the Human Head. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr. 23:842-844.

13. Robitaille P-M.L., Kangarlu A., and Abduljalil A.M. (1999) RF Penetration in Ultra High Field Magnetic Resonance Imagning (UHF MRI): Challenges in Visualizing details within the Center of the Human Brain. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr. 23:845-849.

14. Burgess R.E., Yu Y., Christoforidis G.A., Bourekas E.C., Chakeres D.W., Spigos D.G., Kangarlu A., Abduljalil A.M, and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) Human Leptomeningeal and Cortical Vascular Anatomy of the Cerebral Cortex at 8 Tesla. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr. 23:850-856.

15. Christoforidis G.A., Bourekas E.C., Baujan M., Abduljalil A.M., Kangarlu A., Spigos D.W., Chakeres D.W. and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) High Resolution MRI of the Deep Brain Vascular Anatomy at 8 Tesla: Susceptibility Based Enhancement of the Venous Structures. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr. 23:857-866.

16. Bourekas E.C., Christoforidis G.A., Abduljalil A.M., Kangarlu A., Spigos D.G., Chakeres D.W., and Robitaille P-M.L., High Resolution MRI of the Deep Gray Nuclei at 8 Tesla. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr. 23:867-874.

17. Kangarlu A., Abduljalil A.M., and Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) T1 and T2 Weighted Imaging at 8 Tesla. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr. 23:875-878.

18. Robitaille P-M.L. (1999) Black-Body and Transverse Electromagnetic (TEM) Resonators Operating at 340 MHz: Volume RF Coils for UHFMRI. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr. 23:879-890.

19. Robitaille P-M.L., Abduljalil AM and Kangarlu A. (2000) Ultra High Resolution Imaging of the Human Head at 8 Tesla: 2K x 2K for Y2K. J Comp. Assist. Tomogr., 24:2-7.

20. Baertlein B.A., Ozbay O., Ibrahim T., Lee R., Yu Y., Kangarlu A., and Robitaille P-M.L. (2000) Theoretical Model for a MRI Radio Frequency Resonator. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 47(4):535-546.

21. Kangarlu A. and Robitaille P-M.L. (2000) Biological Effects and Health Implications in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Concep. Magn. Reson., 12: (5) 321-359.

22. Ibrahim TS, Lee R, Baertlein BA, Yu Y, Robitaille PML (2000) Computational analysis of the high pass birdcage resonator: finite difference time domain simulations for high-field MRI. Magn. Reson. Imag. 18: (7) 835-843.

23. Ibrahim TS, Lee R, Baertlein BA, Kangarlu A, Robitaille PML. (2000) Application of finite difference time domain method for the design of birdcage RF head coils using multi-port excitations. Magn. Reson. Imag. 18: (6) 733-742.

24. Novak P, Novak V, Kangarlu A, Abduljalil AM, Chakeres DW, Robitaille PM (2001) High resolution MRI of the brainstem at 8 T. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr. 25: (2) 242-246.

25. Ibrahim T.S., Lee R., Baertlein B.A. and Robitaille P-M.L. (2001) B1 Field Homogeneity and SAR calculations for the Birdcage Coil. Phys. Med. Biol., 46: (2) 609-619.