| Weekend Educational Course:
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| Imaging Strategies |
| Organizers: Walter Block,
Ph.D., Jean H. Brittain, Ph.D. and Brian A. Hargreaves,
Ph.D. |
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| Skill Level:
Intermediate |
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| Sunday, 19 April 2009 |
| 08:30 - 17:00 |
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| OVERVIEW |
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This one day course will
cover methods important for people who want to design or
understand imaging pulse sequences and reconstruction
methods. It is meant to be a companion course to "MR
Physics for Physicists”, which will be held the previous
day. This course is composed of four sessions: General
Pulse Sequence Strategies, Pulse Sequence Tools, and
Tools for Rapid Imaging I & II. |
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| It will encompass data
collection strategies and their uses; design of pulse
sequences to achieve the desired contrast; addressing
patient and physiologic motion; methods for rapid
spectroscopic imaging; methods of acceleration; and the
basic principles of parallel transmit methods. |
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| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
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Upon completion of this
case based session, participants should be able to:
- Provide examples of different data collection
strategies, and their uses;
- Design pulse sequences for a given application,
to achieve the desired contrast;
- Understand approaches to address patient and
physiologic motion;
- Explain methods for rapid spectroscopic imaging,
and how they differ from conventional CSI;
- Explain some of the different methods of
acceleration, and their advantages and
disadvantages; and
- Explain the basic principles of parallel
transmit methods.
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| Sunday, 19 April 2009 |
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General Pulse
Sequences Strategies |
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| 08:30 |
Echo-Train
Sequences: EPI, RARE, GRASE |
John P.
Mugler III, Ph.D. |
| 09:00 |
Steady-State
Sequences: From Spoiled to Balanced |
Klaus
Scheffler, Ph.D. |
| 09:30 |
Image Contrast
Strategies |
Jeffrey
L. Duerk, Ph.D. |
| 10:00 |
Break - Meet the
Teachers |
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Pulse Sequence
Tools |
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| 10:30 |
RF Pulse Design
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Charles
H. Cunningham, Ph.D. |
| 11:00 |
Motion-Sensitizing
Gradients: ASL, Diffusion and Phase Contrast |
Eric C.
Wong, M.D., Ph.D. |
| 11:30 |
Motion Compensation
Strategies |
Anja C.
Brau, Ph.D. |
| 12:00 |
Break - Meet the
Teachers |
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Tools for Rapid
Imaging - 1 |
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| 13:30 |
Acceleration
Possibilities with Alternative Trajectories |
Dwight
G. Nishimura, Ph.D. |
| 14:00 |
Temporal
Undersampling Strategies |
Jeffrey
Tsao, Ph.D. |
| 14:30 |
Spectroscopic
Imaging: Implementation and Acceleration |
Ulrike
Dydak, Ph.D. |
| 15:00 |
Break - Meet the
Teachers |
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Tools for Rapid
Imaging - 2 |
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| 15:30 |
Parallel Imaging:
Principles and Implementation |
Philip
J. Beatty, Ph.D. |
| 16:00 |
Constrained
Reconstruction Methods |
Zhi-Pei
Liang, Ph.D. |
| 16:30 |
Parallel Transmit:
Methods & Applications |
V.
Andrew Stenger, Ph.D. |
| 17:00 |
Adjournment - Meet
the Teachers |
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