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WEEKEND
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Imaging Strategies |
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ORGANIZERS: David O. Brunner, Ph.D., Craig H. Meyer, Ph.D.
& John P. Mugler, III, Ph.D. |
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SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate |
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Sunday, 6 May 2012 |
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OVERVIEW |
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 complementary course to "MR Physics for Physicists”,
which will be held the previous day.
Four general topics will be covered: |
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General Pulse-Sequence Strategies; |
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RF Pulses and Motion; |
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Tools for Rapid Imaging; and |
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Imaging Beyond Morphology. |
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Each general
topic will be organized as set of three 25-minute lectures, each
with 5-minute discussion periods. |
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EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES |
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Upon completion
of this course participants should be able to: |
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Provide examples of different data collection
strategies, and their uses; |
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Design pulse sequences for a given application, to
achieve the desired contrast; |
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Describe approaches to address patient and
physiologic motion; |
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Explain some of the different methods of
acceleration, their advantages and disadvantages; |
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Identify the basic differences between conventional
and more recent methods of image reconstruction
(e.g. constrained reconstruction methods); and |
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Explain how different acquisition and reconstruction
methods can be used to acquire quantitative
parametric images in addition to morphology. |
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AUDIENCE
DESCRIPTION |
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This
course is designed primarily for engineers, scientists, and
clinicians who have an interest in understanding,
implementing and refining data collection and reconstruction
methods in MRI. Participants should have a basic
understanding of the general MR data collection and
reconstruction framework (e.g. T1 and T2 weighting, RF
excitation, k-space and Fourier transforms). Participants
will come from both academic and industrial settings, as
well as governmental and non-governmental research
organizations. |
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PROGRAM |
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Click on
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the abstract pdf. Click on 
to view the recorded presentation. |
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Moderators:
David O. Brunner, Ph.D., Craig H. Meyer, Ph.D. & John P. Mugler,
III, Ph.D. |
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General Pulse-Sequence Strategies |
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08:30
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Echo-Train Sequences: EPI, RARE & Beyond
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David C.
Alsop, Ph.D. |
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09:00
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Spoiled &
Balanced Gradient-Echo Methods
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Oliver
Bieri, Ph.D. |
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09:30
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Contrast
Manipulation using Magnetization Preparation
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Daniel A.
Herzka, Ph.D. |
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10:00
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Break -
Meet the Teachers |
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RF
Pulses & Motion |
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10:30
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RF-Pulse
Toolkit: Application Specific Design
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William
A. Grissom, Ph.D. |
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11:00
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Motion-Sensitized MR: Arterial Spin Labeling & Diffusion
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Richard
B. Buxton, Ph.D. |
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11:30
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Motion
Compensation Strategies
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Himanshu
Bhat, Ph.D. |
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12:00
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Break
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12:00-12:15 Meet the Teachers |
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Tools
for Rapid Imaging |
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13:30
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Acceleration Through Alternate Trajectories
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James G.
Pipe, Ph.D. |
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14:00
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Parallel
Imaging: Principles & Implementation
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Nicole E.
Seiberlich, Ph.D. |
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14:30
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Reconstruction Methods for Undersampled Data
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Claudia
del Carmen Prieto, Ph.D. |
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15:00
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Break -
Meet the Teachers |
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Imaging Beyond Morphology |
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15:30
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Temporal
& Parametric Undersampling Strategies
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Sebastian
Kozerke, Ph.D. |
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16:00
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MR
Parameter Mapping & Quantitative Imaging
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Sean C.
L. Deoni, Ph.D. |
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16:30
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Dynamic
Contrast Enhanced Perfusion
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Christopher C. Quarles, Ph.D. |
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17:00
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Adjournment |
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17:00-17:15 Meet the Teachers |
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