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Joint Annual
Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2014
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10-16 May 2014
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Milan, Italy |
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WEEKDAY
EDUCATIONAL COURSE |
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Everything You Wanted to Know about Magnetic Susceptibility & Why It
Is Important |
| SKILL LEVEL:
Basic to Intermediate |
| ORGANIZERS:
Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Ph.D. & Jürgen R. Reichenbach, Ph.D. |
| Thursday, 15 May 2014 |
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| OVERVIEW |
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Magnetic-susceptibility-driven
contrast is critically important in a variety of MRI protocols, yet
the underlying fundamentals are often poorly understood. This course
will present a tutorial on the origins of magnetic susceptibility,
how it manifests in the MRI experiment, and how it can be leveraged
to offer powerful and unique image contrast at high field and at
clinically relevant fields. |
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| TARGET AUDIENCE |
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Clinicians and basic researchers
wishing to understand and apply the many MRI methods that leverage
magnetic-susceptibility-driven contrast.
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| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
As a result of attending this
course, participants should be able to: |
- Understand the molecular
origins of bulk magnetic susceptibility and describe its effects
on an externally applied magnetic field;
- Understand the manner in
which the magnetic resonance signal contains phase information
and describe the manner in which magnetic susceptibility
inclusions will affect the MR signal phase protocols that
provide high sensitivity to magnetic susceptibility
inhomogeneities;
- Understand and describe
MR pulse sequences that lead to MRI;
- Recognize the advantages
and limitations of high magnetic field strengths for MR
susceptibility imaging and describe the information content of
such images;
- Recognize that high
quality MR susceptibility imaging can be accomplished at 3T and
describe the information content and possible clinical
applications of such images; and
- Assess the procedural and
analysis challenges posed by MR susceptibility imaging and
identify clinical areas to apply the technique in order to have
most significant impact.
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PROGRAM |
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Moderators: Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Ph.D. & Jürgen R. Reichenbach,
Ph.D. |
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10:30 |
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Atomic/Molecular Origin & Physics Description of Magnetic
Susceptibility: Diamagnetism, Paramagnetism, Ferromagnetism,
Superparamagnetism |
Richard W. Bowtell,
Ph.D., M.A. |
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10:54 |
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Major
Sources of Phase Contrast in Brain |
Karin Shmueli, Ph.D. |
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11:18 |
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How
Magnetic Susceptibility Affects MR Signal Phase in
Biological Tissues (Brain) |
Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy,
Ph.D. |
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11:42 |
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Effects of Tissue Structure on Magnetic Susceptibility Contrast |
Jeff H. Duyn, Ph.D. |
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12:06 |
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Yes, It
Is Exciting, But Where Are the "Killer Apps"? |
Karen A. Tong, M.D. |
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12:30 |
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Adjournment |
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