ISMRM23 - ISMRT Multilingual Session: Japanese/English

ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition • 03-08 June 2023 • Toronto, ON, Canada

ISMRT Multilingual Session: Japanese/English

ISMRT Education Session

ORGANIZERS: Norio Hayashi, Huijun (Vicky) Liao, Yasuo Takatsu

Sunday, 04 June 2023

Constitution Hall 107

08:15 - 09:15

Moderators: Norio Hayashi & Yasuo Takatsu

Session Number: ISMRT-MS2

No CME/CE Credit

Session Number: ISMRT-MS2

Overview
This session will discuss what high clinical value research is from an MR technologist standpoint and the balance of scan time and image quality in advanced diffusion MRI.

In-person lectures will be presented in Japanese. English version lectures will be pre-recorded and available online for all the ISMRT and ISMRM annual meeting registrants.

Target Audience
Radiographers, MR technologists, radiologists, clinicians, and scientists interested in learning about the clinical translation of technological advances in MRI.

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe high clinical value research;
- Define radiologic technologist's role in high clinical value research; and
- identify methods to balance scan time and image quality in advanced diffusion MRI.

08:15		Toward High Clinical Value Research: From the Standpoint of the Clinical Radiological Technologist View Presentation Video Hajime Sagawa Keywords: Transferable skills: Research coordination Radiologic technologists (RTs) can easily obtain clinical questions and can rapidly (unlike basic research) return the results of their research to patients and confirm their findings. In Japan, there are craftsman (SHOKUNIN) RTs who possess something like a special skill. Japanese RTs spare no effort to improve the quality of examinations for patients as much as possible, and they make a variety of efforts to do so. This talk will introduce the research and ideas of Japanese SHOKUNIN RTs who have had a significant impact on clinical practice.
08:45		Imaging Conditions (Scan Time) & Clinical Quality Balance in Diffusion MRI View Presentation Video Yuichi Suzuki, Hideyuki Iwanaga, Osamu Abe Keywords: Contrast mechanisms: Diffusion, Neuro: White matter Various methods, such as diffusion tensor imaging, diffusion kurtosis imaging, and Q-ball imaging (QBI), are used to evaluate the white matter using diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). Generally, the more the motion-probing gradients (MPG), the more accurate the white matter evaluation. In contrast, the scan time becomes longer in proportion to the number of MPGs. Regarding these evaluation methods, focusing on the number of MPGs, I explained the relation between scan time (clinically acceptable scan time) and quantification (image quality). Furthermore, I introduced the technology to shorten the scan time and to increase the possibility of clinical application.