Course Description:
This four-hour course will focus on applying current MR
technology to imaging the musculoskeletal system. State-of-the-art
techniques will be reviewed, and their applications to MR
musculoskeletal imaging will be demonstrated. Optimizing protocols
with the latest technology will be discussed. The discussions will
deal with high and low field systems. Articular cartilage imaging,
fat suppression and saturation, fast imaging, spatial resolution and
signal to noise will be addressed, and these and other issues will be
considered as they apply to clinical protocols.
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Audience Description:
This course is designed for those with an interest in MRI and
musculoskeletal radiology. On the clinical side, the course will
be useful to people with a focus on how current technology can be used
to image patients with musculoskeletal disorders. Primarily, these
people include academic musculoskeletal radiologists and radiologists
who specialize in musculoskeletal imaging in private practice. In
addition, because of the chronic shortage of musculoskeletal
radiologists world wide, the target audience includes physicians without
formal musculoskeletal or MR training who attend the course to learn
about new MR applications and protocols. The course is also aimed
at physicists who interface, for either research or clinical purposes,
with musculoskeletal radiologists.
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Educational Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able to: |
Describe MR techniques for imaging cartilage at various field strengths
and understand the clinical role of MRI in the evaluation of articular
cartilage disorders;
Assess the
musculoskeletal system using high and low field MR systems;
Explain use of
fat suppression MRI techniques in the musculoskeletal system;
Explain and use fast scanning MRI techniques in the
musculoskeletal system;
Understand high resolution MR imaging
and its trade-off with signal to noise, and apply this knowledge to
imaging the musculoskeletal system;
Describe the rationale of protocol
approaches and apply this understanding to optimize MRI clinical
protocols. |
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Program |
| Tuesday,
18 May |
| 07:00 |
MRI of Cartilage
- Technical Considerations |
Timothy J.
Mosher |
| 07:25 |
MRI of Cartilage
- Clinical Applications and Imaging Evaluation |
Carl S. Winalski |
| 07:50 |
Discussion |
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| Wednesday,
19 May |
| 07:00 |
Fat Suppression
Techniques in Musculoskeletal MRI |
John A. Carrino |
| 07:25 |
Fast Imaging
Techniques in Musculoskeletal MRI |
Joshua M. Farber |
| 07:50 |
Discussion |
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| Thursday,
20 May |
| 07:00 |
High Field MRI
of the Musculoskeletal System: Techniques, Protocol Optimization and
Clinical Applications |
Johannes Bloem |
| 07:25 |
Mid-Low Field
MRI of the Musculoskeletal System: Techniques, Protocol Optimization
and Clinical Applications |
Hiroshi Yoshioka |
| 07:50 |
Discussion |
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| Friday,
21 May |
| 07:00 |
Spatial
Resolution and SNR Considerations in MRI of the Musculoskeletal System |
Garry E. Gold |
| 07:25 |
Optimizing
Clinical Protocols in MRI of the Musculoskeletal System |
William B.
Morrison |
| 07:50 |
Discussion |
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