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ISMRM 21st
Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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20-26 April 2013
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
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WEEKEND
EDUCATIONAL COURSE |
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Advanced Diffusion
Acquisition: Targeted Methods |
| SKILL LEVEL:
Advanced |
| ORGANIZERS: Adam W.
Anderson, Ph.D. & David Sosnovik, M.D., F.A.C.C. |
| Sunday, 21 April 2013 |
| 08:00-12:45 |
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| OVERVIEW |
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This session will survey the
challenges of diffusion MRI in applications beyond conventional
studies of the brain. While diffusion imaging provides useful
microstructural information on many tissues in the body, it is often
limited by motion, field errors, and short T2 relaxation times. In
these situations, image quality can benefit significantly from
unconventional acquisition strategies. This session will present a
wide range of experience adapting diffusion imaging protocols to
assess tissue properties under difficult measurement conditions. |
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| TARGET AUDIENCE |
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Anyone interested in challenges
of diffusion MRI and acquisition strategies to solve them (brain and
outside the brain). |
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| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course,
participants should be able to: |
- Understand the challenges
of acquiring diffusion tensor MRI data in the brain and in
organs other than the adult brain;
- Become familiar with the
technical approaches to performing successful diffusion MRI in
tissues other than the brain;
- Understand the challenges
imposed by bulk motion on DTI acquisitions in particular in the
heart and body, and how these can be overcome;
- Understand the challenges
of spinal cord diffusion imaging;
- Become familiar with the
challenges involved in DTI of the brain in highly specialized
situations (fetal brain, postmortem imaging);
- Understand the value and
limitations of current diffusion acquisition schemes/formalisms
in the heart, body and musculoskeletal system;
- Become familiar with the
indices/metrics used to analyze diffusion datasets in the heart,
muscle and body; and
- Critically assess the
advantages and disadvantages of acquisition schemes, in
particular 2D and 3D in the brain.
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PROGRAM |
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Moderators: Adam W. Anderson, Ph.D. & David Sosnovik, M.D., F.A.C.C. |
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08:00 |
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Heart
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Choukri Mekkaoui, Ph.D. |
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08:25 |
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Skeletal
Muscle |
John S. Thornton, Ph.D. |
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08:50 |
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Abdomen/Pelvis |
Thomas L. Chenevert,
Ph.D. |
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09:15 |
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Breast
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Savannah C. Partridge,
Ph.D. |
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09:40 |
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Break -
Meet the Teachers |
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10:05 |
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Spinal
Cord/Nerve Roots |
Jürgen Finsterbusch,
Ph.D. |
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10:30 |
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Intervertebral Discs/Cartilage |
Jose Maria G. Raya, Ph.D. |
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10:55 |
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Fetal
Brain |
Patricia Ellen Grant,
M.D. |
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11:20 |
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Post
Mortem Brain |
Tim B. Dyrby, Ph.D. |
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11:55 |
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2D
versus 3D Acquisition Strategies |
Stefan Skare, Ph.D. |
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12:20 |
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Closing
Remarks |
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12:30 |
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Adjournment |
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12:30-12:45 Meet the Teachers |
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