Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2014 10-16 May 2014 Milan, Italy

SUNRISE EDUCATIONAL COURSE
Nuts & Bolts of Advanced Imaging
SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate to Advanced
ORGANIZERS: Alexey Samsonov, Ph.D. & Jeffrey Tsao, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Wednesday, 14 May 2014
 
OVERVIEW
This course covers the principles and application of parallel transmission and image reconstruction. For the transmission section, the key topics are the underlying principles, the B1 and E-field behaviors of transmit arrays, techniques for optimizing B1 shimming, and parallel pulse design in the context of local/global SAR. For the reconstruction section, this course bridges theory to practical considerations in implementing high-performance, production-level reconstruction algorithms.
 
TARGET AUDIENCE
Those with an interest in: 1) practical implementation of production-level image reconstruction algorithms, 2) understanding the physical principles of parallel transmission, B1 shimming and SAR behavior in high-field MRI.
 
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:

  • Understand the connection among different parallel imaging reconstruction algorithms;
  • Select appropriate parallel imaging reconstruction algorithms based on the imaging application;
  • Identify practical performance-limiting problems in parallel imaging reconstruction; and
  • Formulate strategies for mitigating parallel imaging performance problems.
 
COURSE HANDOUTS

1) Tamer S. Ibrahim, Ph.D. The following must be performed by Wed May 14th but preferably before you travel to the meeting.
Please go to
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x77nav1l2z4ggy7/0EysZD4osx
You will have the following folders and files.

· MorningCategoricalRFShimmingIbrahim.zip --- ~750MB (Please download this file, preferably before you travel to the meeting)
· ReadMe.pdf
· Syl_ISMRM_2014.pdf

How to Unzip the File:

Software should be available to unzip your file. Programs such as WinZip, 7-Zip, etc. can be utilized to run the file. If you do not have any of these programs, you can unzip the morningCategoricalRFShimmingIbrahim.zip file using 7-Zip. The software can be downloaded from
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html.

More details are available in the ReadMe.pdf file.

2) William A. Grissom, Ph.D. Please go to http://goo.gl/AUJNda to download the handouts
This is a shortened link that directs to a .zip file on a Vanderbilt web page.

 

PROGRAM

Moderators: Alexey Samsonov, Ph.D. & Jeffrey Tsao, Ph.D., M.B.A.

         
07:00 Fundamentals of Image Reconstruction Philip J. Beatty, Ph.D. &
    Michael S. Hansen, Ph.D.
         
07:50     Adjournment