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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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SUNRISE
EDUCATIONAL COURSE |
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Nuts & Bolts
of Advanced Imaging |
| SKILL LEVEL:
Intermediate to Advanced |
| ORGANIZERS:
Alexey Samsonov, Ph.D. & Jeffrey Tsao, Ph.D., M.B.A. |
| Thursday, 15 May 2014 |
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| OVERVIEW |
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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. |
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| TARGET AUDIENCE |
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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. |
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| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
As a result of attending this
course, participants should be able to: |
- Describe the basic theory
of B1 shimming, RF pulse design and behavior of B1/E fields;
- Illustrate the principles
of local/global SARs within the context of RF pulse design and
B1 shimming;
- Compare major methods of
RF pulse design for parallel transmission;
- 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.
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| 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. |
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PROGRAM |
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Moderators: Alexey Samsonov, Ph.D. & Jeffrey Tsao, Ph.D., M.B.A. |
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07:00 |
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Introduction of Session |
Jeffrey Tsao, Ph.D.,
M.B.A. |
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07:05 |
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Break-Out Groups to Work on Exercises on Reconstruction or
Parallel Transmission |
William A. Grissom, Ph.D.
Tamer S. Ibrahim, Ph.D. |
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07:40 |
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Regroup
To Go Over Solution Approaches |
William A. Grissom, Ph.D.
&
Tamer S. Ibrahim, Ph.D. |
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07:50 |
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Adjournment |
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