|
ISMRM 23rd Annual Meeting
& Exhibition • 30 May - 05 June 2015 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
|
WEEKEND EDUCATIONAL COURSE |
|
MR Systems Engineering |
|
SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate |
|
ORGANIZERS: Christopher M. Collins, Ph.D. |
|
Saturday, 30 May 2015 |
|
|
|
| OVERVIEW |
|
This one-day Educational Course
is targeted at scientists and clinicians interested in understanding
the engineering of magnetic resonance systems. In a series of
lectures from experts in MR Systems Engineering, attendees will
first be provided with an overview of an MR system, and then learn
about the design of magnet, gradients and shim systems, as well as
the operation of the radiofrequency (RF) electronic subsystems that
interface with RF coils. Issues relating to the siting and
installation of new MR systems will also be discussed. In addition
attendees will be taught about the basic mechanisms by which medical
devices interact with the static magnet field and gradients within
an MRI scanner, as well as the interactions of these low frequency
electromagnetic fields with the human body. This course is aimed at
scientists and clinicians with a technical background and interest
in MR systems hardware. It is expected to provide attendees with an
understanding of fundamental aspects of MR system operation. |
| |
| TARGET AUDIENCE |
|
Scientists, medical physicists and clinicians who are
starting to work in the field of MRI and would like to have an
overview of the engineering of an MR system. More experienced
researchers in particular areas of MR Engineering will also benefit
from hearing about recent advances in the engineering of MR systems.
|
| |
| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course,
participants should be able to: |
- Assess the basic hardware
components of an MRI scanner and how they interact;
- Evaluate issues related
to siting a new MR scanner;
- Recognize practical
limitations in the construction and installation of magnets,
gradients and shim systems;
- Identify the basic
mechanisms by which medical devices interact with the magnet and
gradients within an MRI scanner;
- Describe the interactions
of low frequency electromagnetic fields with the human body; and
- Explain the RF electronic
subsystems that interface with RF coils.
|
| |
|
|
PROGRAM |
|
Moderators: Ed B. Boskamp, Ph.D. & Maxim Zaitsev, Ph.D. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Introduction |
|
08:30 |
 |
MR
System Overview (What is Required to Accomplish MRI?)
Shin-ichi Urayama, M.Sc. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Magnets & Shims |
|
09:00 |
|
Magnet
Design, Manufacture & Installation
- permission withheld
Michael W. Mallett Ph.D. |
|
09:30 |
|
Shimming: Superconducting, Static & Active
Anke Henning, Ph.D. |
|
|
|
|
|
10:00 |
|
Break &
Meet the Teachers |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gradients |
|
10:30 |
|
Gradient
Coil Design & Manufacture
William B. Handler, Ph.D. |
|
11:00 |
|
Gradient
Train: Power Amplification Through Chiller Requirements
Blaine A. Chronik, Ph.D. |
|
11:30 |
|
Eddy
Current Calibration & Gradient Preemphasis
Thomas Witzel, Ph.D. |
|
|
|
|
|
12:00 |
|
Lunch &
Meet the Teachers |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
RF &
The Console |
|
13:30 |
|
RF
Transmit & Receive Chains
Greig C. Scott, Ph.D. |
|
14:00 |
|
Control
in Execution: Pulse Sequences to Waveforms & Real-Time
Controllers
Maxim Zaitsev, Ph.D. |
|
14:30 |
|
Signal
Processing & Reconstruction: FIDs to Images
Graeme C. McKinnon, Ph.D. |
|
|
|
|
|
15:00 |
|
Lunch &
Meet the Teachers |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Safety & Field Interactions |
|
15:30 |
|
MR
Safety
Alayar Kangarlu, Ph.D. |
|
16:00 |
|
SAR & RF
Power Monitoring
Ingmar Graesslin, Dipl.-Ing. |
|
16:30 |
|
Safety
of Devices & Implants in MR
Gregor Schaefers,
Dipl.Ing. (FH) |
|
|
|
|
|
17:00 |
|
Adjournment & Meet the Teachers |
| |
|
|
|