Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB • 16-21 June 2018 • Paris, France

Educational Course
Quantitative Imaging: How to Get Started
Quantitative Imaging: How to Get Started
Weekday Course

ORGANIZERS: Dong-Hyun Kim, Joshua Trzasko

 
Thursday, 21 June 2018
N02  13:15 - 15:15 Moderators:  Dong-Hyun Kim, Joshua Trzasko

Skill Level: Intermediate
Session Number: Th-06

Overview
In this short course, we will provide a brief tutorial helping people get set up performing their own quantitative imaging experiments -- including choice of reference data, acquisition sequences, processing methods, and analysis -- and obtain an appreciation for the importance of each component.

Target Audience
Anyone with basic understanding on MRI physics and utilization who would like to begin performing quantitative MRI experiments and research.

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
-Describe how to set up references for validating qMRI studies;
-Discuss the general techniques used to acquire qMRI data;
-Explain how quantitative values are extracted from MRI data;
-Summarize how qMRI is currently interpreted experimentally and clinically; and
-Recognize currently available qMRI technologies.

 

 
13:15
 		   What Is Quantitative Imaging?
Kyung Sung
13:55
 		   Walk-Through
Kathryn Keenan
This talk will present how to use and pick a phantom for specific applications, how the phantom can identify possible pitfalls or sources of error, and how to perform reproducibility and reliability studies.

 
14:35
 		   Quantitative relaxation time measurements in MSK: Clinical use and quality control
Siegfried Trattnig
Quantitative MRI provides information that is intrinsically more tissue-specific and less dependent on subjective visual assessment. The quantitative data can also be postprocessed  such as segmentation based on biophysical properties and anatomy, distribution histograms, and synthetic MR images. In clinical applications T1 and T2 mapping offer early diagnosis of disease and a predictive marker for outcome. T1 mapping has become part of a routine cardiac MR imaging protocol. However many factors can cause systematic errors that can compromise the accuracy of the T1 and T2 maps and a high variability of relaxation times in different tissues has been reported.

 
15:15
 		   Adjournment & Meet the Teachers
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