Chiara Giraudo

This lecture is for technicians, radiologists, and scientists interested in musculoskeletal imaging with a special focus on inflammatory rheumatic diseases. A comprehensive overview of inflammatory arthritis including pediatric diseases will be provided. The optimization of MR protocols according to international guidelines will be discussed. Moreover, the role of qualitative and quantitative MR imaging including advanced techniques, such as radiomics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence will be addressed. At the end of this lecture, the audience will have gained new knowledge about the diagnostic process for inflammatory arthritis and the application of basic and advanced MR imaging in this field. 

Bac Nguyen

The aim of this presentation is to highlight many important key parameters to get tack sharp images, while keeping the scantime down. This presentation will mainly be focused on MSK 2D TSE sequences. With that said, many of the tips & tricks which will be given can be adapted to other organs as well.The parameters which will be focused on are very basic and can be found on every vendor and field strength. The second part of this presentation will be mainly focused on what’s new and hot out there among these vendors.

Hyungseok Jang

Fat suppression can improve detection of lesions or reduce imaging artifacts, and therefore is often utilized in musculoskeletal (MSK) imaging. Ultrashort echo time  MSK (UTE-MSK) imaging can also benefit from fat suppression to better visualize short T₂ tissues and lesions. However, the conventional fat suppression approaches such as two-point Dixon or fat-saturation may not be effective in UTE imaging due to the signal attenuation in short T₂ tissues. In this talk, we will review alternative approaches for fat suppression in UTE imaging, including single-point Dixon, UTE-IDEAL, single or dual IR based methods, multi-component analysis, and soft-hard pulse based water excitation.