Advanced Clinical MR Angiography

October 21–23, 2010
A Coruña, ES

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Course organiser:
Aad van der Lugt / Rotterdam, NL

Local organiser:
Rafaela Soler / A Coruña, ES

Course venue:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña
Radiology
Calle Xubias de Arriba 84
ES - A Coruña

Preliminary faculty:
W. Backes, T. Leiner, J. Meaney, H. Michaely, P. Wielopolski, W. Willinek, R.J. van der Geest, A. van der Lugt

Course duration: (updated July 2010!)
Thursday morning – Saturday noon

Programme:
Please click here to download the programme of the course as PDF.

The aim of this course:
The rapid development in the field of non-invasive MRA in the past years has shown that this technology is no longer in its infancy. Modern MRA technologies are applied not only in basic research but also in early detection, diagnosis, staging as well as in therapy monitoring of vascular diseases. In a multitude of applications MR angiography has already replaced Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) and is competing with Doppler ultrasound and CT angiography.

Participation Requirements:
This course is intended for practitioners with experience in MRI who wish to become more familiar with MRA.

Learning Objectives

The Technical Basis of MRA
• Time of flight and phase contrast MRA
• 2D and 3D Techniques
• Steady state MRA
• Flow measurement and quantification
• Contrast enhanced MRA
• K-space strategies for MRA
• Bolus timing and geometry
• Spatial resolution versus time resolution
• Contrast agents for MRA (extracellular / bloodpool)
• Software and hardware considerations
• Image processing
• Pitfalls and artefact in acquisition and reconstruction

How to do MRA of
• Carotid arteries / Atherosclerotic plaque imaging
• Intracranial circulation
• Thoracic aorta
• Pulmonary arteries
• Coronary arteries
• Abdominal vessels
• Renal arteries
• Peripheral circulation
• Spinal arteries

Tutorial Sessions
• Technical basis of MRA
• Image post-processing
• Intracranial arteries
• Abdominal / Renal arteries
• Carotid arteries
• Peripheral arteries