Lectures on MR

Introduction to diffusion-weighted MR imaging and spectroscopy

September 5-7, 2023 | Cardiff/UK

Post-congress meeting: MIML- Microstructure Imaging meets Machine Learning (September 8, 2023)

The course will include technical practical tips to perform diffusion-weighted MR Imaging (dMRI) and Spectroscopy (dMRS) and didactic learning skills to acquie, process, analyse and interpret dMRI/dMRS data.

Description

In person 3-days course in Cardiff, United Kingdom.

Venue

Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre – CUBRIC

Organisers

Academic Organizing Committee (AOC): Marco Palombo, Matteo Mancini, Carolyn McNabb, Maryam Afzali, Kadir Simsek, Emre Kopanoglu, Maria Engel 
Student Organizing Committee (SOC): Alessandra Maiuro, Charlie Aird-Rossiter, Joshua Ametepe
Advisory Committee (AC): Mara Cercignani, Daniel Gallichan, Derek Jones

Registration Fees
Ticket Type Early Fee (until July 11, 2023) Late fee (from July 12, 2023)
ESMRMB Member € 420 € 560
ESMRMB Junior/Radiographer Member € 300 € 400
Non-Member € 600 € 740
Junior/Radiographer Non-Member € 350 € 450
MILM (September 8) € 0 € 0

NOTE! REGISTRATION CLOSES AUGUST 31, 2023, 12:00 (CEST)!

ESMRMB Members can benefit from discounted member rates. Please ensure an active and paid ESMRMB 2023 membership before registering. If your membership is pending, some documents/proofs for activation might be missing.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  • Provide an introduction to the physics of dMRI/dMRS;
  • Understand all aspects of dMRI/dMRS from data acquisition to processing and analysis
  • How to read and report the significant and relevant findings
  • How to setup a preclinical or a clinical dMRI/dMRS study

 

AIM

To get knowledge and practical skills to update and optimize the protocol combined with how to interpret, and what are the significant findings related to heart disease

 

TARGET GROUP

Engineers, physicists or any medical imaging professionals who would like to become more confident on performing dMRI/dMRS to improve the characterization of tissue microstructure in health and disease.

Preliminary Programme
(UTC+1) Sept. 5 Sept. 6 Sept. 7
08:30 Registration & Breakfast
09:00 Welcome & House keeping Image reconstruction
TBC
Data analysis III: Fitting strategies
Daan Christiansen
09:30
10:00 Introduction to the Physics of Diffusion
Denis Grebenkov
Accelerated image reconstruction with Machine Learning
TBC
Accelerated processing and analysis with Machine Learning
TBC
10:30
11:00 Coffee break & Meet the Teacher(s)
11:30 Introduction to MR physics
TBC
Data processing and standard pipelines
Saad Jbabdi
Diffusion MRI/MRS at Ultra-Low Field
Derek Jones
12:00
12:30 Lunch
13:00
13:30
14:00 Diffusion encoding: from standard encodings to free gradient waveforms
TBC
Data analysis I: Representations
TBC
FAQs and how-to guidelines: clinical studies
Mara Cercignani
14:30
15:00 Multidimensional encoding: joint relaxation and diffusion MR
TBC
Data analysis II: Biophysical modelling
Gary Zhang
FAQs and how-to guidelines: preclinical studies
TBC
15:30
16:00 Coffee break & Meet the Teacher(s)
16:30 Introduction to diffusion MRS
TBC
Hands-on
Setting up and running diffusion-weighted MRI data acquisition and processing on an ultra-low field scanner
Diffusion MRI in the body
Francesco Grussu
17:00
17:30 Free time Concluding remarks
18:00  
18:30 Social – Pub Free time  
19:00    
19:30   Gala Dinner  
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