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 | ||