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Hands-On Training Courses
The training courses will consist of lectures, hands-on sessions, and demonstrations and are mainly targeted for individuals who are new to the field. ① Imaging Methods for the Human Connectome Project Coordinator: Essa Yacoub 2 days, Sept 29-30 Schedule HCP Data Acquisition and Analysis: HCP data collection at 7 T HCP-Lifespan data collection – 3 T PRISMA Diffusion and fMRI acquisition methods Accelerated image reconstruction methods HCP data pipeline Diffusion data processing fMRI data processing Experiments will be conducted on whole body 3 and 7 T Siemens systems. ② High-Field Parallel Transmission and Engineering (7 T and 10.5 T) Coordinators: Pierre-François Van de Moortele and J. Tommy Vaughan 3 days, Sept 28-30 Schedule Engineering topics (day 1): High-field MR system overview Components of RF sub-system for high-field MR scanner Different RF coil array designs RF coil testing on the bench: performance, safety Parallel excitation (pTX) methods (days 2-3): MR based RF coil array characterization on a phantom Fast multi-channel B1 mapping Static B1 shim in small and large targets Simultaneous multi-slice or multi-band pTX RF pulse design Multi-dimensional pTX RF pulse design (spokes, transmit SENSE) In vivo experiments will be conducted on a whole body 7 T Siemens system, equipped with 16 independent transmit channels. Phantom experiments will be conducted on a whole body 10.5 T Siemens system, equipped with 16 independent transmit channels. ③ MR Spectroscopy Coordinator: Malgorzata Marjanska 2 days, Sept 29-30 Schedule The following topics will be covered: RF pulses and pulse sequences for single voxel localization and editing Shimming Assessment of spectral quality Data acquisition: animal and humans Post-processing Quantification focusing on LCModel In vivo experiments will be conducted using 9.4 T Varian animal scanner and whole body 7 T Siemens system. |