Schedule
MR Spectroscopy
Coordinator: Malgorzata Marjanska
2 days, Oct 3-4
 
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3
08:00 Registration and Breakfast
08:30 Lecture: Introduction to spectroscopy Malgorzata Marjanska
09:00 Lecture: RF pulses and pulse sequences Michael Garwood
10:15 Break
10:30 Lecture: Shimming and spectral quality Ivan Tkac
11:30 Lecture: Motion correction for MRS Pierre-Gilles Henry
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Lecture: Preparing for single and multi-site trials Gulin Oz
13:30 Lecture: Editing techniques Melissa Terpstra
14:15 Lecture: Editing sequences for Siemens platform Malgorzata Marjanska
14:45 Break
15:00 Lab: Data Acquisition (split groups)
  9.4 T (animal) Ivan Tkac
  7T -AS (human) Jim Joers & Malgorzata Marjanska
17:30 Adjourn
 
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
08:00 Breakfast
08:30 Lab: Data Acquisition (switch groups)
  7T -AS (human) Jim Joers & Malgorzata Marjanska
  9.4 T (animal) Ivan Tkac
10:15 Break
11:30 Lecture: Chemical shift imaging Gregory Metzger
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Lecture: Lab: Processing and analysis of MRS data Dinesh Deelchand (w/Gulin Oz)
15:30 Lecture: X-nuclei Xiao-Hong Zhu
16:15 Hot Topics: 2H-based metabolic imaging for simultaneous and quantitative assessment of brain glycolysis and oxidative metabolism Ming Lu
16:30 Break
16:45 Hot Topics: Hyperpolarized 13C for studying metabolism Dinesh Deelchand
17:00 Lecture: Spectroscopy outside of the brain Patrick Bolan
17:30 Adjourn