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Training Courses
Oct 3-4 Each training course will consist of lectures, hands-on sessions, and demonstrations mainly targeted for individuals who are new to the field. Imaging Methods for the Connectome Projects Coordinator: Essa Yacoub Schedule Connectome Downloads HCP Data Acquisition and Analysis: Human Connectome Project (HCP)-Lifespan data collection 3 T PRISMA Other Connectome projects Diffusion and fMRI acquisition and post-processing methods ASL acquisition and post-processing methods Accelerated image reconstruction methods HCP data management and pipelines High-Field Parallel Transmission and Engineering (7 T and 10.5 T) Coordinators: Pierre-François Van de Moortele, Gregor Adriany, and Xiaoping Wu Schedule Parallel excitation Downloads Engineering topics: Ultra-high field MR system overview Components of RF sub-system for typical ultra-high field MR scanners Different RF transmit coil array designs: dipoles, loops, striplines Example of dipole antenna testing on the bench: performance, safety Parallel excitation (pTX) methods: 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. MR Spectroscopy Coordinator: Malgorzata Marjanska Schedule Spectroscopy Downloads 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 focused on LCModel In vivo experiments will be conducted using 9.4 T Varian animal scanner and whole body 7 T Siemens system. |