2011 MINNESOTA WORKSHOPS

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MULTICHANNEL TRANSMIT B1 at HIGH FIELD

Faculty (lecture and hands-on sessions) in alphabetic order:
Gregor Adriany
Can Akgun
Edward J. Auerbach
Lance DelaBarre
Sebastian Schmitter
Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele
Tommy Vaughan
Xiaoping Wu


WEDNESDAY OCT 12th

8:30 AM
 Registration + Breakfast + Welcome

Morning Session: Lectures

9:00 AM
 Gregor Adriany
 Multi channel transmit RF coils at high field: practical considerations
10:00 AM
 Tommy Vaughan
 SAR and High Field Imaging: the Big Picture
10:30 AM
 Can Akgun
 Demo: Electromagnetic Modeling software
11:00 AM
 Break
11:15 AM
 P.F. Van de Moortele
 Multi Channel B1 Mapping and B1 Shimming
12:00 PM
 Lunch

Afternoon Session: Experiments (Sebastian Schmitter, Xiaoping Wu, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele)

1:30 PM
 7 Tesla
B1 mapping / B1 shimming
3:00 PM
 Break
3:30 PM
 7 Tesla
B1 mapping / B1 shimming
5:30 PM
 Adjournment


THURSDAY OCT 13th
8:30 AM
 Breakfast + Welcome

Morning Session: Lectures

9:00 AM
 Edward J. Auerbach
 Dual Modality for Multi-Transmit Channels: overview of CMRR 7T settings
9:30 AM
 Lance DelaBarre
 Multi transmit systems: architecture overview
10:00 AM
 Break
10:15 AM
 Xiaoping Wu
 RF pulse design for Parallel Excitation
11:15 AM
 P.F. Van de Moortele
 Q&A forum
12:00 PM
 Lunch

Afternoon Session: Experiments (Xiaoping Wu, Sebastian Schmitter, Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele)

1:30 PM
 7 Tesla
 Parallel Excitation
3:00 PM
 Break
3:30 PM
 7TAS
 Parallel Excitation
5:30 PM
 Adjournment