Audience Description:
This course is primarily designed for the clinician who will benefit
from an understanding of the “how’s and why’s” of MR imaging. It
requires no prior experience with MR. However, those with some
familiarity and experience will also benefit. Those interested may
include: radiologists and clinicians relatively new to MR imaging
(including residents and fellows), experienced radiologists and
clinicians wanting a refresher course in MR physics, and physicists and
engineers wanting an introduction to the field.
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Overview:
This eight-hour course will be a basic but comprehensive review of
magnetic resonance imaging physics and techniques. The presentations
will be non-mathematical and will be suitable for clinicians and
physicists new to the field. The course will cover the basic principles
of MR physics, signal encoding, pulse sequence timing diagrams,
hardware, spin-echo and gradient-echo imaging, and a variety of
techniques including diffusion, vascular, and cardiac MR imaging.
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Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
• Define and describe the fundamental principles of MR imaging,
including the definition of spin magnetization, the Larmor relationship,
relaxation phenomena, and the process of using the spin magnetization to
produce an image;
• Explain imaging pulse sequences based upon spin and gradient echoes,
including fast spin echo and echo planar techniques;
• Design MR imaging protocols for diagnostic applications considering
image contrast, spatial resolution, acquisition time, signal-to-noise
ratio, and artifacts; and
• Describe the principles and capabilities of various advanced MR
techniques including, diffusion, vascular and cardiac MRI.
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