WEEKDAY EDUCATIONAL COURSE
Iron Detection & Quantification
ORGANIZERS:  Penny Anne Gowland, Ph.D. & Bachir Taouli, M.D.
 
SKILL LEVEL: Basic
Thursday, 12 May 2011
OVERVIEW
This two-hour course will include an overview of non invasive MR methods for diagnosis and quantification of iron in tissues by an expert physicist. In addition, we will cover the role of MRI for diagnosis of brain iron deposition, cardiac iron deposition and liver iron deposition, with background clinical relevance.
 
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course participants should be able to:
« Explain the basic physics of iron sensitive sequences;
 « Describe the clinical relevance of iron detection and quantification in vivo; and
 « Apply iron sensitive sequences for detection of brain, cardiac and liver iron.
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10:30 Tissue Iron Detection & Quantification with MRI   Jens H. Jensen, Ph.D.
10:55 Clinical Introduction   John F. Schenck, M.D., Ph.D.
11:05 Brain Iron Deposition   Joanna F. Collingwood, Ph.D., M.Phys.
11:30 Cardiac Iron Deposition   Claudia M. Hillenbrand, Ph.D.
11:55 Liver Iron   Bachir Taouli, M.D.
12:20 Discussion   
12:30 Adjourn