ISMRM 21st Annual Meeting & Exhibition ○ 20-26 April 2013 ○ Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
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OVERVIEW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This course presents novel MRI approaches which have to potential to alter clinical practice and research. Arterial Spin Labeling and DCE Perfusion are MRI methods to assess absolute cerebral blood flow and micro vessel permeability, respectively. Thus, they are alternatives to standard dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced (DSC) methods to determine perfusion parameters in the human brain. In the two other talks, the impact of ultra high-field MRI on examining Neuroanatomy and imaging x-nuclei will be discussed (31P, 23Na, 13Na). High-resolution neuroanatomy at 7 Tesla and higher reveal unprecedented anatomic contrast in the cortex and subcortical structures allowing, for example, targeting of small nuclei in the thalamus and brainstem for neurosurgical purposes. In addition, 7 Tesla and higher provide sufficient SNR to detect signal from x-nuclei with high spatial resolution to assess the status of brain physiology. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This course is designed for neuroradiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, MR technologists, physicists and engineers associated with neuroimaging. Clinical experience will be helpful. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to: |
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Moderators: Noam Harel, Ph.D. & Kamil Uludag, Ph.D. |
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