ISMRM 21st Annual Meeting & Exhibition ○ 20-26 April 2013 ○ Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
WEEKDAY EDUCATIONAL COURSE
Game Show: Lower-Higher: The Transition from Low Field to High Field - Case-Based Teaching
SKILL LEVEL: Basic
ORGANIZERS: Charles A. McKenzie, Ph.D. & Thoralf Niendorf, Ph.D.
Thursday, 25 April 2013
 
OVERVIEW
This course addresses a skill sets gap in identifying and debugging the sources of artifacts in MRI. There will be a focus on artefacts that are specific to imaging at high field strengths and artefacts that have different appearances at low field and high field. The course provides an interactive means for rapidly identifying effect and cause of image artifacts.
 
TARGET AUDIENCE
The audience is expected to be made up of trainees, MRI technologists and practicing radiologists.
 
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

  • Classify and evaluate principle categories of artifacts;
  • Identify sources of commonly encountered artifacts and implement methods to avoid them; and
  • Recommend further tests for problem solving and troubleshooting artifacts.
 
 

Hosts:
Walter F. Block, Ph.D.
Charles A. McKenzie, Ph.D.
Nicole E. Seiberlich, Ph.D.
         
16:00     Artifact Identification & Elimination Game Show  
         
 18:00     Adjournment