Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB • 16-21 June 2018 • Paris, France

Sunrise Session
Go Faster in Clinical Imaging: Synthetic MR
Go Faster in Clinical Imaging: Synthetic MR
Sunrise Session

ORGANIZERS: Jongho Lee, Utaroh Motosugi, Yi-Fen Yen

 
Thursday, 21 June 2018
N04  07:00 - 07:50 Moderators:  Utaroh Motosugi, Yi-Fen Yen

Skill Level: Basic
Session Number: S-Th-03

Overview
This session introduces fast imaging techniques that are becoming available in the clinic. Four cutting-edge techniques -- compressed sensing, synthetic MRI, multiband imaging, and fingerprinting -- will be covered one in each day. The background physics and clinical applications will be discussed.

Target Audience
Medical doctors who are interested in fast imaging and physicists who are interested in clinical applications.

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
-Describe the basic physics of each method: compressed sense, synthetic MRI, multi-band imaging and fingerprinting; and
-Discuss how each method impacts clinical imaging.
 

 

 
07:00
 		 An introduction to Synthetic MRI
Marcel Warntjes
Synthetic Magnetic Resonance Imaging has been around since the early days of MRI, but only recently the acquisition and post-processing have become fast enough to apply it clinically. In essence, it is a rapid quantification of MRI properties and a subsequent recreation, or synthesis, of conventional images.

 
07:25
 		   Clinical Applications of Synthetic MR
Masaaki Hori
Synthetic MR imaging is a technique of combination of 5-7 minutes MR scanning for source images and subsequent quantification of relaxation rates (T1, T2) and proton density for calculation of the signal intensity of a pixel by virtually setting any combination of echo time, repetition time to create MR images in clinical use, such as T1-weighted, T2-weighted and PD-weighted images. Moreover, some MR images based on single or double inversion time also can be computed. Purpose of this lecture is to understand the clinical usefulness of synthetic MR imaging towards neurologic disease, such as multiple sclerosis.

 
07:50
 		   Adjournment & Meet the Teachers
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