ISMRM & SMRT Annual Meeting • 15-20 May 2021

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SMRT Edu Session

MSK II

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MSK II
SMRT Ed Session
Thursday, 20 May 2021
SMRT Session 04:00 -  06:00 Moderators: Karyn Chappell
Session Number: SMRT-20
Parent Session: SMRT: MSK II

Session Number: SMRT-20

Overview
This session will focus of different aspects of MSK imaging as well as optimizing MSK protocols.

Target Audience
Radiographers, MR technologists, radiologists, clinicians and scientists interested in MSK imaging

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
1. Review arthritis imaging and how to detect inflammatory arthropathy
2. Discuss new techniques in MSK imaging and optimal protocols for best results
3. Describe UTE techniques in MSK imaging

    Arthritis Imaging: Inflammatory Arthropathy

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Chiara Giraudo
This lecture is for technicians, radiologists, and scientists interested in musculoskeletal imaging with a special focus on inflammatory rheumatic diseases. A comprehensive overview of inflammatory arthritis including pediatric diseases will be provided. The optimization of MR protocols according to international guidelines will be discussed. Moreover, the role of qualitative and quantitative MR imaging including advanced techniques, such as radiomics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence will be addressed. At the end of this lecture, the audience will have gained new knowledge about the diagnostic process for inflammatory arthritis and the application of basic and advanced MR imaging in this field. 
  Optimising MSK: What's New & Hot for Radiographers

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Bac Nguyen
The aim of this presentation is to highlight many important key parameters to get tack sharp images, while keeping the scantime down. This presentation will mainly be focused on MSK 2D TSE sequences. With that said, many of the tips & tricks which will be given can be adapted to other organs as well.The parameters which will be focused on are very basic and can be found on every vendor and field strength. The second part of this presentation will be mainly focused on what’s new and hot out there among these vendors.
  UTE Fat Suppression Technique for MSK

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Hyungseok Jang
Fat suppression can improve detection of lesions or reduce imaging artifacts, and therefore is often utilized in musculoskeletal (MSK) imaging. Ultrashort echo time  MSK (UTE-MSK) imaging can also benefit from fat suppression to better visualize short T2 tissues and lesions. However, the conventional fat suppression approaches such as two-point Dixon or fat-saturation may not be effective in UTE imaging due to the signal attenuation in short T2 tissues. In this talk, we will review alternative approaches for fat suppression in UTE imaging, including single-point Dixon, UTE-IDEAL, single or dual IR based methods, multi-component analysis, and soft-hard pulse based water excitation.

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