2019 SMRT Abstract Awards
Proffered Paper Award Recipients
President’s Award
Julia Watson, B.Appl.Sc. (MRT)
Monitoring Acute Low Back Pain using 2D Correlated Spectroscopy of the Brain at 3T: A Case Study
Research Focus Awards
1st Place Research Focus Award
Yasuo Takatsu, Ph.D.(CV)
Distortion Correction for Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Based on non-rigid Image Registration
2nd Place Research Focus Award
Patricia Maishi, B.Tech.(MR)
Large Outer Volume Suppression (OVS) Slabs Reduce SNR and Metabolite Concentration Estimates in the Single Voxel Spectroscopy (SVS)
3rd Place Research Focus Award
Erin Gray, M.H.A., R.T. (R)(MR)
Brain Imaging Advances using a Flexible RF Coil
Clinical Focus Awards
1st Place Clinical Focus Award
Rebecca Glarin, B.Appl.Sc. (MedRads)
Get More ‘Bang for your Buck’ – How to Optimise a 3D Sequence using Multiple Echoes
2nd Place Clinical Focus Award
Petronella Samuels, B.Tech.
Using Selective Active Shimming to Reduce Main Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities Eliminates Off-resonance Artefacts in bSSFP Sequence in CMR Applications
3rd Place Clinical Focus Award
Kim Hin Lo
Intracranial Vessel Wall Imaging: Scan Protocol and Sequence Optimization