Last updated
Thursday, 31 July 2008
Program
Joseph C. McGowan, Ph.D., Organizer
| Sunday, 11 Feb | ||
| 16:00 - 18:00 Registration | ||
| 18:00 - 19:00 Welcome, Orientation | ||
| Monday, 12 February | ||
| 06:15 | Breakfast | |
| 07:00 | Spin Gymnastics 1 Spins and Magnetic Fields | Walter Kucharczyk, M.D. |
| 07:30 | Hardware 1- Main Magnetic Field (B0) | Richard Spencer, M.D., Ph.D. |
| 08:00 | Spin Gymnastics 2 - Spin Manipulation-flips and Echoes, | Walter Kucharczyk, M.D. |
| Including Stimulated Echoes | ||
| 08:30 | Hardware 2 - Gradients | Richard Spencer, M.D., Ph.D. |
| 09:00 | Spin Echo Imaging 1 | R. Scott Hinks, Ph.D. |
| 10:00 | Break | |
| 10:00 - 16:30 Free | ||
| 16:30 | Spin Echo Imaging 2 | R. Scott Hinks, Ph.D. |
| 17:00 | An Introduction to MR Spectroscopy | Joseph C. McGowan, Ph.D. |
| 17:30 | Signal Processing | Richard Spencer, M.D., Ph.D. |
| 18:00 | Introduction to Gradient Echoes | Walter Kucharczyk, M.D. |
| Tuesday, 13 Feb | ||
| 07:00 | Gradient Echo Imaging | Dara L. Kraitchman, V.M.D., Ph.D. |
| 07:30 | Introduction to K-space | Joseph C. McGowan, Ph.D. |
| 08:00 | Gradient Echo Imaging 2 | Dara L. Kraitchman, V.M.D., Ph.D. |
| 08:30 | Fast Spin Echo Imaging | Joseph C. McGowan, Ph.D. |
| 09:00 | Understanding Digital Imaging and Fourier Encoding | Donald B. Plewes, Ph.D. |
| 10:00 | Break | |
| 10:00 - 16:30 Free | ||
| 16:30 | Understanding and Using the Concept of K-space | Donald B. Plewes, Ph.D. |
| 17:00 | Introduction to Fast and Ultrafast Imaging | R. Scott Hinks, Ph.D. |
| 17:30 | Introduction to Diffusion Imaging | Christian Beaulieu, Ph.D. |
| 18:00 | Cardiac Imaging 1 | Dara L. Kraitchman, V.M.D., Ph.D. |
| Wednesday, 14 Feb | ||
| 07:00 | Fast/Ultrafast 2 | R. Scott Hinks, Ph.D. |
| 07:30 | Diffusion Weighted Imaging with Applications | Christian Beaulieu, Ph.D. |
| 08:00 | Cardiac Imaging 2 | Dara L. Kraitchman, V.M.D., Ph.D. |
| 08:30 | Kinetic Studies in Spectro and MT | Richard Spencer, M.D., Ph.D. |
| 09:00 | Diffusion Tensor Imaging | Christian Beaulieu, Ph.D. |
| 09:30 | Artifacts | Donald B. Plewes, Ph.D. |
| 10:00 | Break | |
| 10:30 | MRI Safety | Joseph C. McGowan, Ph.D. |
| 11:00 | Imaging Options and SNR | Donald B. Plewes, Ph.D. |
| 11:30 | Interventional MRI | Dara L. Kraitchman, V.M.D., Ph.D. |
| 12:00 | Application of Physics to Neuroimaging | Walter Kucharczyk, M.D. |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Comparing 1.5 to 3T | Dara L. Kraitchman, V.M.D., Ph.D. |
| 14:30 | Perfusion Imaging | Christian Beaulieu, Ph.D. |
| 15:00 | Adjournment |
Christian Beaulieu, Ph.D., University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
R. Scott Hinks, Ph.D., G.E. Healthcare Technologies Milwaukee, WI, USA
Dara L. Kraitchman, V.M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Walter Kucharczyk, M.D., University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Joseph C. McGowan, Ph.D., Exponent, Philadelphia, PA
Donald B. Plewes, Ph.D., Sunnybrook & WCHSC, Toronto, ON, Canada
Richard G.S. Spencer, M.D., Ph.D.., National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA