NSS Refresher Courses
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MIC Refresher Courses
Title:
| Clinical Impact of Recent Advances In Magnetic Resonance Imaging Hardware |
Instructor: | Gregory Sorensen, Massachusetts General Hospital |
Time: | Thursday, November 4, 7:30-8:15 am |
Location: | Lecture Hall |
Abstract: | In recent years the field of MRI has witnessed a number of remarkable hardware innovations. This refresher course will review some of the existing and emerging technologies with specific examples of their impact in clinical medicine. Topics to be reviewed include the shift to parallel RF receiver technologies, with up to 128 channels; the impact of the shift from 1.5 Tesla to 3.0 Tesla to 7.0 Tesla and beyond; parallel RF transmit technologies; very high performance magnetic field gradient devices including the "Connectom", combined simultaneous MR-PET; and other advances. |
Title:
| New Trends in Scintillators |
Instructor: | Chuck Melcher, the University of Tennessee |
Time: | Friday, November 5, 7:30-8:15 am |
Location: | Lecture Hall |
Abstract: | The development of new scintillators has accelerated in recent years, due in large part to their importance in medical imaging as well as in security and high energy physics applications. Significant advances in the understanding of scintillation mechanisms and the roles of defects and impurities have led to the development of new high performance scintillators for both gamma-ray and neutron detection. Although single crystals still dominate gamma-ray imaging, composite materials and transparent optical ceramics sometimes offer specific advantages in terms of both synthesis and scintillation performance. Numerous promising scintillator candidates have been identified during the last few years, and several are currently being actively developed for commercial production. Purification of raw materials and economical crystal growth processes often represent significant challenges in the development of practical new scintillation materials. |
Title:
| Recent Advances in X-Ray Computed Tomography |
Instructor: | Marc Kachelrieß, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg |
Time: | Saturday, November 6, 7:30-8:15 am |
Location: | Lecture Hall |
Abstract: | Computed tomography (CT) is one of the most important imaging modalities in modern medicine, and it is the radiologist’s work horse. After the advent of spiral CT in the early nineteen nineties multi-slice CT scanners were introduced in 1998. Today 64, 128, 256, or even 320-slice clinical CT scanners allow to cover complete anatomical regions in single or dual energy mode within less than a second with isotropic spatial resolution of below 0.5 mm and temporal resolution of below 0.1 s.
This refresher course provides a brief overview of clinical CT technology. It then presents dedicated techniques to improve on image quality and dose usage. Among those are novel metal and beam hardening artifact correction techniques, methods to improve on quantitative dual energy CT imaging and new approaches to incorporate a priori knowledge that allow to reconstruct with limited data or with reduced dose.
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