Wednesday Plenary
Plenary Session
ORGANIZERS: Seena Dehkharghani, Ramesh Venkatesan
Wednesday, 08 May 2024
Plenary Hall (Hall 603-604)
10:30 -
12:00
Moderators: Seena Dehkharghani & Ramesh Venkatesan
Session Number: P-03
CME Credit
Session Number: P-03
Overview
Consider our largest challenges as a biomedical imaging community; are the objects and processes of interest to you too small? Too indistinct? Are they simply moving too fast or too unpredictably? Perhaps you're not even certain of what it is that you're seeking to find, and yet you know there’s something there, lurking in a darkness that you hope to illuminate. Well, you may not be alone in this endeavor, and while you may aim to advance our understanding of biology or a disease process, similar challenges plague the imaging of our vast cosmos.
This plenary initiates a dialogue to highlight the striking similarities, lessons, and unique challenges and solutions bridging medical and astronomical imaging. Despite divergence between these seemingly distant fields, potential synergies and opportunities to foster their mutual growth through exchange and shared discovery represent a compelling new direction.
This session promises to be a cornerstone for fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation, bridging the gap between the cosmic scale of astronomy and the biological scale of medical diagnostics.
Target Audience
• Imaging scientists and trainees spanning the theory, instrumentation, acquisition methodologies, numerical methods, and algorithms fundamental to biomedical imaging; and
• Basic, translational, and clinical imaging specialists interested in historical, contemporary, and forward-looking perspectives on medical and astronomical imaging, with particular attention to the parallels, distinctions, challenges, opportunities, and synergies linking the two.
The session is tailored to foster an understanding of the similarities and distinctions between astronomical and medical imaging technologies, promoting cross-disciplinary insights motivated by a possibility of collaborative advancement that benefits both fields.
Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
- Summarize fundamental parallels, similarities, and critical distinctions between MRI and Radioastronomy through a rigorous historical and theoretical treatment of the two imaging fields;
- Explore potential synergies supported through exchange of solved and open problems facing each field;
- Analyze the shared challenges such as minimizing acquisition times, improving image quality, and the impact of instrumental corrections, discussing how these are addressed differently in each field;
- Present the contrasting approaches of a radio astronomer and an MR physicist to longstanding challenges in the field of imaging, enriching understanding of each field’s perspective on common issues; and
- Promote future collaboration between the fields of astronomical and medical imaging, inspired by insights from the session’s explorations of their known and projected intersections.
| 10:30 | | Ernst Lecture Sean Deoni |
| 11:00 | | From Innerspace to Outer Space: Why? A Preamble Leon Axel |
| 11:30 | | From Innerspace to Outer Space: How? A Point-Counterpoint Exchange & Discussion Urvashi Rau |
| 12:00 | | Open forum panel discussion and audience questions |