At-A-Glance Session Detail
   
Physics for Clinicians & Data Scientists
Weekday Course
ORGANIZERS: Johnes Obungoloch, Najat Salameh, Xiaoliang Zhang
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
313A
15:45 -  17:45
Moderators: Cristina Granziera & David Waddington
Skill Level: Basic
Session Number: W-04
No CME/CE Credit
Session Number: W-04

Overview
This course is an accelerated MRI lecture covering the main principles behind MR physics and imaging for scientists and clinicians who do not have an existing knowledge of the topic or a training in physics or engineering.
The session will include 5 lectures (20 min each) and a "meet the teachers" slot at the very end (20 min):
1- Basic MR
2- Contrast mechanisms
3- k-space & data processing
4- Basic sequences & acceleration strategies
5- Identifying & correcting for artifacts
6- Meet the teachers

Target Audience
Clinicians and data scientists new to the field of MRI

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
• Define basic NMR and MRI principles;
• Describe conventional and more advanced acquisition strategies; and
• Identify and correct for basic artifacts.
15:45Basics MR
Bernard Lanz
Impact: In this presentation on Basics MR, the classical description of the NMR principles will be described with an introduction on the macroscopic magnetisation resulting from nuclear spins and how one can manipulate the magnetisation to acquire radio-frequency signals.
16:05Contrast Mechanisms in MR imaging
Yunhong Shu
Impact: This talk explores MRI contrast mechanisms, highlighting the relationship between signal detection and tissue properties. It covers several sequences, contrast agents, relaxometry, and techniques like fat suppression, inversion pulses, magnetization transfer, etc.
16:25k-Space & Data Processing
Jang-Yeon Park
Impact: K-space is a data space that stores data obtained from MRI scans and is also the spatial frequency domain of images reconstructed from these stored data. K-space is important for better understanding MRI acquisition and the images obtained from it.
16:45Basic Sequences & Acceleration Strategies
Grace McIlvain
17:05Identifying & Correcting for Artifacts
Peder Larson, Michael Hoff
Impact: This lecture will discuss the most common artifacts in MRI, including how to identify them, what is the source of the artifact, and strategies for artifact mitigation.