TITLE:

THE OTHER PHASE OF MRI (No. 134)

DATE:

Friday, November 17th, 2007

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Shantanu Sinha, Department of Radiological Science, University of California, San Diego

ABSTRACT:

MR imaging has become one of the most powerful diagnostic tools available to modern medicine, using only the conventional contrast mechanisms of T1, T2 and Proton-Density weightings. With the recent amazing advances in both hardware and software of MR imaging, we have now routine access to several other contrast mechanisms that were till now the subject of only esoteric research. We will talk about several applications of such mechanisms, most of them based on Phase images, the other orthogonal component of the signal that is typically ignored in preference to the Magnitude component. Applications will include Temperature-Sensitive Imaging in Interventional MRI, Flow Visualization in brain aneurysms, kinematics of atrophic muscles, diffusion imaging in the breast, prostate and diffusion tractography of leg muscles.

HOST:

Faramarz Valafar

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