[BIC-announce] Talk on MRI coils, Wed at 2pm in de Grandpré room

[Reza Farivar-Mohseni, Dr]

Dear all,

Scott King of the National Research Council will be giving a talk on basics of MRI coil designs and current hot topics in MRI RF, such as travelling wave MRI, gradient-free MRI, etc.

The talk will take place at the de Grandpré Communication Centre on Wednesday, June 20th at 2:00pm.

Scott is a leading expert in MRI RF engineering. His 8-channel head coil design is the standard used in all 1.5T clinical scanners, and he continues ground-breaking work in dense phased array receive coils, multi-transmit, and highly-accelerated imaging.

Everyone is welcome.

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Title: Transmit and Receive Array Design for new and improved MRI
Scott King, NRC


In this presentation, the principles of RF coil design for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems will be discussed, including single- and multi-channel phased array receive coils and RF coil electronics.  Starting from simulation through electromagnetic field modeling and ending with construction methods, MRI performance analysis of designs will demonstrate how RF coils are designed and constructed for maximizing image quality (SNR) and for reducing acquisition time using parallel MRI data acquisition.  The presentation will end with a taste of the latest advanced RF coil topics of data compression, transmit-array MRI, travelling wave MRI and gradient-free RF-only MRI.




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Reza Farivar, PhD
Assistant Professor
McGill Vision Research Centre
Dept. of Opthalmology, McGill University
Tel:  514.934.1934, ext. 35913
Fax: 514.843.1691