[BIC-announce] Fwd: INFORMATION : Lecture postponed next January

[Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS]

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From: Francine Bélanger <francine.belanger at criugm.qc.ca>
Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:16 PM
Subject: INFORMATION : Lecture postponed next January
To: Francine Bélanger <francine.belanger at criugm.qc.ca>


Attention : cette conférence est reportée en Janvier 2016



NOTE : This lecture is postponed in January 2016.



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Dear all,



Prof. Blaine Chronik from Western University
<http://silverberg.physics.uwo.ca/index.html> will be giving a lecture on
MRI Hardware and DreMR on Dec. 9th at 3:30pm in Room L7-140 of the Montreal
General Hospital.



The talk is targeted for a general audience



*Changing magnetic fields in MRI: challenges and opportunities*



Magnetic fields are clearly necessary in Magnetic Resonance Imaging - it is
right there in the name! The main magnetic field is very strong, the
radio-frequency magnetic fields are very fast, and the gradient magnetic
fields are somewhere in between. In this talk, we will talk about the
effects, good and bad, of changing (in time) these magnetic fields. On the
one hand, the presence of changing magnetic fields represents a particular
challenge for implanted medical devices (think pacemaker). We will review
the status of medical devices within the MR system environment, and look
ahead to what is on the horizon. On the other hand, the ability to change
the main magnetic field (say from 1.5 T to 1.7 T, then back again) during
imaging allows some exciting opportunities. We will review a new method of
MR called delta relaxation enhanced MRI ("dreMR") and the potential
benefits associated with the technique.





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Reza Farivar, PhD

Assistant Professor

McGill Vision Research Unit

Dept. of Ophthalmology, McGill University

Tel:  514.285.4950

Fax: 514.843.1691
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