Monday, November 30
9.30-11.00 Workshop 1: Basic MRI physics
Larmor frequency; quantum mechanics vs. classical description; precession; NMR; tip angle; rotating frame; T1 and T2 relaxation; Bloch equations; gradient fields; Fourier transform; k-space; gradient echo and spin echo; multi-nuclei.
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Workshop 2: Imaging performance
Spin echo and gradient echo sequences; tradeoff of resolution, scan time and SNR; factors that determine SNR of an MRI experiment; B0 mapping; B1 mapping.
13.30-14.30 Workshop 3: Electromagnetics in MRI
B1+ and B1-, quasistatic approach: law of Biot-Savar; full approach; how to calculate intrinsic SNR from RF simulations; SAR and RF safety.
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-17.00 Workshop 4: Standard and advanced RF coils in MRI
Body coil; surface receive coils; multi-nuclei coils; receive arrays; transmit arrays; decoupling strategies; dipole antennas; travelling wave.
Tuesday, December 1
9.30-10.30 Workshop 5: Advanced concepts in MRI
Noise; parallel imaging; parallel transmit; multi-nuclei imaging.