Medical Physics Seminar - Monday, September 14, 2009

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PROPELLER Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Konstantinos Arfanakis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering

Director, MRI Laboratory

Medical Imaging Research Center

Illinois Institute of Technology

Chicago, IL

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that can be used to probe the microstructural characteristics of brain tissue. In this presentation the advantages and shortcomings of PROPELLER-DTI over conventional DTI acquisition techniques will first be discussed. Our contributions in data acquisition, image reconstruction, and motion correction for PROPELLER-DTI, aiming to improve the image quality and imaging speed of the technique, will be presented. Finally, the use of PROPELLER in developing a DTI human brain template and enhancing the role of DTI as a diagnostic tool for a wide range of neurological disorders will be discussed.

Location: 1345 Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC)

Time:  4:00pm-5:00pm

Refreshments will be provided prior to the talk

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