The ‘MRI’ workshop, was held in national brain mapping lab on 14 november 2017

The ‘MRI’ workshop, was held in national brain mapping lab on 14 November 2017, with 10 participant of the fields: medical physics, medical engineering, radiology, etc.

Lecturers:

• Vahid Malekian (AmirkaBir University)
• Shaghayegh Karimi (NBML)

Topics:

• Introduction to MRI modality
• Basic physics of MRI
• Exciting and data acquisition
• K space concept and image formation process
• Various contrasts in tissues
• Common pulse sequences
• Image quality evaluation and how to combat artifacts
• Functional MRI; physiology and signal origin
• Data acquisition methods in fMRI

Practical section:

Introducing the device, introducing the coils used in brain mapping, the device software training and doing imaging practically and describing the software system.