Spectroscopy
This course will focus on the principles of 1H MRS and practical issues related to acquisition, processing, and analysis of single-voxel 1H MRS in the brain at high magnetic field.
Coordinator: Pierre-Gilles Henry
Training Faculty: Dinesh Deelchand, Michael Garwood, Pierre-Gilles Henry, Jim Joers, Malgorzata Marjanska, Gulin Oz, Young Woo Park, and Ivan Tkac
Location: Corridor conference room
Notes:
All breakfasts, coffee breaks and lunches are served in the second-floor lobby outside the seminar room.
Fireside chat with Kamil is hosted in the courtyard if weather permits; otherwise, the chat is hosted in the second-floor lobby outside the seminar room.
Social hour with light dinner is hosted in the second-floor lobby outside the seminar room.
Instructions on how to connect to the server (needed for hands-on sessions) can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qa_U7kBcchBmCRAIm38mnzdlJ_dOTkVp-ZC1pFT-f1A/edit?usp=drive_link.
Program Syllabus
Day 1
8:30 Registration/Breakfast
9:00 Welcome
9:15 Introduction to Spectroscopy (Malgorzata Marjanska)
9:45 RF pulses (Michael Garwood)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Single-Voxel Sequences (Ivan Tkac)
11:30 Editing Sequences: GABA, GSH, 2HG (Pierre-Gilles Henry)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Benefits and Challenges of UHF MRS (Gülin Öz)
13:30 Processing and Analysis (Dinesh Deelchand)
14:00 Lab Session #1 - Human MRS at 7T Terra (Jim Joers and Young Woo Park)
15:00 Optional Coffee Break
15:30 Lab Session #1 resume
17:30 Fireside chat with Dr. Kamil Ugurbil
18:30 Social hour with light dinner
Day 2
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Lab session #2: Processing (BYO laptop) (Dinesh Deelchand)
10:30 Optional Coffee Break
11:00 Lab session #2 resume
12:45 Lunch
13:45 B0 Shimming + spectral quality (Ivan Tkac)
14:45 Small animal MRS (Ivan Tkac)
15:15 Coffee Break
15:45 MRS applications (Gülin Öz)
16:30 Motion Correction for MRS (Pierre-Gilles Henry)
17:00 Q&A with teachers
18:30 Social hour with light dinner