Materials for the Ph.D. Training program of the German Chapter of the ISMRM and beyond.
In this course, basic and advanced concepts of MR physics are introduced through theoretical lectures by MR experts and followed by the corresponding hands-on exercises.
Provided hands-on exercises and pulse sequence code snippets are in Python programming language. The hands-on exercises will be based on running Python code in Notebooks within Google Colab, therefore, no additional software is required.
This repository contains all course materials including hands-on exercises as Python notebooks and necessary raw data to run these notebooks and slides of the presentations. The latter will be uploaded after the course.
| directory | description |
|---|---|
| slides | this directory will contain slides of all presentations in the PDF format, sorted by day/time (will be populated during or shortly after the event) |
| tutorials | contains subdirectories for topical exercises and code examples, sorted by the presentation order, along with the required MRI raw and/or simulated data |
| .../.../notebooks | (subdirectory under exercises) place for interactive Python notebooks |
| .../.../data | (optional subdirectory under exercises) where appropriate, MRI raw data or simulated data to support provided notebooks |
| utils | this subdirectory contains Python code repeatedly used in several exercises throughtout the course |
| time | duration | topic | speaker(s)/teacher(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | 30 | Registration | |
| Block 1: Introduction | |||
| 9:30 | 40 | 1.1 MR-Physics introduction | Michael Bock |
| 10:10 | 30 | 1.2 Pulseq Principles | Maxim Zaitsev |
| 10:40 | 20 | 1.3 Pulseq in Browser, Basic sequences | Moritz Zaiß |
| 11:00 | 20 | Coffee break | |
| Hands-on | |||
| 11:20 | 10 | Pulseq in Browser with simulator | Moritz Zaiß |
| 11:30 | 10 | Setup on own laptops | helpers team |
| 11:40 | 40 | Sequences and exercises to Block 1 | Qingping Chen |
| 12:20 | 60 | Lunch - canteen of the Medical Center | |
| Block 2: Advanced topics | |||
| 13:20 | 30 | 2.1 RF Pulses | Tony Stöcker |
| 13:50 | 30 | 2.2 K-Spase sampling schemes | Frank Zijlstra |
| 14:20 | 30 | 2.3 MR hardware and imperfections | Sebastian Littin |
| 14:50 | 20 | Coffee break | |
| Hands-on (three groups a 10 pers) | |||
| 15:10 | 60 | RF Pulse exercises | helpers team and Tony Stöcker |
| 16:10 | 60 | K-Space sampling exercises | helpers team and Frank Zijlstra |
| 17:10 | 60 | Scanner demo and tests | helpers team and Sebastian Littin |
| 18:10 | End of Day 1 | ||
| 19:15 | Social event and networking |
| time | duration | topic | speaker(s)/teacher(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | 30 | Welcome coffee, Questions & Answers | helpers team |
| Block 3: Gradient and spin echoes | |||
| 9:00 | 30 | 3.1 Gradient echoes and steady state | Jochen Leupold |
| 9:30 | 30 | 3.2 Hands-on gradient echoes | helpers team and Jochen Leupold |
| 10:00 | 30 | 3.3 Spin Echoes | Jürgen Hennig |
| 10:30 | 20 | Coffee break | |
| 10:50 | 30 | Hands-on Spin Echoes | helpers team and Jürgen Hennig |
| 11:20 | 30 | Echo Planar Imaging | Maxim Zaitsev |
| 11:50 | 30 | Hands-on to EPI | helpers team and Maxim Zaitsev |
| 12:20 | 60 | Lunch - catering on site | |
| Block 4: Beyond imaging protons | |||
| 13:20 | 30 | 4.1 MRS and MRSI | Thomas Lange |
| 13:50 | 30 | 4.2 X-Nuclei imaging | Johannes Fischer |
| 14:20 | 10 | 4.3 Closing remarks and feedback | Organisers |
| 14:30 | 15 | Coffee break | |
| 14:45 | 45 | Optional hands-on or scanner time, bring-your-own-sequence | helpers team, Thomas Lange, Johannes Fischer |
| 15:30 | End of Day 2 |