Course Title: "Update: Musculoskeletal MRI"
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Low-Field
Musculoskeletal MRI
- Outline the differences between
extremity MR systems and whole body MR systems highlighting the unique
advantages of the lower field scanners.
- Discuss the anatomy and
applications that are optimized in the use of extremity MR systems.
- Review the appropriate scan
parameters used to image the musculoskeletal system with extremity MR
scanners.
- Show examples of optimal images
depicting anatomy and pathology generated using an extremity MR system.
The Magic
Angle Effect
- Describe the characteristics of
the magic angle effect in MRI and under what conditions it occurs.
- Review tissue MR properties and
other contributing factors to the magic angle effect.
- Discuss the potential advantages
and disadvantages of the magic angle effect.
- Review the specific anatomy and
scan parameters in which the magic angle can be maximized or minimized.
- Show examples of MR images in
which the magic angle can be observed through changes in SNR and CNR.
3.0 Tesla
Imaging of the Musculoskeletal System
- Identify technical considerations
for imaging the musculoskeletal system at 3.0T.
- Review changes in inherent
contrast due changes in T1, T2 and T2* at 3.0T.
- Describe image artifacts specific
to 3.0T and others that are modified due to the increase of the static
magnetic field.
- Review changes in magnetic
susceptibility effects and the spectral bandwidth at 3.0T affecting fat
suppression techniques.
- Discuss the optimization of scan
parameters in MR imaging protocols at 3.0T.
- Describe the potential
applications and advantages in musculoskeletal imaging at 3.0T.
Frontiers
in Musculoskeletal MRI: Articular Cartilage
- Review the makeup of articular
cartilage including physiology and pathology.
- Describe the current consensus of
MR pulse sequences to best image articular cartilage.
- Identify developments and new
techniques designed to improve the assessment of articular cartilage by
MRI.
- Balanced SSFP Imaging of the
Musculoskeletal System
- Review current pulse sequences and
scan parameters used clinically to image the musculoskeletal system with
MR.
- Describe new developments in MR
imaging of the musculoskeletal system and the advantages over current
techniques.
- Discuss the importance of fat
suppression and various techniques currently available and in development.
- Describe the implementation of new
techniques that allow the visualization of physiologic MRI of the
musculoskeletal system.
Update: Musculoskeletal MRI (2008)
Shaya Ghazinoor M.D.
John Crues III M.D.
Chris Crowley Ph.D.
Mark Bydder Ph.D.
Andres Rahal M.D.
Gary Fullerton Ph.D.
Graeme Bydder M.B., Ch.B.
Raymond Kuo M.D.
Mahendra Panchal M.D.
Lawrence Tanenbaum M.D.
J. Bruce Kneeland M.D.
Ravinder Reddy Ph.D.
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Amount |
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