Skope 2.0 – new communities, advancing together
Thursday, 18th of November 2021, GatherTown
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Dear Colleagues,
Despite the challenges posed by world events, the Skope community has seen growth and many successes. We would like to gather and celebrate the good progress from the year, and share with each other.
Come and learn about developments made in the Skope community this year by joining us at the 4th International Skope User Meeting on 18 November, 3pm (Central European Time) in GatherTown.
The theme for this event is ‘Skope 2.0 – new communities, advancing together’ which we believe reflects the addition of new user groups and labs around the world focusing on different research topics. This meeting will introduce some of those labs and their research, in addition to highlighting new results which move the community forward. The program includes:
- Featured Scientific Presentations from several Skope users
- Demonstrations of an integrated NeuroCam and Clip-on Camera Cranberry Edition
- Short educational workshops highlighting field monitoring advances and workflows
Looking forward to learning from new and continuing members of our community on how your advances move us all forward!
Yours,
Skope Team
Agenda
| th November 2021 (CET) | Topic | Speaker | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.45pm – 3.00pm | Meet in GatherTown | ||
| 3.00pm – 3.05pm | Welcome | Christoph Barmet, CEO (Skope) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.05pm – 3.10pm | Introduction Products & Applications | Paul Weavers (Skope) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.10pm – 3.15pm | Exchange and Collaboration | Paul Weavers (Skope) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.15pm – 3.20pm | AROMA | Nicolas Boulant (NeuroSpin CEA) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.20pm – 4.20pm | Featured Scientific Presentations | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.20pm – 3.40pm | Measurement of RF-induced temperature rise in brain MR exams | Dr. Caroline Le Ster (NeuroSpin CEA) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.40pm – 4.00pm | Integrating the Clip-on Camera into a RF coil at 7T | Dr. Kyle Gilbert (Western University) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 4.00pm – 4.20pm | High order field monitoring for accurate, distortion- and ghosting-free high resolution ex vivo diffusion MRI at ultra-high b values | Dr. Gabriel Ramos Llorden (Massachusetts General Hospital) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 4.20pm – 4.30pm | BREAK |
| 4.30pm – 5.15pm | Workshops | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.30pm – 4.45pm | Your Partner in Scientific MR IMAGING: Integrated field-monitoring and imaging with the NeuroCam on a 3T Canon MR scanner | The NeuroCam has been designed to facilitate the use of field-monitoring at 3T. In this workshop, we demonstrate how the NeuroCam and field-monitoring can be seamlessly integrated in the scanning workflow. | Christian Mirkes | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 4.45pm – 5.00pm | Your Partner in SCIENTIFIC MR Imaging: Field monitoring at 7T with the Clip-on Camera “Cranberry” Edition | Demonstration of the fully-integrated field monitoring system for high field imaging now available for a 7T MRI system. | Suejen Perani | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 5.00pm – 5.15pm | Your PARTNER in Scientific MR Imaging: Getting the most from your experiments – image reconstruction workflows | Image reconstruction is the last step in obtaining high SNR, artifact-free images using Skope solutions. Creating efficient and automated workflows using skope-i allows you to obtain reconstructed DICOM images in a hassle-free manner. During this workshop, you will learn how to create workflows for concurrently monitored experiments and learn how these may be integrated into neuroimaging studies. | Cameron Cushing | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 5.15pm – 5.30pm | BREAK |
| 5.30pm – open end | Focus Rooms | Moderator (Skope) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software Integration Q&A | Christian Mirkes | Focus Room | |
| fMRI and Neuroscience | Suejen Perani | Focus Room | |
| Diffusion | Bertram Wilm | Focus Room | |
| UHF Challenges | David Brunner | Focus Room | |
| NeuroCam and Cranberry Q&A | Paul Weavers and Cameron Cushing | Focus Room | |
| Low Field – where do you want to go? | Christoph Barmet | Focus Room |
| 18th November 2021 (CET) | Topic | Speaker | Room |
| 2.45pm – 3.00pm | Meet in GatherTown | ||
| 3.00pm – 3.05pm | Welcome | Christoph Barmet, CEO (Skope) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.05pm – 3.10pm | Introduction Products & Applications | Paul Weavers (Skope) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.10pm – 3.15pm | Exchange and Collaboration | Paul Weavers (Skope) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.15pm – 3.20pm | AROMA | Nicolas Boulant (NeuroSpin CEA) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 18th November 2021 (CET) | Topic | Speaker | Room |
| 2.45pm – 3.00pm | Meet in GatherTown | ||
| 3.00pm – 3.05pm | Welcome | Christoph Barmet, CEO (Skope) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.05pm – 3.10pm | Introduction Products & Applications | Paul Weavers (Skope) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.10pm – 3.15pm | Exchange and Collaboration | Paul Weavers (Skope) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
| 3.15pm – 3.20pm | AROMA | Nicolas Boulant (NeuroSpin CEA) | Auditorium (Zoom) |
Speakers
Scientific Presentations
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Dr. Caroline Le Ster
NeuroSpin CEA
Dr. Caroline Le Ster studied bioscience engineering before her PhD at Siemens Healthcare. Her thesis was about diffusion, perfusion and relaxation quantification in bone marrow as biomarkers for myeloma and osteoporosis. She then joined NeuroSpin (CEA, France) for a postdoc where she worked on fMRI sequences at 7T with parallel transmission. She furthermore gained experience with the Skope field sensor technology to do scanner quality control, physiological noise correction and MR thermometry. She is now part of the AROMA project under the supervision of Nicolas Boulant. She has been working on a new MR thermometry with field monitoring method to measure non-invasively the temperature rise induced by RF field power deposition during MR exams and in the human brain. Measuring sufficiently small temperature rises in vivo could allow relaxing specific absorption rate constraints to provide more freedom to mitigate the RF field inhomogeneity problem at 11.7T using parallel transmission.
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Dr. Kyle Gilbert
Western University
Dr. Kyle Gilbert holds degrees in Biophysics (Honours B.Sc.) from the University of British Columbia and Physics (Ph.D.) from the University of Western Ontario. After completing a post-doctoral fellowship under the supervision of Dr. Ravi Menon, Kyle joined the CFMM as a Research Scientist in 2009. His current area of research focuses on the development of hardware for high-field MRI scanners. This includes the design and fabrication of transmit and receive radiofrequency arrays and their integration into the scanner architecture.
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Dr. Gabriel Ramos Llorden
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Gabriel Ramos Llorden is currently a research fellow at Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. He is working on the BRAIN INITIATIVE funded project: Connectome 2.0: Developing the next generation human MRI scanner for bridging studies of the micro-, meso- and macro-connectome. His main interests are in diffusion MRI for brain mapping. In particular, he has developed novel reconstruction techniques for submillimeter resolution diffusion MRI both for in vivo and ex-vivo applications that allow us to understand the intricate nature of the human brain with reliable MRI data. Gabriel Ramos Llorden holds a PhD degree in Physics (2018) from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and an MSc on Telecommunication Engineering (2012) from the University of Valladolid, Spain.
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Access to GatherTown
The Skope User Meeting will take place in GatherTown. The virtual space features separate rooms:
- Lobby with interactive screens
- Agenda – Information about the event
- Meet the Community – Short Hello’s
- Where to meet Skope – Events, Conferences, Workshops etc.
- Auditorium (Welcome Presentations, AROMA, Featured Scientific Presentations and Workshops)
press “x” to join the Zoom meeting through GatherTown - Focus Rooms (1-6)
Feel free to walk around and engage with everybody you cross path with!
Instructions:
You will first be asked to create an avatar, please insert you name and organization (e.g. Yasemin Rüst – Skope).
To ensure a high quality experience, join Gather on Chrome and download the latest version of Zoom.
For further instructions please refer to the official webpage of GatherTown or their Welcome Guide.
