This webinar will describe ‘the Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ effects that the heterogeneous magnetic susceptibility of tissue can have in high field magnetic resonance imaging.
Discussion points of the webinar:
How does microstructure effect the relationship between measured field and susceptibility?
How do magnetic field perturbations arise from heterogeneous magnetic susceptibility distributions exposed to a static magnetic field?
How can the susceptibility distribution be inferred from MRI-based field maps in quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM)?
Richard Bowtell
Professor of Physics and Director of the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre at the University of Nottingham
Richard Bowtell is Professor of Physics and Director of the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre at the University of Nottingham. After taking a degree in Natural Sciences in Cambridge, he joined the University as a PhD student under the supervision of Sir Peter Mansfield in 1984. He has spent his research career in Nottingham, serving as the Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy from 2008-2014. His research is focused on the development and application of new techniques and hardware for biomedical imaging. He is a Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and of the Institute of Physics and past-President of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology.