Nuclear Seminar

Biophysics in Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Dr. Petra Schmalbrock
Ohio State University

Monday, February 11, 2008   4:00 p.m.   NSH 124
(Refreshments served prior to seminar in NSH 124)

MRI is widely used in the clinical practice to diagnose many diseases and to monitor the success of treatment. Recently, technologic advances made it possible to build MRI systems operating at 7 Tesla compared to standard MRI at 1.5 Tesla. This brings about the challenge to design new acquisition methods, and to gain further understanding about how image signal relates to the underlying physical, physiological and biological principles in order to fully exploit this new technology. A brief introduction into the basic physics behind MRI will be given, followed by a discussion of specifics related to ultrahigh field MRI. Examples of a range of medical applications with the novel 7T MRI will be shown.