ESMRMB Podcast
By ESMRMB_ECRC
ESMRMB PodcastFeb 02, 2021
Episode 13: Halloween Special - Conversation with Dr. Melanie Bauer on Postmortem MRI
In this special episode for Halloween 2023, Dr. Melanie Bauer tells us her journey in developing postmortem MRI techniques.
Episode 12: Interview with Dr. Georg Alexander Schramm on Publishing
In this episode, Dr. Moss Zhao speaks with Dr. Georg Alexander Schramm about academic publishing and open access.
Episode 11: Interview with Dr. Hector Ramos on Science Podcasts in South America
In this episode, Dr. Moss Zhao speaks with Dr. Hector Ramos about science podcasts in South America
Episode 10 - Interview with Benedikt Poser on the ESMRMB, the mentorship programme, and work-life-balance
In this episode, Hendrik Mattern talks with the current president of the ESMRMB, Benedikt Poser. During the interview they talk about Benedikt's vision for the society, the role of early careers in the ESMRMB, mentorship, work-life-balance, and the importance of saying no.
Episode 9 - Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting: the path to clinical adoption
Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a quantitative MRI framework developed in 2013, with its paradigm-changing methodology first described in a milestone Nature paper, cited by thousands of works since then.
In this episode, Constantin Slioussarenko had the chance to be joined by Dan Ma, who was at the origin of MRF, and Chaitra Badve, neuroradiologist who has led clinical translation of MRF for numerous clinical applications, to discuss the main advantages of MRF in the context of the clinic, as well as to touch upon the hurdles it is facing for broader clinical adoption and potential solutions.
Outline :
0:00 Introduction
0:55 MRF overview
11:38 Clinical application and broader adoption
24:59 Solutions and areas of development
32:16 Closing
Episode 8 - Autism Friendly MRI
This is vital as autistic people might have an MRI scan for common clinical concerns, like headaches or low back pains, or for monitoring of epilepsy, often a comorbidity of autism, but also may participate in MRI studies.
Making the scans autism friendly means addressing the preferences and needs of autistic people by using reasonable adjustments. Communication before, during and after scan is essential, environmental adjustments such as reducing noise or ensuring the examination table is comfortable, offering music as a distraction and ensuring prior familiarisation with environment might all help for a successful MRI scan with optimal patient experience.
This episode is a conversation between Sanam Assili from ESMRMB and Christina Malamateniou from City, University of London. She discusses her work on how to make MRI accessible for autistic individuals.
There are many MRI studies exploring the anatomical and functional correlates to autism. However, the systematic review published by Christina et al., aims to summarise the different ways how to optimise an MRI scan for an autistic person without the use of sedation or anaesthesia.
Her two recently published papers on this topic are available here:
https://www.radiographyonline.com/article/S1078-8174(21)00124-3/fulltext
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34961364/
Outline:
00:00 Introduction
03:21 Autism friendly and routine clinical MRI
04:52 Challenges of autism friendly MRI
06:52 Special training
12:40 How to adjust MRI unit
17:05 Future of autism friendly MRI
Episode 7 - AI: Data, Reproducibility, and Federated Learning
"Reproducibility and Federated Learning"
Deep learning methods are becoming increasingly popular in medical image analysis. Their performance, however, heavily depends on availability, diversity, and quality of the data.
In this episode, Sanam Assili and Egor Panfilov discuss with Francesco Santini current issues in medical image segmentation, federated learning as a promising solution, and recently introduced open source Dafne framework.
Dafne is a joint effort by the University of Basel, the Basel University Hospital, and the Mondino Foundation, more information is available here: https://dafne.network/
Dafne Tutorial - Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TitUKqnXXJw
Outline:
00:00 Introduction
01:23 Segmentation and reproducibility
05:58 Federated learning introduction
07:08 Legal / Data
15:40 Commercial
18:30 Dafne framework
28:40 About MRI together workshop
Episode 6 - Silent MRI
"Silence Is Golden"
MRI doesn’t have to be noisy. The Zero Echo Time sequence is naturally quiet, but is yet to breakthrough into mainstream use.
This episode is a conversation between Sanam Assili from ESMRMB and Tobias Wood from King’s College London. He discusses his work on making Silent MRI useful for clinicians, in collaboration with GE Healthcare.
A video illustrating how quiet the sequence is can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSxBokkF2s0
And a recent review paper from the KCL group on this topic is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007965652100011X
Outline:
00:00 Introduction
01:38 What is silent MRI?
04:27 Challenges to make it work with different scanners
09:21 Machine learning
14:12 Silent MRI in clinic
Episode 5 - Interview with Members of OSIPI
In this special episode for ISMRM 2021, we spoke with members of Open Source Initiative for Perfusion Imaging (OSIPI) of the ISMRM Perfusion Study group.
You may find more information about OSIPI here: https://www.osipi.org/
Episode 4 - Interview with Members of Glioma MR Imaging 2.0
In this special episode for World Cancer Day (4 February), we spoke with members of one of the largest glioma research groups in Europe. Members of this group share their events and opportunities for collaboration.
You may find more about Glioma MR Imaging 2.0 here: https://glimr.eu/
Episode 3 - Interview with Yuriko Suzuki on Fellowship Applications
Dr. Yuriko Suzuki shared her successful story of applying for the Research Fellowship of The Royal Academy of Engineering. Dr. Suzuki's research focuses on the development of novel non-invasive dynamic MR Angiography (MRA) techniques using Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL) MRI. She is a member of Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford. She is interviewed by Dr. Moss Zhao, a member of ESMRMB Early Career Researcher's Committee.
Episode 2 - Interview with Maxim Zaitsev on Open-Source Pulse-Sequence Programming
Maxim Zaitsev talks about the current state and the future of pulse-sequence programming, especially how open-source and vendor-independent solutions can change the way we experience MRI research today. He is interviewed by Daniel Hoinkiss, a member of ESMRMB Early Career Researcher's Committee.
Episode 1 - Interview with Andrew Webb on sustainability in MRI Research
Andrew Webb talks about his plenary talk on sustainability in MRI at the virtual conference of ESMRMB 2020 on 30th September, Wednesday. He interviewed with Ozlem Ipek, a member and chair of ESMRMB Early Career Researcher's Committee about his activities with CAMERA, Committee for Advancement of MRI Education and Research in Africa.