Friday Physics Forum
What is FPF? Faculty, post-docs, and students meet on a bi-weekly basis to discuss the physics of magnetic resonance imaging. This Friday afternoon discussion takes the form of a journal club, informal discussion, or presentation by a team member on a specific topic. We use this opportunity to build upon what we already know about MRI and to augment our understanding about new and emerging topics.
Who comes to FPF? All members of the UCLA community and our off-campus colleagues are welcome to join.
When and where is it held? Every other Wednesday afternoon on Zoom meetings.
Previous 2021 Friday Physics Forums
2021 Friday Physics Forums:
Jun 2, 2021 - Ran Yan, "A Deep Learning Approach to Diagnostic Classification of Prostate Cancer Using Pathology-Radiology Fusion"
May 19, 2021 - No meeting
May 5, 2021 - Zhengyang Ming, "Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamic MR Image Reconstruction"
Apr 21, 2021 - Qing Dai, "UNETR: Transformers for 3D Medical Image Segmentation"
Apr 7, 2021 - Steve Mendoza, "Graph Saliency Maps Through Spectral Convolutional Networks: Application to Sex Classification with Brain Connectivity"
Mar 24, 2021 - No meeting
Mar 10, 2021 - Hengjie Liu, "Self-supervised learning of physics-guided reconstruction neural networks without fully sampled reference data"
Feb 24, 2021 - Jiahao Lin, "SARA-GAN: Self-Attention and Relative Average Discriminator Based Generative Adversarial Networks for Fast Compressed Sensing MRI Reconstruction"
Feb 10, 2021 - Shu-Fu Shih, "Deep-Learning Methods for Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reconstruction: A survey of the Current Approaches, Trends, and Issues"
Jan 27, 2021 - Haoxin Zheng, "Learning Cross-Modality Representations From Multi-Modal Images"
Jan 13, 2021 - Yongkai Liu, "MRI-based Synthetic CT in the Detection of Structural Lesions in Patients with Suspected Sacroiliitis: Comparison with MRI"
Previous 2020 Friday Physics Forums:
Dec 16 2020 - No meeting
Dec 2, 2020 - Qing Dai, "Magnetic Nanoparticles in Cancer Theranostics"
Nov 18, 2020 - Ran Yan, "Deep Learning for Cardiac Image Segmentation: A Review"
Mar 6, 2020 - Hengjie Liu, "Attention gated networks: Learning to leverage salient regions in medical images"
Tue 21, 2020 - Shu-Fu Shih, "Exploiting Motion for Deep Learning Reconstruction of Extremely-Undersampled Dynamic MRI"
Previous 2018/2019 Friday Physics Forums:
Mar 8, 2019 - Xinzhou Li, "MRI Powered Robotics using Gradient Coil and Pulse Sequence for Actuator Tracking"
Nov 16, 2018 - Mark Bydder, "Fast Fourier Transform"
May 10, 2018 - Vahid, "Particle Swarm Optimization"
Apr 26, 2018 - Xingfeng Shao, "Measuring human placental blood flow with multi-delay 3D GRASE pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling at 3 Tesla"
Apr 6, 2018 - Jiaxin Shao, "Myocardial T1 mapping techniques: accuracy and precision"
Mar 15, 2018 - Xinzhou Li, "Fast Catheter Segmentation From Echocardiographic Sequences Based on Segmentation From Corresponding X-Ray Fluroscopy for Cardiac Catheterization Interventions"
Feb 15, 2018 - David Woodworth, "More accurate estimation of diffusion tensor parameters using diffusion Kurtosis imaging"
Jan 19, 2018 - Michael Loecher, "Shinnar-Le Roux method for designing RF pulses"
Previous 2017 Friday Physics Forums:
Oct 13, 2017 - Thomas Martin, TBD
Sep 15, 2017 — Fadil Ali "Robust 4D Flow Denoising Using Divergence-Free Wavelet Transform"
Sep 1, 2017 — Xinzhou Li "ARFI-Prepared MRgHIFU in Liver: Simultaneous Mapping of ARFI-Displacement and Temperature Elevation, Using a Fast GRE-EPI Sequence"
Aug 18, 2017 — Yu Gao "Decoding Tumor Phenotype by Noninvasive Imaging Using a Quantitative Radiomics Approach"
Aug 4, 2017 — Zhaohuan Zhang "Changes in Epithelium, Stroma, and Lumen Space Correlate More Strongly with Gleason Pattern and Are Stronger Predictors of Prostate ADC Changes than Cellularity Metrics"
July 21, 2017 — Jiahao Lin "A neural approach to relational reasoning"
"A simple neural network module for relational reasoning"
June 23, 2017— Jessica Martinez "The Physics of MRI Safety"
June 9, 2017— Eugenio Ley-Koo, Mexico National Autonomous University (Special Seminar)
"The Design of Constant Gradient Magnetic Induction Fields"
May 26, 2017 — Da Wang "Phase Reconstruction from Multiple Coil Data Using a Virtual Reference Coil"
May 12, 2017 — Patrick Magrath "Measuring Cardiac Function with cine DENSE MRI"
Previous 2016 Friday Physics Forums:
July 29, 2016 — Tess Armstrong
July 15, 2016 — Mike Loecher
July 1, 2016 — Fei (Felix) Han
June 17, 2016 — Xinran Zhong
— Separation of Cellular and BOLD Contributions to T2* Signal Relaxation
June 3, 2016 — MRRL Quarterly Research Seminar
May 20, 2016 — NO FPF (post-ISMRM)
May 6, 2016 — NO FPF (ISMRM)
April 22, 2016 — Andres Saucedo
April 8, 2016 — Wotao Yin
— Theory and Applications of Asynchronous Parallel Computing
March 4, 2016 — Jiaxin Shao
February 19, 2016 — Yu Gao
February 5, 2016 — Samantha Mikaiel
— Optimized 3D ultrashort echo time pulmonary MRI
January 15, 2016 — Thomas Martin
Previous 2015 Friday Physics Forums
December 18, 2015 — Yi Wang
— SENSE and Simultaneous Multislice Imaging
December 4, 2015 — Xinzhou Li
— Kalman Filtering for Real-Time Navigator Processing
November 20, 2015 — Ziwu Zhou
October 23, 2015 — Luigi Perotti
Topic: Multislice Imaging
July 10th: Review on Multislice Imaging — Thomas
July 24th: Methodological paper on Multislice Imaging — Richard
—Improvements in multi-slice parallel imaging using radial CAIPIRINHA
Aug 7th: State-of-the-art paper on Multislice Imaging — Yi
— Wave-CAIPI for highly accelerated 3D imaging
Aug 21st: Clinical applications of Multislice Imaging — Da
— Clinical evaluation of CAIPIRINHA: Comparison against a GRAPPA standard
Topic: Perfusion
May 1st: Review on Perfusion MRI including ASL and DSC — Lirong
— Measuring Cerebral Blood Flow Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques
May 22nd: Arterial Spin Labeling: applications in basic and clinical research. — Kay
June 12th: No Friday Physics (post ISMRM recovery)
June 26th: State-of-the-art paper on DCE — Xinran
Topic: Diffusion
Mar 6th: Review on diffusion — Novena Part I
Mar 20th: Review on diffusion — Novena Part II
Apr 3rd: State-of-the-art paper on diffusion — Eric
— Separation of diffusion and perfusion in intravoxel incoherent motion MR imaging
Apr 17th: Clinical applications of diffusion — Andres
Topic: Relaxometry
Jan 9th: Review on relaxometry — Jiaxin
— General Relaxation (note: password required to view)
— Cardiac Relaxation (note: password required to view)
— Relaxation, basic knowledge (note: password required to view)
— On the accuracy of T1 mapping: Searching for common ground
Jan 23rd: Methodological paper on relaxometry — Richard
— Simultaneous three-dimensional myocardial T1 and T2 mapping in one breath hold with 3D-QALAS
— Interleaved T1 and T2 Relaxation Time Mapping for Cardiac Applications
— 3D-QALAS (note: password required to view)
Feb 6th: State-of-the-art paper on relaxometry — Junfei
— Myocardial T2 Mapping with respiratory navigator and automatic nonrigid motion correction
Feb 20th: Clinical applications of relaxometry — Shams
— Triple-echo steady-state T2 relaxometry of the human brain at high to ultra-high fields
Previous 2014 Friday Physics Forums:
Topic: Motion Correction
Oct 31 (Halloween): Review on motion correction — Isabel
— Chris Hardy, ISMRM 2014 Educational Session (note: password required to view)
Nov 14: Methodological paper on motion correction — Wasil
— Motion Correction With PROPELLER MRI: Application to Head Motion and Free-Breathing Cardiac Imaging
Nov 28: Thanksgiving break
Dec 12: State-of-the-art paper on motion correction — Felix
— Nonrigid motion correction in 3D using autofocusing with localized linear translations
Oct 17th, 2014 — Samantha
— MR-Guided Prostate Interventions
— Parallel MRI With Extended and Averaged GRAPPA Kernels (PEAK-GRAPPA): Optimized Spatiotemporal Dynamic Imaging
Sept 5th, 2014 — Thomas
— An Optimal Radial Profile Order Based on the Golden Ratio for Time-Resolved MRI
Aug 22nd, 2014 — Robert
— Independent component analysis applied to diffusion tensor MRI.
— Defining a local arterial input function for perfusion MRI using independent component analysis.
— Removing undersampling artifacts in DCE-MRI studies using independent components analysis.
Aug 8th, 2014 — Eric
— Development of a novel optimized breathhold technique for myocardial T2 measurement in thalassemia.
July 25th, 2014 — Novena
— A new design and rationale for 3D orthogonally oversampled k-space trajectories
July 11th, 2014 — Andres
— Low-rank approximations for dynamic imaging
June 27th, 2014 — Tess
— Projection Reconstruction Techniques for Reduction of Motion Effects in MRI
June 13th, 2014 — Jiaxin
May 30th, 2014 — ISMRM Recap (all)
— selected abstracts
May 2nd, 2014 — ISMRM Practice Talks
— Lirong, Stan, Taka
April 18th, 2014 — Ziwu
— SPIRiT: Iterative self-consistent parallel imaging reconstruction from arbitrary k-space and
— ESPIRiT—an eigenvalue approach to autocalibrating parallel MRI: Where SENSE meets GRAPPA
April 4th, 2014 — Yi Wang
–“Blipped-controlled aliasing in parallel imaging for simultaneous multislice echo planar imaging with reduced g-factor penalty”
—http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mrm.23097/abstract
March 21st, 2014 — Da Wang
–“Sensitivity profiles from an array of coils for encoding and reconstruction in parallel (SPACE RIP)”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10918330
March 7th, 2014 — Shams Rashid
–“Simultaneous acquisition of image and navigator slices using CAIPIRINHA for 4D MRI”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24604250
February 21st, 2014 — Mayank Jog
–“SMASH, SENSE, PILS, GRAPPA: how to choose the optimal method.”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15548953
February 7th, 2014 — Thomas Martin
–“Simultaneous acquisition of spatial harmonics (SMASH): fast imaging with radiofrequency coil arrays.”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9324327
January 24th, 2014 — Stan Rapacchi
–“In vivo chronic myocardial infarction characterization by spin locked cardiovascular magnetic resonance”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22704222
January 10th, 2014 — Isabel Dregely
–“A new steady-state imaging sequence for simultaneous acquisition of two MR images with clearly different contrasts.”
Previous 2013 Friday Physics Forums:
December 13th, 2013 — Zhe Wang
–“Actual flip-angle imaging in the pulsed steady state: a method for rapid three-dimensional mapping of the transmitted radiofrequency field.”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17191242
November 29th, 2013 — No FPF this week. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 15th, 2013 presented by Jin Gahm
–“Cardiac Fiber Inpainting Using Cartan Forms.”
—http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-40763-5_63
November 1st, 2013 presented by Robert Smith
–“Travelling-wave nuclear magnetic resonance.”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19225521
October 18th, 2013 presented by Suba Srinivasan
–“Rapid combined T1 and T2 mapping using gradient recalled acquisition in the steady state.”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12594755
October 4th, 2013 presented by Eric Aliotta
–“Accelerated multi-shot diffusion imaging.”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24006236
September 20th, 2013
No FPF this week due the pulse sequence programming course.
September 6th, 2013 presented by Felix Han & Tess Armstrong
–“Dixon techniques for water and fat imaging”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18777528
–AND–
–“Fat and water magnetic resonance imaging”
—http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20027567
August 23rd, 2013 presented by Shams Rashid
— “Water-fat separation imaging of the heart with standard magnetic resonance bSSFP CINE imaging.”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23904254
August 9th, 2013 presented by Lirong Yan
— “CAIPIRINHA accelerated SSFP imaging.”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=20872868
July 26th, 2013 presented by Jiaxin Shao
— “T1 measurements in the human myocardium: The effects of magnetization transfer on the SASHA and MOLLI sequences.”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=23857710
July 12th, 2013 presented by Robert Smith
— “Time-resolved angiography: Past, present, and future.”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=22566099
June 28th, 2013 presented by Matthew Middione
— “Multidirectional High-Moment Encoding in PC-MRI.”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=22760964
June 14th, 2013 presented by Subashini Srinivasan
— “T-one insensitive steady state imaging: a framework for purely T2-weighted TrueFISP.”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22131223
May 31st, 2013 presented by Zhe Wang
— “Controlled Aliasing in Parallel Imaging Results in Higher Acceleration (CAIPIRINHA) for Multi-Slice Imaging.”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15723404
May 17th, 2013 presented by Jin Gahm
— “In vivo human cardiac fibre architecture estimation using shape-based diffusion tensor processing.”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23523287
May 31st, 2013 — No Meeting.
May 13th, 2013 presented by David Sosnovik (Invited Speaker)
“Can We Solve the Motion Challenge in Cardiac MRI?”
— Special Room Location: 300 Medical Plaza, Room B500
— http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/martinos/people/showPerson.php?people_id=197
May 3rd, 2013 presented by Eric Wong (Invited Speaker)
“New Development of Arterial Spin Labeling – CBF, vascular territories, and OEF”
— Special Room Location: Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, 2nd Floor Conference Room
— http://fmri.ucsd.edu/Research/Faculty/ecwong.html
April 19th, 2013 presented by Jiaxin Shao
“Multiple 3D Inversion Recovery Imaging for Volume T1 Mapping of the Heart”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22488966
April 5th, 2013 presented by Felix Han
“Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23486058
March 22nd, 2013 presented by David Yerushalmi (Invited Speaker)
“A Parameter Optimization-based Model for Small Lesion Activity Quantification In PET-CT Images”
March 8th, 2013 presented by Yan Lirong
“Nontriggered MRI quantification of aortic pulse-wave velocity”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20882637
February 22, 2013 presented by Yi Wang
“Non-contrast-enhanced renal and abdominal MR angiography using velocity-selective inversion preparation”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22711643
February 8th, 2013 presented by Geoff Kung
“PCATMIP: enhancing signal intensity in diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21590803
January 25th, 2013 presented by Meral Reyhan
“In vivo measurement of gadolinium diffusivity by dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI: A preclinical study of human xenografts”
— http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22442103
January 4th, 2013 presented by Stan Rapacchi
“Arrhythmia insensitive rapid cardiac T1 mapping pulse sequence”
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