Prof. Steve Conolly
Department of BioEngineering, UC Berkeley
February 9, 2010 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 521 Cory Hall, Hogan Room
Host: Dorian Liepmann
I will present three projects in biomedical imaging instrumentation. The first, Prepolarized MRI, is an attractive hardware alternative for MRI in the developing world with total hardware costs of a 0.5T knee scanner of about $65,000. Prepolarized MRI shows quality MRI images near stainless steel implants. I also will present a novel susceptibility matching material that is soft, safe, RF compatible, and conforming to the patient. This new material could improve the robustness of fat suppression and fast imaging sequences (e.g., SSFP), especially at 3T. Finally I will present initial imaging results from the Berkeley Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) scanner, the second constructed in the world. Pioneered by Philips, this new imaging modality promises more than 100-fold increase in CNR over Magnetic Resonance Angiography. We also show a 1 mm resolution phantom angiogram obtained in 15 minutes on the Berkeley MPI scanner.
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