RECON

Sponsored by the Ben B. and Iris M. Margolis Foundation

UCAIR REsearch CONnections:
Coffee, bagels, & science.
 Usually 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

RECON (UCAIR REsearch CONnections) provides a scientific forum for Ph.D.–level exchange of ideas, concepts, and research of broad interest in medical imaging. Meeting 2-3 times monthly, 30 min. presentations are given by UCAIR faculty, postdocs, collaborators, and late-stage graduate students. Topics will range broadly across medical imaging and the related sciences, and should include general-interest content that is not modality-specific. The emphasis is on physics and engineering research, with some translational clinical components; more clinically-oriented presentations can be found at the monthly UCAIR Seminar held at SOM Classroom A/B. Special-interest topics that delve deeper into a specific modality, problem, or theory will also be occasionally presented. RECON attendees are asked to request special-interest topics that would be appealing to a wide audience. Everyone with an interest in medical imaging, small animal imaging, image processing, or just science in general is invited to attend (attendance by UCAIR students and trainees is mandatory). Each RECON will begin with a few minutes of general UCAIR announcements and accolades, etc.; and coffee-&-bagel snacks will be provided. Presenters will be awarded with a free UCAIR polo shirt!

[Abstract archive]

DATE, Time

SPEAKER

TALK TITLE

Thursday May 16, 3:00-3:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Dan Kim

Accelerated Cardiac Function MRI: Whole Heart and Real-Time

Thursday May 2, 3:00-3:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Christina Pacchia

Using Fluorescent Microspheres to Measure Perfusion in the Left Atrium and Left Ventricle

Thursday Apr. 18, 3:00-3:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Allison Payne

Focused Ultrasound-Mediated Drug Delivery

Thursday Apr. 4, 3:00-3:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Nelly Volland

Expandable Catheter-mounted RF Coil Development for Intracardiac High-Resolution MR Imaging

Thursday Mar. 21, 3:00-3:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Frederic Noo

Image Quality Assessment using Alternative Forced Choice

Thursday Mar. 7, 3:00-3:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Jason Mendes

Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging of the Carotid Artery (ABSTRACT)

Thursday Feb. 21, 3:00-3:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Katharina Schmitt

Comparative Evaluation of Linear Interpolation Models for Iterative Reconstruction in CT

Thursday Feb. 7, 3:00-3:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Eun-Kee Jeong

Imaging of Bound-Pool-Water Fraction (BPF) in Brain [Abstract]

Thursday Jan 17th, 3:00-3:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Dan Kadrmas

Advances in Rapid Rest+Stress Cardiac PET

Thursday Nov. 15, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Chris Conlin

MR Renography Segmentation and Registration

Thursday Oct. 25, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Mahamadou Diakite

Simultaneous Temperature Mapping in Fat and Aqueous Tissues Using the Hybrid PRF-T1 Technique

Thursday Oct. 4, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Chris Welsh

Model-based reconstruction of accelerated DTI data [Abstract]

Thursday Sept. 20, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Sathya Vijayakumar

MR-Guided EP Procedures: Current State and Future Improvements

Thursday May 17, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Larry Zeng

Noise-Weighted FBP Reconstruction

Thursday Apr. 19, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Edward DiBella

Self-Gated Cardiac Perfusion MRI

Thursday Mar. 15, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Tom Rust

Single-Scan Rest/Stress Cardiac PET Imaging

Thursday Feb. 23, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Bugra Oktay

Reduced Parameter Space Kinetic Modeling

Thursday Feb. 2, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Nick Todd

R2* Measurements in the Presence of Focused Ultrasound [Abstract]

Thursday Dec. 15, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Nelly Volland

MR Thermometry with Local RF Coils

Thursday Dec. 1, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Xianfeng Shi

Brain Bioenergic Metabolism of Subjects with Bipolar Disorder Disease

Thursday Nov. 17, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Dan Kim

Image-guided RF gain calibration for high-field MRI

Thursday Nov. 3, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Dominic Heuscher

Low Dose Perfusion CT

Thursday Oct. 20, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Emilee Minalga

RF coil considerations for MRI multi-modality systems

Thursday Oct. 6, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Jordan Hulet

GIR: A Generalized Image Reconstruction Framework for Facilitating Research and Clinical Application

Thursday Sept. 22, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

  

Bias and Noise in Medical Imaging: A Roundtable Discussion

Thursday Sept. 1, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Adam Wunderlich

A Nonparametric Approach to the Evaluation of Multi-Reader Multi-Case LROC Experiments [Abstract]

Thursday Aug. 25, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Jong Chul Ye, Associate Professor, Bio/Brain Engineering, KAIST, Korea

Compressed Sensing for Biomedical Imaging of Time-Varying Objects

Thursday Aug. 18, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Lei "Jeff" Zhang

Functional imaging of the kidney - data quantification

Thursday Aug. 4, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Gene Payne

MR-CT Coregistration for Repeat Ablations

Thursday July 21, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Andrew Liimatta

UCAIR Data Management and Protection

Thursday July 7, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Larry Zeng

Closed-Form Kinetic Parameter Estimation

Thursday June 16, 2:00-2:45 pm, INC Large Conference Room

Scott Miller, PhD
(Radiobiology)

Radioactive Mutants from Russia

Thursday June 2, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Rock Hadley

Linear Phase Coils

Thursday Apr. 21, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Dan Kadrmas

Dynamic [15]O-water PET: Tumor blood flow measurements in 2min
[Abstract]

Thursday April 7, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Liyong Chen

Fast MRI Techniques

Thursday Mar. 31, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

E.K. Jeong

Measurement of Creatine-Kinase Rate on Human Brain using MT-ISIS [Abstract]

Thursday Mar. 17, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Zhicong Yu

FDK-type Image Reconstruction from Cone-Beam Projections for Reverse Helical Trajectory


Thursday March 3, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Yi Wang

3D Multi-parametric Breast MRI Segmentation using Hierarchical Support Vector Machine with Coil Sensitivity Correction [ABSTRACT]

Thursday Feb. 17, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Yanfei Mao

Feasibility of Stationary Cardiac SPECT with Segmented Parallel Hole Collimators

Thursday Feb. 3rd, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Joshua Kaggie

Decoupling RF Coils, part II

Thursday Jan. 20, 2:00-2:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Joshua Kaggie

Decoupling RF Coils

Thursday Dec. 2, 1:00-1:45pm INC Large Conference Room

Rebecca Summers

Clinical Trials at UCAIR: What we should all know

Thursday Nov. 18, 1:00-1:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Ed DiBella, PhD

Sampling and Reconstruction for Cardiac MRI [ABSTRACT]

Thursday Oct. 28, 1:00-1:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Adam Wunderlich

Estimation of ROC Curves [ABSTRACT]

Thursday Oct. 21, 1:00-1:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

John Roberts, PhD

Applying MRI to the assessment of disease in the cervical carotid artery [ABSTRACT]

Thursday Oct. 7, 1:00-1:45pm, Large Conference Room

Sathya Vijayakumar

Real Time MRI guided RF ablation for treatment of atrial fibrillation - from nothing to not nearly everything [ABSTRACT]

Thursday Sept. 30, 1:00-1:45pm,
Large Conference Room

All attendees

Blinded Study Design in Medical Imaging Physics & Engineering Research: A Roundtable Discussion

Thursday, Sept. 16th,1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Dan Kadrmas, Ph.D.

Multi-Tracer PET Brain Tumor Imaging [ABSTRACT]

Thursday, Sept. 2nd,1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Ganesh Adluru

Undersampled MRI Re-construction using Non-Local Means [ABSTRACT]

Thursday, Aug.19th,1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Craig Goodrich

Magnetic Field Gradients for MRI Imaging

Thursday, Aug. 5th, 3:30-4:15pm
Large Conference Room

Arun Ganguly, PhD, Stanford University

Technical Considerations of Combined 2D/3D Image Guidance Systems: Hybrid X-ray/MR and C-arm CT [ABSTRACT]

Thursday, July 29th, 1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Dennis L. Parker, Ph.D.

Big Picture Reflections – Has it really been 32 years? [ABSTRACT]

Thursday, July 15th, 1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Larry Zeng, Ph.D.

Kinetic Parameter Estimation from Truncated Images

Thursday, July 1st, 1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Jason Mendes

Cine TSE Imaging

Thursday, June 17th, 1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Eun-Kee Jeong, Ph.D.

Stimulated-echo MRI

Thursday, June 3rd, 1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Jacob Fluckiger, Ph.D.

Constrained Estimation of the Arterial Input Function for Cardiac DCE-MRI

Thursday, May 20th, 1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Nick Todd, Ph.D.

Improving Temperature Monitoring of MR Guided Focused Ultrasound Procedures

Thursday Apr. 29, 1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Glen Morrell, MD, Ph.D.

My Flip Angle Map Is Better Than Yours:  flip angle mapping in MRI

Thursday Apr. 15, 1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Eugene Kholmovski, Ph.D.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Left Atrium

Thursday Apr. 1, 1:00-1:45pm
Large Conference Room

Dan Kadrmas, Ph.D.

Spatial Resolution, Resolution Recovery, and Partial-Volume Effects in PET

Thursday March 11, 1:00-1:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

H. Michael Gach, Ph.D., Director of Research Imaging, Nevada Cancer Institute

Nanoparticle Colloids & RF:  What Do We Know?
A special joint-seminar with the UofU Nano Institute

Thursday March 4, 1:00-1:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Rajiv Kulkarni, Associate Director Technology Commercialization Office

An Introduction to Technology Commercialization

Thursday Feb. 18, 1:00-1:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Dr. June Taylo, Ph.D.

The MRI Machine for People Without Insurance

Thursday Feb. 4th, 1:00-1:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Andrew Liimatta

The New UCAIR Intranet Resource 

Thursday Jan. 28, 1:00-1:45pm, INC Large Conference Room

Larry Zeng, Ph.D.

Can we improve iterative reconstruction?

Dec 17th, 1:00 pm

Allison Payne, Ph.D.

An Overview of Magnetic Resonance Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound