Next MR-driving license course The first MR driving license course this year (2004) was held in the beginning of February. To register for the next occation, please add your email address by clicking on "Course registration" to the left   Lecture notes & Literature Lecture notes - Day 1 [PDF] (1MB) Lecture notes - Day 2 [PDF] (0.6MB) [PPT] (4MB) Lecture notes - Day 3 [PDF] (0.3MB) Basics of MRI - HTML-tree [tar.gz] (5MB) EPI Introduction [PDF]   Practical lunch sessions For those who did not have the opportunity to scan during the MR course (4-6 Feb), the lunch times (12:00 - 12:50) between February 16th-20th are available for practical supervised sessions. Please group yourselves together, 3-5 persons, and contact Stefan Skare (08-51776118, stefan@skare.se) to book a time.   Hands-on self-training on the MR scanners Everyone that attended the MR driving license course and have participated in of the "practical lunch sessions" are strongly advised to scan on phantoms before doing the exam. Either by themselves or say two-by-two. The purpose is to give people hands-on training. There will be several drop-in occations after office hours (listed below). Both scanners are reserved in parallel, so there should be plenty of time for everyone even though we don't have any indivudual booking. MRC1 & MRC2 Tuesday 17/2    16:30 - 20:00 Wednesday 18/2  16:30 - 20:00 Thursday 19/2  16:30 - 20:00 Friday 20/2  16:30 - 20:00   Examination Part 1 - Safety This part is not necessary for persons with old MR driving licenses. To do this oral exam contact the examiner to book an appointment Examiner: Yords Österman (yords.osterman@ks.se,  08-51776109) Part 2 - Technical "self-exam" Those who have done the "practical lunch sessions" and "self-training" can do a "self-exam" in the following way. 1. Find a time slot by writing your name on a list put next to MRC2. The time-slots are 30 minutes each. You should do this entirely by yourself and the scanner to be used is MRC2. The dates are: February 23th-25th and 1st & 3rd of March. 2. During this time-slot you should perform an exam of the spherical phantom using the HEAD coil, with the following sequences. * 3-plane Localizer * T1-weighted "Whole brain" scan using 3D-SPGR, product version    Use relevant scan parameters that you've learnt during the course to get reasonable resolution, scan time and T1-weighting. * T2-weighted 2D Oblique (near axial though) scans using FSE-XL. Use relevant scan parameters for T2-weighting and so that these slices geometrically exactly match the next "fMRI" series. * 2D GE-EPI (fMRI) in the same slice position as the prior series. Remember to select relevant scan parameters for fMRI, especially TE and resolution.   BUT, don't scan more than 10 image volumes. NOTE 1: No protocols are to be used NOTE 2: Scan parameters chosen must be realistic to pass the test NOTE 3: Type your first and last name in the Patient ID and Patient Name fields 3. Send an email to Stefan Skare (stefan@skare.se) and write the exam number and scanner that you've used.