Program ESMRMB RF Coil Design: Design and Build Your Own Berlin/GER June 17-19, 2014

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1 June 17 th - Tuesday 08:15 08:45 Registration 08:45 Welcome Thoralf Niendorf Andrew Webb (LUMC) 09:00 09:15 RF coils: from blue sky dreams to Lukas Winter the scanner 09:15 10:00 Basic RF circuits Andrew Webb (LUMC) High frequency behavior of lumped elements Concepts of resonance and resonant circuits Useful circuits Impedance matching 10:00 10:30 Surface TX/RX Coils Jan Rieger (MRI.TOOLS) Basic principles of RF coils Receive only coils Concepts for coil decoupling 10:30 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 11:45 Explorations into volume RF coils Sebastian Aussenhofer (LUMC) Birdcage resonator Resonant modes

2 June 17 th - Tuesday 11:45 12:30 Bench Tools & Bench Measurements Andreas Gräßl Network analyzer operation Baluns & cable traps Live demonstration at network analyzer 12:30 13:30 Lunch 13:30 17:30 Practical session: entire faculty Build a surface coil 17:30 18:00 Wrap-up and discussion all

3 June 18 th - Wednesday 09:00 09:45 Transceiver and Transmit-only/Receive- G. Shajan only arrays for ultra-high field MRI (MPI) Design principles Decoupling strategies Design of TR switches Performance verification 09:45 10:30 RF safety and its implications for Andre Kühne RF coil design (MUV) Safety regulations SAR limits Coil characterization 10:30 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 11:45 Multiple-tuned RF coils Friedrich Wetterling (TCD) X-Nuclei MRI (i.e. 23 Na, 31 P, 13 C, 19 F) 11:45 12:30 Characterization of RF-Coil Davide Santoro performance (DHZB) B 1 -mapping Decoupling and noise correlation Parallel imaging performance 12:30 13:30 Lunch

4 June 18 th - Wednesday 13:30 17:00 Practical session: entire faculty RF chain and other RF related hardware components, B 1 -mapping, B 1 -Shimming Build a birdcage 17:00 17:30 Wrap-up and discussion all 19:00 Welcome reception all Restaurant Künstlerhof at Stadtgut Berlin Buch Alt-Buch 45-51, Berlin Walking distance from campus ~10-15min.

5 June 19 th - Thursday 09:00 09:30 EMF simulations Christof Thalhammer Workflow of EMF simulations B 1 -homogeneity, B 1 -efficiency, SAR Prospects of applications 09:30 10:15 EMF simulations using CST Tilmann Wittig (CST) 10:15 11:00 EMF simulations using SEMCAD Maria del Mar Miñana (ZMT ) 11:00 12:00 Hands on EMF simulations entire faculty 12:00 13:00 Lunch 13:00 15:00 Practical session: entire faculty Build/design your own coil Run your own EMF simulations 15:00 16:00 Tour de Coil entire faculty Exhibition and discussion on the built RF coils and display of advanced RF coil designs from B.U.F.F., LUMC and PTB 16:00 Wrap-up and discussion all

6 Speaker Affiliations: B.U.F.F. CST DHZB LUMC MPI MRI.TOOLS MUV PTB ZMT TCD Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility, Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany Computer Simulation Technology AG, Darmstadt, Germany Department of Congenital Heart Diseases / Pediatric Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany C.J. Gorter Center for High Field MRI, Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands High-Field MR Center, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany MRI.TOOLS GmbH, Berlin, Germany Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Metrology in Medicine, Berlin, Germany ZMT Zurich MedTech AG, Zürich, Switzerland Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Faculty and bench supervision: Sebastian Aussenhofer, Andreas Gräßl, Shajan Gunamony, Werner Hoffmann, Yiji Ji, Andre Kühne, Oliver Kraus, Maria del Mar Miñana, Thoralf Niendorf, Celal Özerdem, Harald Pfeiffer, Jan Rieger, Davide Santoro, Werner Seemann, Christof Thalhammer, Helmar Waiczies, Patrick Waxmann, Andrew Webb, Friedrich Wetterling, Lukas Winter, Tilmann Wittig