A Three-Day ISMRM Virtual Meeting Series - November 15-17, 2023
Supported by NIH U24-NS120056
Pulseq is a vendor-independent MR pulse programming platform that allows one to create and analyze MRI sequences in interactive programming environments such as MATLAB or Python and to execute them on hardware using sequence-agnostic interpreters. Mature interpreters for the Pulseq specification now exist for Siemens and GE scanners, with possibly more to follow in the future.
This course will take place over three half-days and will cover the following topical areas:
- basic Pulseq concepts for beginners;
- advanced sequence implementation and analysis tools;
- vendor-specific implementation details and workflows;
- examples of Pulseq applications and third-party tools from the user community.
Handouts and tutorials will be stored in this repository. We also invite all participants to use the Discussions tab in this repository to ask questions and place comments. We will do our best to address all of the raised points in the interactive Q&A sessions at the end of each day.
The preliminary program of the Online Meeting:
| time (UTC) | duration | topic | speaker | moderator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | ||||
| 14:00 | 5 | Welcome | Maxim Zaitsev & Jon-Fredrik Nielsen | Moritz Zaiss |
| 14:05 | 30 | Basic Pulseq concepts | Maxim Zaitsev | Moritz Zaiss |
| 14:35 | 30 | Working with Pulseq objects | Jon-Fredrik Nielsen | Moritz Zaiss |
| 15:05 | 30 | Tutorials of some basic sequences with examples | Qingping Chen | Moritz Zaiss |
| 15:35 | 5 | Break | ||
| 15:40 | 30 | Sequence analysis tools | Jon-Fredrik Nielsen | Carlos Castillo Passi |
| 16:10 | 30 | Pulseq in Python | Keerthi Sravan Ravi | Carlos Castillo Passi |
| 16:40 | 20 | Interactive Q/A session | Jon-Fredrik Nielsen | Carlos Castillo Passi |
| Day 2 | ||||
| 14:00 | 5 | Welcome | Maxim Zaitsev & Jon-Fredrik Nielsen | Shohei Fujita |
| 14:05 | 15 | What's new in Pulseq | Maxim Zaitsev | Shohei Fujita |
| 14:20 | 10 | Further new functions in Pulseq | Jon-Fredrik Nielsen | Shohei Fujita |
| 14:30 | 30 | Pulseq on Siemens | Maxim Zaitsev | Shohei Fujita |
| 15:00 | 30 | Pulseq on GE | Jon-Fredrik Nielsen | Shohei Fujita |
| 15:30 | 5 | Break | ||
| 15:35 | 30 | Image reconstruction (focus on Gadgetron) | Qingping Chen | Bilal Tasdelen |
| 16:05 | 30 | Advanced sequence examples | Jon-Fredrik Nielsen | Bilal Tasdelen |
| 16:35 | 25 | Interactive Q/A session | Maxim Zaitsev | Bilal Tasdelen |
| Day 3 | ||||
| 14:00 | 20 | Pulseq simulator in Python | Moritz Zaiss | Maxim Zaitsev |
| 14:20 | 20 | Using KomaMRI.jl for Comprehensive Quantitative MRI | Carlos Castillo Passi | Maxim Zaitsev |
| 14:40 | 20 | Fat-water imaging with Pulseq | Jiayi Tang | Maxim Zaitsev |
| 15:00 | 20 | Spiral TSE | Juergen Hennig | Maxim Zaitsev |
| 15:20 | 5 | Break | ||
| 15:25 | 20 | Multiparametric mapping with Pulseq | Shohei Fujita | Qingping Chen |
| 15:45 | 20 | Pulseq for anything under the sun: from dynamic to metal | Bilal Tasdelen | Qingping Chen |
| 16:05 | 15 | A Pulseq Interpreter on Philips | Imam Shaik | Qingping Chen |
| 16:20 | 15 | Another Philips Pulseq Interpreter: from basics to pTX | Thomas Roos | Qingping Chen |
| 16:35 | 25 | Q/A session & closing remarks | Maxim Zaitsev & Jon-Fredrik Nielsen | Qingping Chen |