Manil Chouhan Manil Chouhan Tesla is a measure of magnetic field - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Manil Chouhan Manil Chouhan Tesla is a measure of magnetic field - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Manil Chouhan Manil Chouhan Tesla is a measure of magnetic field strength The magnetic field of the earth is 0.00005 T The average fridge magnet is 0.001 T 1.5 T 3.0 T 3.0 T? Why? Why? High Resolution Head and Neck SCC Whole Body T2
Tesla is a measure of magnetic field strength
The magnetic field of the earth is 0.00005 T
The average fridge magnet is 0.001 T
1.5 T
3.0 T
3.0 T?
Why? Why?
High Resolution ‐ Head and Neck SCC
Whole Body T2 ‐ Lymphoma
Whole Body T1 ‐ Prostate Cancer
Conventional Assessment ‐ Lymphoma MRI
Conventional Assessment ‐ Lymphoma MRI
Diffusion
Dynamic contrast enhancement (DCE)
Spectroscopy
Arterial spin labelling
Fat‐water quantitation
Equilibrium contrast imaging R2* imaging Blood-oxygen level dependent imaging
Susceptibility weighted imaging
Flow imaging
dynamic
Thermal energy causes diffusion of water molecules Thermal energy causes Thermal energy causes diffusion diffusion of water molecules
- f water molecules
Cellular barriers cause restriction to water movement Cellular barriers cause Cellular barriers cause restriction restriction to water movement to water movement
Diffusion ‐ Head and Neck SCC
Diffusion ‐ Crohn’s Disease
Post Tx
b0 b50 b200 b400
Pre Tx
b0 b50 b200 b400 Diffusion ‐ Acute Colitis
Ktrans Ve
DCE ‐ Prostate Cancer
DCE ‐ Lymphoma Spleen
Small Bowel Motility
Vocal Cord Movement
How? How?
50% research 50% clinical
Purchase and installation (50%) Underwriting of running costs on a tapering scale until grant income sufficient
‐ Senior Lectureships in Radiology and Medical Physics ‐ Research Radiographers ‐ Administation staff
3 years
CRBC funding
Final approval summer 2010 Detailed scanner evaluation and tendering process Phillips scanner chosen Q4 2010 Installed Q1‐Q2 2011
Research Applications Research Applications
Pre clinical Pre clinical First in man First in man Initial Validation/ proof
- f concept
Initial Validation/ proof
- f concept
Clinical trials Clinical trials Clinical implementation Clinical implementation Novel sequences, tracers, computational techniques eg registration, motion correction. Novel therapies Novel sequences, tracers, computational techniques eg registration, motion correction. Novel therapies Pilot studies Pilot studies Single site clinical trials Single site clinical trials Multisite clinical trials‐health economics, advanced statistics, health psychology Multisite clinical trials‐health economics, advanced statistics, health psychology
Imaging
Body imaging
Neurodegeneration Cardiovascular Disease Cellular and Gene Therapy Ear, Nose and Throat) Education, Training and Biostatistics Gastroenterology and Hepatology Infection and Inflammation cancer Neurodiagnostics NeuroImaging Neurotherapeutics Oral health Respiratory, Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Exercise, Sports & Health Women’s Health Medical physics CABI CMIC
Quantitative MRI for Crohn’s disease ‐ S Taylor, S Halligan, A Windsor, S Bloom Detection of vulnerable plaques in patients with acute coronary syndrome ‐ P Meier, R Botnar, A Indermuehle Neuroprotective effects of hypothermia and Xenon after perinatal brain injury ‐ N Robertson, E Cady Clinical relevance of microbleeds in stroke ‐ D Werring, R Jager, M Brown, H Houlden, T Yousry, J Hardy Postnatal brain growth and early infancy outcomes in very preterm children ‐ N Marlow, S Johnson, M de Haan, S Ourselin, N Robertson, X Golay Laryngeal Reinnervation versus Type I Thyroplasty in Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis Patients ‐ M Birchall, M Mat Baki, T Beale Multi-parametric prostate MRI (PROMIS) ‐ M Emberton, H Ahmed, A Kirkham, C Allen MRI for detection and characterisation of lung nodules ‐ S Punwani, S Janes, N Navani, P Shaw, M Taylor, N Bell
MR assessment of liver haemodynamics in chronic liver disease
The future... The future...
UCH Cancer centre 3T MRI 3T MRI PET/MRI Basic Science Basic Science Clinical Translation Clinical Translation
The UCLH 3T MRI team The UCLH 3T MRI team
- David Atkinson - Medical Physicist
- Uma Kumar - MRI Radiographer
- Nicola Stevens - MRI Radiographer
- Shonit Punwani - Radiologist
- Mara Balcombe – 3T Research Co-ordinator (not
shown)
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