Summer internship started.

2017 Summer Internship program kicked off on Monday. A total of 18 students from outside the GBME department of SKKU are participating. Today was the first full day of the program, which started with Prof. Jang JB's lecture on his biomaterials research. At 11 AM, Dr. Sungman Moon from GEHC (USA) visited for an informal seminar on MR gradient coils, which was attended by several intern students as well as GBME graduate students. In an emphatic lecture, Dr. Moon gave a very good introduction of industrial medical imaging engineering research. Students were attentive and engaged.

This was the second time for a GEHC MR team member to give a seminar at the Center this month. Last Tuesday, Dr. Yang, Yoon Jeong from GEHC in Cleveland, OH (USA) visited CNIR (with her husband and two girls!) for a seminar on RF coil technology. The method itself had a slick name, Adaptive Imaging RF (AIR) technology. Both seminars well portrayed the latest MR engineering innovation led by GE.

Final exam week

The spring semester is nearing the end, and there is no class in the last week (in school calendar) of the semester. The final lecture on Electromagnetics for the BME students was given on Wednesday, with the last topic covered being the Poynting vector. This coming Monday will be the final exam day.

Wrapping up the semester, the senior and junior intern students did a good job in improving the MR-based susceptibility measurement. An improved sample holder, phantom base, and exam protocol were implemented, and over a dozen solid and liquid materials have been characterized. The method/workflow will be useful for future MR engineering projects.