PhDs in the Korean Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine met at Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI) in Ochang, about 100 km south of Seoul, on December 1st~2nd. The meeting featured short presentations from many of the principal investigators in the Society, making this a good opportunity for everyone to learn current MR-related projects that are on-going in Korea. The Society is relatively small, but is growing, and one thing that was easy to see in the meeting was that there are a healthy group of young researchers in MR physics and engineering, taking over from an older generation of scientists who pioneered MRI research in Korea from the very early days of MRI. The hosting institute is home of the 2nd 7 Tesla human MRI scanner in Korea. So there was a short tour of the 7T facility in the evening of Dec 1st. The scanner, from Phillips, appeared to be in good shape and well taken care of. It was said that the team wanted to expand research more in the direction of fMRI-based human brain disorder studies.
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