For those students who are interested in applying for the Summer Internship at SKKU-BME, the following projects were what was carried out in the past.
2016.
(1) Using 3 Tesla human MRI, investigate the appearance of human deep brain structure (in particular, habenula) with magnetic susceptibility contrast.
(2) Make an "L" shaped phantom to measure the magnetic susceptibility of unknown liquid using magnetic resonance frequency shift.
2017.
(1) Apply susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) to visualize human habenula at 3T.
(2) Use Sim4Life simulation software to calculate electric and magnetic fields in a numerical phantom, for the purpose of testing Nachman's formula in MR-based electrical properties tomography.
Options for 2018.
(1) Continue with the "L" phantom experiment, with a custom-made, inductively coupled RF coil and investigate the temperature dependence of susceptibility.
=> Can make a journal paper
(2) Continue the Sim4Life simulation for an actual experimental phantom, to be compared with experimental determination of E- and B- vector field using MRI.
(3) Continuation of nuclear susceptibility shift, to apply it to phase-based T1 measurement.
=> "Feasibility of phase-based rapid T1 measurement using NSS"
(4) Extension of susceptibility-to-B0 forward calculation code for anisotropic susceptibility
