ISMRM 2019

The 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of the ISMRM was held in Montreal last week. From the lab, Ms. Lee SH and Ms. Yoo SK each presented a digital poster and Dr. Lee SK gave a 30 min lecture on MR systems engineering. The conference hall is familiar to old-timers since there was another ISMRM meeting in 2011 in the same place. The climate was pleasant and the dining options were excellent. One of the (personal) highlights was that GE officially unveiled the compact head-only 3T scanner, dubbed ESP, as a research-only, made-to-order scanner. Abstracts related to what the Lab is working on included: (1) high temporal resolution eddy current imaging (Xiaohong Joe Zhou), (2) habenula MRI at 3T (Haacke), and (3) B0 simulation for head motion (Bowtell).

Visit from GRC

Tom Foo and Desmond Yeo from GE Global Research Center visited the SKKU Suwon campus on 5/3 Friday. Tom, a Chief scientist at the 120 year-old research center in upstate New York, gave a short presentation on the latest MRI technologies being developed at GRC to the students in the Lab. Desmond, a Technology leader at the MRI and Superconducting magnet laboratory, helped answer questions from the students, before taking a short campus tour together with Tom and Dr. Lee SK. The discussions also touched upon combined MR and ultrasound imaging technology. Prof. Jinhyoung Park joined the discussion later in the presentation session and exchanged ideas for potential GE-SKKU collaboration for Korean government funding. Overall, the short GRC visit was very productive and helpful to the students, while being comfortably casual.