This year's icMRI conference was held in a hybrid format on November 5-6, with many in-person sessions especially for domestic participants. The CIEL team has presented two posters in MR Engineering, based on work that was done prior to August 2021. There were a total of 24 MR Engineering posters including power-pitch presentations.
Pete Roemer, physicist and inventor of NMR phased array, appeared on screen in this year's high field MRI workshop hosted on-line by the university of Minnesota on Oct 20-22. He has recently retired from GE Healthcare, and is apparently working as a private consultant to Stanford University on gradient coils. He presented his computational work on PNS (peripheral nerve stimulation) and MGI (magnet-gradient interaction) in high-field MRI. It was a rare and welcome opportunity to peek into contemporary research in gradient coil engineering from the eyes of a legendary expert in the field.
- The hospital where this happened was Kap-Eul general hospital in the town of Jangyoo-dong.
- The hospital homepage lists a GE HDxt scanner (1.5T) as their MRI equipment.
- The hospital did not use the available in-room oxygen supply, and the tank was on a wheeled carrier which was also pulled into the magnet.
One thing that many news reports are saying incorrectly is that the MRI machine attracted the tank as the scan started, which ignores the fact that the magnetic field is always on. What must have happened is that the tank was moved, possibly slightly, by somebody and fell over the "magnetic cliff" near the bore entrance. Then its flying as a projectile is uncontrollable. This is tragic, and makes one wish to have some kind of magnetic barrier set up around the scanner. Above to the left is a drawing I made for an MRI engineering course in SKKU illustrating the abrupt magnetic pull of a shielded MRI magnet.
