Course Magnetic Resonance

ECTS: 1.8

Course leader: Steffen Ringgaard

Language: English

Graduate school: Faculty of Health

Graduate program: ClinFO

Course fee: 2,160.00 DKK

Status: Course is finished

Semester: Spring 2023

Application deadline: 13/04/2023

Cancellation deadline: 27/04/2023

Course type: Classroom teaching

Start date: 11/05/2023

Administrator: Lena Melchior Villadsen

Mandatory preparation before the course

5-6-hours reading: “MRI made easy – an interactive training program”. Can also be found as Ipad/Iphone app or as booklet on: https://radiology.bayer.com/academy-and-training/books/mri-made-easy. Hurd et al. Hyperpolarized 13C Metabolic Imaging Using Dissolution Dynamic Nuclear Polarization. J Magn Reson Imaging 36:1314–1328 (2012). Will be uploaded to Blackboard.

The course C47/25 Magnetic Resonance is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2023.

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Recommended knowledge for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Aim: To familiarize the student with principles of magnetic resonance and the use in biomedical research.

Learning outcomes: 

  • General overview of the underlying principles in magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy with relevance for applications in biomedical research
  • Outline of magnetic resonance applied in research studies of organ functionality and diseases
  • General overview of hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy applied in cells, animals and humans

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 45 hours

Content: The course presents basic principles of magnetic resonance spectroscopy, imaging and hyperpolarized MR applied in biomedical research.

Examples illustrate the position of state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy as one of today’s most potential dynamic and functional research methodologies in the cardiovascular system, in neurophysiology and neuropsychology, in the uro-physiology and the musculoskeletal system.

Measurements of blood flow, perfusion and fluid diffusion; brain functionality/connectivity, and metabolic flux quantification are explained with reference to cancer and organ diseases following ischemic stroke, diabetes etc.

Instructors: Kim Sivesgaard, Christoffer Laustsen, Esben Søvsø Szocska Hansen, Irene Klærke Mikkelsen, Lotte Bonde Bertelsen, Michael Væggemose, Steffen Ringgaard, and others.

Venue: Aarhus University Hospital (AUH), Aarhus

Participation in the course is without cost for:

  • PhD students, Health Research Year students and Health Research Honours Programme students from Aarhus University
  • PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
  • PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Course dates:

  • 11 May 2023 09:00 - 15:00
  • 12 May 2023 09:00 - 15:00
  • 15 May 2023 09:00 - 15:00
  • 16 May 2023 09:00 - 15:00
  • 17 May 2023 09:00 - 15:00