Course Magnetic Resonance

ECTS: 3.6

Course leader: Steffen Ringgaard

Language: English

Graduate school: Faculty of Health

Graduate program: ClinFO

Course fee: 4,320.00 DKK

Status: Course is open for application

Semester: Spring 2025

Application deadline: 05/03/2025

Cancellation deadline: 19/03/2025

Course type: Classroom teaching

Start date: 02/04/2025

Administrator: Lena Melchior

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 Brightspace.

The course C47, Magnetic Resonance is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2025.

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).

Requirements for participation: as criteria

Aim: To familiarize the student with the principles of magnetic resonance and its 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 on 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 36 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, 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, Lotte Bonde Bertelsen, Irene Klærke Mikkelsen, Simon Fristed Eskildsen, Michael Væggemose, Steffen Ringgaard, and others.

Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus.

Participation in the course is without cost for:

Course dates:

  • 02 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00
  • 03 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00
  • 04 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00
  • 07 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00
  • 08 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00
  • 09 April 2025 09:00 - 15:00