The IEEE IST 2008 workshop took place in Chania, Crete on 10-12 September 2008

Dimitrios Karras was happy to announce that a one-day event was organized on 12/9/2008 on MRS Methodologies, under the IST 2008 IEEE workshop on Imaging Techniques.

All aspects of FAST project including especially acquisition techniques and signal processing have been presented.

Contributions authored by FAST partners to the Special Session on MRS Methodologies of this conference:

• Reliability testing of in vivo 1H-MRS-signals and elimination of signal artifacts by median filtering. Slotboom, J.; van Ormondt, D.
• MRS in clinical practice. Application to brain tumour MRS. Julia-Sape, M.; Arus, C.
• In vivo animal NMR studies using implantable micro coil. Kadjo, A.; Baxan, N.; Briguet, A.; Graveron-Demilly, D.; Fakri-Bouchet, L.; Cespuglio, R.; Rousset, C.
• Simulation of steady state free precession acquisition mode in coupled spin systems for fast MR spectroscopic imaging. Starcuk, Z.; Strbak, O.; Starcukova, J.; Graveron-Demilly, D.
• Ab initio calculations of NMR spin-Hamiltonian parameters for the polyamines of prostate tissue. Atieh, Z.; Allouche, A.R.; Frecon, M.; Graveron-Demilly, D.; Fauvelle, F.
• Comparison of two approaches to model the macromolecule spectrum for the quantification of short TE 1H MRS spectra. Cudalbu, C.; Mlynarik, V.; Lijing Xin; Gruetter, R.
• Lineshape estimation in in vivo MR Spectroscopy without using a reference signal. Popa, E.; Graveron-Demilly, D.; Capobianco, E.; de Beer, R.; van Ormondt, D.
• Morlet wavelet analysis of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic signals with macromolecular contamination. Suvichakorn, A.; Ratiney, H.; Bucur, A.; Cavassila, S.; Antoine, J.-P.
• Improvement of lineshape estimation for MRS signals. Osorio, M.I.; Sima, D.; Poullet, J.-B.; Van Huffel, S.; van Ormondt, D.
• A new modification of Singular Value Decomposition using Independent Component Analysis with applications to MRS imaging quantification. Stamatopoulos, V.G.; Moise, A.; Karras, D.A.
• jMRUI Version 4 : A plug-in platform. Stefan, D.; Andrasecu, A.; Popa, E.; Rabeson, H.; Strbak, O.; Starcuk, Z.; Cabanas, M.; van Ormondt, D.; Graveron-Demilly, D.
• Robust speech recognition in the presence of noise using medical data. Athanaselis, T.; Bakamidis, S.; Giannopoulos, G.; Dologlou, I.; Fotinea, E.