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FAST, Advanced Signal-Processing for Ultra-Fast
Magnetic Resonance, and Training, (MRTN-CT-2006-035801) is a
Research
and Training Network (RTN) granted by Marie Curie Actions in the 6th Framework Program (2007-2010)
Magnetic
Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging – MRSI – is an emerging,
non-invasive modality of Molecular Imaging that opens the way to in
vivo mapping of metabolism. It will greatly contribute to combating
major diseases (cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis,
etc),
monitoring therapy, drug development. Spin-offs: food inspection,
materials research. Read more...
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jMRUI Training
School
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FAST
Trainings
and Workshops
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Version 4.0
with plugins
has been released
on
15-10-2009
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 Last news from the network:
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Fifty
participants
from all over the world attended the jMRUI
training course in Stockholm on Sunday 2 May 2010
The course has been a great success, you can find the program
of the day
here .
We thank the lecturers for the high quality of their
presentations and the participants for their enthusiasm.
Many
ISMRM-ESMRMB attendees asked us if another course
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FAST Third Plenary Meeting
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FAST third Plenary Annual Meeting
was held in the beautiful building of Casa Convalescència in
Barcelona in
Spain, on 19th-21st January 2010. Thanks to
Miquel
Cabanas for having hosted us, it has been a very successful event.
An overview of the third year of
the network, objectives, recruitment, main achievements, milestones
and
perspectives of the project, was presented by Danielle Graveron,
coordinator of
the network on Thursday 19th of January. Each workpackage
leader
gave a presentation outlining the progress to date on the tasks
within that
particular workpackage.
In the afternoon task meetings
have been arranged in order to encourage discussions and
collaborations between
FAST members.
Finally, a business meeting to
discuss main important management points ended that first day.
Wednesday 20st and
Thursday morning 21st were devoted to scientific
presentations.
Among others, FAST recruited ESRs/ERs were mainly involved in those
scientific
days. This gave the opportunity to all partners, specifically young
researchers, to present and discuss their scientific results.
The
meeting was also very successful from the social point of view. The 9
new
fellows recruited within the network during the third year have been
easily
integrated All the participants were hosted in the same hotel, close
to the
meeting place, which facilitated interactions and informal
discussions from
breakfast to dinner. And, as several meetings have already been
organized
during the 3 first years of the network, all partners were happy to
meet again
and the exchange between people was straightforward and warm.
Mid-Term
meeting agenda
Minutes of the meeting
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FAST workshop on pulse sequence programming
Five early stage researchers fellows, two experienced researcher fellows, and five PhD candidates from Leipzig (1 PhD of ULeipzig), Nijmegen (1 PhD of RUN) and Lausanne (3 PhD of CIBM/EPFL) attended the FAST workshop on pulse sequence programming from 8 to 10 September, 2009 at the Center for Biomedical Imaging, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland with the following training contents:
- designing pulse sequences for the Siemens sequence development environment IDEA and implementing sequence building block objects in C++
- generating pulses, simulating sequences, editing measurement protocols
- modifying standard single voxel spectroscopy and chemical shift imaging sequences with tailored objects such as an inversion preparation
- creating a pulse sequence and performing a phantom measurement
and received a certificate of attendance from Prof. Rolf Gruetter (FAST task leader MRSI acquisition).
Spin-off: as follow-up of this workshop an ESR from UAB will be involved in an "e-research" secondment (online) with ULeipzig for the development of a safety unit-test to detect forbidden acoustic frequencies in the gradient schemes of echo planar imaging pulse sequences (related to the FAST tasks T2 MRSI acquisition and T5.2 hands-free eMRSI voice commands).
Read more...
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Trainings & Workshop
Professional development
qualification training school
About forty participants from all over Europe attended the Training
School in Lyon on November 28th 2008. The School has been a great
success. We thank the lecturers for the quality of their presentation
and the participants for their enthusiasm. Read more...
FAST workshop - IEEE IST 2008
During IEEE IST 2008 workshop in Chania, a FAST workshop has been organized on 11th
September 2008: a training day for the recruited Marie Curie fellows
concerning the jMRUI software package. Contributions authored by FAST
partners to the Special Session on MRS Methodologies of this conference: Read more...
Weekly literature reviews
FAST offers to the Marie Curie fellows overview of papers dealing with MRS/MRSI of proton, 31P, 13C, 19F, 15N, 23Na, 7Li, 133Cs and 17O, hyperpolarized 3He and 129Xe, general signal processing, wavelets, speech recognition and java/elearning.
jMRUI User Meetings
A jMRUI user meeting is organized every year during ISMRM meeting in
order to to present last news about jMRUI and to promote contacts and
discussions between the jMRUI users
- in Toronto, Canada, the jMRUI User Meeting took place in Intercontinental Toronto Hotel on Wednesday 7 May 2008.
- in Berlin, Germany, the jMRUI user meeting was held on Wednesday 23 May 2007 in Hotel Berlin Excelsior.
Relationship between jMRUI and eMRUI
eMRUI is mainly a layer over jMRUI (jMRUI Website).
jMRUI will be distributed with eMRUI, but the users will be able to use
only jMRUI if they wish. So jMRUI will continue to exist but not in the
current monolith form. jMRUI will be refactored in order to accept
plugins: probably under the name jMRUI v4.0 and the actual monolith
version (3.x) will be abandoned. We are planning to release a first
version of the refactored jMRUI in July (the MRUI version that will be
included in eMRUI) to some dedicated users for testing.
Promotion of FAST research
To highlight the activity of FAST network an article on ‘ Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging'
is published in eStrategies Projects report 2009. Indeed, a special
section coming out in May 2009 focuses on the Marie Curie Actions
programme projects.
Upcoming meetings
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- 5th European Molecular Imaging Meeting, 26-29 May 2010, in Warsaw, Poland
- Marie
Curie Conference, Torino, 1st and 2nd of July. The
conference is a satellite event of ESOF 2010
- 2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2010) , Thessaloniki, Greece, 1-2 July 2010. Extended Abstract Submission: March 14 ; Acceptance Notification: March 28, 2010 ; Final Manuscript Submission: May 15, 2010
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- IEEE EMBC 2010, 32nd Annual International Conference of the
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31 August-4 September 2010 (full paper deadline 01 April 2010)
Marie Curie Fellowships Opportunities
Open positions:
Closed positions
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Public articles 