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11/10/2017 Positive Spin #3: The newsletter of the British MR community
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Positive Spin ‒ Newsletter #3 View this email in your browser
In this issue: // Ghetto Golf // BC-ISMRM 2017 // Money for post-docs! // Money foreducational or research meetings!! // No money left over from Hawai'i!!! // Return to Guy's
Tower // MRI Mark-I in Aberdeen // Placental MRI Workshop delivered //
B-fields & Beatles: British Chaptermembers Come Together for 23rd BC-ISMRM
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A lorra lorra laughs were had and even some good science at the 23rd annualBC-ISMRM meeting in Liverpool in September. There was a half-day workshop on regenerative medicine, whilst the mainprogramme included sessions on: quantitative MR, cardiac imaging, paediatricMR, diffusion MR, perfusion MR and metabolism, as well as spirited debates onthe clinical applicability of ASL, DTI and MR spectroscopy. Congratulations to the prize-winners for delivering some fantastic talks,posters and poster pitches. The Best Talk winners were:
1st – James Grist2nd – Yolanda Ohene3rd – Ben Hipwell
The Poster Pitch winners were:
1st – Alexandre Khrapitchev2nd – Simon Walker-Samuel3rd – Maria Dounavi
The Poster winners were:
1st – Joshua Freedman2nd – Antoine Vallatos3rd – Emma Biondetti
Social highlights included a session of Ghetto Golf and dinner at the CavernClub with their second-cheapest Beatles tribute band. For more pictures, followthis link to check out the gallery of photos (and add your own).
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Upcoming MeetingsPost-docs! Apply for aTravel Bursary to ISMRM2018: The MansfieldResearch Innovation Award Hopefully, you are well aware of thelooming abstract deadline forISMRM 2018: 8th November. Whatyou may not know is that the BritishChapter have a new travel bursaryavailable to post-docs. Siemens Healthineers are thegenerous sponsor of the MansfieldResearch Innovation (MRI) Award,which helps to enable top post-docmembers of the British Chapterworking in the areas of neurology,cancer, interventional radiology,molecular imaging, physics orengineering, to attend the annualISMRM meeting. The aim of the award is to supportISMRM members who are toosenior to qualify for traineeawards, but too junior to haveestablished posts. If you fall into thiscategory (normally within ~5 years offinishing your PhD) and your abstractis in an appropriate area, applybefore December 1st by emailingyour submitted abstract(s) and abrief CV to Penny:[email protected] decisions will be made shortlyafter the meeting programme isannounced in the spring.
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PG BC-ISMRM 2018 – TBCMay – Guy's Tower Our next get-together will be theannual one-day postgraduatemeeting at Guy’s Tower inLondon. The exact date will beconfirmed soon, but is currentlypencilled in for May 2018. This yearthe organising committee will bemade up of students and post-docs.Anyone interested in joining thecommittee should contactMatthew: [email protected] before 1stDecember 2017.
Money for hosting meetings – introducingthe New Initiative Fund
If you are a Full Member and you're going to be hosting a nationaleducational or research meeting, on a topic which comes under the remit ofthe British Chapter, read on! We have created the New Initiative Fund, which offers up to £2,000 infinancial support to help with the running costs of your meeting. See thearticle below for a report from the very first Placental MRI Workshop, which was
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supported by the NIF. At the next British Chapter committee meeting we will consider any newrequests for this support. Please send in an application which describes theproposed activity, its relevance to the British Chapter and includecosting. Applications need to be sent to Andrew Blamire [email protected] by 1st December 2017.
Inaugural Placental MRI Workshop born:04.07.2017
The very first UK-based Placental MRI Workshop was hosted in July at St.Thomas' Hospital in London. 20 speakers presented at the workshop,including students, post-docs and leading experts in the field. More than 80 delegates attended the conference, the majority from up-and-down the UK, with some attendees travelling across from Paris and Barcelona.Six student stipends were awarded with support from the British ChapterNew Initiative Fund. Topics ranged from placental physiology, functional imaging of the placenta,challenges of placental imaging, an introduction to placental histopathology andmethods for validating placental imaging techniques.
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Imaging in paradise at ISMRM 2017: Hawai'idid we ever have to come home?
Despite the gruelling long-haul flight, British Chapter members flocked to theother side of the globe for ISMRM 2017 in April. Luckily the destinationwas Honolulu, Hawai'i, which just about made-up for 20-hours of recycledaeroplane cabin air. The prestigious Mansfield Lecture, which brought down the curtain on theconference, was given by our very own chair, Penny Gowland. Many otheroutstanding presentations were delivered by our members, whilst anotherhighlight was of course our unofficial annual social known as Gareth’s Party,taking place once again in another beautiful Irish bar. Follow this link for morephotos from ISMRM 2017.
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Zoom in on... AberdeenBiomedical Imaging Centre Aberdeen is of course principallyfamous for its seminal 1980promotional video starring TellySavalas, but did you know that in thesame year Aberdeen University builtthe world’s first whole-bodyhuman MRI scanner? There is avideo about the “Mark-I” scanner,including interviews with JimHutchison, John Mallard and others,which can be found here. Pioneering work continues inAberdeen, both on physicsdevelopments such as Fast Field-Cycling MRI and on medicalapplications, including diffusion andspectroscopy in breast cancer,computational neuroimaging of thedeveloping and ageing brain andmulti-modal MRI to investigateneural correlates of life-course riskfactors for cognitive decline. Check out the Aberdeen BiomedicalImaging Centre here!
Members' News Readers of the BBC website mayhave spotted some familiar facesand tracts in July. A news storyfeatured Cardiff’s axonal densitymaps at 3T in healthy controls andmultiple sclerosis. Derek Jones fromthe National Microstructural
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Imaging Facility said: “It was likegetting hold of the Hubble telescopewhen you’ve been using binoculars.”Full story here.
News from your Committee
The committee welcomed new members Iain Wilkinson (Sheffield) andAndrew Peet (Birmingham). Andrew Blamire (Newcastle) will bestepping down as Secretary.Official membership of the British Chapter now stands at 200. We knowthere are more members than this - where are the rest of you hiding?Renew your membership now (for free!): complete the 2-minute form.
And finally... from the Editors Thanks again for reading! Want us to Zoom in on your department? Want to advertise a job? Want to contributean article? Want to send us feedback? Want to send us abuse?! We'll take it all!Send it to the email address below: [email protected]
Mary McLean (University of Cambridge)
Tom Roberts (KCL)
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