A virtual scanner for teaching fundamental magnetic resonance in biomedical engineering

Wilhjelm, Jens E.; Duun‐Henriksen, Jonas; Hanson, Lars G.

doi:10.1002/cae.22028

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“…Nonprofit organizations such as RAD‐AID support expanding access to medical imaging through local assessment of readiness, installation of imaging equipment, and education of personnel 3 . Many existing open‐source magnetic resonance (MR) simulation programs provide functionality with educational goals or simulation capabilities that are helpful for teaching MRI 4–13 . These tools are summarized in Table S1.…”

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“…3 Many existing open-source magnetic resonance (MR) simulation programs provide functionality with educational goals or simulation capabilities that are helpful for teaching MRI. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] These tools are summarized in Table S1. On the other hand, custom MR hardware systems for education have also been developed to help students gain real scanner operating experience and an understanding of the MR hardware components that work together.…”

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Expanding access to magnetic resonance education through open‐source web tutorials

Tong,

Ananth,

Vaughan

et al. 2024

NMR in Biomedicine

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As of 2018, two-thirds of the world did not have access to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 1 with most of this population living in low-resource settings. While having more scanners is necessary for expanding access, scanner numbers alone do not help sustain operations: local expertise is required to maintain the scanner's productivity in the long run. 2 Sustaining the accessibility of MRI requires the training of students in these settings. Open-source and free educational software can help teach future generations of MRI technicians and scientists and is recognized as a critical need. 2 Nonprofit organizations such as RAD-AID support expanding access to medical imaging through local assessment of readiness, installation of imaging equipment, and education of personnel. 3 Many existing open-source magnetic resonance (MR) simulation programs provide functionality with educational goals or simulation capabilities that are helpful for teaching MRI. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] These tools are summarized in Table S1. On the other hand, custom MR hardware systems for education have also been developed to help students gain real scanner operating experience and an understanding of the MR hardware components that work together. [14][15][16][17][18] They often have associated educational materials and console software. A selection of these systems is summarized in Table S2.Each of these platforms assumes that MR education starts at the college level. However, access to advanced degrees and curricula in lowresource settings is a challenge. 1 Therefore, a gap exists in younger populations or those needing more access to formal courses provided by an advanced educational infrastructure. MR is a multifaceted field and includes many aspects of mathematical, biological, physical, and spatial thinking. Many of its concepts and processes need visualization. The accessibility of open-source software and open hardware in MR enables the development of new educational possibilities. 19 Therefore, a platform aimed at students at or above the educational background of a US high

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Expanding access to magnetic resonance education through open‐source web tutorials

Tong,

Ananth,

Vaughan

et al. 2024

NMR in Biomedicine

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“…In addition to this, Treceño-Fernández et al focus more on the usage of MRI devices and matched their workflow and user interface to those of real MRIs, while the tool presented here aims to demonstrate differences between sequences and the resulting images. Apart from these two MR image generators, there are a number of simulators published in recent years that run on the local computer [ 3 – 6 ]. Those simulators are mostly developed for researchers or physics and engineering students.…”

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VirtMRI: A Tool for Teaching MRI

Tönnes,

Licht,

Schad

et al. 2023

J Med Syst

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Magnetic resonance image formation is not trivial and remains a difficult subject for teaching. Therefore, we saw an urgent need to facilitate teaching by developing a practical and easily accessible MR image generator. Due to the increasing interest in X-nuclei MRI, sodium image generation is also offered. The tool is implemented as a web application that is compatible with all standard desktop browsers and is open source. The user interface focuses on the parameters needed for the creation and display of the resulting images. Available MR sequences range from the standard Spin Echo and Inversion Recovery over steady-state to conventional sodium and more advanced single and triple quantum sequences. Additionally, the user interface has parameters to alter the resolution, the noise, and the k-space sampling. Our software is free to use and specifically suited for teaching purposes.

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The Use of Computed Tomography as a Teaching Resource for the Teaching of Structural Concrete in the Degree of Civil Engineering

2021

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This paper shows a teaching experience related to the use of computed tomography in the teaching of concrete for undergraduate students of the civil engineering degree. This experience reveals that computed tomography is a powerful tool to facilitate the understanding of all those aspects related to the microstructure of concrete, thus facilitating comprehension of the correlation between the microstructure and its macroscopic response. In addition, students showed a greater motivation and interest in the subject, which promotes better academic learning. A pilot test was carried out to evaluate the viability of these practices and to analyze the teaching impact of this activity. The results show that students were very interested in the use of new technologies in teaching and, more particularly, in the use of computed tomography. The students satisfactorily received the project. A greater motivation of the students in the subject was also observed, which resulted in better grades when compared with those of previous courses. The results reveal that the average grade of the students rose by around 8%, and a higher percentage of students achieved higher scores when compared to the previous five years.

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A virtual scanner for teaching fundamental magnetic resonance in biomedical engineering

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Expanding access to magnetic resonance education through open‐source web tutorials

Expanding access to magnetic resonance education through open‐source web tutorials

VirtMRI: A Tool for Teaching MRI

The Use of Computed Tomography as a Teaching Resource for the Teaching of Structural Concrete in the Degree of Civil Engineering

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