The Motion Correction in MRI workshop will follow up on the highly successful “Current Concepts of Motion Correction for MRI & MRS” workshop, held in February 2010, in Kitzbühel, Austria.
Motion has been a problem for essentially all types of MR acquisition since the beginning of clinical MRI.
Many motion correction and prevention techniques have been proposed over the years, ranging from rigid-body or elastic retrospective correction, gated acquisition, to various forms of prospective motion correction using either the MR signal itself or by tracking using external systems, such as cameras.
This workshop will have very didactic and hands-on presentations from the keynote speakers. As an example of a hands-on session, we will demonstrate concise Matlab scripts for performing operations such as sum-of-squares and mutual information based image realignment and show & explain this in detail. Attendees can follow along with these examples on their laptops if they wish (we will make the necessary data available on the workshop CD).
In addition, we note that despite the increased focus on motion correction over the last few years, only a very small subset (incl. e.g. PROPELLER) of these are used in the average hospital or have been commercially implemented. Therefore, the gap between research and commercial implementation will also be a part of the discussion on this workshop.