60 years of clinical neurophysiology in Groningen
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Natasha Maurits | 6/21/2009 6:02 PM |
On june 18, 2009 we celebrated the 60 year anniversary of the department of Clinical Neurophysiology in Groningen with a scientific symposium that was attended by almost 200 people. The symposium was centered around the increasing role of clinical neurophysiology in the academic hospital of today and the near future, with talks by Mart van Lieburg, Dennis Mc Farland, Machiel Zwarts, Michiel Staal, Jan Willem Pott, Andre Aleman, John Rothwell and myself. Furthermore, in 8 hands-on workshops attendants got a chance to get acquainted with state-of-the-art techniques such as intra-operative neuromonitoring, nerve and 3D vascular ultrasound and polysomnography. Additionally, we presented our book on the history of clinical neurophysiology in Groningen 'Signalen van prikkeling' and premiered the new promotional movie of our department. This day was a great success.
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Portable MRI
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Natasha Maurits | 12/31/2008 2:31 PM |
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have succeeded in making a small portable nuclear magnetic resonance probe, which is made and marketed by the New-Zealand based company Magritek (Technisch Weekblad, 19-07-08). The diameter of the probe is 17 cm and the earth's magnetic field is used to generate a polarising field of 18.8 mT, allowing for applications in material science and food and nutrition (as long as the sample is maximally 7.5 cm in diameter). Magritek itself promotes the system as a hands-on teaching and training tool for MRI and NMR. They provide an interesting brochure showing that the Terranova-MRI system allows a range of experiments using spin echo, gradient echo or projection reconstruction methods in 1D, 2D and 3D. If the system comes at a reasonable price it would be great for introductory MRI courses.
Surface renderings of a mandarin (32 x 32 x 32 pixels) with 2D cross-sections shown to the right. Total imaging time was four hours with an isotropic FOV of 110 mm |
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