This page presents the activities of Action COST B21 (Physiological Modelling of MR Image Formation).

The Action started officially on December 2003 and finished on January 2008. More information, including the participating countries, can be found in the official page: COST B21.

The Memorandum of Understanding can be found here.

COMMITTEES

WORKING GROUPS

WG 1: Tissue parameters and physiological data, including MRI

Chairman: Juergen R. Reichenbach

More information can be found in Appendix 1 of Dundee meeting (March 2004) and in the Discussion during Szeged meeting (March 2005).

WG 2: Software, simulation and modeling

Chairman: Andrzej Materka.

More information can be found in Appendix 2 of Dundee meeting (March 2004).

WG 3: Experimental verification and trials: clinical, animal

Chairman: Jacques Chambron (Jacques de Certaines).

More information can be found in the Report from the Cyprus meeting (October 2004).

MEETINGS

1st Management Committee Meeting.
15 Dec. 2003. Brussels (B)

2nd Management Committee Meeting & WG1, WG2, WG3 Meetings.
12-13 Mar. 2004. Dundee (UK)

WG1.
26 Jun. 2004. Brussels (B)

3rd Management Committee Meeting & WG1, WG2, WG3 Meetings.
1-2 Oct. 2004. Ayia Napa, Nicosia (CY)

WG3 & Working group on Texture Textbook.
17 Jan. 2005. Brussels (B)

4th Management Committee Meeting & WG1, WG2, WG3 Meetings.
18-19 Mar. 2005. Szeged (Hungary)

5th Management Committee Meeting & WG1, WG2, WG3 Meetings.
7-8 Oct. 2005. Lodz (Poland)

6th Management Committee Meeting & WG1, WG2, WG3 Meetings.
31 Mar. - 1 Apr. 2006. Alghero (Sardinia, Italy).

7th Management Committee Meeting & WG1, WG2, WG3 Meetings.
18-20 Oct. 2006. Brussels (B).

Renal MRI Working group.
8 Dec. 2006. Bergen (Norway).

8th Management Committee Meeting & WG1, WG2, WG3 Meetings.
29-31 Mar. 2007. Bled (Slovenia).

Functional Renal MR Imaging and Modelling Working Groups Meeting.
4-6 Oct. 2007. Bergen (Norway).

9th and Final Management Committee & WG1, WG2, WG3 Meetings
24-26 Jan. 2008. Dundee (UK).

Future meetings

The Action is now finished.

Some pictures about previous meetings

Compressed file (around 18 MB). Pictures by M. Hajek.

SHORT TERM SCIENTIFIC MISSIONS

Name

From

To

Dates

Topic
Jan Sedlacik Jena Vienna 26/6/04 to 4/7/04 To investigate the signal behaviour of a home-built MR-compatible capillary phantom at a main magnetic field of B0=3 Tesla.
Stephan Witoszynskyj Vienna Jena 1/9/04 to 30/9/04 Implementation and testing of a novel high resolution phase unwrapping algorithm
Sune Jespersen Aarhus Jena 5/12/04 to 13/12/04 Bayesian analysis of MRI diffusion images
Vassili Kovalev Surrey Jena 10/4/05 to 30/4/05 To jointly perform a series of MRI experiments in order to investigate the influence of scanning protocols to the gradients of higher-order image statistics
Andreas Deistung Jena Lodz 24/4/05 to 14/5/05 Exploring the feasibility to extract the venous vessel tree from high-resolution SWI data
Oystein Olsen Trondheim Surrey 6/6/05 to 1/7/05 Development of Software Tools for Segmentation of Optic Nerves in Animals
Rosario Sance Madrid Bergen 01/05/06 to 20/05/06 To work jointly in the compensation of breathing motion and deformation in abdominal DCE-MRI series by means of a registration framework for quantitative analysis of kidney function.
Piotr Szczypinski Lodz Rennes 17/06/06 to 22/06/06 Presentation of new capacilibites of MaZda software, training in 2D and 3D image processing including ROI drawing, computing textural image features, statistical data analysis and classification.

IMAGING TECHNIQUES & EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE

The imaging techniques & equipment available at each site can be found in the list of Management Committee members (including contact details).

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