ESMRMB Podcast ESMRMB_ECRC

In this special episode for Halloween 2023, Dr. Melanie Bauer tells us her journey in developing postmortem MRI techniques.

In this episode, Dr. Moss Zhao speaks with Dr. Georg Alexander Schramm about academic publishing and open access.

In this episode, Dr. Moss Zhao speaks with Dr. Hector Ramos about science podcasts in South America

In this episode, Hendrik Mattern talks with the current president of the ESMRMB, Benedikt Poser. During the interview they talk about Benedikt's vision for the society, the role of early careers in the ESMRMB, mentorship, work-life-balance, and the importance of saying no.

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) is a quantitative MRI framework developed in 2013, with its paradigm-changing methodology first described in a milestone Nature paper, cited by thousands of works since then. 

In this episode, Constantin Slioussarenko had the chance to be joined by Dan Ma, who was at the origin of MRF, and Chaitra Badve, neuroradiologist who has led clinical translation of MRF for numerous clinical applications, to discuss the main advantages of MRF in the context of the clinic, as well as to touch upon the hurdles it is facing for broader clinical adoption and potential solutions.

Outline : 

0:00 Introduction

0:55 MRF overview

11:38 Clinical application and broader adoption

24:59 Solutions and areas of development

32:16 Closing

"Autism is part of neurodiversity; it is neither a disorder, nor a disease"
This is vital as autistic people might have an MRI scan for common clinical concerns, like headaches or low back pains, or for monitoring of epilepsy, often a comorbidity of autism, but also may participate in MRI studies.
Making the scans autism friendly means addressing the preferences and needs of autistic people by using reasonable adjustments. Communication before, during and after scan is essential, environmental adjustments such as reducing noise or ensuring the examination table is comfortable, offering music as a distraction and ensuring prior familiarisation with environment might all help for a successful MRI scan with optimal patient experience.
This episode is a conversation between Sanam Assili from ESMRMB and Christina Malamateniou from City, University of London. She discusses her work on how to make MRI accessible for autistic individuals. 
There are many MRI studies exploring the anatomical and functional correlates to autism. However, the systematic review published by Christina et al., aims to summarise the different ways how to optimise an MRI scan for an autistic person without the use of sedation or anaesthesia.
Her two recently published papers on this topic are available here:
https://www.radiographyonline.com/article/S1078-8174(21)00124-3/fulltext
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34961364/
Outline:
00:00 Introduction
03:21 Autism friendly and routine clinical MRI
04:52 Challenges of autism friendly MRI
06:52 Special training 
12:40 How to adjust MRI unit
17:05 Future of autism friendly MRI