EBM Harmonization Workshop: Neuroimaging
On November 13, a harmonization workshop focusing on neuroimaging was organized by Prof. Arnd Dörfler (Department of Neuroradiology) and PD Stefan Rampp (Department of Neuroradiology and Department of Neurosurgery). The program started with an introduction to neuroimaging from a clinical perspective (Arnd Dörfler), providing the multidisciplinary audience with an overview of neuroanatomy and how different MR techniques are used in clinical applications to diagnose patients with epilepsy, tumors, multiple sclerosis, etc.
This was followed by a joint presentation by Dr. Samira Epp and Dr. Gabriel Castrillon from the group of Prof. Valentin Riedl (Department of Neuroradiology) on advanced imaging techniques. The two speakers gave an overview of metabolic and functional imaging techniques such as functional MRI (fMRI), MRI assessment of tissue oxygenation, and chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) for quantitative imaging of metabolites.
In the last part of the workshop, PD Stefan Rampp presented several clinical cases of focal epilepsy. The participants had to review the MR images on their own laptops and find the epileptogenic lesion. This hands-on session started with easy cases with obvious lesions such as tumors or cavernomas, but then steadily increased in difficulty, ending with a case of subtle focal cortical dysplasia (FCD), a pathology of particular interest to some of the EBM subprojects.
Stefan Rampp, A02
