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Events for June 12, 2006
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Meet USC (AM session)
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Admission & Student Affairs
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Meet USC (PM session)
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 @ 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Admission & Student Affairs
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MR Imaging and image processing in the assessment of cardiovascular biomechanics
Mon, Jun 12, 2006 @ 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Abbas Moghaddam, Ph.D., Department of Bioengineering, CaltechAbstract:Cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of the death in the modern world has become the center of attention for scientists from all related disciplines. On the other hand MRI shows its new potentials for non-invasive diagnostic, measurement and modeling of the cardiovascular problems everyday. For instance Phase Contrast (PC) MRI measures the three dimensional velocity field of the blood, Tagging and Displacement ENcoding Stimulated Echo (DENSE) can be used to determine the cardiac deformation, and SENC encodes the through plane strain of the heart muscle in the short axis slices. All these MRI techniques along with the knowledge about the cardiovascular system as well as image processing tools form a very promising combination to improve our ability to design strategies for effective treatment of heart failure.Using MRI along with effective computational methods can greatly improve patient-specific measurement of the cardiovascular system by avoiding disadvantages of pure experimental measurements and pure numerical calculations. They help numerical approaches in modeling the functionality of the ventricles by making them fast and specific for clinical treatments. These tools along with the theoretical works on the heart structure can eventually result in better surgical planning to repair the defects in the heart ventricles (ventriculoplasty).In my talk I'm going to explain this concept, that how we may increase the share of MR Imaging and image processing in the assessment of cardiovascular system, through three examples:1. Calculation of intravascular pressure from Phase-Contrast (PC) MRI2. Extraction of biomechanics and structure of the heart from DENSE MRI3. Introduction of a new MR method for obtaining the circumferential strain: CIRCOMEIn first example an algorithm will be explained that finds the best pressure map corresponding to the pressure gradients, obtained from the velocity field of fluid collected by PC MRI. The effects of noise, resolution, and velocity (flow) on the algorithm will be further elucidated. In second example I will demonstrate some of our achievements in DENSE imaging as well as assessment of the dynamic behavior and structure of the heart muscle based on DENSE. Finally in the third item a new and fast method will be explained that encodes the circumferential strain in the heart short axis plane. Both pulse sequence and reconstruction will be discussed.Host: Professor Krishna Nayak, x03494, knayak@sipi.usc.edu
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kaleena Richards
