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Seeing Sleep: Real-Time MRI Methods for the Evaluation of Sleep Apnea
Mon, Aug 17, 2015 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Ziyue Brian Wu, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California
Talk Title: Seeing Sleep: Real-Time MRI Methods for the Evaluation of Sleep Apnea
Abstract: Sleep apnea is a largely neglected disease, which can lead to serous consequences. Current gold standard of diagnosing sleep apnea is an overnight polysomnography, from which an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) is derived to indicate the severity of apnea. However, lack of direct anatomical information often limits the value of such sleep studies. MRI is a great imaging tool to provide such information but also has its own challenges, namely acquisition speed, acoustic noise and cost. This talk will cover some recent developments to address these issues. Both technical improvements and clinical findings will be discussed.
Biography: Ziyue "Brian" Wu joined the Magnetic Resonance Engineering Lab at USC as a PhD student in 2011. Brian has been working on imaging sleep apnea using MRI since then under Dr. Krishna Nayak. His research focus is fast real-time MRI including novel pulse sequence design and image reconstruction. Brian is also the recipient of 2015 Grodins Graduate Award, Wallace H. Coulter Award (USC) and ISMRM summa cum laude Award.
Host: Prof. Krishna Nayak
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
