This week I was able to make a more progress on my project. Although I'm not allowed to reveal details of my project but had a chance to talk with several people who work on the same topic. It is very interesting to see people from different communities (Mathematics, Physics, Radiology) apply different approaches to topics related to clinical imaging. For instance, To acquire MRI raw data and process them there are several protocols and algorithms that can be used. Each of them has its own cons and pros in terms of acquisition speed, quality, computation time, temporal and spatial resolution, etc. I met with Dr. Pascal Spincemaille who is a faculty in Radiology department at Cornell and has developed a technique that uses spiral sampling trajectory for temporal resolution acceleration. Another interesting aspect of projects here is that most of them are very close to reality because you'll get to work with patients either directly or their diagnostic tests. So any brilliant idea that is feasible and practical can have a chance to either become a product or a new protocol in standard of care. On Wednesday, we attended the liver conference at Columbia hospital and as before a few cases were discussed. Most of the cases were Hepatocellular carcinoma. There were a few patients who had multiple lesions with different shapes such as nodular, wedge, etc and a few millimeters in size. Some patients were listed on liver transplant cause they met the criteria for that. The overall conclusion for these cases was that the best transplant time that meets all the criteria is the one for advanced liver disease in early stages. Other cases were Cirrhosis, which is improper function of liver due to damage caused by alcohol, hepatitis B and C. The damage is irreversible but further progress of it can be slowed down.
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