CTSC:TTIC.102009

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Agenda:

1. New consultation (see JIRA imaging-45 Suborbital flight imaging)
2. Hands-on workshops at Countway
3. Catalyst Medical Imaging Lecture
4. DCE-MRI for RSNA
5. Education program

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes October 20, 2009

In attendance:

• Valerie Humblet
• Jeff Yap
• Bob Lenkinski
• Gordon Harris
• Wendy Plesniak
• Gordon Williams
• Clare Tempany
• Charles Guttmann
• Annick Van den Abbeele

1. Update on imaging consultation requests

• We received one new request for consultation this week. It comes from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. The new issue is labeled imaging-45 in JIRA. Valerie will invite the PI to participate at next week t-con to get a better understanding of the project.

2. Hands-on workshops at Countway

• The imaging consortium will run regular hands-on workshops on different softwares starting in January. The location will be in one of the electronic teaching class at Countway.
  • Jeff suggested that running a session twice a month could result in a smaller audience. He suggested to have monthly events. The other members all agreed.
  • Sonia Pujol will be tasked to give the first tutorial.

3. Catalyst Medical Imaging Lecture

• On November 5, 2009 the imaging consortium is giving an introductory lecture on imaging during the Introduction to Clinical Investigation course.
  • Randy suggested Dan Sodickson's tutorial from an HST course as a good starting material for the lecture. Valerie sent the slides to the group.
  • Valerie and Randy will work on the slides later this week. Valerie will then post them for review for the next t-con on Tuesday 10/27.

4. DCE-MRI and PET/CT Slicer tutorials for RSNA

• The PET/CT tutorial is finished and ready to be run as a hands-on interactive demonstration at RSNA.
• For the DCE-MRI module, the goal is to show the existing data set used for the ACRIN meeting to prove that one can generate curves and data, even if those numbers are not specifically meaningful.

5. Education program

• Valerie contacted Cindy Fiducia, Director, Education Programs for the Harvard Catalyst and sent her the draft of our proposal for the education program.
  • Cindy suggested that the best way to proceed is to contact Eric Rosenberg at MGH who is in charge of putting together the Advanced Curriculum Compendium, and is also creating subcommittees to look at course offerings in particular areas, imaging being one, to assess what is currently being offered, where the holes are, and how to develop more course to fill those holes.
  • Valerie and Jeff will get in touch with Eric Rosenberg shortly.
  • Gordon Williams mentioned that the creation of the imaging curriculum will reside in our hands, we have to come with the course content.
• Each year the consortium should be running 4-5 courses (once at MGH, once at LMA). These modules can be either modality or disease-based.
  • Valerie and Jeff already worked on a plan for those modules back in May. They will update the project to include title, topics, timeline and an assigned leader for next week.
  • Clare suggested to offer a module on safety (MRI and CT). One on image-guided intervention would also be easy to put together because several people already have the material almost ready.
  • Gordon Williams mentioned that Todd Perlstein should be the leader on the US module because it is one of the less known modality. It would also give us an opportunity to engage other people (for example with brain US expertise).