The Samuel Ginn MRI Lecture Series

This series brings leaders in the field of magnetic resonance imaging to campus to interact with faculty and students. Lectures cover broad range of topics ranging from spectroscopic imaging and coil design and manufacture to psychology, cognitive neuroscience, metabolic and molecular imaging, audiology and speech pathology, as well as medical research on Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, heart disease, autism and orthopaedics.

Tamer S. Ibrahim, assistant professor of bioengineering and radiology and technical director of the Ultrahigh Field Human MRI Facility at the University of Pittsburg, discussed the electromagnetic challenges and advantages of human MRI at low- and high-field strength. He also advanced a new electromagnetic vision for high-field MRI that will allow the technology to continue its meteoric ascent as a diagnostic tool for human medicine.