Speaker: Dr. John Pauly, Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Engineering, Stanford University 
Title: Improving MRI with Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering
Abstract: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines are marvels of engineering. Extremely powerful and precise static and switched magnetic fields encode detailed anatomical images of patients. However, MRI can be greatly improved using recent advances in Electrical Engineering. Faster acquisitions can be used if reconstruction problems can be solved with optimization or machine learning techniques, and arrays of GPUs for processing. Higher fidelity images can be obtained with distributed real time sensors to measure exactly what the encoding fields do, and exploiting these measurements in image reconstruction. Printed electronics and recent signal processing ICs allow wireless receive arrays to be built into the blanket around the patient, improving the scan experience. Our research group is pursuing all of these technologies, with the aim of improving the use of MRI for children. In this presentation I will introduce some of these projects.
Biography: John Pauly (https://web.stanford.edu/~pauly/) is the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Engineering in the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering. He is co-director of the Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory (MRSRL), which designs improved MRI techniques and equipment. His research interests are in medical imaging, and particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). His group led the Real-time MRI effort in the 1990s. Pauly completed a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1979. In 1981, he obtained an M.S. in EE from Carnegie-Mellon University, and in 1990, completed his PhD from Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering. He joined Stanford as a research associate in 1990. He joined the electrical engineering faculty in 2001. Pauly received the 2012 Gold Medal from the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, he is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and of International Society of Magnetic in Medicine.