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SUMMARY:Inaugural lecture: Towards robust quantitative magnetic resonance 
 imaging
DTSTART:20250910T171500
DTEND:20250910T180000
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dimitrios Karampinos\nAbstract\nMagnetic Resonance Imag
 ing (MRI) is one of the most widely used modalities in modern diagnostic i
 maging. MRI operates without ionizing radiation and provides high intrinsi
 c soft tissue contrast. However\, MRI scanners currently used in clinical 
 settings primarily generate qualitative images. Quantitative magnetic reso
 nance imaging (qMRI) enables the extraction of quantitative information to
  optimize diagnostic decisions\, to monitor therapy response and to answer
  novel biological questions. The present presentation will overview recent
  technological advancements to improve the robustness of qMRI with an emph
 asis on imaging the human trunk. The importance of addressing confounding 
 effects will be highlighted in the context of recent successful qMRI bioma
 rkers\, clinical translation examples will be provided and an outlook for 
 addressing remaining challenges will be discussed.\n\nBiography\nDimitrios
  Karampinos studied engineering at the National Technical University of At
 hens\, Greece. In 2008\, he earned his PhD from the University of Illinois
  at Urbana-Champaign and he was then a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Departm
 ent of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California\, 
 San Francisco. In 2012\, he joined the Department of Diagnostic and Interv
 entional Radiology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) as a Junior
  Group Leader and he obtained his Habilitation in Medical Physics in 2016.
  He started in 2019 as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Experimental
  Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the TUM School of Medicine and Health. He w
 as granted tenure at TUM in June 2024. He is a recipient of a European Res
 earch Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2016) and an ERC Proof-of-Concept Gran
 t (2020). He joined EPFL as an Associate Professor in winter 2025.\n 
LOCATION:BM 5202 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BM%205202 https://epfl.zoom.u
 s/j/68391368645
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