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Medical Imaging 2016
October 20-21, 2016
Volume 5, Issue 5(Suppl) OMICS J Radiol
ISSN: 2167-7964 ROA, an open access journal
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October 20-21, 2016 Chicago, USA
International Conference on
Medical Imaging & Diagnosis
Tamara Feygin, OMICS J Radiol 2016, 6:5(Suppl)
Dynamic MR imaging (MR fluoroscopy): Clinical applications in pediatric radiology
Tamara Feygin
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dynamic Cine Magnetic Resonance imaging (MR “fluoroscopy”) is a rapidly developing technique, which evolves from
research and works in progress into routine imaging sequences. This technique is designed to demonstrate some of the
physiologic and pathologic processes of the human body in almost real time. MR “fluoroscopy” offers many advantages over
other dynamic imaging modalities (such as x-ray based fluoroscopy, nuclear medicine examinations or ultrasonography) due
to its lack of ionized radiation and short acquisition time. These features are particularly important in pediatric and prenatal
medicine. The dynamic sequences are based on fast acquisition and organization of images in a sequential-loop, resulting in
an impression of observing a real-time movie. The sequences vary slightly in different manufactures but almost any sequence
sensitive to flow may be employed. They are easily obtainable from a technical standpoint, and are easily tolerated by patients.
These dynamic sequences prove to be valuable tools in functional assessment of intracranial/intraspinal CSF flow dynamics,
evaluation of effectiveness of endoscopic procedures, esophageal or bowel motility (and almost any other type of dynamic
motion in the human body); evaluation of cardiac contractility and blood flow patterns and joint mobility. Dynamic Cine
MR Imaging improves our knowledge of fetal physiology, demonstrates functional impairment of fetal fluids flow dynamics;
provides clinically significant prognostic information for pre and postnatal planning and contributes in very careful selection
of patients eligible for fetal intervention.
Biography
Tamara Feygin is an Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology in University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, and Staff Neuroradiologist in The
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She led the development and implementation of magnetic resonance fluoroscopy in clinical practice for assessment of cerebral
and spinal CSF flow dynamic in children and fetuses; for assessment of fetal swallowing; for evaluation of phonation in children with velopharyngeal incompetence.
She is a dedicated educator and mentor of undergraduate and medical students, radiology residents, and radiology and neuroradiology fellows. She has been
invited to present her work nationally and internationally. She is a member of the European Society of Neuroradiology, the Radiological Society of North America,
the Society for Pediatric Radiology, and a senior member of the American Society of Neuroradiology.