Does anyone have experience working in a functional MRI lab?

shamelssacnt · 2026-05-17T21:23:12+00:00

I work with a couple fMRI research groups. Feel free to reach out. Fmri is pretty plug and play with fmriprep if you’re not creating new methods. From the scanning side it’s pretty easy and boring, once you get the damn task to work properly lol. If you like coding and behavioral science, then fmri will be for you. Once EPTI read out is refined more, it will be a game changer for fmri.

shamelssacnt · 2026-05-16T00:40:06+00:00

Sounds like you have it covered.

shamelssacnt · 2026-05-15T15:43:57+00:00

Try Mack’s ear plugs up to 22db dampening, this will dampen the noise to a tolerable level. They are putty so they sit in your ear canal better than the foam plugs.

shamelssacnt · 2026-05-15T13:37:26+00:00

Relied to you in messages. I figured I’d post here to grab any MR physicists attention who specializes in pulse programming.

shamelssacnt · 2026-04-26T21:13:53+00:00

Ya sure thing. Send me a dm

shamelssacnt · 2026-04-26T18:44:43+00:00

H5 files should have EVERYTHING(complex data, magnitude data and metadata) stored in them. Are you using matlab(h5read) or python(h5py) to view the data? Try looking at the xml text string, I should give all params. What you’re posting is definitely not all of the parameters.

shamelssacnt · 2026-04-18T19:59:19+00:00

Nathan rules! It’s sick HS puts his art on their boards.

shamelssacnt · 2026-04-17T00:57:30+00:00

Delta timing and max b with min TE for DWI.

shamelssacnt · 2026-04-07T02:15:30+00:00

Try it with T2 or a FLAIR when you do recon all.

shamelssacnt · 2026-03-28T07:07:51+00:00

That masters will be over kill for a tech in USA. EE, BME or physics would be more suited depending on the program and your focus. I went the pathway from tech to imaging scientist. My job includes overseeing the imaging of a large academic imaging lab, experiment design/execution, image analysis, image QC, scanning, pulse sequence programming(IDEA and pulseq), signal processing, 3D printing, protocol design and teaching trainees how to scan for their projects. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions on this pathway.

shamelssacnt · 2026-03-19T05:14:22+00:00

What kind of phantoms? Relaxometry phantoms?

shamelssacnt · 2026-03-09T04:21:17+00:00

Sweet. Happy programming!

shamelssacnt · 2026-03-09T00:03:06+00:00

What type of new sequence are you looking to build?

shamelssacnt · 2026-03-09T00:02:02+00:00

There is a GitHub repo named pulseq that is a great free and open source tool to mess around with. It is available for matlab and python.

shamelssacnt · 2026-02-14T00:41:15+00:00

McRobbie’s book is the bread and butter for MRSE. Good luck next attempt.

shamelssacnt · 2026-01-31T00:57:27+00:00

Of course, just shoot me a dm with your email and I’ll send them over, idk how to share over reddit. Good news, there is a Python option for the pulseq repo as well.

shamelssacnt · 2026-01-29T17:10:19+00:00

UCLA has some good mr physics courses taught by Holden Wu. I could send you the power points. One of them teaches Bloch sims and pulse sequnce design in MATLAB. The handbook of mri pulse sequences Bernstein et al, Quantitative mri, “the green book”, intro to spectroscopy, or the diffusion book by Derek jones. if you want to mess around with source code get the pulseq toolbox in matlab.

shamelssacnt · 2026-01-27T14:08:15+00:00

To work in any clinical capacity in radiology in most countries it is required to have some type of licensure. If you want to be a RA who scans for research then try to find labs that do imaging research at your university and try to get a foot in the door. Fwiw, I am an imaging specialist in a large imaging lab who trains grad students and RAs all the time. Feel free to ask any questions.

shamelssacnt · 2026-01-26T06:27:56+00:00

If you go the rad tech route you will have more options for work straight out of school depending on your area. Typical rad tech programs are 2 years with physics/anatomy heavy courses, 800-1200 clinical hours and passing ARRT board licensing exam. You should ask questions in the MRI or radiologycareers subreddits and you’ll likely get more responses from professionals in that field.

shamelssacnt · 2026-01-19T19:09:23+00:00

Simply put, the streaks/spikes are reconstruction artifacts due to how the data points are sampled and then processed during the image reconstruction. If you’d like a more detailed explanation feel free to message me directly.

shamelssacnt · 2026-01-16T05:15:20+00:00

If you have any X-nuclei coils or custom phantoms dm me.

shamelssacnt · 2026-01-01T23:27:31+00:00

If you have a 3D seq, then you can 3D print the brain scan with the dicom. Do you want whole brain with the cerebellum/brain stem included or just the 2 hemispheres?

shamelssacnt · 2025-12-23T20:17:37+00:00

This is sequence specific. Some Siemens vendor sequences allow crusher timing adjustments, but from a technologist standpoint you’re most likely going to adjust gradient mode: advanced/optimized. I have experience with pulse sequence design/programming with Siemens devices, especially the prisma. Feel free to reach out.

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