Topic: GRASP MRl: An Overview of a Decade of Progress from Technical Advancements to Clinical lmplementation
Speaker: Associate Professor FENG Li, Department of Radiology, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University (NYU)
Date and time: 9:00–10:30, November 30
Venue: Zoom Meeting:
Meeting ID: 588 380 5942 Password: 123456
Host: Jeff L. Zhang
Abstract:
GRASP (Golden-angle RAdial Sparse Parallel) MRI is a project that started in 2011 at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. The overarching goal of this project is to develop novel MRI techniques combining golden-angle radial sampling with advanced image reconstruction strategies to achieve highly-accelerated and motion-robust MRI acquisition. GRASP MRI is now over 10 years old, and it has made a notable impact worldwide. GRASP was translated into the clinical environment for patient exams in 2013 and received FDA approval in 2017 for general clinical use. To date, it has been applied to over 160,000 clinical patients at NYU alone (approximately 32,000 patients per year now) and has been utilized in tens of thousands of patients worldwide. The GRASP paper, published in 2013, has now been cited over 800 times. The source code of GRASP MRI has been downloaded thousands of times, and it is widely accepted as a benchmark for new techniques based on radial sampling. As the main driver of this project, Dr. FENG will share the story behind GRASP MRI and present an update on its latest developments and applications in this talk.
Biography:
Dr. FENG completed his PhD studies (2009-2015) and postdoctoral training (2015-2018) at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Following this, he served as an MRI physicist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) for one year before establishing his own lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he started the role of Assistant Professor of Radiology in 2019 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2022. In early 2023, Dr. FENG returned to NYU as an Associate Professor and Director of Rapid Imaging in the Department of Radiology, where he oversees general research on fast MRI. Dr. FENG is a world-recognized expert in radial MRI and dynamic MRI, with over a decade of experience in the development of novel imaging techniques using golden-angle radial sampling and advanced constrained image reconstruction for rapid motion-robust MRI.