"Silence Is Golden" 

MRI doesn’t have to be noisy. The Zero Echo Time sequence is naturally quiet, but is yet to breakthrough into mainstream use. 

This episode is a conversation between Sanam Assili from ESMRMB and Tobias Wood from King’s College London. He discusses his work on making Silent MRI useful for clinicians, in collaboration with GE Healthcare.

A video illustrating how quiet the sequence is can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSxBokkF2s0

And a recent review paper from the KCL group on this topic is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007965652100011X

Outline:

00:00 Introduction

01:38 What is silent MRI? 

04:27 Challenges to make it work with different scanners

09:21 Machine learning 

14:12 Silent MRI in clinic