Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of June 6 – Radiation Protection in Manitoba/Quebec City Cancer Centre Tour/One-Minute Brain MRI Scans

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Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of June 6 – Radiation Protection in Manitoba/Quebec City Cancer Centre Tour/One-Minute Brain MRI Scans

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  • Read the COMP April feature: Radiation Protection in Manitoba.
  • Are you attending the COMP ASM and interested in taking a tour of the new cancer centre in Quebec City? Ping us an email and let us know.  If there's sufficient interest we'll arrange something for Saturday afternoon.
  • Can machine learning deliver one-minute brain MRI scans? According to a recent talk, a quantitative technique called MR fingerprinted could make this a reality.

Published on June 6, 2022

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