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Prerequisites Protocols

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• Specifications/SpecimenPreparation

Initial Goal

A set of magnetic resonance (MR) and computer tomography (CT) images of the extremity specimen (upper/lower leg, upper/lower arm) with clear visual delineation of skin, fat, and muscle layers.

Additional information about the imaging facility, all associated contacts, and MRI hardware can be found at:

• Infrastructure/MagneticResonanceImaging

= Workflow ==

Schedule MRI/CT

• MRI: Contact Tracy Painter (CCF), paintet@ccf.org

• CT : Contact Kerry Grimberg, kerrygrimberg@case.edu

== Preparation ==

Position/Orient Specimen in MRI Machine

• Anatomical position, anterior up. Distal end of extremity to distal end of MRI.

Acquire Image Sequences

For each segment (upper leg, lower leg, upper arm, and lower arm), the following set of image collection protocols will be performed. All images should be acquired in the same coordinate system to be able to align reconstructed tissue geometries during assembly of the full segment geometry. To accomplish this the origin (isocenter) and the axes of the magnet, which is set at the beginning of the session, should not change. In addition, the specimen should not be moved. It should be noted that a pixel-by-pixel alignment of image sets (co-localization) is not necessary.

[Examples to come] Before, each sequence is acquired, verify that the acquisition properties match the desired settings in the tables below. After each sequence is acquired, inspect the images and compare them against the sample images below to to ensure that it was collected properly. If not, the sequence should be recollected.

Final Imaging Specifications

Image Acquisition Properties: Download T1 SettingsDownload PD Settings