EPIC programming using KS Foundation
17-21 March 2025
@ Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
This five-day course/workshop will cover the basics of EPIC programming using KS Foundation, but mostly focus on the new available features.
The course has room for 20 attendees and is free of charge.
The course program is found below
The Google Drive course folder is here
KSF EPIC 2025 course program
Monday - March 17
Mon 08:30-09:30 Welcome & Computer VM checks
Mon 09:30-10:30 (Standard) EPIC crash course (Stefan)
Mon 10:30-10:45 BREAK
Mon 10:45-11:45 Exercise 1a - A minimal PSD UI change
Exercise 1b - Enforce parameters in range
Mon 11:45-12:45 LUNCH
Mon 12:45-13:45 KSFoundation EPIC overview (Stefan)
Mon 13:45-14:45 Exercise 2 - User CVs for RF choice
Mon 14:45-15:00 BREAK
Mon 15:00-16:30 Debugging in VSCode & Pulseview (Tim)
Mon 16:30-18:00 Exercise 3 - Flow comp in the readout direction (XGRAD)
Tuesday - March 18
Tue 08:30-09:30 RF Pulses in KSFoundation (Ola)
Tue 09:30-09:45 BREAK
Tue 09:45-11:45 Exercise 4 - Make a Spin-Echo sequence
Tue 11:45-12:45 LUNCH
Tue 12:45-13:45 Classic scan looping and sequence modules (Adam)
Tue 13:45-14:45 Hardware limits in KSFoundation (Enrico)
Tue 14:45-15:00 BREAK
Tue 15:00-18:00 In parallel:
- Exercise 5 - Add a simple inversion prep pulse
- Run your PSD on the MR scanner
3T MR scanner is available 13:00-17:00
Wednesday - March 19
Wed 08:30-09:30 The loop control ( Adam)
Wed 09:30-09:45 BREAK
Wed 09:45-10:30 ksgre_tutorial vs ksgre (Enrico)
Wed 10:30-11:15 ksfse (Ola)
Wed 12:00-13:00 LUNCH
Wed 13:00-14:00 KS_KCOORDS and KS_PHASEENCODING_PLAN (Henric)
Wed 14:00-15:30 Exercise 6 - Make your own phase encoding plan (Henric)
Wed 17:30 Dinner at Aifur.se, then walking around Old Town
Thursday - March 20
Thu 08:30-09:30 ksepi with custom metadata (Stefan)
Thu 09:30-10:00 EPI (Matlab) image reconstruction (Stefan)
Thu 10:00-10:15 BREAK
Thu 10:15-11:00 Changing waveforms in scan (Adam)
Thu 11:00-12:00 Exercise 7- Modifying a theta wave during the scan (Adam)
Thu 12:00-13:00 LUNCH
Thu 14:00-17:00 Course project
3T MR scanner might be available 14:00-17:00
Thu 18:30- Course dinner by GE Healthcare
Friday - March 21
Fri 08:30-12:00 Course project continued
Fri 12:00-13:00 Lunch
Fri 13:00-16:00 Course project continued
3T MR scanner is available 13:00-17:00
