Presenter: Kevin Yang, Physiology and Neurobiology & Computer Science, Global Public Health Scholars
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For my practicum, I volunteered at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore over the course of the summer of 2019. I worked under Dr. Ye Qiao of the Department of Radiology. She was studying the differences in spatial resolution and clarity of different MRI machines, which is an important detail as there are several manufacturers, each making several different machines. Any
slight differences between the machines can result in diagnostic differences, which could be bad for patients relying on it as well as researchers trying to gain some insight. My task was to analyze images taken by different MRI machines at the same locations in several volunteers to determine the amount of variability between machines.