Hello Twin Cities Section IEEE Members,We invite you to the join the Twin Cities (TC) Section ExCom (Executive Committee) for a townhall meeting. Please come and share your comments and ideas about how the TC Section can better serve your needs, and ask questions that you may have about the IEEE structure, the TC Section, and local IEEE Technical Society Chapters.If you like, you can send in your questions in advance by emailing [email protected] or using our contact form ((https://tc-ieee.org/contact-us/)This is an online event so we hope it will be easy for you to attend.We look forward to seeing you at the townhall.TC Section ExComAhmed Naumaan, TC Section Chair(Image created by Microsoft CoPilot)Agenda: - Short Introductory Presentations- Audience ParticipationVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/414380

Hello Twin Cities Section IEEE Members, We invite you to the join the Twin Cities (TC) Section ExCom (Executive Committee) for a townhall meeting. Please come and share your comments and ideas about how the TC Section can better serve your needs, and ask questions that you may have about the IEEE structure, the TC Section, and local IEEE Technical Society Chapters. If you like, you can send in your questions in advance by emailing [email protected] or using our contact form ((https://tc-ieee.org/contact-us/) This is an online event so we hope it will be easy for you to attend. We look forward to seeing you at the townhall. TC Section ExCom Ahmed Naumaan, TC Section Chair (Image created by Microsoft CoPilot) Agenda: - Short Introductory Presentations - Audience Participation Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/414380

Many patients have health issues that require living with an implanted device, such as a pacemaker that helps the heart keep its rhythm. For safety reasons, when a person with an implanted device needs an MRI, scanning can be limited to an MRI machine with a lower magnetic field, such as a 1.5 Tesla (or 1.5T) MRI scanner. However, when a patient needs a brain scan, an MRI with a stronger magnetic field, a 3T MRI, is the best technology to get high-quality images. A few years ago, Mayo Clinic received the first compact 3T MRI scanner, an advanced prototype developed under an NIH-funded collaboration between GE Research and Mayo Clinic. The compact 3T scanner is a small, high-performance machine with a narrow central chamber, known as the patient bore. The small bore of the compact 3T scanner allows for scans of the head and extremities. For patients with metal implanted devices, whether pacemakers or spinal stimulators, a major advantage of using the compact 3T MRI for a brain scan is that the strength of the electromagnetic fields drops off rapidly outside the bore and, therefore, is lower at the location of the implanted device than around the brain. This talk explores whether this compact 3T scanner can be used for brain scans of patients with metallic implanted devices. Speaker(s): Lydia Bardwell Speltz, PhD, Agenda: 6:30 - 7:00 Social half hour to grab food and drink 7:00 - 8:00 Technical talk Room: Mann Hall, Bldg: Medical Sciences Building, 300 3rd Ave SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55902, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/416420

This talk will be delivered by Lydia Bardwell Speltz, PhD, a recent graduate of the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and will be relating to one of the areas of her recent dissertation. More details will be forthcoming.Speaker(s): Lydia Bardwell Speltz, PhD, Agenda: 6:30 - 7:00 Social half hour to grab food and drink7:00 - 8:00 Technical talkRoom: Mann Hall, Bldg: Medical Sciences Building, 300 3rd Ave SW, Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55902, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/416420