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IDEA Workshop

September 29, 2025 to October 3, 2025
Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Siemens Healthineers cordially invites you to join us for the IDEA Workshop, a 5-day educational event at Sunnybrook Hospital. This workshop is designed to help advance skills in MR sequence programming and related topics, featuring daily lectures, demonstrations and interactive sessions led by onsite scientists from Siemens Healthineers. We invite our customers from across Canada to participate in this exciting opportunity for hands-on learning and discussions! Coffee and lunch will be provided each day to keep you refreshed and engaged throughout the workshop.

Date: September 29, 2025 to October 3, 2025 (Monday to Friday)
Venue: Sunnybrook Hospital, 2075 Bayview Ave, North York, ON M4N 3M5

Date: Monday, September 29, 2025
Venue: Harrison Hall EG21

Time

Topics

09:00 - 10:30

Introduction to IDEA

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30 

Sequence structures

11:30 - 12:00

Real-time events

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Real-time events (contd.)

14:00 - 15:00

UI programming 

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:30

Demo: miniFLASH compilation/simulation 

Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Venue: McLaughlin Lecture Hall EG61

Time

Topics

09:00 - 10:30

Sequence build block (SBB), sequence loop, and reorderInfo

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 - 12:00

Sequence test frame, unit test, and debugging

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 15:00

Example (GRE)

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:30 

Quick overview of ep2D sequence family

Date: Wednesday, 1 October, 2025 
Venue: McLaughlin Lecture Hall EG61

Time

Topics

09:00 - 09:30

Reconstruction tools (TW(R)IX, retro recon) ICE configurator basic

09:30 - 09:45

ICE configurator basic

09:45 - 10:00

Coffee break

10:00 - 12:00

FIRE and ICE (1.5)

12:00 - 13:00 

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

MRS sequence programming

14:00 - 15:00

MRS ICE programming

15:00 - 15:30 

Coffee break

15:30 - 17:00

FIRE and ICE

Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025
Venue: Harrison Hall EG21

Time

Topics

09:00 - 09:30

System overview

09:30 - 10:00

Coffee break

10:00 - 11:30 

pTx HW/SW overview

11:30 - 12:00

Coil Files

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 15:00

Example: Add pTx pulses to the GRE Sequence (XA60A and VE12U)

15:00 - 15:30

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00

7T tips and tricks

15:30 - 16:00

Open questions

Date: Friday, October 3, 2025
Venue: M6 502 Lecture Theatre

Time

Topics

09:00 - 12:00

Assistance with projects (Coffee break included)