Okay, what a week!!! Heading home from the IDEA workshop. That was a lot of stuff in the best way possible. I am so pumped to go back to my sequence programming on Monday 😎😎 Thank you all the amazing scientists for everything and answering my crazy questions patiently ❤️ #MRISky community is awesome!

I mean this quote can’t be more true today. Thank you Jane 🫂

YES!! Not only the constant notifications but also the effectiveness varies for everyone. I had days when a breathing exercise or meditation weren’t enough. Everybody might need something different at different times. It would be nice if apps can remind that. Ex: a body scan still makes me anxious.

Today in PhD: Back to basics. Reading an awesome chapter 5 on physics of diffusion in Handbook of Diffusion #MRI tractography. Let’s see if I’ll convincingly answer questions I have today. (I love my job 😍) #PhDSky #AcademicSky #MRI

Today in PhD: Actually preparing for my tutorial for the course I’m TAing. No research today 🫣 #PhDSky #AcademicSky But don’t think I forgot you diffusion #MRI. Still thinking how to represent application of diffusion gradients in my Bloch Simulation.

Today in PhD: Reading about the physics of #Diffusion. And reading the same sentence 5 times so I understand what’s going on. Welcome to reading Friday 🎉 #PhDSky #AcademicSky #MRI

Hi Bluesky! I’m curious. What is a burning question you have about MRI? What do you want to know the most about this super cool system? Maybe I can help you figure it out and I’ll learn something new in the process 🤔 🧪 #MRI #MRS

Today in my PhD: Brain is super fast, yet very slow to output things. Energy levels on the low side. Inspiration not really there. Writing some code to read stuff into MATLAB. I guess that’s alright?? #PhDSky #AcademicSky

It’s an “I’m annoyed because I don’t understand why pre-compiled works but my compile doesn’t…” kind of day. It seems building mini diffusion MRI in your computer isn’t as easy as it sounds 😅 #PhDSky #MRI

Funny I talked about the exact the same thing with my friends, and a bit with my supervisor. I’m working on seeking non-science advice from my supervisor more and more but making them neurons connect with other neurons that thinks “seeking advice from your boss is not weakness” is taking some time 🌈

Faraday’s law lets us do MRI. But when doing the said MRI creates this artifact called eddy currents. I modified to modified my diffusion sequence to get less of this artifact 🤞 Now I’m working on an experiment to evaluate how well I’m correcting for them during data acquisition 🤔 #MRI #PhDSky 🧪

Well hello my “mini diffusion MRI in my computer”. Most people call this a diffusion MRI simulation. The whole thing is like using MR physics to complete the simulation puzzle. I love my job ❤️❤️ (next step make a not mini version and compare with my actual MR experiments) #MRI #PhDSky 🧪

Today I’m working on: Simulating diffusion MRI in my computer. It’s like I’m running an MRI experiment on a teeny tiny sample and looking at how water is moving in that sample but all in my computer. How cool is that 😍😍 #MRI 🧪

(Why? To see if diffusion over time can tell us about white matter.)

Hi Bluesky! I’m curious. What is a burning question you have about MRI? What do you want to know the most about this super cool system? Maybe I can help you figure it out and I’ll learn something new in the process 🤔 🧪 #MRI #MRS