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welcome back to Reference Scan – the MRI blog

by Aziz on May 28, 2010

in Meta

Does this thing still work?
Well, as far as hiatuses go, this one probably set some kind of record. Real life of course intrudes to varying degrees, but I am hopeful that I can start anew here and we can regain some of the lost ground.
My aim is to make this a genuinely interesting resource [...]

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stay tuned

by Aziz on June 1, 2007

in Meta

RefScan has been pretty moribund of late, mainly because I have been preparing for a cross country move and tying up loose ends at my postdoc. Please rest assured that there will be new content regularly appearing again in the near future. For a few weeks though, the dry spell will continue.
Also, incidentally, upgrading to [...]

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Diffusion Tensor Imaging feed

by Aziz on February 8, 2007

in DTI, Meta

I’m adding the DTI feed to the right sidebar now instead of its own page. I still would like to solicit suggestions for other real-time feeds off of PubMed, so leave a comment with your favorite queries.
The PubMed query for the DTI feed is as follows:

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Open Peer Review and MRI

by Dustin on February 5, 2007

in Meta, Science

I have decided that my inaugural post on this respectable, scientific blog should, of course, be filled with rampant speculation and ungrounded commentary. Sadly, Aziz does not have that “Organizing the Secret (Yet Open-Source) Cabal that Shall Rule ISMRM” tag for this blog…Respectable commentary on image reconstruction coming later in the week.
One thing that [...]

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the Just Science challenge

by Aziz on January 25, 2007

in Meta

What if anti-Science didn’t exist? In other words, what if public outreach by scientists didn’t have to allocate a significant fraction of resources to combating pseudo-science and conspiracy theories? That’s the world that the Just Science Challenge wants to create, if only for a week, starting February 5th (monday). During that week, the challenge to [...]

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the Patron Saint of MRI

by Aziz on January 24, 2007

in Meta

Technically, magnetos are the exact opposite of an electromagnet, but the Marvel Comics character remains our field’s patron saint by virtue of artistic license.

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