SF 21a - Functional renal imaging for the clinical practice

1. To understand the basic principles of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), including mono- and bi-exponential fitting.
2. To understand in which clinical context DWI provides additional information.
3. To learn to avoid the typical pitfalls in image interpretation of DWI.

1. To learn to describe which parameters and clinical conditions affect renal tissue oxygenation in humans.
2. To understand the basic principles and pitfalls in the acquisition and patient preparation of renal BOLD MRI.
3. To be able to describe 2-3 future clinical applications of renal BOLD MRI.

1. To understand the basic principles of arterial spin labelling (ASL) and how it is performed and interpreted.
2. To understand when ASL can be used, its advantages, its challenges, and what to expect from the results.
3. To provide some clinically relevant examples of the method and some possible future applications.