Ferg

Irish, Canadian, running, science, innovation, Raptors. Baked goods & coffee required. “Aggressive Entrepreneur” 🌱 Founder & CEO @PreOperative Performance

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We’re weeks away from the ISMRM Annual Meeting in Cape Town!

On Tuesday May 12 at 09:15am, PreOperative Performance will present data demonstrating unit-to-unit equivalency of our ground-truth imaging technology - Abstract no. 01873

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Delighted to share this publication, published this month in @ISMRM ‘s Magnetic Resonance in Medicine journal.

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We're delighted to share news of a new publication, featuring PreOperative Performance's anisotropic diffusion phantom technology, in the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine journal.

https://t.co/W5ftp0DAkg

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The Human Gold Standard in neuroimaging has a scaling problem.
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Traditional multi-site MRI harmonization relies on traveling subjects. It’s a $300k investment that takes 24+ months from first planning steps to publication.

A short thread…
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We're pleased to announce that our abstract, “Characterizing Fiber Bundles in an Anisotropic Diffusion Phantom: Comparison of Phantom Replicas” (Abstract # 01873) has been accepted to ISMRM 2026 this May. 🧠

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PreOperative Performance is at the inaugural International Society of Tractography meeting in Bordeaux this week.

✉️ DM us!

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Preclinical imaging, including studies of ex-vivo tissue and organoid models, play a critical role in advancing MR imaging research by providing the means to explore the biological underpinnings of disease, refine imaging techniques and uncover insights…

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PreOperative Performance is attending ESMRMB 2025 from October 8-11th
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We look forward to meeting old friends & new & engaging in discussions about our anisotropic diffusion phantom technology. We’re delighted to share that our technology will feature in the scientific program

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MR imaging at 1.5T vs 3T have different advantages. 🧠

Aside from cost, imaging at 3T delivers higher signal to noise (SNR) enabling increased spatial resolution, critical for identification of smaller white matter tracts & changes that may result from injury or disease.

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[Ferg @fergalkyyz]

Some light reading on #neuroimaging as we go into the weekend!

#mri #neurology #medicalimaging

[PreOperativePerformance @Preoperative]

A post on visualizing white matter bifurcations using diffusion analysis:
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We show that using the diffusion model and seed-based tractography, we are able to delineate the full bifurcating module of a bifurcating module in our phantom POP-0005 with dimensions as given

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[Ferg @fergalkyyz]

More from @Preoperative Performance!

Much more to come!

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This image shows 3 pairs of crossing white matter simulating bundles with 3 different bundle diameters from our phantom POP-0005. Note that the bundles with smallest diameter are sub-voxel dimensions.

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[PreOperativePerformance @Preoperative]

This image shows 3 pairs of crossing white matter simulating bundles with 3 different bundle diameters from our phantom POP-0005. Note that the bundles with smallest diameter are sub-voxel dimensions.

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[Ferg @fergalkyyz]

Mostly on BlueSky these days…

[Ferg @fergalkyyz]

From @Preoperative Performance

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We’re proud to have a publication featuring our anisotropic diffusion phantom technology feature in the @ESMRMB’s #MAGMA
Special Issue on reproducibility & quality assurance in MR imaging.

https://t.co/Ono6NUwOpf

[PreOperativePerformance @Preoperative]

🚨 Publication announcement!

We’re delighted to share the news that our anisotropic diffusion phantom features in the literature, in a study harmonising DTI metrics acquired across different #MRI systems, controlling for variables including repeat scan, vendor, and MPGs.

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PreOperative Performance is going to be at #RSNA24 in the first week of December showcasing our anisotropic diffusion phantom technology.

🧠 Meet us at the Ontario Pavilion booth 8326 in the North Hall.

#neurorad #dMRI

[Ferg @fergalkyyz]

@garrytan … but you’ll need a warm intro 😉

[Lea Alhilali, MD @teachplaygrub]

1/Do radiologists sound like they are speaking a different language when they talk about MRI?

T1 shortening what? T2 prolongation who?

Here’s a translation w/an introductory thread to MRI.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

An important reminder: Your tiny daily actions create your future.

Small things become big things.

You’re either paid for your actions from ten years ago, or you pay for them. There is no in between.

[Ferg @fergalkyyz]

@LibyaLiberty A good idea and should be expanded for young travellers too.

I asked to be sitting alone in a row on an underbooked flight after attending a family funeral.

Lots of implementation issues - single seats beside couples where 3 seats/row & groups switching between their group