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by fluidcruft 819 days ago
One of my favorite ISMRM posters that I saw in Toronto years ago was titled something like "a low-cost MRI-compatible communication system". It was really well written and you had to look at the photos to fully realize it was actually two Dixie cups connected by a string.
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throwaway2037 819 days ago
Man, you really nerd sniped me here. First: ISMRM means "International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine" from here: https://www.ismrm.org/

I found a bunch of posters here, but I could not find the exact one that you mentioned:

https://www.ismrm.org/19/program_files/DP02.htm

Maybe lost now? Or a different page?

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fluidcruft 819 days ago
I'm pretty sure it was the 2008 ISMRM meeting (small chance it may have been 2003). I don't think it was actually submitted, because I couldn't find it in the proceedings even back then. I think whoever it was smuggled the poster into the hall and hung it among the others as a prank. I'm pretty sure the dead salmon fMRI poster was also there at the time but I can't remember if that was in the proceedings. The dead salmon fMRI did end up being published though and making quite a stir.
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