Final entry by old manager

So, I am leaving the lab, for new employment starting Dec 17th. I'd like to thank you all for the (almost) five years I have had the pleasure to manage the lab -- there have been some interesting challenges, a lot of good research done and most of all, so many nice people to work and have fun with. I have greatly enjoyed my time here and will miss you all!

 As of 1st of January, you will have not one, but two new managers. Karl Bodell will take care of the administrative duties (you will be able to find him in my old office at 25%), and Farshad Falahati will manage the computers (also at 25%). Kalle and Farshad, I wish you both best of luck at SMILE!

New version of PACS software

We have a new software called IDS7 for accessing PACS on the PACS-machine at SMILE. It is an updated and better version of IDS5, where you for instance can choose to download a single sequence only for a patient (remember, in IDS5 one was forced to download all sequences). IDS7 is started either by double-clicking the icon named "PACS Huddinge" on the desktop or by entering the address "http://pacshuddinge/ids7" in a web browser. Log on as usual with your HSA-ID and password. You can still also open IDS5 by choosing Sectra on the Start menu.

New postdoc in the lab

We welcome Daniel Ferreira Padilla who is starting a one year postdoc at NVS, Novum, on 1st of January.

Dissertation by Raffaella Crinelli

We congratulate Raffaella Crinelli on successfully defending her thesis on the 27th of November. The title is "When I show the Beatles then you say: "Ramones!" : imaging semantic memory in Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia" and you can read the thesis at http://hdl.handle.net/10616/41226.

The big picture

Two months have passed since the last blog post and many things have happened. However, I have not updated the blog due to heavy workload, due to all the things to get ready before I leave for my new position. But here is a run-down of the most important things:

• SMILE did not get core facility support for the period 2013-2015 and is thus not formally a core facility as of 1st of January 2013. However, the board has decided that the lab will continue as before, with all functionalities intact. The board is at work mapping out the future directions SMILE will develop in, with data simulation being a core feature. 
• As a result of the above, the manager position will be diminished and also split in two: an administrative part and a computer part. The new administrative manager will be Karl Bodell. The computer manager position is as yet unfilled.
• Three new theses connected to SMILE have passed the test, and we congratulate Dr Julia Miralbell, Dr. Virginija Karrenbauer and Dr. Daniel Ferreira Padilla.
• We also congratulate Tie-Qiang Li and Rimma Axelsson on becoming professors at KI.

I will now leave for vacation (26th of October to 7th of December) and will work one last week at SMILE (10th-14th of December) before beginning in my new position.

Extra seminar on Aug 29th, 11.00

Even though the seminar list has not yet been quite finalized, we will have a talk tomorrow to "open the season". This extra seminar is given by Louise Blomkvist, and is a presentation of her recently finished exam work project at Medical physics, Stockholm university.

Title: Optimization of activity administration in myocardial perfusion SPECT

Place and time: Tomorrow Wednesday 29th of August, at 11.00 in the R43 conference room.
All are welcome to participate!

The manager is leaving in December

I have been offered and have accepted a new position as program coordinator at a company named Equalis, which means that I will be leaving Imagelab in just a few months. My official last day of work is Dec 14th, but I have a large amount of saved-up vacation which I graciously have been granted leave to use, which means that I will be gone during the period Oct 26th to Dec 7th.

Even though I am looking forward to new horizons I do regret leaving Imagelab, which has been an exciting workplace with interesting challenges and many friendly and talented people -- I will miss you all, but sometimes in life one needs to move on. I shall do my best to leave behind a tidy lab with no loose ends, in order to make the transition to a new manager as smooth as possible for you all.

Vacation

The manager will be on vacation counting from tomorrow. Back again on July 30th.

Coffee and tea

More coffee and tea has been added to the kitchen, to last over the summer. The tea comes in the form of a sampler with a large variety of flavours. Enjoy!

Dissertation by Julia Miralbell

Julia Miralbell will defend her thesis on Friday 13th of July, at 12.00 noon at the University of Barcelona in  Spain. The title is "Biomarkers of cognitive impairment and dementia". If you wish to read the thesis, please contact the manager who will supply you with a PDF. After the defense the thesis will be listed in the University of Barcelona's publication database, and a link to the thesis will be added to the SMILE webpages.  

Freesurfer in DN

Reading the paper on the train, I stumbled on a short notice (p 31 in DN on June 21st) about how the analysis of brain scans with Freesurfer differ significantly if they have been run on a Mac or a PC. Digging around on the net brought me to this article on PLoS ONE:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038234

Summer slow-down

Summer is here, and as a consequence there is less activity in the lab. The seminar series as well as the users' meetings will be on hold until August/September.

We plan for several courses during the autumn, but it is not too late to wish for learning activities. All suggestions are welcome!

Service of freja

Please note that service of freja has been reset to happen every second week instead of once a month. So, every Monday in an odd-numbered week freja wil be restarted.

IP-numbers, continued

Now the printer in the lab has a new IP-number and all machines have been reset to print to that number, so you do not need to worry about printing, it should work as normal. If you have a laptop that needs to be reconfigured, the manager can help you (or do it yourself -- the new number is written on the printer).

Also, az can connect to the web again. However, a restart of the machine could possibly mess that up, in which case the manager can fix the problem (but you should not restart the machine without the managers' permission anyway...)

Now all which needs to be fixed are the connections to the cameras, Sabb etc.

IP-numbers reset

So, the IP-numbers have now been reset in the lab. As stated earlier, please contact the manager if you need them.

As a consequence of the resetting, az can now no longer reach the net. We will try to solve this, alternatively ask Hermes support to help.

The printer IP has not changed however (another department within IT has to do this). We will be advised when this happens, but please tell the manager if the printer should suddenly behave oddly.