Mags Tavener (they/them) is a student physicist with a particular interest in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Their research concerns field shimming and specific absorption rate monitoring at ultra-high fields. They’re also a live-coder who performs with pastagang as well as investigating the ways MRI and magnetic resonance physics can be used in and understood through art, currently with online interactive visualisations.
They can be found on the internet at https://mags.omg.lol or on the Fediverse at mags@social.mags.omg.lol where they welcome comment.
Since the first clinical scanners were built in the 1980s, all of our lives have been touched by the physics of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), yet it remains mysterious to non-specialists. In this talk I will attempt to communicate some of the incredible physics underlying MRI, as well as exploring the ways in which MRI is very much an example of an algorithmic pattern, how this informs the tools used to understand it, and some of the ways I’ve been using these to make art.
Conference Speaker (Sheffield)
Israac, Sheffield