Background
The
field of magnetic resonance is increasingly rich and diverse, spanning
far too many areas of clinical and research activity for any one person
or group to track effectively. At the annual ISMRM meeting and in many
of our professional interactions, we tend to focus on what we or others
have recently accomplished in our areas of interest, or else we
speculate together on current trends and promising future directions in
MR research and practice. In the midst of all this lively and topical
activity, the less satisfying questions of what we cannot but
would very much like to achieve with MR receive little concentrated,
collective attention. Discussions of unmet needs and research
priorities are often left to funding organizations, which publish
periodic “requests for proposals” and “roadmaps” to which many of us as
researchers are encouraged to respond. The process of assessing needs
and formulating priorities, however, could very well benefit from
broader participation by our MR community at large. Collective
brainstorming about unsolved problems and unmet needs would have the
added benefit of promoting interactions between the disparate members of
our community, and it might also serve to stimulate innovative
solutions.
For
all of these reasons, oral sessions devoted to unsolved problems and
unmet needs in our field were initiated at the 2006 Seattle meeting of
the ISMRM. This page collects information from the 2006 meeting and
subsequent meetings, along with the results of surveys of the ISMRM
membership. It is our hope that this page can serve as a clearing house
for ongoing discussion about unsolved problems and unmet needs. The
information contained here is offered as a resource for new entrants
into the field of magnetic resonance, and as an ongoing challenge for
established investigators.
2005 Survey of ISMRM Study Groups
2006 Oral Sessions
Link to 2005/6 call for
papers
Introduction
to 2006 oral sessions
2006
program listing with links to each abstract
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Tuesday May 9 |
What are we
missing? Seeing through metal and divining with RF coils |
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7:00-7:15 |
Sodickson |
Daniel |
Introduction |
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7:15-7:30 |
Garry
|
Gold |
Techniques
for MR Imaging Near Metallic Implants |
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7:30-7:45 |
Florian |
Wiesinger |
Prospects of
absolute B1 calibration |
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7:45-8:00 |
Open
Discussion |
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Wednesday May
10 |
Can MRI
provide a noninvasive biopsy? |
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7:00-7:15 |
Itamar |
Ronen |
Cytoarchitectonic MRI: Can MRI Be Used to Quantify Neural
Tissue? |
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7:15-7:30 |
Valerij
|
Kiselev |
Tissue
Structure through Diffusion and Transverse Relaxation
Measurements |
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7:30-7:45 |
Derek |
Jones |
Unresolved
issues in Diffusion and Perfusion MRI: A Consensus from the
Study Group |
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7:45-8:00 |
Open
Discussion |
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Thursday May
11 |
Will new
contrast agents revolutionize MRI? |
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7:00-7:15 |
Joachim
|
Bargon |
Exclusively
MRI – Based Molecular Imaging: Can Magnetic Labeling of
Physiologically… |
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7:15-7:30 |
Rachel |
Katz-Brull |
Direct
Detection of Neuromodulation |
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7:30-7:45 |
Timothy
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Christian |
Development
of Static Tracers for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging by MRI |
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7:45-8:00 |
Open
Discussion |
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Friday May 12 |
Do we need a
virtual scanner and do we understand real ones? |
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7:00-7:15 |
Ralf |
Loeffler |
Need for a
Non-Commercial Open-Source MR Simulator |
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7:15-7:30 |
Jinghua |
Wang |
Does The
Principle Of Reciprocity Hold At High Field MR? |
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7:30-7:45 |
Open
Discussion |
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7:45-8:00 |
Sodickson |
Daniel |
Conclusion |
2007 Oral Sessions
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Thursday 24 May |
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13:30 |
Introduction |
Daniel K. Sodickson M.D., Ph.D. |
13:30
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Neurospectroscopy Will Miss the Boat - AGAIN: The Unmet
Need for Universal
Standards and a Database |
Jan
Hövener
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13:45 |
Standard for Interface, Data Collection and Analysis in
Interventional MR |
Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D. |
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14:00 |
Barriers to Clinical Implementation of Non-Cartesian MR |
James Pipe Ph.D. |
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14:15 |
Trusting Flow Numbers in MRI: What Will it Take? New Directions |
Vinay Pai, Ph.D |
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14:30 |
MRI
and Implanted Pacemakers: Can the Two Coexist? |
Warren Dabney, B.S., M.S. |
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14:45 |
When
is the World Ready for Synthetic MRI? |
J.B.M. Warntjes, Ph.D |
15:00
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A
Local Formula for Inhomogeneous Complex Conductivity as
a Function of the
RF Magnetic Field |
Adrian I. Nachman, Ph.D.
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15:15
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Can
We Find Reason in Distorted Fields? A Reconciliation
Tale for Electromagnetic Fields
Doomed to Corruption by
Dielectric and Conductive Properties Of Biological
Tissue |
Pierre-Francois van de Moortele, M.D. |
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15:30 |
Conclusions |
Daniel K. Sodickson M.D., Ph.D. |
Future resources (under construction)
Submit your own
problems/needs for consideration
Unsolved problems
blog
Workshop ideas
Challenge grants
Ideas, feedback? Contact Daniel K. Sodickson,
Daniel.Sodickson@med.nyu.edu
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