Welcome to the Japanese Chapter of ISMRM

The 8th Annual Scientific Meeting of our Chapter will take place in Karuizawa on 23 September, 2023. Please see here for the detail.

Venue: Karuizawa Prince Hotel West
1016-87 Karuizawa, Karuizawa-machi, Kitasaku-gun, Nagano, Japan

The meeting program is available now. Please click here to see the detail.

The meeting was held in Karuizawa, Japan, on September 23 (Sat.), 2023, hosted by the President, Mr. Yoshiyuki Watanabe. Many members attended the meeting, and the event was a great success.

The Seiji Ogawa Award 2023 was presented to Dr. Hikaru Fukutomi (Kansai Electric Power Hospital, L’Institututut de Bio-Imagerie (IBIO), Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France) for his work published in Radiology.
“Location-weighted versus Volume-weighted Mismatch at MRI for Response to Mechanical Thrombectomy in Acute Stroke.”

The 7th Annual Scientific Meeting of our Chapter took place in Nagoya on 10 – 11 September, 2022. Please see here for the details.

This meeting was a hybrid style.

The 6th Annual Scientific Meeting took place in Yokohama on 11 September, 2021. The meeting style was changed to the online meeting.

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The Seiji Ogawa Prize 2021 is awarded to Dr. Sonoko Oshima (Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine) for her paper:
Neuromelanin-Sensitive Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using DANTE Pulse, Movement Disorders, 2021 Apr;36(4): 874-882.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33314293/

The lecture by the winner of this prize will be presented in the Seiji Ogawa Prize Award Ceremony and Honorary Lecture session.

The 5th Annual Scientific Meeting will now take place as a web conference on Saturday, 12 December 2020.

Registration deadline: Saturday, 5 December, 2020. The meeting program (tentative) is now available

Please click here to see the details.

The 4th Annual Scientific Meeting of our Chapter will take place in Chiba on December 13 and 14, 2019.
Please click here to see the Time Table.

Venue: Department of Molecular Imaging and Theranostics, National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST) 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage, Chiba-city, 263-8555 JAPAN

Co-host: Institute for Quantum Life Science (iQLS), QST

The 3rd annual scientific meeting of our Chapter, which took place at Nagoya University on December 22 and 23, 2018, ended successfully.

Please click here to see the details of this meeting.

Our Chapter’s 2nd annual scientific meeting, which took place at RIKEN – Brain Science Institute on February 22 and 23, 2018, ended in success. Please click here to see the report.

Please click here to see the program (pdf).
Please click here to see the updated flyer of this meeting.

1st Annual Scientific Meeting of the ISMRM Japanese Chapter
The 1st annual scientific meeting of the ISMRM Japanese Chapter on February 23 and 24, 2017 at CiNet (Osaka, Japan) was a great success.
Please click here to see the report.
Please click here to view photos from the meeting.
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The Japanese Chapter of ISMRM was founded on November 30th, 2015 to enhance the activity of ISMRM in Japan.

Any individual involved in magnetic resonance in medicine, biology, or other related topics in research, education, manufacturing, or clinical practice may be admitted as a member of the ISMRM Japanese Chapter.

We encourage your participation in our Chapter.