ISMRM SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP ~ 5-8 September 2012
 

MR Safety in Practice: Now & In the Future
Lund, Sweden

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM


  DAY 1 - Wednesday, 5 September 2012  
17:00 Registration  
     

  DAY 2 - Thursday, 6 September 2012  
07:00 Registration  
08:15 Welcome  
     
  Session 1: Basic MR-Safety  
08:30 Static Magnetic Field John F. Schenck, M.D., Ph.D.
GE Corporate R & D Center
Schenectady, NY, USA
09:00 Time-Varying Gradient Field Donald W. McRobbie, Ph.D.
Charing Cross Hospital
London, England, UK
09:30 Radio-Frequency Field J. Thomas Vaughan, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
10:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session 1  
     
  Session 2: MR-Safety Standards & Guidelines  
10:45 Standards & Guidelines in North America Terry O. Woods, Ph.D.
Food & Drug Administration
Silver Spring, MO, USA
11:05 Standards & Guidelines in the European Union Stephen F. Keevil, Ph.D.
Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
London, England, UK
11:25 Standards & Guidelines Outside North America & European Union TBA
11:45 MR Safety Standard IEC 60601-2-33 Update Georg Frese
Siemens AG
Erlangen, Germany
12:05 Oral Session 1 – Proffered Papers  
12:30 Lunch  
     
  Session 3: Safe Clinical Practice  
13:45 Acoustic Noise
 
David L. Price, M.Sc.
UCLH NHS Trust
London, England, UK
14:15 Making Your MR-Dept Safe  Anne Marie Sawyer, B.S., R.T.(R)(MR)
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, USA
14:45 3T Safety in Practice William Faulkner, B.S., R.T.(R)(MR)(CT)
William Faulkner & Associates, LLC
Chattanooga, TN, USA
15:15 Contrast Agents Emanuel Kanal, M.D., F.A.C.R.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
16:45 Coffee break & Poster Session 2  
     
  Session 4: Vendors’ Point of View: Current & Future MR-Safety Challenges & Solutions
(no CME available)
16:45 GE Healthcare  
17:05 Philips  
17:25 Siemens  
17:45 Introduction: Visiting Kulturen  
18:30 Welcome Reception at Kulturen (Open-Air Museum)  
     

  Day 3 – Friday, 7 September 2012  
07:00 Registration  
     
  Session 5: Safety Issues at Ultra-High Fields (UHF)  
08:30 Physics Thoralf Niendorf, Ph.D.
Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine
Berlin, Germany
09:00 Physiology John F. Schenck, M.D., Ph.D.
GE Corporate R & D Center
Schenectady, NY, USA
09:30 Heating & SAR monitoring Ingmar Graesslin, Dipl.Ing.
Philips Technologie GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
10:00 Oral Session 2 – Proffered Papers  
10:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 3  
     
  Session 6: MR-Safety for Implants  
11:15 MR Safety Implants Overview Frank G. Shellock, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
12:00 IEC Standard for Active Implants TBA
12:20 MR Conditional Pacemaker Eva Clausson, MSc.
Medtronic AB
Kista, Sweden
12:35 Practical Conditions Scanning Pacemakers Daniel J. Wilson, Ph.D.
St. James’s Institute of Oncology
Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
13:00 Lunch  
     
  Session 7: MR-Safety for Implants Continues  
14:00 MRI with Intracranial Electrodes & Neurostimulators - Overview Frank G. Shellock, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
14:15 Practical Experience/Clinical Needs John S. Thornton, Ph.D.
National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery
London, England, UK
14:30 Neurostimulators & MRI: Industry Insights TBA
14:55 Neurostimulators & fMRI: Industry Insights Ingmar Viohl, Ph.D.
St. Judes Medical
Plano, TX, USA
15:20 Oral Session 3 – Proffered Paper  
15:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session 4  
     
  Session 8: Examining the Anaesthetized Patient  
16:00 Intensive Care Patients Peter Reinstrup, M.D., Ph.D.
Lund University Hospital
Lund, Sweden
16:20 Pediatric Patients Ihab Ayad, M.D.
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
16:40 Testing Necessary Equipment in a Clinical Environment Johan Olsrud, Ph.D.
Lund University Hospital
Lund, Sweden
17:00 The Use of Ferrodetection Systems for MRI Screening William Faulkner, B.S., R.T.(R)(MR)(CT)
William Faulkner & Associates, LLC
Chattanooga, TN, USA
19:00 Course dinner  – Academic Students Club (AF)  
     

  Day 4 – Saturday, 8 September 2012  
07:00 Registration  
     
  Session 9: Development of Safety Guidelines & Training Procedures
08:30 Occupational Exposure, Metrology Bernd Ittermann, Ph.D.
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Berlin, Germany
09:00 Occupational Exposure to EM fields in MRI Exams; IT’IS study Myles H. Capstick, Ph.D.
IT’IS Foundation
Zurich, Switzerland
09:30 Medical Physics Experts; What’s Needed Jeffrey W. Hand, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Imperial College London
London, England, UK
10:00 Oral Session 4 – Proffered Papers  
10:30 Coffee break  
     
  Session 10: EC-Directive, Background & Current Status  
11:00 Current Status of EU EMF Directive Stephen F. Keevil, Ph.D.
Guy’s & St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
London, England, UK
11:20 Current Status of ICNIRP Guidelines Maila Hietanen, Ph.D.
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Helsinki, Finland
11:35 A Radiologist´s Perspective on the Directive TBA
11:50 Impact on MR Healthcare & Research Stephane Lehéricy, M.D., Ph.D.
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
Paris, France
12:10 Impact on MR Industry Georg Frese
Siemens AG
Erlangen, Germany
12:30 Round-Table Discussion  
13:00 Summary & Adjourn  
13:15 Lunch (Advance Registration)  
     

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