ISMRM WORKSHOP SERIES ~ 06-09 March 2016

ISMRM Workshop on Ultra High Field MRI:
Technological Advances & Clinical Applications
Heidelberg, Germany

Program


DAY 1 - Sunday, 06 March 2016 (1.25 CME available)

16:00     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 1: UHF in Humans Beyond 7T
      Moderators: Mark E. Ladd, Ph.D. & Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D.  
17:00   UHF in Humans Beyond 7T
 
Kamil Uğurbil, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
17:25   Magnet Technology Suitable for Human MRI at 14T – 20T - Permission Withheld Mark D. Bird, Ph.D.
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL, USA
17:50   En route to 20 Tesla Class Human Magnetic Resonance: Objectives, Obstacles & Opportunities - Permission Withheld Thoralf Niendorf, Ph.D.
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Berlin, Germany
18:15     Off-Site Welcome Reception (Departure from DKFZ at 18:15)  
 

DAY 2 - Monday, 07 March 2016 (4.75 CME available)

07:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available - Breakfast Not Provided  
08:30   Welcome from the Organizers Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

Mark E. Ladd, Ph.D.
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Heidelberg, Germany

         
Session 2: State of the Technologies
      Moderators: Peter Jezzard, Ph.D. & Peter R. Luijten, Ph.D.  
08:40     7T Magnet Design Choices So Far (Video not available) (No CME Available) Michael Begg
Tesla Engineering Ltd.
W. Sussex, England, UK
08:55     7T Magnet Design (Video not available) (No CME Available) Craig Marshall
Siemens Healthcare GmbH
Oxford, England, UK
09:10 RF Receive: Opportunities for Improved Performance at UHF
 
Graham C. Wiggins, D.Phil.
NYU Medical Center
New York, NY, USA
09:35 pTx Transmit Chain
 
David O. Brunner, Ph.D.
ETH Zurich University
Zurich, Switzerland
10:00     Break, Poster Viewing & Speaker Upload Available  
         
      Moderators: Priti Balchandani, Ph.D. & Thoralf Niendorf, Ph.D.  
10:45 B0 Magnetic Field Homogeneity & Shimming Christoph Juchem, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
11:10 Motion Mitigation
 
Oliver Speck, Ph.D.
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany
11:35 UHF RF Body Coils for Torso & Large FOV Imaging Stephan Orzada, Ph.D.
Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI
Essen, Germany
12:00     Lunch & Speaker Upload Available  
         
      Moderators: Penny Anne Gowland, Ph.D. & Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D.  
13:20   Flash Poster Talks (No CME Available)  
14:02   New 7T Site Presentations (No CME Available)  
Session 3:  Application Hour - Neuro
      Moderators: Priti Balchandani, Ph.D. & Markus Barth, Ph.D.  
14:15 UHF Neuro Applications Michela Tosetti, Ph.D.
IRCCS Stella Maris Scientific Institute
Pisa, Italy
14:40 Ultra High Field: Neuroradiology Applications Michael M. Zeineh, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
15:05 Initial Imaging Results with a 10.5T Geometrically Adjustable Dipole Array Pierre-Francois A. Van de Moortele, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
15:15 Quantitative Brain Imaging in MELAS Patients Roy Haast, M.Sc.
Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands
15:25 Ultra-High Resolution Imaging of the Human Brain at 9.4 T Using Prospective Motion Correction Rolf Pohmann, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Tübingen, Germany
15:35     Break, Poster Viewing & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 4: Application Hour - MSK
      Moderators: Joland Rutgers & Siegfried Trattnig, M.D.  
16:20 UHF Musculoskeletal Applications: Cartilage, Tendons, Menisci & Ligaments Vladimir (Vlado) Juras, Ph.D.
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
16:45 Skeletal Muscle MR Spectroscopy at High Field Hermien E. Kan, Ph.D.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
17:10 High Spatial Resolution Myocardial Susceptibility Weighted MRI at 7.0 T Reveals Prolonged T2* for Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy compared to Healthy Controls Till Huelnhagen, Dipl.-Ing.
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Berlin, Germany
17:20 Approaching Ultimate Intrinsic Signal-to-Noise Ratio More Closely at Ultra-High Field with Electric Dipoles Riccardo Lattanzi, Ph.D.
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
17:30 Modular 7T Tx/Rx Arrays Using Thin Very High Permittivity Dielectric Resonator Antennas Thomas O'Reilly, M.Sc.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
17:40     Adjourn  
18:00     Off-Site Dinner (Departure from DKFZ at 18:00)  
         

DAY 3 - Tuesday, 08 March 2016 (6.25 CME available)

07:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available - Breakfast Not Provided  
         
Session 5: Technology Hour - RF Excitation
      Moderators: Penny Anne Gowland, Ph.D. & Peter Jezzard, Ph.D.  
08:30 RF Pulse Design for UHF & pTx William A. Grissom, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
08:55   Simultaneous MultiSlice Imaging
 
Markus Barth, Ph.D.
University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD, Australia
09:20 SAR/Temperature Management
 
Nicolas Boulant, Ph.D.
NeuroSpin/CEA
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
09:45     Break, Poster Viewing & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 6: Technology Hour - Pulse Sequences for UHF Neuro
      Moderators: Penny Anne Gowland, Ph.D. & Franz Schmitt, Dipl.-Phys.  
10:30 fMRI Pulse Sequences for High Spatiotemporal Resolution Imaging at Ultra-High Fields Jonathan Rizzo Polimeni, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
10:55 SWI/QSM Richard W. Bowtell, Ph.D., M.A.
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, England, UK
11:20 Diffusion MRI at 7T Alfred Anwander, Ph.D.
MPI for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences
Leipzig, Germany
         
      Moderators: Mark E. Ladd, Ph.D. & Thoralf Niendorf, Ph.D.  
11:45   Flash Poster Talks (No CME Available)  
12:27   New 7T Site Presentations (No CME Available)  
12:40     Lunch & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 7: Technology Hour - X-Nuclei/CEST/Spectroscopy
      Moderators: Priti Balchandani, Ph.D. & Peter R. Luijten, Ph.D.  
14:00 X-Nuclei MRI at UHF Armin Michael Nagel, Ph.D.
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Heidelberg, Germany
14:25 Unfolding the Power of CEST MRI Moritz W. Zaiss, Ph.D.
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Heidelberg, Germany
14:50   MR Spectroscopy at Ultra-High Field - What is the Added Value? Anke Henning, Ph.D.
MPI for Biological Cybernetics
Tübingen, Germany
         
Session 8: Application Hour - CEST at UHF
      Moderators: Dennis W. J. Klomp, Ph.D. & Siegfried Trattnig, M.D.  
15:15 CEST at 7T: Developments & Applications to Pathology Olivier Mougin, Ph.D.
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, England, UK
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
15:40 Denatured Protein Contrast (DPC) Using CEST-MRI at 7T Steffen Goerke, Dipl.-Phys.
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Heidelberg, Germany
15:50 Selective DIXON-CEST-MRI in Prostate at 7T Using a Multi-Transmit System Catalina Arteaga, Ph.D.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
16:00 Quantitative Analysis of the Evolution of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Lesion MT & NOE Pool Concentrations Using the “CEST Analysis via MR Fingerprinting” Method Nicolas Geades, M.Sc.
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, England, UK
16:10     Break, Poster Viewing & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 9: Application Hour - Oncology at UHF
      Moderators: Markus Barth, Ph.D. & Dennis W. J. Klomp, Ph.D.  
16:55 Challenges for Cancer Treatment Planning & Monitoring Heinz-Peter W. Schlemmer, M.D., Ph.D.
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Heidelberg, Germany
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
17:20 Early Detection of Changes in Amide CEST & 31P-MRS at 7T During Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer Erwin Krikken, M.Sc.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
17:30 A Novel Body Imaging Array at 7.0 Tesla by Combining Dipole & Loop Elements M. Arcan Erturk, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
17:40 What’s Hiding Behind the Retina? Insights into Diffusion-Weighted Ocular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Katharina Paul, Dipl.-Phys
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Berlin, Germany
         
Session 10: Application Hour - fMRI
      Moderators: Peter Jezzard, Ph.D. & Christina Triantafyllou, Ph.D.  
17:50 Unraveling Mesoscopic Coding Principles in the Human Brain with Ultra-High Magnetic Field fMRI Rainer Goebel, Ph.D.
Universiteit Maastricht
Maastricht, The Netherlands
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
18:15 Resting State Functional Connectivity is Sensitive to Layer-Specific Connectional Architecture in Cortical Columns Gopikrishna Deshpande, Ph.D.
Auburn University
Auburn, AL, USA
18:25 Magnetic Pebbles – Materials with Controllable Magnetism for Compact, Low-Power Shim Units David O. Brunner, Ph.D.
ETH Zurich University
Zurich, Switzerland
18:35 High Resolution, High Dynamic Range, Low Noise, & Fast Acquisition: k-t Grappa Accelerated Dual-Venc 4D Flow MRI at 7T Susanne Schnell, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL, USA
18:45     Adjourn  
         

DAY 4 - Wednesday, 09 March 2016 (3.75 CME available)

07:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available - Breakfast Not Provided  
         
Session 11: Regulatory/Safety
      Moderators: Markus Barth, Ph.D. & Douglas A. C. Kelley, Ph.D.  
08:30 Regulatory Update Frank Seifert, Ph.D.
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB
Berlin, Germany
08:55 RF Safety: From SAR to Thermal Dose Manuel Murbach, Ph.D.
IT'IS Foundation
Zurich, Switzerland
09:20 Implanting Implant Safety: Practical Solutions for Complex RF Interactions Lukas Winter, Ph.D.
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Berlin, Germany
09:45     Break, Poster Viewing & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 12: Application Hour - Body
      Moderators: Peter R. Luijten, Ph.D.& Thoralf Niendorf, Ph.D.  
10:30 UHF Cardiac Imaging Christopher T. Rodgers, D.Phil., M.Chem.
University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK
10:55   Multiparametric 7T MRI for Therapy Selection in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Alexander Schmitz, M.D.
UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
11:20 UHF Abdominal/Pelvic Imaging Lale Umutlu, M.D.
University Hospital Essen
Essen, Germany
         
Session 13: New Contrasts & New Technologies
      Moderators: Dennis W. J. Klomp, Ph.D. & Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D.  
11:45 Active Water Molecule Transport in Biological Tissue: Underpinnings of MRI Interpretation
 
Charles S. Springer, Jr., Ph.D.
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR, USA
12:10   Electrical Properties Tomography & Its Applications to Biomedical Research Xiaotong Zhang, Ph.D.
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
12:35 Recent Progress & High-Field Uses of Field Monitoring Klaas P. Pruessmann, Ph.D.
ETH Zürich University
Zurich, Switzerland
13:00     Adjournment & Lunch  
         

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