ISMRM22 - Wednesday Plenary

Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB & ISMRT 31st Annual Meeting • 07-12 May 2022 • London, UK

Wednesday Plenary

Plenary Session

ORGANIZERS: Rita Schmidt, Christian Federau

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Plenary: ICC Auditorium

11:30 - 13:10

Moderators: Christian Federau & Rita Schmidt

Session Number: P-03

Session Number: P-03

Overview
The ISMRM community sadly learned the death of Richard Ernst (Nobel laureate for chemistry in 1991) on the 4th of June 2021. While his main focus was in NMR and chemistry, his development (pulsed RF+FT reconstruction) was THE step that made MRI possible. Richard Ernst was not only an exceptional scientist, but also inspirational lecturer, an outstanding teacher, and a man with extraordinary human qualities. This session entitled “Scientists as 'Toolmakers' in NMR & MRI” is built on his legacy, as he called himself “a toolmaker" who "wanted to provide other people these capabilities of solving problems.”

The talks will touch upon the synergy of fundamental research with the desire to push the limits of sensitivity and resolution towards new applications, while coping with the challenges of the realistic environment of NMR and MRI applications. They will try to highlight Richard Ernst’s and his coworkers’ legacy, the scientists as toolmakers.

Target Audience
Clinicians, physicists, and engineers, wishing to learn about and share the passion of Richard Ernst’s legacy; scientists who want to solve problems as a way of thinking, and along the way change the world around them completely.

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe Richard Ernst’s legacy and his role in the development of NMR and MRI technologies;
- Discuss challenges and achievements in developing new tools for NMR and MRI; and
- Explain how fundamental research leads to new tools and applications in MRI and NMR.

	11:30		Ernst Lecture: The Future of AI in Medical Imaging View the Presentation Yann LeCun
	11:50		In Memory of Richard Ernst View the Presentation Andrew Maudsley Richard R. Ernst received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1991 for “contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy”. He passed away on June 4th 2021. This presentation will review his scientific contributions with a focus on his impact on the field of magnetic resonance imaging.
	12:10		Making Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy & Imaging Possible: From First NMR to Ultrafast 2D NMR & Advanced MRI & MRSI Today View the Presentation Lucio Frydman
	12:30		Can’t Make It Without the Real Tools: The Art of the RF Coils View the Presentation Mary McDougall
	12:50		Applying MRI Tools to Cope with the Challenge of Probing Brain Structure & Physiology View the Presentation Marion Smits The application of MRI to the brain marks an imaging revolution by providing insights into its anatomy and structure even superceding those obtained from invasive techniques. This is even more true for functional and physiological investigation of the human brain, for which MRI has opened the way to near-infinite possibilities for neuroscience.Within the clinical setting, another revolution is now eagerly awaited. Novel, quantitative MRI techniques combined with machine learning (‘radiomics’) have the potential to spark this next revolution with incredible impact on clinical practice to replace surgical with virtual biopsy.