ISMRM22 - Hot Topics in Body MRI: MRI of the Pancreas

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

Hot Topics in Body MRI: MRI of the Pancreas

Sunrise Course

ORGANIZERS: Masako Kataoka, Nandita DeSouza, Jurgen Fütterer, Hero Hussain, Katja Pinker-Domenig, Scott Reeder, Jeffrey Maki

Thursday, 12 May 2022

ICC Capital Suite 10-11

08:00 - 09:00

Moderators: Hersh Chandarana

Skill Level: Basic to Advanced

Session Number: S-Th-03

Session Number: S-Th-03

Overview
The series of talks covers hot topics in body MRI. The topics include:

1) MRI of gender imaging (prostate & female pelvis): Two specific areas of gender imaging that may be exploited in the clinic will be addressed--multiparametric MRI in metastatic ovarian cancer and low field MRI for prostate cancer screening.

2) MRI of the pancreas: From basic anatomy / protocols to more advanced techniques will be covered to highlight this hidden organ.

3) Multi-organ, COVID-19-related, vaccine-associated conditions on MRI: With wide-use of COVID-19 vaccination, reactive adenopathy and other vaccine-related reactions are completely new conditions that clinicians must know. The two talks cover the latest evidence and recommendations. Images of COVID-19-related multi-organ conditions are also covered.

4) MRI for moving organs (motility imaging): A unique opportunity reviewing technical aspect and interpretation skills required for MRI of moving organs.

Target Audience
Basic to advanced, both clinicians and Ph.D.s interested in body MRI.

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the utility of multiparametric MRI over CT for assessing metastatic ovarian cancer;
- Recognize what is needed to make prostate cancer screening viable with low field MRI;
- Describe the requirements for basic and advanced imaging of the pancreas;
- Recognize the imaging features of multi-organ COVID-19-related or vaccine-associated pathology; and
- Describe the techniques required for MRI of moving organs and interpret their imaging appearances.

	08:00		MRI of the Pancreas: Basics View the Presentation Sikandar Shaikh MRI is the important modality for the evaluation of the Pancreas. It has significant role in the evaluation of various pancreatic pathologies comprising of the congenital, infective, inflammation, neoplastic, traumatic, and miscellaneous pathologies. This is also important screening tool for differentiating the indeterminate pancreatic focal lesions like focal pancreatitis versus neoplastic. MRI using magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) also evaluates associated hepatobiliary pancreatic pathologies. Due to technical advances in MRI, newer sequences as well as protocols like diffusion-weighted and T1-weighted dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI are used despite of various challenges of retroperitoneal location of the Pancreas.
	08:30		MRI of the Pancreas: Advanced -Radiomics of the Pancreas- View the Presentation Shintaro Ichikawa Characterization of pancreatic diseases may be challenging because of some overlap in imaging appearance. To overcome the current limitations of imaging, researchers have developed radiomics. Radiomics refers to the extraction and analysis of quantitative features from medical images to build predictive models, relating imaging features to clinical outcomes. Most radiomics studies of　pancreatic diseases used CT data; however, MRI-based radiomics of the pancreas is increasing in recent years. Several studies have assessed the potential of radiomics in the diagnosis of pancreatic tumors, prediction of tumor grade, prediction of recurrence or complications after surgery, and assessment of chronic pancreatitis.