ISMRM25 - Forum 8: Body

ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition • 10-15 May 2025 • Honolulu, Hawai'i

Forum 8: Body

ISMRT Education Session

ORGANIZERS: Petronella Samuels

Sunday, 11 May 2025

323AB

10:50 - 11:50

Moderators: Sonja Boiteaux & Haidee Paterson

Session Number: ISMRT-08

CE Credit

Session Number: ISMRT-08

Overview
MRCP protocols vary depending on the case, but key factors ensure a high-quality examination. These include proper patient preparation, optimal positioning, and selecting appropriate sequences and parameters. Establishing robust, standardized protocols enhances consistency, efficiency, and ease of execution among colleagues while minimizing technician errors. Additionally, advancements in deep learning, now available from most MRI vendors, contribute to faster and sharper imaging. Implementing these best practices ensures reliable and high-quality MRCP examinations.
This presentation will highlight key factors for a successful MRCP examination, focusing on standardized protocols to improve consistency, efficiency, and reduce technician errors.
Additionally, the role of deep learning in enhancing image quality will be explored.
Chronic liver disease, a leading global cause of mortality, is projected to rise significantly in the coming decades. Its heterogeneous course and poorly understood progression triggers complications in risk stratification and management, traditionally reliant on invasive biopsies. Non-invasive imaging is vital for diagnosis and monitoring. This presentation reviews recent advances in Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) and relaxometry for assessing progressive liver disease. MRE liver stiffness and T1, T2* relaxation times will be discussed in the context of fibrosis and inflammation. These techniques improve patient-specific monitoring and support research into disease mechanisms, addressing the urgent need for better outcomes.

Target Audience
MRI radiographers and technologists.

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
• Understand the clinical utility of MRCP sequences;
• Learn how to ensure a successful examination by selecting and applying the most appropriate MRCP sequences, including optimal parameter settings and patient positioning;
• Understand the general hallmarks of chronic liver disease;
• Learn American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) guidelines for NAFLD assessment and management with a focus on non-invasive imaging;
• Understand the basics of MRE for liver stiffness measurement including advanced 3D MRE techniques; and
• Learn about MR relaxometry (T1, T2*, and cT1) and its role in liver assessment.

10:50		Mastering MRCP: Tips, Tricks & Deep Learning Insights View Presentation Video Bac Nguyen Impact: The presentation will highlight key factors for a successful MRCP examination. Focus will be on standardized protocols to improve consistency, efficiency, and reduce technician errors. Additionally, the role of deep learning in enhancing image quality will be explored.
11:20		MR Elastography & MR Relaxometry for the Assessment of Liver Disease View Presentation Video Christoph Rettenmeier Impact: Noninvasive imaging is increasingly important for diagnosing and monitoring advanced liver disease. This presentation reviews recent advances in MRE and MR Relaxometry, focusing on their role in assessing fibrosis and inflammation in progressive liver disease.