ISMRM25 - Open Innovation in MR from Vendor & Academia Perspective

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

Open Innovation in MR from Vendor & Academia Perspective

Member-Initiated Session

Monday, 12 May 2025

313B

16:00 - 18:00

Moderators: Borjan Gagoski & Jon-Fredrik Nielsen

Session Number: MIS-01

No CME/CE Credit

Overview:
This 2-hour symposium is designed to provide an introduction to the latest resources made available by five major MRI vendors for open-access MRI data reconstruction and sequence programming, along with examples of recent developments in academia on open-source vendor neutral platforms for data acquisition and reconstruction. The pace of
innovation has significantly accelerated with the advent of open-source MRI software packages for sequence design and image reconstruction. Building on the demand from the MR community, MRI vendors have responded by providing open-access software packages or platforms to perform custom reconstruction of the data on the scanner computer
itself or closely integrated with the typical acquisition workflow, and adopted sequence interpreters for open-access sequence programming. This will likely dramatically change the way MR research is done, as new sequences and MR reconstruction algorithms developed using, e.g., deep learning techniques can be used on the scanner itself, instead of relying on slow offline reconstruction workflows. The purpose of this symposium is to make the MR community aware
about the possibilities offered by these new emerging vendor platforms along with the unique and complementary functionalities (e.g., Pulseq) being developed by the research community. By providing this first-hand information, these talks will allow researchers to make informed decisions about the programming environment they could use in their research.

Target Audience:
MR pulse sequence programmers, and researchers interested in developing novel acquisition and reconstruction.

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Summarize five open-access vendor platforms and their mode of operation; and
• Summarize the use of open-access platforms (e.g. Pulseq, BART, etc.) in developing the next generation of MR sequences and image reconstruction technologies.

16:00		Open Data Access, Sequence Development, Reconstruction, And Physics Simulation on The Canon MR Platform Andrew Wheaton
16:15		Open MAGNETOM Community: Translating MRI Research Power into Clinical Care Rainer Schneider
16:30		Open Science & Open Innovation with United Imaging Zheng Zhong
16:45		Open Innovation Facilitates Collaboration & Multi-site Validation Melvyn Ooi
17:00		Industry-Academia Collaboration In the Era of Open Innovation: GE HealthCare Perspective Eric Printz
17:15		Aiming for Accessible & Reproducible Myocardial T1-Mapping Using Pulseq Rita Nunes
17:30		Open-source Resources & Innovations for Low-field Portable MRI Shaoying Huang
17:45		Modern Open-Source MRI Simulations Carlos Castillo-Passi