ISMRM25 - Flow Across Scales

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

Flow Across Scales

Weekend Course

ORGANIZERS: Houchun Hu, Mami Iima, Sonal Krishan

Sunday, 11 May 2025

313B

13:15 - 15:15

Moderators: Erin Englund & KyungHyun Sung

Skill Level: Basic to Advanced

Session Number: WE-31

No CME/CE Credit

Session Number: WE-31

Overview
This session will explore advanced MRI flow imaging techniques such as 4Dflow, ASL, DCE-MRI, IVIM, and SWI. Attendees will learn how these technologies can be effectively integrated into clinical practice to enhance diagnostic precision and patient outcomes across a range of organs.

Target Audience
radiologists, MRI researchers and medical physicists, involved in diagnostic imaging, particularly those interested in enhancing their understanding and application of advanced MRI flow imaging techniques in clinical practice.

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
• Differentiate between various MRI flow imaging techniques like 4Dflow, ASL, DCE-MRI, IVIM, and SWI;
• Apply these imaging techniques to enhance diagnostic capabilities in clinical scenarios involving various organs such as the liver, kidneys, urogenital system, and breasts; and
• Integrate flow imaging techniques into clinical practice, optimizing MRI settings and protocols to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient care.

13:15		IVIM & DCE Eric Sigmund Impact: Intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) MRI and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI are quantitative imaging methods sensitizing water transport in tissue. This talk will review the fundamentals, applications, and frontiers of both approaches as applied in the body.
13:45		ASL: Principles and Applications in the Body Zungho Zun Impact: ASL is a non-invasive technique for quantifying tissue perfusion, originally developed for the brain but now gaining increasing interest for applications across the body. This talk will review the principles of ASL and its emerging uses in organs such as the kidney, lung, placenta, and heart.
14:15		4D Flow in the Portal Venous Region Ryota Hyodo Impact: This talk covers 4D Flow MRI acquisition and analysis in the portal region, factors affecting normal hepatic blood flow, and its clinical applications, including interventional radiology. The method provides non-invasive, quantitative assessment of portal hemodynamics.
14:45		SWI Pascal Spincemaille Impact: Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) is an MR method for visualizing tissue susceptibility. This talk will include a general overview of SWI, highlight the role flow compensation and discuss applications.