SMRT 29th Annual Meeting 2020: Program

SMRT 29th Annual Meeting

07-10 August 2020

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PROGRAM

Last updated: 14 May, 2020

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Friday 07 August 2020 Onsite Registration Opens 14:00 – 20:00
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14:00	Registration Area Opens *Pick up your meeting materials early & avoid the weekend lines!*
17:00	Research and Clinical Poster Tour Room: T.B.A.
18:00	Research and Clinical Poster Presentations Room: T.B.A.
18:40	Educational Awards Ceremony Room: T.B.A.
19:10	Networking Reception
20:00	Adjourn

Saturday

Registration & Meeting Hours: 08:00 – 17:15
Session Rooms: T.B.A.

08:15

Welcome
Room: T.B.A.

Shawna Farquharson
SMRT President 2019-2020

Claire Mulcahy
SMRT Program Chair 2020

Kate Negus
SMRT AMPC 2020 Member

Forum 1
Plenary & Keynote

Moderators: Claire Mulcahy & Laura Vasquez
Room: T.B.A.

08:25

Plenary
Bridging the Gap in Clinical Translation of Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers

Pek Lan Khong

09:15

Keynote
Holographic Visualization of Human Anatomy: A 2020 Update

Mark Griswold

09:45

1st Place Research Award

T.B.A.

10:00

1st Place Clinical Award

T.B.A.

Break: 10:15 – 10:45

Parallel Sessions

Forum 2 MSK: Advances in MSK Imaging Moderators: Sarah Green & Ashok Saraswat Room: T.B.A.
10:45	MRI in the Inflammatory Spondyloarthropathy	Ron Shnier
11:15	Magic Angle Directional Imaging	Karyn Chappell
11:45	4D & 3D Imaging in Musculoskeletal MRI	Colin Chong

Forum 3 Cardiac: Cardiac Function & Quantification Moderators: Wendy Strugnell & Mark Chapman Room: T.B.A.
10:45	What's Different About Cardiac MRI in Children?	John Wood
11:15	Technical Challenges of Paediatric Cardiac MRI	Glenn Cahoon
11:45	Quantification in Cardiac MRI: What We Can Learn	Cindy Comeau

Lunch: 12:15 – 13:00

13:00

SMRT Annual Business Meeting (no CE credit)

Parallel Sessions

Forum 4 Physics for Safety: Key Principles of Safety Physics Moderators: Debra Patterson & Anne Sawyer Room: T.B.A.
13:30	Rational & Physics Behind Testing Active Implants for MRI	Maureen Hood
14:00	Time-Varying Gradient Magnetic Fields: Physics & Physiology	Donald McRobbie
14:30	7T High Field Physics	Karin Markenroth Bloch

Forum 5 Management: Creating Efficiencies in Workflow Moderators: Kim Carr & Kendra Huber Room: T.B.A.
13:30	Patient Care	Laura Vasquez
14:00	Role of the Radiographer/MR Tech in Ensuring Quality in Research Studies	Anne Dorte Blankholm
14:30	Structured Training Plans for MRI Radiographers/Technologists	Terri Walker

Break: 15:00 – 15:30

Forum 6
Neuro: Clinical Applications of Neuro Advances

Moderators: Joe Joslin & George Bouzalis
Room: T.B.A.

15:30

Detection of Neuromelanin Loss in Parkinson's Disease

Jason Langley

16:00

Clinical & Research Applications of Proton MR Spectroscopy

Thao Tran

16:30

Learning to Love the Skull Base

T.B.A.

17:00

Closing

17:05

Adjourn

Reception

T.B.A.

SMRT Welcome Reception

Sunday

Registration & Meeting Hours: 08:10 – 17:15
Session Rooms: T.B.A.

08:20

Welcome & Announcements
Room: T.B.A.

Nancy H. Beluk
SMRT President 2020-2021

Claire Mulcahy
SMRT Program Chair 2020

Forum 7
President's Session

Moderators: Shawna Farquharson & Nancy Beluk
Room: T.B.A.

08:25

President's Lecture
The Past, Present, and Future of MRI in Fetal and Neonatal Imaging

P. Ellen Grant

09:10

President's Award
Using Novel Fat Water Separation Sequence to Quantify Intramyocardial Fat-Fraction

Xin Dong

09:30

2nd Place Research Award

T.B.A.

09:45

2nd Place Clinical Award

T.B.A.

Break: 10:00 – 10:30

Parallel Sessions

Forum 8 Advanced Imaging: Advances in Imaging & Translation Moderators: Ben Statton & Thao Tran Room: T.B.A.
10:30	DTI Clinical Translation	Carlo Pierpaoli
11:00	Compressed Sensing in the Clinical World	Eric Pierre
11:30	Improving MRI Accessibility by Making MRI Magnets Simpler to Install & Use	T.B.A.
12:00	3rd Place Research Award	T.B.A.

Forum 9 Body: How to Get a Better Body Moderators: Kirsty Campbell & Barbara Pirgousis Room: T.B.A.
10:30	Gynaecologic MRI: Technique & Applications	T.B.A.
11:00	Pelvic & Liver Imaging	Brian Hargreaves
11:30	MR Enterography: Principles and Practice	Mary-Louise Greer
12:00	3rd Place Clinical Award	T.B.A.

Lunch: 12:15 – 13:00

13:00

SMRT Achievement Awards

Parallel Sessions

Forum 10 Contrast Agents: An Update on MRI Contrast Moderators: Mark Denham & Brandy Willis Room: T.B.A.
13:30	Update on Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agent Safety	T.B.A.
14:00	Gd: Minimising Dose Without Jeopardising Diagnosis	Susie Huang
14:30	MR Contrast Agents: Beyond Gadolinium	T.B.A.

Forum 11 1st Asia-Pacific Forum Moderators: Chris Kokkinos & Hiroyuki Takashima Room: T.B.A.
13:30	Future Challenges for MR Technologists: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region: The Current & Future MRI Landscape in China	Hongyan Ni
13:45	Future Challenges for MR Technologists: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region: The Current & Future MRI Landscape in Japan	T.B.A.
14:00	Future Challenges for MR Technologists: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region: The Current & Future MRI Landscape in Australia & New Zealand	T.B.A.
14:15	Panel Discussion
14:30	T.B.A.	T.B.A.

Break: 15:00 – 15:30

Forum 12
Safety: An Update for MR Safety Practices

Moderators: Vera Kimbrell & Nuria L. Hernandez
Room: T.B.A.

15:30

MRI Information for Passive and Active Implants: Update 2020

T.B.A.

16:00

Implications of MR Acoustic Noise for Patients and Workers

Michael Steckner

16:30

Safety Information for 7 Tesla MR Systems

T.B.A.

17:00

Closing

17:05

Adjourn

Monday 10 Registration & Meeting Hours: 06:30 – 18:30
ISMRM Courses Accredited for Radiographers/Technologists Click here to view the full ISMRM Program. Schedule subject to change. *The s*essions below are included in an SMRT 4-day Meeting Registration!

	Sunrise Session: Emerging Clinical Applications in Musculoskeletal MR Imaging: Whole-Body Musculoskeletal Imaging Room: T.B.A.	Credits	Speaker
07:00	Whole Body MRI for MSK Radiologists: Technical	0.5	Anwar Padhani
07:30	Whole-Body MRI for Musculoskeletal Radiologists: Clinical Applications & Considerations	0.5	Stephen Broski

	ISMRM-SMRT Joint Forum: Robust Myocardial T1, T2, T2*, and ECV Mapping: The Good, the Bad & the Future Room: T.B.A.	Credits	Speaker
08:15	Myocardial T1, T2, T2*, and ECV Mapping: The Clinical Promise	0.5	Subha Raman
08:45	Myocardial T1, T2, T2*, and ECV Mapping: Challenges in the Field	0.5	Nancy Dudek
09:15	Myocardial T1, T2, T2*, and ECV Mapping: Upcoming Technical Solutions to Practical Problems	0.5	René Botnar

	ISMRM Plenary: MR-Guided Radiation Therapy (MRgRT): See What You Treat Plenary Hall	Credits	Speaker
11:15	Overview of MRgRT	0.25	Bas Raaymakers
11:35	Clinical Applications of MR-Based Radiation Treatment Planning	0.25	Carri Glide-Hurst
11:55	Motion Management in MRgRT	0.25	Paul Keall

	Combined Educational & Scientific Session: Spinal Cord: Cool MR Tools & How to Use Them (only educational talks accredited) Room: T.B.A.	Credits	Speaker
13:45	A Soup of Sequences for the Spinal Cord	0.5	Virginie Callot
14:15	Spicing Up Your Soup: Analysis Techniques for the Spinal Cord	0.5	Benjamin De Leener

	Combined Educational & Scientific Session: MRI of Knee Stabilizers (only educational talks accredited) Room: T.B.A.	Credits	Speaker
16:00	Structural MRI of the Knee Stabilizers	0.5	Luca Sconfienza
16:30	Functional & Quantitative MRI of the Knee Stabilizers	0.5	James Griffith

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