ISMRM WORKSHOP SERIES ~ 11-16 September 2016

 

ISMRM Workshop on Breaking the Barriers of Diffusion MRI
Lisbon, Portugal

Program

Syllabi and videos available to meeting registrants only.


DAY 1 - Sunday, 11 September 2016 (No CME Available)

15:00     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
 

DAY 2 - Monday, 12 September 2016 (5.00 CME Available)                     For Bootcamp Registrants Only

07:00     Breakfast for guests staying at the Sheraton Lisboa (Served until 8:30)  
07:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
Optional Bootcamp: Morning Session (2.5 CME available)
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08:30     Introduction  
08:45 Basics of Measuring Diffusion Tim B. Dyrby, Ph.D.
Danish Research Centre for MR
Hvidovre, Denmark
09:15     Discussion  
09:30 Relaxation, Exchange & Diffusion Samo Lasic, Ph.D.
CR Development, AB
Lund, Sweden
10:00 Relationships Between Contrast Mechanisms Mara Cercignani, Ph.D.
Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Brighton, England, UK
10:30     Discussion  
10:45     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
 
11:15 Modeling 1: from DTI to HARDI Maxime Descoteaux, Ph.D.
Sherbrooke University
Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
11:15     Discussion  
11:45 Modeling 2: Quantitation of Microstructure Gary Zhang, Ph.D.
University College London
London, England, UK
12:15     Discussion  
12:30     Lunch & Speaker Upload Available  
 
Optional Bootcamp: Afternoon Session (2.5 CME available)
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14:00 Important Features of a Pipeline for Processing Diffusion Weighted Images Carlo Pierpaoli, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
14:30     Discussion  
14:45 Analysis Pipelines for Diffusion MRI Data: From Voxels to Connectomes Alexander Leemans, Ph.D.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
15:15     Discussion  
15:30     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
16:00 Anatomy 1: Neuroanatomy Giorgio Innocenti, Ph.D.
Karolinska Institute
Stockholm, Sweden
16:30 Anatomy 2: Tractographic Anatomy Bram Stieltjes, M.D.
University Hospital Basel
Basel, Switzerland
17:00     Discussion  
17:15 Clinical Translation of Diffusion MR Christopher Hess, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California
San Francisco, CA, USA
17:45     Discussion  
18:00     Adjourn  
 

DAY 3 - Tuesday, 13 September 2016 (6.50 CME Available)

07:00     Breakfast for guests staying at the Sheraton Lisboa (Served until 8:30)  
07:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
Session 1: Physics & Acquisition
      Moderators: Jürgen Finsterbusch, Ph.D. & Derek K. Jones, Ph.D.  
08:30   What is Your Sequence? A Tour of the Body in Many Acquisition Strategies Karla L. Miller, Ph.D.
Oxford University
Oxford, England, UK
09:15 MRI Physics Meets Diffusion Modeling Chunlei Liu, Ph.D.
Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
10:00     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
10:30   Power Pitch Session (No CME available)  
Poster #29   Rapid Measurement of Axon Diameter & Volume Fraction in Human Peripheral Nerve In Vivo Using Temporal Diffusion Spectroscopy Hua Li, B.Sc.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
Poster #30   3D Distortion Free Diffusion MRI Using Magnetization Prepared RUFIS Xin Liu, M.Sc.
Technical University of Munich
Munich, Germany
Poster #34   Is it Feasible to Estimate Rotation-Invariant Non-Parametric Axon Diameter Distributions from PGSE? Preliminary Insights from Regularized Discrete Linear Modeling & Simulated Intra-Axonal Signals David P. Romascano, M.Sc.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Poster #35   Electrical Conductivity Tensor Imaging Using DTI & MREIT Saurav Zaman K. Sajib, Ph.D.
Presented by Eung Je Woo, Ph.D.
Kyung Hee University
Seoul, South Korea
Poster #42   Q-space Trajectory Imaging (QTI) & the Hex Phantom Carl-Fredrik Westin, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
11:00 Clever Diffusion Gradient Design Evren Ozarslan, Ph.D.
Linköping Universitet
Linköping, Sweden
11:45     Panel Discussion  
12:15     Lunch & Speaker Upload Available  
 
Session 2: Microstructure & Modeling
      Moderators: Peter J. Basser, Ph.D., A.B., S.M. & Ivana Drobnjak, Ph.D.  
14:00 Basics of Diffusion Modeling: Signal Models Versus Biophysical Models Daniel C. Alexander, Ph.D.
University College London
London, England, UK
14:45 Diffusion Tensor Distributions & Fat B-Tensors Markus Nilsson, Ph.D.
Lund University
Lund, Sweden
15:30     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
16:00   Power Pitch Session (No CME available)  
Poster #1   Combining Tractography & Microstructure to Assess Bundle-Specific Axon Diameter Distributions Muhamed Barakovic, M.Sc.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
Poster #8   NODDI-DTI: Biophysical Parameters from DTI Data Luke J. Edwards, D.Phil.
MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Leipzig, Germany
Poster #9   Multi-Spherical Diffusion MRI: Breaking the Barriers of Diffusion Time Rutger Fick, M.Sc.
Universite Cote d'Azur
Inria, France
Poster #17   Tissue Microstructure Characterisation Through Relaxometry & Diffusion MRI Using Sparse Component Analysis Miguel Molina-Romero, M.Sc.
Technische Universität München
Garching bei München, Germany
Poster #21   The effect of IVIM on Free-Water Estimation Anna E. Scherman Rydhög, M.Sc.
Lund University
Lund, Sweden
16:30 g-Ratio Imaging Jennifer Campbell, Ph.D.
McGill University
Montreal, QC, Canada
17:15     Panel Discussion  
17:45     Dinner  
19:30 Keynote Lecture: Breaking the Barriers with/for Diffusion MRI Denis Le Bihan, M.D., Ph.D.
CEA Neurospin
Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
20:30     Adjourn  
 

DAY 4 - Wednesday, 14 September 2016 (5.50 CME Available)

07:00     Breakfast for guests staying at the Sheraton Lisboa (Served until 8:30)  
07:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
Session 3: Tractography
      Moderators: Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Ph.D. & Yogesh Rathi, Ph.D.  
08:30 From DTI to Advanced Diffusion Tractography: What Have We Gained (or Lost)? Flavio Dell'Acqua, Ph.D.
King's College London
London, England, UK
09:15 Track-Weighted Imaging Methods: Extracting Information from Streamlines Fernando Calamante, Ph.D.
The Florey Institute
Heidelberg, VIC, Australia
10:00     Break, Speaker Upload & Poster Viewing  
10:30   Power Pitch Session (No CME available)  
Poster #45   Exploring Geometrical Sheet-Like Structures in Real-Time Maxime Chamberland, M.Sc.
University of Sherbrooke
Shrebrooke, Quebec, Canada
Poster #46   SATA: Achieving Volume Saturation of Streamline Bundles in Tractography Alexandre Gauvin, B.Sc.
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Poster #48   Fiberweb : A New Web Solution for Medical Visualization & Interactions James R. Ledoux, Ph.D.
Presented by Jean-Christophe Houde, M.Sc.
Université de Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Poster #51   Tractography Based on Machine Learning Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Ph.D.
German Cancer Research Center
Heidelberg, Germany
Poster #53   Can We Get Around the Crossing Fiber Problem by Increasing Resolution? Kurt Schilling, B.Sc.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
11:00   White Matter Structure: Sheet Happens! Van Jay Wedeen, M.D.
Harvard University
Charlestown, MA, USA
11:45     Panel Discussion  
12:15   Industry Research Update (box lunches available 12:15-13:15) (no CME)
Speaker Upload Available
 
 
Session 4: Connectivity
      Jacques-Donald Tournier, Ph.D. & David C. Van Essen, Ph.D.  
14:00 Quantifying Structural Connectivity - Tractometry Alessandro Daducci, Ph.D.
EPFL
Lausanne, Switzerland
14:45 Building Connectomes Using Diffusion MRI: Why, How & But Stamatios Sotiropoulos, Ph.D.
University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK
15:30     Break, Speaker Upload & Poster Viewing  
16:00   Power Pitch Session (No CME available)  
Poster #47   Reducing Invalid Connections with Microstructure-Driven Tractography Gabriel Girard, Ph.D.
École Polytechtique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland
Poster #90   Groupwise Structural Parcellation of the Cortex: A Sound Approach Based on Logistic Models Guillermo Gallardo, M.Sc.
INRIA
Antibes, France
Poster #91   Probabilistic Tractography is not Reliable for Determining the Degree of Connectivity Hamed Mesri, M.Phil.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Poster #92   White Matter Fingerprinting: Expanded Dataset Reveals Additional Detail Greg D. Parker, Ph.D.
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Poster #93   Investigating the Mechanisms of Structural Connectome Construction on HCP Data: Implications for Structural Network Analysis Chun-Hung Yeh, Ph.D.
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
16:30 Exploring Links Between Structural & Functional Connectivity Alfred Anwander, Ph.D.
MPI for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences
Leipzig, Germany
17:15     Panel Discussion  
17:45     Evening "Poster Bar" (Posters 1-54) & Networking Reception (No CME Available)  
18:45     Adjourn  
 

DAY 5 - Thursday, 15 September 2016 (5.50 CME Available)

07:00     Breakfast for guests staying at the Sheraton Lisboa (Served until 8:30)  
07:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
Session 5: Validation
      Moderators: Jennifer Campbell, Ph.D. & Laurent Petit, Ph.D.  
08:30 Validation of Microstructural Modeling in Spinal Cord Imaging Julien Cohen-Adad, Ph.D.
École Polytechnique
Montreal, QC, Canada
09:15 When Tracks are Actually Tracts — Validating Tractography Using Multiple Modalities Adam W. Anderson, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
10:00     Break, Speaker Upload & Poster Viewing  
10:30   Power Pitch Session (No CME available)  
Poster #95   Validation of Quantitative MRI Metrics Using Full Slice Histology with Automatic Axon Segmentation Tanguy Duval, M.Sc.
Polytechnique Montreal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Poster #97   Optimal Histological Quantification of Neurite Orientation Dispersion for the Validation of Diffusion MRI Francesco Grussu, Ph.D.
University College London
London, England, UK
Poster #98   Entropy-Weighted Post-Mortem Diffusion MRI Matt G. Hall, Ph.D.
University College London
London, England, UK
Poster #102   New Insights In the Structural Organization of the Anterior Human Corpus Callosum Laurent Petit, Ph.D.
Groupe d'imagerie Neurofonctionnelle (GIN)
Bordeaux, France
Poster #104   Origin of Diffusion Anisotropy in Human Kidney: A Combined DTI & IVM Study Sophie J. van Baalen, M.Sc.
University of Twente
Enschede, The Netherlands
11:00 Evaluating & Validating Connectomes in Humans & Non-Human Primates David C. Van Essen, Ph.D.
Washington University
St. Louis, MO, USA
11:45     Panel Discussion  
12:15     Lunch & Speaker Upload Available  
 
Session 6: Clinical Applications
      Moderators: Denis Le Bihan, M.D., Ph.D. & Duan Xu, Ph.D.  
14:00 Cardiac & Muscle Martijn Froeling, Ph.D.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
14:45 Oncologic Applications Eric E. Sigmund, Ph.D.
New York University
New York, NY, USA
15:30     Break, Speaker Upload & Poster Viewing  
16:00   Power Pitch Session (No CME available)  
Poster #59   Morphology of the Cingulum Bundle is Influenced by Genetic Variants with High Penetrance for Psychiatric & Developmental Disorders Mark Drakesmith, Ph.D.
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Poster #62   In Vivo Imaging of Cancer Cell Size & Density Using Temporal Diffusion Spectroscopy Xiaoyu Jiang, Ph.D.
Presented by John C. Gore, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
Poster #66   In Vivo Imaging of Mean Cell Size & Density of Human Breast Tumors: A Pilot Study Hua Li, B.Sc.
Presented by John C. Gore, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
Poster #72   How Diffusion Tensor Measurements Can Help Achieve the Desired Drug Distributions via Convection-Enhanced Drug Delivery to the Human Brain Eirini Messaritaki, Ph.D.
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Poster #73   The Microstructural Dynamics of Myocardial Wall Thickening: An In Vivo Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
16:30 Neurologic Applications Claudia A. Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott, Ph.D.
UCL Institute of Neurology
London, England, UK
17:15     Panel Discussion  
17:45     Evening "Poster Bar" (Posters 55-105) & Networking Reception (No CME Available)  
18:45     Adjourn  
 

DAY 6 - Friday, 16 September 2016 (2.25 CME Available)

08:00     Breakfast for guests staying at the Sheraton Lisboa (Served until 9:30)  
08:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
Session 7: Strategic Directions
      Moderators: Organizing Committee  
09:30     Recap & Reflections on the 2016 Workshop Organizing Committee
10:00   Taking the Road Less Traveled by – Innovating in a Crowded Field Peter J. Basser, Ph.D., A.B., S.M.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
10:45   Where Do We Go from Here? Derek K. Jones, Ph.D.
CUBRIC
Cardiff, England, UK
11:30     Panel Discussion  
12:15     Adjournment, Boxed Lunches & Departure  
 
 

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