Come to understand MRI principles from nuclear spins to image formation and appreciate the versatility of MR image contrast. Learn how to design you own sequences and push the boundaries of MRI research! Educational session on Physics for Physicists, Saturday @8am, Room N02

Use the mobile app for quick access, the searchable proceedings, and the program at a glance for a schedule view. Continuous discussions happen on Slack and Twitter. All information is on the  main meeting page.

MRM Highlights, now part of MR pulse, has produced a free hard-copy magazine sponsored by Wiley, available for pickup at registration!

Note that all presentations from the Plenary Hall will be live-streamed free, and that all presentations are recorded for access by paid attendees. Visit the Program-at-a-Glance and click on the plenary sessions for more info.

Each day we feature 2 of the 10 finalists for the “Magnetic Moments” competition, for which final judging takes place on Thursday

Video #1: Using a Dalmatian’s white coat metaphor, Gesine Knobloch explains the potential to use two contrasts agents to make visible small lesion in a human liver.

Video#2: A sneak peek at Lydia Le Page’s work aiming for a better understanding of brain inflammation while scanning a mice model of inflammation

Understand the magnetic properties of biological tissues, how resonance frequencies are tightly linked to their molecular signature and how you can measure them. Educational session on Probing Biomolecules: Magnetic Susceptibility & CEST/MT, Sunday @13:15, Room N01

Various topics will be covered every morning including cutting-edge techniques for faster clinical imaging, application of molecular imaging, make-your-own-MR-hardware-and-software as well as Neuro, Cardiac, MSK and Body applications. (Meeting Rooms)

ISMRM President Dan Sodickson has led outstanding efforts forming the new Strategic Plan, highlighting our societies’ roles in a changing world. ESMRMB President Eric Achten offers updates on the European society.

Dr. Petra Huppi will present “How Early Life Events Shape Our Brains: An MRI Perspective” at 5:30 pm in the Plenary Hall. Sir Peter Mansfield’s seminal contributions have led to ongoing imaging acceleration that is allowing MRI to characterize the brain earlier and earlier in life. Dr. Huppi will discuss how MRI is helping our understanding of how events during key early periods in life affect our cognitive and emotional development. The understanding is leading to new ideas for treatment of neurodevelopment disorders.

Use the mobile app for quick access, the searchable proceedings, and the program at a glance for a schedule view. Continuous discussions happen on Slack and Twitter. All information is on the  main meeting page.

Each day we feature 2 of the 10 finalists for the “Magnetic Moments” competition, for which final judging takes place on Thursday

Video#3: Sophie Schauman explains the importance to speed up MRI acquisition time while having richer images and highlights her first step to make it happen using compressed sensing.

Video #4: The MR community is in dire need of faster, more accurate and flexible image. Nadine Graedel unravel the potential use of a model forecasting the gradient’s behaviour in order to make it happen.

The Gold Medal is ISMRM’s highest honor, awarded for pioneering scientific contributions to magnetic resonance in medicine and biology. Junior Fellows receive mentoring from Senior Fellows, and observe an ISMRM committee. Senior Fellows are named for substantial contributions to the society and the field.

Awards are streamed live!  Follow the link in the Program at a Glance

We’ll hear from Dr. Kwong about characterizing the tissue of the human heart, from Dr. Uribe Arancibia on novel ways to measure cardiac function, and all about the clinical impact from Dr. Fontana.

Plenaries are streamed live!  Follow the link in the Program at a Glance

Proposed by the Molecular & Cellular Imaging study group, this session will examine the Safety & Efficacy of three Contrast Agents: 1) Gd-based contrast gents; 2) iron and other paramagnetic contrast agents; and 3) metal-free alternatives. 4:15-6:15pm in N01.

Come and hear from the editors about how to be a great reviewer for journals, 18:30-19:30 in W05/W06

Don’t miss the open debate and make your own opinion. Sunrise educational session, Monday @ 7am, Room N03.

Educational sessions on MR Physics & Techniques for Clinicians will be running every evening session, Room S01. Basic principles of MR physics will be covered with non-mathematical presentations suitable for clinicians and physicists new to the field.

What’s the value of MRI? Shall we image less or image more? Shall we move towards faster cost-effective protocols? Can we create new value and address unmet clinical needs? These questions are part of the MR value initiative previously launched by the ISMRM and continued this year. Don’t miss several Educational (M-07 & W-07) and Combined Educational & Scientific sessions (W-08) as well as Thursday morning Plenary.

Each day we feature 2 of the 10 finalists for the “Magnetic Moments” competition, for which final judging takes place on Thursday

Video#5: The importance to measure brain oxygen using an MRI magnet by Caitlin O’ Brien.

Video #6: A wireless coil as an alternative to standard cable-connected receive coils in clinical radiological settings by Alena Shchelokova.

Dr. Miki Lustig will present “The Challenging Path Towards Pediatric MRI Without Anesthesia” at 10:45 in the Plenary Hall (watch the live stream here!). The hustle and bustle normally present in MR control rooms becomes especially focused and quiet whenever the pediatric anesthesia team is present to monitor children in MR scanners. Miki Lustig surveys specialty hardware, sequences and reconstructions to accelerate MR to ultimately avoid anesthesia.

Current MRI technology enables acquisitions that violate some basic assumptions, with many implications. With Dr. Maxim Zaitsev, we ask if common MR dogmas are based on tradition or solid fact. Dr. Bram van Ginneken describes evolution of image interpretation by computers. Dr. Mariya Doneva points out insufficiencies of, and extensions of the Fourier model. Finally, Dr. Kai Tobias Block considers solutions for technique integration and open development. Watch the live stream here!

Join us in congratulating this year’s ISMRM Research Exchange Grant Program awardees who each won US$5000 to foster collaboration within the ISMRM.

Carlos Milovic, Ph.D. – Multiscale Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping

• Home Mentor Christian Tejos (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
• Host Mentor Christian Langkammer (Neuroimaging Research Unit, Medical Univ. of Graz, Austria)

Alena Schelokova, Ph.D. – Body array coil based on novel materials for ultra-high field MRI

• Home Mentor Pavel Belov (Saint Petersburg National Research University, Russia Federation)
• Host Mentor Andrew Webb (Department of Radiology, Leiden Univ. Medical Center, Netherlands)

Sila Genc, Ph.D. – Microstructural imaging of childhood brain development at 300mT/m

• Home Mentor Marc Seal (The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia)
• Host Mentor Derek Jones (CUBRIC, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK)

Milou Straathof, Ph.D. – Excitation and inhibition; the Yin and Yang of functional brain connectivity?

• Home Mentor Rick Dijkhuizen (Center for Image Sciences, U. Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands)
• Host Mentor Robin de Graaf (MR Research Center, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA)

Tractography-based neurosurgical targeting, DTI outside the brain, and benefits and challenges of diffusion MRI at UHF will be covered throughout the rest of week. Don’t miss it every morning at 7am, Room N03.

The educational session Primer for UHF MRI is made for you! Practical information and guidance for brain and body imaging will be given by recognized experts of the field.Tuesday @ 13:45, Room N02.

Each day we feature 2 of the 10 finalists for the “Magnetic Moments” competition, for which final judging takes place on Thursday

Video #7: Ben Tendler exposes the importance of understanding how sites of neurons can provide rich sets of MR signals

Video#8: On the quest for new MRI biomarkers to improve Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, a magnetic moment video by Marco Palombo

Dr. Curt Rice will present “When the Right Thing to Do is Also the Smart Thing to Do: Research on Diversity in Research Organizations”. Dr. Rice is Rector ( President) of the Oslo and Akershus University of Applied Sciences. After growing up in the magnetic field of the Mayo MRI scanners in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, he is now playing a leadership position in developing and communicating evidence-based research on the implementation and derived benefits brought by inclusion and diversity. The ISMRM is pleased to provide a discussion from a leader advising institutions from universities to the Nobel Foundation.

We will revisit our current healthcare delivery system and technology development pipeline from the perspective of “Point-of-Care” (POC) diagnostics. Dr. Nimmi Ramanujam will highlight how cancer prevention platforms can be made more accessible and the toxicity of conventional cancer treatments reduced via POC approaches; Dr. Steven Schiff will describe how access to brain imaging can be dramatically increased in developing economies using low-field MRI; and Dr. Edwin van Beek will introduce novel ways for improving the efficiency and clinical value of MRI in our changing healthcare landscape.

Science undeniably evolves through collaboration, transparency and inclusiveness. Please join in an inaugural community-wide action-driven symposium aimed at fostering ongoing dialogue on ways to mitigate bias and increase inclusiveness in ISMRM.

Need an X-otic break? Non-proton imaging and spectroscopy can provide additional information that is not available with proton MRI and open new doors to assess body metabolism and physiology. Learn how at the Educational Session on Multinuclear Imaging & Spectroscopy: Methods & Applications. Wednesday @ 8:15am, Room S03.

Let’s get into human learning! Don’t miss the Combined Educational & Scientific session on Machine Learning for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Wednesday @ 13:45, Room N01. The session will address topics including regression and classification, model selection as well as performance evaluation procedures.

Each day we feature 2 of the 10 finalists for the “Magnetic Moments” competition, for which final judging takes place on Thursday

Video #9: Jingjing Xu’s research tackles the crucial role of human hippocampus into the memory circuitry.

Video #10: Brain images are complex and composed of many parts, like symphonies.  Agah Karakuzu and Tanguy Duval help doctors and scientists tease out the instruments in the symphony and figure out if your brain is in tune.