The Daily Features offers a brief guide to the Paris Meeting, with science, education and program highlights combined with news updates. Check back every day!

Welcome to Paris!

The Annual Meeting Program Committee has worked hard over the last 18 months to put together the most comprehensive set of educational courses, scientific sessions and platform presentations in the field of MR. Enjoy!

Don’t Miss Today…

From the Education Chair, John Port...

For American MDs... SAMS

Saturdays’s SAM sessions: MR for Neuropsychiatric Disorders (afternoon), Body MRI: Realities & Controversies (morning), and Advanced Clinical MR Imaging in MSK (morning and afternoon). Check them out!

Data Zero to Stats Hero

Get prepared for the hottest topic of the year with the educational session on Deep Learning, Saturday @ 8am! And if you want more, an educational session on Statistical Analysis follows in the afternoon.

Add to Calendar06/16/18 08:0006/16/18 16:30Europe/ParisDeep Learning and Statistical Analysis N01

Let the physics echo in you!

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

Add to Calendar06/16/18 08:0006/16/18 16:30Europe/ParisPhysics for Physicists N02

Meeting Live & News

Navigating the Paris Meeting

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.

SMRT Highlights - Award Winners!

SMRT President’s Award winner Rebecca Glarin will present “MREYE – Are You Winking at Me?” (Followed by other awardees)

The SMRT John Kovelski Award for Professional Development was awarded to Hiroyuki Takashima, Ph.D.
for “T2* Relaxation Time with Ultra-short TE Enables to Evaluate in Detail for Degeneration of Intervertebral Discs”

Complete SMRT Program Guide

Add to Calendar06/16/18 13:1506/16/18 14:00Europe/ParisSMRT Award Presenters S06

Secret Sessions are Back!

Content by trainees, for trainees! More details

MRM Highlights Magazine

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

Featured Comments @ISMRM

#ParisMR18 Tweets


Have we created the meeting of your dreams?

We want to know what you think! After each talk and/or session, feel free to tell us what you liked, didn’t like, etc. It is easy with the ISMRM mobile app!

Wish You Were Here!

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.

Paris ISMRM-ESMRMB Stats

5667 Abstracts will be presented:  871 oral, 329 power-pitch, 1804 traditional poster, 2577 e-poster, 69 educational/scientific and 17 educational e-posters.

Magnetic Moments

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

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