ISMRM WORKSHOP SERIES ~ 14-17 August 2016

ISMRM Workshop on MR Spectroscopy:
From Current Best Practice to Latest Frontiers
Lake Constance, Germany

Program

Syllabi and videos available to meeting registrants only.


DAY 1 - Sunday, 14 August 2016

15:00     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
18:30    

Dinner (Located in hotel restaurant)

 
         
Session 1: Update on Consensus Effort
      Moderators: Anke Henning, Ph.D. & Roland Kreis, Ph.D.  
19:55   Introduction Roland Kreis, Ph.D.
University Bern
Bern, Switzerland
20:00 Consensus on Clinical Applications in CNS Gulin Oz, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
20:20   Consensus on Basic Spectroscopy Methods Martin Wilson, Ph.D.
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, England, UK
20:40   Consensus on Advanced Spectroscopy Methods Anke Henning, Ph.D.
MPI for Biological Cybernetics
Tübingen, Germany
21:00     Networking Reception  
 
DAY 2 - Monday, 15 August 2016
07:00     Breakfast (only for attendees staying at Hotel St. Elisabeth, served until 8:30 in hotel restaurant)
07:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 2: Hardware & PreScans
      Moderators: Chris Bösch, M.D., Ph.D. & Ivan Tkac, Ph.D.  
09:10   RF Hardware Requirements Dennis W. J. Klomp, Ph.D.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
09:40 Magnetic Field B0 Shimming for MR Spectroscopy Applications Robin A. de Graaf, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
10:10 A Comparison of Optimization Algorithms for Localized In-Vivo Shimming Sahar Nassirpour, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Tübingen, Germany
10:20 In Vivo Metabolite Quantification Using ERETIC with Corrections for Changes in the RF Transmission & Reception Field Niklaus Zoelch, M.Sc.
University and ETH Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
10:30     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 3: Localization & Preprocessing
      Moderators: Charles M. Gasparovic, Ph.D. & Benjamin C. Rowland, Ph.D.  
11:00   Conventional & Arbitrary Volume Selection Ovidiu Cristian Andronesi, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
11:30   Fit for Fitting: Preprocessing Routines to Improve MRS Data Quality
- as presented at the workshop by Richard A. E. Edden, Ph.D.
- pre-recorded by Jamie P. Near, Ph.D.; not shown at the workshop
Jamie P. Near, Ph.D.
McGill University
Montréal, QC, Canada
12:00 Motion Correction & Frequency Stabilization Thomas Ernst, Ph.D.
University of Hawai'i
Honolulu, HI, USA
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
12:30 Across-Vendor Standardization of Semi-LASER for Single-Voxel MRS at 3 Tesla Dinesh Deelchand, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
12:40 Assessing Spectral Quality: Of Man & Machine Sreenath P. Kyathanahally, M.Sc.
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
12:50 Influence of Age-Specific Macromolecular Pattern on MRS Quantification Malgorzata Marjanska, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
13:00     Lunch (Located in hotel restaurant) & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 4: Spectral Fitting
      Moderators: Dinesh K. Deelchand, Ph.D. & Jamie P. Near, Ph.D.  
14:30 Parametric Fit Model & Basis Sets Lana G. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Siemens Healthcare
Tokyo, Japan
15:00   Baseline & Lineshape (MM & Distortions) Handling Martin Wilson, Ph.D.
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, England, UK
15:30   Spectral Fitting Challenge Results & Discussion  
16:15     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 5: Detecting a Comprehensive Neurochemical Profile
      Moderators: In-Young Choi, Ph.D. & Alexander P. Lin, Ph.D.  
16:45     Progress in Edited MRS - Permission Withheld Richard A. E. Edden, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
17:15 Novel MR Spectroscopic Imaging Techniques: Encoding of 2D Spectral & 2D/3D Spatial Dimensions M. Albert Thomas, Ph.D.
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA, USA
17:45 In Vivo Neurochemical Profiling at Ultra-High Field Ivan Tkac, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
18:15 Brain-Region Specific GABA+ Concentrations Obtained from 3D GABA MRSI: Cross-Validation to Single Voxel MEGA-PRESS Ruoyun Ma, B.Sc.
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA
18:25 Simultaneous Detection of Alpha- & Beta-Glucose Using 1H MRS at 7 Tesla Lana G. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Siemens Healthcare
Tokyo, Japan
18:35 Elucidation of the Downfield Spectrum of Human Brain at 7 T & at 9.4 T Nicole Fichtner, M.Sc.
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
18:45     Adjourn  
19:00     Dinner (Located in hotel restaurant)  
         
DAY 3 - Tuesday, 16 August 2016
07:00     Breakfast (only for attendees staying at Hotel St. Elisabeth, served until 8:30 in hotel restaurant)
07:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 6: MRSI I
      Moderators: Ashley D. Harris, Ph.D & Phil Lee, Ph.D.  
09:00 Whole-Brain MRSI Andrew A. Maudsley, Ph.D.
University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL, USA
09:45   Power Pitch Session  
      Moderators: Wolfgang Bogner, Ph.D. & Paul G. Mullins, Ph.D.  
    Optimized Estimation of Apparent Diffusion Coefficients of Metabolites André Döring , M.Sc.
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
    Fast & Accurate Simulation of Spatially Localized Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Yan Zhang, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
    Large Volume Spectral Estimation of Gray & White Matter Mohammed Goryawala, Ph.D.
University of Miami
Miami, FL, USA
    Registration-Based Automatic Voxel Positioning for High Between-Subject Reproducibility in Single Voxel MRS Young Woo Park, M.Sc.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
Daejeon, South Korea
    Metabolite Cycled Semi-LASER in Human Brain at 9.4T: In-Vivo Results Ioannis-Angelos Giapitzakis, M.Sc.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Tübingen, Germany
    Assessment of Interrelations Between DMN Resting State Functional Connectivity & Brain GABA Concentrations by Using Functional MRI & 1H-MEGA-PRESS MRS with & without Suppression of Macromolecules Alexander Gussew, Ph.D.
Jena University Hospital
Jena, Germany
    Towards Functional MRS: Time-Resolved Assessment of tDCS-Induced Changes in Local GABA Concentration in the Brain Alexander R. Craven, M.Sc.
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
    Time Dependent Sensitization in the Prefrontal Cortex of the Single Prolonged Stress Animal Model of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: In Vivo 1H MRS at 9.4T Song-I Lim, B.Sc.
The Catholic University of Korea
Seoul, South Korea
    Evidence of White Matter Metabolite Changes in Manifest Huntington's Disease Using Proton MRS Bretta Russell-Schulz, M.Sc.
UBC MRI Research Centre
Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Very High-Order B0 Shimming for Ultra-High Field Magnetic Resonance Paul (Yu-Chun) Chang, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Tübingen, Germany
    Metabolite Mapping of the Human Brain Using 1H FID MRSI at 9.4T Sahar Nassirpour, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Tübingen, Germany
    Prospective Frequency Correction for MR Spectroscopic Imaging Chu-Yu Lee, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS, USA
    Effective Lipid Suppression in 1H MRS Using BASE-SLIM & Spatially-Constrained Reconstruction - Permission Withheld Peter Adany, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS, USA
    Towards a Fast, Automated, Scanner-to-PACS Brain 1H MRSI Workflow Jason Crane, Ph.D.
University of California
San Francisco, CA, USA
10:15     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 7: MRSI II
      Moderators: Ovidiu Andronesi, M.D., Ph.D. & Peter B. Barker, D.Phil.  
11:00   Multi slice, Elliptical K-Space Sampling / K-Space Weighting, Multi-echo Tom W. J. Scheenen, Ph.D.
Radbound University Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
11:15 SSFP Based Short TR MRSI: General Aspects & Applications to Slow Chemical Exchange & Gas-Phase Reactions Wolfgang Dreher, Ph.D.
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
11:30   SENSE Anke Henning, Ph.D.
MPI for Biological Cybernetics
Tübingen, Germany
11:45   GRAPPA & Multiband Wolfgang Bogner, Ph.D.
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
12:00 Echo-Planar Spectroscopic Imaging Stefan Posse, Ph.D.
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM, USA
12:15 Fast Spectroscopic Imaging using Non-Cartesian Trajectories Rolf F. Schulte, Ph.D.
GE Global Research
Garching, Germany
12:30 Compressed Spectroscopic Imaging Ricardo Otazo, Ph.D.
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
12:45     Lunch (Located in hotel restaurant) & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 7: MRSI II (Continued)
      Moderators: Ovidiu Andronesi, M.D., Ph.D. & Peter B. Barker, D.Phil.  
14:15 SLAM & Co. Paul Arthur Bottomley, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
14:30 Hadamard Order RF Phase Encoding for MRSI Oded Gonen, Ph.D.
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA
14:45   Comparative Evaluation of MRSI Acceleration Methods & Discussion Discussion Leaders:
Wolfgang Bogner, Ph.D.
Tom W. J. Scheenen, Ph.D.
15:15     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
15:45     Poster Session  
         
Session 8: Quality Assurance & Reference Standards
      Moderators: Björn H. Menze, Ph.D. & Hélène Ratiney, Ph.D.  
17:45   Quality Assurance Roland Kreis, Ph.D.
University Bern
Bern, Switzerland
18:15 Adjusting Concentrations for Tissue Composition in Brain: Assumptions & Conundrums Charles M. Gasparovic, Ph.D.
The Mind Research Network
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM, USA
18:45   Reference Standards Peter B. Barker, D.Phil.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
19:15     Dinner (Located in hotel restaurant)  
         
DAY 4 - Wednesday, 17 August 2016
07:00     Breakfast (only for attendees staying at Hotel St. Elisabeth, served until 8:30 in hotel restaurant)
07:30     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 9: Body MRS
      Moderators: Dennis W. J. Klomp, Ph.D. & Kirsten Selnæs, Ph.D.  
09:00   Prostate MRS Tom W. J. Scheenen, Ph.D.
Radbound University Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
09:30 Cardiac MRS Sebastian Kozerke, Ph.D.
University and ETH Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
10:00   Breast MRS - Permission Withheld Patrick J. Bolan, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
10:30 Spinal Cord MRS - Detection of an Extended Neurochemical Profile Patrik Wyss, M.Sc.
University and ETH Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
10:40 Accelerated Ultra-High-Resolution 3D Free Induction Decay 1H-MRSI of Human Brain at 7T Michal Povazan, M.Sc.
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
10:50 Ultrahigh-Resolution, Volumetric 1H-MRSI of the Brain without Water/Lipid Suppression Fan Lam, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chicago, IL, USA
11:00     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 10: Consensus Discussion
      Moderators: Anke Henning, Ph.D., Paul G. Mullins, Ph.D., Brenda L. Bartnik Olson, Ph.D. & Martin Wilson, Ph.D.
11:30     Review Topics Consensus - Those Confirmed & Additional Planning  
13:00     Lunch (Located in hotel restaurant) & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 11: Multinuclear MRS
      Moderators: Brenda L. Bartnik Olson, Ph.D. & Tom W. J. Scheenen, Ph.D.  
14:00 31P MRS / MRSI Chris Bösch, M.D., Ph.D.
University Bern
Bern, Switzerland
14:30 Practical Aspects of 13C MR Studies Graeme F. Mason, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
15:00 Recent Advances in Inverse 1H-[13C] MR Spectroscopy Robin de Graaf, Ph.D.
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
15:10   Probing Alterations of Cellular Metabolism & Structure in Cntf-Induced Mouse Model of Astrocytic Activation Using In Vivo MRS & DW-MRS Clémence Ligneul, M.Sc.
CEA/DSV/12BM/MIRCen
Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
15:20   Mutant Huntingtin Induces Impairment in Striatal Cells of the BAC Mouse Model of Huntington’s Disease: Endogenous Findings & Disease-Modifying Strategies Sandra Cuellar Baena, M.Sc.
Lund University
Lund, Sweden
15:30     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
         
Session 12: Emerging MRS Methods
      Moderators: Wolfgang Dreher, Ph.D. & Lana G. Kaiser, Ph.D.  
16:00 Exploring Brain Intracellular Space Using Diffusion-Weighted MR Spectroscopy In Vivo Julien Valette, Ph.D.
CEA-MIRCen
Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
16:30 Functional 1H MRS of the Brain Silvia Mangia, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
17:00 Novel Exchange-Based Methods for Spectroscopy & Imaging with Increased Sensitivity Nirbhay N. Yadav, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
17:30 Machine Learning & Automatic Classification Strategies: Methods and MRS Applications Björn H. Menze, Ph.D.
Technical University of Munich
Munich, Germany
18:00     Closing Remarks  
18:30     Adjournment  
         

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