ISMRM Workshop Series • 29-31 March 2019

ISMRM Workshop on
Accessible MRI for the World
India International Centre, New Delhi, India

Program

Day 1 – Friday, 29 March 2019 – No CME Available
08:00 Registration & Speaker Upload Available
Light Breakfast
 
Session 1a: Introductions
Moderator: Rammohan S. Vadapalli SRM, M.D., Ph.D.
09:00 Welcome Chandrasekharan Kesavadas, M.D.
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology
Thiruvananthapuram, India
09:05 About the ISMRM India Workshop Sairam Geethanath, Ph.D.,
Sonal Krishan, M.D. &
Vidur Mahajan, M.B.B.S.
09:10 About Accessible MRI Harsh Mahajan, M.D.
Mahajan Imaging Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi, India
09:15 ISMRM Asia Outreach Program Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D.
A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA
09:30 Delivering MRI to the World: Significance, Challenges & Potential Solutions J. Thomas Vaughan, Jr., Ph.D.
Columbia Univesity
New York, NY, USA
 
Session 1b: Understanding the Needs of Clinicians
Moderator: Rammohan S. Vadapalli SRM, M.D., Ph.D.
09:45 Panel Discussion: The Role of MRI for the Clinicians in the Accessible Environment Sanjay Saran Baijal, MBBS, M.D.
Medanta Hospital
Gurgaon, India

Yash Gulati, M.D.
Indraprastha Apollo Hospital
New Delhi, India

Randhir Sud, MBBS, M.D.
Medanta
Gurgaon, India
10:20 Break & Speaker Upload Available
 
Session 2: Understanding the Needs of the Underserved Populations
Moderators: Vijaya Bhaskar Nori, M.D., Rakesh K. Gupta, M.D. & Harsh Mahajan, M.D.
10:50 Understanding Accessible Healthcare: Vision, Goals & Policies Dinesh Arora, M.D.
NITI Aayog
New Delhi, India
11:10
 Understanding Accessible Healthcare Challenges on the Ground Sonal Krishan, M.D.
Medanta Hospital
New Delhi, India
11:35 Healthcare Technology Assessment of MRI in India Biju Soman, M.D., MBBS, DPH, MSc, DLSHTM
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
Thiruvananthapuram, India
12:00
 Delivering MR to Patients in India's Busiest Hospital Naranamangalam R. Jagannathan, Ph.D.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences
New Delhi, India
12:25 Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
12:45-13:15 GE Industry Symposium
 
Session 3: What Do the Clinicians Need? Five Clinical Challenges
Moderators: Uday Patil, MBBS, M.D., Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D. & J. Thomas Vaughan, Jr., Ph.D.
13:25 India I Deepak Premanand Patkar, M.D.
Nanavati Hospital
Mumbai, India
13:50 India II Sandeep Kawlra, MBBS, M.D.
Global Health Pvt. Ltd.
Gurgaon, India
14:15 Developing Children's Cancer Services in East Africa: The Need for MRI Patricia Scanlan, M.D.
Muhimbili National Hospital
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
14:40 South America Emerson L. Gasparetto, M.D., Ph.D.
Diagnósticos da América
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
15:05 Worldwide Anjali Agrawal, M.D.
Teleradiology Solutions
Ardmore, PA, USA
15:30 Break & Speaker Upload Available
16:00 Introduction to the Breakout Sessions: Why? What? How? Sairam Geethanath, Ph.D.;
Sonal Krishan, M.D.; &
Vidur Mahajan, M.B.B.S.
 
Breakout Session 1
Facilitator: Sonal Krishan, M.D.
16:10 Deciding on Specific MR Accessibility Challenge to Undertake & Potential Impacts of Solving the Challenge
18:10 Teams to fill out form 1
18:25 Adjourn
19:00 Dinner at Fountain Lawn, India International Centre, New Delhi
 
Day 2 – Saturday, 30 March 2019 – No CME Available
08:00 Registration & Speaker Upload Available
08:00 Breakfast Debate: The Appropriateness of MR, Part I
Moderators: Sonal Krishan, M.D. & Vidur Mahajan, M.B.B.S.		 Samarjit Ghuman, M.D.;
Milind Gune, M.B.B.S.;
Sriram Rajan, M.D., DNB; &
Rochita Venkataramanan, M.D., DNB, DMRD
 
Session 4: An Overview of MR Innovation
Moderators: Rakesh K. Gupta, M.D., Nicole Seiberlich, Ph.D. & Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D.
09:00
 NMR & the First FT MR Images Anil Kumar, Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, India
09:25 History & Current Clinical Status of Quantitative Imaging MR Biomarkers Angel Alberich-Bayarri, Ph.D.
Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers in Medicine
Valencia, Spain
09:50
 MRI Technologies & Applications of the Future Maxim Zaitsev, Ph.D.
University Medical Center Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
10:15 Introducing India to MRI, and MRI to India Harsh Mahajan, M.D.
Mahajan Imaging Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi, India
10:40 Break & Speaker Upload Available
 
Session 5: Case Studies: How to Build an MRI
Moderators: Sanjay Dhawan, M.D., Amit Mehndiratta, M.B.B.S., D.Phil. & J. Thomas Vaughan, Jr., Ph.D.
11:10 Case Study 1: Indigenization, Rapid Prototyping & Scaling of MR Technology Rajesh Harsh, M.Sc.
Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering & Research
Mumbai, India
11:35 Case Study 2: India’s 1.5T & Next-Gen MR Scanners Arjun Arunachalam, Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Mumbai, India
12:00
 Case Study 3: Low Field Sustainable MRI Andrew G. Webb, Ph.D.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, Netherlands
 
Session 6: Democratizing MR Innovation I: Hardware
Moderators: Rajesh Harsh, M.Sc. & Anup Singh, Ph.D.
12:25
 Building Your Own Laboratory MR System Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D.
A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA
12:50
 Open-Source Hardware: A Requirement for Affordable Healthcare & Reproducible Research Lukas Winter, Ph.D.
Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Berlin, Germany
13:15 Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
13:30-13:50 Jansen Industry Symposium
 
Session 7: Democratizing MR Innovation II: Software & Economics
Moderators: Sairam Geethanath, Ph.D., Amit T. Kharat, MBBS, Ph.D. & Vidur Mahajan, M.B.B.S.
14:10 Toward Open, Vendor-Agnostic MR Pulse Sequence Programming Jon-Fredrik Nielsen, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
14:40 Open-Source Tools for Brain Image Analysis Rita G. Nunes, DPhil.
Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisbon, Portugal
15:05 Understanding a Safe & Accredited MR System Devashish Shrivastava, Ph.D.
US Food & Drug Adminstration
Silver Spring, MD, USA
15:30
 A Business Plan for Accessible MRI Stefan Roell, Ph.D.
Neoscan Solutions GmbH
Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
15:55 Break & Speaker Upload Available
16:00-16:20 Fuji Industry Symposium
 
Breakout Session 2
Facilitator: Sairam Geethanath, Ph.D.
16:25 Deciding on MR Technology Strategy to Undertake & Identifying Tools to Use
18:25 Teams to fill out form 2
18:40 Adjourn
19:30 Dinner at Rose Garden
 
Day 3 – Sunday, 31 March 2019 – No CME Available
08:00 Registration & Speaker Upload Available
08:00 Breakfast Debate: The Appropriateness of MR, Part II
Moderators: Naveen Kalra, Ph.D., Sonal Krishan, M.D. & Vidur Mahajan, M.B.B.S.		 Samarjit Ghuman, M.D.;
Milind Gune, M.B.B.S.;
Sriram Rajan, M.D., DNB; &
Uday B. Singh, MBBS, M.D.
 
Session 8: Quantitative Imaging for Expedited Decision-Making: Opportunities & Challenges
Moderators: Naveen Kalra, Ph.D., Abhishek Mahajan, MBBS, M.D. & Raju Sharma, M.D.
09:00
 Quantitative & Intelligent MR for Underserved Populations Manojkumar Saranathan, Ph.D.
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
09:25
 Accelerating Access to Quantitative MR Nicole Seiberlich, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA
09:50 Quantitative Imaging in an Accessible Environment Vikas Gulani, M.D., Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA
10:15
 Personalized & Predictive Digital Health Examination via an Accessible MRI Solution Girish Srinivasan, Ph.D.
PhenoMX
New York, NY, USA
10:40 Break & Speaker Upload Available
 
Breakout Session 3
Facilitator: Vidur Mahajan, M.B.B.S.
11:10 Consolidating Solutions to the Challenges: Slides
12:40 Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
13:00-13:20 Siemens Industry Symposium
 
Session 9: Team Pitches
Moderators: Vikram Damodaran, M.D., Vikas Gulani, M.D., Ph.D. & J. Thomas Vaughan, Jr., Ph.D.
13:40 Team Pitches  
15:10 Break & Speaker Upload Available
 
Session 10: Proffered Papers
Moderators: Chandrasekharan Kesavadas, M.D., Raju Sharma, M.D., Anup Singh, Ph.D. & Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D

Proffered Papers - Oral Session

15:40
 Problems Related to Accesible MRI: Our Experience in Jammu Province Geetanjali Gupta, MBBS, DMRD, DNB
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Superspeciality Hospital
Kakriyal, India
15:50
 Evaluating Estimation of Knee Joint Parameters at 3.0T, 1.5T & 0.25T MR Scanner Sandeep Panwar Jogi, M.Tech.
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
New Delhi, India
16:00
 Combined MRI & EMG Study for Peripheral Neuropathy Study in Bangladesh Zaid Bin Mahbub, Ph.D.
North South University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
16:10
 Autonomous Scanning Using IMR-Framework to Improve MR Accessibility Keerthi Sravan Ravi, B.Sc.
New York University
New York, NY, USA
16:20
 2D Imaging in a Low-Cost Homogenous Large-Bore Halbach-Based MRI Scanner Thom O'Reilly, B.Sc.
Leiden Univeristy Medical Center
Leiden, Netherlands
16:30
 The MR Cap: A Single-Sided MRI System for Point-of-Care Reduced Field-of-View Imaging Patrick C. McDaniel, M.Eng.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
16:40
 Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting on Legacy MRI Scanners: Phantom & In Vivo Feasibility Study Brendan Eck, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA
16:50
 More Value per Scan: An Informationally Efficient Approach to Calculate SWI Contrast from 3D PCA Data Nehul Makani, B.E.
Philips Healthcare, Indian Institute of Technology
Bangalore, India
17:00
 A Standard-Based Vendor-Independent Software Platform for MRI Scanner Integration: Pulse Sequence & Image Reconstruction Nimmy Mathew, M.Tech.
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Kerala, India
17:10 Poster Session
17:55 Break & Speaker Upload Available
 
Session 11: Closing
18:25 Awards Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D.
A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA
18:40 Five Key Takeaways from the Workshop Vidur Mahajan, M.B.B.S.
Mahajan Imaging Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi, India
18:55 Concluding Remarks & Adjournment Sairam Geethanath, Ph.D. (Co-Chair) &
Sonal Krishan, M.D. (Co-Chair)
 

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