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ISMRM Workshop on

Low Field MRI

17-18 March 2022

Online Virtual Workshop

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Day 2 (14:20 UTC): 11-20

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Breakout Room 1 — Imaging Applications: Body

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

Lung Nodule Imaging Using High-Performance 0.55T MRI

Bjorn Wieslander, M.D., Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Power Pitch

Imaging Lung Water Using Low Field Strength 0.55T Ultrashort Echo Time MRI

Felicia Seemann, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Poster 64

Ultra-Fast Water/Fat Imaging of the Abdomen at 0.55T

Bilal Tasdelen, M.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 41

Body Composition Profiling at 0.55 Tesla: Feasibility & Protocol Optimization

Krishna S. Nayak, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 65

Quantifying Liver Fat Using a Low Field Unilateral MR System

Cornelius J. von Morze, Ph.D.
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA

Breakout Room 2 — Imaging Applications: Neuro I

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Title

Author

Power Pitch

MRI of Acute Stroke: Equivalent Diagnostic Accuracy in 0.5T Versus 1.5T/3T

Kathryn Wagner, B.Mus.
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada

Poster 58

Potential & Assessment of Stroke Imaging Using Low-Field MRI: A Prospective Direct 0.55T-1.5T Scanner Comparison

Thilo Rusche, Dr. med.
University Hospital of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Poster 45

Volumetric Brain Segmentation: Feasibility Using a Head-Only 0.5T MRI

Jeffrey A. Stainsby, M.Sc.
Synaptive Medical
Toronto, ON, Canada

Poster 39

Imaging of Ischaemic Strokes Below 200 mT Using Field Cycling Imaging

Vasiliki Mallikourti, Ph.D.
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Poster 37

Initial Evaluation of Basic Clinical Brain Imaging Protocols at 0.55T

Anna Lavrova, M.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Breakout Room 3 — Real-Time Imaging

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

Real-Time Water Fat Imaging at 0.55T with Spiral Out-In-Out-In Sampling

Ye Tian, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 79

Spiral-in-Out bSSFP Real-Time Cine on a High Performance 0.55T Scanner

Zhixing Wang, M.Sc.
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Poster 30

Real-Time Cardiac MRI at 0.55T Using Through-Time Spiral GRAPPA

Alexander Fyrdahl, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Poster 5

Real-Time Compressed Sensing Cine Imaging on a 0.55T Scanner

Chong Chen, Ph.D.
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA

Poster 36

Low Latency Real-Time MRI at 0.55T Using Self-Calibrating Through-Time GRAPPA

Prakash Kumar, B.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Breakout Room 4 — Imaging in New Settings

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

Point-of-Care Knee Imaging Using a 64mT Portable MRI Scanner: First Results

Jennifer M. Watchmaker, M.D., Ph.D.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, NY, USA

Power Pitch

Residential MRI: Development of a Mobile Anywhere-Everywhere MRI Lab

Sean Deoni, Ph.D.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA, USA

Poster 81

Hybrid Modular System for MRI/TMS/Drug Delivery

Irving Weinberg, M.D., Ph.D.
National Neurotech Center for Innovation
North Bethesda, MD, USA

Poster 59

Prototype System for First-in-Human MR-Integrated Proton Therapy Combining a 0.32T Open MR Scanner with a Horizontal Proton Pencil Beam Scanning Beamline

Sergej Schneider, M.Sc.
Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Germany

Poster 78

A Low-Field Portable MR System for In-Vivo Liver Measurement

Weiqian Wang, M.S.
Marvel Stone Healthcare Co., Ltd.
Wuxi, China

Breakout Room 5 — Reconstruction, Machine Learning & Artifact Correction I

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

Image Quality Transfer for Low-Field MRI

Matteo Figini, Ph.D.
University College London
London, England, UK

Poster 43

Type-III NUFFT Image Reconstruction for a 65 mT Single-Sided Prostate MRI Scanner with Non-Linear Gradient Fields

Meredith Sadinski, Ph.D.
Promaxo
Oakland, CA, USA

Poster 68

Deep Learning for the Reconstruction of Undersampled Complex Low Field MRI Data

Reina Ayde, Ph.D.
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Poster 62

Residual U-Net for Denoising 3D Low Field MR Images

Tobias Senft, M.Sc.
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Poster 17

Concomitant Field-Compensation of Spiral Turbo Spin-Echo for 0.55T MRI

Rajiv Ramasawmy, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Breakout Room 6 — Acquisition I

Power Pitch/Poster #

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Author

Power Pitch

EMI-Suppressed Gradient-Free Phase-Encoded Imaging at 47.5mT Using an Optimized SquareRoot Solenoid with Bucking Coil for Encoding & a Nested Saddle Coil for Imaging

Sai Abitha Srinivas, M.Sc.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Poster 60

Nonlinear Encoding Scheme for Gradient-Free Projection Imaging in an Inhomogeneous B0 Magnet

Kartiga Selvaganesan, B.Sc.
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

Poster 13

B0 Gradient-Free Single- & Multi-band Excitations Localized by the Bloch-Siegert Shift

Jonathan B. Martin, B.Sc.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Poster 4

Slice-Selective Zero Echo Time Imaging of Ultra-Short T2 Tissues

José Borreguero, Ph.D. Candidate
Tesoro Imaging S.L. & Universitat Politècnica de València
Valencia, Spain

Poster 31

Multiecho xSPEN for Single-Sided Low-Field MRI

Muller D. Gomes, Ph.D.
Promaxo
Oakland, CA, USA

Breakout Room 7 — Hardware I

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

Ramp-Down of a High-Performance 3T MRI: Experiences at 0.75T

Christian Guenthner, M.D.
ETH & University of Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland

Poster 63

An Optimized Quadrature Head RF Coil for a Very Low Field (50.4 mT) MRI System

Sheng Shen, Ph.D.
Chongqing University
Chongqing, China

Poster 32

Breast & Chest Wall Imaging at Low Field: RF Coil Optimization & Design

Torben P.P. Hornung, B.Sc.
A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Cambridge, MA, USA

Poster 53

Design of an Asymmetric Spiral RF Coil for RF Spatial Encoding

Yonghyun Ha, Ph.D.
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

Poster 57

Frequency Dependence of Gradient Operation on Cryogen-Free MR Systems

Diego F. Martinez, B.Sc.
University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada

Breakout Room 8 — Hardware II

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Poster 19

Flexible Six-Channel Knee Array for MRI at 0.55T

Bili Wang, B.Sc.
New York University
New York, NY, USA

Poster 40

Evaluation of a Novel 8-Channel RX Coil for Speech Production MRI at 0.55T

Felix Munoz, M.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 46

No-Match Flexible Coils for 0.2T Readout FCI (Field Cycling Imaging)

Robert Stormont, B.S.E.
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Poster 54

Affordable RF Shield Design for Low Field MRI in Low-Resource Settings

Joshua Harper, Ph.D.
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA

Poster 18

Passive Magnetic Shielding for 0.22T In-Beam MR Imaging During Proton Pencil Beam Irradiation

Ekaterina Semioshkina, M.Sc.
OncoRay – National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology
Dresden, Germany

Breakout Room 9 — Quantitative Imaging I

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Poster 1

Simultaneous High-Resolution T2-Weighted Imaging & Quantitative T2 Mapping at Low Magnetic Field Strengths Using a Multiple Echo Time & Multi-Orientation Acquisition Approach

Sean Deoni, Ph.D.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle, WA, USA

Poster 16

In Vivo T1 Mapping of Neonatal Brain Tissue at 64mT

Francesco Padormo, Ph.D.
Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
London, England, UK

Poster 9

Feasibility & Reproducibility of In Vivo Brain Approximate R1 Mapping at 64 mT

Joong H. Kim, Ph.D.
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
Bethesda, MD, USA

Poster 74

Improved T1 measurement of brain tissue at 64 mT

Kalina V. Jordanova, Ph.D.
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Poster 26

Estimating Relaxivities of Various Contrast Agents at Ultra Low Field

Kendyl Bree, B.S.E.
National Institute of Neurological Disease & Stroke
Bethesda, MD, USA

Breakout Room 10 — Quantitative Imaging II

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Poster 50

Fast 3D Acquisition of Wave Propagation In Vivo for Low-Field MRE: Application in the Human Forearm

Maksym Yushchenko, M.Sc.
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Poster 49

Water Transport Linked to Activity Revealed with Low-Field High-Gradient NMR

Nathan Hu Williamson, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Poster 72

Very Low Field Quantitative Imaging on a Gadovist Phantom

Danilo De Iure, Ph.D.
University of Chieti-Pescara
Chieti, Italy

Poster 71

Measurement of SPION-Induced 129Xe Relaxation at High & Low Field Strengths

Nicholas Bryden, M.Sc.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Poster 70

Dissolved-Phase 129Xe Longitudinal Relaxation Times at Low & High Magnetic Field Strengths

Nicholas Bryden, M.Sc.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Breakout Room 11 — Imaging Applications: Neuro II

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

A Shielding-Free Ultra-Low-Field 0.055T Brain MRI Scanner

Alex Tze Lun Leong, Ph.D.
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, CHina

Poster 82

Identifying Lesions in Ex Vivo Multiple Sclerosis Brain Hemisphere at Low Field

Sharada Balaji, B.Appl.Sc.
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Poster 15

Sensitivity of Portable Ultra-Low-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging for White Matter Lesions, Dissemination in Space & Leptomeningeal Enhancement in Multiple Sclerosis

Serhat Okar, M.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Poster 23

Portable Low-Field-Strength Magnetic Resonance Imaging Detects White Matter Lesions & Brain Atrophy in Multiple Sclerosis

Thomas C. Arnold, B.Sc.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Poster 55

Sensitivity, Utility & Feasibility of Portable Ultra-Low Field MRI in Patients with Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

Karan Kawatra, B.A.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Breakout Room 12 — Hardware III

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

An Open-Source Low-Cost Operating Console for Accessible Low-Field MRI (MaRCoS)

Vlad Negnevitsky, Ph.D.
Oxford Ionics
Oxford, England, UK

Power Pitch

An Adaptive Target Field Framework for Complete Low Field MRI System Design

Bart de Vos, M.Sc.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands

Poster 25

Low-Cost Modular RFPA Platform for Gradient-Free Quantitative Imaging

Nicholas R. Bolding, B.Sc.
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA

Poster 77

First Images From a Nonuniform B0 Rampable Open Magnet

Kartiga Selvaganesan, B.Sc.
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

Poster 7

An Affordable Home-Made 70 mT Halbach MRI Scanner for Extremity Imaging

Teresa Guallart-Naval, Ph.D. Candidate
Tesoro Imaging S.L.
Valencia, Spain

Breakout Room 13 — New Imaging Techniques & Applications

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

Low Field T2-Weighted MR Imaging: Neonatal Sequence Optimisation at 64mT

Paul Cawley, M.B.B.S.
King's College London
London, England, UK

Poster 80

Low Field MRI Assessed by Routine Clinical Exam Protocols Offers Substantial Advantages for Imaging Passive Neural Implants

Robert Weaver, B.S.E.
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada

Poster 42

Leveraging Low Field with High Performance Gradients Enables MR Imaging of the Internal Auditory Canal & Paranasal Sinuses

Sarah Reeve, M.Sc.
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada

Poster 10

SNR-Enhancing Image Reconstruction for Diffusion Tensor Imaging on a Prototype 0.55T System

Hao-Ting Kung, B.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 75

An Accurate Super-Resolution Approach to Low-Field MRI via U-Net Convolutional Neural Network

Aryan Kalluvila, H.S.
A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA

Breakout Room 14 — Reconstruction, Machine Learning & Artifact Correction II

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

Low-Field MRI Denoising with a Deep Complex-Valued Convolutional Neural Network

Quan Dou, B.S.E.
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Power Pitch

Concomitant Field Compensation for 2D Spiral-Ring Turbo Spin-Echo Imaging at 0.55T & 1.5T

Zhixing Wang, M.Sc.
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Poster 11

Higher-Order Image Reconstruction with Gradient Nonlinearity Correction Using a Low-Rank Encoding Operator

Nam G. Lee, M.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 61

Data Scarcity Mitigation Approaches in Deep Learning Reconstruction of Undersampled Low Field MR Images

Tobias Senft, M.Sc.
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Poster 52

Automated Lung Segmentation for Low Field Strength MRI at 0.55T Using Deep Learning

Rachel Chae, Undergraduate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA

Breakout Room 15 — Quantitative Imaging III

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

On the Feasibility of Hybrid-State-Based Quantitative MRI at 0.55T

Sebastian Flassbeck, Ph.D.
New York University
New York, NY, USA

Poster 51

Monte Carlo Simulation of Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting Reconstruction Errors in low SNR Regimes

Gabriel Zihlmann, M.Sc.
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Poster 21

Evaluation of MR Fingerprinting at 0.55T

Zhibo Zhu, M.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 56

3D Magnetic Resonance Thermometry at 0.55T

Waqas Majeed, Ph.D.
Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., USA
Elicott City, MD, USA

Poster 29

Dynamic T1 Mapping for Mild Hyperthermia Temperature Monitoring: Proof-of-Concept in an Ex Vivo Porcine Sample at 0.1T

Marco Fiorito, Ph.D.
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Breakout Room 16 — Quantitative Imaging IV

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

Simultaneous Mapping of T1, T2, T2* & Fat Fraction at 0.55T with Rosette MRF

Evan Cummings, M.S.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Poster 67

Realistic Simulation of Body Composition MRI & Field-Strength Dependence

Ecrin Yagiz, M.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 44

Self-Gated Free-Breathing Liver Fat & R2* Quantification on a High-Performance 0.55T MRI System Using Radial Acquisition & Compressed-Sensing Reconstruction

Shu-Fu Shih, M.Sc.
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 34

Fat Fraction & R2* Imaging at 0.55T Using a Free-Breathing 3D Hybrid Sequence

Mahesh B. Keerthivasan, Ph.D.
Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., USA
New York, NY, USA

Poster 38

Assessment of MRF for Simultaneous T1 & T2 Quantification & Water-Fat Separation in the Liver at 0.55T

Yuchi Liu, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Breakout Room 17 — Imaging Applications: Cardiopulmonary

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Power Pitch

A Preliminary Investigation of Pilot Tone Signal & Cardiac Triggering at 0.55T MRI

Yue Pan, M.Sc.
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA

Poster 47

High-Performance 0.55T Supports Contrast-Optimal SMS bSSFP Cardiac Cine Imaging

Ye Tian, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 2

iCoMoCo: Iterative Concomitant Field & Motion-Corrected Reconstruction for Efficient 3D Stack-of-Spiral Ultra-Short Echo Time Pulmonary Imaging at 0.55T

Ahsan Javed, Ph.D.
National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA

Poster 12

Estimation of Lung Parenchyma Transverse Relaxation Rates at 0.55 Tesla

Bochao Li, M.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 8

Free-Breathing Ungated Spiral Functional CMR at 0.55T Using a Low-Rank Deep Image Prior Reconstruction

Jesse I. Hamilton, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Breakout Room 18 — Imaging Applications: Miscellaneous

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Poster 69

Lumbar Spine Imaging at 0.55T: First Experiences in a Prospective Volunteer Study

Hanns-Christian Breit, M.D.
University Hospital of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Poster 3

Comparison of Abdominal MRI at 0.55T & 1.5T: Initial Evaluation in Healthy Volunteers

Anupama Ramachandran, M.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Poster 73

Detecting & Classifying Breast Cancer at Low Fields with Fast Field-Cycling NMR Relaxometry

Katie Hanna, B.Sc. Hons.
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Poster 22

Ex Vivo Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Using Ultra-Low Field Cycling NMR Technique

Amnah Alamri, M.Sc.
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Poster 14

Assessment of Pessary Position Using Tiltable MR Imaging of Patients with Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Lisan Morsinkhof, M.Sc.
University of Twente
Enschede, The Netherlands

Breakout Room 19 — Acquisition II

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Poster 6

Phase-Based B1 Mapping in a 58-73 mT Single-Sided Prostate MRI Scanner

William A. Grissom, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Poster 66

Optimal Sampling for Compressed Sensing Reconstruction in Ultra-low field MRI

David E.J. Waddington, Ph.D.
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, Australia

Poster 48

Selective Encoding Through Nutation & Fingerprinting (SENF): 1D Experimental Validation on a 47.5 mT Low-Field Scanner

Christopher E. Vaughn, M.Sc.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA

Poster 20

Regarding the Efficiency & Effectiveness of T1-Weighted Chemical Shift-Encoded Imaging at 0.5T

Curtis N. Wiens, Ph.D.
Synaptive Medical
Toronto, ON, Canada

Poster 33

Highly Accelerated 2D Phase Contrast Imaging on a Low-Field 0.55T MRI System

Ning Jin, Ph.D.
Siemens Medical Solutions Inc., USA
Columbus, OH, USA

Breakout Room 20 — Imaging Near Metal

Power Pitch/Poster #

Title

Author

Poster 35

Imaging Near Metal at 0.55 T Using Gradient-Echo Based Sequences: Feasibility & Opportunities

Kübra Keskin, M.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Poster 76

Off-Resonance Artifacts of Common Metallic Implantable Medical Device Materials in Low Field MRI

Andrew Robison, Ph.D.
MED Institute, Inc.
West Lafayette, IN, USA

Poster 27

Visualization of Metallic & Non-Metallic Guidewires at 0.55T, 1.5T & 3T

Waltraud B. Buchenberg, Dr. rer. nat.
MaRVis Interventional GmbH
Krün, Germany

Poster 24

Potential Safety Advantages for Patients with Medical Devices in Low Magnetic Field Strength MRI Systems

Grant Baker, M.S.E.
MED Institute, Inc.
West Lafayette, IN, USA

Poster 28

Low-Field Portable Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Operating Room Setting

Anna Crawford, M.S.
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA

Breakout Rooms 21-24 — Vendors

Breakout Room 21

Synaptive Medical, Inc.

Breakout Room 22

Siemens Healthineers

Breakout Room 23

Cook Medical

Breakout Room 24

Aspect Imaging

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