ISMRM 2024 2nd Workshop on Accessible MRI

The 2^nd ISMRM Workshop on

Accessible MRI

16-18 February 2024

Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, India

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Organizers

Co-Chairs:
Vikas Gulani, M.D., Ph.D.
Sonal Krishan, M.D.

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Abstracts for Posters

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Overview & Program

Workshop Overview

This workshop is intended as a follow-up to the ISMRM Workshop on Accessible MRI for the World (March 2018) and to the virtual meeting, ISMRM Spotlights Africa: Doing Much with Little (February 2021). In both of these meetings, the groundwork was laid for a dual purpose: (1) to facilitate meaningful discussion about the need to develop, test, and clinically translate technologies designed to make MRI accessible to 90% of the world, which does not currently have access to it, and (2) to move the ISMRM towards a greater international engagement called out in our Society’s name, in parts of the world we currently have little presence, especially in low and middle income nations in multiple continents.

Magnetic resonance imaging as a field continues to be dominated by investigators and users in high-resource environments, and thus the needs of the field are often defined with patient populations in the same environments in mind. However, this narrative leaves out or underserves the needs of most patients in nations with fewer resources, and even patients in low-resource areas of richer nations. As the healthcare systems around the world evolve, there is an increasing need for all patient populations to be considered in the development and dissemination of our technologies. This movement requires consideration at every step of the MR imaging workflow, including hardware development and engineering, clinical needs assessment, acquisition design and implementation, clinical translation and utilization, education processes, and dissemination systems/operations. In this workshop, we seek to study and interactively discuss all of these areas and move the field a step closer toward a more global and equitable future.

Target Audience

We aim for the content of the workshop to address broad needs of the community as detailed above. The content will be designed to be of broad interest and speakers will be encouraged to build content with general audiences in mind, minimizing jargon and maximizing understandability.

The range of expertise of attendees will likely span all of MR science including (but not limited to) MR physics, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering/computer science, radiologists, safety experts, health policy advisors from government and internationally reputed agencies, experts from abutting technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data. The range of training will also span all of MR: basic and clinical scientists, clinical radiologists, basic and clinical postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, MR enthusiasts, existing and potentially diverse end-users, and MR technologists.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Identify MR clinical and hardware needs of underserved populations in various geographic regions worldwide that have been traditionally underserved in MR technology;
Identify capabilities, cost, and applicability of portable and ultra-low-cost MR technology for MR access and compare these opportunities with less portable but intermediate or high field technology;
Identify educational and training gaps for MR technologists, scientists, and physicians in countries which are underserved by MR technology; and
Identify opportunities and models for collaboration between scientists and clinicians around the world.

Program

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Day 1 - Friday, 16 February 2024 (5.00 CME Available)