ISMRM Workshop on

MR Spectroscopy:

Frontiers in Molecular & Metabolic Imaging

calendar_month

15-18 October 2024

location_on

Mass General Brigham Assembly Row, Boston, MA, USA

Preliminary Program

Day 1 - Tuesday, 15 October 2024 (7.75 CME Available)

07:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

Session 1: Basics of MRS(I) Part I: Acquisition & Reconstruction

Moderators: Fei Du, Ph.D. & Alexander Lin, Ph.D.

08:00

Opening Statements

Ovidiu C. Andronesi, M.D., Ph.D.
Chao Ma, Ph.D.

08:30

Metabolism & MRS

Douglas Rothman, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA

08:50

MRS Data Acquisition

Ulrike Dydak, Ph.D.
Purdue University School of Health Sciences
West Lafayette, IN, USA

09:10

MRS Data Processing

William Clarke, D.Phil.
University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK

09:30

Spectral Fitting & Quantification

Georg Oeltzschner, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA

09:50

Standardization

Dinesh Deelchand, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

10:10

Break & Speaker Upload Available

10:40

Proffered Papers - Oral Session

11:40

Keynote Address: MRS Historical Perspective

Ivan Tkac, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

12:20

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing

13:30

Poster Session (No CME Available)

Session 2: Basics of MRS(I) Part II: Auxiliary Techniques

Moderators: Robert Frost, Ph.D. & Christoph Juchem, Ph.D.

14:00

B0 Shimming

Chathura Kumaragamage, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA

14:20

Motion Correction

Andre van der Kouwe, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Charlestown, MA, USA

14:40

Water & Lipid Suppression

Brian Soher, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA

15:00

Spectral Editing & 2D MRS

In-Young Choi, Ph.D.
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, KS, USA

15:20

Functional & Diffusion-Weighted MRS

Silvia Mangia, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN, USA

15:40

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Session 3: Preclinical MRS

Moderators: Christian Farrar, Ph.D. & Henk de Feyter, Ph.D.

16:10

Experimental Techniques for Preclinical MRS

Basavaraju Sanganahalli, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA

16:30

Targeted Metabolomics

Matthew van der Heiden, Ph.D.
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Cambridge, MA, USA

16:50

Metabolic Flux by MRS

Pavithra Viswanath, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

17:10

Pharmacological MRS

Corin Miller, Ph.D.
Merck Research Labs
West Point, PA, USA

17:30

Collaborative Multi-Site Preclinical MRS Study

Cristina Cudalbu, Ph.D.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland

17:50

Proffered Papers - Oral Session

18:50

Adjourn

Day 2 - Wednesday 16 October 2024 (5.0 CME Available)

07:30

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Session 4: Advanced MRSI

Moderators: Borjan Gagoski, Ph.D. & Fan Lam, Ph.D.

08:30

Spectral-Spatial Encoding

Claudiu Schirda, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

08:50

Undersampling Techniques

Wolfgang Bogner, Ph.D.
Medical University Vienna
Vienna, Austria

09:10

Ultra-High Field MRSI

Malgorzata Marjanska, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

09:30

Special Hardware for MRSI

Jason Stockmann, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, MA, USA

09:50

Deep Learning in MRSI

Yudu Li, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA

10:10

Proffered Papers - Oral Session

10:40

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11:40

Keynote Address: MRS(i) State of the Art/New Horizons

Xin Yu, D.Sc.
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA

12:20

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing

13:30

Poster Session (No CME Available)

Session 5: X-Nuclei & Hyperpolarized MRS/MRSI

Moderators: Jerome Ackerman, Ph.D. & T.B.A.

14:00

31P MRS/MRSI

Jeanine Prompers, Ph.D.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands

14:20

Deuterium Imaging

Fabian Niess, Ph.D.
Medical University Vienna
Vienna, Austria

14:40

13C MRS/MRSI

Anke Henning, Ph.D.
University of Texas South Western
Dallas, TX, USA

15:00

Hyperpolarized 13C Imaging

Kayvan Keshari, Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA

15:20

Spectroscopy in the Millitesla Regime & Non-DNP Hyperpolarization

Matthew Rosen, Ph.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA

15:40

Proffered Papers - Oral Session

16:10

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17:00

Industry/Sponsor Presentations (No CME Available)

18:00

Adjourn

Day 3 - Thursday, 17 October 2024 (4.75 CME Available)

07:30

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Session 6: Clinical Applications of MRS

Moderators: Otto Rapalino, Ph.D. & Eva Ratai, Ph.D.

08:30

MRS of Cancer

Esin Ozturk-Isik, Ph.D.
Bogaziçi University
Istanbul, Turkey

08:50

MRS in Neuropsychiatric Diseases

Dost Ongur, M.D.
McLean Hospital, Harvard University
Belmont, MA, USA

09:10

MRS in Metabolic & Neurodegenerative Diseases

Gulin Oz, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

09:30

MRS of the Body: Liver, Cardiac, Muscle, etc.

Ladislav Valkovic, Ph.D.
University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK

09:50

Clinical Integration of MRS in Radiological Workflow

Hyunsuk Shim, Ph.D.
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA

10:10

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10:40

Keynote Address: Molecular Imaging: Breaking Barriers

Shadi Abdar Esfahani, M.D., M.P.H.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

11:20

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing

12:50

Poster Session (No CME Available)

Session 7: Molecular Imaging

Moderator: Susie Huang, M.D., Ph.D. & Yan Li, Ph.D.

13:20

Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer

Daniel Paech, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Brigham
Boston, MA, USA

13:40

Positron Emission Tomography

Ciprian Catana, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Charlestown, MA, USA

14:00

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

Ling-Jian Meng, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA

14:20

Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Stefan Carp, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA

14:40

Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging

Anand Kumar, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Eye & Ear
Boston, MA, USA

15:00

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15:30

Special Guest: Next Generation MRI & Unmet Clinical Needs

Lawrence Wald, Ph.D.
A.A. Martinos Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA

16:10

Shark-Tank Session (No CME Available)

18:00

Tour of the Martinos Center (No CME Available)

18:30

Adjourn

Day 4 - Friday, 18 October 2024 (2.0 CME Available)

07:30

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Session 8: Metabolomics

Moderators: Candace Fleischer, Ph.D. & Mioara Larion, Ph.D.

08:30

NMR Spectroscopy of Tissue Extracts

Robin de Graaf, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA

08:50

High-Resolution Magic Angle Spinning (HRMAS)

Jamie Near, Ph.D.
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

09:10

Cellular Metabolomics by NMR & Machine-Learning

Rafael Brüschweiler, Ph.D.
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA

09:30

Mass Spectrometry & In Vivo Microdialysis

Lingjun Li
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA

09:50

Multimodal Imaging Platform for Drug Development

Nathalie Agar, Ph.D.
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

10:10

Infrared & Raman Spectroscopy

Lingyan Shi, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA

10:30

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11:00

Code & Data Sharing Committee (No CME Available)

Candace Fleischer, Ph.D. &
Georg Oeltzschner, Ph.D.

11:30

MRS Challenge (No CME Available)

12:00

Conclusions

12:30

Boxed Lunch & Adjourn