ISMRM Workshop on

Body MRI:

Unsolved Problems & Unmet Needs

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28-30 March 2025

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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Co-Chairs:
Elizabeth Hecht, M.D.
Suraj D Serai, Ph.D.

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27 February 2025 at 23:59 UTC

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Overview & Program

Workshop Overview

This workshop program will cover the latest methodological developments that are making in vivo applications feasible and reliable and will investigate how these capabilities provide new insights into clinical application. Applications in the clinical settings will be highlighted with reviews of current state-of-the-art and potential high-impact applications.

The program will feature lectures, case-based scenarios, invited scientific presentations, poster sessions, and moderated panel discussions. Awards for eligilble students and post‐doctoral fellows will be given based on the quality of the presented work and presentation didactics.

Question-and-answer sessions and breaks between scheduled sessions will provide a venue for informal discussion and community building.

Program Topics:

  1. Protocol optimization including mitigating artifacts and protocol design focusing on quality, efficiency, and reproducibility;
  2. Appropriateness of use and accessibility of MRI in relation to other modalities such as PET/CT and contrast-enhanced US;
  3. Advances, opportunities, and pitfalls of artificial intelligence, and its integration into clinical practice from workflow to image acquisition/post-processing to multimedia reporting;
  4. Team science and change management: accelerating the translation of new advances in body MRI to clinical practice from various perspectives such as clinicians, scientists, and vendors; and
  5. Quantitative imaging with a focus on unmet needs for research versus clinical applications.

Target Audience

Radiologists, physicists, biomedical engineers, computational scientists, technologists, and other scientists involved in using advanced body MRI in clinical practice, including trainees of all levels, and committed to developing or translating advanced technologies into clinical practice to address unmet needs in clinical body MRI.

Educational Objectives

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

Preliminary Program

Day 1 - Friday, 28 March 2025

07:15

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

07:45

Opening Remarks & Welcome Address

Elizabeth Hecht, M.D.

Session 1: Unmet Needs in Body MRI

Moderators: Ryan Brunsing, M.D., Ph.D. & Elizabeth Hecht, M.D.

08:00

Abdominal Applications

Victoria Cherniak, M.D.
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA

08:20

Female Pelvis Applications

Leo Razakamanantsoa, M.D., Ph.D.
Greater Paris University Hospitals
Paris, France

08:40

Pediatric Body Imaging

Mary-Louise Greer, M.B.B.S., FRANZCR
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada

09:00

Whole-Body Imaging & Cancer Management/Staging

Vipul Sheth, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

09:20

Whole-Body Screening (Low-Risk Population): Promises & Controversy

Stella Kang, M.D.
New York Langone Health
New York, NY, USA

09:40

Moderated Panel Discussion

10:00

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 2: AI, Acceleration & Artifact Correction

Moderators: Sila Kurugol, Ph.D. & Ricardo Otazo, Ph.D.

10:30

Motion-Tolerant Body MRI Using AI

Thomas Küstner, Ph.D.
University Hospital of Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany

10:50

Other Artifact Correction (Susceptibility, Motion, Denoising...)

Onur Afacan, Ph.D.
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA

11:10

Motion-Compensated Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting in Body Applications

Rasim Boyacioglu, Ph.D.
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA

11:30

Quantitative Parameter Estimation in Body MRI with Deep Learning (DWI, DCE-MRI)

Oliver Gurney-Champion, Ph.D.
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

11:50

Technical Considerations for Success (Clinical Translation)

Mariya Doneva, Ph.D.
Philips Research Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany

12:10

Real-Time MRI

Franz Wolfgang Hirsch, M.D.
Liepzig University
Liepzig, Germany

12:30

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available

Session 3: Quantitative MR Imaging Biomarkers

Moderators: Michael Boss, Ph.D. & Amita Shukla-Dave, Ph.D.

14:00

QIBs: "State of the Union," Consortia Perspectives

Matt Hall, Ph.D.
National Physical Laboratory
Teddington, England, UK

14:20

Clinical Trials & QIBs: Industry Perspectives

Laura Bell, Ph.D.
Glaxo Smith Kline
Guilford, CT, USA

14:40

Fat & Iron

Jürgen Machann, Ph.D.
University Hospital of Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany

15:00

DWI/ADC

Daniel Margolis, M.D.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Ithaca, NY, USA

15:20

T1, T2 Mapping

Octavia Bane, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY, USA

15:40

Elastography

Meng Yin, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA

16:00

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Proffered Papers – Oral Session I

Moderator: Suraj Serai, Ph.D. & T.B.A.

17:30

Discussion

Hot Topic I: The Future of Exogenous Contrast Agents

Moderators: Anugayathri Jawahar, M.D. & T.B.A.

17:40

Advances in Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents

Natalie Serkova, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO, USA

18:05

Moving Beyond Just GBCA in Clinical Practice

Mark Pagel, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA

18:30

Networking Reception (Until 19:30)

Day 2 - Saturday, 29 March 2025

07:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

Session 4: Hot Topics in Clinical Practice

Moderators: Evan Siegelman, M.D. & T.B.A.

08:00

Problem-Focused Protocols for Cancer Surveillance (When Is Less More?)

Kristina Ringe, M.D.
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany

08:20

Assessment of Liver Treatment Response with MRI

Carla Harmath, M.D.
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

08:40

Rectal Cancer Pre-Post Treatment: What the Surgeon Wants To Know?

Maria El Homsi, M.D.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA

09:00

A Masterclass in MR Imaging of the Female Pelvis

Kimberly Shampain, M.D.
University of Michigan
Ann Harbor, MI, USA

09:20

Prostate Cancer MRI: The Life of PI: PI-RADS, PI-RR, PI-FAB

Valdair Francisco Muglia, M.D.
University of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil

09:40

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 5: AI/Machine Learning & Clinical Practice Workflow

Moderators: Ari Borthakur, Ph.D. & Thomas Kustner, Ph.D.

10:10

AI in Body MRI: Pros & Cons

Michael Ohliger, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

10:30

New AI-Based Reconstruction & Image Enhancement Techniques in Body MRI

Marcel Dominik Nickel, Ph.D.
Siemens Healthineers
Mountain View, CA, USA

10:50

Image Enhancement with Machine Learning in Body MRI

Efrat Shimron, Ph.D.
Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel

Proffered Papers – Oral Session II

Moderator: Elizabeth Hecht, M.D., Alexander Guimaraes, M.D., Ph.D. & Suraj Serai, Ph.D.

11:10

T.B.A.

12:30

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available

Session 6: Partnerships & Team Science

Moderators: T.B.A.

14:00

Global Partnerships & Addressing Disparities in Access to Body MRI

Farouk Dako, M.D., M.P.H.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

14:25

GE HealthCare

Arnaud Guidon, Ph.D.

14:35

Philips Healthcare

Hans Peeters, Ph.D.

14:45

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Mo Kadbi, Ph.D.

14:55

United Imaging Healthcare

Abram Voorhees, Ph.D.

15:05

Siemens Healthineers

Chang Gao, Ph.D.

15:15

Strategies in Collaborative Science To Advance Body Imaging: Lessons Learned

Richard Ehman, M.D.
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA

15:35

Moderated Panel Discussion

16:00

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 7: Fact vs. Fiction: An MRI Artifact Gameshow

Moderator: Brian Hargreaves, Ph.D.

16:30

T.B.A.

Brian Hargreaves, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

Hot Topic II: Field of Dreams

Moderators: Rina Neeman, M.D. & T.B.A.

17:30

How Low Can We Go in Body MRI?

Clarissa Cooley, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

17:55

Body MRI in the Mid- to High-Field: Is There a Sweet Spot?

Tom Scheenen, Ph.D.
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

18:20

Discussion

18:30

Networking Dinner

Day 3 - Sunday, 30 March 2025

07:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

Session 8: Awards Ceremony/Announcing New Leadership

Moderators: Elizabeth Hecht, M.D. & Holden Wu, Ph.D.

08:00

T.B.A.

Session 9: Champions for Change (or How NOT To Get Lost in Translation)

Moderator: Mary-Louise Greer, M.B.B.S., FRANCR & Kristina Ringe, M.D.

08:30

Bridging the Gap: Lessons Learned from Radiation Oncology

Jie Deng, Ph.D.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA

08:50

Just Breathe: Free-Breathing DCE & Other Applications

Hersh Chandarana, M.D. &
Li Feng, Ph.D.

09:20

MR Fingerprinting: Mystery Solved?

Alexander Guimaraes, M.D., Ph.D. &
Cory Wyatt, Ph.D.

09:50

Moderated Panel Discussion

10:00

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 10: Vendor Neutral AI Platforms & Analysis Software

Moderator: Elizabeth Hecht, M.D. & Holden Wu, Ph.D.

10:30

Solutions to Deploy & Monitor AI Models for Body Imaging in a Healthcare System

Ari Borthakur, Ph.D. &
Walter Witschey, Ph.D.

11:00

Multi-Parametric Image Analysis

Hansel J. Otero, M.D. &
Suraj D. Serai, Ph.D.

11:30

Q & A

Session 11: Study Group Meeting: Weekend in Review & Future Directions

Moderators: Elizabeth Hecht, M.D. & T.B.A.

11:40

Discussion

12:00

Boxed Lunch & Adjourn