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

Organizers

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

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Early Registration & Cancellation Deadline:
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:

Program

Day 1 - Friday, 28 March 2025 (3.50 CME Available)

07:15

Registration

07:45

Opening Remarks & Welcome Address

Kassa Darge, M.D.,
Elizabeth Hecht, M.D. &
Holden Wu, Ph.D.

Session 1: Unmet Needs in Body MRI

Moderators: Sudha Anupindi, M.D. & Ryan Brunsing, M.D., Ph.D.

08:00

Victoria Chernyak, 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

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

09:00

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 & Poster Sessionopens in new tab (No CME Available)

Session 2: AI, Acceleration & Artifact Correction (No CME Available)

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
Tuebingen, Germany

10:50

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

11:10

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

11:30

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

11:50

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

12:10

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

12:30

Lunch

Session 3: Quantitative MR Imaging Biomarkers (No CME Available)

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

14:00

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

14:20

Clinical Trials & QIBs: Industry Perspectives

Michael Boss, Ph.D.
GlaxoSmithKline
Philadelphia, PA, USA

14:40

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

15:00

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

15:20

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

15:40

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

16:00

Break & Poster Sessionopens in new tab (No CME Available)

Proffered Papers – Oral Session I

Moderators: Elizabeth Hecht, M.D. & Houchun Harry Hu, Ph.D.

Proffered Papers - Oral Session

16:40

Elizabeth Huaroc Moquillaza, M.Sc.
Technical University of Munich
Munich, Germany

16:50

Nima Gilani, Ph.D.
New York University Langone Health
New York, NY, USA

17:00

Corina Margain, B.Sc.
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA

17:05

Cemre Ariyurek, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

17:15

Smiti Tripathy, M.Sc.
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen, Germany

17:20

Deniz Kocanaogullari, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

17:25

Shreya Ramachandran, B.Sc.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA

17:30

Discussion

Hot Topic I: The Future of Exogenous Contrast Agents

Moderators: Ari Borthakur, Ph.D., M.B.A. & Anugayathri Jawahar, M.D.

17:40

Advances in Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents

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

18:05

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

18:30

Networking Reception

19:30

Adjourn

Day 2 - Saturday, 29 March 2025 (1.25 CME Available)

07:30

Registration

Session 4: Hot Topics in Clinical Practice

Moderators: Hero K. Hussain, M.D. & Evan Siegelman, M.D.

08:00

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

08:20

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

08:40

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

09:00

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

09:20

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

09:40

Break & Poster Sessionopens in new tab (No CME Available)

Session 5: AI/Machine Learning & Clinical Practice Workflow (No CME Available)

Moderators: Ari Borthakur, Ph.D., M.B.A. & Thomas Küstner, 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 AG
Forchheim, Germany

10:50

Image Enhancement with Machine Learning in Body MRI

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

Proffered Papers – Power Pitch Session (No CME Available)

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

12:30

Lunch

Session 6: Partnerships & Team Science (No CME Available)

Moderators: Houchun Harry Hu, Ph.D. & Jürgen Machann, Ph.D.

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

Maggie Fung, 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

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

15:35

Moderated Panel Discussion

16:00

Break & Poster Sessionopens in new tab (No CME Available)

Session 7: Fact vs. Fiction: An MRI Artifact Gameshow (No CME Available)

Moderator: Brian Hargreaves, Ph.D.

16:30

Artifacts Game Show

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

17:10

Pearls & Potential Pitfalls of AI in Body MRI

Arnaud Guidon, Ph.D.
GE HealthCare

Hot Topic II: Field of Dreams (No CME Available)

Moderators: Houchun Harry Hu, Ph.D. & Rina Neeman, M.D.

17:25

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

18:45

Networking Dinner

Day 3 - Sunday, 30 March 2025 (1.25 CME Available)

07:30

Registration

Session 8: Awards Ceremony/Announcing New Leadership

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

08:00

Awards Ceremony/Announcing New Leadership

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

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

08:50

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

09:20

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

09:50

Moderated Panel Discussion

10:00

Break

Session 10: Vendor Neutral AI Platforms & Analysis Software (No CME Available)

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

10:30

Ari Borthakur, Ph.D., M.B.A.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA

11:00

Multi-Parametric Image Analysis

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

11:30

Q & A

Session 11: Study Group Meeting: Weekend in Review & Future Directions (No CME Available)

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

11:40

Discussion

12:00

Boxed Lunch & Adjourn