ISMRM Workshop on

MR Safety:

From Science to Clinical Practice

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24-26 September 2025

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Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Berlin, Germany

Organizers

Chair:
Lukas Winter, Ph.D.

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Overview & Program

Workshop Overview

The focus of the 2025 ISMRM Workshop on MR Safety will focus on MR safety practice as experienced by MR clinics worldwide. This will include education for ISMRM and ISMRT members on practical safety topics like MR safety infrastructure and management but also upcoming topics like implant safety, low- and mid-field MR safety, and MR safety in interventional settings. With this setup we hope to attract especially technologist/radiographers (ISMRT members) to the workshop who daily experience ever growing MR safety issues in their clinics.

Additionally, the workshop will be a forum for clinicians, scientists, and engineers to discuss the latest developments with respect to MR safety. These include AI methods, in-vivo temperature mapping, and parallel transmission techniques. Dedicated sessions will discuss MR safety for special settings such as pediatric and prenatal MRI, portable MRI, MR guided radiation therapy, and MR safety at UHF fields above 10T. This will be completed by exhibiting open-source hardware equipment for MR safety testing: such as a portable low-field MRI scanner, RF coils, parallel transmission hardware, and implant safety testing equipment.

This workshop will feature presentations and discussions lead by topic experts. Additionally, we will invite abstracts for both scientific and clinical posters. A selection of the submitted abstracts will be offered the opportunity to present their work by means of 4-5 minute power pitches.

This workshop will be held as a hybrid workshop to allow wider attendance and reduce the CO2 footprint of the meeting.

Participants of this workshop will be able to receive CME credit.

Target Audience

We expect an audience of clinicians, physicists, engineers, students, technologists/radiographers, regulators, industry representatives, and everyone else interested in or responsible for MR safety. We hope to attract participants from all over the world.

The workshop will be a forum to discuss the latest developments with respect to MR safety. It will help to evalaute the current state of MR safety, indentify needs and gaps in clinical/scientific practice, and transform these into required working items for scientific, clinical, regulatory, and industrial innovations.

Educational Objectives

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

Preliminary Program

Day 1 - Wednesday 24 September 2025

07:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

08:30

Welcome & Opening Statement

Session 1: Physics & Physiology of MR Safety

Moderators: T.B.A.

08:40

Static Magnetic Field B0

T.B.A.

09:05

Gradients

T.B.A.

09:30

RF Fields

T.B.A.

09:55

Power Pitch Session

T.B.A.

10:20

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 2: MR Safety in Kids

Moderators: T.B.A.

10:50

Paediatric Patients

T.B.A.

11:10

Clinical Perspective

T.B.A.

11:30

Pregnant Patients

T.B.A.

11:50

Power Pitch Session

12:20

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available

12:20

Poster Viewing

Session 3: Implant Safety

Moderators: T.B.A.

14:00

RF Induced Heating in Implants, Standard Perspective

T.B.A.

14:25

Gradient Induced Heating

T.B.A.

14:50

Imaging Based Methods to Detect & Suppress Implant Heating

T.B.A.

15:15

Smart Implants & Parallel Transmission MRI

T.B.A.

15:40

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 4a: MRI Safety in Clinical Practice

Moderators: T.B.A.

16:10

Patient/Clinical Management of MRI Safety

T.B.A.

16:35

MR Safety Education & Awareness

T.B.A.

17:00

Outreach Educational Resources

T.B.A.

Session 4b: Open Source & Free Resources in MR Safety

Moderators: T.B.A.

16:10

EM/Thermal Simulation

T.B.A.

16:35

MR Safety Hardware

T.B.A.

17:00

OSI² ONE Open-Source Reference Low-Field MRI Scanner

T.B.A.

17:25

Adjourn

Day 2 - Thursday 25 of Spetember 2025

07:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

08:35

Welcome & Housekeeping

Session 5: Local SAR

Moderators: T.B.A.

08:40

Local SAR vs. Whole-Body SAR Limits

T.B.A.

09:05

Body Models

T.B.A.

09:30

Parallel Transmission Under Local SAR Constraints

T.B.A.

09:55

B1+ rms

T.B.A.

10:20

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 6: Patient Specific (RF) Safety Models

Moderators: T.B.A.

10:50

AI Based SAR Prediction

T.B.A.

11:05

Deep-Learning Based Local-SAR Prediction

T.B.A.

11:30

Personalized Local-SAR Prediction from T1-Weighted Images

T.B.A.

11:55

Power Pitch Session

12:20

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available

12:20

Poster Viewing

Session 7: Panel Discussion on Remote Scanning

Moderators: T.B.A.

14:00

Remote Scanning from a Clinical Persepctive

T.B.A.

14:20

Remote Scanning from a Manufacturer Perspective

T.B.A.

14:40

Remote Scanning from a Regulatory Perspective

T.B.A.

15:00

Panel Discussion

15:40

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 8a: MRI Safety in Clinical Practice

Moderators: T.B.A.

16:10

Scanning Patients with Implants

T.B.A.

16:35

Clinical UHF Safety at 7T

T.B.A.

17:00

Contrast Agent Safety

T.B.A.

Session 8b: Temperature Mapping & Interventional MRI

Moderators: T.B.A.

16:10

In Vivo MR Thermometry in Thermal Therapies

T.B.A.

16:35

In Vivo Temperature Mapping in MRI

T.B.A.

17:00

Safety Considerations for Interventional MR Systems

T.B.A.

17:25

Adjourn

Day 3 - Friday 26 September 2025

07:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

08:35

Welcome & Housekeeping

Session 9: Low-Field MR Safety

Moderators: T.B.A.

08:40

MR Safety at Mid-Field (0.55-0.6T)

T.B.A.

09:05

Implants at 0.55-.06T

T.B.A.

09:30

Portable Low-Field MR Safety in the Research Setting

T.B.A.

09:55

Portable Low-Field in the Clinic/Low-Resource Settings

T.B.A.

Session 10: UHF MR Safety

Moderators: T.B.A.

10:50

Clinical pTX at 7T

T.B.A.

11:15

In Vivo Experiences at the Highest MR Fields

T.B.A.

11:40

14T MR Safety -What is Needed?

T.B.A.

Session 11: dB/dt

Moderators: T.B.A.

12:05

PNS & Cardiac Stimulations Thresholds Revisited

T.B.A.

12:30

High Performance Gradients

T.B.A.

12:55

Closing Statements & Reflections

13:10

Boxed Lunch & Adjournment