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

Mark E. Ladd, Ph.D.
German Cancer Research
Heidelberg, Germany

09:05

Gradients

T.B.A.

09:30

RF Fields

T.B.A.

09:55

Implants

Harald Quick, Ph.D.
Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Essen, Germany

10:20

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 2: MR Safety in Pediatrics & Obstetrics

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: Power Pitches

Moderators: T.B.A.

11:50

Power Pitch Session

12:20

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available

12:20

Poster Viewing

Session 4: Implant Safety

Moderators: T.B.A.

14:00

RF Induced Heating in Implants: Standards Perspective

T.B.A.

14:25

Gradient Induced Effects with Implants

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 5a: 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 5b: Open-Source & Free Resources in MR Safety

Moderators: T.B.A.

16:10

EM/Thermal Simulation

T.B.A.

16:35

MR Safety Hardware

Stephan Orzada, Ph.D.
German Cancer Research Center
Heidelberg, Germany

17:00

OSI² ONE Open-Source Reference Low-Field MRI Scanner

T.B.A.

17:25

Adjourn

Day 2 - Thursday 25 Spetember 2025

07:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

08:35

Welcome & Housekeeping

Session 6: RF Safety Limits

Moderators: T.B.A.

08:40

Local SAR vs. Whole-Body SAR Limits

Thomas Fiedler, Ph.D.
German Cancer Research Center
Heidelberg, Germany

09:05

Body Models

Bryn Lloyd, Ph.D.
IT'IS Foundation
Zürich, Switzerland

09:30

RF Safety Procedures Revisited

T.B.A.

09:55

B1+ rms

T.B.A.

10:20

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 7: 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 8: Power Pitches

Moderators: T.B.A.

12:05

Power Pitch Session

12:35

Lunch & Speaker Upload Available

12:35

Poster Viewing

Session 9: Panel Discussion on Remote Scanning

Moderators: T.B.A.

14:00

Introduction: What is Remote Scanning, What are the Controversies?

T.B.A.

14:10

Remote Scanning from a Clinical Persepctive (Technologist)

T.B.A.

14:20

Remote Scanning from a Manufacturer Perspective

T.B.A.

14:30

Remote Scanning from a Regulatory Perspective

T.B.A.

14:40

Remote Scanning from a Clinical Persepctive (Radiologist)

T.B.A.

14:50

Panel Discussion

15:40

Break & Speaker Upload Available

Session 10a: 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

Oliver Kraff, Ph.D.
Erwin L. Hanh Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Essen, Germnay

17:00

Contrast Agent Safety

T.B.A.

Session 10b: 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

Mathijs Kikken, Ir.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands

17:00

Safety Considerations for Interventional MR Systems

Michael Bock, Ph.D.
University Hospital Freiburg
Breisgau, Germany

17:25

Adjourn

Day 3 - Friday 26 September 2025

07:30

Registration & Speaker Upload Available

08:35

Welcome & Housekeeping

Session 11: Low-Field MR Safety

Moderators: T.B.A.

08:40

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

David Gross, Ph.D.
MED Institute Inc.
West Lafayette, IN, USA

09:05

Are Implants at 0.55-.06T Safer?

Tolga Goren Ph.D.
IT'IS Foundation
Zürich, Switzerland

09:30

Low-Field (50mT) MR Safety in the Research Setting

Andrew Webb, Ph.D.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands

09:55

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

T.B.A.

Session 12: 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 13: Gradients

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