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
ISMRM Workshop on
MR Safety:
From Science to Clinical Practice
calendar_month
24-26 September 2025
location_on
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