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

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

OSIĀ² 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