ISMRM Joint Workshop of the
Ultra-High Field MR & Brain Function Study Groups
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31 March-02 April 2025
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Graduate by Hilton Annapolis
Annapolis, MD, USA
ISMRM Joint Workshop of the
Ultra-High Field MR & Brain Function Study Groups
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31 March-02 April 2025
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Graduate by Hilton Annapolis
Annapolis, MD, USA
Organizers
Ultra-High Field Co-Chairs:
Marta Bianciardi, Ph.D.
Jun Hua, Ph.D.
Brain Function Co-Chairs:
Patricia Figueiredo, D. Phil.
Laurentius Huber, Ph.D.
Extended Early Registration Deadline:
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Faculty declarations will be available approximately two weeks before the workshop begins.
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Extended Early Registration & Cancellation Deadline:
12 March 2025 at 23:59 UTC
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Overview & Program
Workshop Overview
This workshop is jointly organized by the Brain Function Study Group and the High-Field MR Study Group. High field human MR technologies have been rapidly developing and have started to make inroads into clinical applications. Such advancement has been driven by the continuous pursuit of higher MR sensitivity and spatial resolution of MR images. This is particularly the case for brain function research. Advanced functional MRI approaches have been developed on high field, which allows the detection of neuronal activities at the mesoscopic spatial regime of cortical layers. On the other hand, large-scale and multimodal fMRI studies are being conducted at all field strengths, providing important insights into brain function and its relationship with demographics, physiology and disease. This interplay between brain function research and high field MR technology keeps driving both fields forward, which forms the basis of this joint workshop.
The joint workshop will adopt a two-and-a-half-day format, consisting of parallel sessions from both study groups on the first and third (half) day, and joint sessions on the second day. In the parallel sessions, state-of-the-art technologies and applications in each field will be presented, which include fMRI across different field strengths and high field MR in other body parts. In the joint sessions, the focus will be high resolution functional MRI and its applications in basic and clinical neuroscience. We will make efforts to include some educational talks in the joint sessions to accommodate attendees from both study groups. In addition to invited talks and proffered oral presentations, ample time will be provided for live discussions and interactions.
Target Audience
MR physicists, neuroscientists, and clinicians who are interested in brain function research, functional MRI approaches, high-field MR technology/methods and their applications in basic and clinical studies.
Educational Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Preliminary Program
Day 1 - Monday, 31 March 2025
07:45
Registration & Speaker Upload Available
Session 1: Opening Session (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: Wietzke van der Zwaag, Ph.D. & Peter van Zijl, Ph.D.
08:45
Welcome by the Chairs
Marta Bianciardi, Ph.D.,
Patricia Figueiredo, D. Phil.,
Jun Hua, Ph.D., &
Laurentius Huber, Ph.D.
09:00
Keynote: Overview of UHF-fMRI
Seong-Gi Kim, Ph.D.
Sungkyunkwan University
Seoul, South Korea
Session 2: Challenges & Prospects in UHF-fMRI (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: Natalia Gudino, Ph.D. & T.B.A.
10:00
Hardware
David Feinberg, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
10:15
Sequences
Jonas Bause, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Tuebingen, Germany
10:30
Yulia Lazarova, Ph.D.
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
10:45
Yen-Yu Ian Shih, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
11:00
Break & Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
Session 3: SNR to Burn (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: Tyler Morgan, Ph.D. & Sina Straub, Ph.D.
11:30
High Spatial Resolution
Luca Vizioli, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
11:50
High Temporal Resolution
Saskia Bollmann, Ph.D.
University of Queensland
St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
12:10
Dimo Ivanov, Ph.D.
Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands
12:30
Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
Session 4: Applications (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: Amir Schmuel, Ph.D. & T.B.A.
14:00
Cognitive/Clinical Neuroscience
Rainer Goebel, Ph.D.
Universitet Maastricht
Maastricht, The Netherlands
14:15
Translational
Birte Forstmann, Ph.D.
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
14:30
Connectivity
Anna Roe, Ph.D.
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
14:45
Kaisu Lankinen, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Charlestown, MA, USA
15:00
Break & Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
Session 5: Vendor Presentations (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: Aneurin James Kennerley, Ph.D. & Yen-Yu Ian Shih, Ph.D.
15:30
Vendor Session
Session 6: Proffered Papers-Oral Session: Brain Function at UHF (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: Mustapha Bouhara, Ph.D. & Audrey Fan, Ph.D.
16:15
Jae-Youn Keum, B.Sc.
Sungkyunkwan University
Seoul, South Korea
16:24
Firdaus Fabrice Hannanu, Ph.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA
16:33
Chenyang Zhao, M.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
16:42
Xinyi Zhou, M.Sc.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
16:51
Jucha Willers Moore, M.Sc.
King's College London
London, England, UK
Session 7: Joint Day Closing Session (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: Robin Heidermann, Ph.D & James Pekar, PhD.
17:00
Keynote: Future of fMRI at UHF
Jonathan Polimeni, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
19:00
Adjourn
Day 2 - Tuesday, 1 April 2025
08:30
Registration & Speaker Upload Available
Session 8: fMRI Signal Mechanisms & Biophysics (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: Alexander Beckett, Ph.D. & Jacco A. de Zwart, Ph.D.
09:00
Neurovascualr Coupling & Calibrated fMRI
Natalia Petridou, D.Sc.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
09:20
Nikos Priovoulous
Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
09:40
Leveraging the Phase in fMRI
Ravi Menon, Ph.D.
Western University
London, ON, Canada
Session 8: Keynote (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Peter van Gelderen, Ph.D. & Gulin Oz, Ph.D.
09:00
Keynote: Quantifying & Capturing SNR Gains Towards High-Resolution Anatomical & Functional Imaging in the Human Brain at 10.5T
Kamil Ugurbil, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
09:30
Keynote: Plenary on UHF MRI at MGH
Lawrence Wald, Ph.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA
Session 9: fMRI Beyond Neurovascular Coupling (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: Daniel Gomez, Ph.D. & Hanzhang Lu, Ph.D.
10:00
CSF Flunctuations in fMRI
Laura Lewis, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
10:20
Physiological Signals in fMRI
Pinar Ozbay, Ph.D.
Bogazici University
Istanbul, Turkey
10:40
To Infinity & Beyond Neurovascular Coupling
Aneurin James Kennerley, Ph.D.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, England, UK
Session 9: UHF MRI System Development (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Jo Hajnal, Ph.D. & Sydney Williams, Ph.D.
10:00
Head Coil Design & Development
Ozlem Ipek, Ph.D.
King's College London
London, England, UK
10:15
Hardware & Methods for B0 Shimming & Flexible Spatial Encoding at UHF
Jason Stockmann Ph.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Boston, MA, USA
10:30
Slice-Selective pTx Pulse Design
Minghao Zhang, M.Sc.
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England, UK
10:45
Development of an UHF Body Coil
Simone Winkler, Ph.D.
Cornell Medicine
New York, NY, USA
11:00
Break & Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
Session 10: Proffered Papers - Oral Session: Brain Function I (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: Audrey Fan, Ph.D. & Wietske van der Zwaag, Ph.D.
11:30
Frederico Santiago, M.Sc.
Institute for Systems & Robotics
Lisbon, Portugal
11:42
Elisa Zamboni, Ph.D.
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, England, UK
11:54
Sophia Forsberg Tibblin, M.Sc.
Basque Center on Cognition
Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
12:06
Xiaole Zhong, B.Sc.
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
12:18
Brice Williams, M.Sc.
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, USA
Session 10: Power Pitch Session: UHF (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Xingfeng Shao, Ph.D. & Kavita Singh, Ph.D.
11:30
12:30
Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
14:00
Session 11: Noise/Analysis (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: César Caballero Gaudes, Ph.D. & Prantik Kundu, Ph.D.
15:00
Visualize More of Your Data to Enhance Interpretation, Reduce Biases & Improve Reproductibility
Paul Taylor, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
15:20
Physiological Signals in fMRI-Denoising
Stefano Moia, Ph.D.
Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands
15:40
Multi-Echo fMRI in Clinics: Why Use It & What It Gives You
Charles Lynch, Ph.D.
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Session 11: Acquisition & Analysis at UHF (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Xingfeng Shao, Ph.D. & Kavita Singh, Ph.D.
15:00
MRS/X Nuclei
Anke Henning, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA
15:15
Recent Advances in Metabolic Imaging at Ultra-High Field
Ravinder Reddy, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
15:30
Sina Straub, Ph.D.
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
15:45
Ultra-High Resolution Quantitative MRI Mapping of the Human Subcortex
Evgenyia Kirilina, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences
Leipzig, Germany
16:00
Break & Speaker Upload Available
Poster Viewing
Session 12: We, the fMRi Field (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderator: Peter Bandettini, Ph.D.
16:30
Round Table Discussion
Rainer Wilhelm Goebel, Ph.D.
Prantik Kundu, Ph.D. &
Ravi Menon, Ph.D.
Session 12: Safety at UHF (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Andrew Fagan, Ph.D. & Yan Li, Ph.D.
16:30
Pediatric Neuro
Jo Hajnal, Ph.D.
King's College London
London, England, UK
16:45
Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
17:00
Aurelien Destruel, Ph.D.
Center of Magnetic Resonance in Biology & Medicine
Marseille, France
17:15
MR Thermometry for RF Safety at UHF
Caroline Le Ster, Ph.D.
Neurospin, CEA Saclay
Saclay, France
Session 13: fMRI Across Species (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: Aneurin Kennerley, Ph.D. & Yen-Yu Ian Shih, Ph.D.
17:30
What We Learn from Animals That We Cannot Learn from Humans
Jozien Goense, Ph.D.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
17:50
Francesca Mandino, Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Session 13: Raising the Bar: Where to Next with UHF? (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Karin Markenroth Bloch, Ph.D. & Benedikt Poser, Ph.D.
17:30
Roundtable Discussion
Jeff Duyn, Ph.D.
Maxime Guye, M.D., Ph.D.,
Natalia Petridou, D.Sc.,
Christopher Rodgers, D. Phil.
Sebastian Schmitter, Ph.D. &
Danny Wang, Ph.D.
18:15
Adjourn
Day 3 - Wednesday, 2 April 2025
08:30
Registration & Speaker Upload Available
Session 14: Hardware/Acquisition (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: Benedikt A. Poser, Ph.D. & Peng Zhang, Ph.D.
09:00
fMRI in Infants at 7T: Challenges & Opportunities
Essa Yacoub Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
09:20
Recent Advancements of the Workhorse
Caroline Le Ster, Ph.D.
Neurospin, CEA Saclay
Saclay, France
09:40
EPTI for fMRI
Fuyixue Wang, Ph.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA
Session 14: Keynote (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Deqiang Qiu, Ph.D. & Seth Smith, Ph.D.
09:00
Keynote: Plenary on Body
Tom Scheenen Ph.D.
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
09:30
Keynote: Bringing UHF to Routine Clinical Use: Leveraging New Advances
Erik Middlebrooks
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
Session 15: Deep Sampling & Precision Mapping (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: Daniel Abraham Handwerker, Ph.D. & Essa Yacoub, Ph.D.
10:00
Precision Mapping
Evan Gordon, Ph.D.
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
10:20
Carolina Makowski, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
10:40
Precision Mapping at High Spatiotemporal Resolutions
Anna Blazejewska, Ph.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA
11:00
Break & Speaker Upload Available
Session 15: UHF Applications, Neuro (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Sheeba Anteraper, Ph.D. & Maxime Guye, M.D., Ph.D.
10:00
Anja van der Kolk, M.D., Ph.D.
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
10:15
Clinical Applications of Ultra-High Field Metabolic Imaging
Daniel Paech, M.D., Ph.D.
Mass General Brigham
Boston, MA, USA
10:30
Clinical Applications of Ultra-High Field Pediatric Imaging
Jon Cleary, Ph.D., MBBS, FRCR
King's College London, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
London, England, UK
10:45
Anna Combes, Ph.D.
University College London
London, England, UK
11:00
Break & Speaker Upload Available
Session 16: Proffered Papers-Oral Session: Brain Function II (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: Rebecca Glarin, B.Appl.Sc. & Dimo Ivanov, Ph.D.
11:30
Zijing Dong, Ph.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA
11:40
Fanhua Guo, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
11:50
SoHyun Han, Ph.D.
Korea Basic Science Institute
Daejon, South Korea
12:00
David Leitão, Ph.D.
King's College London
London, England, UK
12:10
Alejandro Monreal-Madrigral, M.Sc.
Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands
12:20
Hans Christian Rundfeldt, M.Sc.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Session 16: UHF Applications, Body (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Erik Middlebrooks, M.D. & Esther Steijvers, B.Sc.
11:30
Andrew Tyler Ph.D.
King's College London
London, England, UK
11:45
Abdul Wahen Kajabi, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
12:00
RF Hardware Development for Human Extremity Imaging at 7 Tesla
Xiaoliang Zhang, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, USA
12:15
Anna Scheipers, M.Sc.
German Cancer Research Center
Heidelberg, Germany
Session 17: Closing Keynote (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: Rainer Goebel, Ph.D. & T.B.A.
12:30
Introduction
Peter Bandettini, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
12:35
Keynote: From the Beginning: What I Saw & Learned in the Land of fMRI
Robert W. Cox, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
Session 17: UHF MR Technology Development (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Xiaoliang Zhang, Ph.D. & T.B.A.
12:30
Sebastian Schmitter, Ph.D.
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Berlin, Germany
12:45
Chao Zou, Ph.D.
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Techology
Shenzhen, China
13:15
Recent Development of the 11.72 Tesla Human Scanner
Nicolas Boulant, Ph.D.
Neurospin, CEA, University of Paris-Scalay
Saclay, France
Session 18: Combined Closing & Awards (Regatta Ballroom AB)
13:30
Closing & Awards
13:40
Boxed Lunch & Adjourn