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
calendar_month
31 March-02 April 2025
location_on
Graduate by Hilton Annapolis, Annapolis, MD, USA
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: Rita Schmidt, Ph.D. & Jason Stockmann, Ph.D.
10:00
Hardware
David Feinberg, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
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: Nikos Priovoulos, 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: Richard Bowtell, Ph.D. & Marta Correia, Ph.D.
14:00
Rainer Goebel, Ph.D.
Universitet Maastricht
Maastricht, The Netherlands
14:15
Translational
Birte Forstmann, Ph.D.
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
14:30
INS-fMRI for Studying Brain Networks at Mesoscale
Anna W. Roe, Ph.D.
New York University
New York, NY, USA
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
United Imaging
YongQuan Ye, Ph.D.
15:45
GE HealthCare
Xiaoxuan He, Ph.D. &
Jaemin Shin, Ph.D.
Session 6: Proffered Papers-Oral Session: Brain Function at UHF (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: Audrey Fan, Ph.D. & Kerrin Pine, Ph.D.
16:00
Firdaus Fabrice Hannanu, Ph.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Charlestown, MA, USA
16:09
Chenyang Zhao, M.Sc.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
16:18
Xinyi Zhou, M.Sc.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
16:27
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.
16:36
Keynote: Future of fMRI at UHF
Jonathan Polimeni, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
17:36
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. & Klaus Scheffler, Ph.D.
09:00
Neurovascualr Coupling & Calibrated fMRI
Natalia Petridou, D.Sc.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
09:20
Nikos Priovoulous, Ph.D.
Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Session 8: Keynote (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Gregor Adriany, 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
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: Peiying Liu, Ph.D. & Pinar Ozbay, 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: Jiaen Liu, Ph.D. & Dana Ramadan, M.Sc.
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: Xu Li, Ph.D. & Danny J.J. Wang, Ph.D., M.S.C.E
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.
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 A. 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, M.D.
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
Daniel Paech, M.D., Ph.D.
Mass General Brigham
Boston, MA, USA
10:30
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
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: Peter Bandettini, Ph.D. & Rainer Goebel, Ph.D.
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: Bastien Guerin, Ph.D. & Xiaoliang Zhang, Ph.D.
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
