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
08:20
Registration & Speaker Upload Available
08:50
Introduction
Marta Bianciardi, Ph.D.,
Patricia Figueiredo, D. Phil.,
Jun Hua, Ph.D. &
Laurentius Huber, Ph.D.
09:00
Overview of UHF-fMRI
Seong-Gi Kim, Ph.D.
Sungkyunkwan University
Seoul, South Korea
Session 1: Challenges & Prospects in UHF-fMRI (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: 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
Pre-Processing
Yulia Lazarova, Ph.D.
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
10:45
Preclinical
Yen-Yu Ian Shih, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
11:00
Break & Speaker Upload Available
Session 2: SNR to Burn (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: T.B.A.
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
Weak Non-BOLD Contrasts
Dimo Ivanov, Ph.D.
Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands
12:30
Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
12:30
Poster Viewing
Session 3: Applications (Regatta Ballroom A-C)
Moderators: T.B.A.
14:00
Cognitive/Clinical Neuroscience
T.B.A.
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
Physiology
T.B.A.
15:00
Break & Speaker Upload Available
15:30
Vendors
16:15
Proffered Papers-Oral Session
17:00
Keynote: Future of fMRI at UHF
Jonathan Polimeni, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
18:00
Poster Session
19:00
Adjourn
Day 2 - Tuesday, 1 April 2025
08:30
Registration & Speaker Upload Available
Session 4: fMRI Signal Mechanisms & Biophysics (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: T.B.A.
09:00
Neurovascualr Coupling & Calibrated fMRI
Natalia Petridou, D.Sc.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
09:20
The Eternal Fight of the Best Layer-fMRI Contrast
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 4: Keynote (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: T.B.A.
09:00
Keynote: Plenary on UHF MRI at CMRR
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 5: fMRI Beyond Neurovascular Coupling (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: T.B.A.
10:00
CSF Flunctuations in fMRI
Laura Lewis, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
10:30
Physiological Signals in fMRI
Pinar Ozbay, Ph.D.
Bogazici University
Istanbul, Turkey
10:45
Functional MRS
Paul Mullins, Ph.D.
Bangor University
Bangor, Wales, UK
Session 5: UHF MRI System Development (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: T.B.A.
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
T.B.A.
11:00
Break & Speaker Upload Available
Session 6: Noise/Analysis (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: T.B.A.
11:30
Visualize More of Your Data to Enhance Interpretation, Reduce Biases & Improve Reproductibility
Paul Taylor, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
11:50
Physiological Signals in fMRI-Denoising
Stefano Moia, Ph.D.
Maastricht University
Maastricht, The Netherlands
12:10
Multi-Echo fMRI in Clinics: Why Use It & What It Gives You
Charles Lynch, Ph.D.
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY, USA
Session 6: Acquisiton & Analysis at UHF (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Xingfeng Shao, Ph.D. & Kavita Singh, Ph.D.
11:30
MRS/X Nuclei
Anke Henning, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA
11:45
Recent Advances in Metabolic Imaging at Ultra-High Field
T.B.A.
12:00
High-Resolution QSM & Functional QSM at UHF
Sina Straub, Ph.D.
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
12:15
Ultra-High Resolution Quantitative MRI Mapping of the Human Subcortex
Evgenyia Kirilina, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences
Leipzig, Germany
12:30
Lunch & Speaker Upload Available
13:30
Poster Session
15:00
Proffered Papers-Oral Session
Session 7: We, the fMRi Field (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: T.B.A.
16:00
Panel Discussion
Peter Bandettini, Ph.D.
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
16:30
fMRI Developer: Scanner vs. Janitor vs. Researcher
Ravi Menon, Ph.D.
Western University
London, ON, Canada
Session 7: Safety at UHF (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Andrew Fagan, Ph.D. & Yan Li, Ph.D.
16:00
Pediatric Neuro
Shaihan Malik, Ph.D.
King's College London
London, England, UK
16:15
Safe MRI of DBS Patients at UHF
Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
16:30
SAR Modeling for RF Safety at UHF
Aurelien Destruel, Ph.D.
Center of Magnetic Resonance in Biology & Medicine
Marseille, France
16:45
MR Thermometry for RF Safety at UFH
Caroline Le Ster, Ph.D.
Neurospin, CEA Saclay
Saclay, France
Session 8: fMRI Across Species (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: T.B.A.
17:00
What We Learn from Animals That We Cannot Learn from Humans
Jozien Goense, Ph.D.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USA
17:20
Sedation & Other Confounds in Preclinical fMRI
Francesca Mandino, Ph.D.
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, USA
Session 8: Vendors Session/Breakout (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: T.B.A.
T.B.A.
EUFIND
T.B.A.
UK7T
T.B.A.
7TANA
T.B.A.
GUFI
17:45
Adjourn
Day 3 - Wednesday, 2 April 2025
08:30
Registration & Speaker Upload Available
09:00
Keynote: Plenary on Body
Tom Scheenen Ph.D.
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
09:30
Keynote: Plenary on Brain
Erik Middlebrooks
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
Session 9: Hardware/Acquistion (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: T.B.A.
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 9: UHF Applications, Neuro (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Sheeba Anteraper, Ph.D. & Maxime Guye, M.D., Ph.D.
10:00
Clinical Applications of Ultra-High Field Vascular Imaging
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, MBBS, Ph.D., FRCR
King's College London, Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
London, England, UK
10:45
Clinical Applications of Ultra-High Spine Imaging
Anna Combes, Ph.D.
University College London
London, England, UK
11:00
Break & Speaker Upload Available
Session 10: Deep Sampling & Precision Mapping (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: T.B.A.
10:00
Precision Mapping
Evan Gordon, Ph.D.
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO, USA
10:20
The ABCD Study
Angie Laird, Ph.D.
Florida International University
Miami, FL, 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
11:30
Proffered Papers-Oral Session
Session 10: UHF Applications, Body (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: Erik Middlebrooks, M.D. & Esther Steijvers, B.A.
11:30
Compartment-Based Reconstruction of 3D Acquisition-Weighted 31 P Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging at 7 Tesla
Andrew Tyler Ph.D.
King's College London
London, England, UK
11:45
QSM for Epiphyseal Cartilage Vascularity & Short Echo Time Imaging for Bone Healing at UHF
Abdul Wahen Kajabi, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
12:00
RF Hardware Development for Human Extremity Imaging at 7 Tesla
T.B.A.
12:15
Quanitative Abdominal Sodium Imaging at 7 Tesla in a Large FOV
Anna Scheipers, M.Sc.
German Cancer Research Center
Heidelberg, Germany
Session 11: Keynote (Regatta Ballroom C)
Moderators: T.B.A.
12:30
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 11: UHF MR Technology Development (Regatta Ballroom AB)
Moderators: T.B.A.
12:30
7 Tesla pTX in the Human Body
Sebastian Schmitter, Ph.D.
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Berlin, Germany
12:45
Whole-Body MRI at 5 Tesla
Chao Zhou, Ph.D.
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Techology
Shenzhen, China
13:00
Perfusion MRI a 7 Tesla
Danny Wang, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
13:15
Recent Development of the 11.72 Tesla Human Scanner
Nicolas Boulant, Ph.D.
Neurospin, CEA, University of Paris-Scalay
Saclay, France
Session 12: Awards (Regatta Ballroom AB)
13:30
Combined Awards
T.B.A.
13:40
Boxed Lunch & Adjourn
T.B.A.