ISMRM Workshop on High Field Sys

Preliminary Program

Wednesday, 15th October
	DAY 1: FEASIBILITY OF HIGH FIELD MR
Session 1 Chair: Mark E. Ladd, Ph.D., Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI, Essen, Germany
07:00	Registration
08.30 - 08:45	Welcome and Introduction
08:45 - 09:00	7T and Beyond: the Varian Approach Alan R. Rath, Ph.D., Varian, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA
09.00 – 09.15	Building a 7T Scanner System: the GE Approach Douglas A.C. Kelly, Ph.D., GE Medical Systems, San Francisco, CA, USA
09.15 -- 09.30	Building a 7T Scanner System: the Philips Approach Michael A. Morich, Ph.D., Philips Medical Systems, Highland Heights, OH, USA
09.30 -- 09.45	Building a 7T Scanner System: the Siemens Approach Franz Schmitt, Ph.D., Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany
09.45 – 10.00	Building Ultra-High Field Magnet Systems: The Bruker Approach Towards Compact Actively Shielded 7T Whole Body Magnets Holger Liebel, Ph.D., Bruker BioSpin, Ettlingen, Germany
10.00 – 10.45	Serious Technical Difficulties at 7T and Higher Fields Klaas Pruessman, Ph.D., Institute of Biomedical Engineering,University and ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
10.45 – 11.15	Coffee Break and Posters
Session 2 Chair: Jozef H. Duyn, Ph.D., NINDS - NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
11.15 - 12.00	fMRI at 7T-- Losses and Gains Oliver Speck, Ph.D., Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany
12.00 – 12.45	Applications of RF Transmit Arrays - not available Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, NMR Center, Charlestown, MA, USA
12.45 – 13.45	Lunch and Posters
Session 3 Chair: Joseph Murphy-Boesch, Ph.D., NIH/NINDS, LFMI, Bethesda, MD, USA
13.45 - 14.30	Advances in Magnet Technology: Prospects for Large Bore High Field Actively Shielded Designs, Cryogenic Improvements, and Reduction in Helium Consumption Rory Warner, Magnex Scientific Ltd., Yarnton, Oxford, United Kingdom
14.30 – 14.45	RF Coil Array Modelling, Construction and Implementation: MGH Graham C. Wiggins, D. Phil., NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
14.45 – 15.00	RF Coil Array Modelling, Construction and Implementation: CMRR Gregor Adriany, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
15.00 – 15.15	Open Discussion on 7T+ Hardware
15.15 – 15.30	Coffee Break and Posters
Session 4 Chair: Andrew G. Webb, Ph.D., Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
16.00 – 16.45	Massively Parallel and Inverse Imaging Jonathan R. Polimeni, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Charleston, MA, USA
16.45 – 17.30	Hetero-Nuclear Imaging and Spectroscopy in Humans at High Field - not available Wei Chen, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
17.30 – 19.00	Poster Session

Thursday 16th October
	DAY 2: APPLICATIONS AT HIGH FIELD
Session 1 Chair: Peter A. Bandettini, Ph.D., NIMH-Functional MRI Facility, Bethesda, MD, USA
09.00 - 09.45	Proton Spectroscopy In Humans At High Field - not available Rolf Gruetter, Ph.D., EPFL, SB-IPMC-LIFMET and CIBM, Laussane, Switzerland
09.45 – 10.30	Neuroscience-Related Human Applications at 7T Cheryl A. Olman, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee Break and Posters
Session 2 Chair: Pierre-Francois A. Van de Moortele, M.D., Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
11.00 - 11.45	ASL at 4T and Greater Xavier G. Golay, Ph.D., Singapore BioImaging Consortium, Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Singapore
11.45 – 12.30	FSE and GRASE at 4T and Greater David L. Thomas, Ph.D., Wellcome Trust High Field MR Lab, Dept. of Medical Physics, London, UK
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch and Posters
Session 3 Chair: Christopher J. Wiggins, Ph.D., CEA/ Neurospin, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
13.30 - 14.15	High Field Neuroanatomy in the Primate Brain - not available Wim Vanduffel, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
14.15 - 15.00	Contrast Mechanisms at 7T and Above Jozef H. Duyn, Ph.D., NINDS-NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
15.00 – 15.30	Coffee Break and Posters
Session 4 Chair: Penny Anne Gowland, Ph.D., Sir Peter Mansfield MR Centre, Nottingham, UK
15.30 – 16.15	Musculoskeletal Imaging in Humans at 7T - not available Sharmila Majumdar, Ph.D., University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
16.15 -- 17.00	Body Imaging at 7T J. Thomas Vaughan, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
17.00 – 17.45	Neuropathology at 7T Daniel Vigneron, Ph.D., University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
17.45 – 19.00	Poster Session

Friday 17th October
	DAY 3: WHAT'S NEXT?
Session 1 Chair: Nadim Joni Shah, Ph.D., Institut für Medizin, Jülich, Germany
09.00 – 09.45	What Can Be Gained at Fields Higher Than 7T? Molecular Imaging and Smart Contrast Agents Silvio Aime, Ph.D., University of Torino, Torino, Italy
09.45 – 10.10	Towards Clinical Diagnostic Imaging at 7T and Above Denis Le Bihan, M.D., Ph.D., NeuroSpin, Saclay-CEA Cente, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
10.10 - 10.30	Cortical Columnar Structures with High Field fMRI Kamil Ugurbil, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee Break and Posters
Session 2 Chair: Bruno Maraviglia, Ph.D., University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
11.00 – 11.45	Vessel Imaging at 7T+ Zang Hee Cho, Ph.D., Neuroscience Research Institute, Namdong-gu, Incheon, Korea
11.45 – 12.15	What Will be Required for 7T to be the Scanner of Choice for Neuroscientists? John C. Gore, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, TN, USA
12.15 – 12.45	Diffusion MRI of Fiber Pathways in the Brain - What's at Stake and How to Make It Better - not available Van J. Wedeen, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
12.45 -- 13.30	Issues in Safety, Regulation and Approval at High Field Frank de Vocht, Institute for Risk Assessment Science, Utrecht, the Netherlands
13.30 -- 14.00	Final Discussion and Summary
14.00	Adjournment

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