ISMRM Workshop Series • 07-10 February 2017
 

ISMRM Workshop on Quantitative MRI in White Matter Disorders:
Useful, Usable, Used?
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Program

Registration, Setup & Reception - Tuesday, 07 February 2017 (No CME Available)
16:00     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
18:00     Opening Reception  
20:00     Adjourn  
 

DAY 1 - Wednesday, 08 February 2017 (5.50 CME Available)
08:00     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
08:00     Continental Breakfast (served until 08:45)  
08:45     Welcome & Introduction  
09:00   MRI-Derived Metrics to Characterize WM Disorders Daniel Pelletier, M.D.
Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
      Proffered Paper - Oral Session  
09:45 Imaging Predictors for the Transition from Relapsing to Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Antje Bischof, M.D.
University of California
San Francisco, CA, USA
 
Session 1: Resting State fMRI
      Moderators: Bruce H. Bjornson, M.D. & Bruce Pike, Ph.D.  
10:00 A User's Guide to Resting-State fMRI Ravi S. Menon, Ph.D.
The University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada
10:30 rsFMRI in Clinical Trials & Practice Martin McKeown, B.Eng., M.D., FRCP
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
11:00     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
11:20 Structural & Functional Connectivity in White Matter: Combined Diffusion & Functional Tensor Imaging of Epilepsy Jing Hu, Ph.D.
Chengdu University of Information Technology
Chengdu, China
11:33     Withdrawn
 		  
12:00     Clinical Applicability: Panel Debate  
12:30     Lunch & Speaker Upload Available  
 
Session 2: Diffusion MRI
      Moderators: Mark D. Does, Ph.D. & David K. B. Li, M.D., FRCPC  
14:00 Diffusion MRI: Technical Overview Derek K. Jones, Ph.D.
CUBRIC
Cardiff, Wales, UK
14:30 Diffusion MRI in Clinical Trials & Clinical Practice: Potential Utility & Limitations Jiwon Oh, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
15:00     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
15:20 T1-Induced Apparent Diffusivity Time Dependence Measured with Stimulated Echo Due to Exchange with Myelin Water Hong-Hsi Lee, M.D.
New York University
New York, NY, USA
15:33 Scan-Rescan of AxCaliber, Macromolecular Tissue Volume & G-Ratio in the Spinal Cord Tanguy Duval, M.Sc.
Polytechnique Montreal
Montreal, QC, Canada
15:46 White Matter Abnormalities in Schizophrenia & their Relationship to Cognitive Ability Mariana Lazar, Ph.D.
New York University
New York, NY, USA
15:59     Clinical Applicability: Panel Debate  
16:30     Poster Session - Odd Numbers (No CME Available)
Moderators: Shannon Kolind, Ph.D. & Irene Vavasour, Ph.D.		  
 

DAY 2 - Thursday, 09 February 2017 (4.50 CME Available)
09:00     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
09:00     Continental Breakfast (served until 09:30)  
Session 3: Susceptibility MRI
      Moderators: Susan Gauthier, D.O., M.P.H. & Alexander Rauscher, Ph.D.  
09:30 Current Techniques for Magnetic Susceptibility Imaging & What They Reveal About Tissue Composition & Microstructure Karin Shmueli, Ph.D.
University College London
London, England, UK
10:00 The Use of Susceptibility-Based MRI in Multiple Sclerosis: Iron Rims & Central Veins Simon Hametner,
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
10:30     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
      Proffered Paper - Oral Session  
10:50 Frequency Difference Mapping as a Marker of Microstructural Integrity of White Matter in Multiple Sclerosis at 7T Matthew J. Cronin, Ph.D.
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
11:03     Clinical Applicability: Panel Debate  
11:33     Group Photo  
12:00     Lunch & Speaker Upload Available  
 
Session 4: Myelin Imaging
      Moderators: Cornelia Laule, Ph.D. & Anthony Traboulsee, M.D.  
13:30 Technical Overview Bruce Pike, Ph.D.
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB, Canada
14:00 Myelin Imaging: Clinical Trials & Clinical Practice Susan Gauthier, D.O., M.P.H.
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY, USA
14:30     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
14:50 Evaluation of Myelin Damage in Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury using ViSTa-MWI Joon Yul Choi, M.Sc.
Seoul National University
Seoul, South Korea
15:03 Myelin-Water-Imaging in Hypomyelinating Leukodystrophies Steffi F. Dreha-Kulaczewski, M.D.
Presented by Hagen Kitzler, M.D.
University Medicine Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
15:16 Myelin Water Imaging Provides Evidence of Long-Term Remyelination & Neuroprotection in Alemtuzumab Treated Multiple Sclerosis Patients Irene Vavasour, Ph.D.
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
15:29 In Vivo Estimation of Magnetization Transfer Rates Between White Matter Water Compartments Peter van Gelderen, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
15:42     Clinical Applicability: Panel Debate  
16:30     Poster Session - Even Numbers (No CME Available)
Moderators: Shannon Kolind, Ph.D. & Irene Vavasour, Ph.D.		  
 

DAY 3 - Friday, 10 February 2017 (5.00 CME Available)
09:00     Registration & Speaker Upload Available  
09:00     Continental Breakfast (served until 09:30)  
Session 5: Cutting Edge Technologies
      Moderators: Alex L. MacKay, D.Phil. & Bruce Pike, Ph.D.  
09:30 State of the Art Imaging Technologies for Human Connectome Projects Essa S. Yacoub, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
10:00 Large Scale Image Analysis in Multimodal Brain MR Imaging Wiro J. Niessen, Ph.D.
Erasmus MC
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
10:30     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
10:50   CEST & MT: Background, Applications & Opportunities - Permission Withheld Alexej Jerschow, Ph.D.
New York University
New York, NY, USA
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
11:20 Early Versus Late Changes in White Matter Microstructure with Increasing Amyloid Deposition: a PET/MR study Jian W. Dong, M.D.
New York University
New York, NY, USA
11:33 A Comparison of ihMT, mcDESPOT, & DTI Measures in Healthy Children Bryce Geeraert, B.Sc.
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB, Canada
11:46 Modelling Z Spectrum Asymmetry Using a Symmetric Magnetization Transfer Contrast Lineshape & Contributions from Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Wilfred W. Lam, D.Phil.
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, ON, Canada
11:59 PET/MRI Vesna Sossi, Ph.D.
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
12:30     Lunch & Speaker Upload Available  
 
Session 6: Spectroscopy
      Moderators: David K. B. Li, M.D., FRCPC & Erin L. MacMillan, Ph.D.  
14:00 MRS techniques: Basics, Oldies, Goodies, and Newbies Roland Kreis, Ph.D.
University Bern
Bern, Switzerland
14:30 Quantitative MRS in Clinical Trials & Practice Gülin Öz, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA
15:00     Break & Speaker Upload Available  
      Proffered Papers - Oral Session  
15:20 Proton MR Spectroscopy of Stable Normal-Appearing White Matter, Pre-Lesional Tissue & Chronic Lesions in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Ivan Kirov, Ph.D.
New York University
New York, NY, USA
15:33 Longitudinal Changes in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Over 96 Weeks in Relapsing MS Treated with Ocrelizumab Versus Interferon Beta-1A Erin Leigh MacMillan, Ph.D.
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
15:46 Myelin Water Imaging & Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Investigates Changes in the Brain of Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury Carina Graf, B.Sc.
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
15:59     Clinical Applicability: Panel Debate  
16:30     Wrap-up: Poster Awards & Presentation of Awarded Posters/Evaluation/Summary of Highlights  
17:30     Adjournment  
 
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