SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by Chair, Risto Kauppinen |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | FUTURE MR - LIGHTER AND FASTER |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Luijten (Utrecht University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Holland) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Klaas Pruessmann (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland) "Mind the field: the promise of dynamic magnetometry for in vivo MR" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Mark Griswold (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA) "Breaking the speed limits of MRI" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ADVANCES IN MR HARDWARE AND SIGNAL ENCODING |
| Discussion Leader: Tommy Vaughan (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Lawrence Wald (Martinos Imaging Center, Boston, MA, USA) "Parallel transmit hardware, pulse design and SAR considerations for shaped excitations" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Andrew Kiruluta (Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA) "Traveling wave MR: From momentum in space to holography and beyond" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Maxim Zaitsev (University of Freiburg, Germany) "PatLoc: New approaches to spatial encoding in MRI" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PUSHING THE LIMITS OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION |
| Discussion Leader: Greg Stanisz (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Russel Jacobs (Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA) "Microscopic MRI: compromises, qualifications and applications in small animal imaging" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Christian Degen (MIT, Boston, MA, USA) "Nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging by force microscopy" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MRS: FROM MICE TO MAN |
| Discussion Leader: Alena Horska (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jullie Pan (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA) "Developments in ultra high field MR: evaluating the human brain in health and disease" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Gulin Oz (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) "High field MR spectroscopy in spino-cerebellar ataxias: from mice to man" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Pratip Bhattacharya (Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, CA, USA) "Imaging tricarboxylic acid cycle metabolism in vivo by hyperpolarized 13C succinate" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND NOVEL IMAGING APPLICATIONS |
| Discussion Leader: Chrit Moonen (University of Bordeaux, France) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Bernhard Gleich (Philips Healthcare, Hamburg, Germany) "Magnetic Particle Imaging" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Alan Koretsky (NINDS, Bethesda, USA) "Micron scale particles for tracking new neurons in the rodent brain" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PRECLINICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN MR: NOVEL CONTRASTS AND BIOLOGICAL TARGETS |
| Discussion Leader: Timothy Duong (University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Klaas Nicolay (Technical University of Eindhoven, Holland) "Visualising the invisible: Is molecular and cellular MRI there to stay?" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Olli Gröhn (University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland) "Applications of spin-lock MRI contrast in vivo" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Richard Carano (Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA) "MRI of tumor angiogenesis: from mice to man" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HOT TOPICS SESSION |
| Discussion Leader: Joel Garbow (Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Karin Shmueli (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA) "Chemical Exchange as a Source of MRI Frequency Contrast in Brain" |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion |
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm | Yong Chen (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA) "Functional Improvement in Stem Cell Treated Hearts after Myocardial Infarction Is Associated with Preserved Myofiber Structure" |
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Alan Jasanoff (MIT, Boston, MA, USA) "Engineered Protein-Based Neurotransmitter Sensors for Molecular-Level fMRI" |
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Ovidiu Andronesi (MGH/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) "Multivoxel 2D Chemical Shift Correlation MR Spectroscopy of the Human Brain Using Low Power Adiabatic Pulses and Fast Spiral Spectroscopic Imaging" |
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Yi Zhang (UT Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA) "Anatomical, Blood-Flow, and BOLD MRI of the Human Retina" |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Silvia Mangia (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) "Non-BOLD isochronous mechanisms can substantially contribute to fMRI signals: a theoretical investigation" |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm | Prodromos Parasoglou (New York University School of Medicine, NY, USA) "In Utero Imaging of Vascular Development in the Mouse" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Phillip Zhe Sun (MGH/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) "pH-Weighted MRI of Ischemic Acidosis: From Animal Models to Acute Stroke Patients" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ADVANCING NEURO-MR TECHNIQUES |
| Discussion Leader: Karla Miller (FMRIB, University of Oxford, UK) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Xiang He (Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA) "Biophysical mechanisms of phase contrast in gradient echo MRI: theory and validation" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Penny Anne Gowland (University of Nottingham, UK) "Why MR signals from grey and white matter differ?" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Jeff Duyn (NINDS, Bethesda, MD, USA) "Origin and use of spontaneous BOLD fMRI fluctuations" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session IV |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | APPLIED MR METABOLOMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Sabrina Ronen (UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Xin Yu (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA) "The metabolomics of normal and disease hearts" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Joe Ackerman (Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA) "Plantae vs. Homo Sapiens: Secrets to survival revealed by 31P NMR" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |