Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Session: MR Microscopy: Technologies and Applications |
| Session in honor of Sir Paul Callaghan. |
| Discussion Leader: Axel Haase (Institute of Medical Engineering (IMETUM), Technische Universität München, Germany) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Stephen Blackband (University of Florida, USA) "30 Years of MR Microscopy: Progress and Potential" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Jan Korvink (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) "The Prospect of Magnetic Resonance Microscopy to Determine Metabolomic Rates" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Future Technologies: Coils and More |
| Discussion Leader: Oliver Speck (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jason Stockmann (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA) "Breaking the Mold of Conventional Shims and Gradients" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Graham Wiggins (New York University, USA) "Ultimate Current Patterns as a Guide to High Field RF Coil Design" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | John Pauly (Stanford University, USA) "MRI 4.0" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Power Hour |
| The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring. |
| Organizers: Corree Laule (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Penny Gowland (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Clinical Challenges and Opportunities |
| Discussion Leader: Elna-Marie Larsson (Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Christine Chung (University of California, San Diego, USA) "Imaging the Unseen:
UTE" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Marion Smits (Erasmus MC, The Netherlands) "Challenges and Opportunities in Neuro-MR" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Late-Breaking Topics |
| Discussion Leaders: Lawrence Wald (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA) and Corree Laule (University of British Columbia, Canada) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Hui Han (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA) "Unified Coils (UNIC) for Parallel Imaging and B0 Shimming" |
9:10 am - 9:15 am | Discussion |
9:15 am - 9:25 am | Yi He (International Max Planck Research School for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience (IMPRS), Germany) "Map Task-Related and Resting-State Vascular Network Connectivity with Single-Vessel SSFP-fMRI" |
9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:40 am | Christopher Nguyen (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA) "Towards Validation of Myocardial Fiber Architecture: Preliminary Comparison of DT-CMR with 3D Optical Imaging with CLARITY" |
9:40 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 9:55 am | Jyotsna Upendra Rao (Yale School of Medicine, USA) "Glioma Treatment with Temozolomide Arrests Tumor Growth and Normalizes Intratumoral-Peritumoral Extracellular pH Gradient" |
9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| Future Technologies: Magnets and Systems |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Mark Bird (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, USA) "Magnets Unbound" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Panu Vesanen (Philips Healthcare, Finland) "New Developments in MR-XRT" |
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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hyperpolarization Somewhat Different |
| Discussion Leader: Kevin Brindle (Cancer Research UK, United Kingdom) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Jim Kempf (Bruker Biospin, USA) "Brute Force Hyperpolarization" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Leif Schroeder (Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Germany) "Molecular Imaging with Hyperpolarized Xenon" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Imaging and Genetics |
| Discussion Leader: Cornelius Faber (University Hospital Muenster, Germany) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Brigitte Kieffer (McGill University, Canada) "Changing the Phenotype with Genetic Manipulations" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Martin Schwarz (University of Bonn Medical School, Germany) "Subcellular Resolution Neural Circuit Imaging in Translucent Mouse Brains" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Jin Hyung Lee (Stanford University, USA) "Optogenetic Imaging" |
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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Quantitative MRI |
| Discussion Leader: Scott Beeman (Washington University School of Medicine, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Mark Griswold (Case Western Reserve University, USA) "MR Fingerprinting" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Jeffrey Evelhoch (Merck Research Laboratories, USA) "From MR Parameters to Biomarkers - The Role of MR in Drug Development" |
9:10 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 in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Future Technologies: New Concepts for Data Acquisition |
| Discussion Leader: Oliver Wieben (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Kai Tobias Block (New York University School of Medicine, USA) "Clinical Applications of Accelerated Imaging" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Zhi-Pei Liang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) "High-Dimensional Imaging: A Path to High-Resolution Through Subspaces" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Kawin Setsompop (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA) "Multiband EPI" |
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 |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MRI Beyond the Trodden Path |
| Discussion Leader: Joseph Hajnal (King's College London, United Kingdom) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Jeffrey Neil (Boston Children's Hospital, USA) "Imaging Preterm
Babies" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Petra Huppi (University Medical Center (CMU), University of Geneva, Switzerland) "Challenges in Pediatric MRI" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |