Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
The Changing World of MR: Old Physics, New Techniques
Discussion Leader: Scott Beeman (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
3:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Daniel Sodickson (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
"Connecting MR in a Changing World: The Future Is Yours to Shape!"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm
Andreas Schmidt (University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany)
"A Setup for Rapid, Successive Parahydrogen Induced 13C-Polarization Generated in a Preclinical MRI for In Vivo Studies"
4:10 pm - 4:15 pm
Discussion
4:15 pm - 4:25 pm
Xuming Chen (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)
"Identify the Neurovascular Coupling Efficiency of Long-Term Depolarization or Seizer-Like Events in the Hippocampus with Optogenetic Single-Vessel fMRI"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
How to Quantify Physiology with MR: Phenomenological Representations Versus Biophysical Models
Discussion Leader: Manushka Vaidya (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Els Fieremans (New York University School of Medicine, USA) and Mark Does (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"How to Quantify Physiology with MR: Phenomenological Representations Versus Biophysical Models"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Nathan Williamson (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, USA)
"Towards Measuring Glymphatic Flow"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Alan Seifert (Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA)
"Formalin Tissue Fixation Biases Myelin-Sensitive MRI Methods"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Kelsey Meinerz (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"R1-Based Quantification of Tissue pO2: Phantoms to Placentas"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Ryan Oglesby (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada)
"A Phantom Investigation into the Biosynthesis Pathway of Serotonin Using CEST"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Raman Saggu (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany)
"Rapid In Vivo Microscopic Resolution Diffusion Tensor-Based Mouse Brain Connectome Acquisition and Objective Analysis"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Human vs Machine: Reconstruction Techniques
Discussion Leader: Gillian Haemer (NYU Langone Health, USA)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Florian Knoll (New York University School of Medicine, USA) and Douglas Noll (University of Michigan, USA)
"Machine Learning for Image Reconstruction: Why All the Excitement? / Human-Designed, Physics-Based Image Reconstruction in MRI"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Olivia Stanley (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
"Phase Sensitive Receiver Combination Using Prescan Singular Value Decomposition Derived Receiver Sensitivities"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Avigdor Leftin (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)
"Spatial Profiling of Nanoparticle-Enhanced and Agent-Free Iron MRI Contrasts for Improved Assessment of Immune, Metabolic and Radiation Therapy Targets in Cancer"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am
Wilfred Lam (Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada)
"Differentiation of Normal and Radioresistant Prostate Cancer Xenografts Using Magnetization Transfer-Prepared MRI"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Ashvin Bashyam (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Portable, Single-Sided Magnetic Resonance Sensors for Multi-Component T2 Relaxometry: Identification and Quantification of Fluid Depletion in Mouse and Human Models"
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 10:55 am
Katharina Keller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Spectroscopic Parameters and Electronic Relaxation of Paramagnetic Gadolinium Complexes"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Panel Discussion
An open-ended panel discussion in which professors Daniel Sodickson, Els Fieremans, Mark Does, Florian Knoll, and Doug Noll field questions on topics ranging from the state of the art of MR to career development.
Discussion Leader: Carson Hoffman (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Progressing Magnetic Resonance: Keeping Pace with a Changing World
Mark Does (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Els Fieremans (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
Florian Knoll (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
Douglas Noll (University of Michigan, USA)
Daniel Sodickson (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes