Program

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1

Registration

07:30
Registration

Session 1: Two Decades of High Field MR

08:30
Thomas Budinger, University of California at Berkeley
Thirty years of discoveries that will enable exploration of brain chemistry related to human behavior at 20 tesla


08:55
James Hyde, Medical College of Wisconsin
Cortical to deep-brain connectivity at 9.4 T using task-fMRI to guide resting-state fMRI at 200 microns cubic


09:20
Rolf Gruetter, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
10 Years later: More Teslas - the CIBM experience


09:45
Kamil Ugurbil, University of Minnesota
The journey to 7 tesla and beyond


10:10
Break

Session 2: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

10:25
Ovidiu Andronesi, MGH/Harvard
Overcoming limitations in 1H MR spectroscopic imaging for mapping neurochemistry of human brain: The case of scalar coupled low SNR metabolites

10:50
Jun Shen, NIH NIMH
Image-guided spatial localization of heterogeneous compartments


11:15
Melissa Terpstra, University of Minnesota
Expanding the neurochemical profile to study aging: The importance of attention to detail


11:40
Samuel Grant, Florida State University
Proffered Talk: In vivo metabolite-based, cell-specific diffusion profiles using relaxation-enhanced MR spectroscopy at 21.1 T

11:55
Yan Li, University of California at San Francisco
Proffered Talk: Reliable GABA-edited MRS at 7 T


12:10
Lunch

Session 3: New Contrasts and Methods

13:25
Vendor Presentation: Christina Triantafyllou
Siemens Healthcare


13:45
Pierre-François Van de Moortele, University of Minnesota
MR-based electrical property mapping: Stengths and challenges at ultra high magnetic field


14:10
Michael Knight, University of Bristol
Anisotropy of relaxation and dephasing in the brain: A useful source of information?


14:35
Casey Anderson, Medical College of Wisconsin
Proffered Talk: Volume-parcellated quantitative susceptibility mapping in the human brain at 7 T


14:50
Charles Springer, Jr, Oregon Health Sciences University
Proffered Talk: Active water molecule transport in biological tissue: Underpinnings of MRI interpretation


15:05
Break

15:20
Vendor Presentation: Ed Mojahed
Philips


15:40
Nirbhay Yadav, Kennedy Krieger Institute
New CEST contrast methods and agents


16:05
Dan Ma, Case Western Reserve University
Magnetic resonance fingerprinting


Poster Session

16:30
Power Poster Presentations
16:55
Traditional Poster Session

Reception at CMRR

18:00
Reception


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2

Session 4: Engineering and Safety for High Field MR

08:30
Robert Slade, Victoria University
Review of superconducting magnet design for MRI and opportunities for moving away from liquid helium cryogenics

08:55
Greig Scott, Stanford University
B1 detection, thermoacoustics and PTx mitigation of unsafe RF device interactions for MRI


09:20
Anand Gopinath, University of Minnesota
7 T MRI RF coil using composite left-right handed transmission lines


09:45
Branislav M. Notaroš, Colorado State University
Long and short monofilar and quadrifilar helical antenna RF coils a 7 T


10:00
Vendor Presentation: Mat Brevard
Bruker


10:20
Break

10:35
Nicolas Boulant, NeuroSpin, CEA
Control of temperature in parallel transmission at ultra-high field


11:00
Yigitcan Eryaman, University of Minnesota
Simulations and experiments for evaluating ultra-high field MR safety


11:25
Leonardo M. Angelone, FDA
Regulatory science research on MR safety in the FDA Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories


11:50
Filiz Yetisir, Massachusetts Intitute of Technology
Proffered Talk: SAR and uniformity optimized turbo spin echo imaging at 7 T using parallel transmission


12:05
Vendor Presentation: Simon Pittard
Tesla Engineering


12:25
Lunch

Session 5: NIH Brain Initiative Projects

13:40
Vendor Presentation
GE


14:00
Lawrence Wald, MGH/Harvard
Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) for functional brain imaging in humans


14:25
Allen Song, Duke University
Update on finding NEMO (Neuro-Electro-Magnetic Oscillations) with MRI


14:50
Wei Chen, University of Minnesota
Advancing MRI and MRS technologies for studying human brain function and energetics


15:15
Break

15:30
J. Thomas Vaughan, University of Minnesota
Next generation MRI: A new approach to MR systems and imaging


15:55
David Feinberg, University of California at Berkeley
MR corticography: Ultra-high resolution cortical imaging for neuroscience


16:20
Julie Brefczynski-Lewis, West Virginia University
A wearable (MRI compatible?) PET scanner


16:45
Dean Wong, Johns Hopkins University
Three decades of imaging neuropharmacology: From quantifying neuroreceptor systems to measuring neurotransmitter modulation in the millisecond range


Dinner at TCF Bank Stadium

18:00
Dinner
 
Dinner Speaker: Rainer Goebel, Maastricht University
The UHF fMRI mesoscope: From feature maps to columnar-level neural correlates of consciousness


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3

Session 6: Body Imaging at Ultra High Field

08:30
Daniel Sodickson, New York University
Body versus UHF: Observations from a decade-long battle, and prospects for peace in our time


08:55
Thoralf Niendorf, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
W(h)ither cardiac MR at ultra-high fields? Physics, progress and promises


09:20
Wolfgang Bogner, Medical University of Vienna
Multi-parametric MRI of the breast: From 3 T to 7 T


09:45
Sebastian Schmitter, University of Minnesota
Parallel transmission in cardiovascular MRI at 7 tesla


10:10
Shailesh Raval, University of Pittsburgh
Proffered Talk: Peripheral nerve and non-contrast enhanced micro-vasculature imaging applications with UHF MRI


10:25
Break

Session 7: Advances in fMRI

10:40
Thomas Naselaris, Medical University of South Carolina
Small signal, big magnet: Studies of visual mental imagery at 7 T


11:05
Michelle Moerel, University of Minnesota
Sensitivity and specificity considerations for fMRI encoding, decoding, and mapping of voxel preferences at ultra-high field

11:30
David Norris, Radboud University
Layer specific fMRI: Techniques and insights


11:55
Karla Miller, University of Oxford
Spatio-temporal acceleration of fMRI data: Integrating insights from multi-variate analysis techniques


12:20
Tae Kim, University of Pittsburgh
Proffered Talk: Gradient-echo EPI using a shim insert coil at 7 T: Implication for BOLD fMRI


12:35
Lunch

13:35
Afonso Silva, NIH NINDS
Advanced anatomical and functional neurovascular imaging in awake marmosets


14:00
Geoffrey Ghose, University of Minnesota
Gain in the brain: Inferring neuronal computation through fMRI


14:25
Yue Zhao, Washington University
Proffered Talk: On the relationship between cellular and hemodynamic properties of the human brain cortex over adult lifespan


Session 8: Imaging the Human Connectome

14:40
Essa Yacoub, University of Minnesota
Developments in multiband EPI for Connectome studies


16:10
Matthew F. Glasser, Washington University
The HCP’s multi-modal cortical parcellation


15:30
Break

15:45
Koene Van Dijk, MGH/Harvard
The Harvard/MGH Lifespan extension of the Human Connectome Project


15:05
Stephen Smith, University of Oxford
HCP: New rFMRI network analysis methods and results


16:35
Joseph V. Hajnal, King’s College, London
The developing Human Connectome Project


17:00
Closing Remarks


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