Rianne van der Heijden, Olusola Adeleke, Erpeng Dai, Maria Engel, Joana Pinto, Gabriel Ramos Llorden, David Waddington, Vivek Yedavalli

Keywords: Transferable skills: Impact planning

This year's Junior Fellow Symposium delves into groundbreaking MRI methods poised to revolutionize the field in the future. Emphasizing the clinical translation of these innovative approaches, this symposium will offer a specialized focus on bridging cutting-edge research with practical applications. 

Target Audience
Engineers, physicists, scientists, and trainees interested in novel MR methods and techniques with a focus on clinical translation.

Educational Objectives

• Gain insights into cutting-edge MRI methods with the potential to revolutionize medical imaging.
• Understand the clinical applications and translational aspects of emerging MRI technologies.
• Explore avenues for future research and contributions to the evolving landscape of MRI advancements.

Thoralf Niendorf

Susie Huang

Keywords: Physics & Engineering: Hardware, Contrast mechanisms: Diffusion

The engineering advances required to achieve strong gradient amplitudes and fast slew rates have directly benefitted the radiological sciences and clinical imaging by encouraging all the major scanner vendors to incorporate stronger and faster gradients into their commercially available products. A new generation of ultra-high gradients are now being adopted, such that hundreds of mT/m will be more readily accessible and routinely available for imaging patients. This lecture will highlight key clinical and research applications that will benefit most from such powerful gradients and advance our limits of detecting, understanding, and managing disease in patients across a range of pathologies.

Peder Larson

Keywords: Contrast mechanisms: Hyperpolarized MR (Non-Gas)

MRI with hyperpolarized carbon-13 labeled agents, also known as Hyperpolarized 13C MRI, is a powerful method for molecular and metabolic imaging that is being more broadly used in clinical research studies.  This presentation will cover the basics of this technology, including hyperpolarized agent preparation, MRI system and calibration requirements, acquisition and reconstruction methods, and data analysis methods.  It will also describe the latest clinical research findings and speculate on the long term clinical potential of this technology.

Ali Pirasteh

Shaoying Huang

Keywords: Physics & Engineering: Low-field MRI

The talk will present a perspective on the impacts of low-field MRI on future healthcare, including new clinical applications with new tissue contrasts, patient comfort, and friendliness to implants, and potential transformation of the clinical routines, reshape of the allocations of healthcare resources, and the democratization of MRI. 

Markus Barth¹, James Pipe²