Program
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | ||||
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | ||||
| 8:00 | 8:00 | Welcome & Intro | 8:00 | 8:00 | Advanced Techniques and Evolving Applications | ||
| 9:00 | 9:00 | 9:00 | 9:00 | ||||
| 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | 10:00 | ||||
| Understanding Magnetic Susceptibility Contrast | |||||||
| 11:00 | 11:00 | 11:00 | 11:00 | Mapping of Electromagnetic Tissue Properties | |||
| 12:00 | 12:00 | Lunch | 12:00 | Lunch | 12:00 | ||
| 1:00 | 1:00 | Acquisition and Analysis | 1:00 | Other Applications of QSM | 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 2:00 | 2:00 | 2:00 | 2:00 | End of Conference | |||
| Parallel mini-workshops Workshop results |
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| 3:00 | 3:00 | Poster Session | 3:00 | 3:00 | |||
| 4:00 | 4:00 | 4:00 | QSM Reconstruction challenge | 4:00 | |||
| 5:00 | 5:00 | End of Day | 5:00 | End of Day | 5:00 | ||
| 6:00 | 6:00 | 6:00 | 6:00 | ||||
| 7:00 | Welcome | 7:00 | Dinner | 7:00 | Banquet | 7:00 | |
| Reception | and | ||||||
| 8:00 | 8:00 | 8:00 | Awards | 8:00 | |||
Day 1: Monday Sep 26th, morning session
Magnetic Susceptibility in MRI
Chair: Richard Bowtell, PhD
| 07:15 AM | Registration |
| 08:15 AM | Stefan Ropele, PhD (Conference Chair) |
| Welcome and Introduction | |
| 08:30 AM | Sagar Buch, PhD |
| “Susceptibility weighted MRI” | |
| 09:00 AM | Jürgen Reichenbach, PhD |
| “Overview of QSM” | |
| 09:30 AM | Chunlei Liu, PhD |
| “Susceptibility tensor imaging” | |
| 10:00 AM | Q & A |
| 10:10 AM | Coffee/Tea Break (30 min) |
Understanding Magnetic Susceptibility Contrast
Chair: Jürgen Reichenbach, PhD
| 10:40 AM | Richard Bowtell, PhD |
| “Tissues composition and susceptibility” | |
| 11:10 AM | Jeff Duyn, PhD |
| „Effects of tissue microstructure” | |
| 11:40 PM | Alexander Sukstanskii, PhD |
| “Generalized Lorentzian Tensor Approach” | |
| 12:10 AM | Q & A |
| 12:20 AM | Lunch (60 min) |
Day 1: Monday Sep 26th, afternoon session
Acquisition and Analysis
Chairs: Karin Shmueli, PhD and Chunlei Liu, PhD
| 01:20 PM | Simon Robinson, PhD |
| “Processing phase data from coil arrays” | |
| 01:40 PM | Ferdinand Schweser, PhD |
| “Phase processing for QSM” | |
| 02:00 PM | Ludovic de Rochefort, PhD |
| “Inversion algorithms” | |
| 02:20 PM | Kristian Bredies, PhD |
| “Total generalized variation” | |
| 02:40 PM | Berkin Bilgic, PhD |
| “Accelerated QSM” |
Poster session
| 03:00 PM | Coffee/Tea Break (30 min) |
| 03:30 PM | Poster viewing in the atrium |
| 05:30 PM | End of Day 1 |
Networking
| 07:00 PM | Dinner (Glöckl Bräu, Glockenspielplatz 2-3, 8010 Graz) |
Day 2: Tuesday Sep 27th, morning session
Application of QSM in MS
Chairs: Franz Fazekas, MD and Yi Wang, PhD
| 08:00 AM | Simon Hametner, MD |
| “Iron in controls and MS brains: The pathologists’ view” | |
| 08:20 AM | Michael Khalil, MD |
| “Iron metabolism and determinants of iron accumulation in MS” | |
| 08:40 AM | Alan Wilman, PhD |
| “Validation of iron mapping in MS” | |
| 09:00 AM | Alexander Rauscher, PhD |
| “Tissue susceptibility in MS” | |
| 09:20 AM | Q & A |
| 09:50 AM | Coffee/Tea Break (20 min) |
| 10:10 AM | Susan Gauthier, MD |
| “Lesion development and corresponding QSM changes in MS” | |
| 10:30 AM | Alex Rovira, MD |
| “Rings and central veins: Specific SWI markers for MS?” | |
| 10:50 AM | Jens Würfel, MD |
| “Lesion characterization at ultra-high field strength” | |
| 11:10 AM | Robert Zivadinov, MD |
| “QSM in clinical MS trials” | |
| 11:30 AM | Q & A |
| 12:00 AM | Lunch (60min) |
Day 2: Tuesday Sep 27th, afternoon session
Other Applications of QSM
Chairs: Stefan Ropele, PhD and Alan Wilman, PhD
| 01:00 PM | Yi Wang, PhD |
| “QSM – biometal MRI“ | |
| 01:20 PM | Yukunori Korogi, MD |
| „QSM in Parkinson’s Disease” | |
| 01:40 PM | Christian Langkammer, PhD |
| “Validation of QSM” | |
| 02:00 PM | Andreas Deistung, PhD |
| “Towards in vivo histology of the brain” | |
| 02:20 PM | David Balla, PhD |
| “Functional QSM” | |
| 02:40 PM | Karin Shmueli, PhD |
| “Practical Considerations for QSM Acquisition and Processing” | |
| 03:00 PM | Coffee/Tea Break (20 min) |
| 03:20 PM | Mini parallel workshops/discussion rounds (4 topics) |
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(i) The best reference/standardization for QSM (Room A1) Chair: Ferdinand Schweser, PhD |
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(ii) The biggest unresolved needs (Room A2) Chair: Jeff Duyn, PhD |
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(iii) The optimal pulse sequence for QSM (Room C1) Chair: Peter van Zijl, PhD |
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(iv) Clinical impact of susceptibility: SWI vs. QSM (Room C2) Chair: Robert Zivadinov, MD |
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| 03:50 PM | Presentation and discussion on workshop results |
| 04:20 PM |
QSM reconstruction challenge: Results and discussion Chairs: C. Langkammer, PhD / B. Bilgic, PhD / F. Schweser, PhD |
| 05:00 PM | End of Day 2 |
| 07:00 PM | Banquet (Hotel Das Weitzer, Grieskai 12-16, 8020 Graz) |
Day 3: Wednesday Sep 28th, morning session
Advanced Techniques and Evolving Applications
Chairs: Alexander Rauscher, PhD and Berkin Bilgic, PhD
| 08:00 AM | Jongho Lee, PhD |
| “Myelin water imaging” | |
| 08:20 AM | Zhe Liu, PhD |
| “QSM – applications outside of the brain” | |
| 08:40 AM | Pinar Özbay, PhD |
| “Correction of field fluctuations for QSM at 7T” | |
| 09:00 AM | Audrey Fan, PhD |
| “Assessing oxygenation in the brain” | |
| 09:20 AM | Mikko Nissi, PhD |
| “Assessment of cartilage with SWI and QSM” | |
| 09:40 AM | Matthew Cronin, PhD |
| “TE-dependent QSM measurements – intrinsic behaviour or processing errors?” | |
| 10:00 AM | Heinz Krenn, PhD |
| “SQUID-based technologies for biomagnetic studies” | |
| 10:20 AM | Coffee/Tea Break (30 min) |
Mapping of Electromagnetic Tissue Properties
Chairs: Peter van Zijl, PhD and Jongho Lee, PhD
| 10:50 AM | Cornelis van den Berg, PhD |
| "Electromagnetic properties: Already a reliable quantitative biomarker?" | |
| 11:10 AM | Yicun Wang and Bin He, PhD |
| “Multi-channel gradient based electrical properties tomography” | |
| 11:30 AM | Dong-Hyun Kim, PhD |
| “Simultaneous imaging of conductivity and susceptibility” | |
| 11:50 AM | Jose Marques, PhD |
| “Electrical properties from coil sensitivities” | |
| 12:10 AM | Seung-Kyun Lee, PhD |
| “Theoretical SNR of Laplacian-based MREPT ” | |
| 12:30 AM | Q & A |
| 12:40 AM | Summary |
| 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM | End of Conference |