Scientific Program
- Welcome
Arthur Kaindl (Executive Vice President, General Manager Magnetic Resonance, Siemens Healthineers)Keynote: The Future of Digital Technology in Medicine
Mark Griswold (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA)Low-, Mid-, and High-Field MRI. A Critical Historical Review and How Challenges at Lower-Field Strength MRI can be Tackled with Emerging Technologies
Val Runge (Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland)MR Imaging in the Era of Deep Learning
Florian Knoll (New York University, New York, NY, USA)Consistent Pediatric Imaging - Challenges and Achievements
Cynthia Rigsby (Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA)How I do it: Pearls and Pitfalls in Pediatric Imaging
Erin Robins (Perth Children's Hospital - WA Health, Australia)Virtual Demo
Reduced Stress and Consistent Contrast-enhanced MRI Scans
Markus Lentschig (CEMODI, Bremen, Germany) Introduction to Deep Learning for MR Image Reconstruction
Florian Knoll (New York University, New York, NY, USA)Deep Learning Image Reconstruction – State of the Art
Kerstin Hammernik (Imperial College London, UK)Deep Learning Image Reconstruction – Siemens Healthineers Integration
Dominik Nickel (Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany)Iterative Denoising and Increased Acquisition Speed
Johan Dehem (Jan Yperman Ziekenhuis, Ieper, Belgium)The Value of MR Imaging
Vikas Gulani (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)Improving Productivity in MRI – Clinical Experience in a Multi-site Outpatient Practice Setting
Mike Notohamiprodjo (Die Radiologie, Munich, Germany)teamplay – a Tool for Workflow Analyses. Optimization and Longterm Monitoring in Radiology Departments
Lawrence N. Tanenbaum (RadNet, New York, NY, USA)Multi-contrast, Multi-dimensional Imaging: What’s next in CMRA?
Claudia Prieto Vasquez (King’s College London, UK)MyoMaps are the Essential Diagnostic Toolbox for Diagnosis of Cardiac Inflammation: Case Studies from Cardio-Oncology, Cardio-Rheumatology and COVID19 Pandemic
Valentina Puntmann (University Hospital Frankfurt/Main, Germany)Evidence, Advocacy, Education: The Role of Scientific Societies and Industry in Getting CMR into Clinical Routine
Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci (Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol, UK)Virtual Demo
GOHeart including Cardiac Dot Engine
Johan Dehem (Jan Yperman Ziekenhuis, Ieper, Belgium)
Advances in Contrast-enhanced MRI in Ischemic Heart Disease
James C. Carr (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA)Novel Methods in Signal Generation and Reconstruction
Rizwan Ahmad (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA)AI and Deep Learning. Where is CMRI heading to?
Vivek Muthurangu (University College London, UK)MRI-guided Cardiovascular Catheterization at 0.55T
Adrienne Campbell-Washburn (NIH, Nat. Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Burnsville, MN, USA)Industry Perspective on Interventional Cardiac MRI Treatment
Nicholas P. Twohy (imricor, Burnsville, MN, USA)Early Results and Experiences for iCMR in Atrial Flutter
Jakub Tomala (Heart Center Dresden, Germany)Ablation Center of the Future
Ivo Van Der Bilt (Haga Teaching Hospital The Hague, Den Hague, The Netherlands)Brain Malformations. New Insights in Pediatric Imaging
Thierry A.G.M Huisman (Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA)Improved Motion-Robust Neuro MR Imaging of Children
Simon K. Warfield (Boston Children's Hospital, MA, USA)MR Imaging of the Pediatric Bone Marrow
Jie C. Nguyen (the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA)Abdominal MR imaging and Interventions in Pediatric Patients
Günther Schneider (Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany)PET-MRI Applications in Pediatric Patients
Pietro Zucchetta (University Hospital of Padova, Italy)The Role of CMR Imaging in Cardiotoxicity
Olga H. Toro-Salazar (Connecticut Children's Medical Center, CT, USA)Multi-parametric MRI in Stroke Imaging
Shan Shan Lu (First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China)Virtual Demo
GOBrain ExcelerateClinical Benefits of MR Fingerprinting
Meiyun Wang (Henan People’s Hospital, China)MRI Techniques in Multiple Sclerosis: New Diagnostic and Research Developments
Matilde Inglese (Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy)Morphometry. Measuring Brain Maturation with Quantitative MRI
Baptiste Morel (Service de Radiologie Pédiatrique, Hopital Clocheville, CHRU, Tours, France)How I do it: Pearls and Pitfalls in fMRI
Cathy Elsinger (NordicNeuroLab, Bergen, Norway)Wave CAIPI for Routine Clinical Brain MRI
Susie Huang (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA)Clinical Translation of 7T Epilepsy MRI: Demonstrating Value
Srinivasan Mukundan (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA)Fast and Efficient MSK Imaging: Tips and Tricks to Squeeze More Performance out of Your Scanner
Bac Nguyen (Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway)Sports Imaging – the Whole Picture
Charles Ho (Steadman Philippon Research Inst., Vail, CO, USA)Challenges and Opportunities in Clinical MSK Imaging at 7T
Kimberly K. Amrami (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA)MSK Related Rheumatoid Arthritis and Related Cardiac Problems
Patrick Veit-Haibach (University of Toronto, Canada)T2 Mapping with Grappatini
Patrick Omoumi (CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland)Virtual Demo: Select&Go Push-button Knee MRI / High-resolution Ankle MRI
Applying State-of-the-Art Acceleration Techniques to Prepare Your MSK MRI Practice for COVID-19 Recovery
Jan Fritz (New York University, New York, NY, USA)Towards Precision Surgery in Neurosurgery
Bernard Bendok (Mayo Clinic, Neurosurgery, Phoenix, AZ, USA)Crucial Role of Real-time MRI Guidance in Functional Neurosurgery
Mark Richardson (MGH Neurosurgery, Boston, USA)MR-Guided Pain Management: Spine Injections and Nerve Ablations
Jan Fritz (New York University, New York, NY, USA)Combined Angio-MRI Suite Enables Tissue-Based Decision-Making During Acute Ischemic Stroke Intervention
Steve W. Hetts (UCSF Mission Bay Hospitals, San Francisco, CA, USA)Selecting the Right Patients in the Age of MRI Prostate Cancer Screening
Masoom Haider (Toronto General Hospital, Canada)Productivity and Short Examination Protocols with GO Prostate and the Prostate Dot Engine
Mukesh G. Harisinghani (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA)Prostate AI – Performance in Clinical Practice
Moon-Hyung Choi (Eunpyeong CMC, Seoul, South Korea)Active Surveilance with MRI
Kartik Jhaveri (University Health Network, Toronto, Canada)Efficient, Fast and Precise MR-guided Biopsies with the Soteria RMC
Anshuman Panda (Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA)New Minimal-invasive, Image-guided Treatment Options for Low-grade Prostate Cancer
Jurgen Futterer (Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)Managment of Advanced Disease
Chen Min (Beijing Hospital, China)Unmet Needs in Prostate MRI. Where is the Field Heading to?
Anwar R. Padhani (Strickland Scanner Centre, Northwood, Middlesex, UK)Implementing a Magnet Dedicated to Planning Radiotherapy Treatments
David Roberge (Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Canada)MRI in Radiation Oncology. See what you treat - treat what you see
Juergen Debus (University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany)Collaboration between Radiology and Radiation Oncology for MR-guided Radiotherapy
Hersh Chandarana (NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA)DENSE Trial – Implications for Breast Cancer Screening
Carla van Gils (University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands)Repetitive HR-MRI of the Breast at Intervals of Maximum 24 Months – A Way to Reduce Mortality?
Uwe Fischer (Diagnostisches Burstzentrum Göttingen, BZG, Göttingen, Germany)Implementing Abbreviated MRI Screening into a Breast Imaging Practice
Donna Plecha (University Hospitals Cleveland, OH, USA)Abbreviated Breast MRI. The Royal Melbourne Journey
Angela Agostinelli (The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia)Treatment Response Assessment with MRI
Susan Weinstein (Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA)MRI in Breast Cancer: From Bench to Bedside & Beyond. MRI-derived Parameters for Hormone Receptors
Katja Pinker-Domenig (Medical University Vienna, Austria / Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA)Why does this world need image guidance by Interventional MRI?
Jens Ricke (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)MR-guided Cryoablation
Afshin Gangi (University Hospital of Strasbourg, France / King’s College, London, UK)Pediatric MR-guided Biopsies
Günther Schneider (Saarland University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany)Clinical Workflow for MRI-guided Microwave Ablation and Thermometry in the Liver
Bennet Hensen (Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany)Freehand MR-guided Needle Interventions
Frank Fischbach (University Hospital Magdeburg, Germany)MRI-Guided Needle Biopsy: Visibility and Safety Considerations
Sean D. Chambers and David Gross (COOK Medical, USA)Free-breathing Abdominal MRI and Liver Fat Quantification with a prototypical evolution of LiverLab
Holden H. Wu (David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)The Role of MRI in the Management of Diffuse Liver Disease
Kartik Jhaveri (University Health Network, Toronto, Canada)Non-contrast Screening of High-risk Patients with Hepatitis
Jin Zheng Yu (PUMC, Beijing, China)Rectal Cancer Staging and Evaluation of Response
Bachir Taouli (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA)Minimal Invasive Image-guided Therapy of Primary and Secondary Liver Disease
Jurgen Futterer (Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)Malignant Bone Disease Imaging in the Era of Precision Medicine
Anwar R. Padhani (Strickland Scanner Centre, Northwood, Middlesex, UK)Radiomics and AI in Cancer – Approaches and Analysis
Masoom Haider (Toronto General Hospital, Canada)MRI in the ICU Department
Elmar Merkle (University Hospital Basel, Switzerland)Emerging Fields of Lower-field MRI
Hersh Chandarana (NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA)Opportunities in Interventional and Diagnostic Imaging by Using High-performance Lower-field-strength MRI
Adrienne Campbell-Washburn (Nat. Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, ML, USA)Lung MRI of COVID-19 Patients
Sebastian Bickelhaupt (University Hospital Erlangen, Germany)The Need for MRI. Developing Imaging Services in Northern Manitoba, Canada
Marco Essig (Health Sciences Center Winnipeg, Canada)Accessible MRI – the Clinical View
Vikas Gulani (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)Accessible MRI – Technological and Economic Challenges
Najat Salameh and Mathieu Sarracanie (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel, Switzerland)Quantitative and Intelligent MRI for Underserved Populations
Nicole Seiberlich (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)Transforming Care Delivery
Bernd Montag, (Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany)Clinical Workflow Optimization by Integrated Diagnostics
Stefan Schoenberg (University Hospital Mannheim, Germany)Medicalis – Clinical Decision Support / Referrer Management
Jon Darer (Siemens Healthineers, Malvern, PA, USA)
Pathway Companion
Sepehr Seyedzadeh (Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen, Germany)BEFUND24
Arnd Dörfler (University Hospital Erlangen, Germany)Data Infrastructure for AI and Transforming Healthcare Innovation
Travis Richardson (Flywheel)AI in Radiology Supporting Diagnosis
Michael Recht (NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA)




