ISMRM Workshop Series • 20-22 September 2019
ISMRM Workshop Series • 20-22 September 2019 |
ISMRM Workshop on
MR Safety
Ensuring Safety from First Principles to Best Practices
University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Preliminary Program
| Registration & Setup – Thursday, 19 September 2019 – No CME Available | ||
| 16:00 | Registration & Speaker Upload Available until 18:00 | |
| Day 1 – Friday, 20 September 2019 | ||
| 07:30 | Registration & Speaker Upload Available Breakfast on Own |
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| 08:30 |
Welcome & Remarks | Cornelis A.T. van den Berg, Ph.D. University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Session 1: MR Safety Management in Clinics | ||
| Moderators: T.B.A. | ||
| 08:40 | Patient/Clinical Management of MRI Safety | T.B.A.
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| 09:00 | Safety Screening | Anne Marie Sawyer, BS, R.T.(R)(MR)FSMRT Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA |
| 09:20 | Scanning & Parameters | Vera K. Kimbrell, BS, R.T.(R)(MR), FSMRT Brigham & Women's Hospital Boston, MA, USA |
| 09:40 |
MR Safety Education & Awareness of Risks | Titti Owman, R.N.(R)(CT)(MR)FSMRT Lund University Hospital Lund, Sweden |
| 10:00 |
Safety Inventory & Evaluation for MRI Workers | T.B.A.
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| 10:20 | Break & Speaker Upload Available Poster Viewing |
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| Session 2: Contrast Agent Safety | ||
| Moderators: T.B.A. | ||
| 10:50 | Current Insight into Gd Deposition & Toxicity | Michael F. Tweedle, Ph.D. Ohio State University Columbus, OH, USA |
| 11:10 | Clinical Perspective on Gadolinium Usage in the 2020s | Val M. Runge, M.D. Inselspital, Universitätsspital Bern Bern, Switzerland |
| 11:30 | Next-Generation Contrast Agents: Reduction of GD Dose | Peter Caravan, Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MA, USA |
| 11:50 | Power Pitch Session | |
| 12:40 | Lunch & Speaker Upload Available | |
| Session 3: MR Safety in Special Settings | ||
| Moderators: T.B.A. | ||
| 14:00 | MR Safety of Pediatric & Fetal MRI | T.B.A.
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| 14:20 | Intraoperative/Interventional MRI | T.B.A.
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| 14:40 | Safety in MR-Guided Radiation Therapy | Maria A. Schmidt, Ph.D. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Sutton, England, UK |
| 15:00 | Panel Discussion | |
| 15:20 | Break & Speaker Upload Available Poster Viewing |
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| Session 4: Physics & Physiology | ||
| Moderators: T.B.A. | ||
| 15:50 | Basics of PNS: Physiology & Management | T.B.A.
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| 16:10 | Physiological Stress During MRI Examinations | T.B.A.
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| 16:30 | Occupational Exposure | T.B.A.
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| 16:50 | Adjournment for Facility Tours | |
| 17:00 | Tour of MRI-Linac (Group 1) Tour of Pediatric Oncology Imaging Facility (Group 2) |
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| 18:00 | Adjourn | |
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Day 2 – Saturday, 21 September 2019 | ||
| 07:30 | Registration & Speaker Upload Available Breakfast on Own |
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| 08:30 |
Welcome & Housekeeping | Cornelis A.T. van den Berg, Ph.D. University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Session 5: Scanning Patients with Implants | ||
| Moderators: T.B.A. | ||
| 08:35 | Standards & Guidance of MR Safety of Implants/Current Labelling Practices | T.B.A.
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| 08:55 | Interpretation & Enforcing of a Conditional Label in Practice | T.B.A.
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| 09:15 | Scanning Patients with Active Devices | Niels Jongejan, Ph.D. University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 09:35 | MR Safety of E-Health Sensors/E-Textiles/Jewelry | T.B.A.
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| 09:55 | Scanning Off-Label: What to Do | Roger Luechinger, Ph.D. ETH Zürich Zürich, Switzerland |
| 10:15 | Break & Speaker Upload Available Poster Viewing |
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| Session 6: Modeling & Measurement of Implant Safety | ||
| Moderators: T.B.A. | ||
| 10:45 | Electromagnetic Modelling of RF Safety of Implants | Louai Al-Dayeh, M.D., Ph.D. Boston Scientific Valencia, CA, USA |
| 11:05 | Measuring RF Heating near Conductive Implants | T.B.A.
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| 11:25 | MR-Based Method to Assess RF Safety of Implants | T.B.A.
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| 11:45 | Power Pitch Session | |
| 12:25 | Instructions for Hands-On Sessions | Maureen N. Hood, Ph.D., RN, R.T. (MR) FSMRT, FAHA; Vera K. Kimbrell, BS, R.T. (R)(MR) FSMRT; Niels Jongejan, Ph.D.; & Titti Owman, R.N.(R)(CT)(MR) FSMRT |
| 13:10 | Lunch & Speaker Upload Available | |
| Session 7: Hands-On Sessions – No CME Available | ||
| Moderators: T.B.A. | ||
| 14:10-18:10 | Parallel Session 1: Scanning Patients with Implants | |
| 14:10-17:10 | Parallel Session 2: Safety Testing Methods | |
| 18:10 | Tour of MRI-Linac (Group 1) Tour of Pediatric Oncology Imaging Facility (Group 2) |
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| 19:00 | Adjourn | |
| Day 3 – Sunday, 22 September 2019 | ||
| 07:30 | Registration & Speaker Upload Available Breakfast on Own |
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| 08:30 |
Welcome & Housekeeping | Cornelis A.T. van den Berg, Ph.D. University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Session 8: UHF MR Safety | ||
| Moderators: T.B.A. | ||
| 08:35 | MR Safety Physics for 7T MRI | Oliver Kraff, Ph.D. Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI Essen, Germany |
| 08:55 | Report of 7T Clinical MR Safety | Andrew J. Fagan, Ph.D. Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA |
| 09:15 | Future Directions in UHF MR Safety | Gregory J. Metzger, Ph.D. University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| 09:35 | Break & Speaker Upload Available | |
| Session 9: PNS & Acoustic Noise | ||
| Moderators: T.B.A. | ||
| 09:55 | Safety Management of New-Generation Whole-Body Gradient Systems | Ralph M. Kimmlingen, Ph.D. Siemens Healthineers Erlangen, Germany |
| 10:15 | Design & Operation of Insert Gradient Systems: A New Perspective on PNS | Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D. A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedicalmaging Charlestown, MA, USA |
| 10:35 | Acoustic Noise by Gradient Switching: Principles & Mitigation | Simone A. Winkler, Ph.D. Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA |
| 10:55 | Implications of Acoustic Noise for Scanner Subject | Michael Steckner, Ph.D. Canon Medical Research USA, Inc. Mayfield Village, OH, USA |
| 11:15 | Break & Poster Removal | |
| Session 10: RF-Induced Heating | ||
| Moderators: T.B.A. | ||
| 11:45 | State-of-the-Art Computational Modelling of EM Fields & Tissue Temperature | Joseph V. Rispoli, Ph.D. Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA |
| 12:05 | Local SAR & Temperature Management for Transmit Arrays | Nicolas Boulant, Ph.D. Neurospin/CEA Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
| 12:25 | CEM43 & Its Operational Implementation | T.B.A.
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| 12:45 | New Experimental Technologies to Characterize RF Heating | T.B.A.
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| 13:05 | Reflection, Closing & Farewell | Cornelis A.T. van den Berg, Ph.D. University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands |