Name: Summer School of Ultra-High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (HiMR)
Start: 2015-05-13T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-05-16T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Hotel Hermitage

Monday, May 11, 2015
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

5:00 PM Registration
Registration
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Room Elba

7:00 PM Welcome Cocktail
Welcome Cocktail
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: by the pool
Thursday, May 14, 2015
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome - Alberto Del Guerra (University of Pisa)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

9:00 AM Invited Lecture 1: Trends in MRI technology development - Michela Tosetti (IMAGO7 and IRCCS Stella Maris)

9:45 AM Invited Lecture 2: Trends in new clinical applications - Mirco Cosottini (University of Pisa)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room Bonaparte
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

11:00 AM Practical use of RF solutions at 7T - Dennis Klomp (University Medical Center Utrecht)

11:30 AM A 7 Channel phased array coil and detunable transmit birdcage coil for O17 at 7T - Weirui Cai (University of Duisberg, Essen)

12:00 PM SAR Prediction and validation in parallel transmit MRI - Matthew Restivo (Images Science Institute, Utrecht)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

3:30 PM Invited Lecture 3: Electromagnetism & Simulations - Gianluigi Tiberi (IMAGO7)

4:00 PM Procedures in operating 7T systems and controindications - Oliver Speck (Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Magdeburg)

4:30 PM Ultra high field MRI bio-effects and safety - Mahsa Fatahi (Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg)
5:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

5:30 PM Proton and multinuclear MRS in brain and body - Dennis Klomp (University Medical Center Utrecht) Peter Morris (SPMMRC, Nottingham)

6:00 PM The effect of the chemical shift displacement artefact on J-modulation in the STEAM sequence - Carolina Fernandes (SPMMRC, Nottingham)

6:30 PM High resolution diffusion MRI - Wenchuan Wu (Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), Oxford)
7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Restaurant
Friday, May 15, 2015
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

8:30 AM Beyond BOLD-based fMRI: High-resolution mapping of blood volume changes related to neural activity - Harald Moeller (Max Planck, Leipzig)

9:00 AM fMRI applications in the visual cortex - Catarina Rua (IMAGO7 Foundation and University of Pisa, Italy)

9:30 AM Layer-dependent calibrated BOLD imaging - Maria Guidi (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)

10:00 AM Estimation of the laminar specificity of the BOLD response in the primary visual cortex - Irati Markuerkiaga (Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroimaging)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room Bonaparte
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

11:00 AM Brain tissue microstructure: Insights from relaxation and susceptibility - Harald Moeller (Max Planck, Leipzig)

11:30 AM Possible contributions of the hyaluronan-based extracellular matrix to the MRI contrast in the brain - Riccardo Metere (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)

12:00 PM Intracranial Vessel Wall Imaging at 7 Tesla - Olivia Viessmann (Oxford FMRIB Centre, Oxford University)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

3:30 PM Invited Lecture 4-Interdisciplinary written and oral scientific communication-I - Steve Shore (University of Pisa)

4:15 PM Invited Lecture 5 -Interdisciplinary written and oral scientific communication-II - Steve Shore (University of Pisa)
5:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

5:30 PM Invited Lecture 6- The medical imaging industry - Mika Vogel (GE Healthcare)

6:15 PM Panel Discussion-Applying for funding for interdisciplinary UHF-MR research - Alberto Del Guerra (University of Pisa) Oliver Speck (Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Magdeburg) Penny Gowland (The University of Nottingham)
8:00 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Hermitage Restaurant
Saturday, May 16, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

9:00 AM Improving the specificity of CEST MRI - Penny Gowland (SPMMRC, Nottingham)

9:30 AM CEST via MR fingerprinting - Nicolas Geades (SPMMRC, Nottingham)

10:00 AM What can we study with Amide Proton Transfer at 7T? - Vitaliy Khlebnikov (Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center, Utrecht)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Room Bonaparte
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

11:00 AM Motion Correction - Oliver Speck (Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Magdeburg)

11:30 AM Prospective Motion Correction at 7T using optical tracking - Alessandro Sciarra (Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg)
12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

12:00 PM Invited Lecture 8: Introduction to Technology Transfer - Gualtiero Fantoni (University of Pisa)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

3:30 PM Invited Lecture 9: Transforming Intellectual Property into Business-I - Gualtiero Fantoni (University of Pisa)

4:15 PM Invited Lecture 10: Transforming Intellectual Property into Business II - Gualtiero Fantoni (University of Pisa)
5:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

5:30 PM Invited Lecture 11: PET imaging - Alberto Del Guerra (University of Pisa)

6:15 PM Invited Lecture 12: Progress in Hybrid MR-PET of the Human Brain at 3T and 9.4T - Alberto Del Guerra (on behalf of Jon Shah) (University of Pisa)

7:00 PM Closing remarks - Penny Gowland (SPMMRC, Nottingham)
7:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Room: Restaurant