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

Summer School of Ultra-High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (HiMR)

from Wednesday, 13 May 2015 (17:00) to Saturday, 16 May 2015 (20:30)

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

17:00 Registration
Registration
17:00 - 19:00
Room: Room Elba

19:00 Welcome Cocktail
Welcome Cocktail
19:00 - 20:00
Room: by the pool
Thursday, 14 May 2015
08:30
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

08:30 Welcome - Alberto Del Guerra (University of Pisa)
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

09:00 Invited Lecture 1: Trends in MRI technology development - Michela Tosetti (IMAGO7 and IRCCS Stella Maris)

09:45 Invited Lecture 2: Trends in new clinical applications - Mirco Cosottini (University of Pisa)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Room Bonaparte
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

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

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

12:00 SAR Prediction and validation in parallel transmit MRI - Matthew Restivo (Images Science Institute, Utrecht)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 15:30
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

15:30 Invited Lecture 3: Electromagnetism & Simulations - Gianluigi Tiberi (IMAGO7)

16:00 Procedures in operating 7T systems and controindications - Oliver Speck (Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Magdeburg)

16:30 Ultra high field MRI bio-effects and safety - Mahsa Fatahi (Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg)
17:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Room Bonaparte
17:30
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

17:30 Proton and multinuclear MRS in brain and body - Dennis Klomp (University Medical Center Utrecht) Peter Morris (SPMMRC, Nottingham)

18:00 The effect of the chemical shift displacement artefact on J-modulation in the STEAM sequence - Carolina Fernandes (SPMMRC, Nottingham)

18:30 High resolution diffusion MRI - Wenchuan Wu (Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), Oxford)
19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 20:30
Room: Restaurant
Friday, 15 May 2015
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

08:30 Beyond BOLD-based fMRI: High-resolution mapping of blood volume changes related to neural activity - Harald Moeller (Max Planck, Leipzig)

09:00 fMRI applications in the visual cortex - Catarina Rua (IMAGO7 Foundation and University of Pisa, Italy)

09:30 Layer-dependent calibrated BOLD imaging - Maria Guidi (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)

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

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

11:30 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 Intracranial Vessel Wall Imaging at 7 Tesla - Olivia Viessmann (Oxford FMRIB Centre, Oxford University)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 15:30
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

15:30 Invited Lecture 4-Interdisciplinary written and oral scientific communication-I - Steve Shore (University of Pisa)

16:15 Invited Lecture 5 -Interdisciplinary written and oral scientific communication-II - Steve Shore (University of Pisa)
17:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Room Bonaparte
17:30
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

17:30 Invited Lecture 6- The medical imaging industry - Mika Vogel (GE Healthcare)

18:15 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)
20:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Hermitage Restaurant
Saturday, 16 May 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

09:00 Improving the specificity of CEST MRI - Penny Gowland (SPMMRC, Nottingham)

09:30 CEST via MR fingerprinting - Nicolas Geades (SPMMRC, Nottingham)

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

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

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

12:00 Invited Lecture 8: Introduction to Technology Transfer - Gualtiero Fantoni (University of Pisa)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 15:30
Room: Fuoco di Bosco
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

15:30 Invited Lecture 9: Transforming Intellectual Property into Business-I - Gualtiero Fantoni (University of Pisa)

16:15 Invited Lecture 10: Transforming Intellectual Property into Business II - Gualtiero Fantoni (University of Pisa)
17:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Room Bonaparte
17:30
17:30 - 19:15
Room: Room Bonaparte
Contributions

17:30 Invited Lecture 11: PET imaging - Alberto Del Guerra (University of Pisa)

18:15 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)

19:00 Closing remarks - Penny Gowland (SPMMRC, Nottingham)
19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 20:30
Room: Restaurant