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  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Science Session 1: Beyond 1.5 and 3T: Expanding Landscape of CMR Field Strengths
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Juliet Varghese, PhD – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Peng Hu, PhD, FSCMR – School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    2:40 PM - 3:00 PM  
    Exploring the Application of Ultra-high Gradient 3T cardiac DWI and DTI in CMR
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Christopher Nguyen, PhD, FSCMR – Cleveland Clinic
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    3:00 PM - 3:20 PM  
    Mid-Field Marvels: The Emerging Middle Ground of CMR
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Matthias Stuber, PhD – CIBM/CHUV/UNIL
  • Thursday, Feb 5th
    3:20 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Ultra-Low-Field Revolution: Unveiling CMR Potential Below 0.1T
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Felicia Seemann, PhD – Karolinska Institutet
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Science Session 2: From Mapping to Tissue Characterization
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Matthias G. Friedrich, MD, FSCMR – McGill University Health Center, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
    Moderator: Claudia Prieto, PhD – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / King's College London
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    9:10 AM - 9:30 AM  
    Why We Measure Tissue Properties: Insights into the Connection Between Tissues and T1, T2, and Friends
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Anthony G. Christodoulou – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    9:30 AM - 9:50 AM  
    How We Measure Tissue Properties: Basic and Advanced Mapping Methods
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Jesse I. Hamilton, PhD – University of Michigan
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    9:50 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Making the Connection: Characterizing Tissue using Tissue Property Maps
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Gabriela Captur – UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    11:10 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Science Session 3: Embracing Motion: Practical Solutions and Advances in Compensation and Real-Time
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Rizwan Ahmad, PhD – The Ohio State University
    Moderator: Roderic Pettigrew, MD, PhD – Texas A&M Univ System
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    11:10 AM - 11:30 AM  
    Dealing with Motion in Current Clinical Cardiac MRI
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Jeanette Schulz-Menger, MD – Charité/ University Medicine Berlin and Helios
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    11:30 AM - 11:50 AM  
    Advances in Motion Compensation in Cardiac MRI
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Claudia Prieto, PhD – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / King's College London
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    11:50 AM - 12:10 PM  
    Advances in Real Time Cardiac MRI
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Tobias Schaeffter, PhD – Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB),Technische Universität, Berlin, Einstein Center Digital Future
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    2:40 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Science Session 4: AI Across the CMR Pipeline
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Andrew D. Scott, PhD, FSCMR – Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital
    Moderator: Kate Hanneman, MD, MPH – Toronto General Hospital
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    2:40 PM - 3:00 PM  
    AI-Driven Advances in CMR Acquisition, Reconstruction, and Motion Correction
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Daniel Kim, PhD, FSCMR – Northwestern University
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    3:00 PM - 3:20 PM  
    AI in CMR for diagnosis, prognosis and drug discovery
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Declan O’Regan, MD, PhD – Imperial College London
  • Friday, Feb 6th
    3:20 PM - 3:40 PM  
    Large Language Models for Scheduling and Reporting in CMR
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Tim Leiner, MD, PhD – Mayo Clinic
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    9:10 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Science Session 5: Biological Insights from Cardiac MRI
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Moderator: Eylem Levelt – Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
    Moderator: Sebastian Weingärtner, PhD – Delft University of Technology
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    9:10 AM - 9:30 AM  
    Cardiac Metabolism with MRI: From 31P to 13C
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Hsin-Jung (Randy) Yang, PhD – Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    9:30 AM - 9:50 AM  
    T1rho, CEST, MT and Friends: Imaging Hydrogen for Biological Insights
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Michael Salerno, MD, PhD – UCSF
  • Saturday, Feb 7th
    9:50 AM - 10:10 AM  
    Biomechanics and MRI: Insights from Modelling and Imaging
    Location: Americas I and Hall 3 (2nd Lower Level)
    Speaker: Alejandro Roldán-Alzate, PhD – University of Wisconsin-Madison