7:30-9:00               Welcome Cocktail Reception (Weill Hall Atrium)

7:15                   

 Breakfast (South Passageway/Clark Atrium)
 

8:00                      

 Welcome, Prof Yi Wang, Conference Chair
 David J. Skorton, MD, Cornell University President
 Prof David Lee, Nobel Laureate

Basic Principles of Susceptibility: Biology, Physics, and QSM
Chairs: Ferdinand Schweser PhD and Robert Turner PhD

8:20

Iron as biomarker for inflammation in MS lesions
David Pitt, MD

8:40

Connection between biology and tissue susceptibility
Jeff Duyn, PhD

9:00

Physics of susceptibility contrast and data acquisition
Richard Bowtell, PhD

9:20

From harmonic functions to field mapping and susceptibility quantification
Lin Li, PhD

9:40

Basic steps for doing QSM
Tian Liu, PhD

10:00

Coffee and tea break (South Passageway/Clark Atrium)

Clinical and Scientific Applications of QSM
Chairs: Jongho Lee PhD and Karen Tong MD

10:20

Susceptibility changes in pediatric brain pathophysiology
Kristen Yeom, MD

10:40

Susceptibility and myelin water imaging: Providing a window into the MS lesion
Susan Gauthier, MD

11:00

Susceptibility imaging of cerebral hemorrhage, microbleeds and hypoxia
Karen Tong, MD

11:20

Iron mapping in Parkinson's disease and neurodegenerations
Wayne R Martin, MD

11:40

Susceptibility of myelin, nerves, and white matter fiber
Chunlei Liu, PhD

12:00

12:20

Peer-Reviewed Presentations on QSM Applications
Chairs: Jan Sedlacik PhD and Derek Jones PhD

1:20

Introduction of posters (2 minutes each)

2:04   

Poster viewing and coffee break (Baker Atrium/Portico)

Discussion and Debate on Peer-Reviewed Presentations
Chairs: Jeff Duyn PhD, Robert Edelman PhD, Susan Gauthier MD, Mark Haacke PhD,
Chunlei Liu PhD, Karen Tong MD.

3:30                  

Poster summary by session faculty

4:00

Is susceptibility change a cause or effect of diseases?

4:30

What are the current clinical applications for QSM?

5:00

Break for day

6:00

Dinner Reception at Wagner Vineyard

7:15                   

 Breakfast (South Passageway/Clark Atrium)
 

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM)
Chairs: Ludovic de Rochefort PhD and Jurgen Reichenbach PhD

8:00

Phase processing for QSM
Ferdinand Schweser, PhD

8:20

Inversion algorithms: k-space based approaches
Karin Shmueli, PhD

8:40

Inversion algorithm: image space based approaches
Ludovic de Rochefort, PhD

9:00

Pulse sequence consideration
Wei Li, PhD

9:20

Susceptibility tensor imaging
Cynthia Wisnieff

9:40

Coffee/Tea Break (South Passageway/Clark Atrium)

Frontiers for QSM
Chairs: Richard Bowtell PhD and Jeff Duyn PhD

10:00

Applications of Short Echo QSM
Mark Haacke, PhD

10:20

MRI oximetry for quantifying CMRO2 and vascular reactivity
Felix Wehrli, PhD

10:40

Neuronal connectivity, tractometry and susceptibility
Derek Jones, PhD

11:00

Iron metabolism
James Connor, PhD

11:20

Human brain atlas for quantitative susceptibility and iron mapping
Peter van Zijl, PhD

11:40

Electromagnetic property imaging
Daniel Sodickson, PhD

12:00

Lunch break (South Passageway/Clark Atrium)

Peer-Reviewed Presentations on QSM Techniques
Chairs: Sam Wharton PhD and Yi Wang PhD

1:00

Introduction of posters (2 minutes each)

1:52   

Poster Viewing and coffee break (Baker Atrium/Portico)

Discussion and Debate on Peer-Reviewed Presentations
Chairs: Richard Bowtell PhD, Jurgen Reichenbach PhD, Ludovic de Rochefort PhD, John
Schenck MD, Yi Wang PhD, Peter van Zijl PhD.

3:30   

Poster summary by session faculty

4:00

What have we learned so far about QSM technical developments and applications? How do we standardize QSM methods?

4:30

What are the unresolved issues and immediate targets of investigation in QSM?

5:00

Break for day

6:00

Banquet & Poster Awards at Human Ecology Building Commons Lounge

7:15                   

 Breakfast (South Passageway/Clark Atrium)
 

Advanced Mathematical Methods for Reconstructing QSM
Chairs: Tian Liu PhD and Jin Keun Seo PhD

8:00

Large scale inverse problems in imaging
Julianne Chung, PhD

8:20

Optimization Techniques for Quantitative Mapping in MRI
Ashish Raj, PhD

8:40

Compressive sensing
Michael Lustig, PhD

9:00

Parameter choice for regularization
Rosemary Renaut, PhD

9:20

Total generalized variation
Kristian Bredies, PhD

9:40

Coffee and tea break (South Passageway/Clark Atrium)

Advanced Electromagnetic Mapping and Applications
Chairs: Stephen Ropele PhD and Alan Wilman PhD

9:50

MRI electric impedance tomography
Eung Je Woo, PhD

10:10

Electric property tomography
Ulrich Katscher, PhD

10:30

EPT updates
Jose Marques, PhD

10:50

CISSCO method for measuring susceptibility
Norman Cheng, PhD

11:10

Fiber susceptibility model
Sam Wharton, PhD

11:30

Iron and metallic biochemistry in cellular and animal models
Michael Garrick, PhD

11:50

MS iron
Robert Zivadinov, PhD

12:10

Deep brain stimulation
Brian Kopell, MD from Mt. Sinai

12:30

Summary

1:00

Boxed Lunch (South Passageway/Clark Atrium) and post-meeting activities (for more information visit the social events page.)