About IMRI 2024

Date & Location

Thursday, October 17, 2024, 9:00 AM - Friday, October 18, 2024, 5:00 PM, The Graduate Hotel, Annapolis, MD

Description

Over the past two decades image-guided therapies have expanded into every organ system and disease state. Interventional MRI (iMRI) has become vital to current multimodality image-guided therapies and also provides an entirely new platform for novel therapies.

In light of the rapid developments in the field and due to the success of the 13th iMRI Symposium 2022 in Leipzig, we would like to cordially invite you to attend the 14th Interventional MRI Symposium 2024 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

The Interventional MRI Symposium is a cutting-edge platform for researchers, clinicians, and other healthcare specialists to present their latest results and interact with international leaders and innovators in the field.

The current program will be composed of lectures from both invited speakers and proffered papers. We encourage all professionals working in the field of interventional MRI to submit scientific abstracts to this symposium.

The focus of the iMRI Symposium is the use of magnetic resonance imaging for the planning, control, and monitoring of surgical and radiological interventions. In particular, the topics of the 2024 iMRI symposium include interventional MRI systems, hybrid designs, instrumentation, MR pulse sequences, visualization techniques and data processing, navigation techniques, robotics, MR thermometry, thermal ablation techniques, MR guided biopsies, molecular imaging, MR guidance of cellular therapies, and targeted drug delivery.

Learning Objectives

After attending this activity, the learner will demonstrate the ability to:

Explain the underlying concepts and related methods in interventional and
intraoperative MRI.
List specific indications and applications for different clinical questions.
Identify the advantages and limitations of interventional MRI approaches.
Describe key research areas and clinical findings.
Evaluate trends and developments within the field.

Previous Course Information

For information about previous symposiums, including the most recent 13th Interventional MRI Symposium, you can visit, https://www.imri2020.org. You can view the programs from the past four symposiums, here.

Committees

MEETING CHAIRS:

Thomas Kahn, MD
Professor of Radiology
Department of Radiology
University of Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany

Jonathan S. Lewin, MD, FACR
Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurosurgery
Emory School of Medicine
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Rollins School of Public Health
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Clare Tempany, MD
Ferenc Jolesz MD Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Center Director, National Center for Advanced Technologies Image
Guided Therapy
Vice-Chair of Radiology Research
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Local Chairs Organizing Committee:

Clifford Weiss, MD, FSIR, FCIRSE
Professor of Radiology, Radiological Science and Biomedical Engineering
Division of Interventional Radiology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
cweiss@jhmi.edu

Dara Kraitchman, VMD, PhD
Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
dkraitc1@jhmi.edu

Organizing Committee:

Harald Busse, PhD
Senior Lecturer of Experimental Radiology
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
University of Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany

Jan Fritz, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Radiology
Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Section Chief Musculoskeletal (MSK) Imaging Section
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, New York, USA

Hata Nobuhiko, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Department of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Georg Rose, PhD
Professor of Medical Engineering
Chair of Medical Imaging
Director of the Research Campus STIMULATE
Otto-Von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany

Frank K. Wacker, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Radiology
Imaging Unit, Clinical Research Center Hannover
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany

David A. Woodrum, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Department of Radiology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, USA