ISMRM 2026, May 9 – 14

Cape Town, SA

Times listed are SAST

Presentation Time & Location UCSF Presenter

Oncology of the Body: The Role of MRI II (CME)

Renal Cancer: The Role of MRI

10:15 – 10:41

Room 2.40

Zhen (Jane) Wang, MD

Session 109 – 02 

Diffusion and Microstructure Contrast (CME)

Modeling Diffusion at Ultra-High Resolution

10:35 – 11:00

Ballroom West

An (Joseph) Vu, PhD Session 105-1

Presentation Time & Location UCSF Presenter

Fundamentals of Musculoskeletal MRI

Quantitative MSK MRI: From Acquisition to Analysis

Basic Principles of Quantitative MSK MRI 

MSK MRI Segmentation and Registration Approaches

Sunrise Course

Room 1.40

7:00

7:15

Session 307-01

 

Rupsa Bhattacharjee**

Gabrielle Hoyer, PhD

Of Mice and Men: Lost in Translation? Brain Tumors

Brain Tumors: Clinical

7:30 – 8:00 

Sunrise Course

Ballroom East

Janine Lupo, PhD 

Session 304-01-02

Neuro Imaging and Metabolism:Preclinical

Differential Vulnerability of Oxidative and Glycolytic Metabolism in ApoE and APP mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease

8:22 

Roof Terrace 

Session 331-01-002 

T.Vasilkovska, M. Radoul, Y. Sei, L. Bui, C. Guglielmetti, Y. Huang, J. Gordon, K. Nakamura, M. Chaumeil

Visualizing Intracranial and Carotid Arteries: MRA, VWI, and Beyond

Multi-center scan-rescan reproducibility of fast quantitative MRI of carotid atherosclerosis

14:45 – 15:40

Session 369-04-006

Digital Posters, Row J

D. Mitsouras, D. Karakay, S. Kim, M. Lu, J. Schollenberger, A. Pugazhendhi, S. Martinez, A. Gill, K. Johnson, H. Morris, J. Hadley, Y. Xie, V. Deshpande, D. Saloner, D. Li, G. Treiman, C. Weinkauf, M. Altbach, J. DeMarco, S. McNally, D.Parker

**now at Indian Institute of Technology

Presentation Time & Location UCSF Presenter

Fundamentals of Musculoskeletal MRI: How Low Can You Go in MSK MRI: New Applications at Field Strengths Up to 0.6T

New Applications of Mid-Field MRI in MSK

7:20 – 7:40 

Sunrise Course

Room 1.40

Daehyun Yoon, PhD 

Session 407-01

Brain Physiology and Pain: Digital Posters

Longitudinal Changes in Brain Functional Connectivity Following Spinal Injections for Chronic Low Back Pain

08:20 – 09:15 

Row A

Mahta Karimpoor 

Session 460-01-008

Hyperpolarization: Novel Applications 08:20 – 09:15  Digital Posters,
Row F
An integrated HP [13C, 15N2] Urea + [1-13C] Pyruvate MRI Approach for Measuring Human BBB Integrity and Cerebral Metabolism Session  465-01-08

Yaewon Kim

Presenter: Minjie Zhu

Exercise-Induced Modulation of Myocardial Substrate Utilization Measured with Hyperpolarized [1-13C] Pyruvate CMR Session 465-01-012 Avantika Sinha

What’s New in Multiple Sclerosis? Oral CME

Performance of Myelin Water Imaging in vivo: Imaging-Histopathologic Correlation in Toxin-Induced Demyelination

09:04-09:15

Ballroom West

Session 405-02-005

Leah Zuroff

Presenter: Erin Argentieri

Quantitative Pelvic, Thorax, and Abdomen

Motion Corrected Time-resolved MR Fingerprinting for Free Breathing Abdominal Imaging

09:15 – 10:10 

Digital Posters

Row H

Di Cui

Session 467-02-002

Fat-Water Separation and Fat Suppression

Water-Fat Separated Time-Resolved MR Fingerprinting (TRMRF) for Abdominal Quantitative Imaging

09:15 – 10:10 Traditional Poster

Xiaoxi Liu

Session 470-04-103

Altered Metabolism Across Healthy Aging and Neurological Disorders: Oral CME

Characterizing mutant IDH glioma and their treatment responses in vivo using proton MRS and deuterated a-ketoglutarate

9:59 – 10:10 

Ballroom East

Session 404-02-010

Donghyun Hong

Acquisitions and Reconstructions

Clustered Complex KANs: Pixel-wise Priors for Accelerated MR Reconstruction

Traditional Posters

Exhibition Hall

Shen Zhao

Session 470-01-077

Advances in Contrast Mechanisms 

Quantitative MRI of Pulmonary and Abdominal Vascular Flow and Cardiac Function in a single Ferumoxytol-Enhanced 4D-Flow Scan

TIME

Power Pitch

Theatre 1

Bryden Fong

Session 451-02-018

Neurography, Pain, and Spin

Blood flow signal attenuation for 2D T2-weighted FSE of the brachial plexus

13:40 – 14:35 

Digital Posters

Row F

Daehyun Yoon

Session 465-03-002

Perfusion and Coronary

Kolmogorov – Arnold Networks for Robust Myocardial Blood Flow Mapping

13:40 – 14:35 Shen Zhao

Non-Proton MRI: Methods and Applications

Impact of Skin Barrier Function on Skin Sodium Quantification with 23NA MRI at u%

16:00 – 16:55 

Digital Posters

Row J

Aditya Jhajharia

Session 469-05-001

Cardiovascular Imaging and Motion Correction Strategies

16:00 – 17:50

Digital Posters

Row H

Session 467-04
Evaluation of Quantitative High-Resolution Spiral First-Pass Perfusion Imaging Using Motion-Corrected Subspace Reconstruction  

Quan Chen

Presenter: Michael Salerno

Cancer treatment-induced cardiotoxicity detection and cardio protection Monitoring from SGLT2i using multimodal MR biomarkers   Donghyun Hong

Mid-Field Technology and Sequences

Lung MR Elastography at 0.55T

16:55 – 17:50 

Digital Posters

Row G

Parimal Joshi

Session 466-06-007

Quantitative Imaging: MR Fingerprinting 

Novel Quantum-Sensing Hyperpolarized 13C Molecular MR Fingerprinting Applications in Abdominal and Pelvic Cancers

17:06 – 17:17

Hsin-Yu Chen

Session 408-04-007

Presentation Time & Location UCSF Presenter

Insights into Psychiatric Disorders and the Human Connectome

 

Oral Presentations
Ballroom West
 
Identifying network states linked to the therapeutic efficacy of deep brain stimulation for OCD 8:20 – 8:31

David Mikhael 

Session 505-02-001

Directed Structural Connectivity Inferred from Network Diffusion in Humans and Non-Human Primates 9:48 – 9:59

Benjamin Sipes

Session 505-02-009

New Developments in QSM I

Modular Framework for Automated QSM Integration into Deep Brain Stimulation neurosurgical Planning Systems

08:20 – 09:15

Digital Posters

Row A

Eric Cito

Session 560-01-009

Acquisitions for fMRI

Spatial resolution and SNR Optimization in Simultaneous Brain-Spinal Cord fMRI

08:20 – 09:15 

Digital Posters

Row H

Eugene Ozhinsky

Session 567-01-010

Classification and Analysis in the Body

Respiratory Motion Classification and Outlier Rejection for Robust Motion Compensated Free-Breathing 1H Lung MRI

09:15 – 10:10 

Digital Posters

Row B

Bochun Mei

Session 501-02-005

Imaging Neurodegeneration in Motion: Multimodal Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease

13:40 – 15:16 

Flash Presentations

Roof Terrace

 
A Multistep-Multitask Approach to Reconstruct Tau PET scans of AD Subjects from Simpler Radiology Inputs  

Daren Ma

Presenter: Ashish Raj

Session 531-02-001

Tract-Specific White Matter Microstructure Predicts Deep Brain Stimulation Response in Parkinsons’s Disease  

Devin Schoen

531-02-011

Patterns of Deep Brain Stimulation Target Engagement Correlate with Postoperative Cognitive Change in Parkinson’s Disease   Devin Schoen

Deep Learning Meets k-Space: New Frontiers in Reconstruction

Multi-Domain Adaptive Fusion Cascade Network (AFCN) with Metabolite-Aware Loss for Accelerated MRSI Reconstruction

14:35 – 15:30 

Digital Posters

Row B

Nate Tran

Presenter: Janine Lupo

Session 561-04-008

fMRI: Task-Based and Stimulation

Structural brain harmonics as a basis for functional integration-segregation continuum in MEG

16:00 – 16:55 

Digital Posters

Row D

Nuutti Barron

Presenter: Benjamin Sipes

Session 563-05-013

Presentation Time & Location UCSF Presenter

Advanced Quantitative and Diffusion MRI for Epilepsy: From Lesion Detection to Clinical Translation

High-fidelity sublmillimeter-resolution 13-min quantitative and diffusion MRI for epilepsy diagnosis and lesion localization

08:30 – 09:25 

Digital Poster

Row C

Yurui Qian

Session 662-01-003

Diffusion MRI, Iron Quantification, and Steatosis in Human and Preclinical Studies

Comparison of Breath-Hold and Free-Breathing Liver MR Elastography at 0.55T

08:30 – 10:20 

Digital Poster

Row D

Ankush Bajaj

Session 663-01-005

Cerebellar Function

Functional MRI during cerebellar deep brain stimulation: initial findings and thermal safety

08:30 – 09:25 

Digital Posters

Row E

Benson Yang, Toronto

Presenter: Melanie Morrison, UCSF

Session 664-01-001 

Hyperpolarization: Novel Methods

08:30 – 09:25 

Digital Posters, Row G

Session 666-01-012
Demonstration of the novel hyperpolarizer technique to monitor in vivo metabolism using cross and direct polarization   Donghyun Hong
Coil Combination of Hyperpolarized C-13 Imaging by Estimating L2o-Optimized Sensitivity Maps  

Anne Bennett Haller

Presenter: Minjie Zhu

Image Reconstruction: Self-Supervised and Implicit

Reconstructing High-Resolution Tau Distributions from Regional tau-PET Data Using Implicit Neural Representations

14:35 – 15:30 

Digital Posters

Row E

Anil Kamat

Presenter: Ashish Raj 

Session 664-04-004

Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me! The MR Artifacts Game Show

CME

Hall 1B

Session 602-03
Presentation 1 16:00 – 16:35 Michael Ohliger
Presentation 2 16:35 – 17:10 Michael Hoff

Next-Generation Neuroimaging for Alzheimer’s Disease: From Molecules to Networks

Back to the Future: Predicting Individual Tau Progression in Alzheimer’s Disease

16:11

Oral CME

Ballroom West

Robin Sandell

Presenter: Ashish Raj

Session 605-03-001

Diffusion Acquisition and Reconstruction

High-fidelity mesoscale diffusion MRI at NexGen 7T using gSlider with integrated B1+ and T1 correction

16:24 – 16:26

Flash Presentation

Roof Terrace

Jiazheng Zhou

Presenter: Yurui Qian

Session 631-03-013