The 27th Annual Symposium was titled Frontiers in Brain Imaging and was held on January 29th and 30th 2020 on Campus at UTSouthwestern Medical Center.
In addition, we would like to thank the hard-working organizing team as well as our sponsors.
Target Audience
This Symposium is intended for physicians, scientists and students with an interest in the field of brain imaging and metabolism.
Purpose and Content
Biomedical imaging is an integral tool for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of brain diseases. Recent advancements in biomedical imaging have
allowed for the analyses of metabolic, functional and pathological information of the brain. Given the rapid advancements in medical technologies, as well as
machine learning and artifical intelligence, a review of the field is timely.
In this Symposium, recent advancements in brain imaging by MRI and PET will be represented by internationally recognized experts.
Analytical approaches in characterizing brain metabolism will be reviewed.
New MRI and PET imaging methods and computational approaches for characterizing brain diseases in human patients will be presented.
Moreover, integration of artifical intelligence and machine learning in analyzing brain imaging data will be reviewed.
Last, but not least, reviews of unment clinical needs and roles of biomedical imaging in diagnosing and treating many forms of brain diseases will be discussed.
This Symposium was organized in collaboration with the O'Donnel Brain institute and the University of Texas at Dallas and it is supported by the National Institute of Health - National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineerin (NIH-NIBIB: EB0015908) and by UT Southwestern.
Educational Objectives
Upon completion of the Symposium, attendees should be able to:
- Appreciate the roles of artifical intelligence and machine learning in improving the efficiency and accuracy of brain imaging practices
- Describe the novel information available by exploiting high fields to the image and brain
- Understand fundamental principles and applications of hyperpolarized 13C-MRI
- Understand current advancements and applications of PET imgaging in brain diseases
- Describe unmend needs in neurosciences and the potential roles of advanced imaging
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
| Time | Title | Speaker |
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| 7:30 am | Breakfast & Registration | |
Probing Metabolic Networks with Stable Isotopes in Texas| Moderator: Stanislaw Deja.,Ph.D |
UT Southwestern Medical Center | |
| 8:30 am | Generating Hyperpolarized Tracers? | Lloyd Lumata, Ph.D. UT Dallas |
| 8:50 am | Progress in clinical translation of HP Imaging at UTSW | Jae Mo Park, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| 9:10 am | Translational HP MRI Research at MD Anderson | James Bankson, Ph.D. UT MD Anderson Center |
9:50 am | Quantitation in Hyperpolarization | Craig Malloy, M.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| 10:10 am | Break
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| 10:45 am | Tour and Demonstration of Hyperpolarization | 12:00 am | Lunch & Poster Viewings | Acquisition and Analysis of Brain MRI
| Moderator: Craig Malloy, M.D. |
UT Southwestern Medical Center 1:00 pm |
Unmet Needs in Neurology |
Darin Okuda, M.D. |
UT Southwestern Medical Center 1:45 pm |
Fast MR Imaging of the Brain |
Kawin Setsompop, Ph.D |
Harvard Medical School 2:30 pm |
Break
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3:00 pm |
The Evolution of Machine Learning in Brain Imaging |
Harmonization of MR BRain Data from International Sites, Ph.D |
MIT 3:45 pm |
Harmonization of MR Brain Data from International Sites |
Neda Jahanshad, Ph.D. |
University of Southern California 4:30 pm - 6:30 |
Reception and Poster Presentation
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Thursday, January 30, 2020
| Time | Title | Speaker |
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| 7:30 am | Breakfast & Registration | |
| Brain Metabolism | Moderator: Carol Tamminga, M.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center |
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| 8:30 am | High Field MR Imaging of the Brain | Anke Henning, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| 9:15 am | Nonproton MR Imaging of the Brain | Amin Nagel, Ph.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| 10:00 am | Break
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| 10:30 am | Imaging Brain Metabolism using Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 | Ferdia Galalagher, BMBCh, Ph.D. University of Cambridge |
| 11:15 am | PET-MR and Applications in Brain Studies | Bernd Pichler, Ph.D. University Hospital Tübingen |
| 12:00m | Lunch & Poster Viewing
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| Clinical Frontiers | Moderator: Elizabeth Maher, M.D.. UT Southwestern Medical Center |
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| 1:00 pm | Imaging of neurodegenation and brain pathology in Alzheimer's Disease | Paul Unschuld, M.D. Psyiatric University Hospital Zürich |
| 2:30 pm | Break
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| 3:00 pm | Imaging Neuropsyiachtric Disorders | Rupert Lanzenberger, M.D. Medical University of Vienna |
| 3:45 pm | Enabling Improved Therapy of Movement Disorders with Imaging | William Dauer, M.D. UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| 4:30 pm | Poster Award, Discussion and Adjourn
| Charlie Khemtong, Ph.D |
UT Southwestern Medical Center |