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Inaugural 7T MRI Symposium: Best Practices and Innovation in Neuroimaging

April 10 - 11, 2025

Location

Eric P. Newman Education Center

This inaugural 7T MRI symposium brings together international leaders in ultra-high-field MRI research. The two-day event will cover key advancements in 7T MRI, including high-spatial and temporal-resolution fMRI, optimized hardware design, AI-powered magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI), novel sodium imaging techniques, infant imaging at 7T, advanced pTx implementation for high-field applications, and methodological innovations for improving imaging quality and reproducibility. It will serve as a vital platform for collaboration and knowledge exchange, strengthening the impact of 7T MRI research within the WashU neuroimaging community.



This symposium is sponsored by the following WashU departments and centers: Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (Wendell G. Scott Lectureship), McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience, and the Departments of Psychological and Brain Science, Psychiatry (Samuel Guze Lectureship), Neurology, Neuroscience and Neurosurgery.

While the symposium’s in-person attendance has reached capacity, you can still register to attend via Zoom.

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Eric P. Newman Education Center
Seminar Room B
Overflow: Seminar Room A

Morning Program

Moderator: Deanna Barch, PhD

All times CST

9:00 am

Welcome

Pamela Woodard, MD

9:15 am

High Spatial Temporal Resoluation fMRI on the 7T

Jonathan R. Polimeni, PhD

10:00 am

Optimal Hardware for Use at 7T

Lawrence Wald, PhD

10:45 am

Break

11:15 am

NexGen 7T

David Feinberg, MD, PhD

12:00 am

Lunch

Afternoon Program

Moderator: Hongyu An, PhD

All times CST

12:15 pm

Pioneering Breakthroughs in MRI, Together

Stu Schmeets

1:00 pm

Perfusion Imaging at 7T

Danny Wang, PhD

1:45 pm

7T Diffusion Imaging and Application in MS

Susie Huang, MD, PhD

2:30 pm

Break

Moderator: Timothy Laumann, PhD

All times CST

3:00 pm

7T Quantiative MRI and B0/B1 Correction

Jullie Pan, MD, PhD

3:45 pm

Optimal Imaging at 7T, Including Infant and NHP MRI

Essa Yacoub, PhD

4:30 pm

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and RF Coils at 7T

Anke Henning, PhD

5:15 pm

End

Eric P. Newman Education Center
Seminar Room B
Overflow: Seminar Room A

Morning Program

Moderator: Mark Curtis, PhD

All times CST

9:00 am

Infant Imaging at 7T

Tomoki Arichi, PhD

9:45 am

AI-Powered MRSI: Towards an Omni Imaging Technology for Brain Mapping

Zhi-Pei Liang, PhD

10:30 am

Break

Afternoon Program

Moderator: Joseph Ackerman, PhD

All times CST

11:00 am

Sodium Imaging and Implementation of pTx for High Resolution MRI at 7T 

Fernando Boada, PhD

11:45 am

Lunch

12:45 pm

X-Nucliei Imaging at 7T

Wei Chen, PhD

1:30 pm

Deuterium Metabolic Imaging in Cancer and Neurological Diseases

Henk Defeyter, PhD

2:15 pm

End