Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition - Take a Breath: Chest, Thoracic, and Pulmonary MRI

Take a Breath: Chest, Thoracic, and Pulmonary MRI

Oral

Body

Monday, 11 May 2026

Hall 1B

08:20 - 10:10

Moderators: Laura Saunders

Session Number: 302-02

No CME/CE Credit

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This oral session includes presentations that utilize pulmonary functional MR imaging and thoracic oncologic MR imaging.

Skill Level: Intermediate

08:20		302-02-001. Functional lung MRI during tachypnea detects changes in regional ventilation after dual bronchodilator treatment in COPD Robin Müller, Andreas Voskrebenzev, Filip Klimeš, Marius Klein, Frank Wacker, Jens Vogel-Claussen, Jens Hohlfeld Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany Impact: Metronome-paced tachypnea is a feasible alternative to exercise testing and demonstrates greater sensitivity to single-dose dual bronchodilator effects in COPD patients when assessed using single-slice functional lung MRI.
08:31		302-02-002. Phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) versus arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI for noninvasive measurement of lung perfusion Petros Martirosian, Andreas Voskrebenzev, Filip Klimeš, Rolf Pohmann, Thomas Küstner, Martin Schwartz, Fritz Schick, Jens Vogel-Claussen, Cecilia Liang University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany Impact: This study compares two noninvasive techniques for quantitative assessment of lung perfusion. The PCASL technique yields higher perfusion values than those measured with PREFUL. Further efforts are needed to better understand the reasons for the differences between the two methods.
08:42		302-02-003. Categorical 1H VOLVE Lung MRI Quantifies Ventilation Magnitude and Delay in Cystic Fibrosis and CFTR Modulator Response Zachary Peggs, Jonathan Brooke, Christabella Ng, Alexander Yule, Andrew Prayle, Helen Barr, Charlotte Bolton, Alan Smyth, Ian Hall, Penny Gowland, Susan Francis University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Impact: VOLVE analysis provides quantitative assessment of regional ventilation amplitude and delay in people with CF. Categorical metrics highlight clinically relevant differences and therapy-related changes not reflected by spirometry, supporting the use of MRI in longitudinal evaluation of regional lung function.
08:53		302-02-004. Pulmonary ventilation mapping using a non-commercial very-low field MRI system Nicholas Senn, Gabriel Zihlmann, Lucie Moreau, Alexiane Pasquier, Xavier Maître, Mathieu Sarracanie, Najat Salameh University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom Impact: We demonstrate the feasibility of 3D-lung ventilation mapping across the pulmonary respiratory cycle using an approach tailored to hardware constraints typical of emerging very-low field MRI systems. Once validated, such mapping methods could support future diagnosis in communities and children.
09:04		302-02-005. An ALP-MRI Score for Assessing Combined Structural and Functional Lung Performance in Neonatal Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Jonathan Dyke, Lauren Blatt, Andreas Voskrebenzev, Filip Klimeš, Jens Vogel-Claussen, Stefan Worgall, Mert Sabuncu, Rachit Saluja, Arindam RoyChoudhury, Alan Wu, Jeffrey Perlman, Arzu Kovanlikaya Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, United States of America Impact: The ALP-MRI score combines structural and functional lung metrics into a single score which differentiates between BPD Grades 1 and 2/3. The score identifies abnormalities in each of the three main lung compartments of airways, lung parenchyma and pulmonary vasculature.
09:15		302-02-006. RadiolGAN: A Multicenter Study of Synthetic CT from 3D UTE MRI to Enhance Pulmonary Radiologic Sign Visualization xiaoqing Wu, Xi Zhu, Jie Shi, Chaoyin Tang, Yanbin Cui, Jing Ye, Wennuo Huang, Wei Xia Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China Impact: RadiolGAN enables high-fidelity UTE-to-CT image translation, enhancing the depiction of radiologic features and structural details across diverse lung conditions. This approach highlights the potential role of GAN-based synthesis in supporting future clinical applications of lung MRI.
09:26		302-02-007. A Novel Independent Component Analysis Method for Non-Contrast-Enhanced Pulmonary Ventilation and Perfusion MRI Laura Rozo Pardo, Rabea Klaar, Moritz Rabe, Christopher Kurz, Enrico Schulz, Bastian Sabel, Olaf Dietrich LMU Klinikum Munich, München, Germany Impact: We introduce a new robust free-breathing technique for non-contrast-enhanced functional lung imaging based on independent component analysis, evaluated on 0.35 T MR-Linac. It improves key limitations of standard methods, like sensitivity to irregular breathing and motion artifacts.
09:37		302-02-008. Phase-resolved functional lung and 19F MRI detect early treatment response to mepolizumab in patients with severe asthma Julienne Scheller, Hendrik Suhling, Arnd Obert, Marius Klein, Nora Drick, Marcel Gutberlet, Andreas Voskrebenzev, Peter Howarth, Frank Wacker, Jens Vogel-Claussen German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany Impact: PREFUL and ¹⁹F MRI enable early, non-invasive assessment of anti-interleukin-5 biologic treatment response in severe asthma. These functional imaging techniques outperform global spirometry, offering sensitive regional markers for monitoring biologic therapy effects and guiding personalized asthma management.
09:48		302-02-009. Real-Time Tracking of Tumor-Associated Macrophages In Vivo Using Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI Yuqi Yang, Sen Yue, Huiling Dong, Ming Zhang, Xiuchao Zhao, Xin Zhou, Chuan Qin State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging, National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China Impact: This study establishes a novel, non-invasive and radiation-free molecular imaging strategy for early lung cancer detection in living subjects.
09:59		302-02-010. Simplifying Hyperpolarized Xenon Pulmonary Gas-Exchange MRI Seth Lee, Suphachart Leewiwatwong, Anna Costelle, David Mummy, Bastiaan Driehuys, John Mugler Duke University, Durham, United States of America Impact: Initial calibrations to determine TE₉₀ for dissolved-phase Dixon decomposition require additional hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe doses that drive up cost and complexity. We developed a method to correct images acquired at arbitrary TE, thus obviating the need for initial calibration scans.