Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition

Hybrid and Novel Systems

Oral

Physics & Engineering

Monday, 11 May 2026

Ballroom West

13:50 - 15:40

Moderators: Stephan Orzada & Sydney Williams

Session Number: 305-03

No CME/CE Credit

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Novel systems and devices can enable new science across field strengths and applications.

13:50		305-03-001. Motion compensation using a wireless 'Smart Cushion' device Jayant Dubey, Yajun Li, Cheng-Chieh Cheng, Devin Willey, Dean Darnell, Lei Qin, Bruno Madore Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, United States of America Impact: We built a wireless ‘Smart Cushion’ motion-sensing device that fits into the head coil. Volunteers were recruited to validate the device at 0T against an optical tracker, and during 3T MRI to test its ability to support motion-compensated MRI scanning.
14:01		305-03-002. Imaging Performance of a Human BrainPET 7T insert N. Jon Shah, Debora Niekaemper, Jürgen Scheins, Lutz Tellmann, Cláudia Régio Brambilla, Chang-Hoon Choi, Ezequiel Farrher, Jorg Felder, Sandra Krause, Nicole Burda, Lara Kliebe, David Arutinov, Roger Heil, Wolfgang Silex, Stefan van Waasen, Dirk Grunwald, Manfred Lennartz, Tobias Meurer, Ghaleb Natour, Bjoern Weissler, Florian Mueller, David Schug, Eike Gegenmantel, Harald Radermacher, Oliver Muelhens, Markus Lang, Pierre Gebhardt, Jean Luc Lefaucheur, Zhaolin Chen, Gary Egan, Volkmar Schulz, Christoph Lerche Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany Impact: Quantitative and time-correlated MR/PET data with highest achievable spatial resolution will improve our understanding of the correlation of neuronal activity with neurotransmitter binding and neuroenergetics. This multimetabolic information is essential for developing new approaches to diagnosing and treating brain disorders.
14:12		305-03-003. A Positively-Coupled Metamaterial for Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Bingbai Li, QingSong Feng, Qinglang Zhang, Zheng You, Ke Wu, Xiaoguang Zhao Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Impact: This work introduces positive coupling as a new design paradigm for MRI metamaterials, achieving stronger and artifact-free SNR enhancement. It offers a low-cost, wireless alternative to conventional coils for improving high-resolution imaging of superficial targets.
14:23		305-03-004. Integrated local B0-B1 array: a portable acceleration platform with nonlinear gradient waves numerically optimized in k-space Rui Tian, Georgiy Solomakha, Nikolai Avdievich, Klaus Scheffler Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany Impact: A portable, integrated B₀-B₁ array generating flexible spatial-encoding fields has been developed to investigate MRI acceleration limits. This setup stimulates a novel shift in sequence design methodology: modulation waveform parameters are chosen from numerically-optimized pools, while human-design becomes highly non-intuitive.
14:34		305-03-005. The Laser HeartBeat: feasiblility of a novel contactless gating approach for cardiovascular magnetic resonance Qiannan Gao, Jiayu Zhang, Xiaoyue Ji, Yuyu Xia, Haimiao Mo, Zhekang Dong, Wenjin Wang, Yingen Zhu, Xingxing Zhang Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Impact: This work provides a robust, low-latency, non-contact gating method, enhancing patient comfort and enabling reliable cardiac MRI when ECG is unreliable, paving the way for advanced optical sensing in MRI.
14:45		305-03-006. Intrinsic Poroviscoelastic MRE for Grading Inflammation in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease Amirhosein Baradaran Najar, Guillaume Gilbert, Iman Rafati, Anton Volniansky, Bich N. Nguyen, Guy Cloutier, An Tang, Elijah Van Houten Laboratoire clinique de traitement de l’image (LCTI), Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montreal, Canada Impact: Intrinsic MRE estimates fluid permeability and loss modulus that track lobular inflammation, enabling phenotyping in metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease and supporting biopsy reduction, monitoring, and trials. It prompts assessment of thresholds, prognostic value, and generalizability across etiologies and scanners.
14:56		305-03-007. High Performance Anatomy Tailored Gradient Inserts for Rapid MRI Daniel Abraham, Hong En Chew, Zhechi Ye, Julian Maravilla, Zachary Shah, Jeff Short, Edwin Versteeg, Koray Ertan, Kaitlyn Liang, John Pauly, Greig Scott, Adam Kerr, Juan Rivas, Jason Stockmann, Kawin Setsompop Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America Impact: We designed, built, and tested PNS-optimized, anatomically conforming, wearable gradient coils for head and knee imaging, and demonstrated high-performance spatial encoding at far lower cost and complexity than conventional gradient inserts.
15:07		305-03-008. Design, construction and commissioning of a next-generation Field-Cycling Imaging scanner operating from 0.2mT to 200mT Lionel Broche, James Ross, Gareth Davies, David Lurie University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom Impact: This new scanner can access more than three orders of magntude of molecular dynamics timescales in vivo, in the hospital, over the whole body and non-invasively. This opens access to new low-field biomarkers over a wide range of diseases.
15:18		305-03-009. In Bore Array Receivers with Radio over Fiber Transmission Xin YU, Yong Zhan, Lingzhi Hu Impact: We used a PWM-based analog processing technique to quantize coil signal amplitude, enabling transmission via low-cost optical transceiver designed for digital signal transmission. In addition, we developed and experimentally validated a wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) radio-over-fiber (RoF) architecture for MRI systems.
15:29		305-03-010. A new way to reduce energy use and operating cost of MRI scanners via variable frequency drive compressors for magnet cooling Vibhas Deshpande, Jeff Lyness, Phil Walton, Manuela Rösler, Jan Fischer, Hannes Huber, Sören Grübel, Adam Johnstone Siemens Medical Solutions, Austin, United States of America Impact: This study demonstrates the first-known use of an energy-efficient inverter compressor in an MRI scanner. If this technology were adopted in all ambulatory scanners in USA, it would save over 500 GWh, over $78 Million, and over 349,000 MTCO2e annually.