Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition

Frontiers in Cardiovascular MR

Power Pitch

Cardiovascular

Wednesday, 13 May 2026

Power Pitch Theatre 1

08:20 - 09:56

Moderators: Sebastian Kozerke & Esben Hansen

Session Number: 551-01

No CME/CE Credit

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This session will showcase cutting-edge advancements in cardiovascular MRI, focusing on pulse sequence design, AI-based image reconstruction and processing and novel clinical applications. The session aims to provide a comprehensive overview of current breakthroughs and explore future trends in the cardiovascular MRI field.

Skill Level: Basic,Intermediate,Advanced

08:20		551-01-001. Complex-harmonic cardiac cine MRI Xinguo Fang, Lingceng Ma, Anthony Christodoulou David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, United States of America Impact: The proposed framework enables both gated/segmented-like imaging and time-resolved (real-time-like) imaging within a single acquisition and reconstruction pipeline, capturing beat-to-beat cardiac variability and offering a promising solution for functional assessment in patients with arrhythmia or irregular heart rhythms.
08:22		551-01-002. MB-SWIFT imaging of the mouse heart: Accelerated free-breathing non-gated 3-D functional assessment using k-space navigators Iida Räty, Antti Aarnio, Mikko Nissi, Elias Ylä-Herttuala University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland Impact: This study introduces a rapid, high-resolution 3-D self-gated cardiac MRI technique for mice, enabling accurate functional assessment of all four heart chambers in under 2.5 minutes, without motion artefacts or electrocardiography electrodes, advancing preclinical cardiovascular imaging.
08:24		551-01-003. 9-fold accelerated breath-hold multicontrast bT1RESS for imaging of the great vessels, heart, and late gadolinium enhancement Robert Edelman, SRIKANT Kamesh Iyer, Tess Wallace, Amit Pursnani, Ioannis Koktzoglou Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, United States of America Impact: Nine-fold accelerated breath-hold multicontrast bT1RESS enables efficient volumetric pre- and post-Gd evaluation of the great vessels, heart and late gadolinium enhancement with improved temporal and spatial resolution compared to standard CMR methods.
08:26		551-01-004. AI-powered, One-Click CMR protocol: Complete Heart Acquisition in about 10 Minutes Huihui Kong, Yinghui Le, Yi He Capital Medical University Affiliated Beijing Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China Impact: This AI-powered CMR protocol enables rapid, technologist-independent cardiac imaging, broadening access for patients and clinicians. It may inspire research on AI in other modalities and cost-effectiveness, facilitating widespread CMR adoption and improving diagnostic efficiency.
08:28		551-01-005. Feasibility Of Handgrip-Valsalva Exercise CMR Protocol for Myocardium Characterization Under Inotropic Stress Egidie Uwase, Maxime Caru, Charles-Olivier Loiselle, Franck Mahalatchimy, Agah Karakuzu, Nikola Stikov, Daniel Curnier, Delphine Perie-Curnier Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Canada Impact: Effective characterization of structural, functional, and mechanical changes under stress can facilitate early intervention of heart failure. Handgrip-Valsalva activity may offer a more practical and cost-efficient inotropic Ex-CMR protocol compared to the ergometer, which exacerbates motion-induced artifacts.
08:30		551-01-006. Demonstration of automated cardiac MRI at 0.55T with high performance gradients Ziwei Zhao, Ye Tian, Eric Peterson, Hadas Shiran, Bob Hu, Krishna Nayak, Juan Santos, William Overall Vista AI, Inc., Palo Alto, United States of America Impact: The prototype automated 0.55T CMR exam achieves clinically useful cardiac localizers, cine, LGE, and perfusion images. This may potentially fully reach an easy-to-use, automatic cardiac scan with lower costs, minimal operator intervention.
08:32		551-01-007. First-order Motion-Compensated Readouts for 3D Radial PC-bSSFP 4D Flow MRI Jacob Malich, Charles McGrath, Chang Yan, Sébastien Emery, Maximilian Fuetterer, Sebastian Kozerke University and ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland Impact: First-order motion-compensated radial readouts effectively address signal loss, increasing the quality of 3D Radial PC-bSSFP 4D Flow MRI at lower field strength.
08:34		551-01-008. Characterizing Cardiac Dynamics of Arrhythmic Patients with 3D+t CMR-MOTUS and Dynamic Mode Decomposition Thomas Olausson, Maarten Terpstra, Casper Beijst, Rizwan Ahmad, Cornelis van den Berg, Alessandro Sbrizzi University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands Impact: This work demonstrates quantitative characterization of arrhythmic cardiac motion from free-running MRI (free-breathing, no ECG). The frequency-domain analysis of 3D motion fields enables objective assessment of beat-to-beat variability, potentially providing novel biomarkers for arrhythmia severity evaluation and treatment monitoring.
08:36		551-01-009. Efficient imaging of myocardial scar and fat using AI-guided dual bright- and black-blood late gadolinium enhancement Aurelien Bustin, Manuel Villegas-Martinez, Thaïs Génisson, Kalvin Narceau, Victor de Villedon de Naide, Théo Richard, Ewan Barel, Sane Viola, Victor Nogues, Pauline Gut, Edouard Gerbaud, Matthias Stuber, Hubert Cochet Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland Impact: SPOT-DIXON enables simultaneous, AI-guided quantification of myocardial scar, intra-cardiac fat, and extra-cardiac fat in a single acquisition, supporting evaluation of fat infiltration, lipomatous metaplasia, and scar-associated arrhythmic risk in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies.
08:38		551-01-010. TOF2FLOW – Generation of 4D Flow MRI angiography from Time-of-Flight MR angiography Tamara Bianchessi, Chiara Trenti, Elin Good, Petter Dyverfeldt Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden Impact: Generation of volumetric flow images from TOF is feasible, it reduces scan time and preliminary results show that is able give insights into a possible atherosclerosis presence.
08:40		551-01-011. A Comparison of Tissue Property Values Estimated using Conventional Cardiac MRF and MT-Cardiac MRF Sydney Kaplan, Zexuan Liu, Jesse Hamilton, Shaihan Malik, Chaitanya Madamanchi, Venkatesh Murthy, Nicole Seiberlich University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States of America Impact: Incorporating MT modeling into cMRF reconstructions reduces MT-bias in myocardial T₁ and T₂ values, enables direct measurement of the bound pool fraction, and may facilitate non-contrast scar detection.
08:42		551-01-012. On the Accuracy of Classical, Data-Driven and Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Pulse Wave Velocity Estimation Pietro Dirix, Gloria Wolkerstorfer, Stefano Buoso, Sebastian Kozerke University and ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland Impact: PINNs and NNs present improvements over classical PWV estimation methods as validated on realistic fluid mechanics informed synthetic datasets with known ground truth.
08:44		551-01-013. Simulation and Evaluation of Joint Velocity-Acceleration Encoded 4D-Flow MRI Charles McGrath, Carlos Castillo-Passi, Pablo Villacorta-Aylagas, Michael Loecher, Daniel Ennis Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America Impact: Current 4D-Flow based methods for pressure estimation are susceptible to noise and artifacts. Joint velocity+acceleration encoding schemes, namely 4D-FlowP, promise more robust pressure estimates. We take the first steps towards in-silico evaluation of this method.
08:46		551-01-014. Deep Unrolled 2D Phase-contrast MRI Reconstruction with Cross Attention Transformer and Learnable Complex-difference Sparsity Jing Zou, Zhongsen Li, Rui Li Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Impact: This study presents an efficient 2D PC-MRI reconstruction method, enhancing velocity quantification and reducing patient breath-hold time. It provides clinicians with more reliable hemodynamic assessment and establishing a new paradigm for integrating physics and deep learning in accelerated cardiovascular imaging.
08:48		551-01-015. Accelerated 31P-MRSI measurements of chemical exchange rates in the leg and heart at 7T Aaron Axford, Alice Conner, Ferenc Mozes, Damian Tyler, Ladislav Valkovič Oxford Centre for Clinical MR Research (OCMR), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Impact: Existing techniques for measuring PCr-to-ATP and Pi-to-ATP exchange rates compromise between acquisition time, spatial resolution, and localization. The proposed ‘Concentric Ring Trajectory, four-angle saturation transfer’ method enables rapid, accurate 3D measurements suitable for in-vivo cardiac and skeletal muscle metabolism studies
08:50		551-01-016. Pamplemousse: one-click multi-parametric and comprehensive assessment of myocardial injury Thaïs Génisson, Kalvin Narceau, Théo Richard, Victor de Villedon de Naide, Ewan Barel, Edouard Gerbaud, Matthias Stuber, Hubert Cochet, Aurelien Bustin IHU LIRYC, Heart Rhythm Disease Institute, Bordeaux, France Impact: This work introduces a time-saving, “one-click” cardiac imaging sequence that leverages multi-parametric, co-registered images for the comprehensive assessment of myocardial injury. It enhances patient comfort by reducing breath-holds and shortening examination times, while also simplifying CMR procedures for medical professionals.
08:52		551-01-017. 4D bSSFP and 4D flow MRI to correlate motion with hemodynamics in aortic disease in Marfan patients Daan Bosshardt, Renske Merton, Eric Schrauben, Roland van Kimmenade, Aart Nederveen, Moniek Cox, A Scholte, Danielle Robbers-Vissers, Maarten Groenink, Pim van Ooij Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Impact: 4D flow MRI-derived altered hemodynamics and 4D bSSFP-derived altered motion in the proximal descending aorta may have implications for type B dissections in Marfan patients that underwent root replacement surgery.