Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition • 09-14 May 2026

Weekday Course

Emergent Topics in Contrast Mechanisms

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Emergent Topics in Contrast Mechanisms
Weekday Course
Contrast Mechanisms
Thursday, 14 May 2026
Meeting Room 2.40
16:00 - 17:50
Moderators: Martijn Froeling & Gonzalo Rodriguez
No CME/CE Credit
This advanced course explores emerging applications and recent developments of AI-driven contrast enhancement, quantum MRI, and synthetic MR techniques to enhance imaging. Attendees will learn how AI synthesizes and optimizes contrast, how quantum sensing amplifies molecular signals, and how simulation refines MR sequences.
Skill Level: Intermediate,Advanced

16:00 MR Sequence Simulation to Optimize Contrasts
Tony Stoecker
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE e.V.), Bonn, Germany
16:25   Synthetic MR to Optimize Contrast-Enhanced Imaging
Srivathsa Pasumarthi
16:50   AI for Efficient Molecular Imaging
Fan Lam
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, United States of America
17:15 Quantum Filtering in MRI
Yongxian Qian
New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, United States of America

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