3rd International Magnetic Resonance Elastography Workshop
September 18-19, 2025
Endorsed by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
Currently accepting registrations!
Price: $475
Program
12:00 a.m.
Thursday, September 18, 2025 – DAY 1
7:30 a.m.
Participant Registration
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast (served until 8:50 a.m.)
8:50 a.m.
Welcome: ISMRM Study Group
9:00 a.m.
Overview of Emerging Clinical Applications of MRE
Richard Ehman, MD
9:10 a.m.
Mechanical Properties of Materials and Terminology
Ralph Sinkus, PhD
9:20 a.m.
Basic Principle of MRE and MRE Drivers
Arvin Forghanian-Arani, PhD
9:30 a.m.
Motion-encoding Strategies in MRE
Roger Grimm
9:40 a.m.
MRE Inversions
Armando Manduca, PhD
10:00 a.m.
BREAK
10:20 a.m.
Applications of MRE in Liver Disease (10 minutes each)
10:20 a.m.
Liver Diseases and Clinical Needs
Alina Allen
10:25 a.m.
Clinical Role of MRE in Chronic Liver Disease
Sudhakar Venkatesh, MD
10:30 a.m.
Emerging Role of MRE in Evaluation of Hepatic Cancer
Jin Wang, MD, PhD
10:35 a.m.
Role of MRE in Assessing Portal Hypertension
Bachir Taouli, MD
10:40 a.m.
Emerging Role of MRE in Assessing Hepatic Inflammation
Meng Yin, PhD
10:45 a.m.
Pediatric Free-Breathing Liver MRE
Holden Wu, PhD
11:30 a.m.
Emerging Applications of MRE in Neuroimaging (10 minutes each)
11:30 a.m.
MRE of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
John Huston, III, MD
11:40 a.m.
Toward Clinical Applications of MRE in Brain Malignancy
Katharina Schregel, MD, PhD
11:50 a.m.
Applications of MRE in Neurodegenerative Disease
Matthew Murphy, PhD
12:00 p.m.
Brain MRE and Relationships with Cognition Function
Curtis Johnson, PhD
12:10 p.m.
Review of Applications of MRE in Traumatic Brain Injury
Philip Bayly, PhD
12:20 p.m.
Applications of MRE in Pediatric Brain Imaging
Grace McIlvain, PhD
12:30 p.m.
LUNCH
1:30 p.m.
Proffered Papers – Oral Session (Liver/GI/Spleen) (10 minutes each)
1:35 p.m.
Marguerite Ducamp: Tumour mechanics and vascular fractality quantification via MR-Elastography to gauge therapy response in liver metastasis
1:40 p.m.
Hao Wu: Liver stiffness measurement and its longitudinal change by MR Elastography predicts hepatocellular carcinoma in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)
1:50 p.m.
Vitali Koch: Biomechanical fingerprints of liver disease: Spotting the pre-fibrotic niche and HCC risk
2:00 p.m.
Marguerite Ducamp: Spatial biomechanics quantification of the Tumoural MicroEnvironment of a HepG2 spheroid with Magnetic Resonance Elastography
2:10 p.m.
Vitaliy Atamaniuk: Automated Liver Stiffness Estimation in MR Elastography Using Deep Learning
2:20 p.m.
David R. Rutkowski: Combined Quantitative Fat and Stiffness Phantom for Simultaneous CSE-MRI and MRE Quality Assurance of Steatotic Liver Disease
2:30 p.m.
Jitka Starekova: Multi-center, Multi-vendor Validation of Simultaneous MRI-based Proton Density Fat Fraction and R2 Mapping Using a Combined Proton Density Fat Fraction-R2 Phantom
2:40 p.m.
Jitka Starekova: Multi-center, multi-vendor validation of PDFF and T1 mapping in an optimized PDFF-T1 phantom
2:50 p.m.
Jiahui Li: MRE-Assessed Hepatic Spatial Stiffness Gradient Distinguishes Congestive Hepatopathy from Non-congestive Chronic Liver Disease
3:00 p.m.
Yasmine: Safraou: Liver Viscosity Decreases Before the Onset of Fibrosis in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatohepatitis (MASH)
3:10 p.m.
Zhuoru Jiang: Correlation Between Liver Stiffness and Cognition in MASLD Patients Based on MRE and Neurovascular Coupling Assessment
3:00 p.m.
BREAK
3:20 p.m.
Proffered Papers – Oral Session (Brain/Pediatric) (10 minutes each)
3:35 p.m.
Stefan Catheline: Ambient Wave MRE
3:40 p.m.
Rodrigo Moreno: Relationship of diffusivity and mechanical properties of the brain
3:50 p.m.
KowsalyaDevi Pavuluri: Exploring Network Organization and Small-World Topology of Mechanical Properties in Healthy Aging Brain
4:00 p.m.
Sarah Vandenbulcke: Advanced magnetic resonance imaging to predict brain tissue stiffness
4:10 p.m.
Hannah Fels-Palesandro: Operator Nonlinear Inversion for Magnetic Resonance Elastography
4:20 p.m.
Xiang Shan: Effect of Contact Sports on the Adolescent Brain: A Pilot Study of a Single Football Season Using MR Elastography and Diffusion Tensor Imaging
4:30 p.m.
Katrina A. Milbocker: Hippocampal viscosity is increased when estrogen is low in female rats scanned with MR elastography
4:40 p.m.
Mary K. Kramer: Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers pTau-181 and pTau-217 Correlate with Regional Brain Stiffness Loss in Older Adults
4:50 p.m.
Sabrina S. Vander Wiele: Magnetic Resonance Elastography Detects Brain Stiffness Reductions during Acute Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Neuroinflammation
5:00 p.m.
Bin Deng: Preliminary findings in differentiating true progression from pseudoprogression in glioma patients using MRE
5:10 p.m.
BREAK
5:20 p.m.
MRE: From Bench to Clinical Standard of Care: Lessons Learned
Kay Pepin, PhD
5:40 p.m.
Session Adjourns for the Day
6:30 p.m.
- 8:30 p.m.
Reception
12:00 a.m.
Friday, September 19, 2025 – DAY 2
7:30 a.m.
Participant Registration
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast (served until 8:50 a.m.)
9:00 a.m.
Other Emerging Clinical Applications of MRE (10 minutes each)
9:10 a.m.
Emerging Clinical Applications of MRE: CARDIAC
Philip Araoz, MD
9:15 a.m.
Emerging Clinical Applications of MRE: LUNG
Sabine Bensamoun, PhD
9:20 a.m.
Emerging Clinical Applications of MRE: BREAST
Jun Chen, PhD
9:25 a.m.
Emerging Clinical Applications of MRE: PANCREAS
Shi Yu, MD, PhD
9:30 a.m.
Emerging Clinical Applications of MRE: KIDNEY
Suraj Serai, PhD
9:40 a.m.
Emerging Clinical Applications of MRE: BOWEL
Rolf Reiter, MD, PhD
9:45 a.m.
Emerging Clinical Applications of MRE: AORTA & DISC
Arunark Kolipaka, PhD
9:50 a.m.
Emerging Clinical Applications of MRE: SKELETAL MUSCLE
Neil Roberts, PhD
10:20 a.m.
BREAK
10:50 a.m.
Proffered Papers – Oral Session (Body: Muscles, Breast Cancer, Cardiac, Ex vivo) (10 minutes each)
10:55 a.m.
Emi Hojo: Clinical Feasibility: MR Elastography-based Slip Interface Imaging for Assessment of Myofascial Interface Mobility in Chronic Low Back Pain
11:00 a.m.
Anne-Sophie van Schelt: MR Elastography for early prediction of neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy in breast cancer
11:10 a.m.
Nolan K. Meyer: Free-breathing, 3D Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Elastography for Myocardial Stiffness Mapping
11:20 a.m.
Olivia M. Bailey: Investigating Ex Vivo Bovine Brain Tissue Mechanical Nonlinearity using Magnetic Resonance Elastography for Traumatic Brain Injury Modeling
11:30 a.m.
Hannah Fels-Palesandro: Technical Foundation of Magnetic Resonance Elastography in the Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerves
11:40 a.m.
LUNCH
1:00 p.m.
Proffered Papers – Oral Session (Technical development) (10 minutes each)
1:05 p.m.
Caitlin Neher: Operator Nonlinear Inversion for Magnetic Resonance Elastography
1:10 p.m.
Xiang Shan: Feasibility of In vivo 3D Whole-Brain Transient Motion Imaging
1:20 p.m.
Henrik Palme MREFIn: An Open-Source Framework for Finite Element Inversion for Magnetic Resonance Elastography
1:30 p.m.
Yuan Le: Application of Wavelet Encoding to Optimize Generation of Steady State Harmonic Wavefields for MR Elastography
1:40 p.m.
Shujun Lin: Development of in vivo human brain multifrequency DTIMRE (mDTIMRE)
1:50 p.m.
Matthew B Kroen: Generation of Realistic MR Elastography Brain Stiffness Map Mimics using a 3D Conditional Generative Adversarial Network
2:00 p.m.
BREAK
2:10 p.m.
Proffered Papers – Oral Session (Technical development) (10 minutes each)
2:15 p.m.
Nicholas J Pyontek: Enabling Fast, High-Resolution Brain MR Elastography though Magnetization Preparation and Distributed Encoding
2:20 p.m.
Julian A Rey: Slow dilatation waves in agarose gel observed with low frequency magnetic resonance elastography
2:30 p.m.
Jakob Schattenfroh: In vivo wideband MR Elastography of the human brain
2:40 p.m.
Shengyuan Ma: Seeing Prestress Distribution through MR Elastography
2:50 p.m.
Hampus Möller: System Identification for Magnetic Resonance Elastography
3:00 p.m.
Zhuoru Jiang: Implementing Free-Breathing Acquisition in Standard Breath-Hold MRE Protocols: A Clinical Validation Study
3:10 p.m.
BREAK
3:20 p.m.
Panel Discussion: The Future of MRE - Opportunities to Expand Clinical Applications
Moderators: Katharina Schregel & Katrina Milbocker
4:00 p.m.
Adjournment
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