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National Center for Image Guided Therapy

9th Interventional MRI Symposium

September 22-23, 2012

Venue

Joseph B. Marin Conference Center
Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA.

Symposium Chairman

Ferenc Jolesz, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Co-Chairs

Thomas Kahn, MD, Leipzig University
Jonathan Lewin, MD, Johns Hopkins University

Program Chair

Tina Kapur, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Where to Stay

We have a block of rooms booked at the Copley Marriott in Boston at the rate of $249.00 USD/night. This rate will be available until August 30, 2012.
Please call Reservations at 1-800-228-9290 and ask for the Partner's Health Care Interventional MRI Symposium Room Block.
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bosco?groupCode=phiphia&app=resvlink&fromDate=9/20/12&toDate=9/23/12
Copley Marriott
110 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116 Phone: 617-236-5800

Call for Abstracts

Authors should include Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), and four sections: Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusions, identified by bold headers. Abstracts should be 1 page, submitted in acrobat pdf format, with 1-inch margins in size 11 Ariel Font. All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and assigned to either poster or oral presentation. Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=9thimri2012

Registration Fees

Saturday & Sunday
IMRI Symposium (Residents/Fellows/Students): $295.00
IMRI Symposium (Allied Health Professionals & Scientists):$395.00
IMRI Symposium (Physicians): $495.00
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday
BOTH: NCIGT Workshop & IMRI Symposium (Residents/Fellows/Students): $440.00
BOTH: NCIGT Workshop & IMRI Symposium (Allied Health Professionals & Scientists): $540.00
BOTH: NCIGT Workshop & IMRI Symposium (Physicians): $640.00

Registration Link

http://www.cvent.com/d/mcq818/4W

Faculty

  • Ergin Atalar, PhD- Bilkent University, Turkey
  • Paul Bottomley, PhD- Johns Hopkins University
  • Harald Busse, PhD- Leipzig University, Germany
  • Kim Butts, PhD- Stanford University
  • John Carrino, MD- Johns Hopkins University
  • Jeffrey L. Duerk, PhD- Case Western Reserve University
  • Keyvan Farahani, PhD-National Cancer Institute, NIH
  • Wady Gedroyc, MD- St. Mary’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
  • Alexandra Golby, MD- Harvard Medical School
  • Noby Hata, PhD- Harvard Medical School
  • Kullervo Hynynen, PhD- Sunnybrook Health Center, Canada
  • Ron Kikinis, MD- Harvard Medical School
  • Dara Kraitchman, PhD- Johns Hopkins University
  • Bruno Madore, PhD- Harvard Medical School
  • Nathan McDannold, PhD- Harvard Medical School
  • Andreas Melzer, MD, PhD- University of Dundee, Scotland
  • Michael Moche, MD- Leipzig University, Germany
  • Christopher Nimsky, MD, PhD- Marburg University, Germany
  • Reza Razavi, MD- Guys Hospital, London
  • Ehud Schmidt, PhD- Harvard Medical School
  • Jason Stafford, PhD- MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
  • Garnette Sutherland, MD- University of Calgary, Canada
  • Clare Tempany, MD- Harvard Medical School
  • Kemal Tuncali, MD- Harvard Medical School
  • Akila Viswanathan, MD - Harvard Medical School
  • Cliff Weiss, MD- Johns Hopkins University
  • William Wells, PhD- Harvard Medical School
  • Bradford Wood, MD- Center for Interventional Oncology, NIH
  • Graham Wright, PhD- Sunnybrook Health Center, Canada

Topics

  • Predicting the future of Interventional and Intraopeartive MRI
  • Multimodality Image Guided Therapy
  • Interventional MRI clinical applications
  • Instrumentation
  • Interventional MRI technologies and devices
  • Visualization Techniques and Data Processing
  • Navigation Techniques
  • Robotics
  • Thermal Ablation Techniques
  • MR-guided FUS
  • MR Guidance of Cellular Therapies
  • Targeted Drug Delivery

Important Dates

May 1, 2012: Abstract Submission Deadline https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=9thimri2012
May 15, 2012: Author Notification
July 1, 2012: Deadline for Registration for Inclusion in Scientific Program
September 10, 2012: General Registration Deadline

Preliminary Program

September 22, 2012

7:00 AM- Shuttle pick up at hotel

8:00 AM- Breakfast

8:30-10:00 AM- Session 1: Predicting the Future

10:00-10:30 AM- Break

10:30 AM- 12:00 PM Session 2: Body 1 (Male and female Pelvis,Lung)

12:00-1:00 PM- Lunch

1:00-3:00 PM- Session 3: HIFU & Session 4: Thermal Ablations

3:00-3:30 PM- Break

3:30-5:00 PM- Session 5: Body 2 (Abdominal/MSK)

5:30-7:30 PM- Reception and AMIGO Tours

7:00-7:45 PM- Shuttle back to hotel

September 23, 2012

7:00 AM- Shuttle pick up at hotel

8:00 AM- Breakfast

8:30-10:00 AM Session 6: Intraoperative MRI in Neurosurgery

10:00-10:30 AM- Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM- Session 7: Cardiovascular

12:00-1:00 PM- Lunch

1:00-3:00 PM- Session 8: MRI Guidance for targeted Cellular and Drug Delivery & Session 9: Technology: MRI

3:00-3:30 PM- Break

3:30-5:00 PM- Session 10: Technology Visualization and Navigation

5:00 PM Adjourn

5:15 PM Shuttle back to hotel