Plenary Speakers
Plenary Lecture Ⅰ (March 27)
Debiao Li, Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA, USA
"Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Atherosclerosis"

Plenary Lecture Ⅱ (March 28)
John A. Detre, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania, USA
"Two Decades of Arterial Spin labeled Perfusion MRI"

Plenary Lecture Ⅲ (March 28)
Seong-Gi Kim, Ph.D.
Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research, SKKU, Korea
"Pre-clinical Neuroimaging"


Invited Speakers
KMIS-KSMRM Joint Symposium (March 27)
Charles H. Cunningham, Ph.D.
University of Toronto, Canada
“Hyperpolarzied 13C MRI: Imaging Biochemical Reactions in vivo”

Cardiovascular MRI Ⅰ_Cutting Edge Techniques in CMR (March 27)
Debiao Li, Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA, USA
"Coronary Vessel Wall Imaging"

Wen-Yih Tseng, M.D., Ph.D.
National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan
“Recent progress of cardiac diffusion MRI”

Cardiovascular MRI Ⅲ_Changing Concepts in Known Diseases (March 27)
Shihua Zhao, M.D.
Fuwai Hospital, China
“ARVD: CMR update”

Bayer Session_Neuro MR Imaging (March 27)
Kohsuke Kudo, MD, PhD
Hokkaido University Hospital, Japan
“Perfusion MRI for the Diagnosis of Brain Tumor”

Bin Song, MD
West China Hospital, China
“Improved Detection of Cerebral Metastatic Lesions by Gadovist and the Clinical Implications”

CSMRM-KSMRM Joint Symposium_Advanced Neuro MR Imaging (March 27)
Guangbin Wang, M.D., Ph.D
Shandong Medical Imaging Research Institute, China
“Diffusion-Weighted MR Neurography of Extremity Nerves at 3T MR”

Jing Zhang M.D.
General Hospital Tianjin Medical University, China
“Brain Structural and Functional Changes for Patients with Cerebral Infarction: a Correlated MRI Study”

Xiaoying Wang, MD.
Peking University First Hospital, China
“Oxygen Extraction Fraction of Brain Diseases”

Xiaohong Joe Zhou, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Chicago, U.S.A
“Non-Gaussian Diffusion MRI and Its Applications to Brain Tumors”

Bayer Session_Neuro MR Imaging (March 27)
Dow-Mu Koh, MD
Royal Marsden Hospital, UK
“Basic Physics of Diffusion Weighted Imaging and Optimization at 3T”

Advanced MRI Ⅰ_MRI Data Acquisition, Analysis and Clinical Applications (March 28)
Yiu-Cho Chung, Ph.D.
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS, China
"Data acquisition methods for cardiac MRI"

Wen-Chau Wu, Ph.D.
Graduate Institute of Oncology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
“Measuring Cerebral Perfusion Indexes using Contrast-material-free Magnetic Resonance Imaging”

GU MRI Ⅱ_Best Practice in Prostate Cancer (March 28)
Tsutomu Tamada, M.D., Ph.D.
Kawasaki Medical School, Japan
“1. Pre-biopsy Multiparametric Prostate MRI: Tumor Detection and Aggressiveness”
“2. Pre-biopsy Multiparametric Prostate MRI: Extracapsular Extension”


Animal MRI I_Preclinical & Translational MRI Research (March 28)
Kai-Hsiang Chuang, Ph.D.
Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
“Translational Imaging of Neurodegeneration”

Animal MRI II_Disease-specific MRI/MRS Applications (March 28)
Kevin Li-Chun Hsieh, M.D.
Imaging Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
“Gelsolin decreases actin toxicity and inflammation in murine multiple sclerosis – an application of molecular MRI study”

Hao Lei, Ph.D.
Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, CAS, China
"Brain Complications in Uncontrolled Streptozotocin-induced Type I Diabetic Rats Detected by Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Spectroscopy"

Chest MRI_Oncologic and Functional Imaging II (March 28)
Julien Dinkel, M.D.
University Hospital LMU Munich, France
“Indications and Future Applications for Lung MRI”

MSK MRI Ⅱ_Updated Imaging (March 28)
Anne Cotten, M.D.
Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille, France
1.“MRI of the brachial plexus: protocols and findings”
2.“Tractography in MSK Radiology”


Mamoru Niitsu, M.D., Ph.D.
Saitama Medical University, Japan
“Clinical Imaging of the Articular Cartilage”

Neuro Imaging Ⅰ_Update in Neuroimaging and Head/Neck Imaging (March 28)
Toshinori Hirai, M.D., Ph.D.
Miyazaki University, Japan
"Diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases with MR imaging using phase"