Draft programme

Please note: this a draft programme and as such may be subject to change

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Sunday – 17th November

12:00-13:30 – Conference registration opens

13:30-13:45 – Opening address – Volker Straub

Session 1: MR as outcome measure in clinical trials (auditorium)

13:45-14:30 – Keynote: Relevance of MRI in clinical development –
Pierre Carlier
14:30-15:00 – Lessons learned from using MRI in a multi-center setting –
Rebecca Willcocks
15:00-15:15 – JAIN Foundation Clinical Outcome Study – Andrew Blamire
15:15-15:45 – Coffee break
15:45-16:00 – Domagrozumab Decreases Rate of MRI progression in Boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – Sarah Sherlock
16:00-16:15 – Data analysis for multi-center CRIS – Pierre Yves Baudin
16:15-17:30 – Open panel discussion/debate
17:30-18:00 – Coffee break

Teaching sessions (in parallel)

18:00- 19:00
All you ever wanted to know about MRI – Q&A between pharma
and MR experts
teachers: Andrew Blamire & Gustav Strijkers

All you ever wanted to know about neuromuscular disease – Q&A
between MR experts and clinicians
teachers: Tarek Yousry & Volker Straub

19:00-21:00
Welcome reception

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Monday – 18th November

Session 2: Deep learning

8:30-9:15 – Keynote: Deep learning and assisted image interpretation –
Bram van Ginneken

9:15-10:30 – Selected oral presentations (based on abstracts

9:15-9:30 – MYO-GUIDE: artificial intelligence muscle MRI-based tool for diagnosis of muscular dystrophies – Jordi Diaz Manera
9:30-9:45 – Learning Shape for Peripheral Nerve Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Neurography – Fabian Balsinger
9:45-10:00 – Quantification of fat fraction and water T1 in neuromuscular diseases using deep learning-based magnetic resonance fingerprinting with water and fat separation – Fabian Balsinger
10:00-10:15 – Deep neural network with regional regularization for fat/water reconstruction of multi-echo gradient-echo images – Francesco Santini
10:15-10:30 – Segmentation of lower limb MR images using contemporary machine learning methods – Baris Kanber

10:30-11:00 – Coffee break
11:00-12:30 – Poster sessions
12:30-14:00 – Lunch and exhibition

Session 3: Imaging cardiac muscle

14:30-15:15 – MRS work that led to ketone ester studies in heart, brain & skeletal muscle– Kieran Clarke
15:15-15:45 – Cardiac measures in DMD and gene modifiers – Daniel Ennis

15:45-16:30 – Selected oral presentations (based on abstracts)

15:45 – 16:00 – MRI and echocardiographic assessment of the cardiac phenotype of the DE50-MD dog; a novel preclinical model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – Julia Sargent
16:00-16:15 – Long-diffusion-time diffusion tensor imaging for the assessment of skeletal muscle microstructure in Becker Muscular Dystrophy – Donnie Cameron
16:15 – 16:30 – Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Human Thigh: Consideration of DTI-based fiber tracking stop criteria – Johannes Forsting

16:30-17:00 – Coffee break
17:00-18:00 – Exhibition and poster session

19:00-22:00
Conference dinner at Restaurant Nolle

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Tuesday – 19th November

Session 4 : Diffusion imaging – a window on tissue microstructure

8:30-9:15 – Keynote: Diffusion to assess microstructure – Eric Sigmund
9:15-9:45 – STE-DTI with long echo times– Olivier Scheidegger
9:45-10:15 – Short echo diffusion and microstructure – Sam Ward

10:15-11:00 – Selected oral presentations (based on abstracts)

10:15-10:30 – Muscle Diffusion tensor imaging reveals changes in non-fat infiltrated muscles in late-onset Pompe disease – Robert Rehmann
10:30-10:45 – Varying diffusion time to discriminate between simulated skeletal muscle injury models using stimulated echo DTI – David Berry
10:45-11:00 – Diffusion tensor imaging of the brachial plexus in inflammatory neuropathies – Marieke Helena Johanna van Rosmalen

11:00-11:30 – Coffee break
11:30-13:00 – Poster sessions
12:30-14:00 – Lunch and exhibition

Session 5: New imaging applications for neuromuscular diseases

14:00-14:45 – Keynote: MR neurography – Jennifer Kollmer
14:45-15:15 – Plenary talk: Imaging fibrosis – Peter Caravan

15:15-17:00 – Selected oral presentations (based on abstracts)

15:15-15:30 – Can global muscle segmentation detect changes in neuromuscular disorders using quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance imaging? – Harmen Reyngoudt
15:30-15:45 – Dynamic muscle MRI comparison to water T2 on facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy patients with phase contrast imaging of electrically stimulated quadriceps muscles – Xeni Deligianni
15:45-16:00 – Muscle involvement in pediatric and adult patients with Amyoplasia: an MRI study – Klaus Dieterich
16:00-16:15 – MR fingerprinting with water and fat separation (MRF T1-FF): validation and evaluation of water T1 as a biomarker of disease activity in inclusion body myositis – Benjamin Marty
16:15-16:30 – Handbike platform for in vivo 31P MRS study of arm muscle ATP metabolism in Spinal Muscular Atrophy – Laura Habets
16:30-16:45 – Changes in lumbar extensor muscle blood flow following exercise assessed with intravoxel incoherent motion – Erin Englund

17:00-17:30 – Poster prize giving and closing of conference