Sunday 19th November 2017: Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus |
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| 11:30 – 14:00 | Registration opens, poster hanging & light lunch will be available | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Opening address | Volker Straub |
| Session 1 – Diagnostic Muscle Imaging chaired by Tarek Yousry & Susana Quijano-Roy |
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| 14:30 – 15:00 | Emerging muscle imaging findings in rare myopathies of childhood: Reducing body myopathy and early onset recessive titinopathy | Carsten Bonnemann |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Muscle MRI as a diagnostic tool for neuromuscular diseases – Lesson learned and future prospects | Giorgio Tasca |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Muscle ultrasound elastography and MRI in preschool children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy | Anna Pichiecchio |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Patterns of upper limb muscle involvement in DMD: correlation with functional abilities | Eugenio Mercuri |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Whole body MRI to differentiate inherited myopathies presenting with Rigid Spine Syndrome | Robert Carlier |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Cardiac involvement in Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 1 patients with preserved ejection fraction – assessment by cardiovascular magnetic resonance | Edyta Blaszczyk |
| 18:00 – 19:30 | Welcome Reception (Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus) | |
Monday 20th November 2017: Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus |
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| 09:00 – 10:00 | “Muscle MRS, Metabolism and Energetics, a Window into Human Disease” | George Radda |
| Session 2 – New Imaging Techniques chaired by Noura Azzabou & John Thornton |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | DTI of Skeletal Muscle | Andrew Blamire |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Quantitative magnetization transfer of skeletal muscle | Bruce Damon |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Modern MRI techniques for assessment of fibrosis | Fritz Schick |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Age-related changes in muscle water diffusivity suggest changes in the sarcolemma during development | Paola Porcari |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Comparison of short and long diffusion times to assess muscle microstructure in patients with Becker muscular dystrophy | Jedrek Burakiewicz |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Spontaneous mechanical activities in healthy human leg musculature visible in DWI and their relation to electrical activities in EMG | Martin Schwartz |
| 12:45 -13:00 | Improved multi-component muscle T2 mapping using maximum likelihood estimation | Nick Zafeiropoulos |
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Lunch, Exhibition and Posters | |
| Session 3 – Quantitative Muscle Imaging chaired by Pierre Carlier & Arend Heerschap |
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| 15:00 – 15:45 | New MRI Methods for the Evaluation of Structure, Physiology and Function of Muscle, Bone and Marrow | Felix Wehrli |
| 15:45 -16:30 | MR Imaging Biomarkers in Duchenne Clinical Trials: What have we learned? | Krista Vandenborne |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Speeding up MRI acquisition in neuromuscular disease | Kieren Hollingsworth |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Statistical modelling of 5 year longitudinal data from a large cohort of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) subjects; an interim look at temporal characteristics f disease progression from the ImagingDMD study | William Rooney |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Characterisation of pH dysregulation in skeletal muscle of Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients using 31P and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy | Harmen Reyngoudt |
| 18:00 – 18:15 | Clinical importance of a single dystrophin gene mutation in women related to patients affected by Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy | Freja Fornander |
| 18:15 – 18:30 | Examining the relationship between Dixon quantitative MRI and physiotherapy functional outcome measures in Dysferlinopathy | Roberto Fernandez Torron |
| 18:30 | Coaches leave to take delegates to conference dinner | |
| 19:30 – 22:00 | Conference Dinner (030 Eventloft, Spreespeicher) | |
Tuesday 21st November 2017: Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus |
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| 09:00 – 09:30 | Dynamic interleaved 31P and 1H MRS and MRI of exercising muscle | Martin Meyerspeer |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Quantitative MRI for assessment of skeletal muscle perfusion, peripheral vascular dynamics, and muscle oxygen consumption | Erin Englund |
| Session 4 (part one) – New Imaging Techniques II & Texture Analysis chaired by Jacques de Certaines & Diana Ribeiro |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | MRS in neuromuscular disease | Hermien Kan |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Multi-parametric MRI of mechanically induced muscle injury | Gustav Strijkers |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Texture Analysis of MRI in Muscle Disease – Current Status | Richard Lerski |
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch, exhibition and posters | |
| Session 4 (part two) – New Imaging Techniques II & Texture Analysis chaired by Olivier Scheidegger & Antonio Pinheiro | ||
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Muscle functional oxidative capacity varies along the length of healthy human tibialis anterior | Linda Heskamp |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Optical and magnetic resonance imaging in dystrophic muscle | Stephen Chrzanowski |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Longitudinal diffusion-weighted whole body MRI demonstrates dynamic changes in muscle integrity in motor neuron disease | Tom Jenkins |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Magnetic resonance imaging analysis of micro-dystrophin treated mdx4cv muscles | Donghoon Lee |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Closing Lecture & Poster Prize Giving | Volker Straub |
