Program at a Glance
Current as of 29 July 2026
Tuesday, October 20
Opening Plenary 8:30 – 10:00
Claudia Prieto and Rene M. Botnar (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
— Martin Prince Lecture
Scientific Session I: Non-Contrast MRA 10:20 – 12:30
- Status of non-contrast MRA in clinical practice: Christopher François (Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA)
- Advanced non-contrast MRA techniques: Qin Qin (Department of Radiology, University of Washington, USA)
- ASL-based MRA and 4D MRA: Lirong Yan (Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA)
Scientific Session II: Contrast-Enhanced MRA 14:00 – 16:10
- Ferumoxytol MRA: Paul Finn (Magnetic Resonance Research Laboratories / Department of Radiological Sciences, UCLA, USA)
- MRI Contrast Agents – What's new?: Giles Roditi (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, UK)
- Beyond Lumenography: The Role of CE-MRA and Multiparametric MRI in Inflammatory Aortic Diseases: Nan Zhang (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Scientific Session III: Head and Neck MRA 16:30 – 18:40
- Vascular Aging: Insights from MRA: Niranjan Balu (Vascular Imaging Laboratory, Department of Radiology, University of Washington, USA)
- Imaging High-Risk Carotid Plaque: Parametric Mapping and Wall Motion Dynamics: Huiyu Qiao (School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, China)
- Head and neck MRA/VWI in clinical practice: Qi Yang (Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, China)
Wednesday, October 21
Plenary Session II: MRA in Clinical Trials 8:30 – 10:00
- A clinical trial to compare stenosis and vessel wall imaging in stroke diagnosis and prevention is needed: Chun Yuan (University of Washington, USA)
- A vascular MRI clinical trial: How I do it: Eline Kooi (Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center / CARIM, Netherlands)
- Vascular flow MRI in clinical studies: Are we there yet?: Susanne Schnell (Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, Germany)
- 9:15 – 9:30
Siemens Healthineers Sponsored Talk: Qi Yang (Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, China) - 9:30 – 9:45
Bayer Sponsored Talk: Giles Roditi (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, UK)
Scientific Session IV: Cardiac and Coronary MRI 10:20 – 12:30
- Coronary MRI: Lumen and vessel wall, the power of integration: Masaki Ishida (Department of Radiology, Mie University Hospital, Japan)
- Blood flow and perfusion: from micro vascular to coronary artery disease: Daniel Kim (Northwestern University, USA)
- Remaining Technical Challenges in Cardiac MRI: Haikun Qi (ShanghaiTech University, China)
Scientific Session V: Vessel Wall Imaging 14:00 – 16:10
- VWI technical advancement: Debiao Li (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USA)
- VWI for clinical applications: Scott McNally (University of Utah Health / Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, University of Utah School of Medicine, USA)
- Carotid atherosclerosis imaging and Plaque-RADS: Luca Saba (University of Cagliari—Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Cagliari–polo di Monserrato, Italy)
Scientific Session VI: Flow, Modeling, and Processing 16:30 – 18:40
- 4D Flow MRI – An Asian Perspective: Rui Li (Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Tsinghua University, China)
- 4D Flow MRI – From Basics to State of the Art: Oliver Wieben (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
- Flow imaging across valves: Dana Peters (Yale School of Medicine / Yale Magnetic Resonance Research Center, USA)
Thursday, October 22
Plenary Session III: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Innovations 8:30 – 10:00
- TBD — Hildo Lamb (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
- 8:45 – 9:00
Multimodal Imaging Biomarkers for Stroke Risk Stratification in Symptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease: Xinyi Leng (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Scientific Session VII: Frontiers in Vascular Image Post-Processing 10:20 – 12:30
- AI-Powered MRA Quality Enhancement: He Wang (Fudan University, China)
- Automated vessel and wall segmentation: Huilin Zhao (Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China)
- Hemodynamic Analysis in 4D Flow MRI: Ethan Johnson (Northwestern University, USA)
Plenary Session IV: Critical Decisions in Early Career MR 14:00 – 15:30
- ECC introduction: Jie Xiang (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, USA)
- Junior Fellow award presentation: Awardee (TBD)
- Junior Fellow award presentation: Awardee (TBD)
- Navigating Career Paths in MR: Academia, Clinical Practice, and Industry: Peng Hu (School of Biomedical Engineering, ShanghaiTech University, China)
- Securing Your First Research Funding: Lessons from North America and Asia: Lirong Yan (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA) & Xingfeng Shao (Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China)
- Inside the Editorial Box: What Top-Tier Journals Look for: Tim Leiner (Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, USA), & Mark E. Schweitzer (Department of Radiology, Wayne State University, USA)
- Panel Discussion: Dana Peters (Yale School of Medicine / Yale Magnetic Resonance Research Center, USA)
Scientific Session VIII: Body and Peripheral MRA 15:50 – 18:30
- Update on the Role of Imaging and Venous Interventions in the Body: Edit Dósa (Department of International Radiology, Semmelweis University, Hungary)
- Peripheral Arterial Disease: Novel MR Approaches for Guiding Management: Christof Karmonik, PhD (Translational Imaging Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA)
Friday, October 23
Plenary Session V: MRA in Ultra-High vs. Low-Field MRI 8:30 – 10:00
- Accelerated High-resolution MR Angiography and Venography: Pushing the Boundaries of Neurovascular Imaging: Zihao Zhang (Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
- Clinical applications of black blood microvascular imaging at 3T and 7T: Danny JJ Wang (Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA)
- Technical Progress and Clinical Challenges of MRA at Low Field: A Focus on Portable MRI Systems: Zhiyong Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Closing Plenary: Emerging Challenges and Future of MRA 10:20 – 12:10
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Large Clinical Trials: Yongjun Wang (Capital Medical University, China)
— Sadamoto Lecture - Towards a Universal Imaging Language: AI-Powered Harmonization for Clinical Quantitative Biomarker Discovery: Dinggang Shen (School of BME, ShanghaiTech University / Co-CEO, United Imaging Intelligence)
See you soon in Xi'an!
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