MRinRT 2025

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MRinRT 2025

We are happy to announce the 11th MR in RT Symposium in New York City.

The fast advancement of technology and the rapid integration of MRI into radiotherapy applications is one of the most exciting and challenging developments in the field of radiation oncology. With this scientific symposium, we aim not only to bring together specialists from various relevant fields, but also to stimulate a discussion on the scientific development and consolidation of this field. We are looking forward to seeing you in New York City!

When

April 14 - 16, 2025

Where

NYU Langone Health
550 1st Avenue
New York, NY 10016

Deadlines

Registration Closing: March 15, 2025

News

Abstract Review Complete

Preliminary Program

Monday, April 14

Michael P. Recht, MD

Louis Marx Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology
NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, United States
Erik P. Sulman, MD, PhD

Assistant Dean for Physician Scientist Education
Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Radiation Oncology
Director, Medical Scientist (MD/PhD) Training Program
Co-Director, Brain and Spine Tumor Center, Perlmutter Cancer Center
Professor of Radiation Oncology and Neurosurgery
NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, United States
Riccardo Lattanzi, PhD

Director, Center for Biomedical Imaging
Professor, Department of Radiology
NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, United States
Neelam Tyagi, PhD
Li Feng, PhD

MRinRT Symposium Co-Chairs
New York, NY, United States

Moderator(s): Michael Chuong, MD & Li Feng, PhD

MR-Linac for Pancreatic Cancer: Redefining the Standard of Care

Michael Chuong, MD

Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, FL, United States
Precision and Progress: MRI-Guided SABR for Renal Tumors

Anna Bruynzeel, MD, PhD

Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
MR-guided Prostate SBRT: Targeting the Critical and Sparing the Essential

David Byun, MD

NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
MR-Guided Radiotherapy as Targeted Treatment for Lung Cancer

Stephen Rosenberg, MD, MS

Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, United States

Moderator(s): Carri Glide-Hurst, PhD

Time	Title	Speaker
10:00 AM	A Super-Resolution model for auto-segmentation of low-resolution Prostate MR-Linac data	Rob Tijssen
10:10 AM	Simulation and Pre-Planning Omitted Radiation Therapy (SPORT): Advancing MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer	Tsuicheng Chiu
10:20 AM	Liver Function Preservation after Feraheme-Enhanced MRI-Guided SBRT on 1.5T MR-Linac in Patients with HCC and Advanced Hepatic Cirrhosis	Parisa Shamsesfandabadi

Moderator(s): Rob Tijssen, PhD & Sebastian Christ, MD, PhD

Introduction of Sustainability in MRgRT

Rob Tijssen, PhD

Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
MRgRT: More Than Just Niche

Daniel Hyer, PhD

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Adaptive Therapy Meets Financial Reality: Securing MR-guided Radiotherapy's Future

Kathryn Mittauer, PhD

Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Fl, United States

Moderator(s): Lars Olsson, PhD

Time	Title	Speaker
1:00 PM	Evaluating MR based ultra-hypofractionated focal boost to intraprostatic lesions for high-risk localized prostate cancer with histological reference	Tufve Nyholm
1:10 PM	Longitudinal per fraction lesion segmentation and tracking via few-shot deep learning for MR-guided radio therapy of prostate cancer patients	Josiah Simeth
1:20 PM	Identification of Radiotherapy Target Volumes in Glioblastoma using Advanced MRI and 18F-DOPA PET/CT	Eyesha Younus
1:30 PM	A simplified online adaptive workflow for long-course MR-guided radiotherapy in esophageal cancer	Koen Kuijer
1:40 PM	Investigating artefact-free online MR imaging during actively scanned proton therapy using a bi-directional whole-body in-beam MRI scanner	Emely Weichert
1:50 PM	Initial clinical experience of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for lung metastases with target intrafraction tracking and gating by means 1.5T MR-Linac	Michele Rigo

Moderator(s): Kathyrn Mittauer, PhD

Optimizing MRgRT: Efficiency Gains with MRIdian A3i and Unmet QA Needs from a Multi-Center Adaptive Tria

Kathyrn Mittauer, PhD

Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, FL, United States
Feasibility of Alternative Workflow and Third-Party Tools for MRgRT on Unity

Eric Paulson, PhD

Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Impact of AI automation on MRgRT workflow

Harini Veeraraghavan, PhD

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States

Moderator(s): James Balter, PhD & Neelam Tyagi, PhD

Time	Title	Speaker
3:30 PM	Patient-specific imaging modality agnostic virtual digit twins modeling temporally varying digestive motion	Jorge Tapias Gomez
3:40 PM	Towards a clinically-relevant computational platform for systematically adapting radiation therapy for treating glioma	Hugo J Miniere
3:50 PM	Highly-Accelerated, Time-Resolved 4D Golden-Angle Radial MRI with Self-Supervised Learning	Haoyang Pei
4:00 PM	A Longitudinal Study of Functional Connectivity Changes of Patients with Diffuse Glioma After Chemoradiotherapy using Aberrancy Parcel Map Analysis of Resting-state Functional MRI	Zhihua Liu
4:10 PM	Correlation of histopathological cell density and hypoxic fraction with time-dependent diffusion MRI in glioblastoma	Minea Jokivuolle
4:20 PM	Deducing Cardiorespiratory Motion of Cardiac Substructures Using a Novel 5D-MRI Workflow for Radiotherapy	Chase Ruff
4:30 PM	Distortion-Free Diffusion-Weighted Imaging of the Prostate Using TGSE-Based Golden-Angle PROPELLER Acquisition and Deep Learning Denoising	Jingjia Chen
4:40 PM	Modality-AGnostic Image Cascade: Cross-Modality MAGIC for improved MR-Linac Cardiac Segmentation	Nicholas Summerfield
4:50 PM	Segmentation Regularized Registration Training Improves Multi-Domain Generalization of Deformable Image Registration for MR-Guided Prostate Radiotherapy	Sudharsan Madhavan

Moderator(s): Victoria Yu, PhD

Novel Approaches with Diffusion MRI

Faisal Mahmood, PhD

Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
Oxygen-Enhanced MRI for Imaging Tumour Hypoxia

Michael Dubec, PhD

University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Quantitative MRI Biomarkers for Response and Recurrence Prediction in GBM

Angus Lau, PhD

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada

Location: Docks Oyster Bar, Midtown East, NYC
Address: 633 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10017

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Tuesday, April 15

Moderator(s): Li Feng, PhD

A Primer on 4D-MRI in Radiotherapy

Martin Fast, PhD

University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
4DMRI and Prospectives for Application in Particle Therapy

Chiara Paganelli, PhD

Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
AI-Empowered 4D-MRI and Quantitative 4D-MRI with MR Fingerprinting

Jing Cai, PhD

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Moderator(s): Lauren Smith, PhD

Time	Title	Speaker
9:30 AM	Optimizing Motion Management in Spine SBRT on the MR-Linac: Enhancing Delivery Efficiency with Real-Time Cine Imaging and Baseline Shift Corrections	Eun Young Han
9:40 AM	Characterization of a Cartesian Self-Gated 4D-MR Imaging Sequence for SBRT	Stefan Dorsch
9:50 AM	Longitudinal Acceleration of Time-Resolved 4D MRI Exploiting Multi-Fraction Temporal Correlations	Jingjia Chen
10:00 AM	Optimizing gated MR-linac treatments using 4D-MRI for motion-compensated daily imaging	Katrinus Keijnemans
10:10 AM	Characterizing contractile motion along the stomach medial axis from dynamic MRI	Robert Jones
10:20 AM	Combination of Pseudo-Golden-Angle Radial Acquisition and Deep Learning Reconstruction for Motion-Resolved 4D MRI on a 1.5T MR-Linac	Can Wu

Moderator(s): Eric Aliotta, PhD

Time	Title	Speaker
11:00 AM	A multi-centre investigation of longitudinal changes in the apparent diffusion coefficient during short-course radiotherapy for patients with rectal cancer	Faisal Mahmood
11:10 AM	MR Multitasking-driven Abdominal Integrated Imaging (MT-AI2)	Junzhou Chen
11:20 AM	Evaluation of a Novel Quantitative Multiparametric MR Sequence for Radiation Therapy Treatment Response Assessment	Yuhao Yan
11:30 AM	Longitudinal ADC changes in the prostate and dominant lesion during hypo-fractionated SBRT on a 1.5 T MR linac: correlation with PSA response	Sarah Morris
11:40 AM	Multi-Center Diffusion-Weighted MRI Validation for 0.35T MR-Linac	Siamak Nejad-Davarani
11:50 AM	Quantitative modelling of oxygen delivery in patients with head and neck cancer using oxygen-enhanced MRI	Michael Dubec

Moderator(s): Ricardo Otazo, PhD

MR Multitasking for Image-Guided Abdominal External Beam Radiotherapy

Zhaoyang Fan, PhD

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Advancements in DWI Sequences for MRgRT

Marielle Philippens, PhD

University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) for Quantitative Cancer Imaging

Yong Chen, PhD

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States

Moderator(s): Yading Yuan, PhD

Time	Title	Speaker
2:00 PM	C-SegDeform: a novel alternative to image registration in MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy of pancreatic cancer	Mehdi Shojaei
2:10 PM	Need for Speed: Timegain of AI-based delineations for MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy of prostate cancer	Maximilian Konrad
2:20 PM	Accelerate Diffusion-Weighted MRI with Extended b-values via Implicit Neural Representation Learning	Lianli Liu
2:30 PM	A software framework for automated commissioning of AI Segmentation models for radiation therapy workflows	Nico Cote
2:40 PM	The impact of deep learning organ delineation uncertainty for prostate cancer radiotherapy	Christian Jamtheim Gustafsson
2:50 PM	Radiomics Approaches for Survival Prediction and Risk Stratification in Glioma Using MRI	Walid Dandachly

Moderator(s): Lando Bosma, PhD

Tools and Guidelines for Dose Accumulation and Its Evaluation

Lando Bosma, PhD

University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Dose Accumulation for Reirradiation: Practical Pitfalls and Clinical Decision-Making

Jonas Willmann

University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Dose Accumulation: Uncertainties and Interpretation for Adaptive Radiotherapy

Andreas Smolders

Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

Moderator(s): Siamak Nejad-Davarani, PhD

Time	Title	Speaker
4:30 PM	Low-field (0.55T) respiratory-resolved and pulmonary functional MRI for lung radiotherapy	Jessica Scholey
4:40 PM	Deliverability of biologically guided RT plans driven by quantitative MR imaging	Annette Haworth
4:50 PM	Evaluating T1 and T2-weighted MR images for improved liver GTV delineation and subsequent ITV generation using a novel 4D multitasking MR sequence	Theodore Geoghegan

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Wednesday, April 16

Moderator(s): Faisal Mahmood, PhD & Li Feng, PhD

Time	Title	Speaker
8:30 AM	Repeatability of longitudinal apparent diffusion coefficient measurements in esophageal tumors on a 1.5 T MR-linac	Koen Kuijer
8:40 AM	Preliminary Results from Consensus Measurement Methods for Longitudinal relaxometry on the 1.5T Unity MR-linac: a multi-institution comparison	Mike van Rijssel
8:50 AM	Longitudinal Assessment of Diffusion-MRI Hypoxia Score in Patients with Prostate Cancer Receiving Definitive Radiotherapy	Ivan A. Rashid
9:00 AM	Early radiation induced changes to the microenvironment in cervical cancer patients	Tiril Hillestad
9:10 AM	Longitudinal Diffusion-Weighted MRI for Treatment Response Assessment in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer Patients Undergoing Short-Course Radiotherapy	Jonathan Pham
9:20 AM	Monitoring Concurrent Chemoradiation Treatment Response in Cervical Cancer Using Quantitative 3D T1ρ Mapping	Sandeep Panwar
9:30 AM	Assessment of treatment response after prostate Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy using quantitative MRI and radiomics: the SBRT SI-BiRT trial	Hayley Reynolds

Moderator(s): Victoria Yu, PhD & Eric Aliotta, PhD

Time	Title	Speaker
9:40 AM	Implementation of Quantitative MRI-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy on MR-LINAC	Jie Deng
9:50 AM	Online adaptive MR-Guided radiotherapy on a 1.5 T MR-Linac: clinical experience and evaluation of the first 1000 patients in a monocentric analysis	Michele Rigo
10:00 AM	Bowel motion: Is it a concern for multi-isocenter treatments?	Saskia Damen
10:10 AM	Synthetic 3D MRI generation from CBCT for deep-inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) abdominal treatments	Paulo Quintero
10:20 AM	Toward Personalized Automation in MR-Linac Workflows: Transforming Adaptive Radiotherapy with Advanced Monaco TPS Scripting	Sean Domal
10:30 AM	Comparative Plan Quality and Dosimetric Analysis of Two Commercially Available MR-Linac Systems in Prostate and Pancreas Cancers	Huiming Dong
10:40 AM	Investigating the dosimetric impact of intrafractional motion in prostate cancer patients during MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy	Stella Xing

Moderator(s): Tobias Block, PhD

High-Field and Ultrahigh-Field MRI: Challenges and Opportunities

Priti Balchandani, PhD

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
Low-Field and Ultralow-Field MRI: Challenges and Opportunities

Jelle Veraart, PhD

NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

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Location

The symposium will take place at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan, New York City.

550 1st Ave., New York, NY 10016

NYU Langone Health

Located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, NYU Langone Health is easily accessible from the city’s major transportation hubs. A variety of accommodation options are within walking distance, ensuring that attendees can easily find a comfortable place to rest. And when the day winds down, the surrounding neighborhood offers a diverse range of dining and entertainment options, providing ample opportunities for networking and relaxation.