In spring 2010, 85 MR scientists and clinicians gathered in Copenhagen for a 1½ day symposium on scientific and clinical applications of MR in humans at magnetic fields of 7 tesla and above.

We were proud to feature presentations from outstanding experts in the field of ultra-high field imaging applications:

• Marta Bianciardi, NIH, USA: Spontaneous signal fluctuations in human fMRI at high magnetic fields.
• Fernando E. Boada, University of Pittsburg, USA: Monitoring Ion Homeostasis with Sodium MRI (sMRI).
• Jeff Duyn, NIH, USA: Anatomical MRI based on magnetic susceptibility contrast.
• Rolf Gruetter, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. In vivo metabolism studies at ultra-high field.
• Mark Ladd, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Advances in Ultra-High Field Body Imaging
• Sarah J. Nelson, University of California, San Francisco, USA: Clinical applications at ultra-high field.
• Oliver Speck, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany: Towards fMRI of subcortical structures at high field.
• Siegfried Trattnig, Medical University of Vienna, Austria: High resolution morphological, compositional and metabolic imaging in the musculoskeletal system by ultra-high field.
• Robert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany: Multimodal imaging
• Kamil Ugurbil, University of Minnesota, USA: fMRI of the visual system at ultra-high field
• Lawrence Wald, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA: Control of CBF at the laminar level.

Venue
The meeting was held at the remarkably pleasant Helene Elsass Centre situated beautifully just north of the Danish Capital Copenhagen (map).

Participants of the ultra-highfield meeting in Copenhagen. Click to enlarge.