Name: Mathematical Methods in MRI - SFB MR-DYNAMO Workshop
Start: 2026-05-20T07:05:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-22T12:45:00+02:00
Location: A-8010 Graz

Monday, 18 May 2026
Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Wednesday, 20 May 2026

08:15 Registration

08:15 - 09:00
Room: HS 1 (ATK1120H), Rechbauerstraße 12

09:00 Opening

09:00 - 09:30
Room: HS 1 (ATK1120H), Rechbauerstraße 12
09:30 Plenary Talk: Prof. Moritz Zaiss
Prof. Moritz Zaiss
09:30 - 10:30
Room: HS 1 (ATK1120H), Rechbauerstraße 12
Contributions

09:30 MR-zero: How MR physicists move fast and break things - Moritz Zaiss (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU))
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: HS 1 (ATK1120H), Rechbauerstraße 12
11:00 Contributed Talks: Session 1
11:00 - 12:40
Room: HS 1 (ATK1120H), Rechbauerstraße 12
Contributions

11:00 Direct signal control without Fourier coefficients - Kurt Majewski (Siemens AG, DAI R ORD-DE)

11:25 Arterial spin labeling MRI with radial sampling: end-to-end open-source sequence design and image reconstruction using BART - Viktoria Buchegger (Institute of Biomedical Imaging, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria)

11:50 Open-source quantitative MRI: combined acquisition and reconstruction - Daniel Mackner (Graz University of Technology)

12:15 MRI sequences: practical aspects of system integration - Philip Schaten (TU Graz)
12:40 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 - 14:05
14:05 Contributed Talks: Session 2
14:05 - 15:45
Room: HS 1 (ATK1120H), Rechbauerstraße 12
Contributions

14:05 On uniqueness of coefficient identification in the Bloch-Torrey equation for magnetic resonance imaging - Barbara Kaltenbacher (University of Klagenfurt)

14:30 Operator splitting and adjoint-based L-BFGS for parameter identification in the Bloch-Torrey equation - Pablo Muñoz (Klagenfurt Universität)

14:55 Observability as a constraint qualification for a nonsmooth bilevel PDE constrained problem - Jyrki Jauhiainen (University of Graz)

15:20 Optimal control based estimation of blood pressure from MRI velocity data - Jakob Wagner (Technical University of Munich)
15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: HS 1 (ATK1120H), Rechbauerstraße 12
16:15 Contributed Talks: Session 3
16:15 - 17:30
Room: HS 1 (ATK1120H), Rechbauerstraße 12
Contributions

16:15 Nonlinear gradient modulations, multi-shot EPI, parallel imaging in a unified RKHS framework - Rui Tian

16:40 Non-standard inner products in MRI reconstruction - Bastien Milani

17:05 Physical correctness of data consistency in state space model-based MRI reconstruction - Xin Zhao (Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences)
Thursday, 21 May 2026
09:00 Plenary Talk: Prof. Michael Unser
Prof. Michael Unser
09:00 - 10:00
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
Contributions

09:00 Deep-spline neural networks for stable image reconstruction - Michael Unser (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))
10:00 Contributed Talks: Session 4
10:00 - 10:50
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
Contributions

10:00 Dynamic transitions for fast joint acquisition and reconstruction of CEST-Rex and T1 - Markus Huemer (Institute of Biomedical Imaging - Graz University of Technology)

10:25 Learning multi-pool dynamics in magnetic resonance imaging - Štěpán Zapadlo (University of Graz)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
11:20 Contributed Talks: Session 5
11:20 - 12:35
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
Contributions

11:20 An inertial Langevin algorithm - Alexander Falk (TU Graz)

11:45 Preconditioned Langevin sampling for Bayesian imaging - Andreas Habring

12:10 Fast and robust diffusion posterior sampling for MR image reconstruction using the preconditioned unadjusted Langevin algorithm - Tina Holliber (Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomedical Imaging)
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 13:30

13:30 Hands-on MRI

13:30 - 14:30
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
14:30 Contributed Talks: Session 6
14:30 - 15:20
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
Contributions

14:30 Zero-shot self-supervised learning of spatio-temporally varying regularisation parameter maps for dynamic cardiac MR image reconstruction - Kostas Papafitsoros (Queen Mary University of London)

14:55 Gabor primitives for accelerated cardiac cine MRI reconstruction - Wenqi Huang (Technical University of Munich)
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
15:50 Contributed Talks: Session 7
15:50 - 16:40
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
Contributions

15:50 Geometrically-grounded 3D+time representations from sparse 2D MR views - Nil Stolt-Ansó (Technical University of Munich)

16:15 Patient-specific 3D ventricular models from cardiac cine MRI: a segmentation, registration, and volumetric modeling framework - Kathrin Lisa Kapper (University of Graz, Austria)
18:30 Conference Dinner

18:30 - 21:30
Friday, 22 May 2026
09:00 Plenary Talk: Prof. Gerlind Plonka-Hoch
Prof. Gerlind Plonka-Hoch
09:00 - 10:00
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
Contributions

09:00 The multichannel blind deconvolution problem in parallel MRI - Gerlind Plonka-Hoch (University of Göttingen)
10:00 Contributed Talks: Session 8
10:00 - 10:50
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
Contributions

10:00 MRI-NUFFT: an open-source toolbox for high-performance non-Cartesian reconstruction and trajectory design - Pierre-Antoine Comby (CEA/Neurospin)

10:25 Neural network-based motion-aware reconstruction of dynamic MRI data - Matthias Höfler (University of Graz)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
11:20 Contributed Talks: Session 9
11:20 - 12:10
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16
Contributions

11:20 On the role of smoothness constraints in MR fingerprinting sequence optimization - Tim Höpfner (University Hospital Würzburg)

11:45 MRI2Qmap: multi-parametric quantitative mapping using multimodal contrast-weighted MRI denoising priors - Mohammad Golbabaee (University of Bristol)
12:10 Closing

12:10 - 12:20
Room: HS BMT (BMTEG138), Stremayrgasse 16