Dear colleagues and friends,

Thank you for your great participation and discussion during the X-nuclei meeting in Prague. The next meeting is planned for Juelich in Germany in autumn 2024. We hope to see you all there again.

Monika Dezortova and MRS team IKEM

Dear colleagues and friends,

Here, you can find some basic information concerning our upcoming X-nuclei User Meeting (Nov 13-14, 2023).

We have booked a seminar room at the 3^rd floor in the main IKEM building. We plan to start at 2 pm on Monday, November 13, 2023, registration will be open at 1 pm in the same room. The closing remarks will be on Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023 around noon.

Program is based on your presentation infos (authors + titles) sent to my e-mail address: mode@ikem.cz

We are looking forward to seeing you soon

Monika Dezortova and all the MRS team

Venue:

Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine

3rd floor, main building

Vídeňská 1958/9

140 21 Prague 4

https://www.ikem.cz/en/

Program:

Monday, Nov 13, 2023
13:00 - 14:00	Arrival & Registration
14:00 - 15.30 Part I	Dezortova Monika	Prague	Welcome
	Dezortova Monika / Jirak Daniel	Prague	X-nuclei in IKEM
	Jing Yinghua	Aachen	Neuroenergetic alterations in neurodegenerative diseases – Meta-analysis of in vivo ³¹P-MRS studies
	Scheipers Anna	Heidelberg	Quantitative ²³Na MRI in the human torso
	Ruck Laurent	Erlangen	Interleaved ²³Na/¹H cardiac MRI at 7T
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 Part II	Boesch Chris	Bern	Topics to discussion (future of the group, MDR, X-nuclei software, etc.)
16:00 - 17:30 Part II	Hajek Milan	Prague	³¹P and ergometer (optional – system demonstration at MR Unit, IKEM)
19:00	Dinner at the restaurant “Kolkovna Budejovicka"

Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023
9:00 - 10:40 Part III	Worthoff Wieland A.	Juelich	Multiple Quantum Filtered Sodium MRI at 7T
	Schmidt Albrecht Ingo	Vienna	Investigating the effect of the Hamming Filter on Cardiac ³¹P CSI data
	Gerhalter Teresa	Erlangen	Measure ion homeostasis and energy metabolism in muscular disorders at 7T - Combining ²³Na/³⁹K MRI with ³¹P/¹H MRI
	Poli Simone	Bern	Interleaved trinuclear MRS (¹H/²H/¹³C) at 7T
	Pfleger Lorenz et al.	Vienna	Assessment of the Hepatocellular Content of Lipids using ²H-Spectroscopy: a Pilot Study
10:40 - 11:10	Coffee break
11:10 - 12:10 Part IV	Cameron Donnie	Nijmegen	Muscle ³¹P MRS/MRI. Developing protocols for ³¹P-MRS with 5-/8-channel receive arrays
	El Mendili Mounir	Marseille	Whole brain and ROIs approaches to characterize sodium homeostasis disturbances in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. What are the new findings of ²³Na MRI applied to multiple sclerosis?
	Romanzetti Sandro	Aachen	Sodium MRI in Dementia
12:15 - 12:30	End of meeting

How to get here:

Bus 138 from Kačerov or 193 from Budějovická metro stations (line C - red) go to the bus stop “IKEM” (Institut klinické a experimentální medicíny). All buses from Kačerov stop at “Nemocnice Krc” where you can change the bus to 138, 193 or 203.

Public transport tickets in Prague are valid for 30 minutes (30 CZK) or 90 minutes (40 CZK). If you are aged >60 years, you can use senior tickets of reduced prices: 15 CZK (30 mins) or 20 CZK (90 mins).

Tickets are available in the ticket machines in all metro stations at the entrance and inside some buses/trams, payement is possible by credit cards.

Accommodation:

The nearest hotel is “Rezidence Emmy” which can be found in e.g. www.booking.com and is right next to the IKEM. Unfortunately, we cannot do any reservations for you. However, you can find many hotels in Prague.

X-nuclei User meeting 2023