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Gearing up for What's Ahead
2024 is off to a quick start with many exciting initiatives and events happening this year at the HMTRC. In this edition of the newsletter, we provide several resources to help you kick-off your new year.

Our HMTRC Workshop is upcoming on April 4th-5th with pre-meeting events happening April 3rd. Register for our workshop early as our first round of hands-on placements is quickly approaching (February 1st-15th). To help you book your travel plans for the workshop we’ve included hotel recommendations below. 

Also included below are several new additions to our website to help drive your HP C-13 technology development and research. Read on for details on our new webpage that features HP MR Videos by Disease & Body area, HP MRI Course release, and highlights on several new publications released at the end of 2023.

Wishing you a great start to the new year!

The HMTRC team & Collaborators

Picking Up Where You Left: HMTRC Workshop Reminders
Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MRI Technology Development Workshop: April 4-5th 2024, Pre-meeting Events April 3rd
Register Early! First Round of Hands-on
Placements will be released February 1st!
Those who register by February 1st will be sent their hands-on preference survey to complete and return by February 15th. The first round of hands-on session placements will be made February 15th-March 1st.
OR Register Now with links below:
External Registration (non-UC Personnel): HMTRC Workshop Registration Fee: Academic Participant $275, Industry Participant $775. Register Early, Hands-on placements will begin February 15th. No registration at the door.Online registration for external members is available through Eventbrite. VISA, Mastercard, Discovercard and American Express are accepted. The HMTRC Workshop Registration Fee includes hands-on training/demo costs, and related MR scanner, DNP supplies, pharmacy and chemistry costs.
Internal Registration (UC personnel): UC personnel please register through Qualtrics. University of California personnel please email hyperpolarizedmri@ucsf.edu if you have any questions.
Pre-meeting Sign-ups: The pre-meeting events will take place on Wednesday April 3rd which will occur the day before the 2024 HMTRC workshop (on Thursday April 4th and Friday April 5th). Please register (links above) for the workshop to attend the pre-meeting events. There is no additional fee to attend the Pre-Meeting events. Please see the pre-meeting schedule (below) for a list of events happening, participation, and what to bring.
Oral Presentation Abstracts Deadline Approaching!
Deadline: January 20th
We invite abstract submissions focused on HP technology development (1 page or less) for oral presentations by academic and industry participants at the 2024 Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MRI Technology Development Workshop. We will try to accommodate your talk, but if not, these submissions can be presented during our poster sessions. Please submit your abstract title and brief description between Dec 20th – Jan 20th, 2024 by emailing hyperpolarizedmri@ucsf.edu.
Poster Presenters: Submit Title & Authors
Deadline: March 4th
We welcome poster presentations by any participants. To register your poster for the 2024 HMTRC workshop, please provide the title and author information through this link by March 4th 2024 if you would like it to be included in the printed materials. You must be able to print your poster prior to the event and bring it on site. Poster size recommendation is 36” x 48”, landscape orientation is recommended. For any questions email hyperpolarizedmri@ucsf.edu.

Book your Workshop Travel Accommodations:
This just in Hotel Recommendations!
Traveling to the Workshop? Book your hotel accommodations at a discounted rate or choose from one of our recommended hotels within miles to the UCSF Mission Bay Campus or the San Francisco International Airport.
The HMTRC Website: New Year & New Resources
Videos: Now by Location & Disease
Stop by our new HP MR in Biomedical Research Page under the "About Section" of our website. We now feature all of our Video Talks & Tutorials by Location & Disease to help facilitate education and training in specialized research areas.
HP MRI Course 2023: Now Released!
Ten new videos presented by Clinical & Research Instructors. This 2023 HP MRI Course focuses on a wide range of topics from an Introduction to HP 13C MRI, to current clinical translation of this research. Click below to visit the course details and materials.
New Year Highlights: Featured Publications
Recent journal articles supported by the center
to inspire & drive your basic and clinical research

Current Methods for Hyperpolarized [1-13C]pyruvate MRI Human Studies

Larson PE, Bernard JM, Bankson JA, Bøgh N, Bok RA, Chen AP, Cunningham CH, Gordon J, Hövener JB, Laustsen C, Mayer D, McLean MA, Schilling F, Slater J, Vanderheyden JL, von Morze C, Vigneron DB, Xu D, Group THCMC


Hyperpolarized 13C Metabolic Imaging of the Human Abdomen with Spatiotemporal Denoising

Nickles TM, Kim Y, Lee PM, Chen HY, Ohliger M, Bok RA, Wang ZJ, Larson PEZ, Vigneron DB, Gordon JW


Probing Human Heart TCA Cycle Metabolism and Response to Glucose Load using Hyperpolarized
[2-13C]Pyruvate MR Spectroscopy

Chen HY, Gordon JW, Dwork N, Chung BT, Riselli A, Sivalokanathan S, Bok RA, Slater JB, Vigneron DB, Abraham MR, Larson PEZ


Regional Quantification of Cardiac Metabolism with Hyperpolarized [1-13C]-pyruvate CMR Evaluated in an Oral Glucose Challenge. 

Larson PEZ, Tang S, Liu X, Sinha A, Dwork N, Sivalokanathan S, Liu J, Bok R, Ordovas KG, Slater J, Gordon JW, Abraham MR


Hyperpolarized 13C Metabolic MRI of Patients with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Gordon JW, Chen HY, Nickles T, Lee PM, Bok R, Ohliger MA, Okamoto K, Ko AH, Larson PEZ, Wang ZJ


Parallel Detection of Chemical Reactions in a Microfluidic Platform using Hyperpolarized Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Yeste J, Azagra M, Ortega MA, Portela A, Matajsz G, Herrero-Gómez A, Kim Y, Sriram R, Kurhanewicz J, Vigneron DB, Marco-Rius I


Monitoring response to a clinically relevant IDH inhibitor in glioma-Hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy approaches

Hong D, Kim Y, Mushti C, Minami N, Wu J, Cherukuri MK, Swenson RE, Vigneron DB, Ronen SM


Clinically Translatable Hyperpolarized 13C Bicarbonate pH Imaging Method for Use in Prostate Cancer

Mu C, Liu X, Kim Y, Riselli A, Korenchan DE, Bok RA, Delos Santos R, Sriram R, Qin H, Nguyen H, Gordon JW, Slater J, Larson PEZ, Vigneron DB, Kurhanewicz J, Wilson DM, Flavell RR

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