Internationally, our researchers disseminated and collaborated on recent technological advances at the Aarhus Training course on "Hyperpolarized ¹³C & ¹²⁹Xe MRI: moving to clinical use" and in the ICMRI Meeting in South Korea in November. 

As one major focus of our P41 Center Renewal we kicked off the HP C-13 Consensus Group at our March 2022 HMTRC workshop. Since then, the group has been gathering with members of the community, established leadership roles, and mapped four subtopic areas to reach a consensus on (Set-up & Calibration, HP Agent & Preparation, Acquisition, and Data Analysis).

Through monthly meetings the group has distilled down key topics and viewpoints which are currently being researched. Next steps are for the Subgroup Leads to author a position paper describing the state-of-the-art in human [1-¹³C]pyruvate studies which will support the next steps of HP C-13 Consensus group voting. A lot has happened in the last nine months since we set out on this journey, and as we come closer to a full year in this work, we look forward to working together towards a consensus.

Interested in becoming part of the HP C-13 Consensus Group or being part of the HP C-13 Consensus Voting process? Email hyperpolarizedmri@ucsf.edu. Meetings of the Consensus Group will resume after the completion of the position paper in 2023.

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We are currently looking for January/February 2023 presenters for our International HP C-13 MRI Seminar. Present new findings, publications, or other work in preclinical and human research. Presentations are 25 minutes with a 5-minute Q&A. Email us at hyperpolarizedmri@ucsf.edu.

Hosted on our Resources Page under "Acquisition Software" we have new resources now consolidated and under version control at GitHub HMTRC. This now includes multiple Bruker Pulse Sequence Programs (3T EPSI, 2D CSI, Slab Spectroscopy) available by request. Also newly hosted under our "Data Analysis" section is the HP C-13 EPI HOSVD Denoising MATLAB code. Check out more details on our Research Tools & Dissemination Page. While you are there, visit the whole host of resources the center shares publicly through GitHub such as SIVIC and the HP MRI Toolbox which contains pulse sequence construction tools such as the Spectral-Spatial RF Pulse Design for MRI and MRSI MATLAB Package.

The April 2023 Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MRI Technology Development Workshop includes lectures, hands-on training and discussions on dissolution DNP methodology, polarizer instrumentation, MR Sequence and Acquisitions, Pre-clinical HP Chemistry Preps, Human HP Investigational Dose Formulation & Production, Clinical Translation Methods, Clinical Trial Support, and Analysis & Display Software.

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