.svg){kind=small}
Subscribe to our MRI newsletter
MRI is changing faster than ever—but not always where you expect.
At ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2025, the breakthroughs worth your time are not just bigger magnets or cleaner images—but tools that solve real-world problems. The things that rethink how we teach, work, and handle patients in MRI.
Here are Top 10 innovations, events, and attractions you must see at this year’s meeting—and why they matter.
MRI technologists need hands-on training. But real scanners are costly, overbooked, and slow to produce images.
Corsmed’s MRI simulator gives every student the power of a full MRI scanner on a laptop.
With the simulator, you can:
Corsmed slashes MRI training costs by 99%, and images are immediate and repeatable.
Technologists can test protocols, change TR or TE, and immediately see the results on actual MR images, not fixed mockups.
Dr. Khokhar, MRI Program Director at CNI College, confirms:
The impact on his students?
CNI has used Corsmed to train hundreds of MRI students, and reports improved image planning, faster scanner readiness, and better understanding of physics concepts.
Ray Lee, MRI Program Director at British Columbia Institute of Technology, agrees:
Experience Corsmed’s simulator live at Booth #F38, on a 70-inch TV screen.
Also enjoy their FREE giveaways!
If you’re an MRI educator, Corsmed is the “must see” of the conference.
Brain surgery is risky, recovery is long, and many neurological conditions have no effective non-invasive treatments.
Stanford's Kim Butts Pauly is a pioneer in MRI-guided focused ultrasound, turning the MRI scanner into a real-time neurosurgical platform.
This allows targeted brain ablation or modulation without incisions.
It has already shown promise in essential tremor, Parkinson’s, and depression—with no scalpels and no radiation.
She will present real-time thermometry methods, MR-ARFI, and patient outcomes that push therapy to the next level.
This is not theoretical—it’s being used in pilot studies and poised for clinical adoption.
If you're curious about imaging-as-therapy, this talk is the clearest lens into the future.
Creating MRI pulse sequences is complex, time-consuming, and requires deep physics expertise. This keeps innovation locked within a small group of specialists.
Fraunhofer MEVIS researchers have trained a custom GPT model to generate MRI pulse sequences automatically.
Their innovative approach:
The model successfully generates complete, functional 55-repetition sequences that can be simulated with realistic reconstructions.
This opens the door to "Reinforcement Learning through Differentiable Physics Feedback" (RLDPF) - where AI can optimize sequences for specific clinical goals.
If you're interested in how AI might revolutionize sequence development, this poster demonstrates a fascinating first step toward automated sequence creation.
Cardiovascular disease is the world's #1 killer, with 18 million deaths annually. Yet cardiac imaging still has limitations in speed and precision.
Dr. Razavi is behind the first-in-human MRI-guided cardiac catheterization, and he helped develop fetal cardiac MRI protocols that image tiny hearts in motion.
His lecture will spotlight breakthroughs that enable:
He’s led research centers backed by the Wellcome Trust, EPSRC, and Innovate UK, and now applies these technologies via his startup Fraiya, which builds AI tools for OB/GYN imaging.
This is a rare chance to hear from someone reshaping both science and clinical practice.
MRI access and education remain highly unequal across the globe. Some technologists never practice full protocols before scanning real patients.
This forum tackles access, simulation, and new ways to teach MRI.
Key talks include:
If you are an MRI educator or industry/NGO representative—this is a must-see. Join to get a global view of the current state of MRI, and a glimpse of what’s next on the horizon.
Standard MRI exams are too slow. AI promises to help—but how do you distinguish between the real and the hype?
These two sessions focus on MRI speed without compromise.
Part I breaks down abbreviated cancer screening protocols—some under 10 minutes—plus real-world feedback from radiologists on AI recon.
Part II focuses on shortening cardiac MR, with insights into:
These are practical, clinical-ready tools, not lab demos.
Come to learn what to adopt now, what to pilot, and what’s still experimental.
1 in 10 infants in the U.S. requires care in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) (CDC, 2021). But transporting fragile infants to a distant MRI is risky, with many facing transport-related harm.
The Neoscan neo315 is the first-ever 1.5T MRI built specifically for NICU rooms.
This product brings several innovations that amplify both safety and clinical efficiency:
This is safer care with better timing and higher resolution, made possible by design.
If you work in pediatric or perinatal MRI, you need to see this system.
MRI sequence development requires expertise in physics, software development, and vendor-specific concepts - creating a high barrier to entry and stifling innovation.
Fraunhofer MEVIS has built gammaSTAR, a cloud-based environment that makes sequence design intuitive and accessible to experts and newcomers alike.
This revolutionary platform offers:
With both simplified building blocks for beginners and atomic control for experts, gammaSTAR removes traditional barriers while maintaining power.
If you're ready to see sequence development from entirely new perspectives, this poster demonstrates how creative, visual thinking can transform MRI research.
MRI’s next breakthroughs won’t come just from vendors—they’ll come from researchers.
But which researchers will be the next to transform the future of MRI?
Join the “Young Investigator Awards” to see the finalists whose research ISMRM has deemed most revolutionary. Three awards will be issued:
Many past winners have gone on to lead major labs, found startups, or create FDA-cleared technologies.
If you want a glimpse of what’s coming in 3–5 years, this is your best bet.
MRI sequence development is traditionally locked behind proprietary vendor SDKs, making cross-platform innovation and sharing nearly impossible.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine researchers have created mtrk - an open-source, web-based framework that makes sequence development accessible to all.
This powerful tool:
Their spin-echo sequence showed remarkable agreement with vendor sequences across T1, T2, and proton density contrasts, with structural similarity over 85%.
If you want to break free from vendor-locked sequence development, this poster demonstrates a truly open approach to innovation.
ISMRM 2025 isn’t just about faster scans or prettier pictures.
It’s about MRI that works better, reaches further, and trains smarter.
From laptop-based MRI simulators to bedside NICU imaging and AI workflows that finally make sense—these 10 highlights show where MRI is going.
Don't miss these 10 must-see innovations, events, and attractions—because they might change how you work next year.
