JSMRM 2018 Foreword

Tosiaki Miyati, PhD, DMSc, Professor
Chair, JSMRM 2018 annual meeting
Kanazawa University, Japan

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to The 46th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (JSMRM 2018) from September 7 (Friday) to 9 (Sunday), 2018, at the Hotel Nikko Kanazawa and Kanazawa Art Hall in Kanazawa, Japan.

JSMRM, known as the “MRM Society in Japan,” is a unique society. All professions who are involved in MRM, including radiologists and other physicians, basic medical scientists, radiological technologists, MR equipment developers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers, will be attending this meeting. The membership numbers have come close to 4,000. Medical applications of magnetic resonance have rapidly and effectively increased—approximately ten million MR examinations are annually performed in Japan.

The theme of the meeting is “MRM Trek: Join Together Toward New Frontiers.” We intend to explore new research fields in MRM and to promote translational medicine. This meeting is an international meeting and a leading event in MRM. Much of the presentation format will be in English; hence, we have included abstracts from abroad. We will have international symposiums and special lectures in English. We also hold the annual exchange event “Joint Symposium with Asian Countries,” which includes KSMRM (Korea) and CSMRM (China).

Topics such as image diagnosis, imaging and analytical methods, angiography, spectroscopy, molecular imaging, safety, and QA & QC in the MRM field will be presented. In this meeting, we expect approximately 2,000 participants. Do not miss this opportunity to present your paper as well as to communicate with colleagues in Japan and participants from other nations.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Kanazawa.