Conferences

ISMRM 2026 Awards

Summa Cum Laude (top 5% score)

Zachary Shah: Towards Reliable Plug-and-Play Spiral dMRI with Efficient Field Characterization and Reconstruction for Joint k-q Sampling

Yonatan Urman: Fully 3D Unrolled Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting Reconstruction via Staged Pretraining and Implicit Gridding

Jaehyeok Bae: AdaSamp: Towards simple, subject-specific Adaptive Sampling for 3D Accelerated MRI

Magna Cum Laude (top 15% score)

Daniel Abraham: High Performance Anatomy Tailored Gradient Inserts for Rapid MRI

2nd place prize for the best trainee work in the motion detection and correction study group.

Yimeng Ling: Fast Reconstruction of Motion-Corrupted Data with Mobile-GRAPPA: Motion and dB0 Correction Leveraging Efficient GRAPPA


  1. Dalmaz, O; Abraham, D; Toews, A; Chaudhari, A; Setsompop, K; Hargreaves, B. Fast and Efficient Calculation of Noise and g-factor for Iterative Parallel Imaging Reconstructions. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 431-03-005.
  2. Shah, Z;  Abraham, D; McCready, M; Abad, N; Lee, S; Ajala, Af; Fiveland, E; Foo, T; Liu, Q; Rathi, Y; Kerr, A; Setsompop, K. Towards Reliable Plug-and-Play Spiral dMRI with Efficient Field Characterization and Reconstruction for Joint k-q Sampling. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 304-02-002.
  3. Urman, Y; Nishimura, M; Abraham, D; Cao, X;  Setsompop, K. Fully 3D Unrolled Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting Reconstruction via Staged Pretraining and Implicit Gridding. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 408-04-003.
  4. Terem, I; Younes, K; Weiss, S; Dreisbach, A; Vossler, H; Kwon, E; Cornfeld, D; Wright, J; Condron, P; Mormino, E; Holdsworth, S; Setsompop, K. 3D Quantitative aMRI Reveals Lifespan Changes in Brain Motion and Their Association with Dementia. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: N/A.
  5. Polak, D; Deck, J; Pfeuffer, J; Fan, H; Lin, Y; Splitthoff, DN; Clifford, B; Polimeni, J; Wald, L; Setsompop, K; Cauley, S; Wang, N. Dynamic, Motion-Triggered B₀ Estimation for Retrospective SAMER Motion Correction in T₂*w SWI and QSM at 3T and 7T. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 552-02-005.
  6. Hannum, A; Loecher, M; Chen, Q; Arbes, E; Setsompop, K; Zaitsev, M; Ennis, D. Stim-CODE: PNS \& CNS Constraint Optimized Diffusion Encoding with an Envelope Function for Neuro DWI on 200 mT/m Gradients. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 631-03-008.
  7. Abraham, D; Chew, H; Ye, Z; Maravilla, J; Shah, Z; Short, J; Versteeg, E; Ertan, K; Liang, K; Pauly, J; Scott, G; Kerr, A; Rivas, J; Stockmann, J; Setsompop, K. High Performance Anatomy Tailored Gradient Inserts for Rapid MRI. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 305-03-007.
  8. Lin, Yimeng and Wang, Nan and Abraham, Daniel and Polak, Daniel and Cao, Xiaozhi and Cauley, Stephen and Setsompop, Kawin. Fast Reconstruction of Motion-Corrupted Data with Mobile-GRAPPA: Motion and dB0 Correction Leveraging Efficient GRAPPA. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 605-02-002.
  9. McCready, M; Shah, Z; Setsompop, K; Pauly, J; Kerr, A. A current sensor gradient impulse response function for concurrent higher-order field monitoring. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 368-06-004.
  10. Chew, H; Abraham, D; Ye, Z; Maravilla, J; Xiao, K; Stockmann, J; Setsompop, K; Rivas, J. A Low Cost Resonant Gradient Amplifier for "Plug and Play" Gradient Coil Inserts. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 368-06-005.
  11. Wang, N; Lin, Y; Polak, D; Cao, X; Urman, Y; Nurdinova, A; Gao, M; Abraham, D; Shah, Z; Liao, C; Cauley, S; Setsompop, K. Spatiotemporal Scout-based Multi-Echo NAvigator (st-SMENA) for accurate and continuous motion and δB0 tracking. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 560-01-004.
  12. Liu, Q; Wang, Y; Pan, Y; Jeong, H; Westin, C; O’Donnell, L; Bilgic, B; Zhu, A; Foo, T; Setsompop, K; Erdogmus, D; Ning, L; Rathi, Y. High-SNR Whole-Brain Mesoscale Diffusion MRI Using Rotating-View Acquisitions (ROVER-dMRI). ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026.  Program Number: 304-02-001.
  13. Jeong, H; Lee, J; Rathi, Y; Zeineh, M; Han, MH; Setsompop, K; Wang, N. Fast, reliable, and high-quality χ-separation via EPTI and MRF. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 408-04-008.
  14. Chang, H; Liang, K; Chew, H; Ye, Z; Abraham, D; Stolt, E; Qin, I; Setsompop, K; Rivas, J. Noise Analysis of dc-dc Power Converters: Towards MR-Compatible Switched-Mode Power Supplies. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 351-01-013.
  15. Craven-Brightman, L; Straney, D; Sliwiak, M; Ugurdag, HF; Witzel, T; Bulun, K; Brightman, D; Abraham, D; Setsompop, K; Bilgic, B; Wald, L; Guerin, B; Stockmann, J. An open-source FPGA-based 64-channel arbitrary waveform generator and control system with integrated shim current drivers. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 351-01-004.
  16. Huo, Z; Oran, O; Gilbert, K; Menon, R; Stenger, V; Setsompop, K. Real-time pTx-Spoke pulse design for whole-brain SMS acquisition with improved SAR-hopping via Helical Spoke rotation. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 606-01-005.
  17. Zhou, J; Cao, X; Zhu, Z; Qian, Y; Gao, M; Khegai, O; Walker, E; Beckett, A; Yang, Y; Setsompop, K; Feinberg, D; Vu, A; Liao, C. High-fidelity mesoscale diffusion MRI at NexGen 7T using gSlider with integrated B₁⁺ and T₁ correction. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 631-03-013.
  18. Qian, Y; Wang, K; Zhou, Z; Cao, X; Wu, D; Ma, Y; Yurt, M; Gong, T; Zhu, Z; Setsompop, K; Soman, S; Majumdar, S; Yang, Y; Liao, C. High-fidelity submillimeter-resolution 13-min quantitative and diffusion MRI for epilepsy diagnosis and lesion localization. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 662-01-003.
  19. Bae, J; Shah, Z; Alkan, C; Vasanawala, S; Pauly, J; Setsompop, K. AdaSamp: Towards simple, subject-specific Adaptive Sampling for 3D Accelerated MRI. ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2026. Program Number: 503-03-003.