ISMRM-ESMRMB Joint Annual Meeting

Our field of Magnetic Resonance is irrepressible. What other conclusion can be drawn from the historical record, or from our own experience? For the better part of a century, the basic principles governing spin dynamics have marched from discipline to discipline, from physics to chemistry to biomedicine and onward, gathering applications and spawning technologies along the way. By all rights, the pace of discovery should have slowed, this far into the maturity of so well-understood a phenomenon as magnetic resonance. But the spin continues to yield up new secrets, each time we determine how to ask.

Our Societies too the ISMRM and the ESMRMB are seemingly inexhaustible, and our Annual Meetings reflect this energy. Look around the meeting rooms and poster halls each year, and you will find ample evidence of creativity and perseverance, hard-won rigor commingled with dramatic speculation. You will find basic scientists and clinicians, and all manner of species in between, with interests in everything from quantum fluctuations of the vacuum to practical protocols for the routine diagnosis of torn ligaments.