MRITogether26 — MRI TogetherThon: Refocusing the Community

This year, MRI Together becomes a collaborative hackathon. The goal is to bring the community together around a shared practical challenge: building a fully open-source, end-to-end MRI pipeline for prenatal imaging—from sequence programming to image analysis.

Day 1 30 November Sequence Programming
Opening	Introduction to MRITogether and the hackathon
Talk	Open-source sequence programming
Talk	Optimisation of MRI sequences for prenatal imaging Nahla M. Elkaid — Children's National Hospital, Washington DC
Hands-on	Program and optimise a sequence together (group exercise)

Day 2 1 December Reconstruction & Simulation
Talk	Reconstruction
Talk	Introduction to numerical phantoms and MRI sequence simulation with KomaMRI
Hands-on	Run your sequence on a digital phantom and reconstruct data

Day 3 2 December Motion Correction & Post-processing
Talk	Motion correction in MRI
Talk	Motion correction in prenatal imaging
Hands-on	Simulate motion-affected k-space data and correct them

Day 4 3 December Analysis
Talk	Quality metrics and reconstruction quality assessment
Talk	Applications in prenatal body imaging
Hands-on	Apply quality metrics to assess and compare reconstruction outputs

Day 5 4 December Pipeline Assembly
Workshop	Full fetal MRI pipeline: integrating sequence programming, simulation, reconstruction and analysis
Closing	Closing talk