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 diffusion placenta imaging Nahla M.H. Elsaid — Children's National Hospital, Washington DC
Hands-on	Program and optimise a diffusion sequence for placenta application

Day 2 1 December Reconstruction & Simulation
Talk	Reconstruction
Talk	Introduction to numerical phantoms and MRI sequence simulation with KomaMRI
Hands-on	Building a Digital Placenta Phantom, Simulating Data, and Running Reconstructions

Day 3 2 December Motion Correction & Post-processing
Talk	Addressing Motion Artifacts in (prenatal) MRI
Talk	Advanced Diffusion Post-Processing Pipelines for Prenatal Imaging
Hands-on	Correct motion-affected k-space data

Day 4 3 December Analysis
Talk	Quality metrics and reconstruction quality assessment
Talk	Applications in placenta diffusion imaging
Hands-on	Applying image quality metrics and extracting quantitative parameters

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