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RSVP of 2026 Spectroscopy Workshop

2026 Spectroscopy Workshop

May 9, 2026

Cape Town, South Africa

Event Program

Join us in Cape Town, South Africa for the 2026 Spectroscopy Workshop, a focused scientific forum bringing together leading researchers and experts in MR spectroscopy. The program will explore advanced topics in MRS, MRSI, and multi‑nuclear spectroscopy (MNO/X‑nuclei), creating space for in‑depth discussion, collaborative knowledge exchange, and fresh perspectives on emerging techniques and innovations.

Date and time:
Saturday, May 9, 2026
12:00PM - 5:00PM

Venue:
Southern Sun The Cullinan, Room Protea 1 + 2
1 Cullinan St, Cape Town City Centre
Cape Town, Western Cape, 8001, South Africa

Time	Topics
12:00 – 12:30	Welcome and introduction
12:30 – 13:00	Multisite Single-Voxel MRS for Neurodegenerative Disease Trials Gulin Öz, Professor, CMRR, University of Minnesota, United States
13:00 – 13:30	SVS MRS (Session topic will be available soon) Roland Kreis, PhD, University of Bern, Switzerland
13:30 – 14:00	Coffee break
14:00 – 14:30	Plug'n Play MRSI: An easy, reliable and fast MRSI package at 3 T and 7 T Bernhard Strasser, PhD, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
14:30 – 15:00	Spectral Editing for MR Spectroscopic Imaging in Clinical Routine: Applications in Human Glioma Guodong Weng, PhD, University of Bern, Switzerland
15:00 – 15:30	MRSI (Session topic will be available soon) Stefan Posse, PhD, University of New Mexico, Mexico
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30	MNO/ X-Nuclei (Session topic will be available soon)
16:30 – 17:00	Multimodal imaging of hypoxia, metabolism and pH in feline sarcoma patients using hyperpolarized 13C MRI and PET Dr. Martin Grashei, PhD, Technical University of Munich, Germany