ICMRI 2018 will have two Asian Forum sessions. Diffusion MRI is the main topic of the first Asian Forum. Speakers from China, Japan, and Korea will present and discuss their recent works. Perfusion MRI is the main topic of the second Asian Forum. DCE and ASL perfusion MRI techniques applied to several diseases will be presented by speakers from China, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

March 30(Fri) 15:45-17:30	SY13) Asian Forum l: Diffusion MRI (English)	Room F (3F)
	Chairs: Mamoru Niitsu (Saitama Medical University, Japan) Xiaoliang Zhang (University of California San Francisco, USA) Seung-Koo Lee (Severance Hospital, Korea)
15:45-16:10	Diffusion Physics	Koichi Oshio (Keio University School of Medicine, Japan)
16:10-16:30	Recent advances in Psychoradiology	Qiyong Gong (West China Hospital of Sichuan University, China)
16:30-16:50	Clinical application of diffusion weighted imaging in breast	Ji Hyun Youk (Gangnam Severance Hospital, Korea)
16:50-17:10	Imaging of bone metastases using whole body MRI including whole body diffusion weighted images (DWI)	Katsuaki Nakanishi (Osaka International Cancer Institute, Japan)
17:10-17:30	DWI application for glioma prognosis prediction	Yoon Seong Choi (Severance Hospital, Korea)

March 31(Sat) 13:30-15:30	SY24) Asian Forum ll: Perfusion MRI (English)	Room F (3F)
	Chairs: Ying Han (Xuanwu Hospital, the Capital University of Medical Science, China) Masafumi Harada (Tokushima University, Japan) Sendhil Velan (Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, A*STAR, Singapore)
13:30-13:50	Perfusion Physics	Hiroyuki Kabasawa (GE Healthcare, Japan)
13:50-14:10	Advances in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease Alliance of China	Ying Han (Xuanwu Hospital, the Capital University of Medical Science, China)
14:10-14:30	DCE MRI in Breast Cancer	Nariya Cho (Seoul National University Hospital, Korea)
14:30-14:50	Introduction to DCE tracer kinetic modelling	Choon Hua Thng (National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore)
14:50-15:10	DCE (Dynamic contrast enhancement) scan of bone sarcoma (osteosarcoma)	Hung Ta Wu (Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan)
15:10-15:30	ASL in TIA and acute stroke: evaluation of collateral status and prognostication	Henry Mak (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)