EU Chest MRI School
It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the EU Chest MRI Advanced School, running from 15 to 17 September 2026, at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, with Art Works being displayed in the preceding months in venues across the City.
The COVID years were a wake-up call for the community, showing how important it is to diagnose lung diseases and monitor treatments safely and affordably. Today, lung diagnosis still relies mainly on X-ray–based methods, which are not ideal, especially for repeated scans or for use in children.
The Chest MRI Advanced School — organised by the European consortium V|LF-Spiro3D funded by the European Innovation Council and Innovate UK, with support from the University of Aberdeen — will bring together international experts and attendees to learn about the basics of lung anatomy, physiology, and function through the current diagnostic tools and the latest research in high- and low- field MRI. The event will offer a chance to engage with academics, NHS consultants, industry partners, anthropologists, radiographers, and patients to identify unmet needs and decide on the best path forward to improve safe lung diagnosis using MRI technologies.
The conference aims to attract 150 International delegates and has a unique art element, with the Breathing Bodies works being displayed across different venues in the city in the months leading up to the conference, and will be visible and accessible to the general public as part of this event.
Breathing Bodies: Art and science sometimes provide a mirror into which it is possible to see the world that immerses us beyond our own senses. It is as if the world were extended through the looking glass. In some sense, in some depth, art and science can make the world intimately more visible, with augmented knowledge.
In Breathing Bodies, medical imaging is an extraordinary mirror for the living, capturing both its morphology and its physiology. We can see through as we walk throughout the city of Aberdeen. We trace the kinetic, exploded inner view of an embrace, Deux d’en d’eux. As we walk towards one of the black monoliths, a mirror of its kind, Première Intimité de l’être, a surprise at the corner, we face unexpected reflections. We enter the depth of the bodies as X-rays, MRI, or nuclear imaging can probe them. As we continue walking, we breathe. In the mirror, Tout passe, the image of the respiration is ours. We can see and hear ourselves breathing in and out, our hearth beating fast and slow, in synchrony. As we continue walking, the world keep breathing.
Scientific and organizing committee
Najat Salameh (AMT), Mathieu Sarracanie (AMT), Lionel Broche (AMT), Pierluigi Ciet (Erasmus), Jenny Slatman (Tilburg), Andrea Limbourg (POLETP), Nicola Lorè (UPSaclay), Xavier Maître (UPSaclay)
Venues
King’s College – Main lectures
Elphinstone hall – Catering & exhibitors
Art Gallery – Artworks & events