The ISMRM conference committee has announced abstract acceptance decision on 2/2. The full list of accepted abstracts appeared to contain about 5300 entries, which seems to be a bit smaller in number than previous years. The three abstracts that I submitted were all accepted as a digital poster, in sessions on Wednesday June 7th. Among co-authored submissions, the 2nd-order shim coil-based concomitant field correction abstract was accepted for oral presentation (first-authored by Dr. Ajala). This year the oral presentations will be given only 6 min to finish, which is the same length as the digital poster presentation recordings. Despite reduction in presentation lengths, it does not appear that the number of orals was significantly increased. Shortening of orals may reflect shorter attention spans of modern-day researchers, or simply echoes the organizers' efforts to more democratize the conference given difficulty in judging relative significance of many research submissions on ever-diversifying topics.
