The Research Triangle Imaging Symposium is open to the entire scientific community and features speaker presentations and a scientific poster session highlighting the innovative work being done at UNC, Duke, NC State and Wake Forest. This year, a broad spectrum of topics will be covered, from molecular and cellular imaging with MRI, to simple and cheap hyper polarization techniques that can boost MR sensitivity by several orders of magnitude, to computational tools for large-scale brain network, to advanced ultrasound methodologies for tissue characterization.