Two abstracts from members of Vogel-Claussen Imaging lab at this year's ISMRM annual meeting were among the highest rated 15% as judged by abstract reviewers. The first Magna Cum Laude Merit Award is bestowed upon the abstract "Registration on different lung volumes and its influence on venlation and perfusion parameters derived by phase-resolved funconal lung MRI" by Klimes et al, the second award for "Pulmonary acinar structure and function assesed by hyperpolaried 129Xe stimulated echo NMR" by Kern et al.