Poster Award Winners
 

Pulse Sequences/Other

Honorable Mention
Progam No. 2342

¹H Single and Double Quantum MRI Evaluation of  Tendon Regeneration Mediated by Engineered Stem Cells
Keren Keinan-Adamsky¹, Hadassah Shinar¹, Gadi Pelled², Yoram Zilberman², Dan Gazit², Gil Navon^1
1Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; ²Heberew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Body/Cardiac Imaging

Phosphorylated Guanidinoacetate in muscle of GAMT deficient mice only partly compensates for PCr as assessed by 31P MRS and functional measurements
Hermien E. Kan¹, W Klaas Jan Renema¹, Arnold de Haan², Dirk Isbrandt³, Arend Heerschap^1
1University Medical Center St Radboud, Nijmegen, Netherlands; ²Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ³University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany               

Complete Assessment of LV and RV Function and Volume in a Single Breathold Using Real-Time, Spiral, Steady-State Free Precession
Girish Narayan¹, Krishna Nayak¹, John Pauly¹, Bob Hu^1
1Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA              

Respiratory Self-Gating for Free-Breathing Segmented Cine MRI
Andrew Christian Larson¹, Peter Kellman¹, Andrew Arai¹, Glenn A. Hirsch¹, Elliot McVeigh¹, Orlando Simonetti^2
1LCE, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Neuroimaging

Grey matter abnormalities before the onset of psychosis: An automated MR image analysis
Bridget Soulsby¹, Paola Dazzan², Xavier Chitnis², Stephen J. Wood¹, John Suckling³, Philip K. McGuire², Patrick D. McGorry¹, Robin M. Murray², Dennis Velakoulis¹, Lisa J. Phillips¹, Alison R. Yung¹, Christos Pantelis^1
1University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ²Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK; ³University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Sodium MRI of Reversible Focal Brain Ischemia in the Monkey
G. C. LaVerde¹, F. E. Boada¹, D. Davis², E. Nemoto², C A. Jungreis^2
1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA  

Combined Voxel-based analysis of volume and T2-relaxometry in temporal lobe epilepsy
Gaby Simon Pell¹, Regula Sofia Briellmann¹, Anthony B. Waites¹, David Fenton Abbott¹, Patrick CH Chan¹, Graeme David Jackson^2
1Brain Research Institute, Heidelberg West, Victoria, Australia; ²Brain Reseach Institute, Heidelberg West, Victoria, Australia

Combined correction for geometric distortion and its interaction with head movement in fMRI
Chloe Hutton¹, Ralf Deichmann¹, Robert Turner¹, Jesper Andersson^2
1UCL, London, UK; ²Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 

Post-Surgical Failure after Temporal Lobectomy is Associated with Increased Medial Temporal Lobe Damage
Simon Keller¹, Christine Denby¹, Udo Wieshmann², Neil Roberts^1
1University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK; ²The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK

Hardware/EMF

Liquid Hyperpolarized Xenon Production by Phase Exchange
Steven W. Morgan¹, Tining Su¹, Gary L. Samuelson¹, Gernot Laicher¹, Brian Saam^1
1University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA  

An Elevated Endring Birdcage Coil for Improved Performance at 3 Tesla
Daniel Weyers¹, David Keren¹, Eddy Boskamp¹, Graeme McKinnon¹, Kevin Kinsey^1
1GE Medical Systems, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

Conductor Losses in Many Channel RF Coil Arrays
Randy Duensing¹, James Akao¹, Charles Saylor¹, David Molyneaux^1
1MRI Devices, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Wave Behavior in Phantoms at 11.1 Tesla
Barbara L. Beck¹, Kelly A. Jenkins¹, Jeffrey R. Fitzsimmons^1
1University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA   

An RF Shield Comparative Study of Different Materials and Types
Daniel Weyers¹, Qin Liu^1
1GE Medical Systems, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

Investigating Tissue-Coil Interactions of an 8-elements Transmit/Recieve Torso Phased Array Coil
Bing Keong Li¹, Feng Liu¹, Ian Gregg¹, Nicholas Shuley¹, Stuart Crozier¹, Graham Galloway^1
1University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia 

A New Microstrip Resonator Coil for Imaging Rhesus Monkeys
Gene Bogdanov¹, Mathew Brevard², Timothy Fisher¹, Craig Ferris², Reinhold Ludwig^1
1Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; ²University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Cancer/Spectroscopy

The anti-angiogenic drug, SU11657, decreases brain tumor size and normalizes perfusion as indicated by DSC-MRI perfusion parameters
Christopher Chad Quarles¹, Scott D. Rand¹, Hendrikus G.J. Krouwer¹, Kathleen M. Schmainda^1
1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Changes in the tumor microenvironment early after treatment with the anti-angiogenic agent thalidomide
Réginald Ansiaux¹, Christine Baudelet¹, Bénédicte Jordan¹, Nelson Beghein¹, Olivier Feron¹, Vincent Grégoire¹, Bernard Gallez^1
1Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

Association between Hepatic Fat Accumulation and Hepatic Glucose Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetes
Martin Krssak¹, Attila Brehm¹, Elisabeth Bernroider¹, Peter Nowotny¹, Gary W. Cline², Gerald I. Shulman², Werner Waldhäusl¹, Michael Roden^1
1Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria; ²Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA