New Developments in Thermal Therapy

16:30         146.      Evaluation of “Referenceless” Thermometry in MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery of Uterine Fibroids - not available

Nathan McDannold¹, Clare Tempany¹, Ferenc Jolesz¹, Kullervo Hynynen¹

¹Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

16:42         147.      Referenceless Thermometry in the Presence of Phase Discontinuities Between Water and Fat

Viola Rieke¹, Anthony B. Ross², William H. Nau², Chris J. Diederich², Graham Sommer¹, Kim Butts¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

16:54         148.      Absolute Thermal Mapping Using the MR Scanner - not available

AbdElMonem El-Sharkawy¹, Paul Sotiriadis¹, Bensheng Qiu², Ergin Atalar, ^1,2

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

17:06         149.      Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Temperature Changes Using TmDOTMA^- - not available

Sait Kubilay Pakin¹, Shahryar Khan Hekmatyar¹, Andriy M. Babsky¹, Paige Nicole Hopewell¹, Navin Bansal¹

¹Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

17:18         150.      Magnetic Resonance Temperature Imaging of Light Activated Nanoshell Thermal Therapy - not available

R. Jason Stafford¹, D. Patrick O'Neal², John D. Hazle¹

¹The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Nanospectra Biosciences, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA

17:30         151.      RF Ablation Current Visualization at 0.5T

Greig Scott¹, Karl Vigen², Albert Chen¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

17:42         152.      A Trans-Rectal Focused Ultrasound Probe for MR-Guided Ablation of the Prostate - not available

Joseph E. Piel¹, Randy O. Giaquinto¹, Ronald D. Watkins¹, Patrick Gross², Renee Guhde¹, Robert D. Darrow¹,

Paul Bishop¹, Narter Ari³, Xuli Zong¹, Terry M. Topka¹, Charles L. Dumoulin¹

¹General Electric, Niskayuna, New York, USA; ²General Electric, Munich, Bavaria, Germany; ³General Electric, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

17:54         153.      Pre-Clinical Testing of a Phased Array Ultrasound System for MRI-Guided Noninvasive Surgery of the Brain - A Primate Study - not available

Kullervo Hynynen¹, Nathan McDannold¹, Greg Clement¹, Ferenc Jolesz¹, Eyal Zadicario², Ron J. Killiany³,

Tara L. Moore³, Douglas L. Rosene³

¹Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²InSightec, Haifa, Israel; ³Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

18:06         154.      Multiparametric Proton and Sodium MRI of Uterine Fibroids Pre- And Post-Treatment - not available

Michael A. Jacobs¹, Ronald Ouwerkerk¹, Paul A. Bottomley¹, Hyun S. Kim¹

¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

18:18         155.      Rapid MR Elastography Methods During MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery

Yuan Le¹, Kevin J. Glaser¹, Joel P. Felmlee¹, Olivier Rouviere², Armando Manduca¹, Shigao Chen¹,

Richard L. Ehman¹

¹Mayo Clinic Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; ²Hopital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France