Myelin Turnover in Health and Disease as Detected by MRI

Room B 210-211      16:00 - 18:00                                  Chairs: Michael E. Moseley and Susumu Mori

16:00      711.    Manganese as an in Vivo Tract Tracer for Callosal Connectivity

Anil Zechariah1, Yi-Hua Hsu1, Chen Chang1

1Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
 

16:12      712.    Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Myelin-Deficient Shiverer Mice Transplanted with Neural Precursor Cells  - not available

Govind Nair1, Yusuke Tanahashi2, Hoi Pang Low1, Susan Billings-Gagliardi3, William J. Schwartz1,

Timothy Q. Duong4

1University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; 2Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; 3Uinversity of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; 4Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
 

16:24      713.    Manganese-Enhanced MRI Non-Invasively Reveals the Degeneration of Fasciculus Retroflexus Induced by Meth-Amphetamine

Yi-Hua Hsu1, Cecil C. Yen1, Chen Chang1

1Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
 

16:36      714.    Noninvasive Detection of Axon and Myelin Damage in Mouse Corpus Callosum

Shu-Wei Sun1, Hsiao-Fang Liang1, Kathryn Trinkaus1, Anne H. Cross1, Regina C. Armstrong2, Sheng-Kwei Song

1Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; 2Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
 

16:48      715.    Seasonal Changes in Neuronal Connectivity in the Songbird Brain Discerned by Repeated in Vivo DTI

Geert De Groof1, Marleen Verhoye1, Alexander Leemans1, Annemie Van der Linden1

1University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
 

17:00      716.    Imaging the Progression of Niemann-Pick Type C Disease in a Mouse Model Using DTI and High-Resolution 3D MRI  - not available

Chad Hicks1, Silvia Lope-Piedrafita1, Robert Erickson1, Theodore Trouard1

1University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
 

17:12      717.    Axonal and Myelin Damage to Optic Nerve and Optic Tract in EAE Mice Characterized by DTI

Shu-Wei Sun1, Anne H. Cross1, Sheng-Kwei Song

1Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
 

17:24      718.    Isotropic High-Resolution 3D MRI in Common Marmosets with EAE: A Potential Marker for the Assessment of Therapeutic Approaches

Susann Boretius1, Boldizsar Czeh2, Barthel Schmelting2, Takashi Watanabe1, Eberhard Fuchs2,3, Jens Frahm1,3, Thomas Michaelis1

1Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH am Max-Planck-Institut fuer biophysikalische Chemie, Goettingen, Germany; 2Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH, Goettingen, Germany; 3Institut f. MS-Forschung, Humanmedizin der Universitaet Goettingen und der Hertie-Stiftung, Goettingen, Germany
 

17:36      719.    DTI at Long Diffusion Time Reveals Increased Sensitivity to Diffusion Anisotropy  - not available

Govind Nair1, Hoi Pang Low1, Susan Billings-Gagliardi2, William J. Schwartz1, Timothy Q. Duong3

1University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; 2Uinversity of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; 3Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
 

17:48      720.    Neural Tissue Characterization Using Integrated Relaxometry Analysis

Adrienne Dula1, Mark Does1

1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA