MRI in Animal Models for Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury

                  1451.    Early MRI Characterization of Cerebral Edema Following Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury in Rat

Yohan van de Looij¹, ², Hana Lahrech¹, ², Gilles Francony¹, ², Olivier Carle¹, ², Régine Farion¹, ²,

Christoph Segebarth¹, ², Jean-François Payen¹, ²

¹INSERM U594, Grenoble, France; ²Univ Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

                  1452.    The Effect of Interleukin-1 on Local Brain Temperature During Focal Cerebral Ischemia in the Rat:
                                A ¹H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Study

Adrian Robert Parry-Jones¹, Timo Liimatainen², Nancy Jane Rothwell¹, Risto Antero Kauppinen³, Olli H J Grohn²

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; ²University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; ³University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

                  1453.    Direct Evidence That Activating the Interleukin 1 Type I Receptor Enhances Ischemic Brain Damage

Jelena Lazovic¹, Anirban Basu², Raymond P. Rothstein³, Michael B. Smith⁴, Steven W. Levison³

¹California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA; ²National Brain Research Center, Gurgaon, India; ³University of Medicine and Dentistry, East Orange, New Jersey, USA; ⁴The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1454.    In Vivo Measurement of Blood Flow After Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats Using Susceptibility Weighted Imaging

Yimin Shen¹, Jiani Hu¹, Christian W. Kreipke¹, Theodor Petrov¹, E Mark Haacke¹, ²

¹Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ²MRI Institute of Biomedical Research, Detroit, Michigan, USA

                  1455.    Delayed Thalamic Damage After Stroke: Discriminator for Recovery Success from Functional
                                Loss in the Cortex of the Rat

Carlos Justicia¹, Pedro Ramos-Cabrer¹, Ralph Weber¹, Dirk Wiedermann¹, Cordula Strecker¹, Christiane Sprenger¹, Mathias Hoehn¹

¹Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany

                  1456.    The Response of the Fetal Brain to Antenatal Hypoxia-Ischemia Detected by Diffusion-Weighted Imaging

Alexander Drobyshevsky¹, Matthew Derrick¹, Alice M. Wyrwicz¹, Pottumarthi Prasad¹, Xinhai Ji¹,

Ila Englof², Sidhartha Tan¹

¹Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ²Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston,, Illinois, USA

                  1457.    Unilateral Common Carotid Artery Occlusion: A Transient Ischemia Model Well Suited to MR Studies

Jeremy Joseph Flint¹, Stephen J. Blackband¹, ², Peter E. Thelwall¹

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; ²National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

                  1458.    MRI Investigation of Combination Treatment of Embolic Stroke in Rat with Rt-PA and Atorvastatin

Guangliang Ding¹, Quan Jiang¹, Lian Li¹, Li Zhang¹, Zheng Gang Zhang¹, Swayamprava Panda¹, James R. Ewing¹, Michael Chopp¹

¹Henry Ford Health Sciences Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA

                  1459.    Spatiotemporal Pattern of USPIO Enhancement in Experimental Stroke Lesions Depends
                                on the Type of Ischemic Injury: A 9,4 T MRI Study

Michael Schroeter¹, Ana M. Oros-Peusquens², Marko Irkens², Avdo Celik², Andreas Saleh¹, Nadim J. Shah²,

Sebastian Jander¹

¹Heinrich Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany; ²Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany

                  1460.    MR Imaging of Rat Monocytes Homing Towards an Area of Cerebral Infarction

Raoul David Oude Engberink¹, Erik I. Hoff², Susanne M. van der Pol³, Erwin L. Blezer¹, Helga E. de Vries³

¹University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; ²Department of Neurology, Maastricht, Netherlands; ³VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

                  1461.    fMRI of Delayed Albumin Treatment During Stroke Recovery in Rats: Implication for
                                Fast Neuronal Habituation in Recovering Brains

Young Ro Kim¹, Mauritz P.A. van Meer¹, Joseph B. Mandeville¹, Emiri Tejima², George Dai¹, Kamil Topalkara³, Jianhua Qui³, Rick M. Dijkhuizen⁴, Mike A. Moskowitz³, Eng H. Lo², Bruce R. Rosen¹

¹Athinoula Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging/ Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²Neuroprotection Research laboratory/ Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³Stroke and Neurovascular Regulation Laboratory/  Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1462.    Dynamic Tissue Fates Tracking in Acute and Sub-Acute Phase of a Transient Occlusion Rat Model

Qiang Shen¹, Hongxia Ren¹, Jürgen Bardutzky², Marc Fisher³, Timothy Q. Duong¹

¹Emory Unviersity, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; ³The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

                  1463.    Time Course of Water Diffusivity in the Rat Brain After Global Ischemia

Ivan Vorisek¹, ², Helena Neprasova¹, Miroslava Anderova¹, Daniel Jirak³, Milan Hajek³, Alexandr Chvatal¹,

Eva Sykova¹, ²

¹Institute of Experimental Medicine ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic, Czech Republic; ²Charles University, 2nd Medical Faculty, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, Czech Republic; ³Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, Czech Republic

                  1464.    Brain Tissue Regeneration Following Activation of Endogenous Stem Cells in Animal Model of Stroke

Nancy J. Lobaugh¹, Anna Erlandsson², Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng³, Voytek Gretka¹, Cindi Morshead², Greg J. Stanisz¹

¹Sunnybrook & Womens' CHSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

                  1465.    Application of a Rat Stroke Model for Preclinical Evaluation of Anti-Stroke Drugs: Noninvasive
                                Monitoring with Comprehensive Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Feng Chen¹, Yicheng Ni¹, Nobuo Nagai², Yasuhiro Suzuki², Desire Collen², Guy Marchal²

¹Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Flamms Brabant, Belgium; ²Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Flaams Brabant, Belgium

                  1466.    Correlation of Proton Transfer Ratio and Intracellular PH in Acute Ischaemia

Kimmo T. Jokivarsi¹, Heidi I. Gröhn¹, Olli H. Gröhn¹, Risto A. Kauppinen²

¹A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; ²School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

                  1467.    Comparison of Cerebral Blood Flow Estimates in the Ischemic Area of Rat Brain Obtained with
                                Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast and Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling

Ryo Kagaya¹, ², Kazuhiro Nakamura², ³, Yasushi Kondoh², Masanobu Ibaraki², Jeff Kershaw², ³, Guoyue Chen¹,

 Iwao Kanno²

¹Akita Pref Univ, Ugo-Honjoh, Japan; ²Akita Res Inst of Brain and Vessels, Akita, Japan; ³Akita Industry Promotion Found, Akita, Japan


 

Ulrike Wedegärtner¹, Hendrik Kooijman², Andrew N. Priest¹, Mikhail Tchirikov¹, Hobe J. Schröder¹, Gerhard Adam¹

¹University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; ²Philips Medical Systems, Hamburg, Germany

                  1469.    Timecourse of Early CBF Changes After Controlled Cortical Impact in Mice

Lesley M. Foley¹, T Kevin Hitchens¹, Patrick M. Kochanek², John A. Melick², Chien Ho¹

¹Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1470.    Post-Ischaemic Gene Therapy for Stroke: An MRI Study

Romina Aron Badin¹, Mark F. Lythgoe¹, Martin D. King¹, David S. Latchman¹, David G. Gadian¹

¹Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK

                  1471.    Temporal and Spatial Evolution of MR Derived Cerebral Metabolic Rate of Oxygen Utilization Index
                                in Acute Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Stroke Rats

Hongyu An¹, Yasheng Chen¹, Liansheng Chang¹, Weili Lin¹

¹University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

                  1472.    Cerebral Edema Induced by Synchrotron Microbeam Radiation Therapy in the Healthy Mouse Brain.
                                Characterization by Means of Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Yohan van de Looij¹, Raphaël Serduc¹, Gilles Francony¹, Olivier Verdonck¹, Elke Brauer², Boudewijn van der Sanden¹, Christoph Segebarth¹, Chantal Remy¹, Hana Lahrech¹

¹UJF/INSERM U594, Grenoble, France; ²European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France

                  1473.    High Resolution Sodium Imaging of Rat and Mouse Models of Stroke at 17.6 T

Thomas Neuberger¹, ², Andrew Webb¹, ²

¹Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany


 

Animal Brain  MRS: 1H MRS

                  1474.    Effect of Iron Deficiency on Developing Rat Striatum

Ivan Tkac¹, Kay L. Ward¹, Barbara Felt², Betsy Lozoff², Michael K. Georgieff¹, Raghavendra Rao¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  1475.    Water and Metabolite Proton T1 and T2 Relaxation in Rat Brain In Vivo

Robin A. de Graaf¹, Peter B. Brown¹, Scott McIntyre¹, Terence W. Nixon¹, Kevin L. Behar¹, Douglas L. Rothman¹

¹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  1476.    Monitoring De- And Re- Myelination MR Spectroscopy Surrogate Markers in the Mouse Brain at 9.4 T

Wafaa Zaaraoui¹, ², Mathilde Deloire³, Michel Merle², Gerard Raffard², Marc Biran², Maria Inglese¹, Klaus G. Petry³, Jean-Michel Franconi², Oded Gonen¹, Vincent Dousset³

¹New York University, New York, New York, USA; ²RMSB UMR 5536, Bordeaux, France; ³EA2966 Universite Victor Segalen Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

                  1477.    MR Studies of Aging in the Hippocampus of the FBNF1 Rat Show Correlations with
                                Behavioral and Structural Degeneration

Ira Driscoll¹, ², Robert S. Sutherland², Boguslaw Tomanek³, Jeff F. Dunn³, William M. Brooks⁴

¹National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; ³University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ⁴University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA

                  1478.    In Vivo Observation of Hypernatremia During Sodium Lactate Infusion

Su Xu¹, Wenjun Zhu¹, Jun Shen¹

¹National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1479.    Acute Administration of Nicotine Reduced Myo-Inositol and GABA Levels in Nucleus Accumbens in Rats

Serguei Liachenko¹, Robert Durham¹, Lori Badura², Peter Snyder²

¹Pfizer, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ²Pfizer, Inc., Groton, Connecticut, USA

                  1480.    Effects of Chronic Morphine Treatment on Metabolism of Glutamate and GABA in Rat Prefrontal Cortex
                                Studied by Ex Vivo High Resolution ¹H NMR Spectroscopy

Hongchang Gao¹, Yun Xiang¹, ², Hang Zhu¹, Ninglei Sun³, Yuanye Ma³, Maili Liu¹, Hao Lei¹

¹Wuhan Institute of Physics & Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China; ²Jianghan University, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China; ³Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China

                  1481.    Morphological and Metabolic Changes in the Brain of 6-Hydroxydopamine Treated Rats Observed
                                by MRI and In Vivo ¹H MRS

Fang Fang¹, Yuanyi Ma², Shuzhen Kong², Min He², Hao Lei¹

¹Wuhan Institute of Physics & Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China; ²Kunming Medical College, Kunming, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China

                  1482.    Methylphenidate Administration During Adolescence Produces Long-Term Effects in Adult Rat Brain:
                                A 1H MRS In Vivo Study

Rossella Canese¹, Walter Adriani¹, Franca Podo¹, Giovanni Laviola¹

¹Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

                  1483.    Metabolic Responses in Kanic Acid Induced Lesion in Rat

Hui Mao¹, Donna Toufexis², Xiaoxia Wang¹, Shaoxiong Wu², Agnes Lacreuse²

¹Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  1484.    Creatine Uptake Kinetics in Brain and Skeletal Muscle of GAMT Deficient Knockout Mice

Hermien Elise Kan¹, Esther Meeuwissen¹, Andor Veltien¹, Dirk Isbrandt², Arend Heerschap¹

¹Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands; ²University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

                  1485.    MRI and MRS Study of a Transgenic Mouse Model of D1 Dopamine Receptor Positive Striatal Cell Depletion

Ke Fang¹, Ilsa Gantois¹, Hong Xin Wang¹, Qi Zhu Wu¹, Qing Yang¹, John Drago¹, Gary Francis Egan¹

¹Howard Flory Institute, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

                  1486.    Metabolic Interactions Between Glutamatergic and Dopaminergic Neurotransmiter Systems
                                Are Mediated Through D1, But Not D2, Dopamine Receptors

Tiago B. Rodrigues¹, ², Ana B. Martin³, Patricia Sanchéz¹, Sebastián Cerdán¹, Rosario Moratalla³

¹Inst. Inv. Biomedicas "Alberto Sols", Madrid, Spain; ²University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; ³Inst. Cajal, Madrid, Spain

                  1487.    Aggregation-Induced Reduction in T₂ Relaxation Time of MR Visible Lipids Observed in Ischemic
                                Rat Brain

Li Wei¹, Hao Lei¹

¹Wuhan Institute of Physics & Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China

                  1488.    Identification of Neural Stem Cells in Rat Brain Using Their Specific Magnetic Resonance
                                Spectroscopy Signature

Raphael D. Hazel¹, Louis N. Manganas², Xueying Zhang³, Mei Yu⁴, Petar M. Djuric³, Helene Benveniste³,

Mark E. Wagshul³, Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, ²³

¹Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New Yory, USA; ²Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA; ³Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA; ⁴Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, New York, USA

                  1489.    The Effect of Paramagnetic Manganese Cations on ¹H MR Spectroscopy of the Brain

Kathrine Skak Madsen¹, ², David Alberg Holm¹, ³, Lise Vejby Søgaard¹, Gert Rene Christoffersen², Ian John Rowland¹

¹Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark; ²University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; ³Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

                  1490.    Measurement of T₁ Relaxation Times of Major Metabolites in the Mouse Brain at 11.7 and 17.6 Tesla
                                Using Voxel-Localized Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Thomas Neuberger¹, ², Andrew Webb¹, ², Cornelius Faber², Volker Christian Behr², Stefan Neubauer³,

Jürgen E. Schneider³

¹Huck Institute Magnetic Resonance Centre, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; ³University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

                  1491.    Quantitative MR Spectroscopic Evaluation of Radiation-Induced Brain Injury in a Rat Model

Todd Atwood¹, Mike Robbins¹, Jian-Ming Zhu¹

¹Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA

                  1492.    Quantitative 1H MRS in the Rat Hippocampus After Global Ischemia

Daniel Jirak¹, ², Ivan Vorisek³, Eva Sykova⁴, Milan Hajek¹, ²

¹IKEM, Prague 4, Czech Republic; ²Charles University, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic; ³Institute of Experimental Medicine,, Prague, Czech Republic; ⁴Institute of Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

                  1493.    In Vivo Brain NMR Spectroscopy of Alpha-Mannosidosis in a Feline Model

Sergey Magnitsky¹, Charles H. Vite², Stephen Pickup¹, David Aleman², John H. Wolfe², Harish Poptani³

¹The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ³The University of Pennsylvania,, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1494.    ¹HMRS in a Monkey Model of AIDS and Opiates

Christine Carol Cloak¹, Linda Chang¹, Shawn O'Neil², Thomas M. Ernst¹, Dan Anderson³, Robert M. Donahoe⁴

¹University of Hawaii, JABSOM, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Southborough, Massachusetts, USA; ³Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ⁴University of Utah, School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

                  1495.    Genotype Specific Alterations Detected in the Neurochemical Profiles of Aged Transgenic
                                Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease

Malgorzata Marjanska¹, Geoffrey L. Curran², Thomas M. Wengenack², Pierre-Gilles Henry¹, Robin L. Bliss¹,

Joseph F. Poduslo², Clifford R. Jack, Jr. ², Kamil Ugurbil¹, Michael Garwood¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ²Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  1496.    The Pathophysiogical Basis of Brain Swelling of Grey vs. White Matter in Acute Liver Failure
                                Are Different: Lessons from a Study Using MARS

Claudia Zwingmann¹, ², Chris Rose¹, Surajit Sen³, Nathan Davies⁴, Roger Frank Butterworth¹, Dieter Leibfritz²,

Lars Marius Ytrebo⁵, Arthur Revhaug⁵, Rajiv Jalan⁶

¹Hospital Saint-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ²University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; ³State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA; ⁴University College London, London, UK; ⁵University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromso, Norway; ⁶Royal Free & University College Medical School, London, UK

                  1497.    Effect of Blood Flow on Brain Temperature Distribution

Mingming Zhu¹, ², Joseph J. H. Ackerman¹, ², Alexander L. Sukstanskii², Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy, ¹²

¹Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; ²Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA


 

Brain: Miscellaneous MRI

                  1498.    The Association of Low-Dosage Sex Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Aging Brain Using 3.0T
                                MR Scanner

Hu Ling¹, Jin Zheng Yu¹, Feng Feng¹, Ge Qinsheng¹, Li Mingli¹

¹Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  1499.    Early Experience from the Application of a Noninvasive MRI-Based Measurement of
                                Intracranial Pressure in Hydrocephalus

Noam Alperin¹, Josh Niebruegge¹, Terry Lichtor², Roberta Glick²

¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1500.    Neuroprotective Effect of Long-Term Low Dose Hormone Replacement Therapy on
                                Postmenopausal Women Brain Hippocampus

Hu Ling¹, Yue Yun², Zuo Pingping², Jin Zheng Yu¹, Feng Feng¹, Ge Qinsheng¹

¹Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ²Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical Coll, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  1501.    Will Piecewise Continuous Echo Spacing Adversely Affect the T₂ Distribution?

Thorarin Albert Bjarnason¹

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

                  1502.    Magic Echo Imaging of the Brain at 1.5 T

Walter R.T. Witschey II¹, Brian K. Bronzo¹, Arijitt Borthakur¹, Ravinder Reddy¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1503.    PET Restoration by Maximization of MRI-PET Mutual Information

Yong Chu¹, Min-Ying Su¹, Mark Mandelkern¹, Orhan Nalcioglu¹

¹University of California, Irvine, California, USA

                  1504.    Variability of Automated Shape Analyses of Fixed Brain Mouse MRI

Jason Lerch¹, Shoshana Tsatskis¹, John Sled¹, Natasa Kovacevic¹, R. Mark Henkelman¹

¹Mouse Imaging Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  1505.    Pre-Processing Strategies to Improve Longitudinal MRI Repeatability

Kelvin Wong¹, ², Xiaoyin Xu², Geoffrey Young², Stephen Wong¹, ²

¹Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1506.    Biocompatibility of Sapphire and Borosilicate Glass for Neural Prosthesis Using MRI and Histopathology

Kaushik Saranath Parthasarathy¹, Yimin Shen¹, Kelley Brabant¹, Jie Li¹, Yu Cheng¹, Gregory William Auner¹,

James Pat McAllister II¹, Ewart Mark Haacke¹

¹Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

                  1507.    Using MRI Images for Determination of Near-Infrared Regions of Sensitivity in Rodent Brain

Hamid Dehghani¹, Jeff Frank Dunn²

¹University of Exeter, Exeter, UK; ²University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

                  1508.    SWI Filtered Phase Images Demonstrate That Tissue Iron in the Midbrain Correlates
                                with Local Capillary Density

Ewart Mark Haacke, Ph.D. ¹, ², Elena Svilenova Manova¹, Muhammed Ayaz², Asadullah Khan², Daniel K. Kido³,

 Wolff Kirsch³

¹Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ²The MRI Institute for Biomedical Research, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ³Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA

                  1509.    Voxel-Based Morphometry Analysis of Structural Gray Matter Volume Variations Across
                                Idiopathic and Cryptogenic Epilepsy Syndromes

Heath Pardoe¹, Gaby S. Pell¹, Anne T. Berg², David F. Abbott¹, Graeme D. Jackson¹

¹Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ²Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA

                  1510.    Cerebrospinal Fluid Pulsatility Model and Its Validation

Jieun Kim¹, Neil A. Thacker¹, Paul A. Bromiley¹, Stephen J. Payne², Alan Jackson¹

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; ²University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

                  1511.    Perfusion Weighted MR in NPSLE

Bart Jeroen Emmer¹, M J. van Osch¹, D van As¹, O Wu², G M. Steup-Beekman¹, S C. Steens¹, T W. Huizinga¹,

M A. van Buchem¹, J van der Grond¹

¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1512.    Contrast-Enhanced First Pass Perfusion MR Imaging in Patients with Subclinical Hepatic Encephalopathy

Li Tao¹, Ma Lin¹, Li Tao¹

¹PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China China

                  1513.    Central Pontine Myelinolysis After Liver Transplantation: MR Diffusion, Spectroscopy, and Perfusion Findings

Yong Guo¹, Jinhua Hu², Wei Lin¹, Kuihong Zheng¹

¹General navy Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ²302 Hospital of PLA, Beijing, People’s Republic of China


 

Eyes, Glands, and Neck

                  1514.    Characteristic MRI Findings of Metastatic Neuroblastomas and Chloromas in the Orbit in Children

Junfang Xian¹, Zhenchang Wang¹, Liyan He¹

¹Beijing Tongren Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  1515.    Assessment of Orbital Masses Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging

Liyan He¹, Jun Fang Xian¹, Zhen Chang Wang¹, Zhong Lin Liu¹, Fei Yan¹, Yan Tao Niu¹, Bo Zhao¹

¹Beijing tongren Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  1516.    Study of Ocular Drug Delivery Using Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Stephanie Kim¹, ², Craig J. Galban¹, Michael R. Robinson¹, Karl G. Csaky¹, Martin J. Lizak¹, Ginger Tansey¹,

Nam Sun Wang², Robert J. Lutz¹

¹NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, US

                  1517.    In Vivo Echo Planar Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Optic Nerve in Rats

Marte Thuen¹, Anders Kristoffersen², Torgil Riise Vandberg², Trond Erling Singstad², Olav Haraldseth¹,

Christian Brekken¹

¹Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; ²St. Olavs Hospital HF, Trondheim, Norway

                  1518.    First Report of Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Murine Eye

Saurav Chandra¹, Kyle Padgett¹, John R. Forder²

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; ²McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  1519.    Does the Use of Passive Occlusion Combined with a Sialogogue Improve MR Sialography ?

Jo Ann Hugill¹, Kieren Grant Hollingsworth², Evis Sala², David J. Lomas²

¹Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK; ²University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK

                  1520.    Differentiating Squamous Cell Carcinoma from Other Types of Tumors in the Head and Neck Region by ¹H MRS

Tedros Bezabeh¹, Olva Odlum¹, ², Richard Nason¹, ³, Paul Kerr³, Donna Sutherland³, Rakesh Patel¹, Ian C.P. Smith¹

¹National Research Council, Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ³CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

                  1521.    Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Swallowing Using a Synchronized Sampling Method

Yasutoshi Honda¹, Yoshinobu Yanagi¹, Noriko Kawai¹, Kanji Kishi¹, Dang Jianwu²

¹Graduate school of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama-shi, Okayama, Japan; ²Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan

                  1522.    Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Malignant Lymphoma and Carcinoma Involving Cavernous Sinus
                                Evaluated by Line Scan Diffusion-Weighted Imaging

Masayuki Maeda¹, Hajime Sakuma¹, Kan Takeda¹

¹Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu, Mie, Japan

                  1523.    Dynamic MRI of Vocal Cords Using Carotid Phased Array Coils

Marc Uwe Schlamann¹, Stefan Maderwald¹, Goetz Lehnerdt¹, Isabel Wanke¹, Roya Jeyrani¹, Susanne Ladd¹

¹University of Essen Medical School, Essen, Germany

                  1524.    Characterization of a MRI Compatible Head / Neck Immobilization and Repositioning Device for
                                Longitudinal Studies of the Carotid Artery

Emilee S. Minalga¹, J. Rock Hadley¹, Dennis L. Parker¹

¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

                  1525.    Technique for Acquiring MR Images of CSF Flow During a Valsalva Maneuver

Andrew L. Wentland¹, Oliver Wieben¹, Charles A. Mistretta¹, Frank R. Korosec¹, Victor M. Haughton¹

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1526.    Evaluation of Aneurysm Hemodynamics Using Phase Contrast Vastly Undersampled Isotropic Projection Imaging

Kevin Michael Johnson¹, Roham Moftakhar¹, Beverly Aagaard¹, Chuck Mistretta¹

¹University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1527.    Anatomic Imaging of the Soft Palate During Phonation as an Aid in Cleft Palate Presurgical Planning

James S. Hyde¹, David A. Soltysik¹, Andrzej Jesmanowicz¹, Arun K. Gosain²

¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; ²Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

                  1528.    Dynamic MRI of the Orbit

Marco Piccirelli¹, ², Roger Luechinger¹, Oliver Bergamin², Michaela Soellinger¹, Andrea Rutz¹, Christof Baltes¹,

Peter Boesiger¹

¹Swiss Federal Institute of Technology & University of Zürich, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland; ²University Hospital of Zürich, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland


 

Cerebral Blood Flow and Dynamic Contrast Perfusion

                  1529.    Relaxivity of Blood Pool Contrast Agent Depends on the Host Tissue as Suggested by Semianalytical Simulations

Birgitte Fuglsang Jensen¹, Leif Østergaard¹, Valerij G. Kiselev²

¹Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, Denmark; ²University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Germany

                  1530.    Intercompartmental Water Exchange Effects in DCE MRI

Xin Li¹, William Rooney¹, Charles Springer¹

¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA

                  1531.    Investigations on the Non-Mono Exponential Signal Decay in Presence of a Single Vessel; Simulations,
                                Phantom and In Vivo Measurements

Jan Sedlacik¹, Alexander Rauscher¹, Jürgen Rainer Reichenbach¹

¹Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Thüringen, Germany

                  1532.    A Re-Examination of the Impact of Dispersion on Quantitative Cerebral Blood Flow Measurements

Linda Ko¹, Marina Salluzzi¹, Richard Frayne¹, Michael Smith¹

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  1533.    The Effects of Background Micro-Circulation in the AIF Measured from DSC MRI of the Brain

Zhiyue J. Wang¹, ², Robert J. Thornton¹, ², Jeremy Y. Jones¹, ²

¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA