Myocardial Function and Strain Analysis

                  1634.    Single Breath-Hold Whole-Heart 3D CINE Imaging Using Kt-BLAST and Kt-SENSE

Marcus Katoh¹, Elmar Spuentrup¹, Arno Buecker¹, Marc Kouwenhoven², Jürgen Bunke², Rolf W. Guenther¹,

Thoralf Niendorf¹, Thoralf Niendorf¹

¹RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany; ²Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands

                  1635.    Fast 3D Cine Steady-State Free Precession Imaging with Sensitivity Encoding for Assessment of
                                Left Ventricular Function in a Single Breath-Hold

Neil B. Mascarenhas¹, Raja Muthupillai², ³, Benjamin Cheong², Mercedes Pereyra², Scott D. Flamm, ¹²

¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; ²St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA; ³Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  1636.    Single Breath-Hold 3D Cine Imaging of the Heart: A Non-Angulated Isotropic Acquisition Using
                                SENSE on a 32 Channel System

Vivek Muthurangu¹, Nicholas MI Noble², Redha Boubertakh¹, Richard Winkelmann³, Peter Börnert⁴, Derek L. G. Hill², Reza S. Razavi¹

¹King's College London, London, UK; ²University College London, London, UK; ³University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ⁴Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  1637.    Minimized Off-Resonance Effects with Centric Radial SSFP for Imaging Cardiac Function

Matthew D. Robson¹, Stefan Neubauer¹

¹Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK

                  1638.    A Reproducibility Comparison of Quantitative Left Ventricular Assessments in Healthy Volunteers
                                Using Different MRI Scanners - Implications for Multicentre Cardiac MRI Studies

Stephen J. Gandy¹, Shelley A. Waugh¹, R Stephen Nicholas¹, Helen Simpson², Wendy Milne¹, Tracy Rylott³,

J Graeme Houston¹

¹NHS Tayside, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Angus, UK; ²School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, Angus, UK; ³NHS Tayside, Perth Royal Infirmary, Perth, Perthshire, UK

                  1639.    Range of Biventricular Dimensions and Function Evaluated by Steady State Free Precession
                                Cine Magnetic Resonance in Patients with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot

Margaret Mary Samyn¹, Andrew J. Powell¹, Ruchira Garg¹, Laureen Sena¹, Tal Geva¹

¹Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1640.    Longitudinal, Radial, and Circumferential Myocardial Velocities in Patients with Ventricular Dyssynchrony

Jana Delfino¹, Mobit Bhasin, Angel Leon, Robert Eisner, John Oshinski¹

¹Georgia Institute of Technology/ Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  1641.    Pre- And Postcontrast Three-Dimensional Cardiac Cine MRI Using SENSE and K-T BLAST

Yasuo Amano¹, Tatsuo Kumazaki¹, Yuriko Suzuki²

¹Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan; ²Philips Medical System, Tokyo, Japan

                  1642.    Acquisition of Black-Blood Cine Cardiac Images in a Single Heartbeat at 3.0T

Ahmed S. Fahmy¹, Li Pan¹, Nael F. Osman¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1643.    A Double Navigator Approach to Double Inversion Recovery Fast Spin Echo Imaging in Black Blood
                                Cardiac MRI

Pascal Spincemaille¹, Thanh D. Nguyen¹, Martin Prince¹, Yi Wang¹

¹Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA

                  1644.    MR Compatible Heart Phantom for Medical Research

Holger Timinger¹, Sascha Krueger¹, Joern Borgert¹

¹Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany

                  1645.    An MRI-Based Beating Heart Model

Qing Wei¹, Stuart Crozier¹, Ben Appleton¹, Ling Xia², Feng Liu¹, Stephen Wilson¹, Wendy Strugnell³,

Richard Slaughter³, Robyn Riley³

¹The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ²ZheJiang University, HangZhou, ZheJiang, People’s Republic of China; ³The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

                  1646.    Balanced 2D Radial Acquisition SSFP of the Mouse Heart at 7 Tesla

Elizabeth Kathleen Bucholz¹, G. Allan Johnson¹

¹Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  1647.    Direct Measurement of Intra Ventricular and Atrial Pressures Concurrent with MR Image Acquisiton

S. David Smith¹, ², Helene Benveniste², ³, G. Ron Morris⁴, Svante Hojer⁵, Igor Izrailtyan³, Mei Yu², Congwu Du², Zhongchi Luo⁶, Yu Ma², Hai-Dee Lee², Igor Feinstein⁷

¹INNOVISION Diagnostic Imaging Corp., Bellport, New York, USA; ²Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, New York, USA; ³Stony Brook Hospital, Stony Brook, New York, USA; ⁴SA Instruments, Inc., Stony Brook, New York, USA; ⁵Samba Instruments, Inc., Gotenburg, Sweden; ⁶Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA; ⁷New York University, New York, New York, USA

                  1648.    Slice Refocusing Signal for Retrospective Reconstruction of CINE Cardiac MR Images

Arno Nauerth¹, Edwin Heijman², Claudia Diekmann¹

¹Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

                  1649.    Optimal Combination of Phase Cycling and Gradient Spoiling in DENSE Displacement Mapping

Eric Bennett¹, Bruce Spottiswoode², Christine H. Lorenz², Han Wen¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Siemens, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1650.    Combining 2D DENSE and SENC to Calculate the 3D Strain Tensor

Aaron Timothy Hess¹, Xiaodong Zhong², Bruce Shawn Spottiswoode¹, Frederick H. Epstein², Ernesta M. Meintjes¹

¹University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; ²University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  1651.    DENSE and HARP: Two Views on the Same Technique of Phase-Based Strain Imaging

Joost Kuijer¹, Mark B. Hofman¹, Jaco J. Zwanenburg¹, J. Tim Marcus¹, Albert C. Van Rossum¹, Rob M. Heethaar¹

¹VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, NL, Netherlands

                  1652.    More Comprehensive Cardiac DENSE MR Imaging by Combination of Short Axis and Long Axis Data

Abbas Nasiraei Moghaddam¹, Han Wen², Morteza Gharib¹

¹California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA; ²NIH/NHLBI, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1653.    Fast 3D Dense Tracking of Cardiac Material Points Using ZHARP: In-Vivo Validation and Comparison
                                with 3D SF-HARP

Khaled Z. Abd-Elmoniem¹, Matthias Stuber¹, Jerry L. Prince¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1654.    Real-Time Single-Shot CINE Imaging of Through-Slice Strain in the Human Heart

Han Wen¹, Eric Bennett¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1655.    Navigator Gated High Temporal Resolution Tissue Phase Mapping of Myocardial Motion

Bernd André Jung¹, Maxim Zaitsev¹, Jürgen Hennig¹, Michael Markl¹

¹University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

                  1656.    Toward True Myocardial Plannar Strain Using ZHARP: Experimental In-Vivo Validation

Khaled Z. Abd-Elmoniem¹, Matthias Stuber¹, Jerry L. Prince¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1657.    Comparison of Myocardial Velocities Obtained with Magnetic Resonance Phase Velocity Mapping
                                and Tissue Doppler Imaging in Normal Subjects and Patients with Left Ventricular Dyssynchrony

Jana Delfino¹, Mobit Bhasin¹, Robert Cole¹, Angel Leon¹, Robert Eisner¹, John Merlino¹, John Oshinski¹

¹Georgia Institute of Technology/ Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  1658.    The Effect of Noise on the Accuracy of Strain Measurment When Using Strain Encoded (SENC) MRI

Tamer Yousef¹, Nael F. Osman¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1659.    VaFA: Replacing CSPAMM

Vinay Manjunath Pai¹, Daniel Kim¹

¹New York University, New York, New York, USA


 

Lung Imaging: Applications

                  1660.    Quantitative Regional Lung Ventilation- Results in 15 Single Lung Transplanted Patients

Hans-Georg Topf¹, P Biondetti², Maren Zapke¹, Rainer Kuth³, M Deimling³, C Chefd´hotel⁴, B Geiger⁵,

Thomas Rupprecht⁶

¹Childrens Hospital, Erlangen, Germany; ²Clinico, Milano, Italy; ³Siemens, Erlangen, Germany; ⁴Siemens, Princeton, U, USA; ⁵Siemens, U, Germany; ⁶Childrens Hospital, Bayreuth, Germany

                  1661.    Is There a Diagnostic Potential of Magnetization Transfer MRI in Patients with Lung Cancer?

Johannes F. T. Arnold¹, Markus Kotas¹, Eberhard D. Pracht¹, Michael Flentje¹, Peter Michael Jakob¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

                  1662.    The Role of Hyperpolarized 3-Helium MRI in NSCLC

Rob H. Ireland¹, Mark McJury², Matthew Q. Hatton³, Neil Woodhouse¹, Edwin JR van Beek⁴, Jim M. Wild¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; ²Belvoir Park Hospital, Belfast, UK; ³Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield, UK; ⁴University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

                  1663.    Ventilation Heterogeneity Indices Computed from Hyperpolarized ³He MRI Captures Differences
                                Between Asthmatic and Non-Asthmatic Lungs

Yang-Sheng Tzeng¹, ², Niral Shah, ¹², Joey Mansour¹, Jessica Gereige¹, George Washko¹, Elliot Israel¹,

Kenneth Lutchen², Mitchell Albert¹

¹Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1664.    Assessing the Temporal Changes of the Regional Ventilation in the Lungs of Asthmatics
                                with Hyperpolarized Helium-3 MR Imaging

Talissa A. Altes¹, ², John J. Battiston², Adam P. Juersivich², John P. Mugler², Thomas AE Platts-Mills²,

Eduard E. de Lange²

¹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  1665.    Comparison of Diffusion Weighted Helium-3 MRI in Patients with Asthma Versus Those with COPD

Sean B. Fain¹, Tallissa A. Altes², Rafael O'Halloran¹, Ronald L. Sorkness¹, Michael D. Evans¹, Frank R. Korosec¹, Thomas M. Grist¹

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1666.    Helium-3 Apparent Diffusion Coefficient MRI Compared to CT in Emphysema Patients

Per Åkeson¹, Sandra Diaz¹, Ingrid Casselbrant¹, Eeva Piitulainen¹, Per Wollmer¹, Göran Pettersson², Peter Magnusson², Barry Peterson³

¹Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden; ²GE Healthcare, Malmö, Sweden; ³Pfizer Inc., Groton, Connecticut, USA

                  1667.    Velocity Encoding MRI with SENSE: Utility for Assessment of Disease Severity in Pulmonary
                                Emphysema Patients

Munenobu Nogami¹, Yoshiharu Ohno¹, Hisanobu Koyama¹, Daisuke Takenaka¹, Masahiko Fujii¹, Kazuro Sugimura¹

¹Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

                  1668.    Early Detection of Emphysema by Hyperpolarized Helium-3 MRI Through Measuring
                                Regional Fractional Ventilation

Kiarash Emami¹, Martin Fischer¹, Jianliang Zhu¹, Masaru Ishii², Vahid Vahdat¹, Stephen Kadlecek¹,

John MacDuffie Woodburn¹, Michael E. Friscia¹, JiangSheng Yu¹, Rahim R. Rizi¹, Joseph Shrager¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA


 

Muscle Spectroscopy

                  1669.    Measurement of Intramyocellular Lipids in Obese Subjects Using Spectroscopic Imaging with High Spatial Resolution

Jan Weis¹, Lars Johansson², Frederic Courivaud³, Anders Karlsson¹, Håkan Ahlström¹

¹Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden, Sweden; ²Astra Zeneca R&D, Uppsala, Sweden, Sweden; ³Philips Medical Systems, Oslo, Norway, Norway

                  1670.    Separation of the Intra- And Extracellular Apparent Diffusion Coefficients (ADC) of Water in
                                Rat Skeletal Muscle Using Spectroscopic MEMRI

Karl G. Helmer¹, John G. Seland², Nils Henninger³, Christopher H. Sotak¹, ³

¹Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; ²Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; ³UMass/Memorial Healthcare, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

                  1671.    In Vivo Quantification of Intramyocellular Lipid in Mouse Hindleg Muscle

Rachida Fissoune¹, Bassem Hiba², Marc Janier², André Briguet¹

¹Laboratoire de RMN CNRS UMR 5012, Lyon, France; ²Animage Plateforme of Small Animal Imaging, Lyon, France

                  1672.    IMCL Changes During Moderate Endurance Exercise as Measured by Three Different Methods

Tom Dresselaers¹, Katrien De Bock¹, Paul Van Hecke¹, Peter Hespel¹

¹K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Belgium

                  1673.    MRI Measurement of Advanced Glycation End Products: The MRI Hyperglycemic Damage Index

Andres Rahal¹, Gary D. Fullerton¹

¹The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA

                  1674.    ¹H-MRSI in Human Calf Muscles at 3T: Ordering Effects and Intra-Myocellular Lipids

Peter Vermathen¹, Roland Kreis¹, Chris Boesch¹

¹University & Inselspital, Berne, Switzerland

                  1675.    Response of Insulin-Dependent Type 2 Diabetic Subjects to a 5-Month Exercise Training Program

Henk M.M.L. De Feyter¹, Stephan S.F. Praet², Luc J. van Loon², Jeanine J. Prompers¹, Klaas Nicolay¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands; ²Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

                  1676.    Assesment of the Fat Content of Proximal Femur and Adjacent Muscle in Patients with Osteoarthritis

Trevor S. Ahearn¹, Thomas W. Redpath¹, Richard M. Aspden¹, James D. Hutchison¹, Scott I.K. Semple¹, David J. Knight¹

¹University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

                  1677.    PPARδ Agonist Treatment Increases Skeletal Muscle Lipid Metabolism Without Altering Mitochondrial Coupling:
                                An In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study

Dewen Yang¹, Warren M. Casey¹, Alan R. Olzinski¹, Carolyn Williams¹, Stephen C. Lenhard¹, Jeffrey J. Legos¹, Terrance C. Hawk¹, Susanta K. Sarkar¹, Steve J. Newsholme¹, Beat M. Jucker¹

¹GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1678.    The Typical IMCL Distribution Pattern in Rat Tibialis Anterior Muscle Remains Unchanged
                                After High-Fat Diet or Fasting

Henk M.M.L. De Feyter¹, Klaas Nicolay¹, Jeanine J. Prompers¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

                  1679.    Magnetic Resonance Findings and Serum Creatine Kinase Measurements in Acute Human
                                Skeletal Muscle Injury

Tatiana Zaraiskaya¹, Dinesh Kumbhare², Michael D. Noseworthy¹

¹McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ²St.Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

                  1680.    Reproducibility of Muscle Metabolism Parameters in Children Determined by  ³¹P Spectroscopy

Jonathan Fulford¹, Neil Armstrong¹, Alan Barker¹, Deborah Welford¹, Joanne Welsman¹

¹University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK

                  1681.    In Vivo Assessment by 31P-MRS of Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Function in Patients on
                                Long-Term Home Parenteral Nutrition

Loris Pironi¹, Emil Malucelli², Cristina Guidetti¹, Caterina Tonon², Claudia Testa², Raffaele Lodi², Bruno Barbiroli², Stefano Iotti²

¹Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; ²University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

                  1682.    OPA1 Mutations Result in a Deficit of In Vivo Mitochondrial ATP Production in Patients with
                                Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy

R Lodi¹, C Tonon¹, D Manners¹, E Malucelli¹, C Testa¹, M L. Valentino¹, P Barboni², S Schaich³, S Schimpf³,

B Wissinger³, V Carelli¹, B Barbiroli¹

¹Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Italy; ²Centro Salus, Bologna, Italy, Italy; ³Molekulargenetisches Labor der Universitats-Augenklinik, Tubingen, Germany, Germany

                  1683.    Bioenergetic Defects in Muscles of Polymyositis Patients:  Quantitative MRI and P-31 MRS Investigation

Jing Qi¹, ², Nancy Josephine Olsen¹, ³, Kenneth John Niermann¹, Jane Harting Park¹

¹Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ²Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China; ³UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA

                  1684.    Intersubject Differences in the Effect of Acidosis on Phosphocreatine Recovery Kinetics After Exercise

Jeanine J. Prompers¹, Henk M.M.L. De Feyter¹, Nicole M.A. van den Broek¹, Larry A.H.J. de Graaf¹, Klaas Nicolay¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

                  1685.    Mitochondrial Capacity and Oxygenation Measured by ³¹P MRS and Near Infrared Spectroscopy
                                in Healthy and Diabetic Subjects

Jonathan Fulford¹, Rajagopalan Sriraman², Claire Ball², John Tooke², Neil Armstrong¹, Angela Shore²

¹University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK; ²Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, Devon, UK

                  1686.    A Quantitative Study of Bioenergetics in Skeletal Muscle Lacking Carbonic Anhydrase III
                                by 31P Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Min Liu¹, Glenn Walter¹, Neeti Pathare¹, Un-jin Zimmerman², Robert E. Forster², Krista Vandenborne¹

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1687.    Direct Quantification of Lactate and High Energy Phosphates in Exercising Human Skeletal Muscle
                                by Interleaved Localised ¹H DQF, ¹H- And ³¹P STEAM

Martin Meyerspeer¹, Graham J. Kemp², Vladimir Mlynárik¹, Martin Krššák³, Julia Szendroedi¹, Michael Roden⁴, Ewald Moser¹, ³

¹Vienna Medical University, Wien, Austria; ²University of Liverpool, Faculty of Medicine,, Liverpool, UK; ³Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria; ⁴Hanusch Hospital Vienna, Wien, Austria

                  1688.    Energy Metabolism in the Extensor Muscles of the Hand and Wrist of Musicians with Overuse Syndrome
                                Studied by 31P-MRS

Angel Moreno-Torres¹, Jaume Rosset², Jesus Pujol³, Silvia Fàbregas²

¹Centre Diagnostic Pedralbes - Cetir Grup Mèdic, Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain; ²Institut de Fisiologia i Medicina de l’Art, Terrassa, Spain; ³Institut d’Alta Tecnologia, Barcelona, Spain

                  1689.    Skeletal Muscle Hydrogen Ion Concentration Stimulates Ventilatory Drive Through Direct Neural Pathways
                                as Shown by ³¹P MRS

Christian Thomas Farrar¹, Mirko I. Hrovat¹, Anne V. LaRaia², Gregory D. Lewis², Paul P. Pappagianopoulos²,

David M. Systrom²

¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA



 

MSK/Body: Spine, Bone, Muscle, Tendon, Misc.

                  1690.    Prediction of Bone Mechanical Properties Using Quantitative MRI

Eveliina Lammentausta¹, Mikko Antero Hakulinen¹, Ilkka Kiviranta², Jukka Sakari Jurvelin¹, ³, Miika Tapio Nieminen⁴

¹University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; ²Jyväskylä Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland; ³Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland; ⁴Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland

                  1691.    In-Vivo Micro-MRI of Trabecular Bone in the Ovariectomized Rhesus at 3T

Paul J. McCracken¹, Marie A. Holahan¹, Parker D. Mathers¹, Jacquelynn J. Cook¹, Donald B. Kimmel¹,

Richard Hargreaves¹, Le T. Duong¹, Donald S. Williams¹

¹Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1692.    In-Vivo MR Microscopy of Trabecular Structure of a Human Finger Using a Small Permanent Magnet

Nachiko Iita¹, Katsumi Kose¹

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

                  1693.    Trabecular Bone Structure and Anisotropy Studies Via Diffusion-Based MR

Eric Edward Sigmund¹, Hyungjoon Cho¹, Yi-Qiao Song¹, Steve Byrnes, ¹², Peiqiu Chen, ¹², Edward X. Guo³,

Truman Brown³

¹Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA; ²Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ³Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

                  1694.    Measurements of Bone Marrow Proton Relaxation Times and Trabecular Bone Volume Fraction (TBVF)
                                of the Calcaneus for 100 Subjects Using a Compact MRI

Sadanori Tomiha¹, Nachiko Iita¹, Fumi Okada¹, Shinya Handa¹, Katsumi Kose¹

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

                  1695.    Pathophysiology of Bone Marrow Edema: Insights from Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MR Imaging

Edward W. Jung¹, Glenn A. Tung¹, Jonathan P. Dyke², Jonathan H. Lee³, D McK Ciombor¹, Roy K. Aaron¹

¹Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; ²Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA; ³Columbia University Medical School, New York, New York, USA

                  1696.    Contrast-Enhanced MRI with Fat Suppression Using T₁ Dispersion

Sharon E. Ungersma¹, Nathaniel I. Matter¹, Ross D. Venook¹, Albert Macovski¹, Greig C. Scott¹, Garry E. Gold¹, Steven M. Conolly²

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

                  1697.    Water and Fat Suppressed Proton Projection MRI (WASPI) of Rat Femur Bone with Sub-Millimeter Resolution

Yaotang Wu¹, Jerome L. Ackerman², David A. Chesler², Guangping Dai², Mirko I. Hrovat³, Brian D. Snyder⁴,

Ara Nazarian⁴, Melvin J. Glimcher¹

¹Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Mirtech Inc, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1698.    Trabecular Bone Volume Fraction (TBVF) Measurements of 108 Young Children Using a Compact MRI

Sadanori Tomiha¹, Katsumi Kose¹, Naomi Omi¹, Kayoko Kamemoto¹

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

                  1699.    MRI Characterization of Trabecular Bone Structure by Exploring Bone Microscopic Susceptibility Effect

Shing Chung Cheung¹, Jian Yang¹, Sai Kam Hui¹, Ed Xuekui Wu¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

                  1700.    Basic Clinical Imaging Techniques in Prepolarized MRI

Nathaniel I. Matter¹, Greig C. Scott¹, Ross D. Venook¹, Sharon E. Ungersma¹, Thomas Grafendorfer, ^1,2,

John M. Pauly¹, Albert Macovski¹, Steven M. Conolly, ^1,2

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

                  1701.    Prepolarized MRI:  Reducing Susceptibility Artifacts Around Metal Orthopedic Implants Without
                                Sacrificing Image Quality

Ross Venook¹, Nathaniel Matter¹, Meena Ramachandran¹, Sharon Ungersma¹, Garry Gold¹, Nicholas Giori²,

Albert Macovski¹, Greig Scott¹, Steven Conolly³

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, Palo Alto, California, USA; ³U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

                  1702.    Combined Rotational/Translational Motion Correction Using Autofocusing for High-Resolution
                                Trabecular Bone Images

Wei Lin¹, Glenn Ladinsky¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹, Hee Kwon Song¹

¹University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1703.    Using the Phase for MR Image Segmentation: Application to the Bone of the Knee

Pierrick Bourgeat¹, Peter Stanwell², Saad Ramadan², Sebastien Ourselin¹

¹BioMedia Lab, Autonomous Systems Laboratory, ICT Centre, CSIRO, Sydney, NSW, Australia; ²University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

                  1704.    Observation of Anisotropic Properties of Skeletal Muscle in MR Elastography Via a Needle Device

Queenie C. C. Chan¹, Geng Li¹, Richard L. Ehman², Edward S. Yang¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ²Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  1705.    MR-Elastography Reveals Skeletal Muscle Elasticity Changes in Patients with Hypogonadism
                                Prior to Testosterone Substitution and After 6 Months

Katja Brauck¹, Stefan Maderwald¹, Craig Galban¹, Burkhard Herrmann¹, Frank Stock¹, Mark Ladd¹

¹University Hospital Essen, Essen, NRW, Germany

                  1706.    The Effects of Deoxyhemoglobin and Flow Rate on R2' in Hindlimb Perfused Skeletal Muscle

Otto Alexander Sanchez¹, Bruce M. Damon¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  1707.    Dual Gradient-Echo Imaging of Ischemia/Reperfusion in Skeletal Muscle

Bruce M. Damon¹, Jennifer L. Hornberger¹, Jane A. Kent-Braun²

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ²University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

                  1708.    Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis: Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using IDL to Enhance Diagnosis

Charles Edward Hutchinson¹, Harriet Chaney¹, Robert C. Cooper², Judith E. Kilgallon³

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; ²Salford Royal Hospital NHS Trust, Salford, UK; ³Christie Hospital NHS Trust, Manchester, UK

                  1709.    Fast Spatially Resolved Measurement of R2’ and R2 of Each Component of Cancellous Bone Marrow
                                and Correlation of R2’ with Trabecular Bone Volume Fraction (BVF)

Catherine E. Jones¹, Jeremy F. Magland¹, Aranee Techawiboonwong¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹

¹University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1710.    Potential Metabolic Markers for Intervertebral Disc Pain

Kayvan Keshari¹, John Kurhanewicz¹, Serena Hu¹, Thomas Link¹, Jeffrey Lotz¹, Sharmila Majumdar¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

                  1711.    Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MR Imaging and ¹H MR Spectroscopy Study of Post Menopausal Osteoporosis

James Francis Griffith¹, David Yeung¹, Gregory E. Antonio¹

¹The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

                  1712.    Magic Angle MR Microscopy and T2 Quantification of Intervertebral Discs
                                Highlights the 3-Dimensional Collagen Structure

Jeff Frank Dunn¹, Tad Foniok², John Robert Matyas¹

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ²National Research Council, Calgary, AB, Canada

                  1713.    Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Measurement for Evaluation of Vertebral Normal Variations in the Lumbar Spine

Youichi Sato¹, Eito Kozawa¹, Naoko Nishi¹, Takayuki Hoshino¹, Atsuko Heshiki¹

¹Saitama Medical School, Moroyama-chou, Saitama, Japan

                  1714.    Normal Variations in the Vertebral Appearrence on Opposed-Phase MRI: We Need to Know
                                Normal Bone Marrow Appearrence

Eito Kozawa¹, Waka Mizukoshi¹, Takayuki Hoshino¹, Atsuko Heshiki¹

¹Saitama Medical School, Moroyama-chou, Saitama, Japan

                  1715.    In Vivo MR T1rho Mapping in Lumbar Vertebral Discs at 3T: A Preliminary Study

Xiaojuan Li¹, Eric T. Han², Thomas M. Link¹, Sharmila Majumdar¹

¹University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; ²GE Healthcare Global, Menlo Park, California, USA

                  1716.    Characterization of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration with T1ñ Imaging

Chenyang Wang¹, Walter Witschey¹, Wade Johannessen¹, Sampreet Niyogi¹, Ari Borthakur¹, Dawn M. Elliott¹, Ravinder Reddy¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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