Body MRI: Abdominal MRS

                  2253.    Dynamic Metabolic Changes in Liver and Muscle Tissue Under Glucose
                                Administration Detected by ³¹P MRS

Tim Wokrina¹, Marco Ulrich¹, Maria Gilles¹, Daniel Kopf¹, Gabriele Ende¹

¹Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

                  2254.    Measurement of T1 and T2 in MR Spectroscopic Evaluation of Fatty Liver

Michael Simca Middleton¹, Jeff Schwimmer¹, Mark Bydder¹, Graeme Bydder¹, Claude Sirlin¹

¹UCSD, San Diego, California, USA

                  2255.    Fat Storage in the Liver During Feast or Famine

Vincent j. van Ginneken¹, Suzanne R. Kiihne², Lisanne Ham¹, Elwin Verhey³, Rob E. Poelmann¹,

Louise van der Weerd¹

¹Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands; ²Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; ³TNO pharmaceuticals, Zeist, Netherlands

                  2256.    Hepatic ATP Synthesis Rates in Healthy Humans

Albrecht I. Schmid¹, Martin Krssak¹, Julia M. Szendroedi¹, Ewald Moser¹, Michael Roden²

¹Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria

                  2257.    Cardiac / Respiratory Double Triggering for ¹H MR Spectroscopy of the Liver

Roland Kreis¹, Peter Vermathen¹, Michael Ith¹, Kim-Ann Lê², Luc Tappy², Chris Boesch¹

¹University Berne, Berne, Switzerland; ²University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

                  2258.    ³¹P Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging of Liver Repopulation by Transplanted Hepatocytes

Charles Landis¹, Kosho Yamanouchia¹, Alan Koretsky², Hoby Hetherington¹, Chandan Guha¹

¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; ²National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2259.    Non-Invasive Analysis of Gallbladder Bile Composition in Cynomolgus Monkeys Using In Vivo 1H-MRS

Basil Künnecke¹, Markus von Kienlin¹

¹F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, CH-4070, Switzerland

                  2260.    In Vivo 1H Liver Spectroscopy with Free Breathing 2D PACE

Jian Xu¹, Jan Ruff², Alto Stemmer², Mark A. Brown¹, Stephan Roell², Uwe Boettcher², Marianne Vorbuchner²,

Nouha Salibi¹, Bernd Stoeckel¹, Bachir Taouli³, Vivian S. Lee³

¹Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany;
³New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

                  2261.    The Usefulness of In Vitro Proton MR Spectroscopy for Characterizing and Differentiating
                                Abdominal Body Fluids

Sang Soo Shin¹, Gwang Woo Jeong¹, Hyung Joong Kim¹, Heoung Keun Kang¹

¹Chonnam National University Medical School, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Republic of Korea


 

Body MRI: Techniques, Qualitative Measurements, Misc.

                  2262.    MRI Susceptibility Measurement of Hepatic Iron Concentration: Demonstration of Feasibility

Zili Chu¹, ², Brigitta U. Mueller, ¹², Donald H. Mahoney, ¹², Kenneth L. McClain¹, Saul J. Karpen, ¹², Raja

Muthupillai¹, ³, Taylor Chung, ¹², Rajesh Krishnamurthy, ¹², Zhiyue J. Wang, ¹²

¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA;
³Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2263.    Characterizing MRI Parameters of Iron Loaded Rat Liver

Yu Pei Ma¹, Jeffrey J. Luci¹, John P. Wikswo¹, Mark D. Does¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  2264.    On the Necessity of Flip Angle Correction for Fast T1mapping Using DESPOT 1

Reto Treier¹, Andreas Steingoetter¹, Michael Fried², Werner Schwizer², Peter Boesiger²

¹University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

                  2265.    Assessment of Colorectal Hepatic Metastases by Quantitative T2 Relaxation Time: 
                                a Method for Evaluating Tumour Response to Treatment?

Luigi Funicelli¹, David Collins², Baris Kanber², Erica Scurr³, Martin O. Leach², Janet E. Husband³, Dow-Mu Koh², ³

¹Instituto Europeo Di Oncologia, Milan, Italy; ²Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK; ³Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey, UK

                  2266.    T2-Weighted MR Imaging with FIESTA Versus Fast Spin-Echo: Comparative Efficacy
                                in Clinical Hepatic Imaging

Alvin C. Silva¹, Sean D. Beaty¹, Amy K. Hara¹, Maitray D. Patel¹, Patrick T. Liu¹

¹Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Margaret Melhus¹, Tom Hirschberg¹, Stein Westad Ødegård¹, Tryggve Holck Storås¹

¹Ullevål University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

                  2268.    Rapid EPI-Based MR Elastography of the Liver

Meng Yin¹, Roger C. Grimm¹, Armando Manduca¹, Richard L. Ehman¹

¹Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  2269.    One-Breath-Hold Acquisition of the Whole Abdomen in One Minute Using
                                Continuously Moving Table MRI

Gregor Sommer¹, Ute Ariane Ludwig¹, Oliver Schäfer¹, Hans-Peter Fautz¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  2270.    Do We Need Suspended Breathing with Real-Time Axial Continuously Moving Table
                                MR Imaging?

Amrei Zielonka¹, Sonja Kinner¹, Michael O. Zenge¹, Mark E. Ladd¹, Susanne C. Ladd¹

¹University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

                  2271.    Two Approaches to Water/Fat Selective Whole-Body Continuously Moving Table 3D Imaging

Peter Börnert¹, Bernd Aldefeld¹, Jochen Keupp¹, Holger Eggers¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  2272.    MR Imaging of Testicular Torsion: Features of Testicular Hemorrhagic Necrosis
                                and Clinical Outcomes

Yuji Watanabe¹, Masako Nagayama¹, Akira Okumura¹, Yoshiki Amoh¹, Kazushige Oda¹, Takayoshi Ishimori¹,

Takashi Kiyono¹, Kazuaki Nakada¹, Hideki Mitsui¹, Noriyoshi Morimoto¹, Takashi Tabuchi¹, Masayuki Kumashiro¹,
Shinsuke Komaki¹, Takashi Sugioka¹, Osamu Ito¹, Keisuke Ohtsuki¹, Yoshihiro Dodo¹

¹Kurashiki Central Hospital, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan

Abdominal MR Imaging at 3T

                  2273.    Rapid 3D T1-Mapping in the Abdominal Region at 3.0 T

Aart J. Nederveen¹, Cristina Lavini¹, Karin Horsthuis¹, Gerard J. den Heeten¹, Jaap Stoker¹

¹AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands

                  2274.    The Effect of Dielectric Pad on MR Images of the Upper Abdomen at 3T

Masako Kataoka¹, Hiroyoshi Isoda¹, Yoji Maetani¹, Yuji Nakamoto¹, Takashi Koyama¹, Shigeaki Umeoka¹,

Ken Tamai¹, Aki Kido¹, Tsuneo Saga¹, Nobuko Morisawa¹, Kaori Togashi¹

¹Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

                  2275.    Single Breath-Hold T1 Measurements Using Segmented Inversion Recovery
                                Prepared TrueFISP Sequence at 3 T

Louisa Bokacheva¹, Ambrose Huang¹, Jing An¹, Niels Oesingmann², Henry Rusinek¹, Qun Chen¹, Vivian S. Lee¹

¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  2276.    In Vivo Magnetization Transfer of Liver at 3T

Melanie S. Kotys¹, Ahmed M. Gharib¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2277.    Multiarterial Phase Dynamic MR Imaging of the Whole Liver Using LAVA at 3T

Hua Wang¹, Xiao-Ying Wang¹

¹Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2278.    Imaging of the Liver at 3.0T. : Optimization of Breath-Hold, Volumetric Fat-Suppressed
                                Fast Spin-Echo and Diffusion-Weighted Black-Blood Echo-Planar Imaging

Indra Celine van den Bos¹, Shahid M. Hussain¹, Piotr A. Wielopolski¹

¹Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

                  2279.    MR Imaging of the Liver on Multi-Channel MR Systems at 1.5 and 3Tesla -
                                Initial Experiences

Christoph J. Zech¹, Alexandra Panteleon¹, Karin A. Herrmann¹, Maximilian F. Reiser¹, Stefan O. Schoenberg¹

¹Munich University Hospitals - Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

                  2280.    Comparison of 1.5T and 3T MRI for R2* Measurement of Iron Burden in
                                Transfusion-Dependent Anemias

Pippa Storey¹, ², Christine Lynn Carqueville³, Alexis A. Thompson, ²³, John C. Wood⁴, Cynthia K. Rigsby, ²³

¹Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ²Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA;
³Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ⁴Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2281.    1.5T vs. 3T Body MRI: Qualitative and Quantitative Comparison of T2 Weighted Images
                                for Liver Lesion Detection

Janio Szklaruk¹, Pryia R. Bhosale¹, Aparna Balachandran¹, Chaan S. Ng¹, Eric P. Tamm¹, Jingfei Ma¹

¹MD Anderson, Houston, Texas, USA

                  2282.    3D Multi-Phase Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging of Cirrhosis: 3.0 T Versus 1.5 T

M Louis Lauzon¹, ², Magnus Breitling², Richard Frayne¹, ², Houman Mahallati¹, ²

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ²Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  2283.    MRC at 3 Tesla with SPACE

Clare M. Haystead¹, Elmar M. Merkle¹, Brian M. Dale²

¹Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Cary, North Carolina, USA

                  2284.    RF Power Optimization for 3D-MRCP Allows Breath Hold Acquistion at 3T

Neville D. Gai¹, Reed F. Busse², Daniel J. Schaefer¹

¹GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, Wisconsin, USA

                  2285.    Optimization of MR Cholangiopancreatography at 3T: Comparison of 2D Thick Slab
                                Acquisitions to 3D Strategies

Eric Niendorf¹, Martin P. Smith¹, Neil M. Rofsky¹, Ivan Pedrosa¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2286.    Detection and Its Clinical Significance of Thoracic Duct Using MRCP Sequence at 3.0 Tesla

De-xin Yu¹, Chuan-fu Li², Qian Wang¹, Xiao-ming Zhang¹, Jian-jun Xiu¹

¹Qilu Hospital of Shandon University, Jinan City, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China;
²Qilu Hospital of Shandon University,, Jinan City, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China

                  2287.    Detectability and Measurement of Cisterna Chyli with Heavily T2-Weighted Technique at 3.0 Tesla

De-xin Yu¹, Chuan-fu Li¹, Qian Wang¹, Xiao-ming Zhang¹, Jian-jun Xiu¹

¹Qilu Hospital of Shandon University, Jinan City, Shandong Province, People’s Republic of China

                  2288.    SR-TurboFLASH Measurements of Renal Perfusion: Comparison Between 1.5 and 3T
                                with and Without Parallel Imaging

Henrik Jakob Michaely¹, Harald Kramer¹, Klaus-Peter Lodemann², Niels Oesingmann³, Maximilian F. Reiser¹,

Stefan O. Schoenberg¹

¹University of Munich, Munich, Bavaria, Germany; ²Bracco-Altana Pharma, Konstanz, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany;
³Siemens Medical Solutions, New York, USA

                  2289.    Evaluation of the Reproducibility of Intrarenal R2* Maps at 3.0T

Yufeng Xu¹, Xiaoying Wang¹, Xuexiang Jiang¹

¹Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2290.    Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Study of Male Pelvic Perfusion at 3T: Comparison in
                                Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Patients

Ping Hou¹, Elise JB De², Larry A. Kramer¹, Ouida Lenaine Westney¹

¹University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA

Fat Quantitation

                  2291.    Fat/Water ¹H MRI to Investigate Effects of Leptin in Ob/ob Mice

Judy Rose James¹, JeAnne L. Hertel², Andriy M. Babsky³, Shahrya K. Hekmatyar³, Charles V. Jackson², Navin Bansal³

¹Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA; ²Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA;
³Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

                  2292.    The Effect of Nutritional Counselling on Hepatic, Muscle and Adipose Tissue Fat
                                Content and Distribution in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Elizabeth Louise Thomas¹, Audrey E. Brynes¹, Gavin Hamilton¹, Nayna Patel¹, Adam Spong¹, Robert D. Goldin²,

Gary Frost¹, Jimmy D. Bell¹, Simon D. Taylor-Robinson¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London, UK; ²College London, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK

                  2293.    Automatic Segmenation of Adipose Tissue Distribution in Childhood Obesity

Akila Rajagopal¹, Kendall O'Brien¹, Vincent Schmithorst¹, Maninder Kalra¹, Bernard J. Dardzinski¹, ²

¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ²University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Daniel Weghuber¹, Michael Roden², Carlo Franz¹, Marek Chmelik¹, Sherin Torabia¹, Martin Bischof¹,

Stephan Gruber¹, Werner Waldhaeusl¹, Anton Klingler³, Kurt Widhalm¹

¹Vienna Medical University, Vienna, Austria; ²Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria; ³Assign Data Management and Biostatistics, Innsbruck, Austria

                  2295.    MRI Quantification of Liver Fat in an Obese Population

Theresa Tuthill¹, David Raunig², Anne Hickman², Barry Peterson², Brad Wyman²

¹VirtualScopics, Groton, Connecticut, USA; ²Pfizer, Groton, Connecticut, USA

                  2296.    Quantifying MR Properties of the Cirrhotic Liver Using Explanted Specimens

Brian E. Chapman¹, J. Wallis Marsh¹, Mitchell E. Tublin¹

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2297.    MRI Estimation of Donor Graft Steatosis Prior to Orthotopic Liver Transplantation:
                                Initial Results with Early Serum Outcome Measures, Surgical and Histological Correlation

Kieren Grant Hollingsworth¹, Jane Smith¹, Neville V. Jamieson¹, Chris J E Watson¹, Michael E. Allison²,

Graeme J. Alexander¹, David J. Lomas¹

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

                  2298.    Fat Quantification by Modeling the Variation in Signal Amplitude with TE

Mark Bydder¹, Michael S. Middleton¹, Peter D. Gatehouse², Alyssa D. Chavez¹, Claude B. Sirlin¹

¹University of California, San Diego, California, USA; ²Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK

                  2299.    An MR Imaging Method for Quantifying Fat Fraction

John David Biglands¹, Dan Wilson¹

¹Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

                  2300.    Effect of Flip Angle on Fat Quantification by Dixon Techniques

Mark Bydder¹, Michael S. Middleton¹, Alyssa D. Chavez¹, Claude B. Sirlin¹

¹University of California, San Diego, California, USA

                  2301.    Quantification of Liver Fat Content Using Selective Saturation at 3.0 T

Xiaohong Joe Zhou¹, Grace Guzman¹, Jennifer E. Layden-Almer¹, Katherine Schwartz¹, Theodore Mazzone¹,

Thomas J. Layden¹, Scott J. Cotler¹

¹University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2302.    A Comphrehensive Fat Composition Measurements in Mice In Vivo with
                                High Field MR Systems

Haiying Liu¹, James Mu¹, Corey Miller¹, Bei B. Zhang¹, Donald S. Williams², Richard J. Hargreaves²

¹Merck Research Labs, Rahway, New Jersey, USA; ²Merck Research Labs, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2303.    MRI Adipose Tissue Volume Measures: Comparison of SPGR and
                                Fast Two Point Dixon Methods at 3T

Ann L. Scherzinger¹, Yiping Du¹, Elizabeth Stamm¹, Robert Eckel¹, Jingfei Ma²

¹University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado, USA;
²University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

                  2304.    Automated Fat Quantification Applied to Abdominal MR Images

Qi Peng¹, Roderick W. McColl², Paul T. Weatherall²

¹UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA; ²UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

                  2305.    Fast Whole-Body 3D Water/Fat Scoring

Peter Börnert¹, Bernd Aldefeld¹, Holger Eggers¹, Jochen Keupp¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

Gynecological and Fetal MR Imaging

                  2306.    Advanced Cervix Cancer: Can Simple DCE-MRI Derived Parameters
                                Predict Treatment Response?

Kieren Grant Hollingsworth¹, Evis Sala¹, Mark Anthony Zahra¹, ², James Brenton¹, ², Robin Crawford³, Mark Arrends¹, Li Tee Tan², David J. Lomas¹

¹University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK; ²Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK; ³University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK

                  2307.    Evaluation of Cervical Carcinoma of the Uterus with High B Diffusion-Weighted Imaging:
                                A Comparison with Normal Uterine Cervix

Zhenghan Yang¹, Weifeng Zhao¹, Fei Sun², Min Chen¹, Lei Jiang¹, Min Zhang¹, Xiaohua Ye¹, Ye Tan¹, Cheng Zhou¹

¹Beijing Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ²GE Medical System, China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2308.    MR Profiles of Cervial Cancer Biopsies Correlate to Apoptosis and Cellular Density

Beathe Sitter¹, Heidi Lyng², Tone Frost Bathen¹, Line Rørstad Jensen¹, Gunnar B. Kristensen², Ingrid Susan Gribbestad¹

¹Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; ²Health Enterprise Rikshospitalet - Radiumhospitalet, Oslo, Norway

                  2309.    Assessment of the Treatment Response of Uterine Cancer Using Double-Echo Dynamic
                                Perfusion-Weighted MRI

Nobuyuki Kosaka¹, Hidemasa Uematsu¹, Hirohiko Kimura¹, Yoshiyuki Ishimori², Tetuji Kurokawa¹,

Tsuyoshi Matsuda³, Harumi Itoh¹

¹University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan; ²Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan; ³GE-Yokogawa Medical Systems, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

                  2310.    Can DCE-MRI Predict the Nature of Ovarian Tumors ?A Correlation Between
                                DCE-MRI and Angiogenesis Biomarkers

Isabelle Thomassin-Naggara¹, ², Marc Bazot², Emile Darai³, Patrice Callard⁴, Claude Marsault²,

Charles-André Cuenod¹, ⁵

¹Laboratoire de recherche en imagerie de la faculté Necker, paris, france, France;
²Service de radiologie de l'Hopital Tenon, paris, france, France;
³Service de gynécologie et obstétrique de l'Hopital Tenon, paris, france, France;
⁴Service d'anatomopathologie de l'Hopital Tenon, paris, France, France;
⁵Service de radiologie de l'Hopital Européen Georges Pompidou, paris, France, France

                  2311.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging Characterization of Uterine Leiomyomata of African American
                                Women Demonstrate an Overall Greater Number of Smaller Uterine Leiomyomata

Alisa Suzuki¹, Fiona M. Fennessy², Kelly H. Zou¹, Clare Tempany¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Dana Faber Cancer Institution, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2312.    Use of MRI to Quantify Intra-Vaginal Gel Distribution in Human Subjects: Preliminary
                                Analysis of the Candidate Gel Formulation for the Cyanovirin-N Trial

Mark Rosen¹, Amy Hummel¹, Kelly Timbers¹, David Shera¹, Scott Pretorius¹, Frank Malinoski², Kurt Barnhart¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Biosyn, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2313.    Development of a Murine Isogenic Graft Model of Endometriosis: Monitoring by Dynamic
                                Contrast-Enhanced MRI

Inna V. Linnik¹, Steve R. Williams¹, Alex De Giorgio-Miller², Philip S. Murphy², David L. Buckley¹

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; ²Pfizer, Sandwich, UK

                  2314.    Application of Magnetic Resonance Direct Thrombus Imaging for the Detection and
                                Monitoring of Pelvic Endometriosis

Ranu Taneja¹, General Leung¹, Susan Crisp¹, Richard Bitar¹, ², David Howe³, Philip Murphy³, Alan R. Moody¹, ²

¹Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
²University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ³Pfizer Inc., Sandwich, Kent, UK

                  2315.    Reduced Field of View Imaging for Fetal fMRI (F-fMRI)

Laura J. Pisani¹, Roland Bammer¹, Gary H. Glover¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2316.    Fetal MRI in Early Second Trimester Pregnancy

Marie Raiend¹, Hashem Amini¹, Håkan Ahlström¹, Ove Axelsson¹, Johan Wikström¹

¹Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

                  2317.    Assessment of Liver and Brain Volumes at Post-Mortem Fetal MRI –
                                Comparison to Organ Weights at Conventional Autopsy

Ferdia A. Gallagher¹, ², Andrew C. Breeze², Justin J. Cross², Gerald A. Hackett², Christoph C. Lees², Ilse Joubert²,
Patricia A. K. Set², Flora A. Jessop², Anita L. Whitehead², David J. Lomas¹, ²

¹University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; ²Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK

                  2318.    Improving Image Quality in Fetal MRI Using Autocalibrating Reconstruction
                                for Cartesian (ARC) Sampling

Roland Bammer¹, Erika Rubesova¹, Allan White¹, Stefan T. Skare¹, Philip Beatty¹, Anja Brau²

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA

                  2319.    Placental Perfusion and Permeability Assessment by Dual Echo DCE-MRI in Mice
     Using High Concentration of Gadolinium

Fabienne Taillieu¹, Laurent,J Salomon¹, Nathalie Siauve¹, Olivier Clément¹, Daniel Balvay¹, Catherine Vayssettes¹,
Yves Ville², Charles A Cuenod¹

¹Université Paris V Descartes, Faculté Necker, Paris, France, France; ²Centre Intercommunal de Poissy, Poissy, France, France

                  2320.    Post-Partum Relaxation Parameter Mapping of Human Placentas at 1.5T : Differences
                                Between Pre-Eclamptic and Healthy Pregnancies

Chardonnay Julia Vance¹, ², Bruce N. Ames¹, Gary H. Glover²

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

                  2321.    Analysis of Ovarian Vascular Function in PKB[alpha]/Akt1- Deficient Mice Using
                                Biotin-BSA-GdDTPA Enhanced 3D-MRI

Vicki Plaks¹, Elina Berkovitz¹, Brian A. Hemmings², Nava Dekel¹, Michal Neeman¹

¹Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; ²Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Maganese Enhanced MRI: Multiple Applications

                  2322.    The Use of MEMRI to Assess In Vivo Axonal Transport Rates in the Murine
                                Central Nervous System (CNS)

Karen Brown Smith¹, Mitchel E. Deshazer¹, Robia G. Pautler¹

¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

                  2323.    Semi-Automatic 3D Segmentation and CNR Measurement of Mn2+ Enhanced
                                Optical Nerve in Adult Rats

Øystein Olsen¹, ², Vassili Kovalev³, Maria Petrou⁴, Marthe Thuen², Pål Erik Goa², Christian Brekken²,

Olav Haraldseth²

¹Sør-Trøndelag University College, Trondheim, Norway; ²Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; ³University of Surrey, Guildford, UK; ⁴Imperial College, London, UK

                  2324.    Detection of Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption in Rat Brain After Osmotic Shock Using
                                    Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MEMRI)

David Bennett¹, Nils Henninger², ³, Marc Fisher², ⁴, Chris Sotak¹, ²

¹Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; ²University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA;
³University of Massachusetts Memorial Healtcare, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA;
⁴University of Massachusetts Memorial Healthcare, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

                  2325.    MEMRI Reveals Functional Changes in Basal Ganglia Output Nucleus in Parkinson's Disease

Revital Shtarkshall¹, Hagai Bergman², Gadi Goelman¹

¹Hadassah Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; ²Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

                  2326.    Novel Application of MEMRI Detects Sensory Deficits from Olfactory System Injury in
                                Newborn Rabbit After Antenatal Hypoxia-Ischemia

Alexander Drobyshevsky¹, Alan M. Robinson², Matthew Derrick¹, Alice M. Wyrwicz¹, Xinhai Ji¹, Ila Englof¹,

Sidhartha Tan¹

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

                  2327.    Quantitative Assessments of Mouse Optic Nerve Projections to the Brain In Vivo

Miriam Scadeng¹, James D. Lindsey¹, Jonathan Crowston¹, David J. Dubowitz¹

¹University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

                  2328.    Mapping Cellular Architectonics of Rat Hippocampus Using Manganese-Enhanced and
                                Diffusion Spectrum Imaging

Jun-Cheng Weng¹, Jyh-Horng Chen¹, Pai-Feng Yang¹, Li-Wei Kuo¹, Van Jay Wedeen², Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng³

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA;
³National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

                  2329.    Effects of the Dietary Fatty Acids on Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance
                                Imaging (MEMRI)

Yu-Ting Kuo¹, ², Po-Wah So¹, Amy H. Herlihy¹, Jimmy D. Bell¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; ²Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine,
   Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

                  2330.    Timelapse Mn++ Enhanced MRI in the Living Brain

Elaine L. Bearer¹, Xaiowei Zhang², Tim Hiltner², J. Michael Tyszka², Russell E. Jacobs²

¹Brown Univ, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; ²California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

                  2331.    Manganese-Enhanced MRI of Rat Brain Function Under Forepaw Electric Stimulation:
                                Comparison Between Accumulative Pain-Evoked Activity and Activity-Induced
                                Manganese-Dependent Contrast

Jun-Cheng Weng¹, Jyh-Horng Chen¹, Chia-Hao Su¹, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng²

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

                  2332.    Manganese-Enhanced MRI of Appetite Centres in Ob/ob Mice

Nachiket Abhay Nadkarni¹, Yu-Ting Kuo¹, ², Amy H. Herlihy¹, Jimmy David Bell¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; ²Kaoshing Medical University, Kaoshing, Taiwan

                  2333.    Central Neural Activity in Rats with Tinnitus Evaluated with MEMRI

Carol A. Bauer¹, Luisa Ciobanu², Boris Odintsov², Thomas J. Brozoski¹

¹Southern Illinois University, Springfield, Illinois, USA; ²University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

                  2334.    Mapping Cocaine-Induced Brain Activation Using Manganese-Enhanced MRI

Hanbing Lu¹, Zheng-Xiong Xi¹, Leah Gitajn¹, William Rea¹, Clara Scholl¹, Yihong Yang¹, Elliot A. Stein¹

¹National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2335.    Manganese-Enhanced MRI of the Spinal Cord for In Vivo Assessment of Damage
                                and Functional Improvement Following Spinal Cord Injury in Mice Treated with 95CDL Antibodies

Bram Stieltjes¹, Stefan Klussmann¹, Michael Bock¹,