Data Processing: Miscellaneous

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

 

                  2390.    The DICOM Standard: Is Twelve Bits Enough?

Ken Earl Sakaie1, Mark J. Lowe1

1The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  2391.    A Realistic fMRI Time Series Simulation with Individual Slice Motion, Geometric Distortion
                                and Spin Saturation Effect

Boklye Kim1, Roshni Bhagalia2, Desmond T. B. Yeo3

1University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; 2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; 3University of Michigan, ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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                  2392.    Displaying Parametric Data from DCE-MRI Investigations of Breast Cancer: How to Present
                                Complex Data

Marco Borri1, 2, Michael Khazen1, Martin O. Leach1

1Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK; 2University of Turin, Torino, Italy

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                  2393.    Fast Volume Visualization Using Pre-Computed Volume Radiance Transfer

Xuejun Hao1, Dongrong Xu1, 2, Bradley S. Peterson1, 2

1Columbia University, New York, USA; 2New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA

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                  2394.    Fully Automatic Liver Scan Planning - Slice and Navigator Positioning from Stacked
                                2D Localizer Scans

Matthias Fenchel1, 2, Stefan Thesen1, Andreas Schilling2

1Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 2Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Germany

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                  2395.    Denoising of Complex MRI Data by Wavelet-Domain Filtering: Application to High B-Value
                                Diffusion Weighted Imaging

Ronnie Wirestam1, Adnan Bibic1, Jimmy Lätt1, Sara Brockstedt1, Freddy Ståhlberg1

1Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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                  2396.    Enhanced MRI Resolution for Clinical Applications

Mathijs Visser1, 2, Arianne Van Muiswinkel1, Calina Ciuhu3, Gerard de Haan, 23

1Philips Medical Systems, Best, NB, Netherlands; 2Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, NB, Netherlands;
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Philips Research The Netherlands, Eindhoven, NB, Netherlands

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                  2397.    A Robust Field-Map Estimation Method Using Dual-Echo GRE with Bipolar Readout
                                Gradient Structure

Desmond Teck Beng Yeo1, 2, Thomas L. Chenevert2, Jeffrey A. Fessler1, 2, Boklye Kim2

1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; 2University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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                  2398.    A New Single Acquisition, Two-Image Difference Method for Determining MR Image SNR

Michael C. Steckner1

1Hitachi Medical Systems America, Twinsburg, Ohio, USA

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                  2399.    Object Orientation Independence of Susceptibility Weighted Imaging by Using a Sigmoid-Type
                                Phase Window

Francisco Manuel Martinez Santiesteban1, Scott D. Swanson1, Douglas C. Noll1, David J. Anderson1

1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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                  2400.    T2*-Based Fat-Water Separation

Carsten Warmuth1, Bernd Hamm1, Matthias Taupitz1

1Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

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                  2401.    An Efficient and Effective Algorithm for Two-Point Fat-Water Separation

Maria A. Schmidt1, Karlene M. Fraser1

1St. George's Hospital, London, UKRapid Imaging

Rapid Imaging

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2402.    K-SpaceTrajectory Measurement with Signal Shifting

Marine Beaumont1, 2, Christoph Segebarth1, 2, Laurent Lamalle, 23, Emmanuel Luc Barbier1, 2

1U 594, Grenoble, F-38043, France; 2Univ Grenoble 1, Grenoble, F-38043, France; 3IFR 1, Grenoble, F-38043, FranceText Box:  

 

                  2403.    Fast Whole Brain T1 Mapping at 3 Tesla

Femke de Smit1, Hans Hoogduin1

1University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

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                  2404.    Fast Spin Echo for T2 Quantification at 3T

Feng Liu1, 2, Bradley Peterson1, 2, Yunsuo Duan1, 2, Alayar Kangarlu1, 2

1Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; 2New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA

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                  2405.    Application of Geometry Distortion Corrected SEPI Sequence

Yingbiao Xu1, 2, Mark Haacke1, 2

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

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                  2406.    Accelerated Exponential Fitting for Rapid Relaxation Time Mapping

Holger Eggers1, Peter Boesiger2

1Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany; 2University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandText Box:  

 

                  2407.    Reducing T2 Blurring in Fast Spin Echo Sequences Using the Point Spread Function

Huairen Zeng1, Xiawei Ou1, Yansong Zhao1, Gochberg Daniel1, Brian Welch1, 2, John C. Gore1

1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; 2Philips medical system, cleveland, Ohio, USAText Box:  

 

                  2408.    Improvements in Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Measurements with Phase Contrast Balanced
                                Steady State Free Precession

Erin Jane McCormack1, Michael R. Egnor1, Mark E. Wagshul1

1Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA

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                  2409.    Chemical Exchange in Fully-Balanced Steady-State Free Precession

Sean CL Deoni1

1Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, England, UK

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                  2410.    Graphical Derivation of the Steady-State Magnetization in Balanced SSFP MRI

Zungho Zun1, Krishna S. Nayak1

1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  2411.    Binomial Pulse Suppression to Reduce Ghosting Artifacts in Transient-State BSSFP Imaging

Yin-Cheng Kasuga Huang1, Teng-Yi Huang2, Tzu-Chao Chuang1, Hsiao-Wen Chung1, 3, Cheng-Yu Chen3

1National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan; 2National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei City, Taiwan;
3
Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, TaiwanText Box:  

 

                  2412.    Oscillating Steady States

Klaus Scheffler1, Stefan Maderwald2, Mark Ladd2, Oliver Bieri1

1Radiology, Basel, Switzerland, Switzerland; 2Radiology, Essen, Germany, Germany

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                  2413.    Modified T2-TIDE Sequence: A Preliminary Result

Yin-Cheng Kasuga Huang1, Teng-Yi Huang2, Hsiao-Wen Chung1, 3, Cheng-Yu Chen3

1National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan; 2National Taiwan University of Science And Technology, Taipei City, Taiwan;
3
Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taiwan

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                  2414.    Frequency Off-Resonance Effects on Parametric SSFP Imaging

Zhiqiang LI1, Maria I. Altbach1

1University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USAText Box:  

 

                  2415.    Steady State BURST: Signal Amplitudes and the Influence of Gradient and RF Spoiling

Christian Boller1, Klaus Scheffler1

1University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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                  2416.    Efficient Implementation of Hardware Optimized Gradients for Rapid Imaging Sequences

J. Andrew Derbyshire1, Elliot R. McVeigh1

1NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  2417.    Real-Time MRI of Upper Airway Collapse During Inspiratory Loading

Ian Michael Colrain1, 2, Krishna S. Nayak3, Jon F. Nielsen3

1SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA; 2University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
3
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  2418.    Real-Time Tagging of Muscle Dynamics in a 70cm Bore 1.5T Scanner

Elliot McVeigh1, Mike Guttman1, Cengizhan Ozturk1, Silvia Salinas Blemker2

1NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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                  2419.    Real-Time Quantification of Brain Motion Using Gradient-Echo Phase

William Ryan Overall1, John M. Pauly1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USAText Box:  

 

                  2420.    k-T SPARSE: High Frame Rate Dynamic MRI Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Sparsity

Michael Lustig1, Juan Manuel Santos1, David L. Donoho1, John Mark Pauly1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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                  2421.    Whole-Body MR Imaging with Continuously Moving Table and Multiplanar Reformations:
                                Toward Parameter Optimization for SSFP Imaging in Patient Examinations

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

1University Hospital Essen, Essen, GermanyText Box:  

 

                  2422.    Evaluation of the SNR in the Echo-Shifted Pulse Sequence

Alexander B. Pinus1, Hyeonjin Kim1

1Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USAText Box:  

 

                  2423.    MR Imaging of Intermolecular Double-Quantum-Filtered Zero-Quantum Coherence

Zhong Chen1, 2, Bingwen Zheng1, Xiaoqin Zhu1, Tianliang Gu2, Jianhui Zhong2

1Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People’s Republic of China; 2University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

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                  2424.    Single-Shot 3D Gradient and Stimulated Echo Imaging

Jürgen Finsterbusch1, 2, Wolfgang Weber-Fahr1, 2, Martin A. Koch1, 2

1University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 2University Medical Centers Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck,
Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Germany

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                  2425.    Sensitivity Encoded Proton Echo Planar Spectroscopic Imaging (SENSE-PEPSI) on Human
                                Brain Using a Large-N Coil Array

Shang-Yueh Tsai1, 2, Stefan Posse3, 4, Lawrence L. Wald5, Cheng-Wen Ko6, Hsiao-Wen Chung2, Fa-Hsuan Lin1

1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Chalestown, Massachusetts, USA;
2
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3MIND Institute, 801 University Blvd SE, Suite 200,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; 4University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; 5Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,
Massachusetts General Hospital,, Chalestown, Massachusetts, USA; 6National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, TaiwanText Box:  

 

                  2426.    Fast Low-Angle Dual Spin-Echo (FLADE): A New Pulse Sequence for Micro-Imaging of Trabecular Bone

Jeremy Magland1, Branamir Vasilic1, Felix W. Wehrli1

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

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                  2427.    Inversion-Optimized, Multi-Slice, Parallel TOSSI (T-One Insensitive Steady State Imaging)

Jamal J. Derakhshan1, Martin Blaimer2, Peter Schmitt3, Jeffrey L. Sunshine2, Jeffrey L. Duerk, 12, Mark A. Griswold2

1Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; 2University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA;
3
Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

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                  2428.    FastDiagonal-SPRITE: A New Method for Diagonal-SPRITE Images

Andrea Protti1, Amy Herlihy1, Jean Tessier2, Jimmy Bell1

1Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; 2AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK

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                  2429.    Efficient Phase-Encoding for 3D Turbo-Spin-Echo Imaging with Very Long Echo Trains

John P. Mugler III1, Marion I. Menzel2, Wilhelm Horger2, Berthold Kiefer2

1University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

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                  2430.    Flow Sensitivity of CPMG Sequences with Variable Flip Refocusing and Implications for CSF Signal
                                Uniformity in 3D-FSE Imaging

Reed F. Busse1

1GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2431.    Rapid High-Resolution T1 Mapping by Variable Flip Angles: Accurate and Precise Measurements
                                in the Presence of RF Field Inhomogeneity

Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng1, 2, Graham A. Wright1, 3

1The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 3Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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                  2432.    Time Efficient Flip Angle Measurement at 7T

Duan Xu1, 2, Charles H. Cunningham3, Douglas AC Kelley4, Krishna S. Nayak5, Albert P. Chen1, John M. Pauly3, Daniel B. Vigneron1, 2

1UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; 2UCSF/UC Berkeley, San Francisco, California, USA; 3Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA;
4
GE Healthcare Technologies, San Francisco, California, USA; 5University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  2433.    Sweep Imaging with Fourier Transform (SWIFT)

Djaudat Idiyatullin1, Curt Corum1, Jang-Yeon Park1, Michael Garwood1

1University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  2434.    Maintaining the CPMG Conditions with Slice Accelerated Parallel Imaging in 2D Fast Spin Echo

Kevin F. King1

1GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2435.    Phase-Compensated Spin-Echo Sequence Using Hyperbolic Secant Pulses for Both Excitation and
                                Refocusing

Jang-Yeon Park1, Michael Garwood1

1Center for Magnetic Resonance Research and Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  2436.    True T1 Weighted MR Imaging by a Non Selective and Selective RF Sandwich Pulse Scheme:
                                TOBAC T One Beta Alpha Contrast

Michael Deimling1, Alto Stemmer1

1Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

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                  2437.    Single-Shot STEAM MRI with Cross-Sectional RF Excitations

Jürgen Finsterbusch1, 2, Martin A. Koch1, 2

1University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 2University Medical Centers Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Germany

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                  2438.    Parallel Zoom EVI: Effects of Short TR on Image Quality

Cécile Rabrait1, Cyril Poupon1, Patrick Le Roux2, Alejandro Ribès1, Denis Le Bihan1, Franck Lethimmonier1

1Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Orsay, France, France; 2GE Health Care, Buc, France, France

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                  2439.    Broad Oversampling with TIme Efficiency (BOWTIE) for Increased SNR

Candice Anne Bookwalter1, Kestutis J. Barkauskas1, Mark A. Griswold2, Jeffrey L. Sunshine2, Jeffrey L. Duerk2

1Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA;
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University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  2440.    Deriving Oxygen-Sensitive Contrast in Tissue from MRI: A Comparison Between T2*-
                                Weighted, T2-Prepared and SSFP Methods with an Ischemia Leg Cuff Model at 1.5T

Jain Mangalathu Arumana1, Rohan Dharmakumar1, Nicole Campbell1, Debiao Li1

1Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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                  2441.    Determination of the Variability of fMRI Responses Using Deconvolution Analysis

Bharat Biswal1, Nitin Chawla2

1University of Medicine & Dentistry, Newark, New Jersey, USA;
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University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, New Jersey, USA

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                  2442.    Rapid Fat Suppressed Imaging: Application to the Cartilage and the Breast

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

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                  2443.    Fast Separation of Water, Acetone, Fat and Silicone with a Multiecho Balanced SSFP Sequence

Jochen Leupold1, Oliver Wieben, 12, Sven Mansson3, Klaus Scheffler4, J Stefan Petersson5, Jürgen Hennig1

1University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; 2Madison Clinical Science Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA;
3
Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden; 4University of Basel, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; 5Amersham Health R&D, Malmo, Sweden

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                  2444.    Rapid 3D-SPGR Imaging of the Liver with Multi-Echo IDEAL

Scott B. Reeder1, Anthony T. Vu2, Brian A. Hargreaves3, Ann Shimakawa4, Oliver Wieben1, Charles A. McKenzie5, Jason A. Polzin2, Jean H. Brittain6

1University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; 2GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; 3Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA;
4
GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; 5Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
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GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2445.    Intrinsic Fat Saturation of TIDE with Variable Flip Angles Due to Modified Stop Bands

Dominik Paul1, Maxim Zaitsev1, Jürgen Hennig1

1University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

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                  2446.    Single Quadrature Echo Water-Fat Separation with Robust Phase Correction

Huanzhou Yu1, Scott B. Reeder2, Charles A. McKenzie3, Ann Shimakawa1, Anja C.S. Brau1, Norbert J. Pelc4,

Jean H. Brittain5

1GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; 2University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA;
3
Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
4
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 5GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

 

 

 

Parallel Imaging

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2447.    SENSE and GRAPPA Reconstruction of Multi-Shot Multi-Echo EPI Data

David B. Clayton1, Stefan Skare1, Rexford Newbould1, Roland Bammer1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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                  2448.    Rapid Large Field-Of-View Microscopy Using Parallel Imaging

Mary Preston McDougall1, Steven M. Wright1, Ian Steele-Russell2, Naresh Yallapragada1, Murat Russell2

1Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA; 2Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, USA

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                  2449.    Single Breath-Hold Whole-Heart MRA Using Variable Density Spirals and
                                Localized Coil Demodulation

Juan Manuel Santos1, Bob S. Hu2, Jin H. Lee1, John M. Pauly1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, California, USA

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                  2450.    Evaluation of Sensitivity Encoded Diffusion Tensor Imaging at 4T

Xiaoping Zhu1, Geon-Ho Jahng1, Yu Zhang1, Jim X. Ji2, Ashish Raj1, Hemanth T1, Mathew Jacob3, Zhi-Pei Liang3,
Machael W. Weiner1, Norbert Schuff1

1VAMCSF/UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; 2Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA;
3
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

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                  2451.    Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging at 3T and 7T Using Multi-Channel Phased Array Coils and SENSE

Janine M. Lupo1, Douglas Kelley2, Duan Xu1, Daniel B. Vigneron1, Sarah J. Nelson1

1University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; 2Global Applied Science Lab, GE Healthcare, San Francisco, California, USA

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                  2452.    Parallel Imaging of Trabecular Bone Micro-Architecture Using Autocalibrating Technique at 3 T

Suchandrima Banerjee1, 2, Eric T. Han3, Anja CS Brau3, Sharmila Majumdar1, 4

1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; 2UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA;
3
GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; 4University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

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                  2453.    Highly Accelerated IDEAL for Volumetric Abdominal Imaging with Fat-Water
                                Separation in a Single Breath-Hold

Ajit Shankaranarayanan1, Daniel Sodickson2, Randy Giaquinto3, Aaron Grant2, Andres Carrillo4, David Gurr5,

Ananth Madhuranthakam6, Huanzhou Yu1, Ann Shimakawa1, Sanjay Joshi5, Charles Dumoulin3, Scott Reeder7, Theodore Steger5,
Anja Brau1, Norman Farrar2, Neil Rofsky2, Susan LaRuche2, Jean Brittain8, Charlie McKenzie2

1GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
3
GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA; 4GE Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA; 5GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA;
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GE Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 7Radiology, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; 8GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2454.    Motion-Free Carotid Artery Imaging with a Reduced-FOV Parallel HASTE Sequence

Ling Zhang1, Eugene G. Kholmovski2, Junyu Guo1, Dennis L. Parker2

1Univerisity of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 2Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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                  2455.    Autocalibrating Parallel Imaging at 7T-High Resolution, Quantitative and
                                Phase-Sensitive Applications

Suchandrima Banerjee1, 2, Julio Carballido-Gamio1, Janine Lupo1, 2, Jan S. Bauer1, Duan Xu1, Doug A. Kelley3,

Daniel B. Vigneron1, 2, Sarah J. Nelson1, Sharmila Majumdar1

1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA;
2
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA; 3GE HealthCare, San Francisco, California, USA

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                  2456.    MR Angiography of the Carotid Circulation Using Two-Dimensional Parallel Imaging
                                on a 32 Channel 3.0T System

Michael Christian Fenchel1, 2, Kambiz Nael2, J. Paul Finn2, Stefan Ruehm2, Stephan Miller1, Gerhard Laub3

1Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, BW, Germany; 2David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; 3Siemens Medical Solutions, Los Angeles, California, USAText Box:  

 

                  2457.    3D Time Resolved MRA: Comparison of TREAT (Time –resolved Echo-Shared
                                Angiographic Technique) of the Intracerebral Circulation at 1.5 and 3 Tesla

Jean Yves Gauvrit1, 2, Meng Law1, P. Sunenshine1, Q. Chen1, R. Carson1, J. Xu3

1New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; 2Hopital R Salengro, Lille, France;
3
Siemens Medical Solutions,, Erlangen, Germany

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                  2458.    A Practical Stopping Criterion for Iterative Non-Cartesian SENSE Reconstruction

Peng Qu1, Kai Zhong2, Bida Zhang2, 3, Jianmin Wang3, Gary X. Shen1

1The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; 2The Graduate School and Institute of Biophysics,
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China;
3
Siemens Mindit Magnetic Resonance Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

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                  2459.    Fast Toeplitz Based Iterative SENSE Reconstruction

Valur Olafsson1, Sangwoo Lee1, Jeffrey A. Fessler1, Douglas C. Noll1

1The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

 

                  2460.    The Use of Coil Sensitivity Variations in the Read-Direction for Improved Parallel Imaging

Felix Breuer1, Martin Blaimer2, Nicole Seiberlich1, Mark Griswold2, Peter Jakob1

1University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; 2University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  2461.    A Reconstruction Algorithm of MR Images Acquired on a Radial K-Space Trajectory
                                for Parallel Imaging

Sungdae Yun1, YeJi Han1, HyunWook Park1

1Korea Advance Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

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                  2462.    Efficient Computation of Autocalibrating Parallel Imaging Reconstructions

Anja C.S. Brau1, Philip J. Beatty1, 2, Stefan Skare2, Roland Bammer2

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

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                  2463.    Pseudo-Cartesian GRAPPA Reconstruction of Undersampled Non-Cartesian Data

Nicole Seiberlich1, Robin M. Heidemann2, Felix A. Breuer1, Martin Blaimer1, Mark A. Griswold3, Peter M. Jakob1

1University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany;
3
University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  2464.    K-Space Inherited Parallel Acquisition (KIPA)

Junyu Guo1, Eugene G. Kholmovski1, Ling Zhang1, Eun-Kee Jeong1, Dennis L. Parker1

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

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                  2465.    Kriging and GRAPPA: A New Perspective on Parallel Imaging Reconstruction

Keith Aaron Heberlein1, Xiaoping Hu1

1Emory/GA Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USAText Box:  

 

                  2466.    Application of TurboSENSE for Non-Cartesian Trajectories

Calvin Lew1, Frandics Chan1, Dan Spielman1, Chunlei Liu1, Roland Bammer1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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                  2467.    Understanding the GRAPPA Paradox

Philip James Beatty1, 2, Anja C. Brau1

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

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                  2468.    A Theoretical Analysis of Errors in GRAPPA

Feng Huang1, George Randy Duensing1

1Invivo Corporation, Gainesville, Florida, USA

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                  2469.    The Geometry Factor as a Cramér-Rao Bound for Magnitude and Phase

Angel Ramon Pineda1, Calvin D. Lew1, Roland Bammer1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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                  2470.    Iterative Solution of Transmit SENSE Using a Conjugate Gradient Method

Ingmar Graesslin1, Ulrich Katscher1, Ferdinand Schweser1, Markus Niemann1, Peter Börnert1

1Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

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                  2471.    B1 Homogenisation Using a Multichannel Transmit Array

Jürgen Nistler1, Rainer Kurth2, Markus Vester1, Dirk Diehl3, Wolfgang Renz1, Thorsten Speckner1, Thorsten Feiweier1

1Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 2University Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; 3Siemens CT, Erlangen, Germany

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                  2472.    SENSE Accelerated Multiple Excitation Imaging at Ultra High Field

Arthur William Magill1, Alexa Jones1, Paul Glover1

1Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK

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                  2473.    Wave-Propagation Based Estimation of Coil Sensitivities

Richard Winkelmann1, Peter Börnert2, Olaf Dössel1

1University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; 2Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

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                  2474.    Optimization of Regularization Parameter for GRAPPA Reconstruction

Peng Qu1, Jing Yuan1, Bing Wu1, Gary X. Shen1

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

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                  2475.    SNR-Adaptive K-Space Filtering for Autocalibrated Parallel Image Reconstruction

Junyu Guo1, Eugene G. Kholmovski1, Ling Zhang1, Dennis L. Parker1

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

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                  2476.    An Iterative Method for Fast Regularized Parallel MRI Reconstruction

W Scott Hoge1, Misha E. Kilmer2, Steven J. Haker1, Dana H. Brooks3, Walid E. Kyriakos1

1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Tufts Univ., Medford, Massachusetts, USA;
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Northeastern Univ., Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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                  2477.    Bayesian Parallel Imaging with Edge-Preserving Priors

Ashish Raj1, Gurmeet Singh2, Ramin Zabih2

1UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; 2Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

 

 

 

Contrast Mechanisms and MTC

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2478.    A New Approach to Bright Spot MRI: Visualizing Local Dipolar Fields with the CRAZED Sequence

Cornelius Faber1, 2, Carolin Heil1, Benjamin Zahneisen1, David Balla1, Richard Bowtell2

1University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; 2University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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                  2479.    Effect of Distant Dipolar Field and T2 on Magnetization in CRAZED-Multiecho Pulse Sequence

Chung Ki Wong1, Edmund Kwok1, Jianhui Zhong1

1University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

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                  2480.    Linear Combination Filtering in White Matter with Steady-State Free Precession (SSFP) Sequences

Logi Vidarsson1, Kelvin O. Lim2, Bryon Mueller2, John Pauly1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  2481.    PARACEST Detection In-Vivo Using WALTZ-16

Elena Vinogradov1, Huamei He2, Angelo Lubag3, Valerie Humblet1, James A. Balschi2, Allan Dean Sherry3, 4

 John Vincent Frangioni1, Robert E. Lenkinski1

1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
3
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA; 4University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

 

                  2482.    MRI Detection of Glycogen (GlycoCEST)

Craig K. Jones1, 2, Jimin Ren3, Craig Malloy3, A Dean Sherry3, Peter C. M. van Zijl1, 2

1Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;
3
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

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                  2483.    Separating Signals from Intra- And Extracellular Water Compartments in Rat Skeletal Muscle
                                In Vivo
Using MEMRI

John Georg Seland1, Karl Helmer2, Govind Nair2, David Gordon Bennett2, Christopher Howard Sotak2, 3

1Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; 2Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA;
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University of Massachusetts Medical School,, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

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                  2484.    Adiabatic Modulation of the Longitudinal and Transverse Relaxations, T1ρ and T2ρ,
                                of Gd-Fullerenol Contrast Agent: Application for the Cellular Imaging.ρ

Shalom Michaeli1, Dennis J. Sorce1, Stasia Anderson2, Elbert Hu2, Joseph Lin1, Kamil Ugurbil1, Michael Garwood1, Joseph Frank2

1CMRR, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 2National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  2485.    Efficiency of Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement in Off-Resonance Rotating Frame

Huiming Zhang1, 2, Yang Xie1

1ENH Research Institute, Evanston, Illinois, USA; 2Feinberg Medical School, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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                  2486.    iDQC MR Imaging with Contrast of Off-Resonance Rotating-Frame Spin-Lattice Relaxation

Bingwen Zheng1, Zhong Chen1, 2, Scott D. Kennedy2, Jianhui Zhong2

1Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People’s Republic of China; 2University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

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                  2487.    Off-Resonance Spin Echos for Probing the Cellular Microenvironment

Charles H. Cunningham1, Steven M. Conolly, 1,2, Ian Y. Chen1, Yoriyasu Suzuki1, Phillip C. Yang1,

Michael V. McConnell1, Sanjiv S. Gambhir1, John M. Pauly1

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

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                  2488.    Modeling MRI Contrast Enhancement with Exogenous T2 Agents

Parker Henry Mills1, 2, Eric T. Ahrens1, 2

1Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;
2
Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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                  2489.    Dependency of Oxygen Extraction Calculations from a Static Dephasing Model on
                                Capillary-Radius and Volume Fraction

André Bongers1, Heiko Schroeder2, Lothar Rudi Schad2

1mediri GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany; 2German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

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                  2490.    Correction on FID NMR Signal Induced by Mesoscopic Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities
                                at High Volume Fraction

Xiang He1, Alexander L. Sukstanskii1

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

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                  2491.    3D-Maps of T1 and Magnetization Transfer (MT) Related Saturation from MT-FLASH Images

Gunther Helms1, Henning Dathe2, Steffi Dreha-Kulaczewski1, 2, Kai Kallenberg1, 2, Peter Dechent1

1Göttingen University, Faculty of Medicine, Göttingen, Germany; 2Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany

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                  2492.    Quantitative Magnetization Transfer Bound Pool Mapping at 3T

Rexford Newbould1, Chunlei Liu1, Stefan Ropele2, Roland Bammer1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

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                  2493.    Optimisation of Quantitative Magnetisation Transfer (QMT) Sequence Acquisition Parameters

Rebecca Sara Samson1, Mark R. Symms1, Mara Cercignani1, Daniel J. Tozer1, Paul S. Tofts1

1Institute of Neurology, London, UK

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                  2494.    Quantitative Magnetization Transfer and Relaxation in Tissues at 3T

Greg Jan Stanisz1, Ewa Odrobina, Joseph Pun, Simon J. Graham, Michael J. Bronskill, R Mark Henkelman

1Sunnybrook & Womens' CHSC, Toronto, ON, Canada

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                  2495.    Systematic Comparison of Magnetization Transfer Contrast in Human Subjects at 3.0, 1.5, and 0.2 Tesla

Petros Martirosian1, Andreas Boss1, Michael Deimling2, Berthold Kiefer2, Fritz Schick1

1Section on Experimental Radiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany;
2
Department of Magnetic Resonance, Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

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                  2496.    Magnetization Transfer Effects in Single Slice Spoiled Gradient Echo Imaging

Xiawei Ou1, John C. Gore1, Daniel Frank Gochberg1

1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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                  2497.    3T Magnetization Transfer Imaging Reveals Correlation with Cerebral Iron Concentration In Vivo

Seth Aaron Smith1, 2, Jeff W.M Bulte2, Peter C.M. van Zijl1, 2

1Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  2498.    XTC MRI Parameter Optimization: Theoretical Considerations

Kai Ruppert1, 2, Jaime F. Mata2, James R. Brookeman2, Klaus D. Hagspiel2, John Paul Mugler III2

1Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, California, USA; 2University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

 

 

 

Relaxometry

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2499.    Improved T1 Estimation with Spoiled Gradient Recalled Echo (SPGR) Images
                                Using a Modified Variable Flip Angle Method

Cheng Yang1, Gerald L. Wolf2, Gregory S. Karczmar1, Walter M. Stadler1

1University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 2Perceptive, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA 

 

                  2500.    Rapid Data Acquisition for T1 Mapping, Using Multishot EPI and Automated TR Variation at 3T

Xin Liu1, Yi Feng1, Tianyi Ke1, Zheng-Rong Lu1, Kevin S. Li1, Glen Morrell1, Eun-Kee Jeong1

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

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                  2501.    Enhancement of In Vivo T1 Contrast and Image Quality at Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields
                                (4.7-17.6T) Utilizing Fasting Imaging Techniques

Kyle Robert Padgett1, Stephen J. Blackband2, 3, Samuel C. Grant,3,4

1University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA; 2University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA;
3
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA; 4Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

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                  2502.    Spin-Lattice Relaxation and Diffusion of Hyperpolarized 3He in Phantoms

Gernot Laicher1, Ben Anger1, Brian T. Saam1

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

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                  2503.    Quantification and Mapping of T1 Relaxation Time in the Tongue

Iordanis Evangelou Evangelou1, Gloria Chi-Fishman1

1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  2504.    Effect of Chemical Exchange on T1 Values Calculated Using DESPOT1

Sean CL Deoni1, Brian K. Rutt2, Derek K. Jones1

1Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, England, UK; 2Robarts Research Institute, London, Canada

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                  2505.    Effect of Multi-Component T1 and T2 Relaxation on Derived Single-Component
                                DESPOT2 T2 Values

Sean CL Deoni1

1Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, England, UK

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                  2506.    Measuring T2 Using a T2 Prepared Balanced Turbo Field Echo Sequence

Caroline L. Hoad1, Eleanor F. Cox1, Penelope A. Gowland1

1University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

 

 

                  2507.    Comparison of Global T2 Values and Globus Pallidal T1-Weighted Signal Changes in
                                Sub-Clinical Hepatic Encephalopathy

Albert Michael Thomas1, Rajesh Kumar2, Bhagyashree Sawale2, Amir Huda3, Steven Han2

1University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA; 3California State University at Fresno, Fresno, California, USA

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                  2508.    T2 Measurements in the Human Brain at 4.7T Using an Adiabatic Multi-Echo Sequence -
                                Correlation Between T2 and the Tissue Iron Content

Fumiyuki Mitsumori1, Hidehiro Watanabe1, Nobuhiro Takaya1, Michael Garwood2

1Natl. Inst. Environ. Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; 2CMRR, Univ. Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  2509.    Investigation of Susceptibility-Induced MR Signal Dephasing in Phantom Measurements
                                and Model Simulations for Oxygen Extraction Mapping

André Bongers1, 2, Heiko Schroeder2, Lothar Rudi Schad2

1Mediri GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany; 2German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

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                  2510.    Optimization of Voxel Based Relaxometry Parameters for the Detection of Focal T2 Changes

Gaby S. Pell1, Heath Pardoe1, Regula S. Briellmann1, David F. Abbott1, Graeme D. Jackson1

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                  2511.    Effect of Spatial Distribution of Magnetic Dipoles on Lamor Frequency Distribution and
                                MRI Signal Decay - A Numerical Approach Under Static Dephasing Conditions

Joerg Pintaske1, Bernd Mueller-Bierl1, Fritz Schick1

1University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, BW, Germany

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                  2512.    Measurement of T2 of an ROI of Arbitrary Shape Using Spatially Selective Excitation

Qin Qin1, Mark D. Does2, Robin A. de Graaf, 13, John C. Gore2

1Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; 2Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;
3
Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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                  2513.    Measurement of Short and Ultra-Short  T2 Components Using Progressive
                                Binomial RF Saturation

Stefan Ropele1, Christian Enzinger1, Thomas Seifert1, Franz Fazekas1

1Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

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                  2514.    Selection of T2 Components from Segmented K-Space Multiecho Data:
                                Improving Efficiency of T2 Relaxometry for Myelin Quantification

Alexey A. Samsonov1, Andrew L. Alexander1, Aaron S. Field1

1University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2515.    A Dynamic R2*-And-Field-Map-Corrected Imaging for Single Shot Rosette Trajectories

Sangwoo Lee1, Jeffrey A. Fessler1, Douglas C. Noll1

1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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                  2516.    Dependence of R2* on Oxygenation and Contrast Agent Concentration in Human Blood at 3T

Nicholas Paul Blockley1, Susan T. Francis1, Penny A. Gowland1

1University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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                  2517.    Tri-Exponential T2 Quantification In Vivo

Jinesh J. Jain1, Wilburn E. Reddick1

1St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

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                  2518.    MRI Phantoms with Independently-Controllable Biexponential-T2 Decays

Robert Adam Horch1, Mark D. Does1

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                  2519.    Correlation of MR Relaxation Parameters with Tissue Macromolecular Composition

Jeffrey James Luci1, Tuhin Kumar Sinha1, Sheerin Khatib Shahidi1, Dale Shannen Cornett1, Richard M. Caprioli1,
Benoit M. Dawant1, John C. Gore1

1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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                  2520.    Cross-Site Reproducibility of Myelin Water Estimates

Charmaine Lian Li Chia1, Thorarin Albert Bjarnason2, Alex L. MacKay, 23, Gilbert Bruce Pike1

1Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;
3
University of British Columbia Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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                  2521.    Free-Breathing, Dark-Blood GESFIDE Pulse Sequence for the Measurement of R2*,
                                R2 and R2' of Myocardium

Ruitian Song1, Hee Kwon Song1

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

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                  2522.    Prediction of Iron-Induced MRI Relaxation by Monte Carlo Modeling

Nilesh Ghugre1, John C. Wood1

1Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  2523.    Inversion Recovery in the Presence of Radiation Damping - Implications for Evaluating Contrast Agents

Thomas Roger Eykyn1, Wing Chau Tung1, Geoffrey S. Payne1, Martin O. Leach1

1Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK

 

Spectroscopic Data Analysis and Quantitation

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2524.    Decomposition Characteristics of Brain Tissue Investigated at Two Different Temperatures
                                by Means of 1H-MRS

Eva Scheurer1, Roland Kreis1, Michael Thali1, Chris Boesch1, Michael Ith1

1University & Inselspital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

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                  2525.    Spectral Resolution Versus SNR and Acquisition Duration: An Adversarial Balancing Act

Roman Fleysher1, Lazar Fleysher1, Songtao Liu1, Oded Gonen1

1NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

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                  2526.    Automated Separation of Low Quality and Artifact Spectra by Pattern Recognition in the
                                Processing of MR Spectral Images

Bjoern H. Menze1, B. Michael Kelm1, Fred A. Hamprecht1

1University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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                  2527.      Could We Accurately Measure In Vivo Diffusion Coefficients of Brain Metabolites
                                Using Single-Voxel MR Spectroscopy?

Tiejun Zhao1, Lei Zhou1, Xiaoping Hu1

1Emory University/Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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                  2528.    Automatic Repositioning of CSI Grids in 1H MRS: Impact on Reproducibility of
                                Metabolite Concentration Measurements

Ileana Hancu1, Dan Blezek1, Katherine Turk2, Gilberto Gonzalez2, Eva-Maria Ratai2

1GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA; 2MGH, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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                  2529.    CFIT: A Novel Circle-Fitting Approach to Spectral Analysis

Refaat ElSayed Gabr1, Ronald Ouwerkerk1, Paul A. Bottomley1

1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  2530.    Study of Pilocarpine Model of Epileptic Rats at 7 Tesla by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Cristina Cudalbu1, Sophie Cavassila1, Alexandra Montavont2, Philippe Ryvlin2, André Briguet1, Danielle Graveron-Demilly1

1Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, ESCPE, Villeurbanne, France; 2CERMEP and ANIMAGE, Lyon, France

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                  2531.    Towards Accurate Quantification of Metabolites and Macromolecules in HR-MAS Spectra
                                of Brain Tumor Biopsies Using LCModel

Kirstie S. Opstad1, Tiernan Byrnes1, Alison Loosemore1, B A. Bell1, John R. Griffiths1, Franklyn A. Howe1

1St. George's, University of London, London, UK

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                  2532.    Quantitative Proton MRSI of the Human Cervical Spine at 3.0 Tesla

David Bonekamp1, Richard A. E. Edden1, 2, Peter B. Barker1, 2

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

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                  2533.    Estimated Metabolite Concentrations in the Rat Brain with Quest:A Comparison Between
                                In Vitro and Simulated Basis Sets

Cristina Cudalbu1, Sophie Cavassila1, Olivier Beuf1, Herald Rabeson1, Dirk van Ormondt2,

Danielle Graveron-Demilly1

1Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, ESCPE, Villeurbanne, France; 2Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

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                  2534.    Assessment of HR-MAS NMR Prostate Biopsy Tissue Spectra with Principal Component
                                Analysis and Metabolite Quantification

Paul Allen DiCamillo1, Mark Gunnard Swanson1, John Kurhanewicz1, Sarah Jane Nelson1

1University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

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                  2535.    ProFit: Two-Dimensional Prior-Knowledge Fitting of J-Resolved Spectra

Rolf F. Schulte1, Peter Boesiger1

1University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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                  2536.    Vitamin C Concentration Measured in the Human Brain In Vivo Using LCModel Analysis
                                of Fully Resolved 1H Edited Spectroscopy at 7 Tesla

Melissa Jo Terpstra1

1University of MN, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  2537.    Postprocessing of  Spectroscopic Imaging Data with Incomplete K-Space Sampling Using a
                                Maximum Entropy Method

Wolfgang Dreher1, 2, Dieter Leibfritz1, 2

1University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; 2Center of Advanced Imaging (CAI), Bremen, Germany

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                  2538.    Water as an Internal Reference for Spectroscopic Imaging: Errors Due to Inacurrate Water
                                Relaxation Times

Charles Gasparovic1, 2, Deidre J. Devier1, 3

1University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; 2MIND Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA;
3
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

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                  2539.    Quantification of Human Brain Metabolites with Different RF Coils

Harald E. Möller1, 2, Timm Wetzel1, Marc Tittgemeyer1

1Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; 2University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

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                  2540.    Predicting SNR Gains from Constructive Averaging of Proton Spectra: Theory and Practice

Refaat ElSayed Gabr1, Michael Schär, 1,2, Shashank Sathyanarayana1, Robert G. Weiss1, Paul A. Bottomley1

1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland,, Ohio, USA

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                  2541.    Blind Spectra Decomposition of MRSI of the Brain with Tumor by Sparse Component Analysis

Chunqi Chang1, Xiangling Mao2, Yeung Sam Hung1, Jian Yang1, Peter C. W. Fung1, Dikoma C. Shungu2, Ed X. Wu1

1The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China;
2
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA

 

                  2542.    Continuous Saturation Correction in the Presence of Changing Metabolite Concentrations

Damian J. Tyler1, Mark A. Cole1, Carolyn Carr1, Daniel J. Stuckey1, Kieran Clarke1

1University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

 

 

MRS Sensitivity Enhancement Techniques for 13C and Other Nuclei through Hyperpolarization

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2543.    Usage of Paramagnetic Contrast Agents to Enhance 13C Signal Detection In Vitro

Ruud B. van Heeswijk1, João M.N Duarte1, Sabrina Laus1, Rolf Gruetter1

1EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

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                  2544.    Field Inhomogeneity May Substantially Affect Hyperpolarised 129Xe Rat Head Spectra

Jeff Kershaw1, 2, Kazuhiro Nakamura1, 2, Atsushi Wakai1, 2, Yasushi Kondoh2, Iwao Kanno2

1Akita Industry Promotion Foundation, Akita, Japan; 2Akita Research Institute of Brain and Blood Vessels, Akita, Japan 

                  2545.    In Vivo Carbon-13 Spectroscopy of Rhesus Monkey Brain at 4.7T: Detecting Rapid
                                Exchange Between α-Ketoglutarate and Glutamate Using Magnetization Transfer

Shizhe Steve Li1, Jehoo Yang1, Zhengguang Chen1, John Bacher1, Robert B. Innis1, Jun Shen1

1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  2546.    Fast Metabolic Imaging of Systems with Sparse Spectra: Application for
                                Hyperpolarized 13C Imaging

Dirk Mayer1, Yakir S. Levin1, Gary H. Glover1, Ralph E. Hurd2, Daniel M. Spielman1

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

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                  2547.    Least Squares Reconstruction for Sparse Spectra: Application to Hyperpolarized 13C Imaging

Yakir S. Levin1, 2, Dirk Mayer1, Yi-Fen Yen3, Ralph Hurd3, Daniel M. Spielman1, 2

1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; 2Stanford University School of Engineering, Stanford, California, USA;
3
GEHealthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA

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                  2548.    3He T1 in Mouse Lung Estimated from Washout Curve Analysis Under Spontaneous Respiration.
                                Use of SF6 Gas at Thermal Equilibrium to Evaluate Respiratory Term

Hirohiko Imai1, Michiko Narazaki1, Hiroyuki Inoshita1, Astuomi Kimura1, Hideaki Fujiwara1

1Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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                  2549.    Hyperpolarizing (1H and 13C) Naturally Occurring Amino Acids to Explore Their Function Via MRI

Joachim Bargon1, Hanjo Heinrich1, Ute Bommerich2, Rahim R. Rizi3

1University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; 2University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany;
3
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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                  2550.    Method for Continuous Measurement of Nuclear Para State Enrichment in Hydrogen Gas
                                with Applications to Hyperpolarized Heteronuclear Contrast Agents

Vahid Vahdat1, Stephen Kadlecek1, Sheeva Rajaei1, JiangSheng Yu1, Kiarash Emami1, John MacDuffie Woodburn1, Masaru Ishii2,
Frank Hammond1, Rahim R. Rizi1

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

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                  2551.    Direct Generation of 1H- And 13C-Hyperpolarized Molecules for MRI from Parahydrogen
                                Via Reversibly Functioning Catalysts

Joachim Bargon1, 2, Rahim R. Rizi2

1University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; 2University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 

                  2552.    Early Experience with Simple Methods for Parahydrogen-Induced Hyperpolarization

Aaron K. Grant1, Elena Vinogradov1, Daniel K. Sodickson1, 2, James A. Balschi3, Robert E. Lenkinski1

1Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
3
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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                  2553.    A Compact Counter-Flow Xenon Polarizer for Clinical Applications

Jan H. Distelbrink1, Steven Ketel2, Jeff E. Ketel1, Korac MacArthur2, Craig S. Pelissier1, Hongguo Zhu3,

F W. Hersman, 1,2

1Xemed LLC, Durham, New Hampshire, USA; 2UNH, Durham, New Hampshire, USA; 3Canberra, Meriden, Connecticut, USA

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                  2554.    Improvements in Spectral Resolution in In Vivo-Hyperpolarized 13C-CSI on Pigs Using
                                Spectroscopic GRASE

Jürgen Klaus Hennig1, Sven Mansson2, Jochen Leupold1, Oliver Wieben3, J Stefan Petersson4

1University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany; 2University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; 3University Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA;
4
GE Healthcare, Malmö, Sweden

 

 

 

MR Elastography

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2555.    Progress in Phased-Array Mechanical Drivers for  Magnetic Resonance Elastography

Yogesh K. Mariappan1, Kevin J. Glaser2, Richard L. Ehman2

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

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                  2556.    Three-Dimensional Visualization of Ultrasonically Induced Shear Waves for Elasticity Imaging

Derek D. Steele1, Kevin J. Haworth1, Oliver D. Kripfgans1, Scott D. Swanson1

1The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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                  2557.    Group-Velocity Inversion in MR Elastography on Skeletal Muscles

Sebastian Papazoglou1, Jens Rump1, Dieter Klatt1, Uwe Hamhaber2, Jürgen Braun2, Ingolf Sack1

1Institute of Radiology, Berlin, Germany; 2Institute of Medical Informatics, Berlin, Germany

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                  2558.    MR Elastography Sequence Comparison: Standard PC MRE vs. Balanced
                                Alternating Steady-State Elastography

Stefan Maderwald1, Frank Stock1, Oliver Kraff1, Armin de Greiff1, Oliver Bieri2, Klaus Scheffler2, Mark E. Ladd1

1University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany; 2University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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                  2559.    High Frequency Mode Conversion Technique for Stiff Lesion Detection in Magnetic
                                Resonance Elastography

Yogesh K. Mariappan1, Phillip J. Rossman2, Armando Manduca2, Anthony Romano3, Richard L. Ehman2

1Mayo Clinic college of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; 2Mayo clinic college of medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA;
3
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

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                  2560.    A Novel Fractal Model to Explain the Rheology of Liver Tissue Using MR-Elastography

Benjamin Robert1, Ralph Sinkus1, Jeremy Bercoff2, Mickael Tanter1, Mathias Fink1

1Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique, Paris, France; 2SuperSonic Imagine, Aix-en-Provence, France

 

 

Parallel Transmission Technology

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2561.    Self-Calibrated Transmit SENSE

Adam Bruce Kerr1, Charles H. Cunningham1, John Mark Pauly1, Randy O. Giaquinto2, Ronald D. Watkins2,

Yudong Zhu2

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA

 

                  2562.    Application of RF Current Sources in Transmit SENSE

Hyokwon Nam1, William Grissom2, Douglas C. Noll2, Steven M. Wright1

1Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA; 2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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                  2563.    Comparison of a Current Source and a Voltage Source in Transmit SENSE

Hyokwon Nam1, Steven M. Wright1

1Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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                  2564.    Potential Advantage of High Modes of Birdcage for Parallel Imaging

Chunsheng Wang1, Peng Qu1, Bing Wu1, Gary X. Shen1

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

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                  2565.    Transmit Coil Array for Very High Field Head Imaging

Yu Li1, Charles Saylor1, George R. Duensing1

1Invivo Diagnostic Imaging, Gainesville, Florida, USA

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                  2566.    A Degenerate Bandpass Birdcage as Antenna for a 3T Wholebody Transmit Array

Jürgen Nistler1, Rainer Kurth2, Razvan Lazar1, Markus Vester1, Wolfgang Renz1

1Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 2University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany

 

                  2567.    Improved Homogeneity of the Transmit Field Due to Simultaneous Transmission with
     Phased Arrays and Volume Coils

Nikolai I. Avdievich1, 2, Hoby H. Hetherington1, 2

1Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; 2Gruss MRRC, Bronx, New York, USA

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                  2568.    Obtaining Localized Excitation in Human Abdominal Organs at 7 Tesla

Tamer S. Ibrahim1, Roney Abraham

1The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

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                  2569.    An Optimized Four-Channel Microstrip Loop Array at 7T

Bing Wu1, Xiaoliang Zhang2, Gary X. Shen1

1The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

 

 

 

Parallel Receive Coil Technology

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2570.    Evaluation of Cost Functions in the Design of RF Coils Optimized for SENSE Imaging

L Tugan Muftuler1, Gang Chen1, Orhan Nalcioglu1

1University of California, Irvine, California, USA

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                  2571.    Adjustable Simultaneous Inductive Decoupling of Large Arrays

Naresh Yallapragada1, Mary Preston McDougall1, Steven M. Wright1

1Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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                  2572.    3D RF Coil Modeling Method and Its Application in Optimized SENSE Coil Design

Gang Chen1, Lutfi Tugan Muftuler1, Orhan Nalcioglu1

1University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA

 

                  2573.    Head RF Coil Design with Surface Current Density Optimization for SENSE Imaging

L Tugan Muftuler1, Gang Chen1, Orhan Nalcioglu1

1University of California, Irvine, California, USA

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                  2574.    RF Coil Array Optimized for 2D SENSE Imaging

Gang Chen1, Lutfi Tugan Muftuler1, Orhan Nalcioglu1

1University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA

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                  2575.    A 16 Channel Head Coil

Jovan Jevtic1, Velibor Pikelja1, Randy Duensing2

1Invivo Corporation, Pewaukee, Wisconsin, USA; 2Invivo Corporation, Gainesville, Florida, USA

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                  2576.    Improved A-P Parallel MRI of the Spine Using a Twisted Array

Scott B. King1, Sathya Vijayakumar2, Feng Huang2, Charles Saylor2, G Randy Duensing2

1National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; 2InVivo Corporation, Gainesville, Florida, USA

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                  2577.    A Comparison of Methods for Reducing the Number of Channels for SENSE

Dan Kenrick Spence1, Steven M. Wright1

1Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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                  2578.    A 32 Channel Cardiac Array Optimized for Parallel Imaging

Titus Lanz1, Peter Kellman2, Mathias Nittka3, Andreas Greiser3, Mark Griswold4

1Rapid Biomedical GmbH, Rimpar, Germany; 2NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 3Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany;
4
Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  2579.    Single Breath-Hold 3D Cine Imaging of the Thorax Using a New 32 Element Cardiac Coil

Michael Schacht Hansen1, 2, Marc Kouwenhoven3, Vivek Muthurangu2, Derek L. G. Hill1, Reza Razavi2

1University College of London, London, UK; 2King's College London, London, UK; 3Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands

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                  2580.    A Novel 16-Element  Coil for SENSE Brain/neurovascular Imaging

 

Cecilia Possanzini1, Ulrike Dydak2, Sebastian Kozerke2, Marijn Kruiskamp1, Roger Luechinger2, Marcel Warntjes3, Mark van Uden1,
Mika Ylihautala4, Peter Boesiger2, Fredy Visser1

1Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands; 2ETH and University Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland;
3
CMIV Linköpings universitet, Linköping, Sweden; 4Philips Medical Systems, Vantaa, Finland

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                  2581.    A 34 Element 3T Brain Coil Array for Multi Dimensional Accelerated Imaging

Scott A. Lindsay1, Kevin F. King1, John E. Lorbiecki1, Ed Benjamin Boskamp1

1GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2582.    Experimental Comparison of Signal-To-Noise Between 16 and 8 Element Receive-Only
                                Brain Gapped Array Coils and Birdcage Head Coil at 3 Tesla

Jerzy Bodurka1, Jeff Duyn2, Lalith Talagala2, Peter Bandettini1

1NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  2583.    A Four-Channel Transceive Phased-Array Helmet Coil for 3 T

Wolfgang Driesel1, Timm Wetzel1, Toralf Mildner1, Christopher J. Wiggins2, Harald E. Möller3

1Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany;
2
A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA;
3
University Hospital Münster, Münster, NRW, Germany

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                  2584.    SENSE-Optimization of a Transceive Surface Coil Array for MRI at 4T

Robert G. Pinkerton1, 2, Graeme C. McKinnon3, Ravi S. Menon1, 2

1Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; 2University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada;
3
GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2585.    Multipurpose 4+4 Channel Array Setup for Parallel Imaging in 3D

Daniel Gareis1, Volker Christian Behr1, Felix Breuer1, Mark Griswold2, Peter Jakob1

1University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;
2
Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, USAText Box:  

 

                  2586.    A Clover Leaf Coil Array for Neonatal Cardiac Imaging at 3T

David Herlihy1, David J. Larkman1, Julie Fitzpatrick1, Adrienne Foran1, David A. Edwards1, Jo V. Hajnal1

1Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK

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                  2587.    Bilateral Surface Coil for Lower Extremity Imaging at 3T

Ryan Brown1, Yi Wang2, Ray F. Lee3, Joel D. Morrisett4

1Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA;
2
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA; 3New York University, New York, New York, USA;
4
Baylor University, Houston, Texas, USA

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                  2588.    A Transceive Surface Coil Array for MRI of the Human Prostate at 4 T

Robert G. Pinkerton1, 2, James P. Near1, 2, Enzo A. Barberi3, Ravi S. Menon1, 2, Robert Bartha, 1,2

1University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 2Imaging Research Labs, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada;
3
XLRImaging, London, Ontario, Canada

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                  2589.    4 Channel Rat Head Arrays for 7 T and 11.7 T

Titus Lanz1, Thomas Steinberger1, Stephen Dodd2, Fernando F. Paiva2, Afonso C. Silva2, Alan P. Koretsky2

1Rapid Biomedical GmbH, Rimpar, Germany; 2National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  2590.    Inductive Decoupling of RF Coil Arrays: A Study at 7T

George Carlos do Nascimento1, Fernando F. Paiva1, Afonso Costa Silva1

1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  2591.    A Volume Head Array with 8 Transmit / Receive Channels for 7 T

Alexander Weisser1, Titus Lanz1

1RAPID Biomedical GmbH, Rimpar, Germany

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                  2592.    Optimization of 24-Channel Receive-Only Coil Array for Brain Imaging at 7.0 Tesla
                                by the Genetic Algorithm

Shumin Wang1, Patrick J. Ledden2, Jeff H. Duyn1

1LFMI, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2Nova Medical, Inc., Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA

 

 

 

RF Coils for Spectroscopy and Animal Studies

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2593.    3T Prostate Coils for 1H and 31P MR Spectroscopic Imaging

Konstantinos George Karpodinis1, Lucas Carvajal1, Albert Pofu Chen1, Bert Jimenez1, Niles Bruce1, James Tropp2, John Kurhanewicz1,
Daniel B. Vigneron1

1University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; 2General Electric Medical Systems, Fremont, California, USA

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                  2594.    An Endorectal Dual Frequency 13C-1H Receive Only Probe for Operation at 3.0 Tesla

James Tropp1, Paul Calderon1, Lucas Carvajal2, Kostas Karpodinis2, Albert Chen2, Dan Vigneron2, Ralph Hurd1,

J-H. Ardenkjaer-Larsen3

1GE Healthcare Technologies, Fremont, California, USA; 2University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA;
3
GE Healthcare Technologies, Niskayuna, New York, USA

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                  2595.    4T Actively-Detunable Double-Tuned 1H/31P TEM Head Volume Coil and
                                Four-Channel 31P Phased Array for Human Brain Spectroscopy

Nikolai I. Avdievich1, 2, Hoby H. Hetherington1, 2

1Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; 2Gruss MRRC, Bronx, New York, USA

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                  2596.    A Double-Resonant 19F/1H Transmit/Receive Solenoid Coil for MRI

Peter Caesar Mazurkewitz1, Christoph Leussler1, Jochen Keupp1, Tobias Schaeffter1

1Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

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                  2597.    Developing an RF Coil for MRI and MRS of Human Breast Tissue

Denis Rubin1, Qiuhong He1

1University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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                  2598.    A Dual Tuned RF Coil for 3T MRI

Y Duan1, B. S. Peterson1, F. Liu1, T. R. Brown1, Roney Abraham2, Tamer S. Ibrahim2, Alayar Kangarlu1

1Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; 2University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

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                  2599.    Implantable Multiple-Frequency Inductively-Coupled Coil System for In Vivo
                                MR Imaging and Spectroscopy of Bioartificial Pancreas at 11.1 T

Nelly A. Volland1, Christopher A. Taylor1, Thomas H. Mareci1, Ioannis Constantinidis1

1University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

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                  2600.    Multi-Element Coil for Animal Imaging at 3T

Gilles Beaudoin1

1CHUM, hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, QC, Canada

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                  2601.    Multiple Animal TEM RF Coil with Cylindrical Cavity Configuration

Hye Young Heo1, Soo Yeol Lee1, Kyung Nam Kim1, Min Hyoung Cho1, Ik Hyun Kim1, Tae Suk Park1

1Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Kyungki, Republic of KoreaText Box:  

 

                  2602.    A Coil System for Multiple-Mouse Imaging at 9.4 T

Peter Gerhard1, Jeremy W. Wellen2

1RAPID Biomedical, Rimpar, Germany; 2GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA

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                  2603.    In-Vivo Mice Imaging Using HTS Volume Coil

Yum Wing Wong1, Geng Li1, Edward S. Yang1

1The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of ChinaText Box:  

 

                  2604.    In-Vivo Multiple Mouse MRI Using Parallel Receive-Only Coils on a 3.0 T
                                Clinical Scanner for Molecular Imaging Research

Marcelino Bernardo1, 2, Hisataka Kobayashi2, Gregory Metzger3, 4, Yoshinori Koyama2, Charlene Shaw1, 2

David Thomasson5, Peter Choyke2

1SAIC-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA; 2National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;
3
Philips Medical Systems, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 4University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA;
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National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USAText Box:  

 

                  2605.    Design of Multiple-Imaging-Region Gradient Coil for Parallel Mouse Imaging

Joshua Thomas de Bever1, Blaine A. Chronik1

1University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

 

 

 

General RF Coil Technology

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2606.    Implementation of STR Body Coil for High Field MRI

Sung-Taek Chung1, In-Ki Hong1, Kyoung-Nam Kim2, Yeun-Chul Ryu3, Jeong-Han Yi4

1Korea Polytecnic University, Sihung-si, Kyoungi-Do, Republic of Korea;
2
Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon Medical School, Incheon, Incheon-si, Republic of Korea;
3
Korea University, Ahnam, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 4Konkuk University, Chunju, ChungBuk, Republic of Korea

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                  2607.    Optimization of Resonance Mode Stability in RF Coil Design for Very High Field MRI

Charles Saylor1, Yu Li1

1Invivo Diagnostic Imaging, Gainesville, Florida, USA

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                  2608.    Performance Comparison with 15cm Long and 23cm Long Birdcage Coil on 7T

Akira Nabetani1, 2, Graeme McKinnon3, Tsutomu Nakada2

1GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Ltd., Hino, Tokyo, Japan; 2University of Niigata, Niigata, Japan; 3GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2609.    4T Split TEM Volume Head and Knee Coils for Improved Sensitivity and Patient Comfort

Nikolai I. Avdievich1, 2, Ken Bradshaw3, Jing-Huei Lee4, Hoby H. Hetherington1, 2

1Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; 2Gruss MRRC, Bronx, New York, USA;
3
MRI Instruments Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 4University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

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                  2610.    Shoulder Shield for 7.0T T/R Brain Coil

Gordon DeMeester1, Zhiyong Zhai1, Michael Morich1, Christoph Leussler2, Kai Michael Lüdeke2

1Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; 2Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

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                  2611.    Design of Multi-Elements Transverse Field RF Surface Coils

Tomas Mazza1, Maria Alfonsetti1, Marcello Alecci1

1Università di L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

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                  2612.    Slotted Surface Coil for Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 4T

Sergio Solis1, 2, Ruiliang Wang2, Dardo Tomasi2, Alfredo Odon Rodriguez1

1UAM Iztapalapa, Mexico, DF, Mexico; 2Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA

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                  2613.    Optimized Litz Coil Design for Prepolarized Extremity MRI

Thomas Grafendorfer1, 2, Steven M. Conolly1, 2, Nathaniel I. Matter2, John Pauly2, Greig Scott2

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

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                  2614.    Using MR Thermometry to Monitor the Frozen Effect in High-Temperature
                                Superconducting RF Coil System

Li-Wei Kuo1, Ching Yao2, Kun-Lin Tsai1, Hong-Chang Yang1, Jyh-Horng Chen1

1National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2National Health Research Institute, Miaoli, Taiwan

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                  2615.    A New Method of Fabricating HTS Tape Coil

Yum Wing Wong1, Edward S. Yang1

1The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong KongText Box:  

 

                  2616.    On the SNR Gain for Copper and Superconductor Cryogenic Coils

Lian Xue1, Leiming Xie1, Maged Kamel1, Jarek Wosik1

1University of Houston and Texas Center for Superconductivity, Houston, Texas, USA

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                  2617.    A Direct Modulated Optical Link for MR Coil Array Interconnect

Jing Yuan1, Juan Wei1, Peng Qu1, Gary X. Shen1

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

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                  2618.    Surface Coils with Integrated Differential Amplifiers

Jolinda Smith1, Cliff Dax1, Ray L. Nunnally1

1University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA

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                  2619.    Microstrip TEM Coil Optimization at 7T

Can Akgun1, Lance DelaBarre1, Pierre-Francois van de Moortele1, Carl J. Snyder1, Kamil Ugurbil1,

John Thomas Vaughan1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  2620.    Optimizing the SNR Performance of the Tunable Strip Detector

Ananda Kumar1, Paul Arthur Bottomley1

1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  2621.    Comparison of the Coax Element and Stripline Element TEM Head Coils at Ultra-High Field

Tamer S. Ibrahim1, Roney Abraham1, Lin Tang1, John Thomas Vaughan2

1University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  2622.    A Van Vaals Resonator with a Novel Quadrature Drive Circuit

Matthew George Erickson1, Krishna N. Kurpad1, Thomas M. Grist1

1University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2623.    Evaluation of Ferroelectric Resonators as RF Coils for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Ilia Geifman1, Iryna Sergeevna Golovina2

1Oakton Community College, Glenview, Illinois, USA; 2Institute of Semiconductors Physics, Kiev, Ukraine

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                  2624.    RF Breakdown in Vacuum Layers for MRI Noise Reduction

Wolfgang Renz1, Helmut Stark2, Jürgen Nistler1, Martin Rausch1

1Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 2Stark Contrast MRI Coils Research, Erlangen, Germany

 

 

 

RF Applications: Miscellaneous

Room 4E                    Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  2625.    Saturated Double-Angle Method for Rapid B1 Mapping

Charles H. Cunningham1, John M. Pauly1, Krishna S. Nayak2

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  2626.    Rapid Mapping of the RF Field

Glen Morrell1

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

 

                  2627.    Measuring Coil Sensitivities of Transmit and Receive Arrays with
     Demonstration of RF Shimming

Martina F. Callaghan1, Jose L. Ulloa2, David J. Larkman1, Pablo Irarrazaval2, Joseph V. Hajnal1

1Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; 2Pontif Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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                  2628.    Transmit Array Spatial Encoding (TRASE): A New Data Acquisition Method in MRI

Scott B. King1, Donghui Yin1, Sheryl Thingvold1, Jonathan C. Sharp1, Boguslaw Tomanek1

1National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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                  2629.    Estimating In Vivo Spatial Resolution of Magnetic Resonance Images
                                Using Radiofrequency Tagging Pulses

Wen-Tung Wang1, Craig H. Meyer1

1University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

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                  2630.    Spectrally Sensitive Imaging Using Balanced Steady State Free Precession

Roland Bammer1, Michael Markl2

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Germany