Brain: Miscellaneous MRS

                  2631.    ¹H MR Spectroscopic Assessment of Age-Related Changes in Young and Middle-Aged Women

Sarah Andrea Dunham¹, Kathleen L. Fuchs¹, Dattesh D. Shanbhag¹, Virginia I. Simnad¹, Jack Knight-Scott¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  2632.    Application of Proton MRSI to Assess Metabolic Status of the Brain in Post Traumatic
                                Brain Injury Depression

Mahaveer Degaonkar¹, Vani Rao¹, Jennifer Spiro¹, Alena Horska¹, Peter Barker¹

¹Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2633.    Hierarchical Linear Modeling of Longitudinal Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging

Ping-Hong Yeh¹, John Kornak², Hemanth Thayyullathil¹, Dieter Meyererhoff, ^1,2

¹Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco, California, USA;
²University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2634.    A Novel Single-Voxel ¹H-MRS Sequence for Single-Shot Detection of Brain Glycine

Andrew Paul Prescot¹, Blaise deB Frederick¹, Marc J. Kaufman¹, Perry F. Renshaw¹

¹McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA

                  2635.    Estimation of Myo-Inositol and Macromolecule Contents in Normal-Appearing White and
                                Gray Matter in MS Using 3D-HMRSI at 3T

Hélène Ratiney¹, Darin Okuda¹, Danielle Graveron-Demilly², Sarah J. Nelson¹, Steve Hauser¹, Daniel Pelletier¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; ²Laboratoire de RMN, CNRS, UMR 5012,
Université LYON I-CPE, Lyon, France

                  2636.    Characterization of the Downfield Part of the Human Cerebral ¹H MR Spectrum at 3 T

Roland Kreis¹, Chris Boesch¹, Peter Vermathen¹

¹University Berne, Berne, Switzerland

                  2637.    Fast and High Resolution MRSI Without Aliasing Using Online SFAS and Multiple
                                Regions of Support

Yun Gao¹, Stephen M. Strakowski¹, Stanley J. Reeves², Hoby P. Hetherington³, Wenjang Chu¹, Jing-Huei Lee¹

¹University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ²Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA;
³Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA

                  2638.    Age-Related Changes in Brain Metabolites in Antiretroviral Medication-Stable HIV Patients

Kenneth Yue¹, Linda Chang¹, Daniel Alicata¹, Christine Cloak¹, Kathryn Taketa¹, Thomas Ernst¹

¹University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

                  2639.    Proton MR Spectroscopic Imaging in Neurofibromatosis Type-1: Relationship to
                                Neuropsychological Testing

Mona A. Mohamed¹, Jessica R. Abel², Sheryl L. Rimrodt², Laurie E. Cutting², Peter B. Barker¹, ²

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

                  2640.    Effects of Smoking on Brain Metabolite Concentrations

Diana Marie Lindquist¹, Reid Landes¹, Kirstin Gatchalian¹, Richard Yi¹, Warren Bickel¹

¹University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

                  2641.    MRS Monitoring of the Effects of Mobile Phone Use on the Brain

Abdesslem Khiat¹, Guy Breton¹, Yvan Boulanger¹

¹Hôpital Saint-Luc du CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

                  2642.    Combined DWI and 1H-MRS Study of the Brain of Cirrhotic Patients

Caterina Tonon¹, Raffaele Lodi¹, Claudia Testa¹, Emil Malucelli¹, David Neil Manners¹, Bruno Barbiroli¹

¹Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Italy

Brain MRI: The Next Frontier

                  2643.    Fast T1 Mapping of the Brain at 7T with RF Calibration Using Three Point DESPOT1 Method

Tie-Qiang Li¹, Sean C. L. Deoni²

¹NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²King's College London, London, England, UK

                  2644.    Ultrahigh Field T2 in Human Brain: Regional Differences and Changes with Age

Petra Schmalbrock¹, Peter Wassennaar¹, Johannes T. Heverhagen¹, Truong-Kha Truong¹, Donald W. Chakeres¹,
Michael R. Thompson², John Duraj², Michael V. Knopp¹

¹The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; ²Philips, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2645.    Improving Image Contrast in Conventional Dual Spin Echo at 3.0T with Short TE and
                                Flip Angle Optimization

Chen Lin¹, Mathew A. Bernstein¹, Krzysztof R. Gorny¹, John T. Wald¹, Robert J. Witte¹

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

                  2646.    A New Technique for Phase Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging of Iron in the Brain

Melanie S. Kotys¹, David M. Thomasson¹, Nicholas Patronas¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2647.    Automatic Detection and Classification of Hypointensity in MR Images of the Brain

Radu Serban Jasinschi¹, Ahmet Ekin¹, Adriaan Cornelius van Es², Jeroen van der Grond²,

Mark Augustinus van Buchem², Arianne van Muiswinkel³

¹Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands; ²Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; ³Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands

                  2648.    Time-Resolved Contrast Enhanced Neuro-Angiography Using HighlY Constrained Back
                                PRojection (HYPR) with a Hybrid Radial/Cartesian Acquisition (PR-TRICKS)

Yijing Wu¹, Patrick Turski¹, Yan Wu¹, Frank R. Korosec¹, Oliver Wieben¹, Jiang Du², Charies A. Mistretta¹

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

                  2649.    New Developments in Dynamic Time-Resolved Magnetic Resonance (MR)- Angiography
                                (TREAT) and High Resolution MR-Imaging of Cerebral Arterio-Venous Malformations (CAVM)
                                Using Parallel Imaging at 3T

Karin Anna Herrmann¹, Ulrike Fasol¹, Olaf Dietrich¹, Berndt Wowra², Alexander Muacevic², Maximilian F. Reiser¹, Stefan Oswald Schoenberg¹

¹Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospitals Munich-Grosshadern, Munich, Bavaria, Germany;
²European Cyberknife Center Munich, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

                  2650.    Quantitative Aspects of Measuring Contrast Reagent Extravasation in the Healthy Human Brain

Xin Li¹, William Rooney¹, Charles Springer¹

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

Dementia MRI/MRS

                  2651.    In Vivo Detection of Cerebral Glutathione in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Using Selective
                                Multiple Quantum Chemical Shift Imaging of GSH

In-Young Choi¹, ², John J. Sidtis², ³, Nunzio Pomara², ³, Sang-Pil Lee¹, ²

¹University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA; ²The Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, New York, USA; ³New York University, New York, New York, USA

                  2652.    Validation Testing of the MRI Calibration Phantom for the Alzheimer's Disease
                                Neuroimaging Initiative Study

Jeff L. Gunter¹, Matt A. Bernstein¹, Bret J. Borowski¹, Joel P. Felmlee¹, Daniel James Blezek², Richard P. Mallozzi², Joshua R. Levy³,
Norbert Schuff⁴, Clifford R. Jack, Jr. ¹

¹Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; ²GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA;
³The Phantom Laboratory, Salem, New York, USA; ⁴UC San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2653.    Cortical Thickness Analysis in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease

Won-Jin Moon¹, Jong Min Lee², Eun Chul Chung¹

¹Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea;
²Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

                  2654.    Regional Measurement of Hippocampal Atrophy in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Optimized
                                Manual ROI Segmentation and Voxel Based Morphometry

Rahyeong Juh¹, ², Min Ying Su¹, Chang Uk Lee², Tae Suk Suh², Orhan Nalcioglu¹

¹University of California, Irvine, California, USA; ²Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

                  2655.    Evidence for Elevated Brain Iron Concentration in Patients With

Anita Ramani¹, Kamila U. Szulc¹, Jens H. Jensen¹, Hanzhang Lu¹, Caixia Hu¹, Steven H. Ferris¹, Joseph A. Helpern¹

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

                  2656.    Iron Deposition in the Putamen

Bharani Krishnamurthy¹, Ewart Mark Haacke¹, ², Muhammed Ayaz², Sheri Harder³, Daniel Kido⁴, Wolff Kirsch⁴

¹Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ²The MRI Institute for Biomedical Research, Detroit, Michigan, USA;
³University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; ⁴Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA

                  2657.    Using SWI as a Means to Better Visualize the Caudate Nucleus in Huntington’s Disease

Mark E. Haacke¹, Lakshman Gollapalli¹, Diana H. Rosas², Ken Kwong²

¹Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ²Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2658.    Magnetic Resonance Diffusion and Spectroscopy Abnormalities in Different Forms of
                                Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Danielle Ibarrola¹, Marc Hermier², Alain Vighetto², Pierre Krolak-Salmon², Jean-Claude Froment²,

Dominique Sappey-Marinier¹, ³

¹IFR19, CERMEP - Imagerie du vivant, Bron, France; ²Hôpital Neurologique, Bron, France;
³CREATIS CNRS UMR5515 & INSERM U630 - Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France

                  2659.    Quantitative Magnetic Resonance and Histological Analysis of Primary Motor Neuronal Loss
                                in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Mark David Meadowcroft¹, James R. Connor², Zachary Simmons¹, Don C. Bigler¹, Jian-Li Wang¹, Michael B. Smith¹, Qing X. Yang²

¹Pennsylvania State University - College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Pennsylvania State University -  College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

Brain: Magnetization Transfer

                  2660.    WIMP: Self-Navigating Magnetization Transfer Pool Mapping with Stimulated Echoes

Rexford Newbould¹, Chunlei Liu¹, Stefan Ropele², Roland Bammer¹

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

                  2661.    A Measurement of the  Magnetization Exchange Between the Different Water
                                Compartments in Optic Nerve

Hadassah Shinar¹, Uzi Eliav¹, Gil Navon¹

¹Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

                  2662.    Describing Magnetization Transfer Parameters in White Matter Using a Four-Pool Model

Thorarin Albert Bjarnason¹, Alex L. MacKay²

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ²University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

                  2663.    Correlation of Magnetization Transfer Ratio with Cognitive Impairment in HIV

Ying Wu¹, Pippa Storey¹, Andres Carrillo², Leon G. Epstein³, Bruce Cohen³, Robert R. Edelman¹, Ann Ragin³

¹Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA;
²GE Medical Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ³Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2664.    Regional MRI Measures and Disability in Multiple Sclerosis

Robert Zivadinov¹, Ralph HB Benedict¹, Bhooma Srinivasaraghavan¹, Dominic Carone¹, Viritha Yella¹,

Nadir Abdelrahman¹, Michael G. Dwyer¹

¹Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, Buffalo, New York, USA

                  2665.    Intercentre Differences in Multicentre Brain MTR Histogram Studies Can Almost Be
                                Eliminated by Using Body Coil Transmission

Paul S. Tofts¹, Stefan CA Steens², Mara Cercignani¹, Daniel J. Tozer¹, Wouter M. Teeuwisse², Matthijs JP van Osch²,
 Faiza Admiraal-Behloul², Gareth J. Barker³, Mark A. van Buchem²

¹University College London, London, UK; ²LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands; ³KCL, London, UK

                  2666.    Fast Magnetization Transfer Imaging, a Comparative Study

Wouter Teeuwisse¹, Matthias van Osch¹, Hans Olofsen¹, Bart Emmer¹, Jeroen van der Grond¹

¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

                  2667.    Diffusion Tensor and Magnetization Transfer Imaging of the Brain at 3T in
                                Patients with Cirrhosis

Vijay Paul Bob Grover¹, Serena J. Counsell¹, Nayna Patel¹, Joanna M. Allsop¹, Elizabeth J. Bradford²,

Brian K. Saxby², Joseph V. Hajnal¹, Simon David Taylor-Robinson¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; ²Cognitive Drug Research, Goring-on-Thames, UK

                  2668.    Longitudinal MTR Changes in Mild to Severe Alzheimer’s Disease

Stefan Ropele¹, Faton Gorani¹, Christian Enzinger¹, Birgit Pendl¹, Alexandra Seewann¹, Reinhold Schmidt¹,

Franz Fazekas¹

¹Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

                  2669.    Magnetization Transfer Imaging in Distinguishing Early and Adult Onset Schizophrenia
                                in Drug-Naive First-Episode Patients

Xiaoqi Huang¹, Yuqing Wang², Su Lui¹, Wei Deng¹, Luo Ouyang², Hehan Tang¹, Tao Li¹, Bin Song¹, Xiangping Zhou¹, Sumner Maclean³, Vanessa Sluming⁴, Qiyong Gong¹

¹West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China; ²University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China; ³Universitatsklinikum, Goettingen, Germany; ⁴University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

                  2670.    Correlative Analysis of Anisotropy Diffusion Coefficient and Magnetization Transfer Ratio
                                with Serum Antibody Brain Binding and Antiphospholipid Antibodies in Multiple Sclerosis

Mehdi Adineh¹, ², Michael Kent¹, ², Ninad Mantri¹, Navin Kausthubh¹, Cemil Kirbas¹, Sehul Shah¹, Kenneth Pugar¹

¹The Wallace Kettering Neuroscience Institute, Kettering, Ohio, USA; ²Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA

Stroke

                  2671.    Moyamoya Disease: Visualization of Dilated Medullary Vessels by Flow-Compensated
                                Gadolinium-Enhanced MRI

Eri Kitamura¹, ², Mitsunori Kanagaki², Yukio Miki², Akira Yamamoto², Yasutaka Fushimi², Tsutomu Okada²,

Nobuyuki Mori², Ken-ichiro Kikuta², Susumu Miyamoto², Nobuo Hashimoto², Kazuro Sugimura¹, Kaori Togashi²

¹Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan; ²Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

                  2672.    The Feasibility of a Spin-Echo EPI Based Perfusion MRI in Moyamoya Disease on a 3.0T MR System

In-Chan Song¹, Jung-Eun Cheon¹, In-One Kim¹, Kee-Hyun Chang¹, Dong-Gyu Na¹

¹Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

                  2673.    Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity and White Matter Changes in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

David Last¹, David C. Alsop¹, Amir M. Abduljalil², Kun Hu¹, Jerry Cavallerano³, Lukas Lepicovsky¹,

Christopher Robles¹, Lewis A. Lipsitz¹, ⁴, Vera Novak¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²College of Medicine and Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; ³Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Hebrew Seniorlife Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2674.    Cerebral Developmental Venous Anomalies Associated with Loco-Regional Parenchymal
                                Abnormalities

Francesca B. Pizzini¹, Diego San Millán Ruíz², Enrico Piovan¹, Alberto Beltramello¹, Daniel Rüfenacht³

¹University Hospital Verona, Verona, Italy, Italy; ²Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland, Switzerland; ³Geneva University Hospital, Geneve, Switzerland, Switzerland

                  2675.    In Vivo Human Middle Cerebral Artery Wall Imaging Using High Resolution
                                Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Isabelle Klein¹, Philippa Lavallée¹, Pierre-Jean Touboul¹, Elisabeth Schouman-Claeys¹, Pierre Amarenco¹

¹Medical Hospital and University of Bichat, Paris, France

                  2676.    The Relationship Between the Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque and Cerebral
                                Perfusion-Weighted Imaging: Preliminary Results

Xin Lou¹, Ning Yu An¹, Jian Min Cai¹, Lin Ma¹, Xue Mei Li¹, Wei Sun²

¹PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ²GE Healthcare, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2677.    The Composition of Acute MCA Thrombus is Heterogeneous: A Comparison of
                                MR Susceptibility Image and CTA

Mingwang Zhu¹, Masahiko Hiroki¹, Hakan Ay¹, Aneesh B. Singhal¹, Nina M. Menezes¹, Chloe Joan Lopez¹, Christopher Melinosky¹,
A Gregory Sorensen¹

¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  2678.    3 T Vs 1.5 T MR Diffusion and Perfusion Imaging in Hyper-Acute Ischemic Stroke

Robert Karl Kosior¹, ², Michael D. Hill¹, ³, Jayme Cameron Kosior¹, ², Richard Frayne¹, ²

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ²Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
³Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  2679.    Artifact Simulating Subarachnoid and Intraventricular Hemorrhage on Single Shot Fast Spin Echo
                                Flair Images: A Trap for the Unwary

Alessandro Cianfoni¹, Maria GM Martin¹, Jiang Du¹, John R. Hesselink¹, Steven G. Imbesi¹, William G. Bradley¹, Graeme M. Bydder¹

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

                  2680.    A New Approach Using the Distribution of Transit Times (DTT) to Determine Improved Absolute
                                CBF Values in Patients with Ischemic Stroke

Marina Salluzzi¹, Richard Frayne², ³, Michael R. Smith¹, ³

¹Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
²Seaman Family MR Research Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
³Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  2681.    Pediatric and Adult Global Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury Evaluated by Diffusion-Weighted
                                Imaging and MR Spectroscopy

Karen Angela Tong¹, Anna Dengel¹, Carrie Carr¹, Udo Oyoyo¹, Stephen Ashwal¹, Sarah Uffindell¹,

Barbara Ann Holshouser¹

¹Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, USA

                  2682.    Altered BOLD Hemodynamic Response in Patients with Ischemic Stroke

Kaundinya Gopinath¹, Anna Moore², Kyung Peck³, Bruce Crosson⁴, ⁵, Richard Briggs¹

¹UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, USA; ²Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA;
³Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; ⁴University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA;
⁵VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  2683.    Visualization of Collateral Supply by Two-Coil Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling

Harald E. Möller¹, ², Toralf Mildner¹, Christoph Preul¹, Claus Zimmer³

¹Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; ²University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany;
³University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Methods in Arterial Spin Labeling

                  2684.    Toward Quantitative Whole Brain Pulsed Arterial Spin Labeling: Estimation of
                                Transit Time with Cardiac Gating at 3T

Wen-Ming Luh¹, Jerzy Bodurka¹, Peter A. Bandettini¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2685.    Dynamic Relationship Between Arterial Transit Time and Perfusion and Its Implications
                                for Fast ASL Quantification

Gregory R. Lee¹, Luis Hernandez-Garcia¹, Vikas Gulani¹, Douglas Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2686.    Mapping of Arterial Transit Time Using Dual-Coil CASL with Sinusoidally Modulated Labeling Function

Toralf Mildner¹, Karsten Müller¹, Stefan Hetzer¹, Robert Trampel², Wolfgang Driesel¹, Harald E. Möller¹, ³

¹Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany;
²NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ³University Hospital Münster, Münster, NRW, Germany

                  2687.    Estimation of Blood Magnetization for Quantification of Arterial Spin Labeling Signal

Kim Cornelia Carolina van de Ven¹, ², Esben Thade Petersen¹, ³, Xavier Golay¹, ⁴

¹National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands;
³Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore; ⁴A*star, Singapore, Singapore

                  2688.    Combined Blood:Brain Partition Coefficient and Perfusion Assessment Using QUASAR

Esben Thade Petersen¹, Kim Cornelia Carolina van de Ven¹, ², Ivan Zimine¹, Xavier Golay, ¹³

¹National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands;
³ASTAR, Singapore, Singapore

                  2689.    The Effect of Fat Saturation on Arterial Spin Labeling

Yufen Chen¹, Todd B. Parrish¹

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2690.    Sub-Minute Arterial Spin Labelling at 3.0T

Elizabeth A. Moore¹, Frank G. C. Hoogenraad², Xavier Golay³, ⁴, Ebsen Thade Petersen³, Maarten Versluis²,

J M. den Harder², Ad Moerland²

¹Philips Medical Systems UK, Reigate, UK; ²Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands;
³National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore; ⁴Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Singapore, Singapore

                  2691.    In-Vivo Measurement of Arterial Cerebral Blood Volume Using LL-EPI-FAIR
                                and LL-EPI-STAR

Matthew Jon Brookes¹, Peter G. Morris¹, Penny A. Gowland¹, Susan T. Francis¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

                  2692.    Activation Induced Changes in Arterial Cerebral Blood Volume (ACBV)
                                Measured Using LL-EPI-STAR

Matthew Jon Brookes¹, Peter G. Morris¹, Penny A. Gowland¹, Susan T. Francis¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

                  2693.    Reducing Contamination in PASL Using BASSI RF Pulses

Jan M. Warnking¹, G. Bruce Pike¹

¹Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

                  2694.    Pseudo Random Amplitude Modulation: A High Efficiency Method to Measure Flow
                                and Perfusion

Truman R. Brown¹, Nina C. Shapley¹, Haiying Tang²

¹Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ²Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, USA

                  2695.    Sensitivity and Detectability of Regional Differences in CASL Perfusion
                                Between Subject Groups

Ruth L. O'Gorman¹, ², Steven C. Williams², David C. Alsop³, Fernando O. Zelaya²

¹King's College Hospital, London, UK; ²Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK; ³Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2696.    Quantitative Cerebral Vascular Response Maps: Determination with Pulsed Arterial Spin Labelling

Ulrike Noeth¹, ², Futoshi Kotajima³, Ralf Deichmann², Robert Turner², Douglas R. Corfield³, ⁴

¹GSF Forschungszentrum fuer  Umwelt und Gesundheit, Neuherberg, Germany;
²Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK; ³National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK; ⁴Keele University, Keele, UK

Ronald L. Wolf¹, Jiongjiong Wang¹, John A. Detre¹, Eric L. Zager¹, Robert W. Hurst¹

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

                  2698.    Regional Effects of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Cerebral Blood Flow and Brain Anatomy
                                    Using MRI and Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling MRI at 3 Tesla

David Last¹, David C. Alsop¹, Amir M. Abduljalil², Robert P. Marquis¹, Christopher Robles¹, Vera Novak¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²College of Medicine and Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, US

                  2699.    Assessment of Hypertension on Cerebral Blood Flow and Dementia Using CASL MRI

Weiying Dai¹, Owen T. Carmichael, ^1,2, Oscar L. Lopez¹, James T. Becker¹, Lewis H. Kuller¹, H. Michael Gach, ¹³

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ³Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

                  2700.    Close Correlation of ASL MRI and Ultrasound Derived Intracranial Blood Flow Velocities

Martin Griebe¹, Kristina Szabo¹, Matthias Günther¹, Rolf Rüdiger Kern¹, Fabrizio Sallustio¹, Michael G. Hennerici¹, Achim Gass¹, ²

¹Universitätsklinikum Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany; ²Universitätsspital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

DWI/DTI : Clinical Applications

                  2701.    Functional Connectivity Correlations in the Cortical-Thalamic Network of Patients with
                                Schizophrenia Using fMRI and DTI

David Matthew Carpenter¹, Gustavo Pantol¹, Joeseph I. Friedman¹, Cheuk Y. Tang¹

¹Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

                  2702.    Quantitative Analyses of  Dentate Nuclei and Cerebellar Peduncles Based on DTI in
                                    Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis

Weihong Zhang¹, ², Jiangyang Zhang¹, ², Hao Huang¹, ², Peter C.M. van Zijl¹, ², Robert J. Arceci¹, Susumu Mori¹, ²

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

                  2703.    A Preliminary Result of Principal Diffusion Direction Comparison in
                                Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Tzu-Cheng Chao¹, Hsiao-Wen Chung¹, Pin-Chen Yang², Ming-Ting Wu³, ⁴

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;

³Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; ⁴National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

                  2704.    A Diffusion-Tensor MRI Study of Brain and Cervical Cord in Benign Multiple
                                Sclerosis Patients

Beatrice Benedetti¹, Paola Valsasina¹, Elda Judica¹, Vittorio Martinelli¹, Angelo Ghezzi², Annalisa Pulizzi¹,

Giancarlo Comi¹, Massimo Filippi¹

¹Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy, Italy; ²Ospedale di Gallarate, Gallarate, Italy, Italy

                  2705.    Diffusion Weighted Imaging Study of Patients with Essential Tremor

R Lodi¹, G Rizzo¹, D Manners¹, C Tonon¹, C Scaglione¹, P Martinelli¹, B Barbiroli¹

¹Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Italy

                  2706.    Differentiating Perihemorrhagic Infarct from Susceptibility Artifact on DWI Images

Scott K. Nagle¹, David B. Clayton¹, Maarten G. Lansberg¹, Gregory W. Albers¹, Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2707.    Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Differentiation of PLS Patients and Healthy Controls

Liang Xuan¹, Peter A. Hardy¹, David K. Powell¹, Anders Andersen¹, Don M. Gash¹, Charles Smith¹

¹University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

                  2708.    Mapping Radiation Dose Distribution on the Fractional Anisotropy Map: Applications
                                in the Assessment of Treatment-Induced White Matter Injury

Deqiang Qiu¹, Lucullus Leung¹, Dora Kwong¹, Godfrey Chan¹, Guang Cao², Pek-Lan Khong¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ²GE Medical, Asia, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

                  2709.    Variability in ADC and FA Measurements in Acute Ischemic Stroke

Mirthula Govindaraj¹, Ashley D. Harris, ^1,2, Richard Frayne²

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

                  2710.    In Vivo Brain 1H-MRS and DWI, and Post-Mortem Study of Patients with Mitochondrial
                                Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy (MNGIE)

Caterina Tonon¹, David Neil Manners¹, Piero Parchi², Roberto De Giorgio¹, Carlo Casali³, Maria Lucia Valentino², ⁴, Michio Hirano⁵,
Giuseppe Plazzi², Marzio Bellan, Valerio Carelli, Bruno Barbiroli¹, Raffaele Lo