New Contrast Agents
Room 4A Wednesday 14:00 - 16:00

 

Time

Prog #

Computer#

 
14:00 3502 30

New Dendritic Gd-Based Contrast Agents with PEG Cores for Tumor Imaging

Yanjun Fu1, Hans-Jurgen Raatschen1, Michael Wendland1, Viktor Novikov1, Hubertus Pietsch2, Zachary Boyd1,

Mark Knudsen1, Danute Nitecki1, David Shames1, Robert Brasch1

1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; 2Schering AG, Berlin, Germany

14:00 3503 31

Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Pulmonary Emboli with Gadofluorine

Karl Michael Ruhl1, Marcus Katoh1, Arno Buecker1, Bernd Misselwitz2, Rolf W. Gunther1, Thoralf Niendorf1,

Elmar Spuentrup1

1RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany; 2Schering AG, Berlin, Germany
14:30 3504 31

Simultaneous Hyperpolarization of Multiple 13C Molecules In Vitro & In Vivo: Towards Rapid Metabolite

Mapping by MRS & MRI

Pratip Bhattacharya1, 2, Valerie A. Norton1, Alex P. Lin2, Kent Harris2, Jochen Leupold3, William Perman4,

Jürgen Hennig3, Brian D. Ross2, Daniel P. Weitekamp1

1California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA; 2Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, California, USA; 3University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany; 4, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
14:30 3505 30

Detection of Inhomogeneous B1 Deposition via PARACEST Thermometry

Shanrong Zhang1, Raymond W. Sze1, 2

1University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; 2Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center, Seattle,

Washington, USA

15:00 3506 30

Molecular Imaging of Inflammation in Atherosclerosis Plaque Using Functionalized MRI Contrast Agent

Hasan ALSAID1, Geneviève De Souza1, Marie Claude Bourdillon2, Frédéric Chaubet3, Abdulrazzaq Sulaiman4,

Charaf Zahir3, Eric Lancelot5, Didier Letourneur3, André Briguet1, Emmanuelle Canet-Soulas1

1Laboratoire de RMN UMR CNRS 5012. UCB Lyon1-ESCPE, Villeurbanne, France; 2EA 3740, Université UCB-Lyon1,

Faculté Médecine Laennec, Lyon, France; 3INSERM U 698, Hôpital X. Bichat, Paris, France; 4CREATIS, UMR 5515

INSERM U 630, Radiologie, Hôpital Cardiologique, Bron, France; 5Guerbet, B.P. 50400, Roissy CdG cedex, France

15:00 3507 31

Rapid Toxicity Screening of Novel PASADENA MRI Contrast Agents

Anna Reisen Freundlich1, 2, Pratip Bhattacharya, 23, Geza Techy2, Brenda Ward2, Marylou Ingram2,

Brian David Ross2,3

1Rudi Schulte Reseach Institute, Santa Barbara, California, USA; 2Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, California, USA; 3California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
15:30 3508 31

In Vivo Imaging of Brain Endothelium Activation with a Novel Targeted Iron-Oxide Based Contrast Agent -

LacNAc-CLIO

Sander van Kasteren1, Daniel Anthony1, Sandra Campbell1, Damineh Morsali1, Ben Davis1, Nicola Sibson1

1University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
15:30 3509 30

In Vitro Tumor Cell Targeting with the Folate Receptor Specific MR Contrast Agent P866

Olaf Saborowski1, Jan Stefan Bauer1, Yanjun Fu1, Claire Corot2, Heike Elisabeth Daldrup-Link1

1University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; 2Guerbet Group, Paris, Roissy CDG, France