Hybrid MRI and Novel MRI Systems

Hall 3     10:30 - 12:30         Chairs: Blaine A. Chronik and Steven M. Wright

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10:30 918.

Functional Imaging Capabilities of a Combined Animal PET/MR System

Hans F. Wehrl1, Martin Stefan Judenhofer1, Danny F. Newport2, Ciprian Catana3, Markus Becker4, Stefan Widmaier4, Simon R. Cherry3, Robert E. Nutt2, Claus D. Claussen1, Bernd J. Pichler1

1University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; 2Siemens Preclinical Solutions, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA; 3University of California, Davis, California, USA; 4Bruker BioSpin, Ettlingen, Germany

 

10:42 919.

Study of MR Interference in a Combined Small Animal PET/MR Scanner and In Vivo Simultaneous Imaging

Ciprian Catana1, Daniel Procissi2, Yibao Wu1, Martin S. Judenhofer3, Jinyi Qi1, Andrey V. Demyanenko2, Bernd J. Pichler3, Russell E. Jacobs2, Simon R. Cherry1

1University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA; 2California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA; 3University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

 

10:54 920.

Development of MR-Compatible SPECT System: A Feasibility Study

Orhan Nalcioglu1, L Tugan Muftuler1, Douglass J. Wagenaar2, Marek Szawlowski2, M Kapusta2, N Pawlov2, G Maehlum2, Brad Patt2

1University of California, Irvine, California, USA; 2Gamma Medica, USA

 

11:06 921.

Description and Preliminary Results of an MR-Compatible PET System for Molecular Imaging Studies

Jane Elizabeth Mackewn1, Geoffrey Charles-Edwards2, Stephen Keevil2, Philip Halsted3, Richard Page3, Michael Kelly3, Steven Williams4, William Hallett3, Paul Marsden3

1King's College London, London, UK; 2Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; 3King’s College London; 4Institute of Psychiatry,

 

11:18 922.

Simultaneous PET-MR: Toward a Combined microPET®-MR System

Alun Lucas1, Rob Hawkes1, Pedro Guerra1, Richard Ansorge1, Robert Nutt2, John Clark1, Tim Fryer1, Adrian Carpenter1

1University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; 2Siemens Molecular Imaging, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

 

11:30 923.

A Prepolarized MRI Knee Scanner

Thomas Grafendorfer1, Nathaniel Ivan Matter2, Ross D. Venook2, Sharon E. Ungersma2, Garry Evan Gold2, Nicholas J. Giori2, Brian Andrew Hargreaves2, John Mark Pauly2, Albert Macovski2, Greig Cameron Scott2, Steven Michael Conolly3, 4

1GE Global Health, California; 2Stanford University, California; 3UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA; 4Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
 

11:42 924.

Development and First Clincal Use of the MR Compatible Robotic System Innomotion

Andreas Melzer1, Andreas Lukoscheck2, Renate Wolf2, Gert Lorenz3

                               1Universties Dundee&St. Andrews, Dundee, UK; 2Innomedic, Herxheim, Germany;
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St Marien Hospital Buer, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

 
11:54 925.

MEDUSA: A Scalable MR Console for Parallel Imaging

Pascal Stang1, Steve Conolly2, John Pauly1, Greig Scott1

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

 

12:06 926.

Rapid Cardiac MRI Using Local Planar Gradients

Luca Marinelli1, Bulent Aksel1, Christopher J. Hardy1

1GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA
 

12:18 927.

Semiconductive Coated Transverse Gradient Board Increases Partial Discharge Inception Voltage

Derek A. Seeber1, Anthony Mantone1, Shengzhi Dong2

1GE Healthcare, Florence, South Carolina, USA; 2GE Global Research, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China