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SMRT 18th
Annual Meeting
18-19
April 2009
Honolulu, Hawaii |
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Program
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Program - Day One, Saturday, 18
April 2009, 07:45-17:00 |
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07:00 |
Registration |
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07:45 |
Welcome &
Announcements
Wendy Strugnell, BAppSc (MIT), SMRT President
2008-2009
Ben Kennedy, BAppSc (MIT) MMRT, SMRT Program Chair
2009 |
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Moderator: Jane Francis,
DCR, (R) DNM |
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08:00 |
MRI Physics and
Technology Forum
Understanding K-Space: An Intuitive Approach
Donald Plewes, Ph.D.
Overview of MR Pulse Sequences William
Faulkner, B.S., R.T., (R)(MR)(CT) |
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10:00 |
Break |
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Moderator: Randy
Earnest, B.S., R.T., (R)(MR) |
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10:20 |
MRI Safety Forum
MRI Safety and
Patient Management Update 2009 - Frank
Shellock, Ph.D., FACC, FACSM
FDA Update on MRI Labeling for Implants and
Devices - Terry Woods, Ph.D. |
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11:20 |
SMRT Business Meeting |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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Moderator: Maryann
Blaine, MAT, B.S., R.T., (R)(MR) |
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Originations of MR
Innovation Research Focus-Proffered Papers
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12:45 |
Presidents Award:
MRI Fibre Tracking of the Corticospinal Tracts for
Neurosurgery: Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) vs.
Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (CSD)- Shawna
Farquharson, B.Sc., M.Sc. |
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13:00 |
1st Place Research Focus
Award:
Variations of Phasic Temporal Flow Profiles
of the Right Coronary Artery Blood Flow on PC-MRI
During Different Respiratory Suspension Techniques-
John Totman, DCR(R), M.Sc. |
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13:10 |
2nd Place Research Focus
Award:
Can Spatially Under Sampled PC-MRI Provide
Quantitative Results? John Totman, DCR(R), M.Sc. |
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13:20 |
3rd Place Research Focus
Award:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Optical
Coherence Tomography Obtained in Patients with Acute
Optic Neuritis Helle Juhl Simonsen, MRT |
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13:30 |
How to Write an
Abstract, David Stanley, B.S., R.T., (R)(MR) |
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13:45 |
Optimizing Your 3T
Imaging - William Faulkner, B.S., R.T., (R)(MR)(CT) |
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14:45 |
Break |
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Moderator: Anna Kirilova,
B.Sc., R.T., (R)(MR) |
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15:00 |
Body MRI Forum
Body MRI: Pathology and Techniques Nancy
Talbot, MAppSc, M.R.T, (R)(MR)
MRI of the Prostate Masoom Haider, M.D.
How to Interpret Hepatic MRI - Jeffrey
Weinreb, M.D. |
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17:00 |
Announcements / Close
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Program - Day Two, Sunday, 19
April 2009, 07:45-17:00 |
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07:30 |
Registration |
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07:45 |
Welcome and
Announcements
Pam Vincent, MPA, R.T., (R)(CT)(MR), SMRT President
2009-2010
Ben Kennedy, BAppSc., (MIT)MMRT, SMRT Program Chair
2009 |
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Moderator: Sonja Robb-Belville,
B.S., R.T., (R)(MR), SMRT Education Chair 2009 |
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08:00 |
Pediatric MRI Forum
Pediatric Scan Optimization Quincy J. Jones,
B.S., R.T. (R)(MR)
Pitfalls in Pediatric Image Interpretation
Michael Ditchfield, MBBS, M.D., FRANZCR
Congenital Heart MRI Stephan Darty, B.S.,
R.T., (N)(MR) |
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10:00 |
Break |
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Moderator: Ashok
Saraswat, M.S., BEd. R.T., (R)(MR) |
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10:20 |
Neuro MRI Forum
Advances in Epilepsy Imaging - Robert J. Witte,
M.D.
Principles and Practices of Functional MRI
Barry Southers, BRST, R.T., (R)(MR)
(Some of) What You Always Wanted to Know About
DTI - But Were Afraid to Ask
Derek K. Jones, Ph.D. |
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12:20 |
Luncheon |
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Moderator: Joseph
Castillo, B.Sc., M.Sc. |
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Applications of MR
Innovations - Clinical Focus - Proffered Papers |
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13:00 |
1st Place Clinical Focus
Award:
BrainSUITE ฎ - Intra-Operative Magnetic
Resonance Imaging Krista Runge, A.S., R.T., (R)(MR) |
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2nd Place Clinical Focus
Award:
Report of 2 Patients with Findings of
Intracranial Ferrous Metal Fragments Post-Craniotomy
and Subsequent Intra-spinal Migration- Carolyn
Phillips, R.T.,(R)(CT)(MR) |
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3rd Place Clinical Focus
Award:
Using TWIST MRA at 3T as a Timing Bolus for
High Resolution Contrast Enhanced MR Angiography
Thomas Huerta, B.S. |
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13:30 |
Clinical
Musculoskeletal Imaging Forum
MRI of the Ankle and Hind Foot John Skinner,
M.D.
MRI of the Hand and Wrist Kimberly Amrami,
M.D. |
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14:30 |
SMRT Awards Presentation |
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14:45 |
Break |
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Moderator: Anne Marie
Sawyer, B.S., R.T., (R)(MR) |
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15:00 |
Emerging Technologies
Forum
Ultra Short TE Imaging Graeme M. Bydder, M.B.,
Ch.B.
Updates in Molecular Imaging Michael
Moseley, Ph.D.
Hyperpolarized He Lung Imaging Cynthia C.
Harper Little, R.T., (R)(MR) |
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17:00 |
Announcements / Adjourn |
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