Last updated Thursday, 10 July 2008
Preliminary Program

 
Sunday, 25 March
   
Registration  
18:00 Dinner  
19:00 Thomas Budinger History of High Field Human MR
Monday, 26 March - Hardware and Physics
   
07:30 Breakfast  
08:35   Welcome/Opening Remarks
08:40 Rory Warner, Magnex Scientific Ltd., Yarnton, Oxford, United Kingdom Magnet Design
09:00 Axel vom Endt, Ph.D., Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany Gradient Design
09:15 William A.Edelstein, Ph.D., MRS Science LLC, Schenectady, NY, USA Acoustic Noise
09:30 Piotr M. Starewicz, Ph.D., Resonance Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA Shimming
09:50 Break  
   
10:10 Tamer S.Ibrahim, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA RF Electromagnetics
10:30 Ingmar Graesslin, Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany Multichannel Excitation
10:40 Ulrich Fontius, Dipl. Phys., Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany Multichannel Excitation
10:50 Gregor Adriany, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Multichannel Excitation
11:00 Vijayanand Alagappan, M.S., University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA Multichannel Excitation
11:10 Graham C. Wiggins, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA Receiver Arrays
11:25 Patrick J. Ledden, M.D., Nova Medical, Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA Receiver Arrays
11:40 Hellmut Merkle, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Receiver Arrays
12:00 Lunch  
   
Proffered Papers  
13:00 Peter van Gelderen, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA Real Time Shimming for Compensation of Respiratory Induced Field Changes
13:07 Jeremiah Heilman, Ph.D., University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA On-coil Current-mode Amplifier for Parallel Transmission Arrays with High Efficiency and High Output Power
13:14 David Hoult, D.Phil., National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Multi-Nuclear, Cartesian-Feedback Transceivers at the Magnet Bore Entrance for use with High-Field Phased Arrays – a Progress Report
13:21 Lucas Carvajal, B.S., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA-not available
A Continuous Capacitance Coil for High Sensitivity 7T MRI
13:28 Pierre Vedrine DMS/DAPNIA, CEA/Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France The Whole Body 11.7T MRI Magnet for Iseult/Inumac Project
13:35 Stuart Clare, Ph.D., Oxford University, Oxford, England, UK
 		 High Order Dynamic Shimming: Issues of Implementation without Eddy Current Compensation
   
13:45 Kevin Koch B.Sc., Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Measurement of B0 Distortions
14:05 Maxim Zaitsev, Ph.D., University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Software Correction of B0 Distortions
14:25 Robin A. de Graaf, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Hardware Correction of B0 Distortions
14:45 Christopher M. Collins, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA Calculation of RF Field Behavior
   
Proffered Papers  
15:05 Andreas Schaefer, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK-not available Understanding Phase Contrast in Susceptibility Weighted Imaging
15:12 Kyunghyun Sung, M.S., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Whole Heart B1+ Non-uniformity Correction with Transmit In-Plane Compensation (TIP-COMP) RF Pulse Design
15:19 Georgeta Mihai, M.S., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA T2 and Phase Shift Dependence on Brain Iron at
3T and 7T
   
15:26 Break  
15:45 Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA Remediation of B1 Distortions
16:05 Ulrich Katscher, Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany RF Pulses to Reduce Flip Angle Variation
16:25 William D. Rooney, Ph.D., Advanced Imaging Research Center, Portland, OR, USA T1/T2 Contrast Mechanisms
16:45 E. Mark Haacke, Ph.D., Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA SWI Contrast Mechanisms
17:05 Ravi S. Menon, Ph.D., Robarts Resarch Institute, London, ON, Canada fMRI Contrast Mechanisms
   
Proffered Papers  
17:25 Wietske van der Zwaag, M.Sc., University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK-not available Field Strength Dependence of BOLD Contrast in Motor Cortex
17:32 James Tropp, Ph.D., GE Healthcare Technologies, Fremont, CA, USA Reciprocity, Gyrotropism, and NMR Reception Outside the Quasistatic Regime
17:39 Daniel Splitthoff, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Improved Real-time shim Navigators Using Multiple Receiver Channels
17:46 N. John Shah, Ph.D., Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany Investigation of USPIO-generated Field Inhomogeneities
   
17:53 Adjourn  
18:00 Dinner  
19:30 Poster Viewing  
Tuesday, March 27 - Data Acquisition and Human Applications
   
07:30 Breakfast  
08:35 Graeme C. McKinnon, Ph.D., GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI, USA EM Simulations for SAR Management
08:55 Jürgen Hennig, Ph.D., Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Pulse Sequence Optimization for SAR Management
09:15 Yudong Zhu, Ph.D., G.E. Corporate R & D Center, Niskayuna, NY, USA-not available Parallel Transmit for SAR Reduction
09:35 Steven M. Conolly, Ph.D., UC Berkeley Bioengineering, Berkeley, CA, USA RF Pulse Design for SAR Reduction
09:55 Break  
   
10:15 Matt A. Bernstein, PhD., Mayo Clinic & Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA-not available Clinical Pulse Sequences and Artifact Reduction for 3T
10:35 G. Allen Johnson, Ph,D., Duke University, Durham, NC. USA-not available Data Acquisition for Microscopic Imaging
10:55 Xiaoping P. Hu, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Non-Cartesian Trajectories
11:15 Ulrike Dydak, Ph.D., ETH and University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Clinical Impact of Parallel Imaging at 3T
11:35 Jacco A. de Zwart, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Potential Benefits of Parallel Imaging for fMRI at High Field
11:55 Adjourn  
12:00 Lunch  
   
Proffered Papers  
13:05 Dennis Klomp, M.Sc., Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegan, the Netherlands Towards 7T MRSI of the Prostate Using Adiabatic Pulses and Transmit and Receive Endorectal Coil
13:12 Oliver Speck, Ph.D., University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany Correction of Geometric Distortions in EPI at 7T
13:19 Markus Barth, Ph.D. F.C., Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) at 7 T: Protocols for Whole Brain Coverage and High Resolution for the Depiction of Small Anatomical Structures
13:26 Suchandrima Banerjee, B.E., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Rapid Musculoskeletal MRI at 7 Tesla
13:33 Michael Poole, M.Sc., University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK Evaluation of Parcellated Dynamic Shimming
13:40 R. Allen Waggoner, Ph.D,, RIKEN-Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan Spatial Smoothing Resulting from Accelerated Parallel Imaging Reconstruction
   
13:50 John Schenck, M.D., Ph.D., G.E. Corporate R & D Center, Voorheesville, NY, USA Safety
14:10 Noam Harel, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA fMRI
14:30 Michael W. Weiner, M.D., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Alzheimer's Disease
14:50
 		 Petra Schmalbrock, PhD., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
 		 Contrast Mechanisms and Applications for Imaging Brain Disease at 7T
Proffered Papers  
15:10 Roland Krug, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA