ISMRM SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP ~ 11-14 October 2012
 

Perfusion MRI: Standardization, Beyond CBF & Everyday Clinical Applications
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

PROGRAM


  DAY 1 - Thursday, 11 October 2012 (1.0 CME available)  
15:00 Registration & Speaker upload available  
16:30 Reception  
17:30 Dinner  
19:00 Introduction Matthias J. P. van Osch, Ph.D.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
19:15 Eureka! The Early Years of ASL John A. Detre, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
19:35 Eureka! The Early Years of DSC-MRI Leif Østergaard, M.D., Ph.D.
Århus University Hospital
Århus, Denmark
19:55 Presentation of Preliminary Outline Draft of White Paper ISMRM Study Group
Xavier G. Golay, Ph.D.,
Matthias J. P. van Osch, Ph.D. &
Eric C. Wong, M.D., Ph.D.
     

  DAY 2 - Friday, 12 October 2012  (7.0 CME available)  
07:00 Registration, Breakfast & Speaker upload available  
     
  Session 1: ASL – Labeling Approaches
08:00 Pulsed & Velocity Selective ASL Xavier G. Golay, Ph.D.
University College London
London, England, UK
08:20 (Pseudo-) Continuous ASL David C. Alsop, Ph.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA
  Oral Session 1 – Proffered Papers  
08:40 Neonatal Perfusion Imaging with pCASL: Technical Challenges & Solutions Ruth L. O’Gorman, Ph.D.
University Children’s Hospital
Zurich, Switzerland
08:52 VSASL using Symmetric BIR-8 RF & Gradient Pulses to Reduce Eddy Currents Jia Guo, M.Sc.
University of California – San Diego
La Jolla, CA, USA
09:04 Continuous ASL at 7T using a Dual Coil System: Initial Experience Randall B. Stafford, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
09:20 ASL – Labeling Approaches – Debate
Chair: Matthias Günther, Ph.D.
Panel:
David C. Alsop, Ph.D.,
Xavier G. Golay, Ph.D. &
Eric C. Wong, M.D., Ph.D.
     
  Session 2: ASL – Quantification
09:40 Basics of ASL Quantification & Modeling Laura M. Parkes, Ph.D.
University of Manchester
Manchester, England, UK
10:05 Parameter Estimation, Atrophy Correction & Advanced Modeling Michael A. Chappell, D.Phil., M.Eng.
IBME, University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK
10:30 Break & Speaker upload available  
11:00 Poster Teasers – Session 1 (no CME available)
Poster Teaser 1 video presentation
 
     
  Session 3: DSC – Read-Out Options  
11:25 Spin or Gradient Echo? Experiences from Multi-Echo Gradient & Spine Echo Imaging Roland Bammer, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
11:45 DSC Concentration Measurements in Tissues with Practical, Technical & Clinical Considerations Jerrold L. Boxerman, M.D., Ph.D.
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Providence, RI, USA
     
  Oral Session 2 – Proffered Papers  
12:05 Combined Approach for Perfusion & Permeability Measurements in Brain Tumor Patients Roland Bammer, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
12:17 Arterial Input Function Measurements for Bolus Tracking Perfusion Imaging in the Brain: Comparison of CBF obtained with DSC MRI & PET in Pigs Valerij G. Kiselev, Ph.D.
University Medical Center Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
12:30 Lunch & Speaker upload available  
13:45 Poster Teasers – Session 2 (no CME available)
Poster Teaser 2 video presentation
 
     
  Oral Session 3 – Proffered Papers  
14:15 Arterial Transit Delay Effects on Perfusion Measurement in Elderly Population Weiying Dai, Ph.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Center
Boston, MA, USA
14:27 Impact of Tissue T1 on Perfusion Measurement Obtained with ASL Clément Debacker, Ph.D.
Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences
La Tronche, France
14:45 ASL – Acquisition, Standardization (Discussion – parallel session)  
  DSC-MRI – Acquisition, Standardization (Discussion – parallel session)  
16:15 Break & Poster Viewing (no CME available)  
     
  Session 4: Applications of Perfusion Imaging: Basic Science & fMRI
     
16:45 CMRO2, OEF & Brain Activity Quantification Richard B. Buxton, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
  Oral Session 4 – Proffered Papers  
17:15 Measuring Resting State Functional Networks Using Volumetric Arterial Spin Labeling Weiying Dai, Ph.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Center
Boston, MA, USA
17:27 Resting State Functional Connectivity of the Hand Motor Area Evaluated using Perfusion fMRI Marta Vidorreta, M.Sc.
CIMA, University of Navarra
Pamplona, Spain
17:39 Cerebral Blood Flow Changes Associated with a Single Aerobic Exercise Session Bradley J. MacIntosh, Ph.D.
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, ON, Canada
17:51 Cerebral Perfusion Changes Due to Visual Activation Detected by Dynamic Arterial Spin Labeling in Human Subjects Xingxing Zhang, Ph.D. Cand.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
     
18:30 Boat Cruise  
20:00 Dinner  
     

  Day 3 – Saturday, 13 October 2012  (7.25 CME available)  
07:00

Registration, Breakfast & Speaker upload available

 
     
  Session 5: ASL – Read-Out Options
08:00 Pros & Cons of 3D Readout Options Matthias Günther, Ph.D.
Institute for Medical Image Computing
Bremen, Germany
08:15 Pros & Cons of 2D Sequences Xavier G. Golay, Ph.D.
University College London
London, England, UK
08:30 High & Low Spatial Resolution ASL David C. Alsop, Ph.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA
  Oral Session 5 – Proffered Paper  
08:45


 

3D High-Resolution CBF Quantification with Consideration of Both Arterial Arrival Time & Impulse Residue Function

 
Qin Qin, Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
08:57 High Temporal Resolution Sampling of Tracer Kinetic Curves using Time-Encoded Pseudo Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling with Look–Locker Readout Wouter M. Teeuwisse, Ph.D. Cand., M.Sc.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
     
  Session 6: DSC – Quantification  
09:10 Tracer Kinetic Modeling & It’s Physiological Background Leif Østergaard, M.D., Ph.D.
Århus University Hospital
Århus, Denmark
09:30 Post-Processing of DSC-MRI Ona Wu, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Charlestown, MA, USA
  Oral Session 6 – Proffered Papers  
09:50 A Test Suite to Ensure Standardized Implementations of Deconvolution Algorithms Gagan J. Sharma, M.C.A.
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
10:02 Bolus Dispersion in Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI Analysis: Can We Differentiate Dispersion from Normal Cerebral Haemodynamics Amit Mehndiratta, Ph.D. Cand.
Keble College, University of Oxford
Oxford, England, UK
10:15 Break & Speaker upload available  
     
  Session 7: Arterial Spin Labeling – Beyond CBF
10:40 Beyond CBF: Spin Compartment Measurements & CMRO2 Hanzhang Lu, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX, USA
11:04 Beyond CBF: OEF-Mapping Elfar Adalsteinsson, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
  Oral Session 7 – Proffered Papers  
11:28 Relationship between BOLD, CBF & Brain Oxygen Saturation Assessed by NIRS during a Vascular Challenge Esben T. Petersen, Ph.D.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
11:40 Assessing Intracranial Vascular Compliance using Dynamic Arterial Spin Labeling Lirong Yan, Ph.D.
University of California – Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
11:52 DSC-MRI Assessment of Cellular Packing Heterogeneity in Brain Tumors Christopher Chad Quarles, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
12:04 Lunch & Speaker upload available  
13:15 Poster Session (no CME available)  
     
  Session 8: Clinical Applications of Perfusion Imaging
14:30 Clinical Applications of Perfusion Imaging John A. Detre, M.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
  Oral Session 8 – Proffered Papers  
14:50 Evaluation of Carotid Endarterectomy in Patients with ICA stenosis with ASL & Cerebrovascular Reactivity Measurements Nolan S. Hartkamp, M.D., Ph.D. Cand.
University Medical Center Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
15:02 Vessel Size Imaging as a Metric of Response in Glioblastoma Multiform Jalal B. Andre, M.D.
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
15:14 Region-Wise Classification of Early-Stage Presenile Dementia Based on Arterial Spin Labeling (ASL) Esther E. Bron, M.Sc.
Erasmus Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
15:26 Effect of Scan Duration upon Perfusion Measurements in Acute Ischemic Stroke William Copen, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
15:38 Comparison of Pulsed ASL with DSC in Patients with Steno-Occlusive Disease of the Brain: Is One Moment in Time Enough? Matthias A. Mutke
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Berlin, Germany
15:50 Regional Abnormalities Of Cerebral Blood Flow In Early Mild Cognitive Impairment: Insights From The ASL-MRI Study Of ADNI Norbert Schuff, Ph.D.
VA Medical Center & University of California – San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
16:02 Effect of Sample Size on the Sensitivity of a Non-Parametric Permutation-Based Approach in Detecting Regionalized Perfusion Difference for a Simulated Case-Control ASL Study Bradley J. MacIntosh, Ph.D.
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto, ON, Canada
16:14 Toward Perfusion MRI of the Human Cervical Spinal Cord: A Feasibility Study Olivier M. Girard, Ph.D.
CRMBM – CEMEREM, UMR 7339 CNRS
Marseille, France
16:26 Automatic Detection of Perfusion Abnormalities Based on an Arterial Spin Labeling Template Camille Maumet, M.Sc.
INSERM, INRIA, Université Rennes
Rennes Cedex, France
16:38 Break, Poster Viewing (no CME available) & Speaker upload available  
17:00 Perfusion Standardization: ASL Quantification (Discussion – parallel session)  
  Perfusion Standardization: DSC Quantification (Discussion – parallel session)  
18:30 Reception  
21:00 Walking Tour of Amsterdam  
     

  Day 4 – Sunday, 14 October 2012 (3.5 CME available)  
07:00 Registration, Breakfast & Speaker upload available  
  Session 9: Perfusion Standardization: Clinical Applications of Perfusion MRI
08:00 DSC versus ASL in Acute Stroke & Other Diseases Greg Zaharchuk, M.D., Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
  Oral Session 9 – Proffered Papers  
08:30 Multi-Delay Multi-Parametric Arterial Spin-Labeled Perfusion MRI in Acute Ischemic Stroke – Comparison with Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Enhanced Perfusion Imaging Danny J. J. Wang, Ph.D.
University of California – Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
08:42 Vendor Specific Features & Reproducibility of Arterial Spin Labeling, the VESPA Study Henk-Jan Mutsaerts, M.D.
Academic Medical Center
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     
  Session 10: Future Directions for Perfusion MRI
08:55 Perfusion in Clinical Protocols – Interactive Presentation Jeroen Hendrikse, M.D., Ph.D.
UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands
09:30 Break  
10:00 Future Directions for Perfusion MRI: The MD's Viewpoint  
10:20 Future Directions for Perfusion MRI: The PhD’s Viewpoint  
10:40 Future Directions for Perfusion MRI: The Neuroscience Viewpoint  
11:00 Perfusion Standardization: How to Proceed?  
12:00 Adjournment & Box Lunches  
     

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