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Workshop on Cerebral Perfusion and Brain Function:
Novel Techniques and Applications
 Bahia Othon Palace Hotel
Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
28 July - 1 August 2007

Program
 
Day 1: Sunday, July 29, 2007
Time Category Speaker Title

8:00 AM

 Welcome (Afonso Silva / Fahmeed Hyder)
Session 1: Arterial Spin Labeling: Technical Updates
8:05 AM Introduction Afonso Silva and James Ewing (Chairs)
8:10 AM Invited Talk Xavier Golay Novel Developments in Perfusion MRI
8:40 AM Proffered Talk Jiongjiong Wang Dynamic Time Courses of Water Exchange across Blood-Brain Barrier Revealed by Diffusion-Weighted Perfusion MRI
8:55 AM Proffered Talk Matthias Guenther Encoded Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling
9:10 AM Proffered Talk Wen-Ming Luh Pseudo-continuous Arterial Spin Labeling for Whole Brain at High Field Strength with Reduced SAR and Velocity-matched Modulation - not available
9:25 AM Invited Talk Lalith Talagala ASL at High Magnetic Field Strengths
     
     
     

9:55 AM

 Coffee Break
     
Session 2: DSC-MRI: Technical Updates
10:10 AM Introduction Leif Ostergaard and Tim Carroll (Chairs)
10:15 AM Invited Talk Fernando Calamante Current status of DSC-MRI quantification witn an intact BBB
10:45 AM Proffered Talk Jeffry Alger Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI Cerebral Blood Flow Imaging with Positron Emission Tomography Correlation in Traumatic Brain Injury
11:00 AM Proffered Talk Egbert Bleeker Arterial input functions from the middle cerebral artery. Where should we select voxels for an accurate AIF?
11:15 AM Proffered Talk Matus Straka Evaluation of AIF and VOF for Quantitative Brain Perfusion DSC MRI - ABSTRACT ONLY
11:30 AM Invited Talk Douglas Prah Current status of DSC-MRI quantification with BBB leakage
     
     
     
12:00 PM
 		 Lunch
 
Day 2: Monday, July 30, 2007
Time Category Speaker Title

8:00 AM

 Welcome (Afonso Silva / Fahmeed Hyder)
     
Session 5: Brain function and physiology
8:05 AM Introduction Douglas Rothman and Wei Chen (Chairs)
     
8:40 AM Proffered Talk Dardo Tomasi Abnormal Thalamo-Cortical Activation during working memory and visual attention in Cocaine Abusers
8:55 AM Proffered Talk Geon-Ho Jahng Investigation of Regional Differences of Acupuncture Effects by Using Functional MRI
9:10 AM Proffered Talk Lynn Ho A preliminary study of negative BOLD activity using a novel inhibitory motor task
9:25 AM Proffered Talk    
9:40 AM Proffered Talk Aviv Mezer Characterization of  the Brain Resting State fMRI 
9:55 AM Invited Talk Bharat Biswal Connectivity in the resting brain
       
10:25 AM Coffee Break
     
Session 6: fMRI and Technique Developments
10:40 AM Introduction Bharat Biswal and Fernando Boada (Chairs)
10:45 AM Invited Talk Jeff Duyn Parallel MRI and fMRI at High Fields
11:15 AM Proffered Talk Maria Falangola Nongaussian Diffusion Patterns of Brain Tissue Microstructure
11:30 AM Proffered Talk Wouter Teeuwisse Transversal Relaxation Effects on Arterial Spin Labeling Investigated by Dual Echo Pseudo Continuous 
11:45 AM Proffered Talk Mauricio Sercheli New EEG-fMRI analysis: an extensive BOLD signal search
12:00 PM Proffered Talk Heiko Schmiedeskamp Improvements In Parallel Imaging Accelerated fMRI
12:15 PM Proffered Talk Xiang He Transverse Relaxation of Perfusion MRI Signal
     
 

12:30 PM

 Lunch
       
Session 3: Heteronuclear MRS
1:25 PM Introduction Fahmeed Hyder and Kamil Uludag (Chairs)
1:30 PM Invited Talk Douglas Rothman 13C spectroscopy
2:00 PM Invited Talk Wei Chen 17O spectroscopy - not available
2:30 PM Invited Talk Fahmeed Hyder Energetics of Neural Signaling and fMRI Activity
3:00 PM Proffered Talk Carlos Garrido A study of 1H MRS of the hippocampal structures in the evaluation of the human temporal lobe epilepsy
3:15 PM Proffered Talk Antonio Carlos dos Santos Single voxel versus chemical shift imaging 1H MRS techniques in clinical multiple sclerosis evolution
     
     
3:30 PM Coffee
     
Session 4: Brain Hemodynamics: Animal Models
3:55 PM Introduction Fernando Calamante and Seong-Gi Kim (Chairs)
4:00 PM Invited Talk James Ewing Measuring Tumor Blood Flow in Animal Models
4:30 PM Proffered Talk Brige Chugh Planning Labeling Plane Parameters in Mouse Arterial Spin Labeling
4:45 PM Proffered Talk Fernando F Paiva Functional MRI of the Brain Using Dynamic Arterial Spin Labeling (DASL)
5:00 PM Proffered Talk Afonso Silva fMRI Responses to Somatosensory Stimulation in Awake Marmosets
5:15 PM Invited Talk Bruce Jenkins Animal Models of Drug Abuse and Parkinson's Disease
     
5:45 PM
 		 Social Poster Session 1
 
Day 3: Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Time Category Speaker Title

8:00 AM

 Welcome (Afonso Silva / Fahmeed Hyder)
     
Session 7: Cerebral Perfusion: Clinical Applications
8:05 AM Introduction Jeff Alger and Hanzhang Lu (Chairs)
8:10 AM Invited Talk Jiongjiong Wang ASL in Cerebrovascular Disease
8:40 AM Proffered Talk Afonso Silva fMRI Responses to Somatosensory Stimulation in Awake Marmosets
8:55 AM Proffered Talk Jeroen Hendrikse Perfusion territory imaging: methods and clinical applications of selective ASL.
9:10 AM Proffered Talk Steven Sourbron Differentiation of brain tumors and treatment effects using quantitative perfusion and permeability measurements obtained with DCE-MRI
9:25 AM Invited Talk Norbert Schuff ASL in Neurodegenerative Diseases
     
     
     
9:55 AM Coffee Break
     
Session 8: Cerebral Perfusion: Clinical Applications
10:10 AM Introduction Jiongjiong Wang and Glyn Johnson (Chairs)
10:15 AM Invited Talk Ona Wu (for Greg Sorenson) DSC-MRI of Brain Tumors
10:45 AM Proffered Talk Soren Christensen Does Use of Local Arterial Input Functions Improve Final Infarct Prediction in Acute Stre?
11:00 AM Proffered Talk Ona Wu Relationship of clinical scores with perfusion deficits and deconvolution techniques
11:15 AM Proffered Talk Matilde Inglese Hemodynamic Changes at the earliest stage of Multiple Sclerosis: A Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Perfusion MRI Study
11:30 AM Invited Talk Leif Ostergaard Latest advances of DSC-MRI in stroke
     
     
     
12:00 PM Lunch
     
Session 9: Functional imaging with other contrasts
1:25 PM Introduction Allen Song and Jeff Duyn (Chairs)
1:30 PM Invited Talk Fernando Boada What's New In 23Na Imaging?
2:00 PM Proffered Talk Nicholas Bock Fractionated MnCl2 Dosing for Non-Invasive Functional Manganese-Enhanced MRI of the Brain
2:15 PM Proffered Talk Douglas Prah A Potential Functional Contrast Agent: In Vitro Mitochondrial Labeling using Mito-Carboxy Proxyl (Mito-CP) Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2:30 PM Proffered Talk Itamar Ronen White Matter Tract Microstructure as Seen by Diffusion Tensor Spectroscopy; A Possible Link Between Structure and Function
2:45 PM Proffered Talk Kamil Uludag On the relationship between cerebral blood flow, blood volume and blood oxygenation: the extended balloon model
3:00 PM Invited Talk Jeff Kershaw Compartmentalized Diffusion Signals and fMRI
       
3:30 PM Coffee
     
Session 10: Brain Hemodynamics: Multi-Modal Approaches
3:55 PM Introduction Bruce Jenkin and Seiji Ogawa (Chairs)
4:00 PM Invited Talk Hanzhang Lu What's Up with VASO?
4:30 PM Proffered Talk Edson Amaro Studying auditory emotional experience and mirror neurons by simultaneous and interactive fMRI 
4:45 PM Proffered Talk Sune Jespersen-Mouridsen Modeling the regulation of cerebral oxygen extraction by flow heterogeneity
5:00 PM Proffered Talk Peter Herman Quantitative CBV with MRI and laser-Doppler measurements
5:15 PM Proffered Talk Amy Scouten Incorporating the dynamic CSF fraction into VASO-based calculations of CBV change
     
5:45 PM Social Poster Session 2
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