Workshop on Cerebral Perfusion and Brain Function

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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