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Friday, 31 March 2000

Saturday, 1 April 2000

Moderators:	Julie Strandt-Peay, SMRT President 1999-2000 Anne Sawyer-Glover, SMRT Past President 1998-1999
07:50 - 08:00	Welcome and Announcements	Maureen Ainslie
08:00 - 09:00	Converting from Higher Fields to Open MRI Imaging Protocols	John Koveleski
09:00 - 10:00	MR Safety	William Faulkner
10:00 - 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:15	Abdominal Imaging	Steven G. Heiss
11:15-11:45	Proferred Papers President's Award:   Ultrafast 3D MR Angiography of the Pulmonary Vasculature, Inge M. Carstens Second Place Award - Clinical Focus: Imaging Renal Sinus Cysts in Patients with Fabry's Disease Using SS FSE, Karen Bove Bettis
11:45-13:15	Luncheon and SMRT Business Meeting
Moderators:	Karen Bove Bettis, SMRT Education Committee Chair 1999-2000 Cathy Gustafson, SMRT Local Organizing Committee Chair 1999-2000
13:15 - 14:15	Cardiovascular Anatomy	Luann Culbreth
14:15 - 15:15	Cardiovascular MRI, "What a technologist needs to know"	Cindy Comeau
15:15 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15	Proferred Papers Third Place Award - Clinical Focus: Review of Clinical Applications of 3D Contrast Enhanced MRA in a Specialised Cardiovasular Centre, Jane M. Francis Second Place Award - Research Focus: Three-Dimensional Time-Resolved Imaging of Contrast Kinetics: Results of the 3D TRICKS method of Performing MR Angiography, Julie Strandt-Peay Breath-hold Coronary MR Angiography with Volume Targeted Imaging (VCATS), Bart Schraa
16:15 - 17:15	Advances in Cardiac MRI	Andrew Arai
17:15	Questions/Answers & Closing Comments

Sunday, 2 April 2000

Moderators:	Robin Greene-Avison, SMRT President 2000-2001 Heidi Berns, SMRT Secretary 1998-2001, SMRT President-Elect 2000-2001
07:50 - 08:00	Welcome and Announcements	Julie Strandt-Peay
08:00 - 09:00	Pediatric Imaging	Michael Kean
09:00 - 10:00	Image Post Processing & Analysis	H. Cecil Charles William Faulkner
10:00 - 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:15	MR Arthrography	Joshua M. Farber
11:15 - 11:45	Proferred Papers MRI Compared to Conventional Radiography in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis; A Preliminary Study, Anna Baratelle Spatial Distribution of Anaesthetic Liquid in Brachial Plexus Block Verified by Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ingred Erikstad
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch Accreditation Forum	William Faulkner, Chair
Moderators:	John Koveleski, SMRT Treasurer 1999-2001/Past Program Chair 1999-2000 Cindy Hipps, SMRT Program Chair, 2000-2001
13:15 - 14:15	Neurovascular Anatomy of the Head & Neck	Kelly Baron
14:15 - 15:15	Proferred Papers First Place Award - Clinical Focus: Diffusion Weighted Imaging: Improving Image Quality by Minimizing Susceptiblity Artifact, Catherine Callahan First Place Award - Research Focus: Investigation of Brain Activation Associated with Motor Imagery of Finger Movement in Totally Paralyzed Patients using Functional MRI, Bobbie Burrow Determination of the Gyrus Pre-Centralis with External Reference and 3D Surface Reconstruction on MRI For Cortical Stimulation, Filip De Ridder Signal Variances in Surgical Hemostatic Agents Identified with Intraoperative MRI, Marcia Gervin
15:15 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30	Physics of Neurovascular Imaging	Moriel S. NessAver
16:30-17:30	Perfusion & Diffusion/Spectroscopy	Suresh Mukherji
17:30	Questions/Answers & Adjournment

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