| Young Investigator Awards Finalists |
| Poster 4 and 5 will also be presented in the oral session Hyperpolarized Gas Imaging in the Lung on Monday, 3 April, 2000 at 11:00 in Room A102. |
| T 4. Young Investigator Awards Finalist: Probing Lung Physiology with Xenon Polarization Transfer Contrast (XTC), K. Ruppert, J.R. Brookeman, K.D. Hagspiel and J.P. Mugler III, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA. |
| W 5. Young Investigator Awards Finalist: Hyperpolarized 3He MR Lung Ventilation Imaging in Asthmatics: Preliminary Findings, T.A. Altes, P.L. Powers, J. Knight-Scott, G. Rakes, T.A.E. Platts-Mills, E.E. de Lange, B.A. Alford, J.P. Mugler, III and J.R. Brookeman, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA. |
| Poster 80 will also be presented in the oral session Diffusion Tensor MRI of the Central Nervous System on Monday, 3 April, 2000 at 16:30 in Room A102. |
| T 80. Young Investigator Awards Finalist: Diffusion Anisotropy MRI for Quantitative Assessment of Recovery in Injured Rat Spinal Cord, U. Nevo, E. Hauben, E. Yoles, E. Agranov, I.R. Cohen, S. Akselrod, M. Schwartz and M. Neeman, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel and Beit Levinstein Hospital, Raanana, Israel. |
| Poster 228 will also be presented in the oral session MR Imaging of Brain: Multiple Sclerosis on Tuesday, 4 April, 2000 at 16:00 in Room A108. |
| W 228. Young Investigator Awards Finalist: Magnetization Transfer and Multi-Component T2 Measurements with Histopathologic Correlation in an Experimental Model of Multiple Sclerosis, P.J. Gareau, B.K. Rutt, S.J. Karlik and J.R. Mitchell, John P. Robarts Research Institute and London Health Sciences Center, London, Ontario, Canada. |
| Poster 300 will also be presented in the oral session Rapid Imaging II on Wednesday, 5 April, 2000 at 10:30 in Room A207. |
| M 300. Young Investigator Awards Finalist: Interactive Fast Spin Echo Imaging, R.F. Busse, S.J. Riederer, J.G. Fletcher, A.E. Bharucha and K.R. Brandt, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. |
| Poster 396 will also be presented in the oral session Motion and Artifacts on Wednesday, 5 April, 2000 at 16:00 in Room C205. |
| M 396. Young Investigator Awards Finalist: Postprocessing Technique to Correct for Background Gradients in Image-Based R2* Measurements, M.A. Fernández-Seara and F.W. Wehrli, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. |