| Rapid Imaging Hall C |
| 1497. Rapid Contrast-Enhanced FLASH-3D MR Imaging of the Brain with Segmented Application of Radio-Frequency Pre-Pulses, P.J. Oliverio, L. Yao, D.M. Thomasson and D. Nguyen, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA and Siemens Medical Systems, Iselin NJ, USA. |
| 1498. Black-Blood Cerebral MRA with a Multi-Contrast SIMVA Acquisition, K. Liu and M. Loncar, Picker Medical System, Cleveland, OH, USA. |
| 1499. BURST Imaging with Steady-State Free Precession, O. Heid, Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany. |
| 1500. True FISP Imaging with Inherent Cancellation, M. Deimling and O. Heid, Siemens Medical Systems, Erlangen, Germany. |
| 1501. Rapid Diffusion Imaging of the Human Spinal Cord Using Non-CPMG Single Shot FSE, P. Le Roux, C.A. Clark, A. Darquie and P.G. Carlier, GE Medical Systems, Buc, France and Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot, CEA, Orsay, France. |
| 1502. The Time Origin of RUFIS Using a Stimulated Spin Echo, J.-J. Hsu and I.J. Lowe, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,PA, USA. |
| 1503. Parallel Imaging Strategies for Reduction of Resonance Offset Induced Artifacts and k-space Filtering Effects, R. Bammer, R. Stollberger, H.P. Hartung and F. Fazekas, University of Graz, Graz, Austria. |
| 1504. SNR in Single-Shot Imaging Using Paritally Parallel Acquisition (PPA) Techniques, M.A. Griswold, A. Haase and P.M. Jakob, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. |
| 1505. Calculation of Signal-to-Noise Ratio for Coil Sensitivity Encoding Method, J. Wang, Siemens Medical Engineering, Erlangen, Germany. |
| 1506. Parallel Image Reconstruction from Multiple Receiver Arrays for Fast MRI, W.E. Kyriakos, L.P. Panych, D.F. Kacher, C-F. Westin, S.M. Bao, R.V. Mulkern and F.A. Jolesz, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. |
| 1507. Method for combining UNFOLD with SENSE or SMASH, P. Kellman and E.R. McVeigh, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. |
| 1508. Real-Time Multi-Slice Imaging, H. Eggers and P. Boesiger, Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 1509. Fast Three-Dimensional Spiral Imaging, B.A. Hargreaves, C.H. Meyer, J.M. Pauly and D.G. Nishimura, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. |
| 1510. Spiral Imaging With Variable Sampling Rates, O. Heid, Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany. |
| 1511. Tagged Imaging Using Limited Angle Projection Reconstruction, D.C. Peters, F.H. Epstein and E.R. McVeigh, Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. |
| 1512. Advances in 3D T2-Weighted Projection Imaging, E. Esparza-Coss, W.F. Block, F. Kelcz, D.C. Peters, F.R. Korosec and C.A. Mistretta, CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico; Universidad de Guanajuato, Leon, Mexico and University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. |
| 1513. 3D Multiphase Coronary Artery Imaging in a Single Breath-hold Using Undersampled Projection Reconstruction, A.V. Barger, T.M. Grist, T.F. Hany and C.A. Mistretta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. |
| 1514. A Rapid Look-Up Table Method for Reconstructing MR Images from Arbitrary K-Space Trajectories, B.M. Dale, M. Wendt and J.L. Duerk, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA. |
| 1515. Applying the Uniform ReSampling (URS) Algorithm to a Lissajous Trajectory: Fast Image Reconstruction with Optimal Gridding, H. Moriguchi, M. Wendt and J.L. Duerk, University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. |
| 1516. FFFT for High Speed MR Fluoroscopy Reconstruction, Y. Zhu, GE Corporate Research & Development, Schenectady, NY, USA. |
| 1517. Trajectory Measurement and Generalised Reconstruction in Rectilinear EPI, O. Josephs, R. Deichmann and R. Turner, Institute of Neurology, London, UK. |
| 1518. Acquisition of Power Intensive Images at 8T, A. Kangarlu and P-M L. Robitaille, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. |
| 1519. Recovery of Lost Signal Due to Susceptibility Effect for EPI Sequences, J. Mao, A.W. Song and Y. Liu, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA and Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. |
| 1520. Automatic Adjustment of all First- and Second-Order Shims for Slices of Arbitrary Orientation, J. Shen, The Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA and New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. |
| 1521. Rapid High SNR EPI Based Field Maps Without the Need for Phase Unwrapping, R.T. Constable, C. Studholme and D.D. Spencer, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. |
| 1522. Respiratory Phase Specific Reference Scan for EPI Ghost Correction, E. Yacoub, K. Ugurbil and X. Hu, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, USA. |
| 1523. Correction of Motion Artifact on BURST Imaging, S. Kurokawa, T. Matsuda, S. Urayama, N. Sugimoto, K. Hayashi, H. Inoue, M. Komori and S. Eiho, Kyoto University and Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan; National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan and Rakuwakai Otowa Hospital, Kyoto, Japan. |
| 1524. Reduction of the Blurring Artifacts due to the Local Field Inhomogeneity in T2*-Weighted EPI, Q.X. Yang, H.E. Smith, R.J. Demeure and M.B. Smith, The Pennsylavania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA and Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. |
| 1525. Correction of EPI Distortion in Phantoms Using FLASH and EPI Fieldmap Techniques, K. Baudendistel and L.R. Schad, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. |
| 1526. Reduction of Off-Resonance Artifacts in Fast Imaging by Mixing Slice and Frequency Selection, D.C. Alsop, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. |
| 1527. 3D IR Half-Fourier RARE for Thin-Section Dynamic MR Imaging, S. Nakano, S. Uchinomura, M. Ohki, Y. Toyama, Y. Mori, M. Ohkawa, Y. Yamashita and S. Sugiura, Kagawa Medical University, Kagawa, Japan and Toshiba Medical Inc. and Toshiba Nasu Works, Tochigi, Japan. |
| 1528. MRI of P.C. Lauterbur's Birthday Cake: Bananas, Peaches, and Susceptibilities, C. Maxton and J. Frahm, Universität Göttingen, and Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH, Göttingen, Germany. |
| 1529. Improved SNR in Breath-Hold Cardiac Cine Imaging by Slice Interleaving, D.A. Herzka, F.H. Epstein and E.R. McVeigh, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA and National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA. |
| 1530. Non-CPMG Fast Spin Echo in Practice, P. Le Roux, GE Medical Systems, Buc, France. |
| 1531. Comparison of 2- and 3-Point Dixon Techniques in RF- and Readout-Shifted FSE Sequences, H.K. Song, A.C. Wright, R.L. Wolf and F.W. Wehrli, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. |