Wednesday 19:15 Study Group: Hyperpolarized Noble Gas MR

STUDY GROUP:
Hyperpolarized Noble Gas MR

Room C205
19:15 - 21:15

Business Meeting

Report on the Progress of the Study Group (membership, etc.)
Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Recorder

Call for Nominations for 2001 Governing Committee Ballot
Mitchell S. Albert, Chair

Scientific Meeting

Moderator: John Mugler, III, Program Director

Getting Started with Hyperpolarized Gases, Angelo Bifone, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, England, UK

Scientific Focus: Mechanisms of Image Contrast, Kai Ruppert, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Clinical Focus: Airway Disease, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Universitaet Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Hot Topic: In Vivo Very Low-Field Hyperpolarized Gas Imaging, Mitchell S. Albert, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Round Table Discussion: Polarized Gas Administration: Techniques, Protocols, and Safety

Panel:

Mitchell S. Albert, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Eduard E. de Lange, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Emmanuel P.R. Durand, CIERM-U2R2M, Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France

Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Universitaet Mainz, Mainz, Germany

James R. MacFall, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Rahim Rizi, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA