fMRI: Novel Methodology

16:30         116.      Direct MR Detection of Neuronal Electrical Activity in Vitro at 7T - not available

Natalia Petridou¹, Afonso C. Silva¹, Dietmar Plenz¹, Jerzy Bodurka¹, Peter A. Bandettini¹

¹National  Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

16:42         117.      Effect of Hypercapnia on the IDQC Response

Andreas Schäfer¹, Stefan Zysset¹, Wolfgang Heinke², Harald E. Möller¹

¹Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany; ²Department of Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Therapy, Leipzig, Germany

16:54         118.      Characterization of the Proton-Density Change Contribution to Spin-Echo fMRI Data: The SEEP Contrast Mechanism

Patrick W. Stroman¹

¹Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

17:06         119.      High Field Balanced-SSFP FMRI: A BOLD Technique with Excellent Tissue Sensitivity and Superior Large Vessel Suppression

Chris V. Bowen¹, Ravi S. Menon¹, Joseph S. Gati¹

¹Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada

17:18         120.      High Resolution 3D Spiral Trajectory BOSS fMRI - not available

Jongho Lee¹, Jinhyung Lee¹, Brian A. Hargreaves¹, Karla Miller², John M. Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²Oxford University, Headington, Oxford, USA

17:30         121.      Increased Apparent T₂-Sensitivity in BOLD fMRI Using Stimulated Echoes

Ute Goerke¹, Pierre-Francois van de Moortele¹, Kamil Ugurbil¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

17:42         122.      Gray-Matter Morphometry Using High-Resolution fMRI

David Ress¹, Gary H. Glover¹, Junjie Liu¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

17:54         123.      Neurogenic Inhomogeneity Localization for Detection of Activity (NILDA) - not available

Gaby S. Pell¹, David F. Abbott^1,2, Graeme D. Jackson^1,2, Steven W. Fleming¹, James W. Prichard³

¹Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ²University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ³Yale University, West Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA

18:06         124.      Slice Overlapping for Reduction of EPI Susceptibility Artefacts

Enrico De Vita¹, David L. Thomas², David W. Carmichael², Chloe Hutton³, Robert Turner³, Roger J. Ordidge²

¹UCLH NHS Trust, London, UK; ²University College London, London, UK; ³Institute of Neurology, UCL, London, UK

18:18         125.      Residual Effects of Large Vessels in GE BOLD Differential Mapping of Ocular Dominance Columns - not available

Essa Yacoub¹, Kamil Ugurbil¹, Amir Shmuel^1,2

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ²Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany