Vascular Postprocessing

                  1273.    Robust Vessel Path Tracking in Imperfect Volumetric Data

Noel Christopher Codella¹, Yi Wang¹, Ramin Zabih²

¹Cornell Weill Medical College, New York, New York, USA; ²Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

                  1274.    Fast, Reliable Carotid Plaque Burden Measurements with Interactive Snakes

William Sean Kerwin¹, Dongxiang Xu¹, Fei Liu¹, Norihide Takaya¹, Baocheng Chu¹, Howard Klein², William Ross²

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²Pathway MRI, Inc., Seattle, Washington, USA

                  1275.    Neovascularization in the Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Can Be Identified by Dynamic
                                Contrast-Enhanced High Resolution 3TMRI

Jing Han¹, Jian Cai¹, Lin Ma¹, Xin Liu¹

¹PLA general Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  1276.    Robust Image Segmentation Through Outlier Handling Application to Automatic Plaque Burden Assessment

Karim Lekadir¹, Robert Merrifield¹, Niall Keenan², Dudley Pennell², Guang-Zhong Yang¹

¹Imperial College, London, UK; ²Royal Brompton and Harefield Trust, London, UK

                  1277.    Reproducibility Assessment of Morphology-Enhanced Probabilistic Plaque Segmentation (MEPPS)
                                on Two Baseline Magnetic Resonance Scans

Fei Liu¹, Dongxiang Xu¹, Baocheng Chu¹, Tobias Saam¹, Norihide Takaya¹, Hunter Underhill¹, Thomas S.

Hatsukami¹, ², Chun Yuan¹, William S. Kerwin¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  1278.    Aorta Segmentation Using Elliptical Deformable Templates

Ersin Bayram¹, ², William Gregory Hundley³, Craig Alan Hamilton¹

¹Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; ³

Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA

                  1279.    Reproducibility Study of Wall Segmentation Approach in Evaluating PAD Patient with MRI

Dongxiang Xu¹, Timothy J. Carroll², Lu Tian², James Carr², Kiang Liu², Debiao Li², Mary M. McDermott², Chun Yuan¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1280.    Complex Subtraction – a Flow-Independent Method for Vessel Wall Imaging Shortly After Gadofluorine Injection

Ioannis Koktzoglou¹, Bernd Misselwitz², Hanns-Joachim Weinmann², Debiao Li¹

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Schering AG, Berlin, Germany


 

                  1281.    Potentiation of Cyclophosphamide Chemotherapy Using the Antiangiogenic Drug Thalidomide: 
      Importance of Optimal Scheduling to Exploit the Normalization Window of the Tumor Vasculature

Jerome Segers¹, Vincent Difazio², Reginald Ansiaux¹, Philippe Martinive¹, Olivier Feron¹, Pierre Wallemacq²,

Bernard Gallez¹

¹UCL, Woluwe, Bruxelles, Belgium; ²Saint-Luc Hospital, Woluwe, Bruxelles, Belgium

                  1282.    New Formulation of EPR Oxygen Sensors Dispersed in Thermo-Reversible Hydrogels

Mustapha Dinguizli¹, Nelson Beghein¹, Bernard Gallez¹

¹Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, B, Belgium

                  1283.    Modulated Radiation Force of US as Shear Wave Source in Microscopic MRE

Thomas J. Royston¹, Shadi F. Othman¹, Faik Can Meral¹, Bulent B. Ozer¹, Richard L. Magin¹

¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1284.    Performance Comparison of the Spatial Autocorrelation Function and the Mean Intercept-Length in
                                the Determination of Trabecular Bone Anisotropy in the In Vivo Environment

Michael Jeffrey Wald¹, Branimir Vasilic¹, Punam K. Saha¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹

¹Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1285.    An Automated On-The-Fly Detection and Correction Procedure for EPR Imaging Data Acquisition

Rizwan Ahmad¹, Bradley Clymer¹, Yuanmmu Deng¹, Deepti Vikram¹, Sergey Petryakov¹, Periannan Kuppusamy¹,

Jay L. Zweier¹

¹The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

                  1286.    Application of Over Magnetic Field Modulation in EPR Oximetry

Yuanmu Deng¹, Ramasamy P. Pandian¹, Rizwan Ahmad¹, Periannan Kuppusamy¹, Jay L. Zweier¹

¹The Ohio State University School of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Human Lung Imaging Techniques

                  1287.    Quantitative Contrast-Enhanced Perfusion Measurements of the Human Lung

Markus Oechsner¹, Matti Mühlhäusler¹, Peter M. Jakob¹, Meinrad Beer¹, Dietbert Hahn¹, Matthias Beissert¹,

Matthias Spindler¹, Herbert Köstler¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

                  1288.    Comparison of Hyperpolarized 3-He Administration Methods in Healthy and Diseased Subjects

Neil Woodhouse¹, Jim M. Wild¹, Gary H. Mills², Sally Fleming², Stan Fichele¹, Edwin JR van Beek³

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK; ²Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK; ³University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

                  1289.    Short-Breath-Hold PO2 Imaging with 3He: Initial Experience in Lung Disease

G Wilson Miller¹, Eduard E. de Lange¹, Jaime F. Mata¹, Jing Cai¹, Gordon D. Cates¹, W A. Tobias¹,

John P. Mugler III¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  1290.    Regional Ventilation Differences at Large Lung Volumes Assessed Using Hyperpolarized ³He MRI

Jessica Dickey Gereige¹, Yanping Sun¹, Joey Karim Mansour¹, Francine L. Jacobson¹, ², Peter Lindholm³,

James P. Butler², Stephen H. Loring⁴, Massimo Ferrigno¹, Mitchell S. Albert¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; ⁴Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1291.    Real-Time MR Imaging and Tracking of Regional Lung Motion During Forced Breathing Maneuvers

Abram Voorhees¹, Jing An¹, Kenneth I. Berger¹, Roberta M. Goldring¹, Leon Axel¹, Qun Chen¹

¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

                  1292.    Towards a Normative Lung Atlas: Validation of Physiologically Appropriate Temporal
                                Reparameterization of Dynamic Lung MR Sequences

Tessa Sundaram¹, Shigeto Kubo², Masaya Takahashi², James Gee¹, Hiroto Hatabu²

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1293.    Optimal Breathing Protocol for Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI of Solitary Pulmonary Nodule at 3T

Aya Kino¹, Masaya Takahashi¹, Takeshi Kubo¹, Danielle Coute¹, Simon K. Ashiku¹, J. Anthony Parker¹,

Malcolm M. DeCamp¹, Robert E. Lenkinski¹, Hiroto Hatabu¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1294.    T₁ and D of Perfluorocarbon-O₂ Mixtures for Lung Imaging

Yulin V. Chang¹, Mark S. Conradi¹

¹Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  1295.    Rapid Production of Hyperpolarized 3He Gas for MRI

Brian Saam¹, Richard E. Jacob², Benjamin C. Anger¹, Kevin R. Minard²

¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; ²Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA

                  1296.    Using Laser Frequency Narrowing Techniques to Improve Production of Hyperpolarized Xe for
                                Imaging and Surface Analysis

Cavin Lee Talbot¹, Marlies Elly Joy Friese¹, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop¹, Katie M. Baldwin¹, Andrew K. Whittaker¹, Ian Brereton¹, Norman R. heckenberg¹, David M. Doddrell¹, Deming Wang¹

¹The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

                  1297.    Hyperpolarized 129Xe Human Pulmonary Gas Exchange with 3-Point Dixon Technique

Iga Muradian¹, ², Samuel Patz², J. P. Butler³, G. P. Topulos², M. I. Hrovat⁴, S. Covrig¹, S. Ketel¹, I. Russet¹,

F. W. Hersman¹

¹University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA; ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Mirtech Inc., Brockton, Massachusetts, USA

                  1298.    Quantification of Pulmonary Perfusion Using SEEPAGE

André Fischer¹, Eberhard Daniel Pracht¹, Peter Michael Jakob¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

                  1299.    Structural Lung Parenchyma: Breath-Hold Isotropic Imaging Using 3D SSFP

Piotr Wielopolski¹, Maarten Lequin¹

¹Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, ZH, Netherlands

                  1300.    Radial MRI of the Human Lung

Falko Lohberger¹, Michael Amann¹, Lothar R. Schad¹

¹German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

                  1301.    MR Imaging of the Thorax During Whole-Body MRI: Evaluation of Different MR Sequences
                                and Comparison to Thoracic CT

Bernd B. Frericks¹, Bernhard Meyer¹, Tanja Nentwig², Karl J. Wolf¹, Frank K. Wacker¹

¹Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany; ²Imaging Science Institute, Siemens, Berlin, Germany

                  1302.    A Self-Navigated Feedback Method for Fast Gradient-Echo Imaging of Hyperpolarized 3He
                                Using Variable Flip Angles

G Wilson Miller¹, John P. Mugler III¹, Jing Cai¹, Jaime Mata¹, Eduard E. de Lange¹, Gordon D. Cates¹, W A. Tobias¹, James R. Brookeman¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  1303.    Parallel Phase-Encoded Images with Hyperpolarized Gas

Xavier Maître¹, Olivier Girard¹, Ludovic De Rochefort¹, Clarisse Halawani¹, Emmanuel Durand¹, Luc Darrasse¹

¹CNRS - Universite Paris Sud, Orsay, France

                  1304.    Human Pulmonary Gas State Imaging at 0.2T with Hyperpolarized 129Xe

Samuel Patz¹, Iga Muradian, ¹², Mirko I. Hrovat³, James P. Butler⁴, George P. Topulos¹, Steven Ketel²,

 Iulian C. Ruset², Silviu Covrig², F. William Hersman²

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA; ³Mirtech, Inc., Brockton, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1305.    Human Pulmonary PO2 at 0.2T with Hyperpolarized 129Xe

Mirko I. Hrovat¹, Iga Muradian², Steven Ketel², F. William Hersman², Samuel Patz³, James P. Butler⁴,

George P. Topulos³, Iulian C. Ruset², Silviu Covrig²

¹Mirtech, Inc., Brockton, Massachusetts, USA; ²University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA; ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1306.    Optimised FLASH Sequences for Examinations of the Human Lung at 0.2 Tesla

Markus Oechsner¹, Meinrad Beer¹, Eberhard D. Pracht¹, Herbert Köstler¹, Dietbert Hahn¹, Markus Weininger¹, Matthias Beissert¹, Peter M. Jakob¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

                  1307.    Oxygen-Enhanced MRI of the Lung at 3 Tesla: Feasibility and T1 Relaxation Times

Olaf Dietrich¹, José G. Raya¹, Ulrike Fasol¹, Michael Peller¹, Maximilian F. Reiser¹, Stefan O. Schoenberg¹

¹Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

                  1308.    Half-Fourier Single-Shot Turbo Spin-Echo (HASTE) of the Lung at 3T: Feasibility Study
                                Using Parallel Imaging with 32-Receiver Channel Technology

Christian Fink¹, Olaf Dietrich¹, Roger Eibel¹, Peter Herzog¹, Daniel Theisen¹, Titus Lanz², Maximilian F. Reiser¹, Stefan O. Schoenberg¹

¹University of Munich, Munich, NA, Germany; ²Rapid Biomedical, Rimpar, NA, Germany

                  1309.    Comparing Gd Contrast and Non-Contrast Lung Perfusion Imaging at 1.5T and 3T

Sergei I. Obruchkov¹, Michael D. Noseworthy¹

¹McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

                  1310.    Influence of Inspiration Level on Hyperpolarized ³He ADC in Healthy Lungs

Lise Vejby Søgaard¹, Trine Stavngaard¹, Jörg Schmiedeskamp², Wolfgang G. Schreiber³

¹Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark; ²Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany; ³Johannes Gutenberg-University Medical School, Mainz, Germany

                  1311.    Nonlinear Fitting Method for High Resolution Mapping of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC)
                                by Hyperpolarized 3He

JiangSheng Yu¹, Stephen Kadlecek¹, Masaru Ishii², John MacDuffie Woodburn¹, Kiarash Emami¹, Vahid Vahdat¹, Sheeva Rajaei¹, Frank Hammond¹, Letitia R. Cheatham¹, Benjamin M. Brainard¹, Timothy W.I. Clark³,

David A. Lipson¹, Warren B. Gefter¹, Rahim R. Rizi¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ³New York University, New York, New York, USA

                  1312.    Time Dependence of ³He Diffusion in the Human Lung: Measurement in the Long-Time Regime
      Using Stimulated Echoes

Chengbo Wang¹, Grady W. Miller¹, Talissa A. Altes, ^1,2, Eduard E. de Lange¹, John P. Mugler, III¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; ²Children's Hospital of Philadephia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1313.    Evidence of Background-Gradient Effects in GRE-Based ³He Diffusion MRI

John P. Mugler III¹, Jaime F. Mata¹, Talissa A. Altes¹, ², G. Wilson Miller¹, Eduard E. de Lange¹, William A. Tobias¹, Gordon D. Cates Jr. ¹, James R. Brookeman¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1314.    The Relationship Between ³He ADC and Lung Volume

Jason C. Woods¹, David S. Gierada¹, Yulin V. Chang¹, Barbara A. Lutey¹, Andrew J. Bierhals¹, Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy¹, Mark S. Conradi¹

¹Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA

                  1315.    Single Scan Acquisition of Hyperpolarized 3He Ventilation Images and ADC Images Using a Hybrid 2D Sequence

Jim M. Wild¹, Neil Woodhouse¹, Kevin Teh¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK

                  1316.    How to Optimize b-Values for In Vivo Lung Morphometry with ³He Diffusion MR

Alexander L. Sukstanskii¹, Yulin V. Chang¹, G. Larry Bretthorst¹, Mark S. Conradi¹, Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy¹

¹Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  1317.    Diffusion Corrected Reconstructions of Partial Pressure of Oxygen Using Polarized Gas MRI

Masaru Ishii¹, ², JiangSheng Yu², Vahid Vahdat², John MacDuffie Woodburn², Sheeva Rajaei², Kiarash Emami²,

Frank Hammond², Stephen Kadlecek², Rahim R. Rizi²

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1318.    Quantification of Lung Tumor Volume and Rotation During Respiration Using 3D Dynamic Parallel
                                MRI with View Sharing – Preliminary Results

Christian Plathow¹, Max Schoebinger², Christian Fink³, Holger Hof², Claus Claussen⁴, Heinz-Peter Meinzer²,

Hans-Ulrich Kauczor²

¹Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; ²German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany; ³University of Munich, Munich, Bavaria, Germany; ⁴Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

                  1319.    Oxygen-Enhanced MRI of the Lung: Optimized Calculation of Difference Images

Olaf Dietrich¹, Michael Peller¹, Ulrike Fasol¹, Christoph Losert¹, Konstantin Nikolaou¹, Maximilian F. Reiser¹,

Stefan O. Schoenberg¹

¹Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

                  1320.    A Diffusion Coefficient Distribution Model to Describe the B-Value Dependence of ADC in
                                Diffusion-Weighted Hyperpolarized Gas MRI

Rafael Luis O'Halloran¹, James H. Holmes¹, Andrew L. Alexander¹, Sean B. Fain¹

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1321.    Computer Simulations and Experimental Tests of Surface-To-Volume Measurements Using 3He NMR

Michael Carl¹, G Wilson Miller¹, John P. Mugler III¹, Gordon D. Cates¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  1322.    Long-Range Diffusion of ³He in Lungs: Evidence for Collateral Ventilation Pathways from
                                Comparison of Computer Simulations and Measurements

Seth-Emil Thomas Bartel¹, Susan E. Haywood¹, Mark S. Conradi¹, Jason C. Woods¹, David S. Gierada¹

¹Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  1323.    Experimental Study of Gas Diffusion in a Pulmonary Acinus Model

Dayane Habib¹, Denis Grebenkov¹, Xavier Maître¹, Ludovic De Rochefort¹, Emmanuel Durand¹, Geneviève Guillot¹

¹Université Paris-Sud Bât.220, Orsay, France

                  1324.    Quantitative MR Imaging of 3He Gas Transport in Model Airways

Kevin R. Minard¹, Richard E. Jacob¹

¹Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA

                  1325.    Velocimetry of Hyperpolarized Rare Gases: Phantom Studies and First In Vivo Results

Wolfgang Kilian¹, Max Strowig¹, Frank Seifert¹

¹Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, 10587 Berlin, Germany

                  1326.    Quantitation of Pulmonary Structure Via Registration and Normalization of Serial ³He MR Images

James Gee¹, Tessa Sundaram¹, Brian Avants¹, Pablo Burstein¹, Paul Yushkevich¹, Hui Zhang¹, Ingrid Casselbrant², Per Akeson², Goran Pettersson³, Brad Wyman⁴, Barry Peterson⁴

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden; ³General Electric, Malmo, Sweden; ⁴Pfizer, Groton, Connecticut, USA



 

Lung Imaging: Animal Model & Hyperpolarized Gases

                  1327.    Improved Determination of Hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe T₁ in the Rat Brain

Xin Zhou¹, Mary Lynn Mazzanti¹, Jianbing James Chen¹, Joey Karim Mansour¹, Jessica Dickey Gereige¹,

Arvind K. Venkatesh¹, Yanping Sun¹, Robert V. Mulkern¹, Mitchell S. Albert¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1328.    Hyperpolarized 13C MRI Cineangiography of Pulmonary Perfusion

Masaru Ishii¹, Kiarash Emami², Stephen Kadlecek², Sheeva Rajaei², JiangSheng Yu², John MacDuffie Woodburn², Frank Hammond², Vahid Vahdat², J Stefan Petersson³, Klaes Golman³, Rahim R. Rizi²

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ³GE Healthcare, Malmo, Sweden

                  1329.    Parametric Mapping of Ex-Vivo Mouse Lung at 9.4 Tesla with Air-Inflation Fixation Method

Hidemasa Uematsu¹, Suzanne L. Wehrli², Masaya Takahashi³, Hiroto Hatabu³, Toshio Asakura²

¹University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan; ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ³Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, US

                  1330.    A Delivery System for Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI of Small Animal Lungs

Shing-Jong Huang¹, Chao-Hsien Hsieh², Jyh-Horng Chen², Shang-Bin Liu¹, Yeun-Chung Chang³

¹Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ³National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1331.    Respiratory-Gated 3D Fast Spin-Echo for Oxygen-Enhanced MR Imaging of Mice Lungs

Kristina Nancy Watt¹, ², Brian J. Nieman¹, ², Jonathan Bishop¹, Ryan Mark Henkelman¹, ², Josette Chen¹, ²

¹Mouse Imaging Centre (MICe), Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

                  1332.    Experimental Validation of a Model for the Field Dependence of the SNR of Hyperpolarized
                                Noble Gas MR Imaging of Rodent Lungs In Vivo

Juan Parra-Robles¹, William Dominguez Viqueira¹, Alexei Ouriadov¹, Wilfred Lam¹, Nishard Abdeen²,

Giles E. Santyr¹

¹Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; ²Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

                  1333.    Registered ³He Ventilation and ¹H Perfusion Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI in the Rodent Lung

Nilesh N. Mistry¹, Jim R. Pollaro¹, Laurence W. Hedlund¹, Glenn Allan Johnson¹

¹Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  1334.    Comparison of Hyperpolarized Helium MR Imaging of Regional Ventilation with Xenon-Enhanced CT in Rodents

Giles Santyr¹, Wilfred Lam¹, Alexei Ouriadov¹, Maria Drangova¹, David McCormack², David Holdsworth¹

¹Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; ²London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

                  1335.    Measurement of Nonlinear Decay of Alveolar Partial Pressure of Oxygen in Mice Using 3He-MRI

Katarzyna Cieslar¹, Hasan Alsaid², Vasile Stupar², Sophie Gaillard², Rachida Fissoune², Emmanuelle Canet-Soulas², Yannick Cremillieux²

¹Jagiellonian University, Institute of Physics, Krakow, Poland; ²Univeriste Claude Bernard Lyon1, Lyon, France

                  1336.    In Vivo Measurement of T2 Relaxation of Mouse Lungs During Inspiration and Expiration

Lars E. Olsson¹, Paul D. Hockings¹

¹AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden

                  1337.    Alveolar Oxygen Partial Pressure and Oxygen Depletion Rate Mapping in Rats Using 3He-MRI

Katarzyna Cieslar¹, Vasile Stupar², Sophie Gaillard², Emmanuelle Canet-Soulas², Yannick Cremillieux²

¹Jagiellonian University, Institute of Physics, Krakow, Poland; ²Univeriste Claude Bernard Lyon1, Lyon, France

                  1338.    Retrospective Cine ³He Ventilation Imaging Under Spontaneous Breathing Conditions:
                                A Non Invasive Imaging Protocol for Small Animal Lung Function Imaging

Vasile Stupar¹, Emmanuelle Canet Soulas¹, Hasan Alsaid¹, Sophie Gaillard¹, Nicolau Beckmann²,

Yannick Crémillieux¹

¹Laboratoire de RMN, UMR CNRS5012, Université Lyon1, ESCPE, Villeurbanne, France; ²Discovery Technologies, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

                  1339.    Detection of Pulmonary Emboli by Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 in Pig Model

Masaru Ishii¹, Stephen Kadlecek², JiangSheng Yu², Sheeva Rajaei², Kiarash Emami², Vahid Vahdat²,

John MacDuffie Woodburn², Frank Hammond², J Stefan Petersson³, Klaes Golman³, Rahim R. Rizi²

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ³GE Healthcare, Malmo, Sweden

                  1340.    Nonlinear Fitting Method for the Measurements of Regional Alveolar Oxygen Pressure and Oxygen
                                Depletion Rate by Hyperpolarized 3He MRI

JiangSheng Yu¹, Kiarash Emami¹, Masaru Ishii², John MacDuffie Woodburn¹, Sheeva Rajaei¹, David Lipson¹,

Vahid Vahdat¹, Stephen Kadlecek¹, Frank Hammond¹, Timothy W.I. Clark³, Benjamin M. Brainard¹, Letitia R. Cheatham¹, Warren B. Gefter¹, Rahim R. Rizi¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ³New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

                  1341.    Diffusion Imaging with Hyperpolarized Helium MR in Surfactant Protien C Deficient Mice

Casey B. Orellana¹, Yulin V. Chang¹, Jason C. Woods¹, Richard E. Jacob¹, John A. Engelbach¹, Jeffrey A. Whitsett², Mark S. Conradi¹, Jeff J. Neil¹

¹Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

                  1342.    Three-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of Pulmonary Solitary Tumors in Transgenic Mice

Masaya Takahashi¹, Shigeto Kubo¹, Elena Levantini¹, Susumu Kobayashi¹, Olivier Kocher¹, Daniel G. Tenen¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1343.    Evaluation of Emphysema Severity and Progression in a Rabbit Model: A Comparison of Hyperpolarized
                                He-3 and Xe-129 ADC with Morphometry

Jaime Mata¹, Talissa Altes¹, ², Jing Cai¹, Kai Ruppert³, Wayne Mitzner⁴, James Brookeman¹, William Tobias¹,

James Wang¹, Gordon Cates¹, John Mugler III¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ³AMRIT, Sebastopol, California, USA; ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1344.    SPI Measurement of MR Signal and T2*  in Order to Characterize Emphysema Type Changes in a
                                Tight Skin Mouse Model

Lars E. Olsson¹, Maria Lindahl², Malin Palmér¹, Martina Kvist Reimer², Leif Hultin¹, Per-Ola Önnervik²,

Paul D. Hockings¹

¹AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden; ²AstraZeneca, Lund, Sweden

                  1345.    Quantitative Assessment of Lung Volume Reduction Surgery Effectiveness in Improving
                                Functional Pulmonary Performance of Emphysematous Subjects - A Small Animal Model

Kiarash Emami¹, Masaru Ishii², Jianliang Zhu¹, John MacDuffie Woodburn¹, Jiangsheng Yu¹, Stephen J. Kadlecek¹, Vahid Vahdat¹, Benjamin M. Brainard¹, Michael E. Friscia¹, Joseph B. Shrager¹, Rahim R. Rizi¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1346.    Elastase Induced Emphysematous Development Assessed by Proton MRI in Spontaneously Breathing Rats

Harry Karmouty Quintana¹, ², Catherine Cannet¹, Stefan Zurbruegg¹, Lazzaro Mazzoni¹, John R. Fozard¹,

Clive P. Page², Nicolau Beckmann¹

¹Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland; ²King's College London, London SE1 1UL, UK

                  1347.    ³He Imaging of Methacholine Challenge in Mouse Models of Asthma

Bastiaan Driehuys¹, Gary P. Cofer¹, Jim Pollaro¹, Julia K.L. Walker¹, David A. Schwartz², G A. Johnson¹

¹Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA; ²National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA

                  1348.    Characterisation of Lipopolysaccharide Induced Pulmonary Oedema in Rats by MRI

Sarah Hotee¹, ², Kumar Changani², Alan White², Kishore Bhakoo¹, Jimmy Bell¹

¹Imaging Sciences Department, Hammersmith, London, UK; ²GSK, The Frythe, Welwyn, UK

                  1349.    MR Imaging of Ex-Vivo Rat Lung with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Air-Inflation Fixation Method

Nobuyuki Kosaka¹, Hidemasa Uematsu¹, Hirohiko Kimura¹, Akinobu Kita², Harumi Itoh¹

¹University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan; ²University of Fukui Hospital, Fukui, Japan

                  1350.    Non-Invasive Monitoring of Lung Transplant Viability in a Small Animal Model Using MRI and PET

James H. Holmes¹, Rudolf K. Braun¹, Rafael L. O'Halloran¹, Zhuzai Xiang¹, Ronald L. Sorkness¹, Robert W. Pyzalski¹, Eric T. Peterson¹, Robert B. Love¹, Sean B. Fain¹

¹University of Madison-Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Consoles and Interfaces

                  1351.    An Integrated MR Console / MR Physics Simulation System

Jonathan Sharp¹, Donghui Yin², Randy Tyson¹, Kan Lo¹, Boguslaw Tomanek¹

¹National Research Council of Canada, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ²National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

                  1352.    A Scalable Prototype MR Console Using USB

Pascal Stang¹, Nathaniel Matter¹, Steve Conolly², John Pauly¹, Greig Scott¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

                  1353.    Electrically Isolated Power Delivery for MRI Applications

Jan Gustav Werthen¹, Mort J. Cohen¹, Ta-Chung Wu¹, Seni Widjaja¹

¹JDS Uniphase, San Jose, California, USA

                  1354.    Surface MRI Using a Rastered Backprojection

Joseph P. Hornak¹, Christina L. Bray¹, Tyler Lucero¹, Allison Bright¹

¹RIT, Rochester, New York, USA

                  1355.    Integration of an External Motion Tracking System with the MR Scanner for Highly Accurate
                                Real-Time Prospective Motion Correction

Maxim Zaitsev¹, Christian Dold², Jürgen Hennig¹, Oliver Speck¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ²Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany


 

Multimodality and Novel Systems

                  1356.    Signal Optimization of Magnetic Field Pulses in Field-Cycled MRI

Jamu Krishna Alford¹, William Bradfield Handler¹, Timothy James Scholl¹, Blaine Alexander Chronik¹

¹University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  1357.    Magnet Design and Construction for a Field-Cycled MRI/PET System

Kyle Michael Gilbert¹, William Bradfield Handler¹, Timothy James Scholl¹, Blaine Alexander Chronik¹

¹The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  1358.    Placing a PET Insert in the Bore of a 7T Magnet: Initial Study of the Interactions of the MRI System
                                with the PET Shielding

Bo Joseph Peng¹, Ciprian Catana¹, Jeff Walton¹, Simon R. Cherry¹, Jacob Willig-Onwuachi¹, ²

¹University of California, Davis, California, USA; ²UCDMC, Sacramento, California, USA

                  1359.    Evaluation of Mesh Photomultiplier Tube Operation for Dual Modality PET/MRI Systems

Hao Peng¹, William H. Handler¹, Kyle M. Gilbert¹, Tim J. Scholl¹, Peter J. Simpson¹, Blaine A. Chronik¹

¹University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  1360.    Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities Induced by PET Detector Scintillators in Dual Modality MRI/PET Systems

Parisa Jamali¹, Blaine Alexander Chronik¹

¹The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  1361.    Constraints Imposed on MRI in a Mixed Modality PET/MRI System

William Bradfield Handler¹, Blaine Alexander Chronik¹

¹University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  1362.    Development of Endoscopic Radiation Probe for Fusion Imaging with MRI

Takao Goto¹, Yuji Iwadate¹, Edgar Carlos¹, Hiroshi Sato², Koji Watabe², Hiroshi Motomura³, Akira Maekawa³,

Toru Kanoi⁴, Kazuhiro Saito⁵, Hidehiro Iida², Tetsuji Tsukamoto¹

¹GE Yokogawa Medical Systems Ltd., Hino-shi, Tokyo, Japan; ²National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan; ³Nihon Medi-Physics Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; ⁴Universal Giken Co. Ltd., Odawara, Japan; ⁵SD Giken Co. Ltd., Sakado, Japan

Gradient Subsystems

                  1363.    Measuring the Gradient Subsystem Bandwidth at 7T

Douglas A C Kelley¹

¹GE Healthcare, San Francisco, California, USA

                  1364.    Phantom-Based Evaluation of Gradient Nonlinearity for Quantitative Neurological MRI Studies

Richard Philip Mallozzi¹, Daniel J. Blezek¹, Jeffrey L. Gunter², Clifford R. Jack, Jr. ², Joshua R. Levy³

¹GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, New York, USA; ³The Phantom Laboratory, Inc., Greenwich, New York, USA

                  1365.    Practical Implementation of the Stream Function Method for Design of Arbitrary-Geometry Gradient Coils

Rostislav A. Lemdiasov¹, Reinhold Ludwig²

¹Insight Neuroimaging Systems, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; ²Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

                  1366.    Novel Design Method for Gradient Coil Structures with Reduced Acoustic Noise Characteristics

Victor Taracila¹, Labros S. Petropoulos¹, ², Robert W. Brown¹

¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²Hitachi Medical Systems, Twinsburg, Ohio, USA

                  1367.    Z-Intercept Method for Improved SUSHI Gradient Solutions

Shmaryu Shvartsman¹, ², Robert Brown², Victor Taracila², Timothy Eagan²

¹Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  1368.    Design and Fabrication of a Three-Axis Hybrid-Quadrupole Gradient Coil for MR of the Breast

Karen Lynn VanderWerf¹, Josh Thomas de Bever¹, Kim Butts Pauly², Blaine Alexander Chronik¹

¹University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; ²Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1369.    Design of Localized Surface Gradient Coil for DWI of the Carotid Artery

Rebecca Emily Feldman¹, Brian K. Rutt¹, Blaine Alexander Chronik¹

¹University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  1370.    A High-Performance Head Gradient Coil for 7T Systems

Axel vom Endt¹, Ralph Kimmlingen¹, Jörg Riegler¹, Eva Eberlein¹, Franz Schmitt¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  1371.    Discrete Design of an Insert Gradient Coil for Head Imaging in High Field MRI

Shmaryu Shvartsman¹, Gordon DeMeester¹, Michael Morich¹

¹Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  1372.    FDTD Analysis of Transient Eddy Currents Induced by Gradient Coil Switching in MRI

Adnan Trakic¹, Hua Wang¹, Feng Liu¹, Hector Sanchez Lopez¹, Stuart Crozier¹

¹The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

                  1373.    Cylindrical 3D FDTD Algorithm for the Computation of Low Frequency Transient Eddy Currents in MRI

Adnan Trakic¹, Hua Wang¹, Feng Liu¹, Hector Sanchez Lopez¹, Stuart Crozier¹

¹The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

                  1374.    Measurement of Cross-Axis Gradient Eddy Currents

Atsushi Mark Takahashi¹, R Scott Hinks²

¹GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  1375.    Spherical Harmonic Inductive Detection (SHID) Coils for Negative Feedback Control of Eddy Current Fields

Karl Edler¹, Glen Kolansky¹, David Ian Hoult¹

¹National Research Council Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Bo: Magnets and Inhomogeneity Considerations

                  1376.    Development of a New MgB₂ Superconducting Open MRI Magnet

Roberto Marabotto¹, Leonardo Bertora¹, Marco Modica¹, Davide Nardelli¹, Daniele Damiani¹, Giovanni Grasso², Alessandro Carrozzi³

¹Ansaldo Superconduttori, Genova, Italy; ²Columbus Superconductors, Genova, Italy; ³Paramed, Genova, Italy

                  1377.    The Theoretical Basis of Rectangular Magnet and Coil Design

David Ian Hoult¹

¹National Research Council Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

                  1378.    A Pyrolytic Graphite Foam for Magnetic Susceptibility Matching to Human Tissue

Steven Michael Conolly¹, ², Brian Andrew Hargreaves², Alex Chih-Ming Chen¹, Lizabeth Yue Li²

¹UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA; ²Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1379.    Development of a Compact MRI for Early Diagnosis and Follow Up of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Shinya Handa¹, Hiroshi Yoshioka², Sadanori Tomiha¹, Tomoyuki Haishi³, Katsumi Kose¹

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ²Bringham Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³MRTechnology, Tsukuba, Ibraki, Japan

                  1380.    Design and Construction of an Optimized Open-Access Human-Scale MRI Magnet for Posture
                                Dependent Lung Studies

Leo L. Tsai¹, ², Matthew S. Rosen¹, Ross W. Mair¹, Ronald L. Walsworth¹, ³

¹Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School & MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ³Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

                  1381.    Design and Implementation of a Standalone Magnet Field Drift Correction Unit

Terence William Nixon¹, Scott McIntyre¹, Douglas Lyle Rothman¹, Robin Alexander de Graaf¹

¹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  1382.    A Priori Imposed Discrete Topology Considerations in Designing Transverse Resistive Shim Coils

Victor Taracila¹, Shmaryu Shvartsman¹, ², Robert W. Brown¹

¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Computational Electromagnetics

                  1383.    Exploring the Limits of RF Shimming: Single Slice and Whole Brain Field Optimizations at Up to
                                600 MHz with Transmit Arrays of Up to 80 Elements

Weihua Mao¹, Christopher M. Collins¹, Michael B. Smith¹

¹Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1384.    3D Simulation Technique to Obtain Input Impedance and Frequency Response of Empty/Biologically
                                Loaded RF Coils with Experimental Verifications

Tamer S. Ibrahim¹, Doney Abraham¹, Roney Abraham¹, Ryan Gilbert²

¹University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA; ²Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

                  1385.    A High Performance FDTD Scheme for MRI Applications

Hua Wang¹, Adnan Trakic¹, Feng Liu¹, Marek E. Bialkowski¹, Stuart Crozier¹

¹School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

                  1386.    An Analysis of an Extended Cavity TEM Coil

Graeme McKinnon¹, Eddy Boskamp¹

¹GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  1387.    Excitation of a TEM Mode in a Birdcage Resonator

Shahed Reza¹, Charles A. Saylor¹

¹Invivo Corp., Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  1388.    Obtaining Patient Specific RF Field Maps: Comparison of B1+ Measurements and Simulations f
                                for a Human Pelvis

C. A.T. van den Berg¹, L. W. Bartels¹, B. van den Bergen¹, H. Kroeze¹, J. J.W. Lagendijk¹

¹University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands

                  1389.    B1-Mapping for 3T Body Imaging

Zhiyong Zhai¹, David Foxall¹, Gordon DeMeester¹, Michael Morich¹, John Duraj¹

¹Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  1390.    Toward Understanding SAR Patterns in the Human Head at High Field (200 to 400 MHz)
                                MRI with Volume Coils

Zhangwei Wang¹, Christopher M. Collins¹, Michael B. Smith¹

¹Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1391.    Improving the Signal Uniformity at 400 MHz: Sequential Multi-Channel Excitation with Intermediate Active Shims

Victor Taracila¹, Labros S. Petropoulos¹, ², Timothy P. Eagan¹, Robert W. Brown¹

¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²Hitachi Medical Systems, Twinsburg, Ohio, USA

                  1392.    Capping Off the Actively Shielded Cylindrical Gradient Story

Tanvir Noor Baig¹, Timothy P. Eagan¹, Labros S. Petropoulos¹, ², William A. Edelstein¹, ³, Robert W. Brown¹

¹Case Western Reerve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²Hitachi Medical Systems America, Twinsburg, Ohio, USA; ³MRScience LLC, Schenectady, New York, USA

                  1393.    FMag - Fast Computation of Static Magnetic Field Perturbation Due to Inhomogeneous Media

Amir Boag¹, Vadim Timchenko¹, Arnon Neufeld², Christine Letrou³

¹Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; ²Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; ³CNRS UMR 5157, Evry, France

                  1394.    A Simple Approach of Combined Passive and Active Shimming for In Vivo MR Spectroscopy at
                                High Magnetic Field

Christoph Juchem¹, Bernd Muller-Bierl², Fritz Schick², Nikos K. Logothetis¹, Josef Pfeuffer¹, ³

¹Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, BW, Germany; ²University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, BW, Germany; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, B, Germany

                  1395.    Sampling Area-Based Mixed Model for T1-MRI Brain Tissues

Zeng Dong¹, ², Yao De Zhong¹, Gong Qi Yong³

¹School of Life Science and Technology, Chengdu, Sicuan, People’s Republic of China; ²HMMRC, Chengdu, sicuan, People’s Republic of China; ³HMRRC, Chengdu, Sicuan, People’s Republic of China

Interventional MR

                  1396.    An Actively Segmented Transmission Line for Improved MR Safety of Interventional Devices

Reiner Umathum¹, Sven Müller¹, Wolfhard Semmler¹, Michael Bock¹

¹German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

                  1397.    Three-Dimensional Catheter Tracking Using Real-Time Volumetric Imaging

Redha Boubertakh¹, ², Nicholas MI Noble, ¹², Vivek Muthurangu¹, Richard Winkelmann³, Peter Börnert⁴,

Derek L. G. Hill², Reza S. Razavi¹

¹King's College London, London, UK; ²University College London, London, UK; ³University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ⁴Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  1398.    Multi-Mode Probes for MR-Guided Therapeutic Endovascular Interventions

Orhan Unal¹, Krishna Kurpad¹, Thomas M. Grist¹

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1399.    Towards MRI-Guided Vascular Intervention with an Electromagnetic Tracking System and 3D
                                Navigation Software

Daniel F. Kacher¹, Simon P. DiMaio¹, Eigil Samset¹, Barry Fetics², Erez Nevo², Ferenc A. Jolesz¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Robin Medical, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1400.    ECG Triggered MRI-Guided Navigation for Cardiac Interventions

Eigil Samset¹, ², Dan Kacher¹, Pelin Aksit³, Glenn Hammond Reynolds⁴, Laurance M. Epstein¹, Ferenc A. Jolesz¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; ³Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ⁴Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1401.    Micro-Transmit Active Point Source Tracking for Eliminating RF Tissue Heating

Richard Philip Mallozzi¹, Eric Fiveland¹, Renee A. Guhde¹, Charles L. Dumoulin¹

¹GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA

                  1402.    Dynamic Coil Selection for Interactive Catheter Tracking with Parallel Imaging

Sven Müller¹, Reiner Umathum¹, Sebastian Ley¹, Wolfhard Semmler¹, Michael Bock¹

¹German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

                  1403.    Automatic Device Tracking:  A Multi Slice Approach

Sven Zuehlsdorff¹, Ingmar Viohl², Peng Hu³, Peter Speier⁴

¹Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Interventional Imaging, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ³University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; ⁴Siemens AG Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  1404.    Evaluation of a Novel Catheter-Vessel Model for MRI to Access Infused Drug Distribution in
                                Target Artery and Catheter Design

Takeshi Yoshikawa¹, Koji Uchida², Yoshiharu Ohno¹, Shozo Hirota³, Masahiko Fujii¹, Hajime Kitagaki²,

Kazuro Sugimura¹

¹Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; ²Shimane University School of Medicine, Izumo, Shimane, Japan; ³Hyogo Medical College, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

                  1405.    Development of RF Coil for Integration System of Endoscope with MRI for Esophageal Examination

Yuichiro Matsuoka¹, Takashi Ozaki², Yasuhiro Mori³, Kenichi Murakami³, Makiya Matsumoto⁴, Etsuko Kumamoto³, Kyo Imagawa², Masakazu Gotanda², Kagayaki Kuroda¹, ⁴

¹Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; ²Olympus Medical Systems Corporation, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan; ³Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; ⁴Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan

                  1406.    Evaluation of a Transformer Based Transmission Line for Improved RF Safety of Devices at 3T

Steffen Weiss¹, Peter Vernickel², Tobias Schaeffter¹, Bernhard Gleich¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; ²TuTech Innovation GmbH, Hamburg, Germany 


 

Ty Allen Cashen¹, Jonathan K. Park², Wanyong Shin¹, Thomas K. Rhee², Brian E. Schirf², Andrew C. Larson², Pottumarthi Prasad², Debiao Li¹, ², Timothy J. Carroll¹, ², Reed A. Omary²

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1408.    CE-MRA and PC-MRI in the Evaluation of Hemodynamics in Intracranial Aneurysms

Gabriel Acevedo-Bolton¹, Alastair Martin², Vitaliy Rayz¹, Michael Lawton², Randall Higashida², Brad Dispensa², William Young², Liang-Der Jou³, David Saloner, ¹²

¹VA San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; ²UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; ³University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1409.    Validation of an ECG Restoration Method Using a Linear Time-Invariant Model of Eddy Currents in Tissue

Landon William Locke¹, Weitian Chen¹, Craig Meyer¹, Walter J. Rogers¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  1410.    Fusion of 3D MRI and X-Ray Fluoroscopy

Volker Rasche¹, Christof Burgstahler, ¹², Markus Kunze¹, Nico Merkle¹, Jochen Woehrle¹, Vinzenz Hombach¹

¹University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany; ²University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

                  1411.    Rapid Prototyping of Stent Design by Means of Efficient Simulation of Intra-Voxel Dephasing

Thies Halvor Jochimsen¹, Torsten Scheuermann²

¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA; ²Boston Scientific, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

                  1412.    Meningioma Embolization Assessment with Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Alastair Martin¹, Soonmee Cha¹, Randall Higashida¹, Van Halbach¹, Chris Dowd¹, Michael McDermott¹,

David Saloner¹

¹University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

                  1413.    Design and Development of a Prototype Endocavitary Probe for High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
                                Delivery with Magnetic Resonance Imaging Thermometry and Guidance

Iain Wharton¹, Ian Rivens¹, Gail ter Haar¹, David Gilderdale, David Collins, Jeff Hand², Paul Abel², Nandita deSouza

¹Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK; ²Imperial College, London, W12 0NN, UK

                  1414.    MRI-Comptaible Ultrasound for Image Guided Therapy

Annie MeiYee Tang¹, Daniel F. Kacher², ³, Kelvin K. Wong, ²³, Geng Li¹, ⁴, Ferenc A. Jolesz², ³, Edward S. Yang¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

                  1415.    An Electromagnetic Model for Cool-Tip RF Needle Artifacts in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Bilgin Keserci¹, Etsuko Kumamoto², Kagayaki Kuroda³, ⁴

¹GE Healthcare, Tokyo, Japan; ²Kobe University, Kobe, Japan; ³Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Japan; ⁴Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan

                  1416.    Targeted Delivery of Antibodies Through the Blood-Brain Barrier by MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound

Manabu Kinoshita¹, Nathan McDannold¹, Ferenc A. Jolesz¹, Kullervo Hynynen¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1417.    Thermosensitive Mn²⁺-Liposomes for MR-Guided Hyperthermia

Herbert M. Reinl¹, Martin Hossan¹, Michael Peller¹, Lars Lindner¹, Maximilian Reiser¹

¹Universitätsklinikum München - Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

                  1418.    Real Time Quantitative Temperature Imaging Allows Accurate Prediction of the Size of Radiofrequency
                                Ablation in Rabbit Liver

Matthieu Lepetit-Coiffe¹, Olivier Seror¹, Brigitte Le Bail², Chrit Moonen¹, Hervé Trillaud¹, Bruno Quesson¹

¹CNRS/University Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France; ²C.H.U Pellegrin, Bordeaux, France

                  1419.    Ultrafast 1D Approach for Phase or Frequency Mapping for MRI-Based Temperature Measurement

Nathan McDannold¹, Nankuei Chen¹, Koichi Oshio¹, Kullervo Hynynen¹, Robert V. Mulkern^{2
            1}Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1420.    Correction of Proton Resonance Frequency Shift Temperature Maps for Magnetic Field
                                Disturbances Using Fat Signal

Andriy V. Shmatukha¹, Paul R. Harvey², Chris J.G. Bakker¹

¹University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; ²Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands

                  1421.    Respiratory Induced Resonance Offset Correction for PRFS Temperature Maps

Andriy V. Shmatukha¹, Chris J.G. Bakker¹

¹University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

                  1422.    Echo Combination to Reduce Temperature Measurement Errors in the Presence of Fat

Viola Rieke¹, Kim Butts Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1423.    Consistency of Signal Intensity and R2* in Frozen Porcine Kidney and Liver

Elena Kaye¹, Sonal Josan¹, Kim Butts Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

                  1424.    Improvements in R2* Mapping During In Vivo Cryoablation

Aiming Lu¹, Bruce L. Daniel¹, Kim B. Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1425.    Image Processing for On-Line Reduction of Thermometry Artifacts

Baudouin Denis de Senneville¹, Bruno Quesson¹, Pascal Desbarats², Charles Mougenot¹, Chrit Moonen¹

¹Laboratoire Imagerie Moléculaire et fonctionnelle, Bordeaux, France; ²LaBRI, Bordeaux, France

                  1426.    Magnetization Transfer for Early Assessment of Hepatic Tumors Treated with Thermal Ablation

Ahmed M. Gharib¹, Melanie S. Kotys¹, David M. Thomasson¹, Julia K. Locklin¹, Brad J. Wood¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1427.    Respiratory and Cardiac Motion Induced B0 Fluctuations in the Breast: Implications for
                                PRFS-Based Temperature Monitoring

Nicky H.G.M. Peters¹, Lambertus W. Bartels¹, Ferry Lalezari¹, Koen L. Vincken¹, Jan L. Verwoerd²,

Willem P.Th.M. Mali¹, Chris J.G. Bakker¹

¹University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; ²Philips Nederland BV, Medical Systems, Eindhoven, Netherlands

                  1428.    Feasibility of Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging and ADC Map to Predict Necrosis of Uterine Fibroids
                                During MR Imaging-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery

Atsuya Okada¹, Takamichi Murakami², Hironobu Nakamura², Bilgin Keserci³

¹Iseikai Hospital, Osaka, Japan; ²Osaka University, Suita, Japan; ³GE Healthcare, Hino, Japan

                  1429.    A New MRI Method for Monitoring Thermal Coagulation

Dina Carasso¹, Gil Navon¹

¹Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel


 

R. Jason Stafford¹, Ken Pin Hwang¹, ², Andrew M. Elliott¹, Anil M. Shetty¹, John D. Hazle¹

¹The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA; ²GE Healthcare Technologies, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  1431.    Simultaneous Monitoring of MRgFUS Temperature and Tissue Stiffness in Real Time

Yuan Le¹, Svetlana V. Primak¹, Kevin J. Glaser¹, Armando Manduca¹, Richard L. Ehman¹, Joel P. Felmlee¹

¹Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  1432.    Pilot Study Correlating Tissue Stiffness and Gross Pathology of MRgFUS Thermal Lesions in
                                Human Liver Cancer Xenoplant Tissue

Svetlana Primak¹, Yuan Le¹, Jinping Lai¹, Lewis Roberts¹, Carol Reynolds¹, Phil Rossman¹, Joel Felmlee¹

¹Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  1433.    Use of PROPELLOR for MR Thermometry

James R. MacFall¹, Thomas Raidy¹, Omar Arabe¹, Thad Samulski¹

¹Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  1434.    MR Guided Microwave Surgery for Liver Tumor with MR Gradient-Based Tracking System

Shigeyuki Naka¹, Yoshimasa Kurumi¹, Shigehiro Morikawa², Hisanori Shiomi¹, Tohru Tani¹, Hasnine A. Haque³

¹Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan; ²Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, shiga, Japan; ³GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

                  1435.    Contrast Enhanced MRI Guided Photodynamic Therapy for Non-Invasive Treatment of Cancer

Anagha Vaidya¹, Tianye Ke², YongEn Sun², Eun-Kee Jeong², ZhengRong Lu²

¹Unviersity of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; ²University of Utah, Salt lake city, Utah, USA

                  1436.    Quantitative Real-Time Imaging for MR-Guided Internal Radiation Therapy

Stefanie Winkelmann¹, Jan-Henry Seppenwoolde², Peter R. Seevinck², Evert-jan P.A. Vonken², Tobias Schaeffter³, Chris J. G. Bakker², Olaf Doessel¹

¹University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ²University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands; ³Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  1437.    Adult Stem Cells from Adipose Tissue for Cardiac Repair

Jixian Deng¹, Jian Wang¹, Gang Li², Bo Xiang¹, Marcu Gruwel¹, Yan Li³, Terak Kashour¹, Mike Jackson¹,

Roxanne Deslauriers¹, Ganghong Tian¹

¹Institute for Biodiagnostics,National Research Council, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Helongjiang, People’s Republic of China; ³National Microbiology Laboratory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

                  1438.    Simultaneous Quantitative Flow-Measurement Using MRI and Optical Coherence Doppler Tomography

Hon J. Yu¹, Gultekin Gulsen¹, Zhongping Chen¹, Orhan Nalcioglu¹

¹University of California, Irvine, California, USA

                      1439.    Three-Dimensional MR Tracking of Convective Therapy Distribution in Prostate

Anil Shetty¹, Roger J. Stafford¹, Andrew M. Elliott¹, Wes Kassouf¹, Gordon A. Brown¹, Louis L. Pisters¹,
    L Clifton Stephens¹, Peggy T. Tinkey¹, Luc Bidaut¹, John D. Hazle
          ¹The University of Texas M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Nobuhiko Hata¹, Philip Blumenfeld¹, Simon DiMaio¹, Kelly Zou¹, Steven Haker¹, Clare MC Tempany¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1441.    Image-Guided Interventional Device for 3D Access and Localization of Breast Lesions

Xu Zhai¹, Ray Harter², Catherine Moran¹, Orhan Unal¹, Frederick Kelcz¹, Sean B. Fain¹

¹University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²Marvel Medtech, LLC., Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1442.    Implementation of Real-Time Safety Control for Image-Guided Procedures Inside Cylindrical Scanners
                                with MR-Compatible Manipulators

Eftychios Christoforou¹, Angel Lee¹, Nikolaos V. Tsekos¹

¹Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  1443.    Freehand Performance of Interventions with Manipulator-Driven Real-Time Update of the Imaging Plane

Erbil Akbudak¹, Sven Zuehlsdorff², Eftychios Christoforou¹, Alpay Ozcan¹, Menelaos Karanikolas¹,

Nikolaos V. Tsekos¹

¹Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1444.    Real Time Imaging with Automatic Slice Positioning Controlled by an Interventional Assistance System

Michael Bock¹, Stefanie Guthmann², Bernd Gutmann², Jaane Rauschenberg¹, Sven Zuehlsdorff³, Wolfhard Semmler¹

¹German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany; ²InnoMedic GmbH, Herxheim, Germany; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1445.    3.0T MRI-Guided Breast Interventions: First Clinical Experience

Maurice A.A.J. van den Bosch¹, Carla Meeuwis¹, K. A.F. Houwert¹, M. A. Fernandez-Gallardo¹, R. van Hillegersberg¹, M. E.I. Schipper¹, W. P.Th.M. Mali¹

¹University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

                  1446.    MRI-Guided Prostate Biopsy in Two Different Standard 1.5 T Scanners Using an Endorectal Biopsy Device

Karl Engelhard¹, Hans-Peter Hollenbach², Berthold Kiefer², Axel Winkel³, Dirk Engehausen⁴

¹Martha-Maria Hospital, Nuremberg, Germany; ²Siemens Medical Solution, Erlangen, Germany; ³Invivo Germany GmbH, Schwerin, Germany; ⁴University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

                  1447.    A Voice Command Interface for Real-Time Interventional MR Imaging

Jochen von Spiczak¹, ², Eigil Samset¹, ³, Daniel F. Kacher¹, Ferenc A. Jolesz¹, ⁴, Simon P. DiMaio¹

¹Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ³University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; ⁴Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1448.    Biopsy Needle with Markers – Design of an MR Compatible Needle for High-Precision Needle Tip Positioning

Bernd Michael Müller-Bierl¹, Hansjörg Graf¹, Claudius König¹, Philippe Laurent Pereira¹, Fritz Schick¹

¹University Clinic Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

                  1449.    Motorized Remote-Center-Of-Motion Constraint Robot to Assist MR-Guided Microwave
                                Thermocoagulation of Liver Tumors

Shigehiro Morikawa¹, Nobuhiko Hata², Toshiro Inubusi¹, Koich Demura¹, Koichiro Murakami¹, Masahito Morita¹, Shigeyuki Naka¹, Yoshimasa Kurumi¹, Hasnine Akter Haque³

¹Shiga University of Medical Science, Ohtsu, Shiga, Japan; ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

                  1450.    MR Guided Percutaneous Intramyocardial Injection of Contrast Medium Solution to Infarct Borders
                                After Delineation of the Infarct with High Molecular Contrast Media: Measurement of T1 Values

Gabriele Anja Krombach¹, Yavuz Temur¹, Joachim Georg Pfeffer¹, Christian Hohl¹, Sylvia Kinzel¹, Rolf W. Günther¹, Arno Bücker¹

¹University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, NRW, Germany