Nanoparticle Contrast Agents - Methods and Applications

Room 4E                    Tuesday 13:30 - 15:30

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                  1806.    SPIO Positive Contrast In-Vivo by the Use of Diagonal-SPRITE

Andrea Protti1, Po-Wah So1, Amy Herlihy1, Jimmy Bell1

1Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK

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                  1807.    Diffusion is a Major Determinant of Contrast in SSFP-Based Single Cell MRI:
                                A Theoretical and Experimental Study

Trevor Wade1, Chris Heyn1, 2, Dave Rutt1, Paula Foster1, Brian Rutt1

1Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; 2University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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                  1808.    Phase Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging of SPIO Nanoparticles

Melanie S. Kotys1, Steve H. Fung1, Jianwu Xie1, King CP Li1

1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  1809.    Non-Monoexponential Signal Decay Due to Single SPIO Loaded Cells

Joerg Pintaske1, Bernd Mueller-Bierl1, Fritz Schick1

1University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, BW, Germany

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                  1810.    LDL Nanoparticles as Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents

Ian Ronald Corbin1, Hui Li1, Juan Chen1, Jerry David Glickson1, Gang Zheng1

1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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                  1811.    Numerical Simulation of Magnetic Field Distortions Caused by Cells Loaded with SPIO Nanoparticles

Joerg Pintaske1, Bernd Mueller-Bierl1, Fritz Schick1

1University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, BW, Germany

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                  1812.    Detection of Blood Volume Changes in the Rat Kidney Using an Intravascular USPIO Contrast Agent

Pippa Storey1, 2, Lin Ji1, Lu-Ping Li1, Pottumarthi Vara Prasad1, 2

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

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                  1813.    MRI of Mouse Experimental Colitis Using Ultrasmall  Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Particles

Anna E. Larsson1, Silvia Melgar1, Erika Rehnström1, Lennart ET Svensson1, Erik Michaelsson1, Paul D. Hockings1, Lars E. Olsson1

1AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden

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                  1814.    Comparison of T2 and T2* for Quantification of Cellular Iron-Uptake at 3.0 T

Hannes Dahnke1, Rebecca Kuhlpeter2, Lars Matuszewski2, Walter L. Heindel2, Tobias Schaeffter1, Christoph Bremer2

1Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; 2University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, GermanyText Box:  

 

                  1815.    Improving Contrast of Iron Oxide Based Cell Labeling with Manganese-Enhanced MRI

Ichio Aoki1, 2, Yuko Kawai1, Jun-ichiro Jo3, Yasuhiko Tabata3, Masahiro Umeda1, Toshihiro Higuchi1,

Afonso C. Silva2, Chuzo Tanaka1

1Meiji University of Oriental Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; 2NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 3Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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                  1816.    Sensitivity of Off-Resonance Susceptibility Separation with Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide

Catherine Diane Gard1, Anthony Z. Faranesh2, Garry Gold2, Tom Grist1, Scott B. Reeder1

1University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; 2Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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                  1817.    Positive Contrast Visualization of SPIO Labelled Cells by Diagonal-SPRITE

Po-Wah So1, Andrea Protti1, Tammy Kalber1, Amy Heavner Herlihy1, Jimmy David Bell1

1Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UKText Box:  

 

                  1818.    Small Hypovascular Hepatocellular Nodules: Association with Signal Intensity at
                                SPIO-Enhanced MR Imaging in Cirrhotic Livers

Minoru Hayashida1, Katsuyoshi Ito1, Ayame Shimizu1, Masahiro Tanabe1, Naofumi Matsunaga1

1Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, JapanText Box:  

 

                  1819.    Relaxometry of New Nanoparticles at 3 Tesla: Effect of Core Size and Coating on R1, R2, R2*

Michael Gerhard Kaul1, Nadja Bigall2, Oliver T. Bruns1, Harald Ittrich1, Marija S. Nikolic2, Wolfgang J. Parak3, Hannes Dahnke4, Horst Weller2, Gerhard Adam1

1University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 2University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; 3

Ludwig-Maximilians University, München, Germany; 4Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

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                  1820.    New Synthesis Method of Ultrasmall Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Using Polyvinylpyrrolidone

Ji-ae Park1, Yongmin Chang, 1, Bo-Hyung Park1, Seung-Tae Woo1, Hui-Jin Song1, Joo-Hyun Kim1

1Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Jung-gu, Republic of Korea

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                  1821.    Distinguishing of Magnetically Labeled Cells from Hemorrhage Using Positive Contrast MRI

Eun-Ju Kim1, Dae Hong Kim2, Eun-Sook Lee1, Ho-Taek Song1, Jin-Suck Suh1

1Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 2Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

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                  1822.    MR Apoptosis Imaging and Evidence of Apoptotic Nanoprobe Passing Across the Blood Brain Barrier

Donghoon Lee1, Jonathan Gunn1, Conroy Sun1, Omid Veiseh1, Stacey Hansen2, Miqin Zhang1, Jim Olson2,

Richard Ellenbogen1, Raymond Sze3

1University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; 2Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA; 3Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA

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                  1823.    Off Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles at Dilute Concentrations
                                and High Field Strengths

Christian Thomas Farrar1, Guangping Dai1, Bruce R. Rosen1, David E. Sosnovik1

1Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1824.    Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Targeted MRI Using a Probe of SPIO Nanocrystal and
                                ScFv EGFR Conjugate

Hui Mao1, Lily Yang1, Xianghong Peng1, Y Andrew Wang2, Xiaoxia Wang1, Zehong Cao1, Gregory Adams3, Qing An Yuan3

1Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 2Ocean NanoTech, LLC, Fayetteville, Arkasas, USA; 3Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAText Box:  

 

                  1825.    Fast Positive Contrast Imaging Using a Spin-Echo Spiral Sequence

Weitian Chen1, Wen-Tung Wang1, Walter J. Rogers1, Craig H. Meyer1

1University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

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                  1826.    Investigation of USPIO-Induced Field Inhomogeneities in a Rat Stroke Model

Ana-Maria Oros-Peusquens1, Marco Irkens1, Michael Schroeter2, Andreas Saleh2, Sebastian Jander2, Nadim Jon Shah1

1Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany; 2Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

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                  1827.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Viral Particle Biodistribution In Vivo

Juhana Hakumäki1, 2, Jani Räty1, Timo Liimatainen1, Thomas Wirth3, Tuulia Huhtala1, Teemu Ihalainen4,

Maija Vihinen-Ranta4, Ale Närvänen1, Seppo Ylä-Herttuala1

1University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; 2Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland; 3Ark Therapeutics Ltd., Kuopio, Finland; 4University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

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                  1828.    Temperature Dependence of T1 Relaxation Time of New Long-Circulating Thermosensitive Liposomes
                                with Encapsulated Gadodiamide

Tungte Wang1, Martin Hossann1, Herbert M. Reinl1, Michael Peller1, Nicole Teichert1, Maximilian Reiser1,

Rolf D. Issels1, Lars H. Lindner1

1University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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                  1829.    The Modified Fe3O4-NH3+ with RGD-4C Ligand for Cancer Cell Targeting MR Contrast Agent

Chia-Hao Su1, Ping-Ching Wu2, Jun-Cheng Weng1, Dar-Bin Shieh3, Chen-Sheng Yeh2, Jyh-Horng Chen1

1National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; 3National Cheng Kung University, Taipei, Taiwan

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                  1830.    Targeted Contrast Using Gadolinium Labeled G5 Dendrimers

Scott D. Swanson1, Jolanta F. Kukowska-Latallo1, Anil K. Patri, 12, James R. Baker, Jr. 1

1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; 2National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, USA

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                  1831.    Hot Spot Imaging of Microcapsules: An Initial Assessment of Detection with Fluorine and
                                Magnetization Transfer Imaging

Brad P. Barnett1, Assaf A. Gilad1, Jesus Ruiz-Cabello1, Mike T. McMahon1, 2, Dara L. Kraitchman1, Aravind Arepally1, Peter C. van Zijl1, 2, Jeff W M Bulte1

1Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1832.    Annexin A5 Conjugated Quantum Dots with a Paramagnetic Lipidic Coating for the Multimodal
                                 Detection of Apoptotic Cells

Geralda A.F. van Tilborg1, Willem J.M. Mulder1, Patrick T.K. Chin1, Chris P.M. Reutelingsperger2,

Gustav J. Strijkers1, Klaas Nicolay1

1Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands; 2Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

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                  1833.    Compartmental Assessment of Gadofluorine Contrast Agent Deposition in Atherosclerotic
                                Plaque of WHHL Rabbits and Its Correlation to Lipid Content

Stephen Clark Lenhard1, Karpagam Aravindham1, Alan Olzinski1, Bernd Misselwitz2, Hanns Joachim Weinmann2,

Beat Jucker1

1GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA; 2Schering AG, Berlin, Germany, Germany

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                  1834.    19F MR Techniques Augment Quantitative Molecular Imaging with Paramagnetic Perfluorocarbon
                                Nanoparticles at 1.5T

Shelton D. Caruthers1, 2, Anne M. Neubauer1, 3, Frank D. Hockett1, Rolf Lamerichs4, Patrick M. Winter1,

Michael J. Scott1, Patrick J. Gaffney5, Samuel A. Wickline1, Gregory M. Lanza1

1Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; 2Philips Medical Systems, Andover, Massachusetts, USA; 3Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; 4Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, Netherlands; 5St. Thomas' Hospital, London, UK

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                  1835.    The Optimization of Liposomal Formulations for Molecular MR Imaging

Gustav Jacob Strijkers1, Willem J. Mulder1, Ewelina Kluza1, Klaas Nicolay1

1Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, -, Netherlands

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                  1836.    A Novel Approach of Quantifying Susceptibilities in Small Objects: Quantitative Diagnosis in MRI

Ching-Yi Hsieh1, Yu-Chung Norman Cheng1, Jaladhar Neelavalli1, Qiang Liu1, E. Mark Haacke1

1Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

 

New or SMART Contrast Agents

Room 4E                    Tuesday 13:30 - 15:30

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                  1837.    CNS Imaging with a High Relaxivity Contrast Agent: What is the Benefit Over a Standard Gadolinium Agent?

Kenneth R. Maravilla1, Joseph A. Maldjian2, Ilona M. Schmalfuss3, Matthew J. Kuhn4, Nicoletta Anzalone5,

Marco Essig6, Lars Gustafsson7

1University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; 2Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA; 3University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; 4Southern Illinois School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA; 5Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; 6German Cancer Research Institute, Heidelberg, Germany; 7Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

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                  1838.    Development of Gadolinium Based Contrast Agents to Detect Tumor Apoptosis In Vivo Using MRI

Anant Krishnan1, Andre Neves1, Mikko Kettunen1, De-en Hu1, Maaike de Backer1, Kevin Michael Brindle1

1University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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                  1839.    MRI Detection of Rapamycin and AP-Cav Therapeutic Rescue from Endothelial Over
                                Expression of Akt in Transgenic Mice

Keren Ziv1, Thuy L. Phung2, Ori Brenner1, Kenneth Walsh3, Laura E. Benjamin4, Michal Neeman1

1Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center  and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 3Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 4Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1840.    Cellular MRI Contrast Via Co-Expression of Transferrin Receptor and Ferritin

Abby E. Deans1, Youssef Zaim Wadghiri1, Lisa M. Bernas2, Xin Yu1, Brian K. Rutt2, Daniel H. Turnbull1

1New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA; 2University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CanadaText Box:  

 

                  1841.    The Efficacy of Signal Intensity Change Map Images Obtained Using First Pass Dynamic
                                Fercarbotran-Enhanced MR Imaging for Assessment of Focal Hepatic Lesion Vascularity

Seishi Kumano1, Keiichi Kikuchi1, Takaharu Tsuda1, Hitoshi Miki1, Teruhito Mochizuki1

1Ehime University, Toon, Ehime, Japan

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                  1842.    Non-Invasive Visualization on Drug Delivery of Polymer Drug Conjugates

Furong Ye1, Tianyi Ke1, Eun-Kee Jeong1, Xuli Wang1, Zheng-Rong Lu1

1University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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                  1843.    Controlled Internalization and Recycling of Her-2/neu by Cross-Linking with an Avidin/streptavidin-Biotin
                                System for MR Enhancement

Wenlian Zhu1, Baasil Okollie1, Zaver M. Bhujwalla1, Dmitri Artemov1

1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1844.    Development of Avidin-Based Positive Contrast Agents to Detect Tumor Apoptosis Using MRI

Andre A. Neves1, Anant Krishnan1, Mikko Kettunen1, De Hu1, Maaike De-Backer1, Kevin Brindle1

1University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK 

                  1845.    MRI of C6 Glioma Cells Taged with an Opioid Functionalized DTPA-Gd Contrast Agent

Timo Dansauer1, 2, Ekkehard Küstermann1, 2, Dieter Leibfritz1, 2

1University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; 2Center of Advanced Imaging (CAI), Bremen, Germany

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                  1846.    Contrast Agent for Blood Pool Imaging and Targeted Contrast Delivery Using RHA and Gd-DTPA

Jim M. Wild1, John Woodrow2, Bernd Misselwitz3, Richard Johnson2

1University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK; 2Upperton Ltd, Nottingham, UK; 3Schering, AG, Berlin, Germany

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                  1847.    Design and Synthesis of a Novel Gadolinium-Based MR Contrast Gd(DOBAPATA) for MR Imaging of Calcium

Anil K. Mishra1, Josef Pfeuffer2

1INMAS, Delhi, India; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

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                  1848.    Selective MRI and MRS of PEGylated Compounds

Scott D. Swanson1

1The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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                  1849.    First In Vivo Characterization of a Low Molecular Weight Gd-Metallostar – a Contrast Agent with High Relaxivity

Claudia Weidensteiner1, Joao Bruno Livramento2, Philipp Schmidt1, Rainer Kneuer1, Peter Roland Allegrini1,

Lothar Helm2, Éva Tóth2, 3, André E. Merbach2

1Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland; 2École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 3Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire CNRS, Orleans, France

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                  1850.    Novel Bioresorbable Magnetic Contrast Agent Nanoceramics

Igor Kuriashkin1, Louise Lee1, Ryan Haggerty1, Waltraud Kriven1

1University of Illinois  at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USAText Box:  

 

                  1851.    WITHDRAWN

 

 

 

 

                  1852.    Design and Synthesis of Novel Myristoylated Polyarginine Peptides for In Vivo Molecular Neuroimaging

Wellington Pham1, Rob J.A. Nabuurs1, Mark A. Van Buchem1, Anna Moore1

1Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1853.    Paramagnetic Metal Probes Used for the Development of High-Relaxivity Protein Targeted Contrast Agents

Stephan G. Zech1, Hariett B. Eldredge1, Mark P. Lowe2, Peter Caravan1

1EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 2University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

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                  1854.    Comparison of Gd-Bz-TTDA, Gd-EOB-DTPA and Gd-BOPTA in Dynamic MR Imaging of the
                                Liver with Rat Models

Twei-Shiun Jaw1, Gin-Chung Liu1, Yun-Ming Wang1, Shih-Hsien Chen1, Jui-Shung Hsu1, Feng-O Shen1

1Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan.

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                  1855.    Transcription MRI Contrast Probe Enables the Detection of Different Cerebral Messenger RNA Levels

Shuning Huang1, Christina H. Liu2, Guangping Dai3, Bruce R. Rosen1, Philip K. Liu3

1MIT/MGH, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 2Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 3Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1856.    Ferritin as a Tissue Specific MRI Reporter of Inducible Gene Expression in Transgenic Mice

Keren Ziv1, Batya Cohen1, Vyacheslav Kalchenko1, Alon Harmelin1, Michal Neeman1

1Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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                  1857.    Transcription MRI Detects Altered Cerebral Gene Expression in Live Stroke Animals

Christina H. Liu1, Shuning Huang, 12, Bruce R. Rosen1, Philip K. Liu1

1Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
 

                  1858.    Redox-Sensitive Contrast Agents for MRI Based on Reversible Binding of Thiols to Serum Albumin

Natarajan Raghunand1, Bhumasamudram Jagadish1, Theodore P. Trouard1, Robert J. Gillies1, Eugene A. Mash1

1University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA 


                  1859.    A Bio-Activated Paramagnetic Gd(III) Complex [Gd(DO3A-FPG)] for MRI

Yun-Ming Wang1, Yu-Ton Chang1, Yu-Zheng Su1, Jui-Sheng Hsu1, Gin-Chung Liu1

1Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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                  1860.    Investigations Into the Relaxivity and Complexation Behaviour of GdDOTA-4AmP,
                                a PH Responsive MRI Contrast Agent

A. Dean Sherry1, 2, Mark Woods3, Paul Jurek3, Ferenc Kalaman1, Md Meser Ali1

1University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA; 2UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA; 3Macrocyclics, Dallas, Texas, USA

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                  1861.    A Smart PARACEST MRI Contrast Agent for Nitric Oxide Detection

Guanshu Liu1, Marty D. Pagel2

1Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; 2Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  1862.    A “smart” PARACEST Agent for Detection of Transglutaminase Activity

Rachel Rosenblum1, Mark Pagel1

1Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  1863.    A Transcatheter MR-Guided Fiber Optical Confocal Microscopy System

Sascha Krueger1, Daniel Herzka2, Charlotte Cavé3, King Li4, Steffen Weiss1

1Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany; 2Philips Research, Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA; 3Mauna Kea Technologies, Paris, France; 4National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

 

 

 

Cell Labeling and Tracking: Methods and Applications

Room 4E                    Tuesday 13:30 - 15:30

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                  1864.    Optimization of a Cell Labeling Strategy for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Gunter Wolf1, Klaus Strobel2, Susanne Gruener1, Arne Koch1, Volker Hietschold3, Nasreddin Abolmaali1

1TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany; 2FZ Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany; 3University Hospital, Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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                  1865.    In Vivo MR Imaging of the Sequential Recruitment of Macrophages to the Soft Tissue Infection

Jin Seong Lee1, Hee Jung Kang2, Heun-Don Jung3, Keun Ho Lim3, Sang Tae Kim3, Tae-Hwan Lim1

1University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 2Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 3University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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                  1866.    Cellular Imaging of Rat Aortic Endothelial Cell Monolayer Using a 3T Whole Body Scanner

Frank Seifert1, Isabela Schmitt-Knosalla2, Martina Seifert2

1Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany; 2Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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                  1867.    Developing Magnetocapsules for Immunoprotection and MR Tracking of Pancreatic Islets
                                Using Clinically Approved Materials

Brad P. Barnett1, Piotr Walczak1, Wesley Gilson1, Assaf A. Gilad1, Jesus Ruiz-Cabello1, Carolyn Lauzon1,

Dara L. Kraitchman1, Matthias Stuber1, Aravind Arepally1, Jeff WM Bulte1

1Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1868.    Antibody Mediated Cell Labeling of Peripheral T Cells with Micron Sized Iron Oxide Particles (MPIOs)
                                Allows Single Cell Detection by MRI

Erik M. Shapiro1, 2, Laura N. Medford-Davis2, Cynthia E. Dunbar3, Alan P. Koretsky2

1New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; 2National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 3National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  1869.    Optimization of Dendritic Cell Labeling for MR Tracking After Vaccination in Cancer Patients

Pauline Verdijk1, Tom W.J. Scheenen1, Andor A. Veltien1, Jeff W.M. Bulte2, Piotr Walczak2, W. Joost Lesterhuis1,

I. Jolanda M. de Vries1, Cornelis J.A. Punt1, Arend Heerschap1, Carl G. Figdor1

1Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands; 2Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1870.    Chemical Biotinylation of Cells for Molecular Imaging and Cell Tracking

Po-Wah So1, Tammy Kalber1, Amy Heavner Herlihy1, Jimmy David Bell1

1Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UKd.

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                  1871.    In Vitro Evaluation of Cellular Engraftment Parameters of 3 Transfection Methods to Label Mouse
                                Embryonic Stem Cells Using Ferumoxides

Yoriyasu Suzuki1, Charles Henry Cunningham1, Micha Drukker1, Phillip Chung Ming Yang1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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                  1872.    Compatibility of Iron Nanoparticle-Based MRI Cell Tracking and 31P MRS Bioenergetic Measurements

Zhuoli Zhang1, Kenneth W. Fishbein1, Chiara Dell'Agnola1, Steven J. Sollott1, Kenneth R. Boheler1, Magdalena Juhaszova1, Edward G. Lakatta1, Richard G. Spencer1

1National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1873.    In Situ and In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Iron Labelled Dendritic Cells in the Mouse

Andreas Hess1, Dirk Baumjohann2, Manfred B. Lutz2, Kay Brune3, Lubos Budinsky1

1Institute of Pharmacology, FAU, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; 2University Medical Center, Dep. Dermatology, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; 3Doerenkamp Professorship for Innovations in Animal and Consumer Protection, FAU, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

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                  1874.    MRI Tracking of Migration of Bone Marrow Cells to the Sites of Injured Arteries

Bensheng Qiu1, Fabao Gao1, Sourav Kar1, Jiangyang Zhang1, Piotr Walczak1, Malika Larabi1, Rong Xue1,

Emma Frost1, Zhiping Qian1, Jeff WM Bulte1, Xiaoming Yang1

1Johns Hopkins Univ School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1875.    Temporal Monitoring of an SPIO Labeled, Optically Traceable Tumor Mouse Model

Daniel A. Herzka1, Jade Quijano2, Terence Wong2, Wei Liu1, Jianwu Xie2, King C. Li2

1Philips Research North America, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USAText Box:  

 

                  1876.    The Efficacy of SPIO-Enhanced MRI in Evaluating Inflammatory Pseudotumors:
                                Imaging and Histopathological Correlation

Yasutaka Kawamura1, Makoto Ishida1, Akio Yamaguchi1, Harumi Itoh1

1University of Fukui Hospital, Fukui, JapanText Box:  

 

                  1877.    In Vivo Tracking of Endothelial Progenitor Cells in a Mouse Model of Choroidal Neovascularization

Sergio Li Calzi1, Kyung-Hee Chang1, Kyle Padgett1, Aqeela Afzal1, Lynn C. Shaw1, Maria B. Grant1, John R. Forder1

1University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

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                  1878.    Long Term MR Signal Characteristics of Ferucarbotran-Labeled Mesenchymal Stem Cells:
                                Discrimination of Intra- And Extracellular Iron Oxides Before and After Cell Lysis

Tobias Daniel Henning1, Jan S. Bauer1, Thomas Frenzel2, Elizabeth J. Sutton1, Yanjun Fu1, Heike E. Daldrup-Link1

1UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; 2Schering AG, Berlin, Germany

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                  1879.    Single Cell MRI with FIESTA: Quantitative Benefits of 3T Vs 1.5T

Soha Ramadan1, Chris Heyn1, Brian K. Rutt1, Paula Foster1

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                  1880.    MR Microscopy of Multipotent Astrocytic Stem Cells Labeled with Multimodal Qdots
                                Applied to a Neonatal Murine Model of Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy

Samuel Colles Grant1, 2, Tong Zheng3, 4, Gregory P. Marshall II3, 4, Heesun Yang3, Debamitra Dutta3,

Heather Cornnell3, Swadeshmukul Santra5, Paul H. Holloway3, Brij M. Moudgil3, Edward W. Scott3, 4,

Eric D. Laywell3, 4, Glenn A. Walter3, Arthur Scott Edison, 23, Dennis A. Steindler3, 4, Michael D. Weiss3

1Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA; 2National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA; 3University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; 4McKnight Brain Institute, Gainesville, Florida, USA; 5University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

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                  1881.    Imaging of Islet Transplantation in a Pre-Clinical Animal Model Using an FDA-Approved
                                Contrast Agent: In Vitro Studies

Natalia Evgenov1, John Pratt1, Zdravka Medarova1, Pamela Pantazopoulos1, Susan Bonner-Weir2, Anna Moore1

1Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; 2Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1882.    MR Characterization of Isolated Human Pancreatic Islets

Suraj Serai1, Lara Leoni2, Muhammed Haque2, Jose Oberholzer1, Richard Magin1, Brian Roman2

1University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 2University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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                  1883.    Comparison of Labeling Strategies for Stem Cells with Gd-Chelates

Tessa Geelen1, Uwe Himmelreich1, Carles Justicia1, Cordula Strecker1, Mathias Hoehn1

1Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany

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                  1884.    Positive Contrast Imaging of Iron-Oxide Labeled Human Embryonic Stem (HES) Cell and Fibroblast Using SWEET

Young Beom Kim1, Hyen Suk Kim2, Dae Kee Kwon2, Seung-Schik Yoo3, Byeong Chun Lee2, Sung Keun Kang2,

Woo Suk Hwang2, HyunWook Park1

1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; 2Seoul National University, Gwanak-Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 3Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1885.    Tuftsin-Gd-DOTA Conjugates as Potential MRI Reagents for Macrophage Imaging

Jianghua Feng1, Marco Meloni1, Stuart Allan1, Johanna Narvainen1, Stephen Faulkner1, Risto Kauppinen2

1University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; 2University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

 

 

                  1886.    A Responsive MRI Contrast Agent to Monitor Functional Cell Status: A Feasibility Study Using Dendritic Cells

Uwe Himmelreich1, Carles Justicia1, Silvio Aime2, Thomas Hieronymus3, Martin Zenke3, Mathias Hoehn1

1Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany; 2University of Torino, Torino, Italy; 3RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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                  1887.    Intracellular MR Contrast Agents Based on Cationic Cell Penetrating Peptides: A Comparative Study

Joern Engelmann1, Wu Su1, Deepti Jha1, Ritu Mishra1, Josef Pfeuffer1, 2, Kamil Ugurbil1, 3

1Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany; 3Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  1888.    A Novel Dual-Modality MRI/PET Probe

Björn Gustafsson1, Angelique Y. Louie1

1University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA

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                  1889.    Identification of the Neural Stem Cells in the Human Brain by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Louis Manganas1, Sherry Zhang1, Petar Djuric1, Mark Wagshul1, Mirjana Maletic-Savatic1

1Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USAText Box:  

 

                  1890.    Does Endocytosis of Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles by Progenitor/Stem Cells Alter 19F Relaxation at 11.7T?

Divya Venkataramani1, Junjie Chen1, Anne Morawski Neubauer1, Kathy Crowder1, Jason Brant1, Gregory M. Lanza1, Samuel A. Wickline1

1Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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                  1891.    Dual Modality Monitoring of Intracerebral Stem Cell Delivery and Distribution Following Reperfused Ischemia

Piotr Walczak1, Jian Zhang1, Assaf A. Gilad1, Dorota A. Kedziorek1, Jesus Ruiz-Cabello1, Randell G. Young2,

Mark F. Pittenger2, Peter C.M van Zijl, 13, Judy Huang1, Jeff W. Bulte1

1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 3Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1892.    Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Labelling for In Vivo Follow-Up of HRPE Cell Implants in Non-Human Primate

Joseph Flores1, Alex L. MacKay2, John R. O'Kusky3, Piotr Kozlowski2, Joseph A. Frank4, Doris J. Doudet1

1Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2High Field MRI Centre at UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 3University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 4National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  1893.    Difference in Migration Pattern of Mouse and Canine Stem Cells Detected by In Vivo MRI

Sergey Magnitsky1, Raquel M. Walton2, John H. Wolfe1, 2, Harish Poptani3

1The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; 2Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; 3The University of Pennsylvania,, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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                  1894.    In Vivo MRI Long Term Follow Up of the Iron Labelled HRPE Cells Implanted in Rat Brain

Piotr Kozlowski1, Joseph Flores2, Andrew C. Yung1, Alex L. MacKay1, Doris J. Doudet2

1High Field MRI Centre at UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2Pacific Parkinson’s Research Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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                  1895.    Endogenous Stem Cell Tracking by MRI After Local Injection of Contrast Agent

Carles Justicia1, Uwe Himmelreich1, Pedro Ramos-Cabrer1, Christiane Sprenger1, Mathias Hoehn1

1Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany

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                  1896.    IRON Imaging of Magnetoelectroporated Mesenchymal Stem Cells in a Rabbit Hindlimb Ischemia Model

Dorota Anna Kedziorek1, Wesley Gilson1, Danielle Crawford1, Matthias Stuber1, Jeff W. Bulte1, Lawrence Hofmann1, Dara L. Kraitchman1

1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

 

 

Phase Contrast and Flow Dynamics

Room 4E                    Tuesday 13:30 - 15:30

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                  1897.    Volumetric Cine Phase-Contrast MRI of the Great Vessels with PC VIPR: Initial Experience

Oliver Wieben1, Kevin M. Johnson1, Frank R. Korosec1, Charles A. Mistretta1

1University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

 

                  1898.    Variable Density Excitation Pulses in One-Shot Fourier Velocity Encoding for Valve Flow Imaging

Daeho Lee1, Julie Camille DiCarlo1, Adam Bruce Kerr1, Juan Manuel Santos1, John Mark Pauly1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 

                  1899.    High Temporal Resolution Phase Contrast MRI Using SSFP

Vinay Manjunath Pai1, Abram Voorhees1, Elizabeth Hecht1, Leon Axel1, Vivian Lee1

1New York University, New York, New York, USA

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                  1900.    Phase Contrast Imaging Using Sensitivity Encoding and Automatic Coil Sensitivity Estimation: A Feasibility Study

Per Thunberg1

1Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

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                  1901.    Transtenotic Pressure Gradient Measurements Using Phase Contrast Vastly Undersampled
                                Projection Imaging (PC-VIPR) in a Canine Model

Kevin Michael Johnson1, Aquiilla Turk1, Pat Turski1, Kari Pulfer1, David Niemann1, Chuck Mistretta1

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

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                  1902.    Self-Navigated Phase Contrast MR

Joshua F. P. van Amerom1, Jim M. Li, Jeffrey A. Stainsby2, Labonny Biswas1, Naeem Merchant,

Christopher K. Macgowan1, Marshall S. Sussman

1Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2GE Healthcare Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

                  1903.    Improved Temporal Resolution in Phase-Contrast MRI with Non-Interleaved Velocity Encodings

Craig Alan Hamilton1, Robert A. Kraft1, Ersin Bayram1, William Gregory Hundley2

1Va Tech/Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA; 2Wake Forest Univ. Health Sciences, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA

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                  1904.    Effect of Background Velocity Error on Measured Time of End-Systole in Patients with Aortic
                                Regurgitation by Phase Contrast MRI

Steven G. Lloyd1, Himanshu Gupta1

1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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                  1905.    Adaptive Navigator Gated Time-Resolved 3D MR Velocity Mapping at 3T: Assessment of
                                Normal and Pathological Vascular Anatomy and Blood Flow

Michael Markl1, Alex Frydrychowicz1, Benrd Jung1, Maxim Zaitsev1, Jürgen Hennig1

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                  1906.    Rapid Cardiovascular Flow Quantitation Using Slice-Selective Spiral Fourier Velocity Encoding

Joao Luiz Carvalho1, Krishna S. Nayak1

1University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  1907.    Validation of Phase Contrast Measurements with Combined Parallel Imaging and Partial Fourier Acquisition

Stefanie Pertschy1, Rolf Döker1, Ralph Noeske2, Dagmar Hartung1, Michael Galanski1, Joachim Lotz1

1Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany; 2GE HealthCare Technologies, Berlin, GermanyText Box:  

 

                  1908.    Phase Contrast MRI Velocimetry of a Stereolithographic Total Cavopulmonary Connection at 1.5 T and 3 T

Hiroumi D. Kitajima1, Kartik Sivaram Sundareswaran1, Thomas Zdzislaw Teisseyre1, Oskar Skrinjar1,

John N. Oshinski2, Ajit Prithiviraj Yoganathan1

1Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 2Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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                  1909.    Multi-Centre In Vivo Evaluation of MR Phase Contrast Flow Measurements

Susan Maguire1, Martin John Graves2, Karin Markenroth3, Nasreddin D. Abolmaali4

1Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; 2University of Cambridge Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK; 3Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; 4Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany

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                  1910.    Comparison of Regurgitation and Variation of In-Plane Flow Speed in Branch Pulmonary Arteries
                                After Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot : A Phase-Contrast MR Imaging Study

Sheng-Chun Niu1, 2, Cheng-Wen Ko1, 2, Ming-Ting Wu2, 3, Yi-Luan Huang2, 3, Yi-Ru Lin2, 4, Shang-Yueh Tsai2, 4

1National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 2Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 3National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; 4National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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                  1911.    4D Phase Contrast Imaging for the Assessment of Morphology and Haemodynamics in Peripheral Arteries:
                                Feasibility Results from a 3T MR System

Alex P. Frydrychowicz1, Jan Winterer1, Jürgen Hennig1, Mathias FJ Langer1, Michael Markl1

1University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, GermanyText Box:  

 

                  1912.    Predicting SFA Stenosis Severity with Cine PC Flow Measurements During Suprasystolic Thigh Compression

Honglei Zhang1, Kiyarash Mohajer1, Bernard Ho1, Martin R. Prince1

1Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA

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                  1913.    Superficial Femoral Artery Occlusive Disease Severity Correlates with MR Cine Phase
                                Contrast Flow Measurements

Honglei Zhang1, Kiyarash Mohajer1, Daniel Gurell1, Hale Ersoy1, Bernard Ho1, K Craig Kent1, Martin R. Prince1, 2

1Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA; 2Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA

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                  1914.    A Noninvasive Technique to Evaluate Intracranial Compliance and Pressure Using MR Flow
                                Quantification and Inverse Circuit Analysis

Kagayaki Kuroda1, 2, Takaomi Kanno1, Kosuke Maruhashi1, Yoichi Tanabe1, Koichi Oshio3, Masatoshi Honda4,

Isao Muro4, Mitsunori Matsumae5

1Graduate School of Engineering, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan; 2Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; 3School of Medicine, Keio University, Shinanomachi, Tokyo, Japan; 4Tokai University Hospital, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan; 5School of Medicine, Tokai University, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan

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                  1915.    A New Method for the Determination of Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity

Jamie Harle1, Martin John Graves1, Ian B. Wilkinson1, Simon Howarth1, Jonathan H. Gillard1

1University of Cambridge Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

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                  1916.    Assessment of the Wall Shear Stress (WSS) of the Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Using
                                Time-Resolved Three-Dimensional Phase-Contrast MRI (4D-Flow) and a New WSS Mapping Application (Flova)

Yasuo Takehara1, Haruo Isoda1, Shuhei Yamashita1, Hiroyasu Takeda1, Yasuhide Ohkura2, Takashi Kosugi2,

Masaya Hirano3, Marcus T. Alley4, Michael Markl5, Norbert Pelc4, Harumi Sakahara1

1Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan; 2Renaissance of Technology Corporation, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan; 3GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Hino, Tokyo, Japan; 4Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; 5University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Barden-Wuerttemberg, German

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                  1917.    Hemodynamics in the Aorta and Coronary Arteries:  a Study with MRI and CFD

John N. Oshinski1, Suo Jin2, Don P. Giddens2

1Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 2Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USAText Box:  

 

                  1918.    Visualization of Hemodynamics at the Carotid Bifurcation with MR Imaging:
                                Cine Vector Representation of Blood Flow Using PC MRA

Takashi Ishimori1, Reiko Seo2, Satoru Nakano3, Toshiaki Kusuhara1, Motoomi Ohkawa1, Yuichi Yamashita4,

Satoshi Sugiura4

1Faculty of Medicine,Kagawa University, Kita, Kagawa, Japan; 2Kagawa Rosai Hospital, Marugame, Kagawa, Japan; 3Kurihara Central Hospital, Kurihara, Miyagi, Japan; 4Toshiba Medical Systems, Otawara, Tochigi, Japan

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                  1919.    Comparing Steady and Pulsatile LDV and PC-MRA Flow Measurements in an Anatomically
                                Accurate Cerebral Artery Aneurysm Model

Dorothea Ilse Hollnagel1, Paul E. Summers2, Spyros S. Kollias3, Dimos Poulikakos1

1ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 3University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

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                  1920.    The Impact of Vessel Motion and Flow Variability on MR-Based Wall Shear Rate Measurement
                                in the Carotid Artery

Sheng-ping Wu1, Osama Al-Kwifi2, Joshua van Amerom1, Graham A. Wright2, Christopher K. Macgowan1

1The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

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                  1921.    Application of Fourier-Based Phase Unwrapping Algorithm for MR-Venography

Hassan Bagher-Ebadian1, Quan Jiang1, James R. Ewing1, 2

1Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA; 2Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

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                  1922.    Free Breathing MR Flow Measurments in Infants and Young Children with Ventricular Septal Defects:
                                Physiological Aspects and Comparison to Invasive Oximetry

Nasreddin D. Abolmaali1, Anoosh Esmaeili2, Jan Schmitt3, Matthias Heller4, Mirko Schiemann4, Arne Koch1,

Thomas J. Vogl4

1Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany; 2JW Goethe University, Dresden, Germany; 3Winterberg, Saarbruecken, Germany; 4JW Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

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                  1923.    Variable-Density Spiral Imaging for Real-Time Color Flow Cardiac MRI at 3T

Chia-Ying Liu1, Krishna Nayak2

1Uinversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2University of Southern Calofornia, Los Angeles, California, USAText Box:  

 

                  1924.    CSF Flow in the Aqueduct and Skull Base as a Function of Heart Rate

Mario Forjaz Secca1, 2, Júlia Duarte2, 3, José Luis Ferreira1, Augusto Goulão2, 3, Pedro Vilela3

1Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal; 2Ressonância Magnética de Caselas, Lisboa, Portugal; 3H. Garcia D’Orta, Almada, PortugalText Box:  

 

                  1925.    Implementation, Validation, and Application of Cine PCMRI for Quantifying Blood Flow in
                                Small Animal Models of Cardiovascular Disease

Joan M. Greve1, Mary T. Draney1, Andrea S. Les1, Nathan Wilson1, Norbert J. Pelc1, Charles A. Taylor1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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                  1926.    Hemodynamics in the Mouse Aorta - A Combined MRI US and CFD Study

Akiva Feintuch1, Yuqing q. Zhou1, Jonathan Bishop1, Lorinda Davidson1, C. Ross Ethier2, R. Mark Henkelman1, 2

1Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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                  1927.    Tracking Micron Sized Particles as a Means to Validate Bacterial Motion in Flowing Tubes

Hari Prashanth Ramnath1, Yimin Shen1, Yu Chung Norman Cheng1, Chung- Chu Chen1, Joseph Smolinski1,

Ewart Mark Haacke1, Gregory William Auner1

1Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

 

MRA

Room 4E                    Tuesday 13:30 - 15:30

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                  1928.    Selective Visualization of Blood Flow Using SSFP Non-Contrast MRA with Time-Spatial Labeling Inversion Plus

Yuichi Yamashita1, Takao Yamamoto1, Mie Suzuki1, Ayako Ninomiya1, Ikuo Aoki1, Masao Yui2

1Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; 2Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Nasu, Tochigi, Japan

 

                  1929.    Fresh Blood Imaging (FBI) of Peripheral Arteries: Comparison with 16-Detector Row CT Angiography

Katsumi Nakamura1, Kiyomi Kuroki1, Akiyoshi Yamamoto1, Akihiro Hiramine1, Mitsue Miyazaki2, Yuka Matsufuji3

1Tobata Kyoritsu Hospital, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan; 2Toshiba America Medical Systems, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA; 3Toshiba Medical Systems Co., Fukuoka, Japan

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                  1930.    Scoutless Abdominal Angiography at 3 Tesla with Two-Dimensional Acceleration

Andres Carrillo1, Ajit Shankaranarayanan2, David Gurr3, Theodore Steger3, Wei Li4, 5, Eugene Dunkle4,

Robert Edelman4, 5

1GE Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA; 2GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; 3GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; 4Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA; 5Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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                  1931.    Reduced Acquisition Window with Parallel Technique Improves Non Contrast 3D HASTE MRA Imaging

 

Jian Xu1, Niels Oesingmann1, Alto Stemmer2, Kellyanne McGorty3, Elizabeth Hecht3, Ruth P. Lim3, Qun Chen3,

Bernd Stoeckel1, Vivian S. Lee3

1Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., New York, New York, USA; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 3New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

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                  1932.    Flow Preparation Pulse for Abdominal Non-Contrast-Enhanced MRA

Mitsuharu Miyoshi1, Tetsuji Tsukamoto1

1GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

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                  1933.    Feasibility of Quantitative Analysis of Non-Contrast-Enhanced MRDSA Using ECG-Gated
                                Two-Dimensional Half-Fourier FSE for the Assessment of Peripheral Vascular Diseases

 

Katsumi Nakamura1, Akiyoshi Yamamoto1, Kiyomi Kuroki1, Akihiro Hiramine1, Mitsue Miyazaki2, Yuka Matsufuji3

1Tobata Kyoritsu Hospital, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan; 2Toshiba America Medical Systems, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA; 3Toshiba Medical Systems Co., Fukuoka, Japan

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                  1934.    Phase-Adjusted Fresh Blood Imaging (PA-FBI) as a Non-Contrast Peripheral MRA Technique

Mitsue Miyazaki1, 2, Hitoshi Kanazawa2, Nobuyasu Ichinose2, Yoshio Machida2, Yoshimori Kassai2, Takashi Okigawa3, Youhei Nomitsu3, Hirofumi Wada3, Joji Urata3

1Toshiba America Medical Systems, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA; 2Toshiba Medical Systems Corp., Otawara, Tochigi, Japan; 3Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

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                  1935.    Non-Contrast MR Angiography of the Heart and Great Vessels Using SSFP with Non-Selective Excitation

Vibhas S. Deshpande1, Mayil S. Krishnam2, Stefan G. Ruehm2, John Paul Finn2, Gerhard A. Laub1

1Siemens Medical Solutions, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  1936.    Non- Contrast- Enhanced 3D SSFP Versus Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography for Imaging
                                of Heart and Great Arteries in the Chest: Initial Experience

Mayil S. Krishnam1, Vibhas S. Deshpande2, Kambiz Nael1, Gerhard A. Laub2, John P. Finn1, Stefan G. Ruehm1

1UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  1937.    Technologic Optimization of Noncontrast Magnetic Resonance Pulmonary Angiography

Gopi Sirineni1, Aaron Darius Cann1, Puneet Sharma1, Krishna Pottala1, Khalil Salman1, John Oshinski1,

Diego Martin1

1Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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                  1938.    Three Dimensional SSFP of Carotid Artery Disease with Diastolic Triggering

Anna Elizabeth Helen Zavodni1, Derek J. Emery1, Ashfaq Shuaib1, Alan Wilman1

1University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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                  1939.    Comparison Between Variable Rate K-Space Sampling and Sequential K-Space Acquisition with BSSFP and CMT

Randall B. Stafford1, 2, Mohammad Sabati1, 2, M Louis Lauzon1, 2, Houman Mahallati1, 2, Richard Frayne1, 2

1University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; 2Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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                  1940.    Flow Independent Angiography at 3.0T with Dual-Acquisition Balanced SSFP and Multi-Echo IDEAL

Brian A. Hargreaves1, Scott B. Reeder2, Huanzhou Yu3, Ann Shimakawa3, Jean H. Brittain4

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; 3GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA;
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GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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                  1941.    Impact of Fat Saturation in Slice-Selective Inversion-Prepared 3D SSFP Renal MRA

Jan Weidner1, Marcus Katoh1, Arno Buecker1, Rolf W. Gunther1, Elmar Spuentrup1

1RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

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                  1942.    MOTSA TOF-MRA Using Multi-Oblique-Stacks Acquisition (MOSA)

Sai Kam Hui1, Jian Yang1, Shing Chung Cheung1, Ed XueKui Wu1

1The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

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                  1943.    Effects of High Field on Magnetization Prepared Angiography

Anthony G. Tessier1, Alan H. Wilman1

1University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 

                  1944.    Automatic Extraction and Matching of Neonatal Cerebral Vasculature from MRA-TOF Images

Hui Xue1, 2, Christina Malamateniou1, Joanna Allsop1, Latha Srinivasan1, Daniel Rueckert2, Jo V. Hajnal1

1Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; 2Visual Information Processing, London, UKwice.

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                  1945.    3D TOF MRA of the Intracranial Arteries: Effects of Increasing Magnetic Field to 4.7T

Amir Eissa1, Alan Wilman1

1University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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                  1946.    Dynamic Spin Labeling Thick-Slab Angiography: Off-Resonance Correction of Spiral Acquisitions
                                by Vessel-Selective B0-Fieldmapping

Carsten Warmuth1, Bernd Hamm1, Matthias Taupitz1

1Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

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                  1947.    Intracranial Aneurysms at 3.0T: Time-Of-Flight vs. Contrast Enhanced MRA Vs CTA

Kambiz Nael1, Pablo Villablanca1, Whitney Pope1, Ali Nael1, Gerhard Laub2, John Paul Finn1

1David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2Siemens, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  1948.    Segmentation of Venous Vessels Using Multi-Scale Vessel Enhancement Filtering in
                                Susceptibility Weighted Imaging

Andreas Deistung1, Marek Kocinski2, Piotr Szczypinski2, Andrzej Materka2, Jürgen R. Reichenbach1

1Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Thuringia, Germany; 2Technical University Lodz, Lodz, Poland

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                  1949.    CNR-Based Variable Resolution Reconstruction for Black Blood MRA

Prashanthi Vemuri1, Eugene G. Kholmovski1, Dennis L. Parker1

1University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

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                  1950.    Regional Cerebral Volume Flow Using Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Angiography

Meide Zhao1, 2, Sepideh Amin-Hanjani2, Sean Ruland2, Anthony P. Curcio1, Ostergren Lauren1, Fady T. Charbel2

1VasSol, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA; 2University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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                  1951.    High Resolution 2D and 3D Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Murine Carotid Arteries In Vivo

Christoph Jacoby1, Alma Zernecke2, Ulrich Flögel1, Yang Chul Böhring1, Andreas Beck1, Volker Aurich1, Christian Weber2, Jürgen Schrader1

1Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany; 2Rheinisch-Westfälisch Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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                  1952.    Gadolinium-Enhanced MR Angiography in the Evaluation of Carotid Artery Stenosis:
                                Comparison with Digital Subtraction Angiography in 238 Patients

Nicoletta Anzalone1, Guiseppe Scialfa2, Roberto Iezzi3, Siegfried A. Thurnher4, Richard Coulden5,

Gianpaolo Pirovano6

1Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; 2Hospital Niguarda ca Grande, Milan, Italy; 3Hospital SS Annunziata, Chieti, Italy; 4University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 5Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK; 6Bracco Diagnostics Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, USAText Box:  

 

                  1953.    Intra-Individual Cross-Over Blinded Dose Comparison of Single Versus Double Dose
                                of Gd-DTPA in Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Angiography of the Carotid Arteries

Johannes T. Heverhagen1, Claudia Jourdan1, Michael V. Knopp1

1The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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                  1954.    A CE-MRI Study Assssing the Uptake of Gd-DTPA and the Stability of Atheromatous
                                Tissue Within the Carotid Arteries

Aleksandra Radjenovic1, Michael J. Gough2, Cedric Abbott2, Laura A. Rhodes1, Demos Dellagrammaticas2,

Yvonne Chapman2, John P. Ridgway1, Steven Frederick Tanner1

1University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; 2Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK

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                  1955.    Free-Breathing 2D Time-Of-Flight Pulmonary MRA at 3T

Jian Yang1, Sa Kam Hui1, Ed Xuekui Wu1

1The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China

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                  1956.    Intra-Individual Comparison of 0.5 & 1.0M Contrast Agents in the Evaluation of Chronic
                                Thrombo-Embolic Pulmonary Hypertension

Neil Woodhouse1, Jim M. Wild2, Edwin J R van Beek3, Charlie Elliot4, Martyn N J Paley1, Paul D. Griffiths1,

David G. Kiely4

1University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK; 2University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yourkshire, UK; 3University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; 4Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

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                  1957.    Contrast Detection and Timing for MR Angiography with Self-Navigated DC Signal Detection

Scott Brian Reeder1, Ethan K. Brodsky1, Anja C. Brau2, Walter F. Block1, Jean H. Brittain3

1University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; 2GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; 3GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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                  1958.    Reduction of Bolus Profile Artifacts in High Resolution Contrast-Enhanced MR
                                Angiography Using CENTRA and SENSE

Gregory J. Wilson1, Jeffrey H. Maki2, 3

1Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; 2University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; 3Puget Sound VA HCS, Seattle, Washington, USA

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                  1959.    Different Injection Duration Combining with Modality of K Space Sampling: Initial Experience
                                with a 3 T Scanner

Kai Lin1, 2, Zhao-Qi Zhang2, Biao Lu2, Wei Sun3

1Beijing Institute of Heart Lung and Blood vessel diseases, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 3GE Healthcare, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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                  1960.    Peripheral MR Angiography with Gadobenate Dimeglumine: Results of a Large-Scale
                                Multi-Institutional Experience

Siegfried A. Thurnher1, Claus Claussen2, Gunther Schneider3, Claudio Ballarati4, Georg Bongartz5,

Stefan Schoenberg6, John R. Parker7, Gianpaolo Pirovano7

1University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2Eberhardt Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany; 3Homburg University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany; 4Hospital Valduce, Como, Italy; 5University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; 6Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany; 7Bracco Diagnostics Inc., Princeton, New York, USA

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                  1961.    Combining Body and Surface Coils in High Resolution

David G. Kruger1, Ananth Madhuranthakam1, Houchun Hu1, Stephen Reiderer1, James Glockner1, Jason Polzin2

1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; 2GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

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                  1962.    Contrast-Enhanced MRI of Occlusive Arterial Disease

Kevan James Thompson Anderson1, General Leung1, Nigel R. Munce1, Beiping Qiang2, Erin L. MacMillan3,

Michael V. Truong3, John J. Graham3, Alan R. Moody3, Alexander J. Dick3, Bradley H. Strauss2, Graham A. Wright1, 3

1University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 3Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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                  1963.    High-Resolution 3-D Imaging of Chronic Total Occlusions in Peripheral Vessels Using a
                                T-1 Weighted Turbo Spin Echo Sequence with Inner Volume Imaging

Smita Sampath1, Amish N. Raval2, Robert J. Lederman3, Elliot R. McVeigh1

1Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; 3Cardiovascular branch, Division of Intramural Research, NHLBI, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  1964.    Whole-Body MR Detects Unsuspected Concomitant Vascular Disease in CHD Patients

Susanne C. Ladd1, Thomas Paul1, Thomas Schlosser1, Sophia L. Goericke1, Isabel Wanke1, Elke R. Gizewski1,

Michael Forsting1

1University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

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                  1965.    Concomitant Atherosclerotic Changes in Whole-Body MR-Angiography and Coronary Calcium
                                Deposit in Patients with Catheter-Staged Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)

Katja Brauck1, Frank Breuckmann1, Joerg Barkhausen1, Susanne Ladd1

1University Hospital Essen, Essen, NRW, Germany

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                  1966.    Comprehensive Imaging with Whole Body MRI at 1.5 and 3.0 Tesla in Patients with Longstanding Diabetes

Sabine Weckbach1, Harald Kramer1, Denise Friedrich1, Klaus G. Parhofer1, Maximilian F. Reiser1, Christian Glaser1

1Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich - Grosshadern, Munich, Germany

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                  1967.    Flow-Independent Angiography of the Hand with 3D Balanced SSFP Imaging

Tolga Cukur1, Julie C. DiCarlo1, Neal K. Bangerter1, Brian A. Hargreaves1, Dwight G. Nishimura1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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                  1968.    Signal Characteristic of a 1-Molar Contrast Agent at 1.5 and 3T and Improvements with a
                                Variable TE GRE Sequence

Aurélien Fabian Stalder1, Michael Markl1, Jürgen Hennig1

1University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

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                  1969.    Diagnostic Accuracy of Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography with Various Doses of Gadobenate Dimeglumineµ

Gunter Schneider1, Riccardo Manfredi2, Luigi Grazioli3, Siegfried A. Thurner4, John R. Parker5, Gianpaolo Pirovano6

1Homburg University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany; 2Polyclinic "A. Gemelli" University Hospital, Rome, Italy; 3University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy; 4University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 5Bracco Diagnostics Inc., Princeton, New York, USA; 6Bracco Diagnostics Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, USA

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                  1970.    High Resolution Imaging and Artery-Vein Separation of Contrast-Enhanced MR
                                Angiography in the Lower Extremity Using Vasovist Blood Pool Agent

Maisie S. Wang1, David Robert Haynor1, 2, Gregory J. Wilson3, Romhild M. Hoogeveen4, Michael G. Hartmann5, Jeffrey Harold Maki1, 2

1University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; 2Puget Sound VAHCS, Seattle, Washington, USA; 3Philips Medical, Bothell, Washington, USA; 4Philips Medical, Best, Netherlands, USA; 5Epix Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1971.    Vast Reduction in Reconstruction Time of 3D Time Resolved Inhomogeneity-Corrected Spiral MRA
                                Using Parallel Computing on a 32 Node Cluster

Bryan Kressler1, 2, Pascal Spincemaille2, Martin R. Prince2, Yi Wang, 12

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

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                  1972.    Feasibility Study of a Double Self-Gating Technique for Free-Breathing Time-Resolved 3D Imaging

Peng Lai1, Andrew C. Larson1, Sonia nielles-vallespin2, Debiao Li1

1Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

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                  1973.    Motion Tracking by Constrained Reconstruction of Orthogonal Projections

Yuexi Huang1, 2,Graham Wright1, 2

1University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

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                  1974.    Extracting Quantitative Parameters from a Mathematical Model Fitted to Renal Artery Blood Flow
                                Data Obtained by Magnetic Resonance Angiography

Martin Larsson1, Anders Persson1, Per Eriksson2, Örjan Smedby1

1Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; 2Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden

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                  1975.    MRI Scanning by Remote Control

John Paul Finn1, Roya Saleh1, Stefan Thesen2, Stefan G. Ruehm3, Margaret Lee1, John Grinstead4, John Child4, Gerhard Laub5

1David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 3David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; 4Seimens Medical Solutions, Los Angeles, California, USA; 5Siemens Medical Solutions, Los Angeles, California, USA

 

 

 

Spectroscopy

Room 4E                    Tuesday 13:30 - 15:30

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                  1976.    Longitudinal Measurements of Myocardial Creatine Content in Normal and Creatine
                                Transporter Over-Expressing Mouse Hearts Using Single Voxel 1H-MRS In Vivo

Darci Phillips1, Michiel ten Hove1, Julie Wallis1, Stefan Neubauer1, Jurgen E. Schneider1

1University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxon, UK

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                  1977.    Cardioprotective Effects of a PPAR-Delta Selective Agonist (GW610742X) in a Rodent Model of
                                Congestive Heart Failure

Tom Chih-Chuang Hu1, 2, Kristeen Maniscalco2, Alan R. Olzinski2, Carolyn Williams2, Stephen C. Lenhard2,

Thomas R. Schaeffer2, Amy Grill2, Chris P. Doe2, Robert N. Willette2, Beat M. Jucker2

1Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, USA; 2GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USAText Box:  

 

                  1978.    In Vivo 2D Mapping of Cardiac High Energy Phosphates in the Mouse

Ulrich Flögel1, Christoph Jacoby1, Axel Gödecke1, Jürgen Schrader1

1Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany

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                  1979.    Metabolic Imaging of Healthy and Infarcted Myocardium Using 31P Chemical
                                Shift Imaging with Spatial Saturation Pulses

Oliver Geier1, Meinrad Beer2, Jan Ruff3, Wolfram Machann2, Dietbert Hahn2, Matthias Spindler2, Herbert Köstler2

1Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; 2Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; 3Siemens AG Med, Erlangen, Germany

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                  1980.    Efficient Quantitative 23Na Concentrations of Fast and Slow T2 Components in the Human Heart
                                Using UTE-CSI and the Blood Pool as a Reference

Matthew D. Robson1, Damian J. Tyler1, Joseph B. Selvanayagam1, Jane M. Francis1, Stefan Neubauer1

1Oxford University, Oxford, UK

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                  1981.    The Intra- Versus Extracellular Myocardial Tissue Sodium Contents in the Time Course of Infarct Healing

Hanns Hillenbrand1, Reza Kharrazian1, Sebastian Hagelauer1, Kai Hu1, Frank Wiesmann1, Elsbeth Fekete1,

Lisa Bauer1, Georg Ertl1, Peter Jakob1, Wolfgang Bauer1

1Würzburg University, Würzburg, Germany

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                  1982.    1H NMR Diffusion Spectroscopy of Oxymyoglobin in Perfused Rat Heart

Ping-Chang Lin1, Ulrike Kreutzer1, Thomas Jue1

1University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA

 

 

 

 

MRS of Cells, Body Fluids, and Others

Room 4E                    Tuesday 13:30 - 15:30

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                  1983.    Insulin Release and Energetic Changes in INS-1 Cell Bioreactors in Response to Glucose Challenge

Robert Woodbury Wiseman1, Brian Andrew Bieber1, Lawrence Karl Olson1, Kenneth A. Krohn2

1Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; 2University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

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                  1984.    Across Species Metabonomics: Identification of Common Spectral Changes in Mouse
                                and Hamster Urine, Caused by Parasite Infection

Radka Stoyanova1, Shuyan Du2, Yulan Wang3, Qi Zhao2, Elaine Holmes3, Juerg Utzinger4, Paul Sajda2,

Truman R. Brown2

1Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; 2Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; 3Imperial College, London, UK; 4Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

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                  1985.    Software Tool for Comprehensive Assessment and Interpretation of Metabolomic Data

Qi Zhao1, Radka Stoyanova2, Shuyan Du1, Paul Sajda1, Truman R. Brown1

1Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; 2Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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                  1986.    High-Resolution 1H NMR Spectroscopy Reveals Differences in CSF Metabolic Profiles
                                for MS Patients with Inflammatory vs. Non-Inflammatory Plaques

Norbert W. Lutz1, Angele Viola1, Irina Malikova1, Sylviane Confort-Gouny1, Jean-Philippe Ranjeva1, Jean Pelletier1, Patrick J. Cozzone1

1School of Medicine, Marseille, France

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                  1987.    A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Technique for Evaluating Lung Preservation Strategies

Tian-Teng He1, Matthias Peltz1, Robert Y. Chao1, Michael Erik Jessen1, Dan Marshall Meyer1

1University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

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                  1988.    A Metabolomics Study of Necorosis in Sarcoma Using 1H HR-MAS NMR Spectroscopy

Jin-Hong Chen1, Rachael B. O’Connor1, Penelope DeCarolis1, Yuhsin V. Wu1, Rula C. Geha1, Samuel Singer1

1Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USAText Box:  

 

                  1989.    Evaluation of Human Prostate Tissue Metabolites with HRMAS 1HNMR After Three-Year Storage at -80ºC

Kate Weymouth Jordan1, Leo Ling Cheng1

1Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USAText Box:  

 

                  1990.    Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of a Glioma Spheriod in a Collagen I Matrix

Shuning Huang1, David Vader2, David A. Weitz2, Gangping Dai, Bruce R. Rosen1, Thomas S. Deisboeck1, 2

1MIT/MGH, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 2Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1991.    Diagnosis of Escherichia Coli Induced Urinary Tract Infection by NMR

Ashish Gupta1, 2, Mayank Dwivedi3, G. A. Nagana Gowda1, Abbas Ali Mehdi2, Raja Roy4, Amita Jain5,

Mahendra Bhandari6, C. L. Khetrapal1

1Centre of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 2King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 3Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 4Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 5Department of Microbiology, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 6King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaText Box:  

 

                  1992.    In-Vitro NMR Studies of Echovirus 11 Infection in RD Human Cells

Syed Naved Akhtar1, Rishi Kumar Singh2, Y Jadegoud1, G. A. Nagana Gowda1, T N. Dhole2, Archana Ayyagari2, Mahendra Bhandari3, C. L. Khetrapal1

1Centre of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 2Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 3King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

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                  1993.    Quantitative Evaluation of 31P MRS of Tissue Samples Using Magic Angle Spinning

Geoffrey S. Payne1, Helen Troy2, John R. Griffiths2, Martin O. Leach1, Yuen-Li Chung2

1Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK; 2St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK

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                  1994.    Determination of 13C Labeling Rates in Fatty Acyl Groups from [1,6-13C2]Glucose in Human Glioma Cells

Anthony Mancuso1, Ralph J. DeBerardinis, 1,2, Craig B. Thompson1

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

 

                  1995.    Detection of Liposomal Uptake to Ovarian Cancer Cells Using 1H MR Spectroscopy

Yah-el Har-el1, Kristine Glunde1, George Sgouros1

1Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1996.    VEGF Overexpression Combined with Hypoxia is Associated with Increased Invasion
                                and Changed Cellular Metabolism in a Human Prostate Cancer Cell Line

Ellen Ackerstaff1, Dmitri Artemov1, Flonné Wildes1, Venu Raman1, Zaver M. Bhujwalla1

1Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1997.    Evaluation of In-Vitro NMR Spectroscopy in Detecting  Metastasis in Axillary Nodes in
                                Breast Cancer in a Clinical Setting

N R. Jagannathan1, Uma Sharma1, M N. Pavan Kumar1, V Seenu1

1All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India

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                  1998.    1H-MRS and Metabolomics for Diagnostic Activity Assessment of Hydatid Cysts
                                of the Parasite Echinococcus Granulosus

William E. Hull1, Waldemar Hosch2, Thomas Junghanss2, Guenther W. Kauffmann2

1German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; 2University Clinic, Heidelberg, Germany

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                  1999.    The Hepatoprotective Effect of N-Acetylcysteine in Acetaminophen Intoxication is
                                Due to Early Glutathione Replenishment Via Stimulation of Anaplerotic Mechanisms

Tom Chan1, Valerie-Ann Raymond1, Marc Bilodeau1, Dieter Leibfritz2, Claudia Zwingmann1, 2

1Hospital Saint-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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                  2000.    13C and 31P NMR Spectroscopy in Perfused Mouse Liver: A Robust Functional Assay
                                for the Assessment of Glucagon Receptor Antagonists

Corin O'Dell Miller1, Haiying Liu1, Joseph Leslie Duffy1, Emma R. Parmee1, Bei Betty Zhang1

1Merck, Rahway, New Jersey, USA

 

Microscopy

Room 4E                    Tuesday 13:30 - 15:30

 

                  2001.    21 Tesla Micro-MRI of Rat Skin

Rakesh Sharma1, Bruce R. Locke1

1Florida State University, Tallahasee, Florida, USA

 

                  2002.    A Modified Golgi Impregnation Method for InVitro MR Microscopy

Xiaowei Zhang1, Russell E. Jacobs1

1California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

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                  2003.    Multiple Mouse Cardiac Imaging

Jonathan Bishop1, Akiva Feintuch1, Nicholas Bock1, Brian Nieman1, Jun Dazai1, Lori Davidson1,

R. Mark Henkelman1, 2

1Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada; 2University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canad

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                  2004.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Standard CMOS RF Coil

Edzer Lienson Wu1, Tao Wang1, Jyh-Horng Chen1, Shey-Shi Lu1

1National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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                  2005.    Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of a Mouse Model of Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder:
                                Role of D4 Dopamine Receptors

Yu Ma1, Patrick R. Hof2, Samuel Colles Grant3, Stephen J. Blackband4, Hai-Dee Lee1, Rubinstein Marcelo5,

Helene Benveniste1

1Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA; 2Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA; 3Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA; 4University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; 5University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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                  2006.    High-Field Parallel NMR-Microscopy in Small Animals

Sascha Köhler1, Peter Ullmann2, Sven Junge1, Markus Wick1, Franek Hennel1, Felix Breuer3, Peter M. Jakob3, Wolfgang Ruhm1

1Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany; 2Medical Physics, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany; 3University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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                  2007.    Distinctions Between Islet and Acinar Cells in Mammalian Pancreatic Tissue Using High Field MR Microscopy

Samuel Colles Grant1, 2, Nicholas Edward Simpson3, Sally Ann Litherland3, Stephen John Blackband, 23,

Ioannis Constantinidis3

1Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA; 2National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA; 3University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

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                  2008.    In Vivo 4D Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of Neurulation and Somitogenesis in Amphibian Embryos

Julian Michael Tyszka1, Yun Kee1, Russell E. Jacobs1, Marianne Bronner-Fraser1, Scott E. Fraser1

1California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

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                  2009.    Imaging Optimization for In-Vivo Human Micro Imaging at 7T

Hiroyuki Kabasawa1, 2, Akira Nabetani1, 2, Hitoshi Matsuzawa2, Tsutomu Nakada2

1GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Hino-shi, Tokyo, Japan; 2University of Niigata, Niigata-shi, Niigata, Japan

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                  2010.    High Throughput Microimaging of the Mouse Brain

R. Mark Henkelman1, Jun Dazai1, Nir Lifshitz1, Brian J. Nieman1, Shoshana Tsatskis1, Jason Lerch1, Jonathan Bishop1, Shoan Kale1, John G. Sled1, X. Josette Chen1

1Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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                  2011.    Passive Staining: A Novel Procedure for 3D MR Histology -
                                Description and Application to the Characterization of Cerebral Anomalies in Doublecortin Knockout Mice

Marc Dhenain1, 2, Fiona Francis3, Caroline Kappeler3, Yoann Saillour3, Christine Walczak2, Andreas Volk2

1CEA-CNRS URA 2210, Orsay, France; 2Curie Institute, Orsay, France; 3Cochin Institute, Paris, France

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                  2012.    Automated Registration of Histology Sections with Ex-Vivo MRM Volumes

Alize E.H. Scheenstra1, Jouke Dijkstra1, Rob C.G. van de Ven1, Louise van der Weerd1, Johan H.C. Reiber1

1LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands

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                  2013.    NMR Microscopy of Dental Biofilm Metabolism

Paul D. Majors1, Jeffrey S. McLean1, Robert A. Wind1

1Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA

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                  2014.    Staining Methods for Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of the Rat Embryo

Alexandra Petiet1, Laurence W. Hedlund1, G. Allan Johnson1

1Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USAText Box:  

 

                  2015.    To Cool or Not to Cool: The Question for Skin Microscopy Receive Coils

Julie Camille DiCarlo1, Greig C. Scott1, Steven M. Conolly2, Bob S. Hu3, Dwight George Nishimura1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA; 3Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, California, USA

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                  2016.    Spatial-Spectral Holographic Interpretation of High Field  MR Imaging : Analysis,
                                Implications and Experiments at 7T

Andrew Jeremy M. Kiruluta1, 2

1MGH, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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                  2017.    MR Microscopy of Chemically Fixed Human Embryos with a Large Image Matrix

Yosuke Otake1, Shinya Handa1, Katsumi Kose1, Kouhei Shiota2, Shigeto Yamada2

1University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; 2Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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                  2018.    A Novel Autocorrelation Method for Measuring the Thickness Anisotropy Tensor of Trabecular Bone

Branimir Vasilic1, Felix W. Wehrli1

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

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                  2019.    Bi-Exponential Characterization of T2 Relaxation Decay in an Engineered Osteogenic Tissue Model

Huihui Xu1, Shadi F. Othman1, Liu hong1, Richard L. Magin1

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

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                  2020.    Comparison of Contrast-To-Noise Ratio for In Vivo Mouse Brain Imaging at 3T and 7T
                                Under Nearly Identical Scanner Configurations

Mark William DiFrancesco1, Weihong Yuan1, Ronald Pratt1, Scott Dunn1, Bernard J. Dardzinski1, Scott K. Holland1

1Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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                  2021.    High Resolution 3D Brain MR-Elastography

Michael A. Green1, Ralph Sinkus2, Lynne E. Bilston1, 3

1Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; 2ESPCI, Paris, France; 3UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia

 

 

 

Transmitters and Receivers

Room 4E                    Tuesday 13:30 - 15:30

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                  2022.    Designing a Transmitter and Receiver for Use in Strong Magnetic Fields

David Ian Hoult1, Glen Kolansky1, Dennis Kripiakevitch1

1National Research Council Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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                  2023.    Shading Reduction at 3.0T Using an Elliptical Drive

Daniel Weyers1, Graeme McKinnon1, Ricardo Becerra1, Susan Mathew1, Michael Edwards1

1GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2024.    Using a Mode Concept to Reduce Hardware Needs for Multichannel Transmit Array

Markus Vester1, Jürgen Nistler1, Ralph Oppelt2, Wolfgang Renz1

1Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 2Siemens CT, Erlangen, Germany

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                  2025.    Characterization of Receiver Demodulation for Correcting Off-Axis MR Imaging Degradation

Youngkyoo Jung1, Yogesh Jashnani1, Richard Kijowski1, Walter F. Block1

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

 

                  2026.    A Low Input Impedance MRI Preamplifier Using a Purely Capacitive Feedback Network

Ralph Oppelt1, Markus Vester1

1Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany

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                  2027.    Direct MRI Detection at 3T Using an FPGA-Controlled High-Speed Digital Receiver

Andrzej Jesmanowicz1, James S. Hyde1

1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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                  2028.    An RF Small Signal Unit Optimized for a 7T Multinuclear MR System

Jan Bollenbeck1, Ralph Oppelt2, Horst Kroeckel1, Philipp Hoecht1, Wilfried Schnell1

1Siemens AG Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; 2Siemens AG Corporate Technology, Erlangen, Germany

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                  2029.    A Solution for the Dynamic Range Problem by Means of a Parallel Image Acquisition

Yosuke Otake1, Katsumi Kose1, Tomoyuki Haishi2

1University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; 2MRTechnology Inc., Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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                  2030.    16-Channel Interface Boxes for Adaptable MRI Array Systems

Nicola De Zanche1, Jurek A. Massner1, Christoph Leussler2, Klaas Paul Pruessmann1

1University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, GermanyText Box:  

 

                  2031.    Noise Figure and Dynamic Range Optimization in Optical Links for MRI Applications

Jing Yuan1, Peng Qu1, Juan Wei1, Gary X. Shen1

1The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

 

 

 

MR Safety, Bioeffects, and Acoustic Noise

Room 4E                    Tuesday 13:30 - 15:30

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                  2032.    Modal Analysis of a Single-Layered Gradient Coil Insert for a 4T MRI

Chris Mechefske1, Wang Fenglin1, Carl Gazdzinski2, Brian Rutt2

1Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; 2Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada

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                  2033.    Construction and Validation of a Probe for Electric Field Measurements in Gradient Coils

Rebecca Emily Feldman1, Timothy J. Scholl1, Blaine Alexander Chronik1

1University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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                  2034.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Neurostimulation Systems

Vicente Martinez Sanjuan1, Vicente Hervas Briz2, Juan Carlos Valia, German Cerda Olmedo, Carolina Quiroz,

Juan Carlos Quiles Teodoro3, Federico Mata Escolano4, Elsa Alonso, Adela Batista, Luis Garcia Ferrer,

Julian Celma Marin

1Ersa- Hospital General Universitario Valencia, Valencia, Spain; 2Hospital General Univeristario Valencia, Valencia, Spain; 3Eresa-Hospital General Universitario Valencia, Valencia, Spain; 4Eresa-Hospital General Universitario De Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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                  2035.    Differences in RF-Induced Heating Per Unit of SAR of a Deep Brain Stimulation Implant Across Two MR Systems

Jean Adelaide Tkach1, Kenneth B. Baker2, Ali R. Rezai2

1University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; 2Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  2036.    RF-Heating Effects on Coated Wires and Pacemaker Leads at 1.5T and 3.0T

Roger Luechinger1, Volkert A. Zeijlemaker2, Firat Duru3, Peter Boesiger1

1Institute for Biomedical Engineering University and ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; 2Bakken Research Center, Maastricht, Netherlands; 3University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

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                  2037.    Reducing and Monitoring Resonant Heating in MR Guidewires

Ross Venook1, William Overall1, Scott Smith2, John Pauly1, Greig Scott1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2Boston Scientific, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

 

                  2038.    Effect of Transmit Array Phase Relationship on Local Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)

Leonardo M. Angelone1, 2, Nikos Makris2, Christos Vasios2, Lawrence Wald2, Giorgio Bonmassar2

1Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA; 2Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

 

                  2039.    Simultaneous B1+ Homogenisation and SAR Hotspot Suppression by a Phased Array MR Transmit Coil

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

1University Medical Centre, Utrecht, NetherlandsText Box:  

 

                  2040.    The Effect of Body Size and Shape on RF Safety and B1 Field Homogeneity at 3T

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

1University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands

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                  2041.    Safety Considerations Concerning SAR During RF Amplifier Malfunctions in Parallel Transmission

Ingmar Graesslin1, Konstantinos Falaggis1, Peter Vernickel2, Peter Röschmann1, Christoph Leussler1, Zhiyong Zhai3, Michael Morich3, Ulrich Katscher1

1Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; 2TuTech Innovation, Hamburg, Germany; 3Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  2042.    Minimizing Power of RF Pulse by Genetic Algorithm

Yong Pang1, Chun Sheng Wang1, Gary X. Shen1

1University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China.

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                  2043.    Measuring Local RF Heating in MRI: Simulating Perfusion in a Perfusionless Phantom

Imran Akca1, Tonguc Onur Tasci1, Onur Ferhanoglu1, Didem Bacanli2, Christopher Yeung3, Ergin Atalar1, 4

1Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey; 2Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey; 3National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 4Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  2044.    Calculated Local and Average SAR in Comparison with Regulatory Limits

Christopher M. Collins1, Weihua Mao1, Wanzhan Liu2, Michael B. Smith1

1Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  2045.    Evaluating Radio Frequency Heating of Vascular Stents at 3 Tesla Using a Gel Phantom

Nikolaus M. Szeverenyi1, John J. Wasenko1, David H. Feiglin1

1SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA.

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                  2046.    Vibro-Acoustic Analysis of Acoustic Liners for MRI Scanners

Chris Mechefske1, Wie Shao1, Brian Rutt2

1Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; 2Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada

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                  2047.    Reduction of the Acoustic Noise of a Siemens 7 Tesla Scanner

Joerg Stadler1, Peter Dietz2, Frank Baumgart1, Andre Brechmann1

1Leibniz Inst. f. Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany; 2Simenes AG Medical Soulutions, Erlangen, Germany

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                  2048.    Method for Reducing Gradient Acoustic Noise for an MR Sequence

Labros S. Petropoulos1, 2, Paul Margosian1, David Lampman1, Victor Taracila2, Robert W. Brown2

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

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                  2049.    Simulation Study of Active Noise Control in a 4T MRI Scanner

Mingfeng Li1, Teik C. Lim1, Jing-Huei Lee1

1University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USAText Box:  

 

                  2050.    Static B0 Field Monitoring at 3 T and 7 T: An MRI Dosemeter

Ian D. Cavin1, Jasbinder Chauhan1, Robert Chettle1, Ian Taylor1, Mohamed Henini1, Paul M. Glover1,

Penny A. Gowland1, Richard W. Bowtell1

1University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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                  2051.    A Static Magnetic Field of an MR Scanner Modulates Brain Activity

Toru Yamamoto1, Atsuhito Toyomaki2

1Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; 2Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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                  2052.    Thresholds for Perceiving a Metallic Taste at Large Magnetic Field

Ian D. Cavin1, Paul M. Glover1, Richard W. Bowtell1, Penny A. Gowland1

1University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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                  2053.    Mechanisms for Vertigo Experienced by Subjects in a High Field Environment: Hypotheses and Experiments

Paul M. Glover1, Penny A. Gowland1, Richard W. Bowtell1, Ian Cavin1

1Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK

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                  2054.    Improving Patient Monitoring During Magnetic Resonance Imaging:
                                Real-Time Restoration and Analysis of the Electrocardiogram

Roger Abächerli1, 2, Remo Leber2, Sven Hornaff2, Cédric Pasquier1, Freddy Odille1, Pierre-André Vuissoz1,

Michel Kraemer3, Jean-Jacques Schmid2, Jacques Felblinger1

1IADI INSERM (ERI 13), Nancy, Lorraine, France; 2Schiller AG, Baar, Zug, Switzerland; 3Schiller Médical, Wissembourg, Alsace, France

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                  2055.    Intracranial EEG in a High-Field MRI Environment:  Safety Evaluation

Shannon M. Boucousis1, Paolo Federico1, Bradley Gordon Goodyear1

1University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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                  2056.    Discrepancy Between Peripheral Nerve Chronaxie Times as Measured Using Electric and Magnetic Stimuli

Bryan James Recoskie1, Tim James Scholl1, Christopher M. Collins2, Blaine Alexander Chronik1

1University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 2The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USAText Box:  

 

                  2057.    MRI Based Measurement of Magnetic Field Distribution Generated by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Coils

Sangwoo Lee1, Luis Hernandez-Garcia1, William Grissom1

1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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                  2058.    Thermoelastic Pressure Waves Induced Inside the Human Head by RF Pulses from High Pass Birdcage Coils

Zhangwei Wang1, James C. Lin2

1Penn State College of Medicine,, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; 2University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA