Joint Annual Meeting

ISMRM-ESMRMB

2007

2007 PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Recorded Presentations Available to Meeting Attendees and ISMRM/SMRT Members

Friday, 18 May Tuesday, 22 May
Saturday, 19 May Wednesday, 23 May
Sunday, 20 May Thursday, 24 May
Monday, 21 May Friday, 25 May

FRIDAY
18 May 2007
 
Registration Opens
14:00 - 20:00


SATURDAY
19 MAY 2007
 

Body MRI by
the Experts
Day 1


08:30 - 12:30
Pediatric MR Update

08:30 - 12:30
MRS in Clinical Practice
 
Cardiovascular MRI: From Principles to Protocols
 
MR Physics for Physicists
Day 1

 
fMRI: From Basics to Cutting Edge
 
Diffusion MRI - The Methods
 
Foundations of Quantitative Imaging and Data Analysis Day 1
 
MR Interventions A Hands-on Approach

13:00 - 17:00
Musculoskeletal Imaging
Day 1


14:00 - 18:00
Stage Hall Hall 4/5 Hall 7
08:00 - 17:30
Hall 10
08:30 - 17:00
Hall 15.2/Stockholm
08:30 - 17:50
Hall 14.2/Oslo
08:30 - 17:50
Hall 2
08:30 - 18:00
Hall 3
08:45 - 17:40


SMRT Annual Meeting - Day 1
(Technologist/Radiographer Program)
Dachgarten/Roof Garden

 


SUNDAY
20 MAY 2007
 

Musculoskeletal Imaging
Day 2


08:00 - 12:00
Perfusion
Imaging


08:30 - 12:50
Clinical MRI for Physicists

08:30 - 12:00
MR Physics for Physicists
Day 2

 
Molecular Imaging
 
Advanced MR Brain Imaging
 
MRI Safety: Physics, Standards, and Open Problems
 
Experimental Methods in MR of Cancer
 
Foundations of Quantitative Imaging and Data Analysis Day 2

13:30 - 17:00
Body MRI by the Experts
Day 2


13:30 - 17:30
Clinical High Field MRI

13:30 - 17:30
Hall 3 Stage Hall Hall 4/5 Hall 15.2/Stockholm
08:00 - 15:00
Hall 7
08:00 - 17:30
Hall 14.2/Oslo
08:00 - 17:30
Hall 10
08:30 - 15:00
Hall 2
08:30 - 16:30



SMRT Annual Meeting - Day 2
(Technologist/Radiographer Program)
Dachgarten/Roof Garden
 


12:15 - 13:30
Silver Corporate Member Lunchtime Symposium
Bruker BioSpin MRI, Ltd.
Impact of Small Animal MRI on Clinical Research
Hall 1
 

STUDY GROUPS
15:30 to 17:30
MR Engineering
 
MR in Drug Research
 
Interventional MR
 
Hall 15.2/Stockholm Hall 6 Hall 10

Opening Reception in Technical Exhibit Area 17:45 to 19:15


MONDAY
21 MAY 2007
 


Registration Lobby
08:00 - 18:00

07:30  Welcome and ISMRM and ESMRMB Award Presentations, J. Paul Finn, M.D., ISMRM President, and Sebastián Cerdán, Ph.D., ESMRMB President

08:20 
Mansfield Lecture:  Electric Field Effects and Acoustic Noise in MRI  Prof. Sir Peter Mansfield, FRS

09:00 PLENARY LECTURES:  Frontiers in Functional Neuroimaging, David Norris, Xavier Golay, Organizers

09:00  Multimodal Approaches
Arno Villringer, M.D.

09:25 fMRI: From Mapping to Mechanisms
Christian Büchel, M.D.

09:50
Applications of fMRI in Experimental and Clinical Medicine
Paul M. Matthews, M.D., Ph.D.

Hall 1

10:15 - 11:00
COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 13:00

Diffusion MRI: Acquisition & Experimental Design
 
 Clinical Categorical:
Post-Operative Musculoskeletal Imaging: A Role for MRI and MDCT
 Clinical Categorical:
Cardiovascular at High Field
Coronary MR Imaging 
 
Beyond BOLD: fMRI Contrast & Connecting Brain Networks 
 
Sequences: Relaxation 
 
MRS: Spectroscopic Localization & Imaging 
 
GI & Hepatobiliary Cancer 
 
Imaging Tissue Damage and Repair After Stroke 
 
Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Dachgarten/Roof Garden Hall 4/5 

13:00 - 14:00

Gold Corporate Member Lunchtime Symposium
GE Healthcare
Hall 1
 

14:00 - 16:00

Traditional Poster Session
Hall 14.1




Electronic Poster Session
Hall 17

 
Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
Diffusion Analysis: Voxel Based Analysis & Tractography

 
Special Symposium:
Grant Writing: Opportunities and Challenges

 
ISMRM/SMRT Joint Forum: 
Preparing for MRI and MR-Guided Interventions
Clinical Science Focus Session: MR Angiography: Contrast Agent Challenges 
 
Clinical Science Focus Session: fMRI - Clinical Studies 
 
Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
fMRI: Modulation and Manipulation

 
Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
MRS of Cancer Cell Extracts and Cultures 

 
Clinical Science Focus Session: Breast MRI: Techniques & Lesion Characterization
 
Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Hall 4/5 

15:30 - 16:30
COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 18:30

Image Reconstruction 
 
MR Physics and Techniques for Clinicians Thermal Therapy 
 
Transmit Arrays and Amplifiers 
 
MR Angiography: On and Off Resonance 
 
fMRI: Encoding, Resolution and Response 
 
MRS: Approaches to Data Quantitation 
 
Gray Matter: From Anatomy to Function 
 
Liver: Parenchymal Disorders 
 
Hall 1  Hall 2 Hall 3  Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Dachgarten/Roof Garden Hall 4/5 

18:30 - 20:30
STUDY GROUPS

MR of Cancer High Field Systems & Applications
 
MR Flow & Motion Molecular & Cellular Imaging Psychiatric MRI/S White Matter Diseases Musculoskeletal MR
Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall Hall 14.2/Oslo Hall 7 Dachgarten/Roof Garden Hall 4/5 Hall 10


TUESDAY
22 MAY 2007
 

07:00 - 08:00
Morning Categorical Courses
 


Registration Lobby
08:00 - 18:00

08:15 PLENARY LECTURES: Interventional MR - Already Clinical Reality?, Clare Tempany, Claudia Hillenbrand, Organizers
 
08:15 From Technical Innovations to Clinical Routine
Jonathan S. Lewin, M.D.

08:40 How to Make it Happen - Practical and Strategic Issues of
Interventional MRI
Michael Bock, Ph.D.

09:05 Where Will the Future Take Us?
Ferenc A. Jolesz, M.D.

Hall 1

09:30 - 10:30
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 12:30
Fiber Tracking: Connections, Parcellations & Atlases 
 
Clinical Categorical:
Imaging Reorganization and Plasticity in the Brain
Clinical Categorical:
Body MRI by the Experts: Prostate, Kidney, and Adrenal

(Continuation of weekend course)
Receive Coils and Arrays 
 
Cardiovascular Flow Quantification 
 
fMRI: Methods, Models, Applications 
 
MS Clinical Studies 
 
Cancer Detection & Diagnosis 
 
MR-Guided Interventions I (devices, sequences, applications) 
 
Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Dachgarten/Roof Garden  Hall 4/5 

12:30 - 13:30

Gold Corporate Member Lunchtime Symposium
Philips Medical Systems
Advanced Clinical and Technical Concepts
Hall 1
 

13:30 - 15:30

Traditional Poster Session
Hall 14.1




Electronic Poster Session
Hall 17

 
Special Symposium:
Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF)/Nephrogenic Fibrosing Dermopathy (NFD)


Symposium now available for viewing online
(not password protected)
Special Symposium:
Magnetic Resonance in Clinical Trials

 
Clinical Categorical Course:
Imaging of Infectious and Autoimmune Disease: MRI of Viral and Bacterial Infections

Session 1
Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
Dynamic Imaging 

 
Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
CNS Animal Models: Novel Imaging 

 
Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
RF Outside the Box 

 
Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall  Hall
14.2/Oslo 
15:30 - 16:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 18:00
Non-Cartesian Parallel Imaging 
 
MR Physics and Techniques for Clinicians Tractography and Brain Disease 
 
Sequences: RF Excitation 
 
New C-13 Spectroscopic Techniques 
 
Cerebral Perfusion: Arterial Spin Labeling Methods 
 
Emerging Techniques for Musculoskeletal MRI 
 
The Developing Brain 
 
Functional Renal MRI: Acquisition, Analysis, and Applications 
 
Hall 1  Hall 2 Hall 3  Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Dachgarten/Roof Garden Hall 4/5 
18:15 - 19:45
BRONZE CORPORATE MEMBER SYMPOSIA
Bracco
Optimizing Risk-Benefit in Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging
Bayer Healthcare/
Bayer Schering Pharma
Optimized Diagnosis with Various MR Contrast Media

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Varian, Inc.
Novel Methods with Varian MRI Systems
Guerbet
Do Technologies Drive the Future?


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Tyco Healthcare/Mallinckrodt
Updates on NSF
Shawn Edwin Cowper, M.D.


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Dachgarten/Roof Garden Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall 15.2/Stockholm Hall 7


WEDNESDAY
23 MAY 2007

 

07:00 - 08:00
Morning Categorical Courses
 


Registration Lobby
08:00 - 18:00

08:15 PLENARY LECTURES:  Monitoring Treatment Response, Markus Rudin, Michael V. Knopp, Organizers

08:15 Animal Imaging in Drug Discovery and Development
Markus von Kienlin, Ph.D.

08:40 New Frontiers in Use of MR as a Biomarker in Therapeutics
Peter L. Choyke, M.D.

09:05 Molecular signatures of disease treatment efficacy: the potential of
molecular imaging in assessing therapeutic interventions
Gregory M. Lanza, M.D., Ph.D.
Hall 1

9:30 - 10:30
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 12:30 
Sequences: Sampling Strategies 
 
Clinical Categorical:
Dementia: From Bench to Bedside
Clinical Categorical:
Body MRI by the Experts Part IV Female Pelvis

(Continuation of weekend course)
The Bright Future of MEMRI
 
Vessel Wall Imaging: Technical Advances 
 
RF & Gradient Systems 
 
Hyperpolarized Noble Gas Imaging 
 
Pre-clinical Evaluation of Tumor Response 
 
Functional Cartilage Imaging 
 
Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall
15.2/Stockholm  
Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Dachgarten/Roof Garden Hall 4/5 
10:30 - 12:30
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP 1
"Neuro and Musculoskeletal Protocol Optimization"
Philips Medical Systems
 
10:30 - 12:30
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP 1
"Neuro and Musculoskeletal Protocol Optimization"
Siemens Medical Solutions
 
Room 36/37 Room 39/40

12:30 - 13:30
Gold Corporate Member Lunchtime Symposium
Siemens Medical Solutions
Collaborations and Innovations. Powered by Tim.
Hall 1
 
13:30 - 15:30
Traditional Poster Session
Hall 14.1





Electronic Poster Session
Hall 17

 
Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
MR-Guided Interventions II (devices, sequences, applications)

 
Clinical Science Focus Session:
Multiple MRI Approaches to Stroke Imaging
 
 
Clinical Categorical Course:
Imaging of Infectious and Autoimmune Disease: MRI of Non-Infectious Inflammatory Diseases

Session 2
Clinical Science Focus Session:
Clinical Applications of Cerebral Perfusion MRI 

 
Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
Image Analysis 

 
Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
Natural Abundance and Hyperpolarized 13C Spectroscopy

 
Clinical Science Focus Session:
fMRI in Clinical Science
 
 
Clinical Science Focus Session: Monitoring Anti-cancer Therapy Response in the Clinic 

 
Clinical Science Focus Session:
Fetal and Female Pelvis 

 
Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Dachgarten/Roof Garden Hall 4/5 
13:30 - 15:30
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP 2
"Body and Cardiovascular Protocol Optimization"
Philips Medical Systems
 
13:30 - 15:30
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP 2
"Body and Cardiovascular Protocol Optimization"
Siemens Medical Systems
 
Room 36/37 Room 39/40
15:30 - 16:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 18:00
Sequences: Magnetization Preparation 
 
MR Physics and Techniques for Clinicians Perfusion Measurements Using Contrast Agents 
 
Cell Tracking and Biomarker Specific Imaging 
 
fMRI: Vascular Response 
 
Image Segmentation and Clustering 
 
MRS: New Approaches to Data Acquisition 
 
Alzheimer's Disease: From Animal Models to Man 
 
Muscle Exercise and Nutrition 
 
Hall 1  Hall 2 Hall 3  Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Dachgarten/Roof
Garden
Hall 4/5 

18:30 - 19:30
ISMRM BUSINESS MEETING
Hall 3

19:30 - 21:30
STUDY GROUPS

MR Safety
 
Current Issues in Brain Function Cardiac MR Diffusion & Perfusion MR Dynamic NMR Spectroscopy Hyperpolarized Media MR
Hall 14.2/Oslo Hall 7 Stage Hall Hall 15.2/Stockholm Dachgarten/Roof Garden Hall 4/5


THURSDAY
24 MAY 2007
 

07:00 - 08:00
Morning Categorical Courses
 


Registration Lobby
08:00 - 18:00

08:00 Tribute to Paul C. Lauterbur

08:10 Lauterbur Lecture: MRI in Oncologic Imaging: Celebrating 25 Years - and Moving Forward  
Hedvig Hricak, M.D.

08:50:  YIA and Poster Award Presentations, Jeffrey L. Duerk, Ph.D., ISMRM President, and Sebastián Cerdán, Ph.D., ESMRMB President

08:55 PLENARY LECTURES:  High Tech Approaches And Applications For MR Signal Transmission And Reception, Mark Griswold, Klaus Scheffler, Organizers

08:55 High end clinical applications of parallel imaging
Elliot R. McVeigh, Ph.D.

09:20 Parallel Transmission
Douglas C. Noll, Ph.D.

09:45 Multidisciplinary approaches to MR engineering
Steven M. Wright, Ph.D.

Hall 1

10:00 - 10:30
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 - 12:30
Development, Maturation & Aging: Diffusion Characteristics Throughout the Age Spectrum 
 
Clinical Categorical:
Atherosclerosis
Clinical Categorical:
MR-Guided Interventions
Parallel Transmission 
 
Vessel Imaging Above the Arch 
 
Improving BOLD fMRI 
 
Cardiac Function Imaging in Animal Models 
 
MRS Studies on Animal Models of Non-oncological Disease 
 
Abdominal MR: Cutting Edge 
 
Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Dachgarten/Roof Garden  Hall 4/5 
10:30 - 12:30
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP 1 (REPEAT)
"Neuro and Musculoskeletal Protocol Optimization"
Philips Medical Systems
 
10:30 - 12:30
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP 1 (REPEAT)
"Neuro and Musculoskeletal Protocol Optimization"
Siemens Medical Solutions
 
Room 36/37 Room 39/40
12:30 - 13:30

Hot Topics Debate:
MR is Incapable for Clinical Molecular Imaging (Yes or No?)
Hall 1
 
13:30 - 15:30
Traditional Poster Session
Hall 14.1

 


Electronic Poster Session
Hall 17

 

Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
Safety: MRI and Contrast Agents
 
 
Special Symposium:
Industrial Perspectives on Technology Implementation
Electronic Poster Oral Discussion:
Advanced Parallel Imaging 

 
Clinical Science Focus Session: Strategies in Functional Cardiac MRI 
 
Clinical Science Focus Session:
 New Approaches to Clinical 1H Spectroscopy

 
Clinical Science Focus Session:
Innovations for Clinical Neuroimaging 

 
Unsolved Problems and Unmet Needs in Magnetic Resonance:  New Standards, Old Mysteries Clinical Science Focus Session:
 New Frontiers in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis & Assessment 

 
Clinical Science Focus Session:
 MR Markers of Musculoskeletal Disease 

 
Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3  Hall
15.2/Stockholm
Stage Hall  Hall
14.2/Oslo 
Hall 7 Dachgarten/Roof Garden Hall 4/5 
13:30 - 15:30
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP 2 (REPEAT)
"Body and Cardiovascular Protocol Optimization"
Philips Medical Systems
 
13:30 - 15:30
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP 2 (REPEAT)
"Body and Cardiovascular Protocol Optimization"
Siemens Medical Solutions
 
Room 36/37 Room 39/40
15:30 - 16:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 18:00
Biophysics, Histology & Validation of Diffusion MRI 
 
MR Physics and Techniques for Clinicians Compressed Sensing and HYPR 
 
Brain Tumors: Diagnosis and Response to Therapy 
 
Cardiomyopathy Evaluation: Perfusion and Viability 
 
Molecular Imaging: Novel Reporter Systems 
 
Motion Artifact Suppression Techniques 
 
Pre-clinical Imaging of Tumor Function and Structure 
 
GI Bowel Morphology & Function 
 
Hall 1  Hall 2 Hall 3  Hall 15.2/Stockholm Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Dachgarten/Roof Garden  Hall 4/5 

Farewell Party
Palais am Funkturm
18:15
 


FRIDAY
25 MAY 2007

 

07:00 - 08:00
Morning Categorical Courses


Registration Lobby
08:00 - 12:30

08:15 PLENARY LECTURES: Hybrid MR: Systems and Applications, Steven Conolly, Peter Börnert, Organizers

08:15 Hybrid MR and X-Ray Fluoroscopy
Arno Buecker, M.Sc.

08:40 Integrating PET or SPECT with MRI: How, Where and Why?
Simon R. Cherry, Ph.D.

09:05 Hybrid MR and Optical Imaging
Vasilis Ntziachristos, Ph.D.

Hall 1

09:30 - 10:30
COFFEE BREAK

10:30 - 12:30

Kissing, Crossing, Splaying Fibers: Analysis by Diffusion MRI 
 
Psychiatric MRI 
 
Hybrid MRI and Novel MRI Systems 
 
Neurodegenerative Disease: From Animal to Man 
 
Lung MRI: Structure & Function 
 
Contrast Enhanced Cardiac MRI and MRS in Animal Models 
 
Measurement & Application of Tissue Mechanical Properties 
 
DCE MRI in Cancer: From Bench to Bedside
 
Image Artifacts and Correction 
 
Hall 1  Hall 2  Hall 3  Hall 15.2/Stockholm   Stage Hall  Hall 14.2/Oslo  Hall 7  Dachgarten/Roof Garden Hall 4/5 
12:30
ADJOURNMENT