| Interventional
MRI: Thermal Methods Hall C |
| M 1929. Evaluation of Reduced Encoded Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Efficient Thermal Mapping, B. Behnia and A.G. Webb, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. |
| T 1930. Internally-Referenced Temperature Mapping Using Echo Planar Spectroscopic Imaging Method for High Water Content Tissues, K. Kuroda, K. Oshio, R.V. Mulkern, L.P. Panych, T. Nakai, T. Moriya, A. Matsumura, S. Okuda, K. Hynynen and F.A. Jolesz, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan; Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA and MITI and University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan. |
| W 1931. Proton-Resonance Frequency Shift MR Thermometry is Affected by Changes in the Electrical Conductivity of Tissue, R.D. Peters and R.M. Henkelman, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
| Th 1932. MRI Temperature Measurement for Hot Saline Injection Therapy, S. Okuda, K. Kuroda, K. Oshio, R.V. Mulkern and F.A. Jolesz, Brigham and Womens' Hospital, and Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. |
| M 1933. Contrast-Enhanced MR Thermometry, Y. Zhou and R. Frayne, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. |
| T 1934. The Relationship of R2* and Temperature in Frozen Aqueous Tissues, B.L. Daniel, K. Butts and J. Sinclair, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. |
| W 1935. Temperature Distributions in RF Thermal Ablation: Field Boundary Conditions in an Analytic Approach, Y.C.N. Cheng and R.W. Brown, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA and Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA. |
| Th 1936. The Usefulness of Temperature Sensitive MRI-Derived Thermal Dose for Determining the Threshold for Tissue Damage, N. McDannold, R.L. King, F.A. Jolesz and K. Hynynen, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. |
| M 1937. 3D Correlation of MR, Tissue, and Histology Thermal Ablation Images, L. Zheng, T.L. Lancaster, E. Merkle, J.S. Lewin, J.L. Duerk and D.L. Wilson, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA. |
| T 1938. Assessing Thermal Damage of Heating Devices for MR-Guided Thermal Therapy Interventional Procedures: A Phantom Experiment, L.S. Bouchard and M.J. Bronskill, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. |
| W 1939. Effect of Light Penetration in Interstitial Laser Thermotherapy: Simulations and MRI Thermometry, J. Olsrud, R. Wirestam, B.R.R. Persson and K.G. Tranberg, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. |
| Th 1940. In-Vivo Laser Ablation of a Porcine Model: Real-Time Temperature Monitoring and Tissue Damage Modeling, S. Sinha, T. Oshiro, K. Ong, U. Sinha, A.L. Daniell, D.S. Lu and R. Lufkin, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. |
| M 1941. Effects of Superparamagnetic Iron Containing Contrast Medium on Radiofrequency Induced Temperature Distribution: in Vitro Measurements of Polyacrylamide Phantoms and in Vivo Results in a Rabbit Liver Model, E.M. Merkle, S.N. Goldberg, D.T. Boll, A. Shankaranarayanan, T. Boaz, G.H. Jacobs, M. Wendt and J.S. Lewin, University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. |
| T 1942. MR Appearance of Focused Ultrasound Tissue Damage in Rabbit Brain, L. Chen, E. Yuh, H. D'Arceuil and K. Butts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. |
| W 1943. The Feasibility of MRI Control of Ultrasound Surgery of Large Tumors, K. Hynynen, N. McDannold and F. Jolesz, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. |
| Th 1944. MR-Guided Laser-Induced Thermotherapy (LITT) of Liver Metastases: Indications, Complications, Imaging Criteria and Local Tumor Control Rate: Experience after 2138 Laser Applications in 822 Metastases, M.G. Mack, R. Straub, K. Eichler, K. Engelmann, A. Roggan and T.J. Vogl, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany and LMTB, Berlin, Germany. |
| M 1945. Liver Tumour Ablation under Interventional MR Guidance, W.R. Lees, S. Smart and A.R. Gillams, The Middlesex Hospital, University College London, London, UK. |