Fourth Annual General Meeting of the British Chapter of I.S.M.R.M.

18th and 19th December, 1998

Last updated 18 Dec 1998.

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Friday, 18th December
10:00-11:00 Registration and Coffee
11:00-11.15 Introductory Remarks
11:15-12:45 Session 1: Novel Applications     Chair: J. Hajnal
11:15 Invited speakers: Margaret Hall-Craggs Interventional MRI - Useful tool or expensive toy?
11:35
Frank Smith MR imaging in soft tissue sports injuries
11:55 Contributed papers: D. J. Larkman Catheter Tracking for MR Fluoroscopy: Design of a Transmit/Receive Coil with Integral Nasogastric Tube
12:07
S. Doran A new method for measuring diffusion coefficients in vivo using "Burst"
12:19
Al Garroway Detection of Explosives by NQR
12:31
Pierre-Marie Robitaille The Black-Body Resonator in MRI: Insight into RF Power and Intrinsic Signal to Noise
12:45-2:30 Lunch and Posters
2:30-4:00 Session 2: Functional MRI/S     Chair: A. Moody
2:30 Invited speakers: Bob Turner Functional MRI as a Tool for Imaging Neuroscience
2:50
Paul Matthews Towards Clinical Applications of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
3:10 Contributed papers: Alexander Ploghaus Distinguishing brain activation caused by pain and its anticipation
3:22
Sue Francis Somatotopic Mapping of the Human Postcentral Gyrus
3:34
John Kornak Functional mapping with alternative parameters of haemodynamic response
3:46
O. Josephs Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with Simultaneous Undistorted Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
4:00-4:15 Tea
4:15-5:45 Session 3: Cancer     Chair: J. Griffiths
4:15 Invited speakers: Martin Leach Measuring Tumour Function and Metabolism by Magnetic Resonance
4:35
Lindsay Turnbull The role of dynamic contrast enhanced MR scanning in the characterisation of breast lesions
4:55 Contributed papers: D. J. Manton The Role of MRI Following Equivocal Breast Cytology: Can Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI Obviate Biopsy?
5:07
Juhana Hakumäki 1H MRS of BT4C rat glioma in vivo reveals polyunsaturated membrance fatty acid release during gene therapy: implications for apoptosis
5:19
P. McSheehy Investigations of modulation of 5-fluorouracil (FU) pharmacokinetics by 5-ethyl-2'deoxyuridine (EudR) in tumour-bearing mice and rat
5:31
Andrea Kassner Dynamic Contrast Susceptibility Imaging in Enhancing Cerebral Tumours Techniques for Reducing Relaxivity Effects
5:45-6:00 Annual Meeting
6:00-8:00 Poster Reception
8:00 Conference Dinner

Saturday 19th December
9:00-10:30 Session 4: New Techniques and Hardware      Chair: R. Bowtell
9:00 Invited speakers: David Lurie Techniques and Applications of Whole-Body Field-Cycling MRI
9:20
Luc Darrasse Hyperpolarized Gas MRI
9:40 Contributed papers: Jan Wolber In vitro and in vivo MRS and MRI with Hyperpolarised 129Xenon
9:52
Jiun-Jie Wang Signal Dropout in 3D Echo Planar Imaging
10:04
David Rourke Relaxation-selective magnetic resonance imaging
10:16
Andrew Peters High Speed Multi-Slice Echo Planar Imaging
10:30-10:45 Coffee
10:45-12:30 Workshop A

Workshop B

fMRI Processing

MRA --- How to do it

Steve Williams

Catherine Ludman

Derek Hill

Martin Graves




David Firmin
12:30-2:00 Lunch and Posters
2:00-2:30 Guest Lecture      Chair: Peter Morris


Sir Peter Mansfield Aspects of Echo-Volumar Imaging
2:30-3:40 Session 5A: Diffusion and Perfusion
Session 5B: Musculoskeletal and Body M.R.

Chair: Brian Worthington Chair: P. Goddard
2:30 Invited speaker: Roger Ordidge Studies of cerebral ischaemia using diffusion- and perfusion-weighted MRI Invited speaker: Gerhard Adam MR imaging of infectious bone disease
2:50 Contributed papers: F. Calamante The use of quantitative diffusion weighted imaging in childhood stroke Contributed papers: M. J. Graves Blood Suppressed Fast Spin Echo: Initial Clinical Experience
3:02
Sue Francis Rapid Perfusion Measurement using LL-EPI
Luca Marciani Echo-planar magnetic resonance imaging of intragastric secretion and emptying of viscous meals
3:14
C. Hoad MRI Measurements of Acoustic Streaming
D. J. Lomas MR Small Bowel Enema: Preliminary Results
3:26
Rachel Moore Utero-placental Blood Movement In utero Using IVIM Echo-Planar MRI
N. P. Davies Optimum Magnetization Transfer Contrast Using Suitably Designed Binomial Pulses
3:40-3:55 Tea
3:55-5:25 Session 6: CNS Spectroscopy and Paediatric Neurology     Chair: Peter Styles
3:55 Invited speakers: David Gadian Temporal lobe pathology in children, and its impact on cognitive function
4:15
Mary Rutherford Imaging the pre-term brain
4:35 Contributed papers: Herman Bachelard Cobalt releases calcium from intracellular stores: a 19F-MRS study
4:47
Nicola Robertson Cerebral lactic alkalosis persisting months after birth asphyxia observed by 31P and 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy
4:59
Richard Thompson Quantification of Metabolites With Strongly-Coupled Spin Systems Using The Press Sequence
5:11
Sarah Pendlebury Apolipoprotein E deficient mice show decreased N-acetyl aspartate in central brain regions following focal cortical infarction: evidence for remote neuronal dysfunction
5:25 Concluding Remarks