ISMRM SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP ~ 21-2

ISMRM SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP ~ 20-23 FEBRUARY 2011

ULTRA-HIGH FIELD SYSTEMS & APPLICATIONS:
7T & BEYOND: PROGRESS, PITFALLS & POTENTIAL
LAKE LOUISE, ALBERTA, CANADA

PROGRAM

	Sunday, 20 February 2011
16:00	Registration	(Heritage Hall)
18:00	Reception
19:30	Dinner	(Victoria Dining Hall)

	Monday, 21 February 2011	Day 1: General Neuro to Body Imaging
07:00	Registration	(Heritage Hall)
	Breakfast	(Tom Wilson Dining Room)

	Session 1	(Mount Temple Ballroom A)
Chair: Oliver Speck, Ph.D., Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany
08:00	Welcome	Peter A. Bandettini, Ph.D. NIMH - Functional MRI Facility Bethesda, MD, USA
08:15	UHF Imaging: Where are We Now? Where are We Going?	Bruce R. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MA, USA
09:00	High Field Neuroimaging	Robert Turner, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute Leipzig, Germany
09:30	Knee Imaging - permission withheld	Siegfried Trattnig, M.D. University of Vienna Vienna, Austria
10:00	Body & Cardiac Imaging at UHF	Mark E. Ladd, Ph.D. Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI Essen, Germany
10:30	Break

Chair: Josef Pfeuffer, Ph.D., Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany
11:00	Spectroscopy: B₀ Shimming Approaches	Robin A. de Graaf, Ph.D. Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
11:15	Spectroscopy: B₁ Effects, MRSI with PII-RX & pTX - permission withheld	Elfar Adalsteinsson, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA
11:30	Tissue Specific Effects (Myelin Imaging?)	Alex L. MacKay, Ph.D. University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada
12:00	Lunch	(Tom Wilson Dining Room)

	Session 2	(Mount Temple Ballroom A)
Quantitative Susceptibility Imaging at UHF (5-minute discussion after each talk) Chair: Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D., A.A. Martinos Center MGH, Charlestown, MA, USA
13:30	Jürgen R. Reichenbach, Ph.D. Institute of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology Jena, Germany
13:50	Richard W. Bowtell, Ph.D. The University of Nottingham Nottingham, England, UK
14:10	Yi Wang, Ph.D. Weill Medical College of Cornell University New York, NY, USA
14:30	Craig K. Jones, Ph.D. FM Kirby Center, KKI / JHMI Baltimore, MD, USA
14:50	Chunlei Liu, Ph.D. Duke University Durham, NC, USA
15:10	Jeff H. Duyn, Ph.D. - permission withheld NIH, NINDS, LFMI, AMS Bethesda, MD, USA
15:30	Break

	Session 3	(Mount Temple Ballroom A)
Open Oral Session 1: Proffered Papers Chair: Richard W. Bowtell, Ph.D., The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK
16:00	Dependence of T₂* Relaxation of Brain White Matter on B₀ Orientation	Jongho Lee, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA
16:15	Question and Answer Session	David Feinberg, M.D., Ph.D. Advanced MRI Technologies Bodega Bay, CA, USA
16:30	MRI of the Hip at 7T using RF Shimming with 4-Channel Excitation	Cem M. Deniz, M.Sc. Center for Biomedical Imaging New York, NY, USA
16:45	Investigating Sources of Exchange-Induced Resonance Frequency Contrast at 14 Tesla	Karin Shmueli, Ph.D. NIH/NINDS/LFMI/AMS Washington, DC, USA
17:00	Contrast Enhancement in TOF Cerebral Angiography at 7 Tesla Under SAR Constraints: Trading between Saturation, VERSE & Magnetization Transfer RF Pulses	Sebastian Schmitter, Ph.D. CMRR - University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
17:15	BOLD Frequency Shifts in Human fMRI at 7T	Marta Bianciardi, Ph.D. Advanced MRI Section, LFMI/NINDS/NIH Bethesda, MD, USA

17:30	Poster Session 1 - Odd Numbered Posters	(Mount Temple Ballroom B)

18:30	Dinner	(Victoria Dining Hall)
Chair: Peter Jezzard, Ph.D., Oxford University Oxford, England, UK
19:30	Evening Lecture	Thomas F. Budinger, M.D., Ph.D. University of California – Berkeley Berkeley, CA ,USA

	Tuesday, 22 February 2011	Day 2: Functional MRI, Animal Research & Spectroscopy
07:00	Registration	(Heritage Hall)
	Breakfast	(Tom Wilson Dining Room)

	Session 4	(Mount Temple Ballroom A)
UHF: Where are the Neuroscientists? Chair: Robert Turner, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute Leipzig, Germany
08:00	fMRI at UHF 3: Cognitive Function	Emrah Düzel, M.D. University College London London, England, UK
08:30	fMRI at UHF 2: High Resolution Connectivity	Jonathan Rizzo Polimeni, Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown, MA, USA
09:00	fMRI at UHF 1: Neuroscience at Ultrahigh Fields: Anatomical & Functional Correspondence, Cortical Columns & Computational Models	Federico De Martino, Ph.D. University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
09:30	fMRI at UHF 4: UHF Neuroscience at Vanderbilt	Adam W. Anderson, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, USA
10:00	Physiologic Limits of Resolution & Interpretability	Elizabeth M. C. Hillman, Ph.D. Columbia University New York, NY, USA
10:30	Break

	Session 5	(Mount Temple Ballroom A)
Open Oral Session 2: Proffered Papers Chair: R. Allen Waggoner, Ph.D., RIKEN - Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan
11:00	Fast Patient Specific Estimation of Electric Fields for a Transmit Array from B1+ Measurements	Alessandro Sbrizzi, M.Sc. University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, The Netherlands
11:15	Very High Order B₀ Shimming (1^st-4^th+) of the Human Brain at 7T	Hoby P. Hetherington, Ph.D. Yale University New Haven, CT, USA
11:30	Dynamic Multi-Coil Shimming of the Human Brain at 7 Tesla	Christoph Juchem, Ph.D. Yale University New Haven, CT, USA
11:45	3D Parallel Excitation Pulse Design Using Interleaved Sparse Approximation & Local	William A. Grissom, Ph.D. GE Global Research Garching, Germany
12:00	Raphe Nuclei in the Brainstem Visualized by MRI-PET Fusion Imaging with 7.0T MRI	Inwon Lee, M.Sc. Gachon University of Medicine & Science Incheon, Republic of Korea
12:15	Sub-Millimeter In-Plane Resolution Diffusion Tensor Imaging at 7T	Ha-Kyu Jeong, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science Nashville, TN, USA
12:30	Lunch	(Tom Wilson Dining Room)

	Session 6	(Mount Temple Ballroom A)
High Field Animal Imaging & Spectroscopy (5-minute discussion after each talk) Chair: Peter van Gelderen, Ph.D., NIH, NUNDS, LFMI, AMS, Bethesda, MD, USA
14:00	Afonso C. Silva, Ph.D. NIH, HINDS, LFMI, CMU Bethesda, MD, USA
14:20	Rolf Gruetter, Ph.D. - permission withheld EPFL, SB-IPMC-LIFMET and CIBM Lausanne, Switzerland
14:40	Jun Shen, Ph.D. - permission withheld NIMH Bethesda, MD, USA

15:00	Break

Vendor Overview Chair: Christopher J. Wiggins, Ph.D., NeuroSpin, Paris, France
15:30	Alan R. Rath, Ph.D., Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA, USA Holger Liebel, Ph.D., Bruker BioSpin MRI, Ettlingen, Germany Franz Schmitt, Ph.D., Siemens Healthcare, BU MR, Erlangen, Germany Gregory C. Hurst, Ph.D., GE Healthcare, MR, Chagrin Falls, OH, USA Kenneth White, Philips Healthcare, Wotton-under-Edge, England, UK Piotr M. Starewicz, Ph.D., Resonance Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA

17:00	Poster Session 2 - Even Numbered Posters	(Mount Temple Ballroom B)
18:30	Dinner	(Victoria Dining Hall)
Chair: Douglas A. C. Kelley, Ph.D., GE Healthcare, CA, USA
19:30	Evening Lecture	James S. Hyde, Ph.D. Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI, USA

	Wednesday, 23 February 2011	Day 3: Technical Advancements & Issues
07:00	Registration	(Heritage Hall)
	Breakfast	(Tom Wilson Dining Room)

	Session 7	(Mount Temple Ballroom A)
Chair: Franz Schmitt, Ph.D., Siemens Healthcare, BU MR, Erlangen, Germany
08:00	Parallel Transmission in Liver MRI at 7T: Initial Results	Xiaoping Wu, Ph.D., M.E. CMRR - University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
08:15	Diffusion Imaging at UHF	Guillermo R. Sapiro, D.Sc. University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA
08:30	Exceeding Speed Limits at UHF	David Feinberg, M.D., Ph.D. Advanced MRI Technologies Bodega Bay, CA, USA
09:00	B₁ & B₀ Inhomogeneities	David I. Hoult, D.Phil. National Research Council-Canada Winnipeg, MB, Canada
09:30	B₁ & B₀ Inhomogeneities - Correction Pipeline	Brian K. Rutt, Ph.D. Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA
10:00	Parallel Transmit	David Otto Brunner Institute for Biomedical Engineering Zurich, Switzerland
10:30	Break

Chair: J. Thomas Vaughan, Jr., Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA
11:00	The Effects of High Magnetic Fields	Paul M. Glover, Ph.D. University of Nottingham Nottingham, England, UK
11:30	RF Safety at 7T	Devashish Shrivastava, Ph.D. University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN USA
12:00	Closing Remarks & Adjourn	Peter A. Bandettini, Ph.D. NIMH - Functional MRI Facility Bethesda, MD, USA
12:15	Lunch	(Tom Wilson Dining Room)

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