5th Annual Meeting of the
SMRT ANZ Chapter

 13-14 November 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand

Program with Recorded Presentations
Access to the presentations is restricted to registrants of the meeting and SMRT members

Saturday 13th November
   
07:45 Registration and Coffee
   
08:15 Welcome
Kirsten Moffat, President ANZ Chapter
   
08:20 Liver MRI: Protocols and Contrast Agents
Dr Winfried Willinek
Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Bonn, Germany
   
09:10 3T Body Imaging
Dr Laxmi Lanka (MD, FRCR)
Waikato Hospital & Midland MRI, New Zealand
   
09:40 Small Bowel MRI
Dr Chris Mc Kee BHB, MB ChB,, FRANZCR
Director of MRI Waitemata Health, NorthShore Hospital, Auckland. NZ
   
10:20 Break
   
10:40 MR Spatial Gradients
Tobias Gilk, M Arch
Safety Director Mednovus, USA
   
11:30 Stress Perfusion Cardiac MR (CMR)
Dr Jonathan Christiansen MB ChB, MD, FRACP, FACC, FCSANZ
Waitemata Cardiology Services, Auckland, NZ
   
12:00 Congenital CMR
Dr Chris Occleshaw MB ChB; MRCP; FRCR
Cardiac Radiologist, Auckland City Hospital, NZ

Congenital CMR
Anna- Marie Lydon, MRT Centre for Advanced MRI
University of Auckland, New Zealand

   
12:40 Platinum Sponsor Presentation
   
12:50 Lunch
   
13:40 Time Resolved MRA
Dr Winfried Willinek
Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Bonn, Germany
   
14:30 Paediatric Abdominal MRI
Dr Russell Metcalfe MB ChB, FRANZCR
Starship Hospital, Auckland NZ
   
15:00 Proffered Papers
15:00 Accuracy of Quantification of Porcine Knee Cartilage by 3T Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Megan Cromer
15:10 MRI in the Diagnosis of Acute Invasive Fungal Sinusitis in the Immunocompromised Patient, Nicole Welsh
15:20 The Role of MRI in the Assessment of Fetal Neck Masses, Sally Agnew
  Poster- Onsite: Magnetic Resonance Urography: A Pilot Study, Sally Harman
   
15:30 Break
   
15:50 MRI of the Upper Arm
Dr Quentin Reeves MB ChB, FRANZCR
Specialist Radiology & MRI Greenlane, Auckland, NZ

MRI of the Upper Arm
Desiree Mulders MRT
Specialist Radiology & MRI Greenlane

   
16:30 Shoulder MRI
Dr Kevin Gilbert MB ChB, FRANZCR
MSK Imaging, Hamilton, NZ
   
17:00 Close
   
19:30 Social function at The Floating Pavilion
   
Sunday 14th November
   
08:15 Coffee
   
08:30 MRI of the Cranial Nerves
Dr Lynette Masters MBBS(Hons) FRACP FRANZCR
Diagnostic MRI Services, Sydney, Australia
   
09:30 Functional MRI and DTI in Research
Dr Anna Mackey Ph.D
Post Doctoral Reseach Fellow, Auckland City Hospital, NZ
   
10:00 Platinum Sponsor Presentation
   
10:10 SMRT Awards / Announcements
   
10:25 Break
   
10:45 MR Site Design
Tobias Gilk, M Arch
Safety Director Mednovus, USA
   
11:30 Neurovascular MRI
Dr Ayton Hope MB ChB, FRACP
Neuroradiologist, Trinity MRI and Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, NZ
   
12:00 Protocol Optimisation
Ben Kennedy MRT, BAppSc, MHsc MRI
QScan Radiology, Brisbane, Australia
   
12:30 Extracranial DWI
Dr Winfried Willinek
Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Bonn, Germany
   
13:20 Meeting Adjourned / Lunch