Brain MR Imaging: Data Processing Methods and Artifact Reduction

16:30         156.      Application of K-Space Energy Spectrum Analysis to Susceptibility Field Mapping and Distortion Correction in Gradient-Echo EPI - not available

Nan-Kuei Chen¹, Koichi Oshio^1,2, Lawrence P. Panych¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

16:42         157.      AIRHEAD:  an AnthropomorphIc Realistic HEAD Phantom to Test Susceptibility Artifact Reduction Techniques

Karin Shmueli¹, Paul Kinchesh¹, Harold G. Parkes¹, David Lee Thomas¹, Roger John Ordidge¹

¹University College London, London, UK

16:54         158.      Influence of Parallel Imaging and Other Reconstruction Techniques on the Measurement of Signal-To-Noise Ratios

Olaf Dietrich¹, Scott B. Reeder^1,2, Maximilian F. Reiser¹, Stefan O. Schoenberg¹

¹Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany; ²Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, USA

17:06         159.      Quantitative Comparison of Spatial Distortions in Fast Imaging at 3T Through Nonrigid Registration

Michael C. Lee¹, Janine M. Lupo¹, Duan Xu¹, Eric T. Han², Soonmee Cha¹, Susan M. Chang¹, Mitchel S. Berger¹, Daniel B. Vigneron¹, Sarah J. Nelson¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; ²GE Healthcare Technologies, Menlo Park, California, USA

17:18         160.      Segmentation of Thalamic Nuclei Using a Modified K-Means Clustering Algorithm and High Resolution Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging - not available

Sean CL Deoni¹, Brian K. Rutt¹, Terry M. Peters¹

¹Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada

17:30         161.      The Feasibility of Diffusion Tensor Imaging for the Human Brain at 1 Mm^3 Resolution

Klaus Rudolf Hahn¹, Sergei Prigarin², Khader Hasan³

¹GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany; ²Institute of Computational Mathematics & Geophysics, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russian Federation; ³Medical School of University, Houston, Texas, USA

17:42         162.      Estimation of White Matter and Gray Matter Cerebral Blood Volume Using a Partial-Volume Model

Michael C. Lee¹, Soonmee Cha¹, Susan M. Chang¹, Mitchel S. Berger¹, Sarah J. Nelson¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

17:54         163.      MR Susceptometry for Measuring Global Brain Oxygen Extraction

Maria Asuncion Fernandez-Seara¹, Aranee Techawiboonwong¹, John A. Detre¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

18:06         164.      A Mathematical Model to Evaluate Quantitative BOLD MRI for the Measurement of the Cerebrovascular Reserve Capacity During Hypercapnia

Jochen Rick¹, Sargon Ziyeh¹, Matthias Reinhard¹, Jürgen Hennig¹, Oliver Speck¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

18:18         165.      Fully Automated Detection of Quantitative Water Content Changes: Application to the Study of Age-And Gender Related Cerebral H₂O Patterns - not available

Heiko Neeb¹, Karl Zilles¹, ², Nadim J. Shah¹

¹Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany; ²Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany