Fetal and Female Pelvis MR Imaging

16:00      532.    Functional MRI (BOLD) at 3 Tesla in the Brain of Fetal Sheep: The Relationship to Maternal Blood Oxygenation During Hypoxia and Methodological Aspects

Ulrike Wedegärtner¹, Mikhail Tchirikov², Sebastian Schaefer¹, Andrew Priest¹, Hobe J. Schröder³, Gerhard Adam¹

¹Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hamburg, Germany; ²Obstetrics and Prenatal Medidcine, Hamburg, Germany; ³Experimental Gynecology, Hamburg, Germany
 

16:12      533.    Cine Fetal MR Employing Parallel Imaging Technique: A Novel Dimension of Prenatal Imaging

Wan-Yuo Guo^1,2, Shu-Huei Shen^1,2, Hsiao-Wen Chung³, Tai-Tong Wong^1,2, Jeng-Hsiu Hung^1,2

¹Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; ³National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 

16:24      534.    3D MR Microscopy of the Human Embryo Collection (Kyoto Collection): Final Report for 1,200 Human Embryos

Yoshimasa Matsuda¹, Shinya Ono¹, Shinya Handa¹, Yousuke Otake¹, Tomoyuki Haishi², Katsumi Kose¹,

Chigako Uwabe³, Kohei Shiota³

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ²MRTechnology Inc., Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ³Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 

16:36      535.    Characterizing Human Fetal Brain Development with Diffusion Tensor MR Microimaging  - not available

Hao Huang¹, Linda Richards², Paul Yarowsky², Setsu Wakana^1,3, Peter C.M. van Zijl^1,3, Susumu Mori^1,3

¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ³Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
 

16:48      536.    Fetal MRI Versus US: A Prospective Study

Joao Fernando Kazan Tannus^1,2, Cleysson Fabio Andreoli Peralta², Victor Bunduki², Claudio Campi Castro², Giovanni Guido Cerri², Marcelo Zugaib²

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
 

17:00      537.    Placental Imaging and Relaxation Parameter Mapping at 1.5 Tesla  - not available

Chardonnay Julia Vance^1,2, Rexford D. Newbould², Bruce N. Ames, ^1,3, Roland Bammer²

¹University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA; ²Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ³Children’s Hospital Oakland Reseach Institute, Oakland, California, USA
 

17:12      538.    Fast Spin Echo Images with Parallel Imaging and Short Echo Train Length in the Assessment of Uterine Cervical Cancer: Can We Back to the Conventional Spin Echo Contrast Again?

Izumi Imaoka¹, Takafumi Hayashi¹, Michimasa Matsuo¹, Kazuro Sugimura²

¹Tenri Hospital, Tenri, Nara, Japan; ²Kobe Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
 

17:24      539.    Physiological Change of the Human Uterine Myometrium During Menstrual Cycle: Evaluation Using BOLD MR Imaging
 - not available

Aki Kido¹, Takashi Koyama¹, Masako Kataoka¹, Akira Yamamoto¹, Shigeaki Umeoka¹, Shingo Fujii¹, Tsuneo Saga¹, Kaori Togashi¹

¹Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 

17:36      540.    DCE-MRI Evaluation of Microvascular Abnormalities in the Female Pelvis

Geoff J.M. Parker¹, Philip S. Murphy², Barry Whitnall¹, Charles E. Hutchinson¹

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; ²Pfizer GLobal Research & Development, Sandwich, Kent, UK
 

17:48      541.    MR Imaging and MR Spectroscopy of Female Intra-Pelvic Tumors: Preliminary Experience at 3.0 Tesla

Mayumi Takeuchi¹, Kenji Matsuzaki¹, Masafumi Harada¹, Hitoshi Kubo¹, Hiromu Nishitani¹

¹University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan