Brain Tumors: fMRI and DTI

Room 618 - 620         16:30 - 18:30                 Chairs: Alberto Bizzi and Andrei I. Holodny

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16:30 604.

The Reliability of Presurgical fMRI Language Lateralization in Patients with Primary Brain Tumors and Prior Surgery

Kyung Peck1, Nicole Petrovich1, Bob Hou1, Dmitry Bogomolny1, Vivian Tabar1, Philip Gutin1, Andrei Holodny1

1Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
16:42 605.

MRI-Derived RCBV Can Guide Intraoperative Diagnosis of Brain Tumors

Kathleen Marie Schmainda1, John L. Ulmer1, M Davian1, B D. Ward1, Scott D. Rand1, Hendrikus GJ Krouwer1

1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
16:54 606.

Effect of Abnormal Neovasculature and Metabolites on the BOLD fMRI Activation Volume for Brain Tumor Patients

Bob L. Hou1, Sunitha B. Thakur1, Kyung K. Peck1, Nicole M. Petrovich1, Wei Huang1, Philip H. Gutin1, Andrei I. Holodny1

1Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
17:06 607.

The Use of Diffusion Tensor Metrics and Tractography in Differentiating Between Infiltrating and Well-Circumscribed

Tumors of the  Posterior Fossa

Yvonne W. Lui1, Meng Law1, James S. Babb1, Effie George1, Maxine Ames1, Glyn Johnson1

1NYU Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
17:18 608.

DTI and Tractography Metrics Discriminate Between Brain Tumour Types In Vivo

Tiernan James Dermot Byrnes1, Thomas R. Barrick1, Christophe Ladroue1, B A. Bell1, Christopher A. Clark1

1St. George's University of London, London, UK
17:30 609.

An Evaluation of Clinical Usefulness of DTI Derived Image Information in Infra- And Supratentorial Brain Tumors

Kristina Szabo1, Claudius Thome1, Gerrit Schubert1, Jochen G. Hirsch2, Christina Rossmanith1,

Michael G. Hennerici1, Achim Gass1

1University Hospital Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany; 2University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
17:42 610.

The Predictive Value of Diffuse Tensor Imaging and Tractography in Determining Neurological Status and Outcome in

Patients with Brainstem and Posterior Fossa Tumors

Yvonne W. Lui1, Meng Law1, James S. Babb1, Keren Tuvia1, Glyn Johnson1

1NYU Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
17:54 611.

Combining Functional MRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging in the Pre-Operative Assessment of the Hand and Foot Fibers

Within the Corticospinal Tract

Meike Vernooij1, Marion Smits1, Piotr Wielopolski1, Henri Vrooman1, Gavin Houston2, Arnaud Vincent1,

Gabriel Krestin1, Aad van der Lugt1

1Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, ZH, Netherlands; 2ASL Europe, GE Healthcare, Den Bosch, Brabant, Netherlands
18:06 612.

In Vivo DTI-Based Tractography of Intra-Cranial Rat Brain Tumors

Sungheon Kim1, Stephen Pickup1, Oliver Hsu1, Harish Poptani1

1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

18:18 613.

Development and Evolution of Glioma After ENU Exposure: A Model of Malignant Transformation of Low Grade Gliomas

Binulal Nelson Sathy1, Yi-Hua Hsu1, Taichang Jang2, Lawrence Recht2, Chen Chang1

1Functional and Micro-MRI Center, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Departments of Neurology and Clinical Neurosciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA