Emerging MR Systems Concepts

Room 6D         16:00 - 18:00                 Chairs: Blaine A. Chronik and Jacob D. Willig

Time

Prog #

 
16:00 777.

Continuous-Wave MRI of Short-T2 Solid Materials

David J. Lurie1, Andrew J. Fagan2, Gareth R. Davies1, James M. Hutchison1

1University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; 2Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

16:12 778.

Torque-Figure of Merit Trade-Off in Multi-Layer Asymmetric Gradient Coils

Hector Sanchez Lopez1, Feng Liu1, Adnan Trakic1, Stuart Crozier1

1University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
16:24 779.

Insert Dome Gradient Coils for Brain Imaging

James Leggett1, Dan Green1, Richard Bowtell1

1University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
16:36 780.

Local Planar Gradients with Order-Of-Magnitude Strength and Speed Advantage

Bulent Aksel1, Bruce D. Collick2, Luca Marinelli1, William D. Barber1, Paul A. Bottomley3, Christopher J. Hardy1

1General Electric, Niskayuna, New York, USA; 2General Electric, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; 3Johns Hopkins University,

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

16:48 781.

Advances in NMR Probe Technology for Magnetic Field Monitoring

Nicola De Zanche1, Christoph Barmet1, Jurek A. Massner1, Klaas Paul Pruessmann1

1University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
17:00 782.

3D Prepolarized MRI with RARE

Nathaniel I. Matter1, Greig C. Scott1, Ross D. Venook1, Sharon E. Ungersma1, Thomas Grafendorfer2,

Albert Macovski1, Steven M. Conolly, 12

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
17:12 783.

A Broadband Tunable Surface Coil and Magnetic Force Detector for MRI

Charles Andrew Paulson1, Modhurin Banerjee1, Krishna Kurpad1, Thomas M. Grist1, Daniel Warren van der Weide1

1The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
17:24 784.

Comparison of Optical Modulation Methods for RF Coil Interlinks

Jing Yuan1, Juan Wei1, Gary X. Shen1

1The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
17:36 785.

Combining PET and MRI - Challenges in Developing an MR Compatible PET Insert

Ciprian Catana1, Yibao Wu1, Martin S. Judenhofer2, Jeffrey H. Walton1, Bo Joseph Peng1, Jacob Willig-Onwuachi1, 3, Bernd J.

Pichler2, Simon R. Cherry1

1University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA; 2University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; 3UCDMC, Sacramento, California, USA
17:48 786.

Resolution Improvement of PET in PET/MRI Combined System

Hao Peng1, William H. Handler1, James W. Odegaard1, Peter J. Simpson1, Blaine A. Chronik1

1University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada