Brain Tumors: The New Frontier

Room 618 - 620         16:00 - 18:00                 Chairs: Jeffrey R. Alger and Elias R. Melhem

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16:00 817.

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging of Choline Diffusion in Experimental Gliomas During the Programmed Cell

Death

Kimmo Lehtimäki1, Timo Liimatainen1, Juhana Hakumäki1, 2

1University of Kuopio, Kuopio, FI, Finland; 2Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, FI, Finland
16:12 818.

MRI Follow-Up of Monocyte/macrophages Colonisation of a Rat Brain Tumour

Samuel Valable1, 2, Emmanuel L. Barbier1, 2, Myriam Bernaudin3, 4, Simon Roussel3, 4, Edwige Petit3, 4, Chantal Remy1, 2

1U594, Grenoble, F-38043, France; 2Univ grenoble 1, Grenoble, F-38043, France; 3UMR 6185, Caen, F-14074, France; 4Université de Caen, Caen, F-14074, France
16:24 819.

Correlation of Choline and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Glioma Patients

Inas S. Khayal1, Kathleen R. Lamborn1, Forrest W. Crawford1, Suja Saraswathy1, Joonmi Oh1, Susan M. Chang1, Soonmee Cha1,

Tracy R. McKnight1, Sarah J. Nelson1

1University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
16:36 820.

First Clinical Evaluation of Vessel Size Imaging in Human Glial Brain Tumors

Tobias Breyer1, Peter Gall2, Valerij G. Kiselev2, Oliver Speck2, Irina K. Mader1

1Dept. of Neuroradiology, Freiburg, Germany; 2MR Physics, Freiburg, Germany
16:48 821.

Improved Identification of true Hot-Spots in Intra-Axial Neoplasms by Coregistration of Blood Volume Maps and

Morphological Data

Kyrre E. Emblem1, Paulina Due-Tonnessen1, Baard Nedregaard1, J. K. Hald1, E A. Jacobsen1, Atle Bjornerud1

1Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
17:00 822.

Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Perfusion MRI of Angiogenesis and Microscopic Tumoral Infiltration in the Corpus

Callosum of Patients with Gliomas

Jean Yves Gauvrit1, 2, Meng Law1, S Papadaki1, E St. Clair1, M Inglese1, G Johnson1

1New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; 2Hopital R Salengro, Lille, France
17:12 823.

Characterization of Intra-Axial Neoplasms by Histogram Analysis of Total Tumor Volume from MR-Derived Cerebral Blood

Volume Maps

Kyrre E. Emblem1, Baard Nedregaard1, Paulina Due-Tonnessen1, Eva Astrid Jacobsen1, John K. Hald1,

Atle Bjornerud1

1Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
17:24 824.

Use of Cerebral Blood Volume as a Potential Surrogate Marker of Vascular Normalization in 9L Gliosarcoma Tumor

Moses Morakortoi Darpolor1, Francisca C. Wu2, Kathleen M. Schmainda2

1Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; 2Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
17:36 825.

Quantitative Cerebral Blood Volume Measurement Using the Bookend Method : Water Exchange Effect Correction and

Diagnosis on Tumor in Gradient-Echo and Spin-Echo EPI

Wanyong Shin1, Sandra W. Horowitz2, Ty Allen Cashen1, Timothy J. Carroll1, 2

1Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 2Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
17:48 826.

Relative Cerebral Blood Volume is a Measure of Angiogenesis in Brain Tuberculoma and Its Therapeutic Implications

Rakesh Kumar Gupta1, Mohammad Haris1, Nuzhat Husain2, Mazhar Husain2, Kashi Nath Prasad1, Mohan Pauliah1, Chhitij

Srivastava2, Mukesh Tripathi1, Manu Rastogi2, Sanjay Bihari1, Divya Rathore3, Ram Kishore S. Rathore3

1Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 2King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; 3Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India