TRADITIONAL POSTERS

MRI in Animal Models Other Than Stroke

                  930.      MRI Microscopy of Alzheimer Plaques in APP751 Transgenic Mice: Effect of TE and Spatial Resolution
                                on Plaque Detectability

Amnon Bar-Shir¹, Yoram Cohen¹

¹Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

                  931.      Screening Mutagenic Mice with Ventricular Mutation: A Longitudinal Study

Yu-Ying Tung¹, Ching-Po Lin², Chen Chang¹

¹Functional and Micro-MRI Center, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

                  932.      Evaluation of Neurodegeneration in a Mouse Model of INCL by MRI and Spectroscopic Analyses

Alison Heffer¹, Jeeva P. Munasinghe¹, Zhongjian Zhang¹, Sandra L. Hofmann², Alan P. Koretsky¹, Anil Mukherjee¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²University of Texas, Dallas, Texas, USA

                  933.      Longitudinal Study of the Development of Beta-Amyloid Plaque Burden in a Transgenic Mouse
                                Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Using In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Niels Braakman¹, Jörg Matysik¹, Sjoerd G. van Duinen², Fons Verbeek¹, Reinhard Schliebs³, Huub J. M. de Groot¹, Alia Alia¹

¹Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; ²Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; ³University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

                  934.      In Vivo Quantification of Neuronal Degeneration in the G93A-SOD1 Transgenic Mouse Model
                                of ALS by T₂ Mapping

Heiko G. Niessen¹, Frank Angenstein, ¹², Kerstin Sander², Hans-Jochen Heinze¹, Henning Scheich², Stefan Vielhaber¹

¹University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, LSA, Germany; ²Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, LSA, Germany

                  935.      Development of a VBM Protocol for Assessing Regional Gray and White Matter Brain Changes in a
                                Canine Model of Aging

P D. Tapp¹, Kevin Head¹, Elizabeth Head¹, Nortan W. Milgram², Bruce A. Muggenburg³, Orhan Nalcioglu¹,

Min-Ying Su¹

¹University of California, Irvine, California, USA; ²University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ³Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

                  936.      Comparison of MRI with Histopathology in T-Cell Clone Mediated Mouse EAE

Susann Boretius¹, Steffan Nessler², Christine Stadelmann³, Takashi Watanabe¹, Jens Frahm¹, Thomas Michaelis¹

¹Max-Planck-Institut fuer biophysikalische Chemie, Goettingen, Germany; ²Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany; ³Gerog-August-University, Goettingen, Germany

                  937.      Axonal Injury is Detected by Postmortem DTI Before Fixation (But Not After)

Shu-Wei Sun¹, Hsiao-Fang Liang¹, Sheng-Kwei Song¹

¹Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  938.      Temporal Evaluations of the EAE-Induced Pathologies in the Grey Matter of Chronic Relapsing EAE

Anil Zechariah¹, Yi-Hua Hsu¹, Chen Chang¹

¹Functional and Micro-MRI Center, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

                  939.      Sequential Cerebral MRI of Listeria Brain Stem Encephalitis in Mice - Visualization of Sub-Clinical Lesions

Christian Brekken¹, Ellen-Ann Antal², Pål Erik Goa¹, Tina Bugge Pedersen¹, Else Løberg², Kjetil Klaveness Melby², Jan Mæhlen², Olav Haraldseth¹

¹Norwegian University of Science and Technology, FUGE MIC, Trondheim, Norway; ²University of Oslo, Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

                  940.      Increased Dietary Lysine and Associated Age Dependent Bilateral Striatal Damage in
                                Glutaryl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficient Mice

William Zinnanti¹, Jelena Lazovic², Keith Cheng¹, Michael B. Smith¹

¹Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; ²California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

                  941.      MRI Changes in CBF, Diffusion and T2 After Seizures Induced by GluR5 Agonist Infusion in Rat Before 180 Mins

Jeeva P. Munasinghe¹, Madhumitha Banerjee¹, Maria Acosta¹, Alison Heffer¹, S-I Yamaguchi¹, Michael A. Rogawski¹, Afonso C. Silva¹, Alan P. Koretsky¹, William H. Theodore¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  942.      High-Resolution MRI of NPC Mice Shows Neurological Changes Prior to Onset of Disease Symptoms

Chad Hicks¹, Silvia Lope-Piedrafita¹, Elizabeth Chaitkin¹, Emelia Allee-Jumbo¹, Lan Lin², Robert Erickson¹,

Kewei Chen³, Gene Alexander², Theodore Trouard¹

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; ²Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA; ³PET Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

                  943.      The Impact of Hydrocephalus in Experimental Meningitis

Christian Brandt¹, Helle J. Simonsen², Lise Vejby Søgaard², Olaf B. Paulson², Ian J. Rowland²

¹Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark; ²Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark

                  944.      Intranasal Insulin Delivery is Protective Against Diabetes Mellitus-Related Brain Atrophy and
                                White Matter Abnormalities in Experimental Diabetes Mellitus

Cory Toth¹, Ursula I. Tuor¹, Douglas Zochodne¹

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  945.      In Vivo Study of the Development of Hippocampal Subregions by High-Resolution Diffusion Weighted Imaging

Hsiao-Wen Chen¹, ², Yi-Hua Hsu², Wei-C. Chu¹, Chen Chang²

¹Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Functional and Micro-MRI Center, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

                  946.      MRI Assessment of Aß-Iron Complex in PS/APP Mouse Brain

Maria F. Falangola¹, ², Sang-Pil Lee³, Jens H. Jensen¹, Hanzhang Lu¹, Ralph A. Nixon², Karen Duff²,

Joseph A. Helpern¹, ²

¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ²Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, New York, USA; ³University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA

Animal Brain MRS 13C, 17OZ, 7Li, 15N

                  947.      The Anaplerotic Metabolic Flux Through Pyruvate Carboxylase is a Prerequisite for Ammonia
                                Detoxification in Acute and Chronic Liver Failure

Claudia Zwingmann¹, ², Roger Butterworth¹, Dieter Leibfritz²

¹Hospital Saint-Luc, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ²University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

                  948.      Glucose Metabolism in Animals with a Traumatic Brain Injury: A 13C NMR Study

Brenda L. Bartnik¹, ², David A. Hovda², Richard L. Sutton²

¹Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA; ²University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  949.      Neuronal-Glial Glucose Oxidation and Glutamatergic-GABAergic Function Revealed by ¹³C MRS Studies

Fahmeed Hyder¹, Anant Bahadur Patel¹, Albert Gjedde², Douglas L. Rothman¹, Kevin L. Behar¹, Robert G. Shulman¹

¹Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; ²Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

                  950.      Investigation of  the Role of GABA Reuptake in GABAergic Neurotransmission

Anant Bahadur Patel¹, Robin A. de Graaf¹, Douglas L. Rothman¹, Kevin L. Behar¹

¹Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  951.      Comparison of Amino Acid Turnover Rates in Cortex and Isolated Nerve Terminals of the Anesthetized Rat

Anant Bahadur Patel¹, James CK Lai², Golam MI Chowdhury¹, Douglas L. Rothman¹, Kevin L. Behar¹

¹Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; ²Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA

                  952.      Evaluation of the Simplified Method for Mapping Cerebral Metabolic Rate of Oxygen Based
                                on ¹⁷O NMR Approach

Nanyin Zhang¹, Xiao-Hong Zhu¹, Wei Chen¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  953.      Estimating Intracellular Lithium in Brain In Vivo by Lithium-7 MRS

Richard A. Komoroski¹, John M. Pearce²

¹University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ²University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

                  954.      Glial Glutamine Release and Neuronal Reuptake by SAT1 Studied In Vivo by N-15 NMR and Microdialysis

Keiko Kanamori¹, Brian D. Ross¹

¹Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, California, USA


 

Brain: Different Types of Relaxation and Angiography

                  955.      Chromium-Enhanced MRI of Myelinated Structures in Mouse Brain In Vivo

Takashi Watanabe¹, Roland Tammer¹, Susann Boretius¹, Jens Frahm¹, Thomas Michaelis¹

¹Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany

                  956.      Regional T1 Relaxation Time and Tissue Content Changes of Hippocampus in Bipolar Disorder

Wen-Jang Chu¹, Stephen M. Strakowski¹, Hoby P. Hetherington², Mellissa P. DelBello¹, Cal M. Adler¹, Jing-Huei Lee¹

¹Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA

                  957.      Establishment of an In Vivo Iron and R₂* Calibration Curve

Mark David Meadowcroft¹, James R. Connor¹, Jian-li Wang¹, Xiaoyu Sun¹, Michael B. Smith¹, Qing X. Yang¹

¹Pennsylvania State University - College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

                  958.      3D-Relaxometry - Quantitative T1 and T2 Brain Mapping at 3T

Burkhard Mädler¹, ², Trudy Harris³, Alex L. MacKay²

¹UBC Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; ²University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; ³Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada

                  959.      Normal Regional T₁ and T₂ Relaxation Times of the Brain at 3T

Christabel E.C. Lee¹, Eva H. Baker¹, David M. Thomasson¹

¹NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  960.      Long T₂ Imaging: Evidence of a New Water Reservoir in Phenylketonuria

Cornelia Laule¹, Sumia A. Tahir¹, Sandra M. Sirrs¹, Elana E. Brief², Carole Bishop¹, David KB Li¹, Alex L. MacKay¹

¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; ²Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

                  961.      Multicomponent T2 Analysis of Rat Brain and Spinal Cord at 9.4 T

Cheryl Rae McCreary¹, Debbie Anne Kelly¹, Boguslaw Tomanek², Tadeusz Foniok², Dave Kirk¹, Jeff Frank Dunn¹

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ²National Research Council, Calgary, AB, Canada

                  962.      Positive Contrast Susceptibility Weighted Imaging of Physiologic Calcification in Humans

John A. Butman¹, Wei Liu², Tobias Schaeffter³

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA; ³Philips Research Germany, Hamburg, Germany

                  963.      A Novel Technique to Study Mouse Cerebrovasculature Using MR Guided Micro-CT

Brige Paul Chugh¹, ², Lisa X. Yu¹, R. Mark Henkelman¹, John G. Sled¹

¹Mouse Imaging Centre (MICe), Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  964.      USPIO Enhanced Susceptibility Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Mouse Brain Vascular Architecture

Bob Hamans¹, Markus Barth², William Leenders¹, Arend Heerschap¹

¹Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands; ²Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

                  965.      Cerebral MR Angiography in Mice with a New Blood Pool Agent (P792)

Nadine El Tannir El Tayara¹, Christine Walczak¹, Andreas Volk¹, Marc Dhenain¹, ²

¹Institut Curie, Orsay, France; ²CEA-CNRS URA 2210, Orsay, France

                  966.      Cerebral Magnetic Resonance Angiography of the Mouse Lemur Primate

Nadine El Tannir El Tayara¹, Fabienne Aujard², Jean Luc Picq³, Andreas Volk¹, Marc Dhenain¹, ⁴

¹Institut Curie, Orsay, France; ²CNRS UMR 5176, Brunoy, France; ³Paris 8 University, EA 2027, Saint-Denis, France; ⁴CEA-CNRS URA 2210, Orsay, France

                  967.      T1 Relaxation in Mouse Brain at 9.4 and 17.6 Tesla

Rob C.G. van de Ven¹, Bianca Hogers¹, Arn Ma Ja Ms van den Maagdenberg¹, Rune R. Frants¹, Huub J. de Groot², Rob E. Poelmann¹, Suzanne R. Kiihne², Louise van der Weerd¹

¹Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands; ²Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

                  968.      Enhanced T₂ Contrast for MR Histology of the Mouse Brain

Anjum Ali Sharief¹, ², G Allan Johnson²

¹Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA; ²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  969.      Age Dependence of Transverse Relaxation at 3.0 T in Normal Human Brain

Jianli Wang¹, Xiaoyu Sun¹, Erin Zimmermann¹, Robert Grunfeld¹, Mark D. Meadowcroft¹, James R. Connor¹,

Michael B. Smith¹, Qing X. Yang¹

¹Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA 


 

John F. Schenck¹, Earl A. Zimmerman², David L. Henderson¹

¹GE Global Research, Schenectady, New York, USA; ²Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA

                  971.      T2* Relaxometry for Quantitative MR Imaging of Iron Deposits in Substantia Nigra of Parkinson’s Disease Brain

Eunhee Kim¹, Jung Hee Lee¹, Sung Tae Kim¹, Won Yong Lee¹, Hong Sik Byun¹

¹Samsung Medical Center Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

                  972.      Impact of Spatial Distribution of T2 and T1 Lesion Volume on Disability and Brain Atrophy

Michael G. Dwyer¹, Sara Hussein¹, Nadir Abdelrahman¹, Viritha Yella¹, Niels P. Bergsland¹, Robert Zivadinov¹

¹Buffalo Neuroimaging Analyis Center, Buffalo, New York, USA

                  973.      Fluid-Attenuated T_1ρ of the Human Brain In Vivo

Ari Borthakur¹, Gul Moonis¹, Laura Spece¹, Elias R. Melhem¹, Christopher M. Clark¹, John Q. Trojanowski¹,

Virginia M.-Y. Lee¹, Ravinder Reddy¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  974.      Changes in Brain Tissue Distribution and T2 Relaxation Time in Early Onset Type-1 Diabetes

Robert Mark Wellard¹, Gaby Pell¹, Debbie Rankin², Debra Boyce², Graeme David Jackson¹, George Werther², Elisabeth Northam²

¹Brain Research Isntitute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ²Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

                  975.      Mouse Brain Iron Distribution: Histochemical and Quantitative MRI (7T) Assessment

Sang-Pil Lee¹, Maria F. Falangola², ³, Jens H. Jensen², Hanzhang Lu², Ralph A. Nixon³, Karen Duff³,

Joseph A. Helpern², ³

¹University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA; ²New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ³Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, New York, USA

                  976.      Use of Double Inversion Recovery for Characterizing Diffusion of Myelin Water

Trevor Andrews¹, Michael Osborne¹, Mark D. Does¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  977.      Comparison of Magnetization Transfer Ratios in White Matter and Gray Matter of Neonatal, Juvenile,
                                and Adult Rats

Rae Anne Kokotailo¹, Tadeusz Foniok², Min Qiao², Boguslaw Tomanek, ¹², Ursula I. Tuor, ¹²

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ²Institute for Biodiagnostics (West), Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  978.      Does Repeated Injections of an Iron-Based Contrast Agent Lead to an Accumulation of
                                Iron in the Brain Parenchyma?

Samuel Valable¹, ², Christoph Segebarth¹, ², Chantal Remy¹, ², Emmanuel Barbier¹, ²

¹U594, Grenoble, F-38043, France; ²Univ grenoble 1, Grenoble, F-38043, France

                  979.      A 3T MRI Study of Brain Iron Deposition in Parkinson’s Disease and MSA Patients Using PRIME

Lauren Wallis¹, Richard Grunewald¹, Harriet Joy², Paul Griffiths¹, Martyn Paley¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK; ²University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, UK

                  980.      High Resolution MR Imaging Reveals the Angioarchitecture of Human Cerebral Cavernous Malformations

Palamadai Nilakantan Venkatasubramanian¹, ², Robert Shenkar¹, Jin Chen Zhao¹, Issam Awad¹, Alice Wyrwicz¹

¹ENH Research Institute, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ²Nothwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  981.      MP-RAGE Compared to 3D IR SPGR for Optimal T1 Contrast and Image Quality in the Brain at 3T

Chen Lin¹, Robert E. Watson¹, Heidi A. Ward¹, Charlotte H. Rydberg¹, Robert J. Witte¹, Matt A. Bernstein¹

¹Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  982.      Secular-T2  MRI: Quantitative MRI of the Cerebrum and Cerebellum in 24 Subjects

Suzuko Suzuki¹, Osamu Sakai¹, Hernán Jara¹

¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 


 

Eung Y. Kim¹, Xavier Golay², ³, Seung-Koo Lee¹, Sei Y. Kim¹, Dong J. Kim¹, Jinna Kim¹, Sam S. Kim⁴, Dong I. Kim¹

¹Research Institute of Radiologic Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, ASTAR, Singapore, Singapore; ³National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore; ⁴Kangwon National University College of Medicine, Chunchon, Republic of Korea

                  984.      Examination of White Matter Abnormalities in Cocaine Dependence Using Multi-Slice T2 Relaxography

Bryon A. Mueller¹, ², Sheila M. Specker¹, Logi Vidarsson³, Jeff R. Wozniak¹, John M. Pauly³, Kelvin O. Lim¹, ²

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ²Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ³Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA



 

Spinal Cord MRI

                  985.      Preliminary Application Study of MR Perfusion Imaging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging in
                                Tumor Like Lesions in the Cervical Spinal Cord

Xiang Liu¹, Wei Tian¹, Yoshimitsu Ohgiya², Sven Ekholm¹, Per-Lennart Westesson¹

¹University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA; ²University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochestrer, New York, USA

                  986.      Diffusion Tensor MRI of the Spinal Cord in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Paola Valsasina¹, ², Beatrice Benedetti¹, ², Domenico Caputo¹, Michele Perini³, Massimo Filippi¹, ²

¹Fondazione Don Gnocchi, Milan, Italy, Italy; ²Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy, Italy; ³Ospedale di Gallarate, Gallarate, Italy, Italy

                  987.      Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging of the Spinal Cord in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Yoshimitsu Ohgiya¹, ², Masaki Oka³, Akio Hiwatashi², Xiang Liu², Naoya Kakimoto², Tadashi Kitahara⁴,

Takehiko Gokan¹, Sven Ekholm², Per-Lennart Westesson²

¹Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; ²University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA; ³Kikunakinen Hospital, Yokohama, Japan; ⁴Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital, Yokohama-shi, Japan

                  988.      Diffusion Anisotropy in WM Depends on Myelin Content in a Diffusion Time-Dependent Manner:
                                Evidence from High B Value Q-Space Diffusion MR of Myelin Deficient Rat Spinal Cord

Inbal Eti Biton¹, Ian D. Duncan², Yoram Cohen¹

¹Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; ²University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  989.      DWI Assessment of a Transgenic Mouse Model for ALS

Haitham Abdelmoaty¹, Melinda West¹, Yasvir Tesiram¹, Andrew Abbott¹, Rebecca Blindauer¹, Kenneth Hensley¹,

Rheal A. Towner¹

¹Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

                  990.      In Vivo Regional Diffustion Tensor Metrics of  Rodent Spinal Cord

Aparna A. Deo¹, Khader M. Hasan², Ponnada A. Narayana²

¹University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA; ²University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA

                  991.      Contrast-Enhanced High Resolution MR Angiography of the Rat Spinal Region

Ketan B. Ghaghada¹, ², Kurt H. Bockhorst³, Srinivasan Mukundan⁴, ⁵, Ponnada A. Narayana³, Ananth V.

Annapragada, ¹²

¹University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA; ²University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA; ³University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA; ⁴Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA; ⁵Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  992.      MRI of Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier Disruption in Mice with Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

Angela Eileen Schellenberg¹, Richard Buist¹, V Wee Yong², Marc R. Del Bigio¹, James Peeling¹

¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Hideki Hyodoh¹, Hidenari Akiba¹, Mitsuharu Tamakawa¹, Kazusa Hyodoh¹, Naoya Yama¹, Taishi Sato¹,

Yuriko Kawaai¹, Masato Hareyama¹

¹Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

                  994.      Labeling Transected Axons with Intracellular Gd-DTPA for Micro-MRI of Lamprey Spinal Cord Injury

Alexander C. Wright¹, Li-Qing Jin¹, Guixin Zhang¹, Suzanne L. Wehrli², Michael E. Selzer¹, David B. Hackney¹,

Felix W. Wehrli¹

¹University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  995.      Dynamic In Vivo T1 Relaxation Measurements of Mouse Spinal Cord for Manganese-Enhanced MRI at 9.4 T

Xiping Liu¹, Guofan Xu¹, Gaohong Wu¹, Qian Yin¹, Shi-Jiang Li¹

¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

                  996.      Detection of Ipsilateral and Contralateral Activation Components in Unilateral Fingers-Tapping
                                Using Spinal BOLD fMRI

M. C. Ng¹, ², Edward X. Wu, H. F. Lau, Yong Hu, Edward S. Yang¹, D. K. Luk

¹The Jockey Club MRI Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ²Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

                  997.      Characterization of Spinal Cord Motion:  a Source of Errors in Spinal fMRI?

Chase R. Figley¹, Patrick W. Stroman¹

¹Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Perfusion Imaging in Animal Models

                  998.      Real Time Monitoring of Hyperosmolar Blood Brain Barrier Disruption Using MRI

Marie Blanchette¹, Martin Pellerin¹, Luc Tremblay¹, David Fortin¹, Martin Lepage¹

¹Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

                  999.      Implementation and Evaluation of an MRI Protocol for Assessment of Cerebrovascular Reserve
                                in the Rhesus Monkey – Characterizing the Aging Brain

Alexandre Coimbra¹, Marie A. Holahan¹, Yevgen Tymofyeyev¹, Richard Hargreaves¹, Jacquelynn J. Cook¹,

Donald S. Williams¹

¹Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1000.    Steady-State Quantification of δR₂ (SSTAR2) with Combidex for Measuring Cerebral Blood Volume

Jeff Frank Dunn¹, Debbie Anne Kelly¹, Cheryl Rae McCreary¹, Randy Tyson², Dave Kirk¹, Tad Foniok²

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ²National Research Council, Calgary, AB, Canada

                  1001.    Rapid Steady State T1 Method for Cerebral Blood Volume Fraction Mapping: Sensitivity
                                Determination Under Hypercapnia

Adriana Teodora Perles-Barbacaru¹, ², Hana Lahrech¹, ²

¹INSERM, U594, Grenoble, F-38043, France; ²Univ Grenoble 1, Grenoble, F-38043, France

                  1002.    Quantitative Analysis of Distribution and Clearance Rate of Charged and Uncharged Gd-Chelates in Rat Brain

Paul A. Schornack¹, Ping Wang¹, Seong-Gi Kim¹

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1003.    Developing an Arterial Spin Labeling Technique for Measuring Cerebral Blood Flow in Pediatrics:
                                Comparison with Computed Tomography Perfusion

Adrian Matthew Yuri Koziak¹, ², Jeff Winter¹, ², Ting-Yim Lee¹, ², Robert Terry Thompson¹, ², Keith St. Lawrence¹, ²

¹Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; ²University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  1004.    Arterial Spin Labeling Measurement of Arterial Perfusion Territories Using a Localized Labeling RF Coil

Fernando Fernandes Paiva¹, ², George Carlos Nascimento¹, Alberto Tannus², Afonso Costa Silva¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil

                  1005.    Limits on Quantification of Perfusion and Capillary Permeability Surface Area Product Using FAIR ASL

John Carr¹, David Buckley¹, Jean Tessier², Geoff Parker¹

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, UK; ²AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK

Tissue Segmentation and Coregistration

                  1006.    Identifying Tissue Types in MR Imaging of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Seok Ping Ang¹, Philip Daniel Allen¹, James Graham¹, Charles Edward Hutchinson¹

¹The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

                  1007.    Can Texture Analysis of MR Images Discriminate the Severity of Hepatic Fibrosis? a Patient Study
                                with Histological Correlation

Kieren Grant Hollingsworth¹, Susan Davies², David J. Lomas¹

¹University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK; ²Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK

                  1008.    Validation and Implementation of an Automated Boundary Finding Algorithm for Muscle Anatomy Studies

Bruce M. Damon¹, Drew A. Lansdown¹, Zhaohua Ding¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  1009.    Improving Automatic Tibial Medial Cartilage Segmentation by Incorporating Femoral Cartilage Compartment

Jenny Folkesson¹, Ole Fogh Olsen¹, Erik Dam¹, ², Paola Pettersen², Claus Christiansen²

¹IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK, Denmark; ²Center for Clinical and Basic Research, Ballerup, DK, Denmark

                  1010.    Automatic 3D Registration of Trabecular Bone Images Using a Collection of Regional 2D Registrations

Jeremy Magland¹, Branamir Vasilic¹, Wei Lin¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹

¹University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1011.    Fuzzy Logic Analysis and Reconstruction of Bone Structure from High-Resolution MRI

Florent Chandelier¹, David Dupuis¹, Luc Tremblay¹, Akbar Darabi¹, Gamal Baroud¹, Martin Lepage¹

¹Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

                  1012.    Fuzzy C-Means Based Tissue Classification in the Presence of Noise and Field Inhomogeneity

Binjian Sun¹, ², Don P. Giddens¹, Marijn E . Brummer¹, ², John N. Oshinski¹, ²

¹Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  1013.    Multi-Criteria Seeded Region Growing for Multi-Contrast MRI

Arnaud Garcia¹, ², Corinne Vachier¹, Antoine Rosset², Jean-Paul Vallee²

¹ENS Cachan, CACHAN, France; ²Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

                  1014.    A Semi-Automatic Ventricular Border Segmentation Package Based on Multi-Phase Levelset Segmentation

Qi Duan¹, Daniel Moses², Monvadi B. Srichai², Vinay M. Pai², Andrew F. Laine¹

¹Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ²New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

                  1015.    Three Dimensional Tracking of Tag Intersections in Tagged MRI

Yu Shimizu¹, XiuYi Jin², Akira Amano¹, Tetsuya Matsuda¹

¹Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; ²Advanced Software Technology & Mechatronics Research Institute of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

                  1016.    Dynamic Monitoring of the Rat Uterus Using 3D Automatic Segmentation

Erez Eyal¹, Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin¹, Meirav Galun¹, Edna Furman-Haran¹, Chidambaram Gunanathan¹, Ronen Basri¹, Achi Brandt¹, David Milstein¹, Hadassa Degani¹

¹Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

                  1017.    A Knowledge-Guided Active Model Method of Cortical Structure Segmentation on Pediatric MR Images

Zuyao Y. Shan¹, Carlos Parra², Qing Ji¹, Jinesh Jain¹, Wilburn E. Reddick¹, ²

¹St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA; ²University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA


 

Gaby S. Pell¹, Heath Pardoe¹, Regula S. Briellmann¹, David F. Abbott¹, Graeme D. Jackson¹

¹Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

                  1019.    Clustering of Brain Tumors by Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Data

Patrick W. T. Krooshof¹, Geert J. Postma¹, Willem J. Melssen¹, Lutgarde M. C. Buydens¹

¹Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Gld, Netherlands

                  1020.    MediCAD: An Integrated Visualization System for DTI and fMRI Fusion with Anatomical
                                MRI for Presurgical Planning

Xin Guan¹, ², Song Lai¹, John Lackey¹, Jianrong Shi¹, Udomachai Techavipoo¹, Klaus Mueller², Adam Flanders¹, David Andrews¹

¹Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA

                  1021.    MR Image Content-Adaptive Finite Element Mesh Generation

Won Hee Lee¹, Tae-Seong Kim¹, ², Min Hyung Cho¹, Soo Yeol Lee¹

¹Functional and Metabolic Imaging Center, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Kyungki, Republic of Korea; ²Functional and Metabolic Imaging Center,  Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Kyungki, Republic of Korea

Diffusion: Analysis and Processing

                  1022.    Reproducibility of Tractography Results: Turboprop-DTI vs. Spin-Echo Echo-Planar DTI

Minzhi Gui¹, Mariana Lazar², Konstantinos Arfanakis¹

¹Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1023.    Anomalous Diffusion and Non-Monoexponential B-Decay

Matt G. Hall¹, Clare Mackay², Matthew D. Robson², Thomas R. Barrick³

¹University College London, London, UK; ²University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; ³St Georges, University of London, London, UK


 

Maxim Zaitsev¹, Jürgen Hennig¹, Kamil A. Il'yasov¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  1025.    Image Noise Considerations for PROPELLER K-Space Sampling

Ashish Anil Tamhane¹, Mark A. Anastasio¹, Konstantinos Arfanakis¹

¹Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1026.    Adaptive Combination of Phased Array Signals for Diffusion Imaging

Thomas Benner¹, Vladimir Jellus², Ruopeng Wang¹, Van J. Wedeen¹, André J.W. van der Kouwe¹,

Graham C. Wiggins¹, A. Gregory Sorensen¹

¹Athinoula A. Martinos Center, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  1027.    Indices for Probabilistic Tractography Through Regions of Fibre Crossing

Guy B. Williams¹, Tim P. Hosey¹, Sally G. Harding¹, Thomas Adrian Carpenter¹

¹University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK

                  1028.    From ADC to Probability Profiles: The Diffusion Orientation Transform

Evren Ozarslan¹, ², Timothy M. Shepherd², Baba C. Vemuri², Stephen J. Blackband², Thomas H. Mareci²

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  1029.    Landmark Guided Spatial Normalization of Diffusion Tensor Images in the Presence
                                of Large Deformations

Ragini Verma¹, Christos Davatzikos¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1030.    Comparison of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Between Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Normal Controls
                                Using Statistical Parametric Mapping

Rahyeong Juh¹, ², Min Ying Su¹, Chang Uk Lee², Tae Suk Suh², Orhan Nalcioglu¹

¹University of California, Irvine, California, USA; ²Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

                  1031.    Quantitative Correlation-Time Diffusion MRI of the Brain:  In Vivo Measurements and
                                Comparison to Conventional Echoplanar Diffusion MRI

Benjamin Pan Liu¹, Osamu Sakai¹, Hernan Jara²

¹Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Diffusion Acquisition Methods

                  1032.    Simulations of Motion-Insensitive Diffusion Imaging Based on the Distant Dipolar Field

Tao Lin¹, Huijun Sun¹, Congbo Cai¹, Zhong Chen¹, ², Shuhui Cai¹, Jianhui Zhong²

¹Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People’s Republic of China; ²University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

                  1033.    Diffusion Weighted EPI vs. MinD SAP-EPI at 7T

Stefan Skare¹, Tie-Qiang Li², Rexford Newbould¹, David B. Clayton¹, Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA; ²National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1034.    Benefits of Higher Magnetic Fields for Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) Based on
                                Single-Shot STEAM MRI Sequences: In Vivo Mouse Brain Studies at 2.35 T and 7 T

Susann Boretius¹, Jens Wuerfel², Frauke Zipp², Takashi Watanabe¹, Jens Frahm¹, Thomas Michaelis¹

¹Max-Planck-Institut fuer biophysikalische Chemie, Goettingen, Germany; ²Research Center, Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

                  1035.    Ordering Diffusion-Weighted MRI Measurements Improves Results from Partially Completed Scans

Philip A. Cook¹, Mark R. Symms¹, Philip A. Boulby¹, Daniel C. Alexander¹

¹University College London, London, UK

                  1036.    Phantom Optimization for Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Els Fieremans¹, Steven Delputte¹, Yves De Deene², Yves D'Asseler¹, Rik Achten², Ignace Lemahieu¹, Rik Van de Walle¹

¹Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; ²Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

                  1037.    PROPELLER and Turboprop Acquisition Parameters for Optimal Motion Correction

Ashish Anil Tamhane¹, James G. Pipe², Konstantinos Arfanakis¹

¹Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA


 

David Atkinson¹, Serena J. Counsell², David J. Larkman², Jo V. Hajnal², Philip G. Batchelor¹, Derek LG Hill¹

¹University College London, London, UK; ²Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK

                  1039.    Optimization of K-Space Undersampled DW PROPELLER Using Fast RIGR Algorithm

Yutaka Natsuaki¹, ², Michael H. Buonocore, ²³, Thomas E. Nordahl, ²³, Ruth E. Salo, ²³

¹UC Davis, Davis, California, USA; ²UC Davis Imaging Research Center, Sacramento, California, USA; ³UCDMC, Sacramento, California, USA

                  1040.    Rapid Diffusion-Weighted Thermometry (DWT) Using 3D Singleshot Stimulated EPI

Nick Todd¹, S.E. Kim¹, E.K. Jeong¹, D.L. Parker¹

¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

                  1041.    Diffusion Spectrum Imaging Using Body-Center-Cubic Sampling Scheme

Wen-Yang Chiang¹, Van J. Wedeen², Li-Wei Kuo³, Ming-Hwei Perng¹, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng⁴

¹National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; ²Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁴National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1042.    High-Resolution Whole Brain Cardiac Gated Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Joelle Elita Sarlls¹, Rexford D. Newbould², Maria I. Altbach¹, Arthur F. Gmitro¹, Theodore P. Trouard¹

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; ²Stanford, Stanford, California, USA

                  1043.    Reduce Encoding of Diffusion Spectrum Imaging with Cross-Term Correction

Kuan-Hung Cho¹, Chun-Hung Yeh², Yi-Ping Chao¹, Jyh-Horng Chen¹, Ching-Po Lin²

¹Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1044.    Halving Imaging Time of Whole Brain Diffusion Spectrum Imaging (DSI) Using Simultaneous
                                Echo Refocusing (SER) EPI

Timothy G. Reese¹, Thomas Benner¹, Ruopeng Wang¹, David A. Feinberg², Van J. Wedeen¹

¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastapol, California, USA

                  1045.    Multi-Shot DWI with Iterative Phase and Field Inhomogeneity Corrections

Bryan Mackenzie Donald¹, Robert C. Welsh¹, Jeffrey A. Fessler¹, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  1046.    Multi-Shot, Diffusion-Weighted Imaging at 3T Using Readout-Segmented EPI and GRAPPA

David Andrew Porter¹, Robin M. Heidemann¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  1047.    2D-Navigator-Based Re-Acquisition for Motion Artefact Suppression in Multi-Shot, Diffusion-Weighted Imaging

David Andrew Porter¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  1048.    Correlation Time Diffusion Coefficient Mapping of the Abdomen with Respiratory
                                Triggered Mixed-TSE: A Non-Pulsed Field Gradient Technique

Hernan Jara¹, Rodrigo Diaz Garbizu², Jorge Andres Soto¹

¹Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1049.    Diffusion Tensor Encoding Schemes Optimized for White Matter Fibers with Selected Orientations

Huiling Peng¹, Konstantinos Arfanakis¹

¹Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1050.    Use of Gradient Crushers on Multiple Axes for Diffusion Imaging of Thin Slices with Reduced TE

Theodore R. Steger¹, Zhu Li¹, R. Scott Hinks¹, Bryan J. Mock¹

¹GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  1051.    Isotropic Steady State Diffusion Weighted Imaging

Taek Soo Kim¹, Garry Evan Gold¹, John Mark Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1052.    Ghost-Free Spin-Echo Echo Planar Imaging Method for Diffusion Weighted Images Using Adaptive RF Pulses

Yeji Han¹, Jinyoung Hwang¹, Jun-Young Chung¹, HyunWook Park¹

¹Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

                  1053.    Diffusion Anisotropy Measurement at the Crossing Fiber by Using Ga Priorh Fiber Information

Hiroyuki Kabasawa¹, Yoshitaka Masutani¹, Osamu Abe¹, Shigeki Aoki¹, Kuni Ohtomo¹

¹University of Tokyo, Bunkyou-ku, Tokyo, Japan

                  1054.    Accurate Quantification of Diffusion in Heterogeneous Systems Using the New Magic Asymmetric
                                Gradient (MAG) Technique

Phillip Zhe Sun¹, ²

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1055.    High Resolution DTI of Localized Volume, Using 3D Singleshot STimulated EPI

Eun-Kee Jeong¹, Seong-Eun Kim¹, Eugene G. Kholmovski¹, Dennis L. Parker¹

¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

                  1056.    PROPELLER EPI with Reversed Gradient Method for High Resolution DTI at 3.0T
                                Without Field-Map Correction

Hing-Chiu Chang¹, Tzu-Chao Chuang¹, Teng-Yi Huang², Hsiao-Wen Chung¹, ³, Cheng-Yu Chen³, Fu-Nien Wang¹, Kenneth K. Kwong⁴

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; ³Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1057.    In Vivo Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Rat Brain Acquired with a 3T Clinical MRI System and a
                                High Strength Insert Gradient Coil

Dirk Mayer¹, Elfar Adalsteinsson², ³, Brian K. Rutt⁴, Natalie Zahr¹, Edith V. Sullivan¹, Adolf Pfefferbaum, ¹⁵

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ³MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; ⁵SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA

                  1058.    A Novel Method of Partitioning Diffusion Weighting Schemes for Efficient Comparisons of DTI Protocols

Bennett Allan Landman¹, Jonathan A. D. Farrell, ¹², Susumu Mori, ¹², Jerry L. Prince¹, ³

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


 

Diffusion: Precision, Accuracy, and Effects of Experimental Design

                  1059.    Reproducibility Study of Quantitative Diffusion Characteristics

Christine Ojango¹, Dorothee Auer¹, Steven Jackson¹, Paul S. Morgan¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

                  1060.    Reliability of FA and ADC Measures in the Healthy Brain: Implications for Longitudinal DTI Studies

Rachel Scheidegger¹, ², Ying Wu¹, ², Renee Ochs¹, Pippa Storey¹, ², Robert Edelman¹, ², Ann Ragin¹, ²

¹Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA

                  1061.    Multivariate Statistical Comparison of Diffusion Tensor Maps in Normal Aging

Brandon Whitcher¹, David S. Tuch²

¹GlaxoSmithKline, Greenford, Middlesex, UK; ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1062.    Sensitivity of Voxel-Based Analysis of DTI Images to the Warping Strategy

Gaby S. Pell¹, Heath Pardoe¹, Regula S. Briellmann¹, David F. Abbott¹, Graeme D. Jackson¹

¹Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

                  1063.    Voxelwise Analysis of FA Data: Session and Subject Variability, Gaussianity and Dependence on Acquisition

Stephen Mark Smith¹, Heidi Johansen-Berg¹, Clare Mackay¹, Timothy E J Behrens¹, Andreas J. Bartsch²

¹fMRIB, Oxford University, UK; ²Dept Neuroradiology, University of Würzburg, Germany

                  1064.    Anatomic Versus Fractional Anisotropy Images for Registration of Group DTI Morphometry Data

Kendra Klang¹, Marcel Jackowski¹, Robert Fulbright¹, Xenios Papademetris¹, Cheryl Lacadie¹, Hemant Tagare¹,

 Sally Shaywitz¹, Bennett Shaywitz¹, Robert Todd Constable¹

¹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  1065.    Analytical Expressions for Noise Propagation in Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Yuji Shen¹, Ida Pu², Chris Clark¹

¹St. George's, University of London, London, UK; ²Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK

                  1066.    The Asymptotic Distribution of Diffusion Tensor and Fractional Anisotropy Estimates

John David Carew¹, Cheng Guan Koay², Grace Wahba¹, Andrew L. Alexander¹, Peter J. Basser², Mary Elizabeth Meyerand¹

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1067.    Error Propagation Framework for Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Cheng Guan Koay¹, Lin-Ching Chang¹, Carlo Pierpaoli¹, Peter J. Basser¹

¹NICHD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1068.    Motion Correction in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Yu Bai¹, Philip A. Cook¹, Hui Zhang², Daniel C. Alexander¹

¹University College London, London, UK; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1069.    Magnitude-Based Spike Noise Correction for Diffusion Tensor Imaging

sofia Chavez¹, Matt Sodomsky¹, Pippa Storey², Simon Graham¹, ³

¹Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada; ²Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ³University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

                  1070.    A Combined Distortion Corrected Protocol for Diffusion Weighted Tractography and fMRI

Karl Vincent Embleton¹, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph¹, Geoff J. M. Parker¹

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

                  1071.    Impact of Partial Volume Effect on Fiber Coherence Index (FCI) Calculation: A Simulation Study

Girish Srinivasan¹, ², Aziz H. Poonawalla, ²³, Xiaohong Joe Zhou²

¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ³M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

                  1072.    Effects of the Gradient Number to Resolve Two Crossing Fiber Tracts in HARDI

Dae-Jin Kim¹, Hae-Jeong Park², ³, In Young Kim¹, Sun I. Kim¹

¹Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ³Division of Nuclear Medicine, Severance Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

                  1073.    Effect of Diffusion Time and Diffusion Gradient Strength on the Mean Diffusivity of DTI in Healthy Human Brain

Song Gao¹, Shanglian Bao¹, Hongrun Ren²

¹Beijing Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ²Cangzhou medical college, Cangzhou, People’s Republic of China

                  1074.    Diffusion Time Dependence of DTI Measurements

Shu-Wei Sun¹, Sheng-Kwei Song¹

¹Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  1075.    Effects of Diffusion Weighting Scheme and SNR on DTI-Derived Fractional Anisotropy at 1.5T

Jonathan Andrew David Farrell¹, ², Bennett Allen Landman², Craig K. Jones, ¹², Seth A. Smith¹, ², Jerry L. Prince², ³, Peter C.M. van Zijl, ¹², Susumu Mori, ¹²

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

                  1076.    Finite Pulse Widths Improve Fibre Orientation Estimates in Diffusion Tensor MRI

Matt G. Hall¹, Daniel C. Alexander¹

¹University College London, London, UK

                  1077.    Analysis of Systematic Errors on Estimated Parameters in Q-Space MRI

Frank Peeters¹, Thierry Duprez¹, Guy Cosnard¹

¹St-Luc University Hospital, UCL, Brussels, Belgium

The Normal Brain: Analysis by Tractography

                  1078.    Combined DTI Fiber Tracking and Histological 3D Atlas Mapping of Sensorimotor, Associative
                                and Limbic Cortico – Striatal Circuits

Saâd Jbabdi¹, Eric Bardinet², Habib Benali¹, Didier Dormont², Kamil Ugurbil³, Jérôme Yelnik⁴, Stéphane Lehéricy¹, ³

¹Inserm/UPMC, Paris, France; ²CNRS, Paris, France; ³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ⁴Inserm, Paris, France

                  1079.    Cortico-Cortical Connectivity Revealed by DTI-Based Tractography

Hao Huang¹, Jerry L. Prince², Aaron Carass², Bennett Landman¹, Peter C.M. van Zijl¹, ³, Susumu Mori¹, ³

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

                  1080.    Automatic Segmentation of the Pyramidal Tract Basing on Whole-Brain DTI Imaging

Felix Schoth¹, Uli Buergel¹, Paul Stracke¹

¹UK Aachen, Aachen, NRW, Germany

                  1081.    Cortical Mapping Inside Out: Mapping of Cortical Areas Associated with Specific White Matter
                                Tracts Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Tractography

Kegang Hua¹, Jiangyang Zhang¹, Setsu Wakana¹, Huang Hao¹, Hangyi Jiang¹, Peter van Zijl¹, ², Susumu Mori¹, ²

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1082.    Voxel Based Versus Region of Interest Analysis in Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Neurodevelopment

Lindsay Snook¹, Chris Plewes¹, Christian Beaulieu¹

¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

                  1083.    Regional Variability of Aging and Gender Difference in Human Corpus Callosum:
                                A Diffusion Tensor MRI Study at 4 Tesla

Yu Zhang¹, Geon-Ho Jahng¹, An-Tao Du¹, Michael W. Weiner¹, Norbert Schuff¹

¹UC San Francisco and Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND), VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA

                  1084.    Tract Probability Map in Stereotaxic Spaces and Analysis of Asymmetry

Kegang Hua¹, Jiangyang Zhang¹, Setsu Wakana¹, Hangyi Jiang¹, Peter van Zijl¹, ², Susumu Mori¹, ²

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²F. M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1085.    Evaluation of Somatotopic Organization of Corticospinal Tracts in the Cerebral Peduncle: Results of
                                Diffusion-Tensor MR Tractography

Ji Kang Park¹, Bong Soo Kim¹, Guk Myung Choi¹, Hyung Soo Khang²

¹Cheju National University Hospital, Jeju, Republic of Korea; ²Eulji University Hospital, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

                  1086.    The Analysis of the Water Diffusivity Within White Matter Tract in Cuprizone-Induced Mouse Model
                                Using Various Indices by the Diffusion Tensor Ellipsoid

Chien-Yuan Lin¹, ², Pei-ching Chang², Chung-Yi Hong², Jyh-Hong Chen¹, Chen Chang²

¹Interdisciplinary MRI/MRS Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Functional and Micro-MRI Center, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan