Resting State BOLD and Connectivity

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  1087.    The Frequency Profile of TE-Dependent BOLD Physiological Fluctuations

Kevin Murphy1, Rasmus M. Birn1, Peter A. Bandettini1

1National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  1088.    Capacity Scores of Functional Synchrony in MCI Subjects Are Significantly Lower Than in Age-Matched
                                Controls Determined by ICA Analysis

Zhilin Wu1, Yin Xu1, Guofan Xu1, Shi-Jiang Li1

1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA


 

                  1089.    Functional Connectivity in the Resting Brain Revealed by Group-Level Independent
                                Component Analysis
 

Sharon Chen1, 2, Thomas J. Ross1, Keh-Shih Chuang2, Elliot A. Stein1, Yihong Yang1

1National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, Taiwan

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                  1090.    Resting State Connectivity of Anterior and Posterior Cingulate Corteces Using Potts Spin Model

Larissa I. Stanberry1, Alejandro Murua2, Dietmar Cordes3

1University of Washington, Everett, Washington, USA; 2University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; 3University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

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                  1091.    The Use of Multiple Physiologic Parameter Regression Increases Gray Matter Temporal
                                Signal to Noise by Up to 50%

Rasmus Matthias Birn1, Kevin Murphy1, Jerzy Bodurka1, Peter Anthony Bandettini1

1National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  1092.    The Effect of Cardiac Pulsation on fMRI Data Analysis

Wen-Chau Wu1, Eric C. Wong1

1University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

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                  1093.    Examination of Non-Physiological Sources of 1/f-Like Noise in EPI Power Spectra

David A. Soltysik1, Vinai Roopchansingh1, James S. Hyde1

1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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                  1094.    Simple Model to Describe Weisskoff EPI Temporal Stability Test - Analogy with Physiological
                                Noise Model in Oxygenation-Sensitive fMRI

Jerzy Bodurka1, Peter Bandettini1

1NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  1095.    Vasomotor Independence of BOLD-Based fMRI Resting Rhythms

Tzu-Chen Yeh1, 2, Chou-Ming Cheng1, 2, Wen-Jui Kuo2, Jen-Chuen Hsieh1, 2, Low-Tone Ho1, 2

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

 

                  1096.    Fingerprints of Resting BOLD-Based fMRI

Tzu-Chen Yeh1, 2, Chou-Ming Cheng1, Wen-Jui Kuo3, Jen-Chuen Hsieh1, Low-Tone Ho1

1Taipei Veternas General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan; 2National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Miaoli, Taiwan; 3National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan

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                  1097.    Temporal Autocorrelation of Noise for BOLD and IRON fMRI

Francisca Pais Leite1, Doug Greve2, Wim Vanduffel2, Joseph B. Mandeville2

1MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; 2A A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

 

                  1098.    Time-Dependent Analysis of Functional Connectivity Using Low Frequency BOLD Fluctuations
                                (LFBF) in Visual Areas

Jochen G. Hirsch1, Mark J. Lowe2, Christina Rossmanith3, Achim Gass1, 3

1University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 2The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; 3University Hospital Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

 

                  1099.    Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Correlated Brain Activity During Awake Rest and Early Sleep

Masaki Fukunaga1, Silvina G. Horovitz1, Jacco A. de Zwart1, Peter van Gelderen1, Susan C. Fulton1,

Thomas J. Balkin2, Jeff H. Duyn1

1National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

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                  1100.    Local Coherence as a Measure of Localized Co-Ordination in the Brain: An Application to Anesthesia

Gopikrishna Deshpande1, Stephen LaConte1, Scott Peltier1, Chantal Kerssens2, Stephan B. Hamann, Peter S. Sebel2, Michael Byas-Smith2, Xiaoping Hu1

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

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                  1101.    Mapping Functional Connectivity Using Potts Spin Model

Larissa I. Stanberry1, Alejandro Murua2, Dietmar Cordes3

1University of Washington, Everett, Washington, USA; 2University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; 3University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

 

fMRI: Cognition and Language

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

 

 

                  1102.    Event Related Negative BOLD Response Observed in an Attention Switching Task

Zhihao Li1, Scott Peltier1, Xiaoping Hu1

1Emory University/Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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                  1103.    7 Tesla fMRI of Mental Maze Solving in the Human Superior Parietal Lobule Using Parallel Imaging

Trenton Jerde1, Scott Lewis1, Ute Goerke1, Pierre-Francois Van De Moortele1, Gregor Adriany1, Steen Moeller1,

Kamil Ugurbil1, Apostolos Georgopoulos1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  1104.    Sensory Perception and Spatial Judgement Imagery Patterns in Healthy and Visually
                                Handicapped Subjects - An fMRI Study

Senthil S. Kumaran1, Subash Khushu1, Shilpi Modi1, Manisha Bhattacharya1, Rajendra Prasad Tripathi1

1Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India

 

                  1105.    Imagine Yourself Flying in MRI: Disagreement Between Visual Scene and Supine Position During fMRI

Kayako Matsuo1, Chikako Kato2, Haruo Isoda3, Yasuo Takehara3, Hiroyasu Takeda3, Epifanio Tila Bagarinao4, Toshiharu Nakai1

1National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Aichi, Japan; 2Toyohashi Sozo University, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan; 3Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan; 4National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

 

                  1106.    Gender Differences in the Topological Map Within the Parietal Lobes

Peter Brotchie1, Shaun Seixas2, Shoane Ip3, Graeme Jackson4

1Geelong Hospital, Geelong, Victoria, Australia; 2Swinburne University, Melbourne, Victoria, Azerbaijan; 3University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 4Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

 

                  1107.    Gender and Hormone Levels Influence Cortical Activation During Synonym
                                Generation. an fMRI Study Across Menstrual Cycle and Sex at 3 T

Harald Kugel1, Carsten Konrad1, Sonja Schoening1, Sebastian Schaefer1, Pirus Beizai1, Eva Pletziger1,

Patricia Ohrmann1, Anette Kersting1, Walter Heindel1, Volker Arolt1, Almut Engelien1

1University of Muenster, Muenster, NRW, Germany

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                  1108.    Decrease in CMRO2 for Memory-Encoding Tasks in the Hippocampus of Mild Cognitive Impairment Subjects

Guofan Xu1, Gaohong Wu1, Yin Xu1, Shi-Jiang Li1

1Medical College of WI, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

 

                  1109.    Localisation of Regions of Hedonia in the Normal Brain Using an Original, Event-Related,
                                Group Specific, Sporting Paradigm

John McLean1, David Brennan1, Barrie Condon1, Jonathan Cavanagh1, David Wyper1, Jennifer Chisholm1

1Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow, UK

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                  1110.    Brain Activation Induced by Acupoint Stimulation in the Yin Meridian: fMRI Study

Geng Li1, Annie M. Y Tang1, Gina G. Jing1, Edward S. Yang1

1The University of Hong Kong, HK, HKSAR, People’s Republic of China

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                  1111.    Investigating the Emotional Responses to Commercials Using fMRI

Nelson J. Klahr1, Feng Shen1, Paul Wright1, Goujun He1, Jorge Villegas1, Jon Morris1, Yijun Liu1

1University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA


 

                  1112.    Does the Task Make a Difference? Comparison of Active and Passive Processing of
                                Emotional Words with Functional Neuroimaging


 

Traute Demirakca1, Matthias Ruf2, Tim Wokrina2, Gabriele Ende2

1Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany; 2Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

 

                  1113.    Processing Lexical Semantic Information in Seond Language Shaped Native Langauge by Event-Related fMRI

Jeong-Seok Kim1, Bom-Soo Kim1, Sin-Soo Jeun1, Bo-Young Choe1

1College of Medicine, The catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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                  1114.    Detection of Short Term Effect of Violent Video Game: An fMRI Study Using Emotional Face Matching Task

Yang Wang1, Vincent Mathews1, Andrew Kalnin1, Kristine Mosier1, David Dunn1, William Kronenberger1

1Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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                  1115.    Verbal Working Memory in Digital Calculations: A Functional MRI Study

Quan Zhang1, Yunting Zhang1, Wei Li1, Jing Zhang1

1General Hospital, Tianjin medical University, Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

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                  1116.    fMRI During Overt Production of Alternating Elemental English Sounds

James S. Hyde1, David A. Soltysik1, Vinai Roopchansingh1

1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

 

                  1117.    Reliability of Language Paradigms in fMRI for Pre-Operative Mapping

Koushik Govindarajan1, Shashwath Ashok Meda1, Zahid Latif1, Ewart Mark Haacke1, 2, Randall Reed Benson3

1Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA; 2MRI Institute for Biomedical Research, Detroit, Michigan, USA; 3Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA

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                  1118.    fMRI of Voice Production

Jürgen Baudewig1, A. Olthoff2, E. Kruse2, Peter Dechent1

1MR-Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; 2Dept of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology, Medical Faculty, Georg-August-, Göttingen, Germany

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                  1119.    Lateralization of Brain Function in Cognitive Music Processing of Chord Versus Rhythm

Yi-Yu Shih1, Yen-Hsiang Wang1, Cheng-Wen Ko2, Hsiao-Wen Chung1

1National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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                  1120.    Developmental fMRI Changes Associated with Relational Reasoning

Paul J. Eslinger1, Jianli Wang1, Clancy Blair2, Bryn Lipovsky1, David Baker2, Steve Thorne2, David Gamson2,

Qing X. Yang1, Lisa Rohrer2

1Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA; 2Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

 

                  1121.    Designing a Language Task for Clinical Routine - An Application of Incremental Analysis of
                                T-Statistics for Task Design

Toshiharu Nakai1, Epifanio Bagarinao2, Kayako Matsuo1, Yuko Ohgami3, Chikako Kato4

1National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Ohbu, Aichi, Japan; 2AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaragi, Japan; 3Ochanomizu University Graduate School of Humanitics and Science, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; 4Toyohashi Sozo College, Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan

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                  1122.    Hand Movement and Overt Speech Assessed by fMRI: Does a Combined Task Facilitate the Motor Execution?

Laura Mancini1, Serge Pinto2, Robert Brehmer3, John S. Thornton1, Marjan Jahanshahi2, Tarek Yousry1,

Patricia Limousin-Dowsey2

1National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK; 2Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK; 3Queen Square Imaging Centre, London, UK

 

                  1123.    Functional Imaging of Brainstem Structures Involved in Voiding Control

Jürgen Baudewig1, Sandra Rebmann2, Petra Holz1, R.-H. Ringert2, Peter Dechent1

1MR-Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany; 2Department of Urology, Medical Faculty, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany


 

                  1124.    fMRI of Taste and Aroma Associations
 

Sally Fathy Eldeghaidy1, Luca Marciani1, Johann Pfeiffer1, Kay Head1, Joanne Hort1, Andy J. Taylor1,

Robin C. Spiller1, Penny A. Gowland1, Susan Francis1

1University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK

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                  1125.    A Comparative Study of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging on Two Clinical MRI
                                Systems Using an Auditory Paradigm

Shelley A. Waugh1, Stephen James Gandy1, Richard Stephen Nicholas1, John Graeme Houston1

1Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Angus, UK

 

                  1126.    Functional Properties of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex and the Posterior Insula:
                                Characterization Using Basic Types of Coherent and Incoherent Motion Stimuli

Peter Dechent1, Andrea Antal2, Petra Holz1, Walter Paulus2, Jürgen Baudewig1

1MR-Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany; 2Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany

 

fMRI: Primary Sensory/Motor Applications

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  1127.    Daily Priming Stimulation of the Motor Cortex Reduces Hemodynamics

Christopher B. Glielmi1, Andrew J. Butler2, Dmitriy M. Niyazov1, Warren G. Darling3, Charles M. Epstein2,

Jay L. Alberts4, Xiaoping P. Hu1

1Emory University/GA Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 2Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 3University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; 4Cleveland Clinic Foundation Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  1128.    Auditory-Visual Multisensory Interactions Within Primary Cortices Revealed by BOLD Peak Facilitation

Roberto Martuzzi1, 2, Micah Murray1, Christoph Michel3, Philippe Maeder1, Jean-Philippe Thiran2, Stephanie Clarke1, Reto Meuli1

1Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland; 2EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; 3Geneva University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

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                  1129.    Reduced Spurious Activation by Continued Controlled Attention in fMRI Measurements of Primary Sensory Areas

Lei Zhang1, Jürgen Hennig1, Kai Zhong1, Oliver Speck1

1University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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                  1130.    Reproducibility of Trial-Based Functional MRI on Motor Imagery

Seung-Schik Yoo1, Heather M. O'Leary1, Jong-Hwan Lee1, Nan-Kuei Chen1, Lawrence P. Panych1, Hyunwook Park2, Ferenc A. Jolesz1

1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2KAIST, Daejon, ChoongNam, Republic of Korea

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                  1131.    Effective Connectivity of the Human Motor System: Differences in Subcortical Influences
                                During Automatic and Effortful Movements

Suzanne T. Witt1, Matthew W. Schmidt1, Jo-Anne C. Lazarus1, M Elizabeth Meyerand1

1University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

 

                  1132.    Plasticity of the Primary Motor Cortex in Bilateral Upper-Extremities Amputees with
                                Different Foot Movement Skill

Xiao Jing Yu1, Shi Zheng Zhang1

1Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Medical College of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China

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                  1133.    Two Types of Sensory and Motor Cortical Reorganization in Hemiplegia Following Early
                                Cerebral Damage: Correlation of Clinical Outcome with Neurophysiological and fMRI Findings

Paolo Bonanni1, Laura Biagi1, Michela Tosetti1, Domenico Montanaro2, Giovanni Cioni1

1Stella Maris Scientific Institute, Pisa, PI, Italy; 2National Research Council, Pisa, PI, Italy

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                  1134.    Differences in fMRI Brain Activation Between Left and Right Handed Subjects Executing Diverse Tasks

Ronald Peeters1, Kirsten Vandewalle1, Stefan Sunaert1, Paul Van Hecke1

1University Hospital of the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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                  1135.    Cortical Activation Associated with Tactile Movement in Attentive Subjects

M K. Syed1, Abdelmalek Benattayallah2, J Fulford3, I R. Summers1

1School of Physics, Exeter, UK; 2School of Physics, Exeter, N/A, UK; 3Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre, Exeter, UK

 

                  1136.    Where in Human Brain is the Representation of Grasping Movements?

Noriaki Hattori1, Hiroshi Shibasaki1, Lewis Wheaton1, Tao Wu1, Masao Matsuhashi1, Mark Hallett1

1NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  1137.    Age-Related Motor and Nociceptive Cortical Processing Changes Revealed with fMRI

Raimi L. Quiton1, 2, Gauri Bedekar, 23, Steven R. Roys2, Jiachen Zhuo2, Michael L. Keaser1, Joel D. Greenspan1, 2

Rao P. Gullapalli2

1University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 3University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland, USA

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                  1138.    Differences Observed in Subcortical Motor Structures Active During Automatic and Effortful Movements

Suzanne T. Witt1, Kathryn M. McMillan2, M Elizabeth Meyerand1

1University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; 2University of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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                  1139.    Undershoot-Like Signal Associated with Effort-Induced Mirror Movements

Chihiro Kuroki1, Koichi Oshio2, Seiji Ogawa1, Isao Yokoi3

1Hamano life science research foundation, Tokyo, Japan; 2Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; 3Oita University School of Medicine, Oita, Japan

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                  1140.    Impact of Feeding on Olfactory Bulb Response Detected by fMRI

Fuqiang Xu1, James Shafer1, Godon M. Shepherd1, Fahmeed Hyder1, Douglus L. Rothman1

1Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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                  1141.    A Parametrized Approach to BOLD Calibration for the Olfactory Bulb

James Schafer1, Fuqiang Xu1, Douglas L. Rothman1, Fahmeed Hyder1

1Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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                  1142.    fMRI Study of Auditory- Somatosensory Multisensory Interaction

Hiroaki Mano1, Masahiro Umeda1, Masaki Fukunaga1, Yu Ito2, Toshihiro Higuchi1, Chuzo Tanaka1

1Meiji University of Oriental Medicine, Nantan-shi, Kyoto, Japan; 2Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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                  1143.    Pain fMRI Studies Are Improved by Slice-Wise Removal of Cardiac Noise

Keith M. Vogt1, James William Ibinson1, Robert Harold Small1, Petra Schmalbrock1

1The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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                  1144.    Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Spinal Cord and Brainstem During Heat Stimulation

Patrick W. Stroman1, Catherine M. Cahill1

1Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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                  1145.    Functional MRI of the Responses of the Human Hypothalamus to Sweet Taste and Calories

Paul Smeets1, 2, Matthias van Osch, 13, Cees de Graaf, 24, Annette Stafleu2, Jeroen van der Grond, 13

1University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; 2TNO Quality of Life, Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands; 3Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; 4Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

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                  1146.    Intense Aerobic Training Has No Effect on BOLD-Based Brain Functional Imaging

Jill M. Slade1, Theodore F. Towse1, Mark C. DeLano1, Ronald A. Meyer1

1Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

 

fMRI: CNS Disorders and Pharmacological Modulation

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  1147.    Neural Correlates to the Episodic Memory Continuum from Health to Alzheimer’s Disease

Arthur Peter Wunderlich1, Matthias Riepe2, Georg Grön3

1Univ.-Clinic Ulm, Ulm, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany; 2Charite - University Medicine, Berlin, Germany; 3Univ.-Clinic Ulm, Ulm, Germany

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                  1148.    BOLD Deactivation Response to Hand Tapping in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Stephanie C. Manson1, 2, Christiane Wegner1, Frederica Agosta3, Frederick Barkhof4, Christian Beckmann1,

Olga Ciccarelli5, Nicola De Stefano6, Franz Fazekas7, Massimo Filippi3, Joe A. Frank2, Achim Gass8, Jochen Hirsch8, Heidi Johansen-Berg1, Ludwig Kappos8, Tijmen Korteweg4, Laura Mancini5, Francesco Manfredonia5, Silvia Marino6, David H. Miller5, Xavier Montalban9, Jacqueline Palace1, Chris Polman4, Maria Rocca3, Stefan Ropele7, Alex Rovira9, Steve Smith1, Alan Thompson5, John Thornton5, Tarek Yousry5, Paul M. Matthews1

1Oxford University, Oxford, UK; 2National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 3University Ospedale San Raffaele Milan, Milan, Italy; 4VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 5University College London, London, UK; 6University of Siena, Siena, Italy; 7Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria; 8University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 9Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain

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                  1149.    Cortical Activation Volume During a Bilateral Motor Task in Multiple Sclerosis Patient: 
                                a Study of the Effect of  Subject Motion  and Task Performance

Mark J. Lowe1, Craig Israel Horenstein1, Devyani Bedekar1, Ruth Ann Marie1, Lael Stone1, Pallab K. Bhattacharyya1, Mario Dzemidzic1, Michael D. Phillips1

1The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  1150.    Strength and Onset of Basal Ganglia Activation in Parkinson's Disease Patients and Healthy Subjects
                                During Different Movement Conditions

Christian Windischberger1, Ross Cunnington2, Birgit Hoheisel1, Lüder Deecke1, Ewald Moser1

1Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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                  1151.    Altered Cortical Activation in ALS Differs in Motor and Extra-Motor Regions

Biba Rhiannon Stanton1, Andy Simmons1, Victoria Williams1, Camilla Blain1, Peter Nigel Leigh1

1Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK

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                  1152.    Neuropathological Correlates of Movement Disorders in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH)

Ekkehard H.G.K. Kuestermann1, Markus Ebke2, Anne Heinermann2, Günther Schwendemann2, Manfred Herrmann1, Dieter Leibfritz1

1University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; 2Klinikum Bremen-Ost, Bremen, Germany

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                  1153.    Serotonergic Modulation of the Anterior Cingluate and STS During Emotion Processing

Gordon D. Waiter1, Justin H.G. Williams2, Alison D. Murray1, Andrew Whiten3, David Perrett3

1University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Grampian, UK; 2University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK; 3University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, UK

 

                  1154.    Spatial Non-Uniformity of the CBF Response to Sevoflurane: Implications for fMRI

Maolin Qiu1, Ramachandran Ramani2, R Todd Constable1

1Yale University School of Medicine, Hew Haven, Connecticut, USA; 2Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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                  1155.    Effects of 0.25MAC Sevoflurane on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - In-Vivo Study of
                                Normal Human Subjects and Implications to Data Interpretation

Maolin Qiu1, Ramachandran Ramani2, R. Todd Constable1

1Yale University School of Medicine, Hew Haven, Connecticut, USA; 2Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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                  1156.    Time-Related Neural Activity During Cue-Induced Heroin Craving: A Preliminary Study

Yan Fang1, Chunming Xie1, Haiyan Meng1, Zheng Yang1

1Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Haidian, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

 

                  1157.    Extraction of Pharmacokinetic Parameters from Human Brain Cocaine BOLD Responses

Peter R. Kufahl1, Robert Risinger1, Alan Bloom1, Shi-Jiang Li1

1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

 

 

                  1158.    Imaging RCBF Changes in Response to Insulin-Induced Hypoglycemia at 3T Using Three-Coil CASL

Edward J. Auerbach1, Jyothi P. Rao1, Kamil Ugurbil1, Elizabeth R. Seaquist1

1University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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                  1159.    Pharmacological fMRI: Measuring Opioid Effects Upon the BOLD Response to Hypercapnia

Kyle TS Pattinson1, Stephen D. Mayhew1, Richard Rogers1, Irene Tracey1, Richard G. Wise1

1Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK

 

                  1160.    Bayesian Source Separation of Drug-Induced BOLD Responses with Correlated Reference Functions

Peter R. Kufahl1, Daniel Rowe1, Shi-Jiang Li1

1Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

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                  1161.    Comparison of Analysis Techniques for Direct Pharmacological Challenge-fMRI

Shane McKie1, Paul Richardson1, Jane Lees1, John William Francis Deakin1, Steve Ross Williams1

1University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

 

                  1162.    Working Memory and Go/NoGo Task in Gilles-De-La-Tourette Patients

Irene Neuner1, 2, Hans P. Wegener1, Tony Stoecker1, Thilo Kellermann2, Corinna Ehlen2, Tilo Kircher2, Jon N. Shah1, 3 Frank Schneider2

1Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, NRW, Germany; 2RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, NRW, Germany; 3University of Dortmund, Dortmund, NRW, Germany

 

                  1163.    Imaging Cerebral Blood Flow Changes Due to Pain with Arterial Spin Labeling

Daron G. Owen1, 2, Yves Bureau1, 2, Alex W. Thomas1, 2, Frank S. Prato1, 2, Keith S. St. Lawrence1, 2

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

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                  1164.    The Cerebral Neural System Responsible for Salivation: A Functional MRI Study

Bob L. Hou1, Kyung K. Peck1, Christopher Kim2, Nicole M. Petrovich1, Dmitry Bogomolny1, Dennis Kraus1,

Andrei I. Holodny1

1Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA; 2University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ihio, USA


 

Cardiac Perfusion

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  1165.    Parametric Aspects of First Pass DCE MRI Myocardial Studies

Xin Li1, Charles Springer1, Michael Jerosch-Herold1

1Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA

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                  1166.    Myocardial Stress Perfusion Dynamic Signal Evaluation Algorithm Comparison

Yi Wang1, 2, Bin Luo1, Sunil T. Mathew1, Nora Ngai, PhD1, Marguerite Roth1, Jing Han1, Nathaniel Reichek1, 2

1St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, New York, USA; 2State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, USA

 

                  1167.    Correction of Myocardial Perfusion Reserve Data from First-Pass MR Imaging at 3.0 Tesla with Parallel Imaging

Chun Ruan1, Scott Yang1, Kenneth Cusi1, Feng Gao1, Geoffrey D. Clarke1

1University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA

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                  1168.    Optimization of Contrast Medium Administration for First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion at 3T MR System

Mao-Yuan Marine Su1, Woeichyn Chu1, Hsi-Yu Yu2, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng3

1Institute of Biomedical Engerening, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Center for Optoelectronic Biomedicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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                  1169.    Kinetic Models and Blood Signal Modeling  for Dynamic Cardiac MRI Perfusion Studies

Edward DiBella1, Nate Pack1, Chris J. McGann1

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

 

                  1170.    Comparison of the Reproducibility of Myocardial Perfusion Measurements Using TrueFISP and TurboFLASH

Andrea Kronfeld1, Agnes Zelinka1, Georg Horstick1, Karl Friedrich Kreitner1, Wolfgang Günther Schreiber1

1Mainz University Medical School, Mainz, Germany

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                  1171.    Perfusion of an Empty-Beating Heart, a New Good Technique to Protect Hypertrophied Hearts for Valve Surgery

Jian Wang1, 2, Gang Li1, Bo Xiang1, Marco Gruwel1, Mike Jackson1, Hongyu Liu2, Tomas A Salerno3,

Roxanne Deslauriers1, Ganghong Tian1

1Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; 2the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People’s Republic of China; 3University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA

 

 

                  1172.    Rate of Myocardial Contrast Enhancement with Extracellular Contrast Agent and Relationship to Perfusion Reserve

Michael Jerosch-Herold1, 2, Naveen S. Murthy2, Carsten Rickers2, 3, Arthur E. Stillman, 24

1Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 3University of Kiel, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; 4Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  1173.    A Novel BOLD-Sensitive SSFP Technique with Applications for Cardiac Imaging

Jordin D. Green1, Andreas Kumar2, Matthias G. Friedrich2

1Siemens Medical Solutions, Calgary, AB, Canada; 2University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

 

                  1174.    Improvement of T1 Accuracy with the Correction of Imperfect Excitation Flip Angle: Toward the
                                Application of Arterial Spin Labeling

Haosen Zhang1, Jinghua Wang2, Pamela K. Woodard1, Jie Zheng1

1Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; 2Yale University School Medical Center, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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                  1175.    The Local Effective Flip Angle in the Presence of Highly Inhomogeneous B1-Fields and Flow

Florian Fidler1, Peter Michael Jakob1

1University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Frankonia, Germany

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                  1176.    1H2O MR Relaxography of the Perfused Rat Heart

Marie Poirier-Quinot1, 2, Huamei He1, 2, Charles S. Springer3, James A. Balschi1, 2

1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 3OHSU, Portland, Oregon, USA

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                  1177.    Development of a Rapid, Automated Shim Approach for Cardiac MR in Mice In Vivo

Jurgen E. Schneider1, Peter Jezzard1

1University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxon, UK

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                  1178.    Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance In Vivo Imaging of Rat Myocardium Using FLASH:
                                Comparative Study of Contrast at 2.35T and 7T

Morten Bruvold1, Tina Pavlin1, Heidi Brurok1, Per Jynge1, John Georg Seland1

1Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway


 

Myocardial Viability

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  1179.    A Multi-Parameter Analysis for the Optimization of Delayed Enhancement Imaging
                                Using Known Myocardial T1 Values

Puneet Sharma1, John N. Oshinski1, 2

1Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 2Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

                  1180.    Comparison of Delayed Contrast-Enhanced Viability Imaging at 1.5T and 3T: Initial Experience

Puneet Sharma1, Mushabbar Syed1, John N. Oshinski1

1Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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                  1181.    Myocardial Infarction: Optimization of Delay Time at Delayed Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging at 3T

Xiao Ying Wang1, Wei Sun2, Xue Xiang Jiang3

1Peking University First Hospital, BeiJing, People’s Republic of China; 2GE healthcare, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 3

Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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                  1182.    Phasesensitive Inversion Recovery (PSIR) Single Shot TrueFISP for Assessment of Myocardial
                                Infarction at 3 Tesla

Armin Michael Huber1, Kerstin Bauner1, Bernd Wintersperger1, Michaela Schmidt2, Edgar Mueller2, Scott Reeder3, Maximilian Reiser1, Stefan Schoenberg1

1Klinikum Großhadern, München, Bayern, Germany; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Bayern, Germany; 3University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

 

                  1183.    Differences in Null Points Between the Left and Right Ventricles in Contrast-Enhanced
                                Inversion-Recovery MRI in Patients with Cardiac Diseases

Yasuo Amano1, Tatsuo Kumazaki1

1Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

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                  1184.    A Single Shot Myocardial Delayed Enhancement Technique Compared to Conventional 2D MDE

David W. Stanley1, James F. Glockner2, Thomas K. Foo3

1GE Healthcare, Proctor, Minnesota, USA; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; 3GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA

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                  1185.    Initial Clinical Evaluation of a Substraction Delayed Enhancement Technique in Myocardial Infarction

Alban B. Redheuil1, 2, Patrice Hervo3, Séverine Peyrard, Thomas Foo4, Elie Mousseaux

1HEGP - European Hospital Georges Pompidou - University of Paris-Descartes, PARIS, France; 2INSERM, PARIS, France; 3General Electric, Buc, Ile de France, France; 4General Electric, Niskayuna, New York, USA

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                  1186.    Evaluation of High-Resolution 3D Myocardial MR Delayed Contrast Enhancement Acquired
                                During Free Breathing Using Realtime Motion Correction

Kenichi Yokoyama1, Toshiaki Nitatori1, Nahoko Kanke1, Shinju Suzuki1, Shuji Takahashi1, Shuhei Takemoto2,

Shinichi Kitase2, Shigehide Kuhara2

1Kyorin University school of medicine, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, Japan; 2Toshiba medical systems corporation, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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                  1187.    In Vivo Risk Zone Assessment in the Rat at 1.5T Using Manganese Enhanced Magnetic
                                Resonance Imaging (MEMRI)

Jean-Luc Daire1, Jean-Noel Hyacinthe1, Idil Gunes Tatar1, Karin Montet-Abou1, Marko Ivancevic1,

Manu Costa-Jorge M1, Denis Morel1, Jean-Paul Vallée1

1University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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                  1188.    Delineation of Ischemically Injured Myocardium on T1 Weighted MRI After Intravenous Injection of SHU555A

Gabriele Anja Krombach1, Yavuz Temur1, Miriam Dehles1, Rolf W. Günther1, Arno Bücker1

1University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, NRW, Germany

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                  1189.    Dynamic Distribution of Extracellular and Blood-Pool Contrast Agents in Acutely Infarcted Myocardium

Jian Wang1, 2, Gang Li1, Bo Xiang1, Macro Gruwel1, Jixian Deng1, Hongyu Liu2, Mike Jackson1, Roxanne Deslauriers1, Ganghong Tian1

1Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; 2the Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, People’s Republic of China

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                  1190.    Cardiac Function and Infarct Size Assessment in the Rat at 1.5T

Jean-Luc Daire1, Karin Montet-Abou1, Jean-Noel Hyacinthe1, Idil Gunes Tatar1, Marko Ivancevic1,

Manu Costa-Jorge M1, Michčle Brunet1, Denis Morel1, Jean-Paul Vallee1

1University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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                  1191.    Positive Enhancement of Microvascular Obstruction in Reperfused Acute Myocardial Infarction
                                Using T1 Prep Look-Locker Sequence: A Short Time-Course Study

Yuesong Yang1, Warren D. Foltz1, 2, John J. Graham1, Jay Detsky1, Alexander J. Dick1, Graham A. Wright1

1Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2St.Michael Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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                  1192.    Assessment of Myocardial Infarction in Mice by Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging Using an
                                Inversion Recovery Pulse Sequence at 9.4T

Catherine Chapon1, Amy Herlihy1, Kishore Bhakoo1

1Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London, London, UK

 

                  1193.    In-Vivo Cardiac IRON Imaging of MR Fluoroscopically Delivered Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Matthias Stuber1, Wesley D. Gilson1, Saurabh Shah1, Dorota Kedziorek1, Jeff W.M. Bulte1, Dara L. Kraitchman1

1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

Cardiomyopathy and Heart Structure

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  1194.    Quantification of Myocardial Lipid Using a Breath Hold Multiecho Technique at 3.0 Tesla

Declan Patrick O'Regan1, Martina F. Callaghan1, Stephan A. Schmitz1, Rossi P. Naoumova1, Julie Fitzpatrick1,

Joanna Allsop1, Joseph V. Hajnal1

1Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London, UK

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                  1195.    Quantification of Cardiac Fat Volume in Humans Using 3D SSFP Imaging

Thanh D. Nguyen1, Pascal Spincemaille1, Martin R. Prince1, Yi Wang1

1Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA

 

                  1196.    Early Murine Embryonic Cardiac Hypertrophy Associated with Increased Ganglioside Storage

Lingyun Hu1, Yingying Sun1, Dibya Sen1, Sarah H. Shahmoradian1, Robia G. Pautler1

1Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

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                  1197.    MRI Assessment of a Novel Mouse Model of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Sarah Heloko Shahmoradian1, Lingyun Hu1, Yingying Sun1, Doug Mann1, Robia G. Pautler1

1Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

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                  1198.    No Evidence for Iron Overload in the Heart of Multitransfused Elderly Patients with
                                Sideroblastic Anemia (RARS): A Quantitative T2* Weighted MRI Study

Eli Konen1, Tammar Kushnir1, Asher Winder2, Yael Eshet1, Merav Leiba1, Eliezer Rachmilewitz2

1The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel; 2Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel

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                  1199.    A Mutual Information Approach to Automatic Detection of Heart Rejection in MRI

Hsun-Hsien Chang1, José M-F Moura1, Yijen L. Wu1, Chien Ho1

1Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

 

                  1200.    A Time-Based Study of Changes in T1 and T2 Components in Excised Rat Myocardium

Morten Bruvold1, John Georg Seland1, Sissel Skarra1, Heidi Brurok1, Per Jynge1

1Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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                  1201.    MR Estimation of Myocardial Ferritin Iron and Hemosiderin Iron in Thalassemia Major

Christina Louise Tosti1, Haiying Tang2, Jens H. Jensen3, Sujit Sheth1, Srirama V. Swaminathan1, 4, Kristi Hultman1, Andjela Azabagic1, Karen Altmann1, Ashwin Prakash1, Beth F. Printz1, Anthony L. Brown1, Allan J. Hordof1,

Nancy F. Olivieri5, Gary M. Brittenham1, Truman R. Brown1

1Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; 2Merk Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, USA; 3New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; 4Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; 5University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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                  1202.    4D Mouse Cardiac Isotropic Black-Blood Imaging for Phenotyping

Akiva Feintuch1, Jonathan Bishop1, Lorinda Davidson1, Stuart S. Berr2, Frederick H. Epstein2, Brent A. French2, Benoit G. Bruneau1, R Mark Henkelman1, 3

1Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; 3University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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                  1203.    3D MR Microscopy Rendering with Non-Uniformity Correction and a Non-Linear Adaptive
                                Noise Filter for Studies of a Transgenic Mouse Heart Model of Myxomatous Valvular Disease

Jeff Frank Dunn1, Nicholas W. Shworak2, Siu C. Chan1, Brian O'Brien1, Jaret Hargreaves1, Robert T. Palac2,

Jean Belding Fay3, Dave Kirk1, Tadeusz Foniok4, J Ross Mitchell1

1University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; 2Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA; 3Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA; 4National Research Council, Calgary, AB, Canada

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                  1204.    3T Ex-Vivo High Angular Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Heart

Steven Dymarkowski1, Caroline Sage1, Ronald Peeters1, Jan D'hooge1, Piet Claus1, Frank Rademakers1, Jan Bogaert1, Stefan Sunaert1

1University Hospital of the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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                  1205.    Self-Gated, Reduced Field-Of-View Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Human Heart at 3.0T

Urs Gamper1, Sebastian Kozerke1, Peter Boesiger1

1University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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                  1206.    Examination of the Effects of Myocardial Hypertrophy on Myocardial Microvascular
                                Volume and Blood Oxygenation

Jeffrey M. Dendy1, 2, Cynthia B. Paschal, 12, John C. Gore, 12

1Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; 2Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

 

Cardiac Post Processing

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  1207.    Automated Registration of Multiple Single Breath-Hold Cardiac MRI Images

Piotr J. Slomka1, David Fieno1, Vaibhav Goyal1, Hidetaka Nishina1, Tejas Mehta1, Louise Thomson1, Amit Ramesh1, James Gerlach1, Daniel S. Berman1, Guido Germano1

1Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  1208.    Registration of Short and Long-Axis Images in Cine Cardiac MRI

Tao Li1, Thomas Stewart Denney1

1Auburn University, Auburn University, Alabama, USA

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                  1209.    Retrospective CINE MRI of the Mouse Heart

Edwin Heijman1, Wolter de Graaf1, Claudia Diekmann2, Arno Nauerth2, Gustav J. Strijkers1, Klaas Nicolay3

1Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands; 2Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany; 3, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

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                  1210.    Cardiac Function by SSFP MRI: Accuracy of Measurement of Left Ventricular Ejection
                                Fraction Per Slice Number and Location

Roya Saleh1, Carissa G. Fonseca2, Vibhas Deshpande3, Kambiz Nael4, Gerhard Laub5, John Paul Finn1

1David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; 2David Geffen School of Medicine, los angeles, California, USA; 3Siemens Medical Solutions, los Angeles, California, USA; 4David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; 5Siemens Medical Solutions, Los Angeles, California, USA

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                  1211.    Automatic Computation of Ejection Fraction Using Spatio-Temporal Information

Amol S. Pednekar1, 2, Raja Muthupillai, 23, Benjamin Cheong2, Scott D. Flamm2

1Philips Medical Systems, Bothell, Washington, USA; 2St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA; 3Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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                  1212.    Assessment of Cardiac Function with a Three-Dimensional Shape Model Based on Surface Harmonics

Julien Sénégas1, Paul Martin Bansmann2, Alexander Stork2, Gerhard Adam2, Henrik Thoms3

1Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany; 2University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; 3Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany

 

                  1213.    Optimization of Contour Detection in Cardiac MRI Using Active Appearance Models:
                                Definition of the Training Set

emmanuelle Angelié1, Sophia F.I. Matzken1, Boudewijn P.F. Lelieveldt1, Rob J. van der Geest1, J H.C. Reiber1

1LUMC, Leiden, Netherlands

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                  1214.    Comparison of Echocardiography and MRI for Measuring Left Ventricular Mass in the Rat

Chris McCabe1, Willy Gsell1, Lindsay Gallagher1, Jim Mullin1, Kirsten Gilday1, Delyth Graham1, Elisabeth Beattie1, Anna Dominiczak1, Iseabail Mhairi Macrae1, Barrie Condon1

1Glasgow University, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, UK

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                  1215.    MR-Guided Evaluation of Post-Infarction Ventricular Tachycardia

Hiroshi Ashikaga1, Bruce Hopenfeld1, Elliot R. McVeigh1

1National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  1216.    PTAGs: Partial K-Space Tagging Combined with SSFP

Vinay Manjunath Pai1

1New York University, New York, New York, USA

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                  1217.    Automated Adaptive Analysis of Tagged Magnetic Resonance Images of the Mouse Heart
 

Evren U. Azeloglu1, Haiying Tang2, 3, Richard K. Chen3, Hina W. Chaudhry3, Ed X. Wu4, Glenn R. Gaudette5,

Kevin D. Costa1

1Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; 2Merck Rearch Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, USA; 3Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York, USA; 4The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China; 5UMass Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

 

                  1218.    Noise Suppression in Displacement Imaging Using an Adaptive Spatial Filter

Jean C. Honorio1, Eric Bennett2, James Hahn1, Han Wen2

1George Washington University, Washington, D.C., D.C., USA; 2National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

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                  1219.    Improving HARP Cardiac Strain Mapping Using Nonlinear Diffusion

Khaled Z. Abd-Elmoniem1, Vijay Parthasarathy1, Jerry L. Prince1

1Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1220.    A Quantitative Comparison Between 2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional Circumferential Strain in the Human Heart

Sandra R R Tecelăo1, Jaco J M Zwanenburg2, Joost P A Kuijer2, J T. Marcus2

1University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; 2VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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                  1221.    Myocardial Fiber Tracking Based on High Temporal Resolution Tissue Phase Mapping Data:
                                Principles and Implications for Cardiac Fiber Structures

Bernd André Jung1, Michael Markl1, Jürgen Hennig1

1University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

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                  1222.    Study of Myocardial Fiber Length Distribution with Diffusion Tensor MRI

Yin Wu1, Haiying Tang2, M. C. Ng1, Jian Yang1, H. F. Tse1, C. P. Lau1, E. S. Yang1, E. X. Wu1

1The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; 2Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, USA

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                  1223.    Segmentation Based Registration of Myocardium in Cardiac Perfusion Images

Ganesh Adluru1, Edward VR DiBella1

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

 

Diffusion Weighted Imaging of the Abdomen

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  1224.    Low B-Value Diffusion Weighted Imaging in the Evaluation of Hepatic Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumor

David W. Stanley1, James F. Glockner2, Naoki Takahashi2, Steven L. Williams2

1GE Healthcare, Proctor, Minnesota, USA; 2Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

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                  1225.    Evaluation of Cirrhosis and Chronic Hepatitis with Diffusion Weighted Imaging and ADC Measurements

Xinhao Cynthia Fan1, Hero K. Hussain1, Vikas Gulani1, Saroja Adusumilli1, Jorge A. Marrero1, Thomas L. Chenevert1

1University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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                  1226.    Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of  Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Single-Shot Echo-Planar Imaging :
                                Assessment of  Early Response to Transcather Arterial Chemotherapy Embolism(TACE)

Wu Bin1, Peng Weijun1

1Cancer Hospital, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

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                  1227.    Diffusion-Weighted MRI for Determination of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Response to
                                Yttrium-90 Radioembolization

Jie Deng1, Frank H. Miller1, Thomas K. Rhee1, Kent T. Sato1, Mary F. Mulcahy1, Riad Salem1, Reed A. Omary1, Andrew C. Larson1

1Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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                  1228.    Utility of Diffusion Weighted MRI in Patients Undergoing Locoregional Treatment of Malignant Liver Tumours

Sudhakar Kundapur Venkatesh1, Shih Chang Wang1, Gabriel Lau1, Fiona Leung1

1National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

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                  1229.    Study of a Diffusion-Weighted Single-Shot Spin Echo Echo Planar Imaging Sequence Using
                                Parallel Imaging of Focal Liver Lesions: Comparison with a T2-Weighted Turbo Spin Echo Technique

Kenneth Coenegrachts1, Joost Delanote1, Leon ter Beek2, Marc Haspeslagh1, Shandra Bipat3, Jaap Stoker3, Luc Steyaert1, Hans Rigauts1, Jan Walther Casselman1

1AZ St.-Jan AV, Bruges, West-Flandres, Belgium; 2Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands; 3Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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                  1230.    Free-Breathing and High B-Value Diffusion-Weighted MR Images of Hepatic Cavernous Hemangiomas

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

1Univ. of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

 

                  1231.    Physiological Changes of Liver ADC Values During Cardiac Cycle Using DW-EPI

Masahiro Umeda1, Chuzo Tanaka1, Toshihiro Higuchi1, Yasuharu Watanabe2, Makoto Kitamura1, Ichio Aoki1,

Shoji Naruse3

1Meiji University of Oriental Medicine, Nantan-shi, Kyoto, Japan; 2Meiji School of Oriental Medicine, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan; 3Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Japan

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                  1232.    Detailed Diffusion Measurements of the Liver and Spleen Over Extended B-Factor Ranges

Hiroshi Shinmoto1, Koichi Oshio1, Akihiro Tanimoto1, Nobuya Higuchi1, Shigeo Okuda1, Sachio Kuribayashi1,

Robert V. Mulkern2

1Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; 2Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1233.    Evaluation of Lymph Nodes in the Abdomen and Pelvis of the Children Using Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging

Hidekazu Seo1, Takayuki Masui1, Motoyuki Katayama1, Kimihiko Sato1, Masahiro Sugiyama1, Atsushi Nozaki2,

Masaya Hirano2

1Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan; 2General Electtric Yokogawa Medical Systems, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

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                  1234.    Diffusion Weighted Imaging in Native and Transplanted Human Kidneys at 3T. Initial Experience

Peter Vermathen1, Ute Eisenberger1, Chris Boesch1, Harriet C. Thoeny1

1University & Inselspital, Berne, Switzerland

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                  1235.    Diffusion-Tensor MR Imaging of the Kidney at 3.0 and 1.5 Tesla

Aki Kido1, Masako Kataoka1, Akira Yamamoto1, Yuji Nakamoto1, Takashi Koyama1, Yoji Maetani1, Hiroyoshi Isoda1, Shigeaki Umeoka1, Ken Tamai1, Nobuko Morisawa1, Tsuneo Saga1, Susumu Mori2, Kaori Togashi1

1Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

Cartilage Techniques and Applications

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

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                  1236.    Males Have Thicker Load-Bearing Patellofemoral Joint Cartilage Than Females

Christine Elizabeth Draper1, Thor F. Besier1, Gary S. Beaupre, 12, Scott L. Delp1, Garry E. Gold1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; 2VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA

 

                  1237.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Transverse Ligament of the Atlas and the Alar Ligaments
                                Using Ultrashort TE (UTE) Pulse Sequences

Michael Benjamin1, Richard M. Znamirowski2, Rhonda L. Turner2, Mark Bydder2, Tudor H. Hughes2,

Graeme M. Bydder2

1Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK; 2University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

 

                  1238.    Collagen Signal Enhancement Using a Fast Magic Echo

Kevin F. King1

1GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

 

                  1239.    Relationship of Joint Space Width and Cartilage T2 Values in Subjects with Osteoarthritis

Matthew F. Koff1, Kimberly K. Amrami1, Kenton R. Kaufman1

1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

 

                  1240.    An MR Microscopy Study Comparing Distal Interphalangeal Joint  Arthropathy in Patients with
                                Psoriatic Arthritis and Osteoarthritis

Steven Frederick Tanner1, Ai-Lyn Tan1, Andrew J. Grainger2, Paul Emery1, Dennis McGonagle1

1University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; 2Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK

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                  1241.    High Resolution 3D T2-Weighted Imaging for Evaluation of Cartilage Lesions of the Knee

H. Glenn Reynolds1, Hiroshi Yoshioka2, Gesa Neumann2, Philipp Lang2

1GE Healthcare, Milwuakee, Wisconsin, USA; 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1242.    Should Hip DGEMRIC Be Performed Early or Late After the Contrast Injection?

Carl Johan Tiderius1, Rebecca Jessel2, Young-Jo Kim2, Deborah Burstein1

1Beth Israel Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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                  1243.    3D Surface Map Analysis of DGEMRIC Changes in the Knee

Jose Gerardo Tamez-Pena1, Saara Totterman1, A Williams2, N Krishnan2, C McKenzie2, D Burstein2

1VirtualScopics, Rochester, New York, USA; 2Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

                  1244.    Mapping MR Parameters of Human Articular Cartilage Degeneration Using Magnetic Resonance Microscopy

Shadi F. Othman1, Jessy Moinness1, Jun Li2, Huihui Xu1, Carol Muehleman2, Richard L. Magin1

1University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; 2Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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                  1245.    Localized Cartilage Assessment with Three-Dimensional DGEMRIC and Quantitative
                                MRI in Patients with Femoroacetabular Impingement

Derek C. Wilson1, Burkhard Maedler2, Donald S. Garbuz1, Clive P. Duncan1, Felix Eckstein3, David R. Wilson1

1University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2Philips Medical Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 3Paracelsus Private Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

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                  1246.    T1ρ in Articular Cartilage and the Loss of Proteoglycans

Vladimir Mlynarik1, 2, Pavol Szomolanyi1, 3, Irene Sulzbacher1, Siegfried Trattnig1

1Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 3Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

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                  1247.    Complications in the Quantification of GAG in Cartilage with T Imaging

Jeffrey James Luci1, Bobby Gibbons1, John C. Gore1

1Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

 

                  1248.    Rigid Matching of Two 3D Patellae Data Sets for Voxel Based Comparison

José G. Raya1, Robert Stahl1, Thomas Mendlik1, Olaf Dietrich1, Maximilian F. Reiser1, Christian Glaser1

1Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

 

                  1249.    High Resolution 3D T MRI of Knee Joint at 3.0T with Parallel Imaging

Sait Kubilay Pakin1, Conrado Cavalcanti1, Renata La Rocca1, Mark E. Schweitzer1, Ravinder Reddy Regatte1

1New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

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                  1250.    Rapid 3D-T Mapping of Knee Joint at 3.0T with Parallel Imaging

Sait Kubilay Pakin1, Jian Xu2, Mark E. Schweitzer1, Ravinder Regatte1

1New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; 2Siemens Medical solutions Inc, New York, New York, USA

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                  1251.    High Resolution 3D Cartilage Imaging of the Knee at 3T in Five Minutes Using
                                IDEAL-SPGR and Parallel Imaging

David B. Siepmann1, Jeffrey M. McGovern2, Garry E. Gold3, Jean H. Brittain4, Scott B. Reeder1

1University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; 2GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; 3Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA; 4GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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                  1252.    High Field MRI of Musculoskeletal System at 7.0T: SNR, Contrast and Relaxation Times

Sait Kubilay Pakin1, Conrado Cavalcanti1, Renata La Rocca1, Charles Saylor2, Bernd Stoeckel3, Mark E. Schweitzer1, Ravinder Reddy Regatte1

1New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; 2In vivo Corp., Gainesville, Florida, USA; 3Siemens Medical solutions Inc, New York, New York, USA

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                  1253.    Optimum Methods for the Preservation of Cartilage Samples in MR Microimaging Studies

Holly Corianda Canuto1, Kenneth W. Fishbein1, Preeti Bajaj2, Nancy P. Camacho3, Richard G. Spencer1

1National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 3The Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, New York, USA

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                  1254.    The Effects of Formalin Fixation and Crosslinking on MRI Contrast in Bovine Nasal Cartilage Explants

Kenneth W. Fishbein1, Yehezkiel A. Gluzband1, Masaru Kaku2, Hasina Togore3, Sue A. Shapses3, Mitsuo Yamauchi2, Richard G. Spencer1

1National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; 3Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

 

                  1255.    Effectiveness of a Biomaterial Adhesive in Integrating a Hydrogel with Surrounding Tissue in
                                Rabbit Cartilage Defects

Sharan Ramaswamy1, Ilksen Gurkan2, Blanka Sharma3, Kenneth W. Fishbein1, Brett Cascio2, Jennifer Elisseeff3, Richard G. Spencer1

1National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 3Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1256.    A Non -Invasive Assay of Matrix Metalloproteinase Induced Musculoskeletal Syndrome in
                                Rats Using High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Richard P. Kennan1, Carol Ann Keohane1, Jesse Jackson1, Richard Hajdu1, Donald S. Williams2, Suzanne Miller Mandala1, Haiying Liu1

1Merck & Co. Inc, Rahway, New Jersey, USA; 2Merck & Co. Inc, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA

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                  1257.    MRI and Image Quantitation for Assessment of the Growth Effects of Anabolic Steroid Precursors
                                in a Guinea Pig Model

Haiying Tang1, 2, Ed X. Wu3, Joseph R. Vasselli4

1Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, USA; 2Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, New York, USA; 3The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China; 4St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

 

Pre-Clinical Cancer Metabolism and Microenvironments

Room 4E                    Monday 14:00 - 16:00

 

 

                  1258.    Effects of Hypoxia on Invasion, Metabolism, Proliferation, Proteinase Activities and Gene Expression
      of a Human Prostate Cancer Cell Line

Ellen Ackerstaff1, Dmitri Artemov1, Zaver M. Bhujwalla1

1Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1259.    Complex Relationship Between Changes in Oxygenation Status and Changes in R2* :
                                The Case of Insulin and NS-398, Two Inhibitors of Oxygen Consumption

Bénédicte F. Jordan1, Nathalie Crokart1, Christine Baudelet1, Gregory O. Cron1, Reginald Ansiaux1, Bernard Gallez1

1Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, B, Belgium

 

 

                  1260.    In Vivo 19F MRS and 19F 2D-CSI Investigation of a Fluorine Labeled 2-Nitroimidazole (TF-MISO).
       
                         A Potential Functional Reporter of Hypoxia in Solid Tumors

Daniel Procissi1, 2, Filip Claus1, Jacek Koziorowski1, Paul Burgman1, Cornelia Matei1, Sunitha Thakur1, Clifton Ling1, Jason A. Koutcher1

1Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; 2California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

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                  1261.    Hypoxia Regulates Phosphocholine and Total Choline Concentrations in Human Prostate Cancer Cells

Kristine Glunde1, Venu Raman1, Zaver M. Bhujwalla1

1The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1262.    A Metabolomic Study of HIF-2a Over-Expressed and Empty Vector 7860 Renal Tumours
                                Using In Vivo and In Vitro 1H MRS

Helen Troy1, Yuen Li Chung1, Basetti Madhu2, Adrian L. Harris2, Simon Wigfield2, Shet Biswas2, Marion Stubbs1,

 J R. Griffiths2

1St. George's University of London, London, UK; 2John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

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                  1263.    Effects of Targeted Nanoparticle-Based Antiangiogenic Therapy on Brain Tumor
                                Metabolism and Progression - MicroPET and MRI Study on a Rat Glioblastoma Model

Yi-Shan Yang1, Leroy Sims1, Steven Choi1, Yingyun Wang1, Samira Guccione1

1Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

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                  1264.    Improved Mapping of Extracellular PH in C6 Gliomas by 1H MRSI Shows Low Correlation
                                Between Lactate Concentration and PHe Changes Induced by Infusion of Glucose

Peggy Provent1, 2, Régine Farion1, 2, Pilar López Larrubia3, Marina Benito3, Bassem Hiba1, 2, Paloma Ballesteros3, Chantal Rémy1, 2, Christoph Segebarth1, 2, Sebastián Cerdán3, Jonathan A. Coles1, 2, María-Luisa García-Martín3

1U594, Grenoble, F-38043, France; 2Univ Grenoble 1, Grenoble, F-38043, France; 3Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Madrid, 28029, Spain

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                  1265.    C6 Glioma Cells Depict an Active Pyruvate Recycling System That is Redox Sensitive

Tiago B. Rodrigues1, 2, Gemma Ruiz1, Genoveva Mateos1, Sebastián Cerdán1

1Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols", Madrid, Spain; 2University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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                  1266.    Choline Kinase Suppression Increases Tumor Lipid Content and Vascular Volume in a
                                Human Breast Cancer Model

Kristine Glunde1, Dmitri Artemov1, Venu Raman1, Zaver M. Bhujwalla1

1The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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                  1267.    Concurrent Use of In Vivo 19F and 31P MRS at 9.4T to Monitor the Pathway for 5FC Conversion
                                to Fluorinated Nucleotides and FUDP-Sugars in a Human Glioma Xenograft Treated
                                with Ad5.CMV.CDUPRT/5FC Therapy

Huadong Zeng1, Vera Simonenko1, Yun Jiang1, Thian C. Ng1

1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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                  1268.    Metabolic Response of Human Prostate Cancer Post 17 AAG Treatment in a Mouse Model

H Carl Le1, Mihaela Lupu2, Cornelia Matei2, David Solit2, Neal Rosen2, Jason A. Koutcher2

1MSKCC, New York, USA; 2MSKCC, New York, New York, USA

 

 

                  1269.    Choline Kinase Downregulation by SiRNA Reduces Phosphocholine and Total Choline,
      and Enhances Treatment of Breast Cancer Cells with 5-Fluorouracil

Noriko Mori1, Kristine Glunde1, Tomoyo Takagi1, Raman Venu1, Zaver M. Bhujwalla1

1The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

                  1270.    A Metabolically Accurate Prostate Tissue Culture Model for 13C Labeling Studies

Mark J. Albers1, Robert G. Sellers2, Daniel B. Vigneron, Sarah J. Nelson, 1, Donna M. Peehl2, John Kurhanewicz

1UC Berkeley / UC San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; 2Stanford Medical Center, Sanford, California, USA

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                  1271.    Effects of Gd-DTPA on In Vivo 1H MRS Choline Signals Observed in HT-29 Xenografts

Basetti Madhu1, Simon P. Robinson2, John R. Griffiths1

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

 

                  1272.    Transmembrane PH Gradients in Tumor Cells: Observations Using 19F NMR of Promising
                                New Reporter Molecules

Weina Cui1, Li Liu1, Peter Peschke2, Uwe Haberkorn2, Ralph P. Mason1

1UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA; 2DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany