Neonatal Brain

                  2059.    Lateral Ventricular Size in Extremely Premature Infants: 3D MRI Confirms 2D Ultrasound Measurements

Johan Bengtsson¹, Sandra Horsch¹, Hugo Lagercrantz¹, Zoltán Nagy¹, Anders Nordell¹, Ulrika Ådén¹, Bo Nordell¹, Mats Blennow¹

¹Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

                  2060.    Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Developing Visual Cortex and Visual White Matter
                                Pathways in Premature Newborns

Robert Thomas Held¹, Pratik Mukherjee², Srivathsa Veeraraghavan², A James Barkovich², Daniel B. Vigneron, ¹²

¹UCSF/UCB, San Francisco, California, USA; ²University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2061.    Defining Normal and Abnormal DTI Parameters in Premature Newborns

Srivathsa C. Veeraraghavan¹, Steven P. Miller¹, Pratik Mukherjee¹, Natalie N. Charlton¹, Duan Xu¹,

Anthony James Barkovich¹, Daniel B. Vigneron¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2062.    High Resolution Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Corpus Callosum in the Preterm Brain at 3 Tesla

Mustafa Anjari¹, Latha Srinivasan¹, David J. Larkman¹, Joanna M. Allsop¹, Julie Fitzpatrick¹, Frances M. Cowan¹, Joseph V. Hajnal¹, Mary A. Rutherford¹, A David Edwards¹, Serena J. Counsell¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK

                  2063.    Impact of Preterm Birth on Hippocampal Structure Utilizing Volumetric MRI Techniques

Deanne Kim Thompson¹, Stephen J. Wood, Gary F. Egan¹, Lex W. Doyle², Simon K. Warfield³,

Gregory A. Lodygensky⁴, Peter J. Anderson⁵, Terrie E. Inder⁴

¹Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; ²Royal Women's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴St. Louis Childrens Hospital, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA; ⁵Murdoch Childrens Research Instititue, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

                  2064.    Volumetric and Diffusion Analysis of the Neonatal Brain

Jonathan Paul Dyke¹, Linda A. Heier¹, Aziz M. Ulug¹, Jeffrey M. Perlman¹, Maricor Castillo¹

¹Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, USA

                  2065.    Easy and Effective Acoustic Noise Protection in Neonatal MRI

Marcus Lundh¹, Anders Nordell¹, Johan Bengtsson¹, Zoltan Nagy¹, Sandra Horsch¹, Ulrika Adén¹, Bo Nordell¹

¹Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

                  2066.    Determining the Most Consistent Method for MRI Hippocampal Volumetry in Infants at Term

Deanne Kim Thompson¹, Stephen J. Wood, Terrie E. Inder², Simon K. Warfield³, Lex W. Doyle⁴, Gary F. Egan¹

¹Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; ²St Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA; ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Royal Women's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

                  2067.    Quantitative DTI Assessment of Periventricular White Matter Changes in Neonatal Meningitis

Richa Trivedi¹, Amit Gupta², G K. Malik², Rakesh Kumar Gupta¹, Khader M. Hasan³, Kashi Nath Prasad¹,

Ponnada A. Narayana³

¹Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; ²King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; ³University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

                  2068.    Water Mapping of the Whole Brains of Infants Using an FSE Sequence at 3.0 T

Zhengchao Dong¹, ², Feng Liu¹, ², Alayar Kangarlu¹, ², Bradley Peterson¹, Bradley Peterson¹, ²

¹Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ²New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA

                  2069.    Brain-Water ADC and 31P MRS Imaging Metabolite Ratios and Intracellular PH
                                in a Piglet Model of Transient Hypoxia-Ischemia

Alan Bainbridge¹, Osuke Iwata², Enrico De Vita¹, Daniel A. West², John S. Thornton³, Satchi Iwata²,

Nichola J. Robertson², Ernest B. Cady¹

¹University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; ²University College London, London, UK; ³National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK


 

MRS/MRI of Neuropsychiatric Disease

                  2070.    Region and Gender Specific Neurochemical Alterations and Sleep Deprivation in
                                Major Depressive Episodes

Harald Murck¹, Mirjam I. Schubert¹, Dagmar Schmid¹, Petra Schuessler¹, Axel Steiger¹, Dorothee P. Auer¹

¹Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

                  2071.    Lower GPC Compounds in the Hippocamps and Higher GPE in the Putamen/thalamus
                                Region in Depressed Patients Detected by 3D ³¹P RINEPT MRSI

Gabriele Ende¹, Tim Wokrina¹, Sigi Walter¹, Helga Welzel¹, Christine Kief¹, Traute Demirakca¹, Marco Ulrich¹, Alexander Sartorius¹, Fritz A. Henn¹

¹Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

                  2072.    Frontal and Occipital Lobe GABA Changes in Depression, Measured with 1H-MRS

C. John Evans¹, Marzena Wylezinska¹, Zubin Bhagwagar¹, Peter Jezzard¹, Akeem Sule¹, Sudhakar Selvaraj¹,

Paul Matthews¹, Philip Cowen¹

¹University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK

                  2073.    Proton Spectroscopy Study of Adolescent Depression

Vilma Gabby¹, David Hess¹, James S. Babb¹, Oded Gonen²

¹New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ²New York University, New York, USA

                  2074.    MRI Morphometry of the Brain in a Longitudinal Study of Depression

Jamila Ahdidan¹, Lars Kroloekke Hviid¹, Kim Mouridsen², Barbara Ravnkilde¹, Anders Bertil Rodell³,

Raben Rosenberg¹, Poul Videbech¹

¹University Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark; ²CFIN, Aarhus, Denmark; ³General Hospital of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

                  2075.    Treatment of Adolescent Bipolar Depression with Lithium: Effects on Brain MyoInositol
                                Levels Measured by Proton MR Spectroscopy

Kim M. Cecil¹, Melissa P. DelBello², Nick C. Patel³, Caleb M. Adler², Stephen M. Strakowski²

¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ²University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ³University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacology, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

                  2076.    Comparison of 1D and 2D MR Spectroscopy in Bipolar Depression

Shida Banakar¹, ², June Watzl¹, Nader Binesh², Mark Frye², Albert M. Thomas²

¹LABIOMED at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, California, USA; ²UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA;

                  2077.    Hippocampal Neurochemical Findings in Medication-Free, Euthymic Bipolar Disorder:
                                1H MRSI Study

Wen-Jang Chu¹, Stephen M. Strakowski¹, Hoby P. Hetherington², Xin Wang¹, Cal M. Adler¹, Mellissa P. DelBello¹, John N. Adams¹, Neil P. Mills¹, Yun Gao¹, Kelly B. Javis¹, Jing-Huei Lee¹

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

                  2078.    Global Gray/White Matter Ratio and Gray Matter Volume Reflect Abnormal Aging
                                Neurodevelopment in Treatment Naive Schizophrenics

Su Lui¹, Luo Ouyang², Wei Deng¹, Tao Li¹, Hong Yang¹, Hehan Tang¹, Lijun Jiang¹, Xiaoqi Huang¹, Bin Song¹, Xiangping Zhou¹, Sumner Maclean¹, ³, Vanessa Sluming⁴, Qiyong Gong¹, ⁴

¹West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China; ²University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China; ³Universitatsklinikum, Goettingen, Germany; ⁴University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

                  2079.    Cortical Disorganization in Brodmann Areas 9, 46 and 32 in Schizophrenia:
                                Evidence from Brodmann-Based MRI Morphometry

Vaibhav A. Diwadkar¹, ², Jeffrey J. Nutche², Rhonda El-Sheikh¹, Serguei Fedorov¹, Debra M. Montrose²,

Matcheri S. Keshavan¹, ²

¹Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ²University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2080.    Working Memory Dysfunction with fMRI Task and Gray Matter Difference in Schizophrenia
                                Patients Using Voxel Based Morphometry

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

                  2081.    2D and 3D RINEPT {¹H}-³¹P-MRSI in the Human Brain and Its Possible Application to Schizophrenia

Tim Wokrina¹, Marco Ulrich¹, Gabriele Ende¹

¹Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

                  2082.    High Energy Phosphate Abnormalities Normalize After Antipsychotic Treatment in Schizophrenia:
                                A Longitudinal 31P MRS Study of Basal Ganglia

Jayakumar Peruvumba Narayan¹, B N. Gangadhar¹, G Venkatasubramanian¹, M S. Keshavan²

¹National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; ²Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2083.    Assessing the Effect of Comorbidity in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
                                Using In Vivo ³¹P Spectroscopy

Jeffrey A. Stanley¹, Matcheri S. Keshavan¹, Heidi Kipp², Erika Greisenegger², Kanagasabai Panchalingam³,

Jay W. Pettegrew³, Oscar G. Bukstein³

¹Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ²Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ³University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2084.    Elevated Brain Lactate Response During Visual Stimulation in Panic Disorder

Richard J. Maddock¹, Michael H. Buonocore¹, Linda E. Copeland¹, Anne L. Richards¹, Shawn P. Lavoie¹

¹University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, USA

                  2085.    Positive Correlation of Glycerophosphocholine with Alcohol Consumption in Frontal White Matter
                                of Light Social Drinkers Revealed by 3D ³¹P MRSI Using RINEPT Editing

Tim Wokrina¹, Traute Demirakca¹, Matthias Ruf¹, Marco Ulrich¹, Sigrid Walter¹, Helga Welzel¹, Gabriele Ende¹

¹Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany

                  2086.    Brain Volume Measurements Correlate with Impulsivity and Aggression

Renee Ochs¹, ², Ying Wu¹, ², Carly Demopoulos¹, ², Rachel Scheidegger¹, ², Robert R. Edelman¹, ², Ann B. Ragin¹, ²

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, US

                  2087.    fMRI-Guided Spectroscopy for Evaluation of Speech-Related Brain Areas in Neuropsychiatry

Peter Vermathen¹, Claudia Ehrlich², Daniela Hubl², Andrea Federspiel², Thomas Dierks², Chris Boesch¹,

Roland Kreis¹

¹University Berne, Berne, Switzerland; ²University Hospital of Clinical Psychiatry, Berne, Switzerland

Advanced Imaging in Brain Tumors

                  2088.    Plasticity Changes as Reorganization of Pre-Motor Cortex in Lower Limb Amputees: A VBM Study

Juan Ignacio Romero-Romo¹, ², Corica Rodgers³, Juan José Ortiz², Leopoldo Gonzalez², Angel Romero²,

Fernando Alejandro Barrios²

¹SESEQ, Querétaro, QRO, Mexico; ²Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, QRO, Mexico; ³University of California, Irvine, California, USA

                  2089.    Structural Abnormalities in Posterior Fossa Brain Tumor Survivors:
                                A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study Based on Free-Form Deformation

Yong Zhang¹, ², Ping Zou¹, Raymond K. Mulhern¹, Robert J. Butler³, Robert J. Ogg¹

¹St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA; ²University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA; ³Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA

                  2090.    Quantitative Analysis of Gd Enhancement Histogram Tails Predicts Transformation in Low Grade Gliomas

Paul S. Tofts¹, Chris E. Benton¹, Rimona S. Weil¹, Daniel J. Tozer¹, Daniel Altmann¹, H Rolf Jager¹,

Adam D. Waldman¹, ², Jeremy H. Rees¹

¹UCL, London, UK; ²Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK

                  2091.    Using RCBV and CBF to Distinguish Radiation Necrosis from Tumor Recurrence in Malignant Gliomas

Rebecca Ann Lund¹, Scott D. Rand¹, H G. Krouwer¹, Chris J. Schultz¹, Kathleen M. Schmainda¹

¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

                  2092.    fMRI in Patients with Brain Tumors: Descriptive Serial Cases of Cognitive Function in
                                Pre and Post Surgical Conditions

Erika Aguilar¹, Maria De Iturbe¹, Karla Becerril¹, Priscila Rojas¹, Ana Luisa Sosa¹, Sergio Gomez LLata¹,

Ulises Garcia¹, Perla Salgado¹, Jorge Paz¹, Fernando Barrios², Erick Pasaye¹

¹Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía "MVS", Mexico, DF, Mexico; ²Instituto de Neurobiología, Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico

                  2093.    Assessing Changes in Tumor Vascular Function Using DCE-MRI: A Tale of Two Analysis Algorithms

Srikanth Mahankali¹, Qing Yuan¹, Alfred WK Yung¹, Edward Franklin Jackson¹

¹The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Multiple Sclerosis: Grey and White Matter Lesions

                  2094.    Detection of Subpial Cortical Demyelinating Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis In Vivo

Jacqueline Tien Hsiang Chen¹, D. Louis Collins¹, Harold L. Atkins², Mark S. Freedman², Douglas L. Arnold¹

¹Montreal Neurological Institute/McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; ²The Ottawa Hospital-General Campus, Ottawa, ON, Canada

                  2095.    Abnormalities of Deep Gray Matter Perfusion in Multiple Sclerosis:
                                Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Perfusion MRI at 3.0 T

Matilde Inglese¹, Sun-Jung Park¹, Glyn Johnson¹, James S. Babb¹, Hina Jaggi¹, Joseph Herbert¹, Robert I. Grossman¹

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

                  2096.    Imaging Cadavers - 'cold Brain' MRI Effects and Noninvasive Diffusion Thermometry of the CSF

Paul S. Tofts¹, Daniel J. Tozer¹, David G. MacManus¹, Klaus Schmierer¹, Nick C. Fox¹

¹University College London, London, UK

                  2097.    In Vivo Visualization of Multiple Sclerosis Cortical Lesions by High Resolution MRI at 3T

Francesca Bagnato¹, Lalith Talagala², Vasiliki Ikonomidou², Alessandro Calabrese², Fernanda Tovar-Moll²,

Annie W. Chiu², Marco Riva², Mary Ehrmantraut², Joan M. Ohayon², Henry F. McFarland²

¹NIB, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²NINDS / NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2098.    Imaging Cortical Lesions at Standard and High Field-Strength (1.5T and 4.7T):
                                Post-Mortem MRI and Histopathology

Jeroen J. G. Geurts¹, Erwin Blezer², Hugo Vrenken¹, Annette van der Toorn², Chris H. Polman¹, Jonas A. Castelijns¹, Petra J. W. Pouwels¹, Lars Bö¹, Frederik Barkhof¹

¹VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; ²University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

                  2099.    A Voxel-Based Morphometric Analysis of Clinically Isolated Syndrome Patients

Mason Shieh¹, Daniel Pelletier¹, Kathleen Garrison¹, Darin Okuda¹, Roland G. Henry¹

¹University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2100.    Texture Response of Deep Gray Matter in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Treated with Minocycline

Yunyan Zhang¹, Luanne M. Metz¹, Hongmei Zhu², Voon Wee Yong¹, J Ross Mitchell¹

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ²York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  2101.    Quantitative T1 Measurements Suggest Sex-Dependent Gray Matter Involvement in MS

Jeffrey M. Njus¹, Leif E. Vigeland¹, Xin Li¹, ², Charles S. Springer¹, ², Maria Taylor³, Frank W. Telang²,

Patricia K. Coyle³, William D. Rooney¹, ²

¹Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA; ²Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA; ³Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA

                  2102.    MRI Evidence for a Strong Relationship Between Total Cerebral White-Matter Lesion Load and
                                Clinical Disability in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Zografos Caramanos¹, Sridar Narayanan¹, Simon James Francis¹, André Luiz Mendes Matos¹,

Maria Carmela Tartaglia¹, Yves Lapierre¹, Douglas Lorne Arnold¹

¹Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

                  2103.    Extensive T2* Heterogeneity in White Matter Studied by High Resolution MRI at 7T

Tie-Qiang Li¹, Alan Koretsky¹, Peter van Gelderen¹, Hellmut Merkle¹, Lalith Talagala¹, Jeff Duyn¹

¹NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2104.    Quantitative Multi-Slice Mapping of the Myelin Water Fraction Using Multi-Compartment Analysis
                                of T2* Relaxation at 3T

Yiping P. Du¹, Renxin Chu¹, Mark S. Brown¹, Bette K. Kleinschmidt-DeMasters¹, Jack H. Simon¹

¹University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

                  2105.    Normal-Appearing White Matter Changes Vary with Distance to Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis

Hugo Vrenken¹, Jeroen J.G. Geurts¹, Dirk L. Knol¹, Chris H. Polman¹, Jonas A. Castelijns¹, Petra J.W. Pouwels¹, Frederik Barkhof¹

¹VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

                  2106.    The Early MS Pathology in the Corpus Callosum by Atrophy, Magnetization Transfer and
                                Diffusion Tensor Measures at 3T in Patients with a Clinically Isolated Syndrome and a Positive MRI

Jack H. Simon¹, Mark Brown¹, David E. Miller¹, Jeffrey Bennett¹, John Corboy¹, Deb Singel¹

¹University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

                  2107.    Registration and Subtraction of 2D-T2SE Images in a Routine Multicentre
                                Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Trial Setting

Bastiaan Moraal¹, Dominik S. Meier², Hugo Vrenken¹, Peter A. Poppe¹, Ronald A. van Schijndel¹, Petra Jan Willem Pouwels¹, Charles R G Guttmann², Frederik Barkhof¹

¹VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ²Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2108.    Semi-Automated Method for Quantifying and Localizing White Matter Hyperintensities on MR Images

Minjie Wu¹, Caterina Rosano¹, Meryl Butters¹, Ellen Whyte¹, Ryan Crooks¹, Carolyn Cidis Meltzer¹,

Charles F. Reynolds III¹, Howard Jay Aizenstein¹

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2109.    Identification of Abnormal White Matter in Multiple Sclerosis

Kishore Venkata Mogatadakala¹, Sushmita Datta¹, Aziz Hatim Poonawalla¹, Khader M. Hasan¹, Jerry S. Wolinsky¹, Ponnada A. Narayana¹

¹University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

                  2110.    Is a Two-Pool MT Model Valid in Tissues with Multicomponent T2?

Sharon Portnoy¹, Greg Jan Stanisz²

¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Sunnybrook & Womens' CHSC, Toronto, ON, Canada

                  2111.    Corpus Callosum Partitioning Schemes and Their Effect on Callosal Morphometry

Charlotte Ryberg¹, Mikkel Bille Stegmann², Karl Sjöstrand², Egill Rostrup³, Franz Fazekas⁴, Frederik Barkhof⁵, Gunhild Waldemar¹

¹Memory Disorders Research Unit, Copenhagen, Denmark; ²Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark; ³Danish Reseach center for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen, Denmark; ⁴Medical University, Graz, Austria; ⁵VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

                  2112.    In-Vivo 3D Multi-Component T2-Relaxation Measurements for Quantitative Myelin Imaging at 3T

Burkhard Mädler¹, ², Alex L. MacKay²

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

                  2113.    Pattern of Hemodynamic Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis: Dynamic Susceptibility
                                Contrast Perfusion MRI at 3 T

Sumita Adhya¹, Glyn Johnson¹, Joseph Herbert¹, James S. Babb¹, Hina Jaggi¹, Robert I. Grossman¹, Matilde Inglese¹

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

                  2114.    Diffusion Modeling Using Bayesian Probability Theory Applied to Imaging of Multiple Sclerosis

Joshua S. Shimony¹, Adrian A. Epstein¹, Christopher D. Kroenke¹, Jeffrey J. Neil¹, Anne H. Cross¹, Yvette I. Sheline¹, Abraham Z. Snyder¹, G Larry Bretthorst¹

¹Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  2115.    Minocycline Impedes the Evolution of Gd-Enhancing Lesions Into Black Holes in Patients with
                                Multiple Sclerosis

Yunyan Zhang¹, Luanne M. Metz¹, Voon Wee Yong¹, J Ross Mitchell¹

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  2116.    Application of Single-Slab 3D-FLAIR, 3D-DIR and 3D-T2, Compared to 2D Dual-Echo T2,
                                in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Bastiaan Moraal¹, Petra Jan Willem Pouwels¹, Hugo Vrenken¹, Charles R G Guttmann², Dominik S. Meier²,

Ronald A. van Schijndel¹, Jeroen J G Geurts¹, Frederik Barkhof¹

¹VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ²Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

fMRI in Animals

                  2117.    Quantifying the BOLD Contribution in CBV-Weighted fMRI at 9.4T

Hanbing Lu¹, Leah Gitajn¹, William Rea¹, Yihong Yang¹, Elliot A. Stein¹

¹National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2118.    Dynamic fMRI Acquisition of BOLD, RCBV, CBF, and Hypercapnic Reactivity for RCMRO2
                                Calculation During Rat Forelimb Stimulation

Young Ro Kim¹, George Dai¹, Emiri Tejima², Joseph B. Mandeville¹, Bruce R. Rosen¹

¹Athinoula Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging/ Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²Neuroprotection Research laboratory/ Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  2119.    MRI Evidence of Resting State Connectivity in Rodent Brain

Kathleen Anne Williams¹, ², Scott J. Peltier, ¹², Stephen M. LaConte, ¹², Shella Dawn Keilholz¹, ²

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

                  2120.    fMRI of the Rat’s Whisker-To-Barrel Pathway

Ian Mark Devonshire¹, Jason Berwick¹, Paul G. Overton¹, John E. Mayhew¹, Nikos G. Papadakis¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

                  2121.    Imaging Dynamic Neural Network in Rat Brains Using BOLD fMRI

Tsukasa Nagaoka¹, ², Naoyuki Miyasaka, ²³, Richard P. Kennan², Seiji Ogawa², ⁴, Timothy Q. Duong¹

¹Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA;
³Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan; ⁴Ogawa Laboratories for Brain Function Research, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

                  2122.    Stimulus Frequency Dependence of the Relationship Between BOLD Signal and
                                Somatosensory Evoked Potential in Rat Cortex

Ikuhiro Kida¹, Mamoru Tamura¹, Toru Yamamoto¹

¹Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

                  2123.    Subcortical Forepaw Stimulation fMRI Activations in Awake Rats

Qiang Shen¹, Nanna Sulai¹, Timothy Q. Duong¹

¹Emory Unviersity, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  2124.    Distinct Characteristics of Brain Activity in Cat V1 and LGN in Response to Flicking and Grating
      Visual Stimuli: A fMRI Study at 9.4T

Xiao-Hong Zhu¹, Nanyin Zhang¹, Yi Zhang¹, Wei Chen¹

¹CMRR, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  2125.    Study of Correlation Between Brain Activity and ATP Metabolic Rates by Means of ³¹P Magnetization
                                Transfer and Electroencephalograph Measurement

Fei Du¹, Yi Zhang¹, Michael Friedman¹, Nanyin Zhang¹, Xiao-Hong Zhu¹, Kamil Ugurbil¹, Wei Chen¹

¹Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  2126.    Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Rat Spinal Cord After Peripheral Nerve Injury

Katarzyna Majcher¹, Boguslaw Tomanek², ³, Andrzej Jasinski¹, ⁴, Tadeusz Foniok², Dave Kirk³, Dave Rushforth², Ursula I. Tuor², ³, Grzegorz Hess⁵

¹Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAS, Krakow, Poland; ²Institute for Biodiagnostics (West), NRC, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
³Experimental Imaging Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ⁴Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland; ⁵Institute of Pharmacology, PAS, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

                  2127.    Functional Imaging of Cat Spinal Cord by CBV-Weighted fMRI

Fuqiang Zhao¹, Changfeng Tai¹, Jicheng Wang¹, Ping Wang¹, James R. Roppolo¹, William C. de Groat¹,

Seong-Gi Kim¹

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2128.    Comparison of Neural Activity in the Rat Spinal Cord Using fMRI and Field Potentials
                                During Noxious Electrical Stimulation of the Hind Paw

Jane Lawrence¹, ², Phillip F. Gardiner¹, Kalan R. Gardiner¹, Patrick W. Stroman, ¹³, Kris L. Malisza, ¹²

¹University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada;
³Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

                  2129.    Neural Basis of Unconditional Fear: Perfusion and Functional Imaging in Aging
                                Rat Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis

Wei Chen¹, Young Kim², Karl F. Schmidt¹, Feng Luo¹, Mathew Brevard¹, Jean King¹

¹University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester,,Massachusetts, USA; ²MGH/MIT/HMS, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  2130.    Imaging Fear Stress Responses in Monkeys

Josie A. Harder¹, ², Timothy S. Garelick¹, Wei Chen¹, Jean A. King¹

¹UMass Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; ²University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

                  2131.    Functional (BOLD) MRI in Zebra Finch to Investigate the Capacity of Specific Brain Regions
                                to Segregate Meaningful Auditory Signals from a Noisy Background

Tiny Boumans¹, Clémentine Vignal², ³, Alain Smolders¹, Marleen Verhoye¹, Johan Van Audekerke¹, Nicolas Mathevon³, Annemie Van der Linden¹

¹University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; ²Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France; ³Université Paris XI, Orsay & LBA,
Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France

                  2132.    Functional MRI of the Songbird Zebra Finch at 3 Tesla

Henning U. Voss¹, Kristen Maul², Douglas Ballon¹, Ofer T. Tchernichovski², Santosh A. Helekar³

¹Cornell University, New York, New York, USA; ²CUNY, New York, New York, USA; ³University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

                  2133.    Quantitative MRI of Cerebral Blood Flow in the Non-Human Primate

Paul A. Greenberg¹, Joanna E. Perthen¹, Anna L. Quijada¹, David J. Dubowitz¹

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

                  2134.    High Spatial Resolution fMRI Mapping of Digit Topography and the Funneling Illusion
                                in SI Cortex of the Anesthetized Squirrel Monkey

Gregory Harrison Turner¹, Li Min Chen¹, Robert M. Friedman¹, John C. Gore¹, Anna W. Roe¹, Malcolm J. Avison¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  2135.    Perfusion-Based fMRI in the Monkey Brain at 7T: Investigations of CASL Parameters

Anne Catherin Zappe¹, Hellmut Merkle², Josef Pfeuffer¹, ³, Nikos k. Logothetís¹

¹Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen, Germany; ²NIH/NINDS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  2136.    Discordant Responses to Cocaine in CBF and CBV: Implications for PhMRI CMRO2 Assessment

Feng Luo¹, Karl F. Schmidt¹, Craig F. Ferris¹, Timothy Q. Duong²

¹UMass, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; ²Emory University, Atalanta, Georgia, USA

                  2137.    Characterizing Alcohol-Induced Changes in Forebrain Activity in Awake Rats
      Using PhMRI and Assessing Brain Tissue Alcohol Pharmacokinetics Using Proton MR Spectroscopy

Feng Luo¹, Zhixin Li¹, Steven Treistman¹, Craig F. Ferris¹

¹University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

                  2138.    A Multimodality Investigation of Cerebral Haemodynamics and Autoregulation in PhMRI

Alessandro Gozzi¹, Laura Ceolin¹, Adam Schwarz¹, Torsten Reese¹, Simone Bertani¹, Angelo Bifone¹

¹Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery, Psychiatry, GlaxoSmithKline, Verona, Italy

                  2139.    Mapping Neural Activities of Area Postrema and Nucleus Tractus Solitarius in Awake
                                Rats Using Pharmacological MRI: Relevance as a Potential Biomarker for Detecting
                                Drug-Induced Emesis

Chih-Liang Chin¹, Gerard B. Fox¹, Vincent P. Hradil¹, Mark A. Osinski¹, Steve P. McGaraughty¹, Pamela D. Skoubis¹, Bryan F. Cox¹, Yanping Luo¹

¹Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, USA

                  2140.    Application of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to the Study of 5-HT2C
                                Neurotransmission in Rat Brain

Jennifer Ann Stark¹, Karen E. Davies¹, Shane McKie¹, Steve R. Williams¹, Simon M. Luckman¹

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

                  2141.    L-Tetrahydropalmatine Induces a Negative BOLD Signal in the Nucleus Accumbens and
                                Orbitofrontal Cortex in Heroin-Dependent Rats

Zheng Yang¹, Guofan Xu², Kathleen Q. Yin², Gaohong Wu², Shi-Jiang Li²

¹Institute of Basic Medical Science, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ²Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

                  2142.    An fMRI Study of Naturalistic Stimulation of the Rat’s Whiskers

Ian Mark Devonshire¹, Paul G. Overton¹, John E. Mayhew¹, Nikos G. Papadakis¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

                  2143.    Functional MRI of Hypothalamic Responses to Circulating Glucose and Fatty Acids

Jong-Hee Hwang¹, Tony K T Lam¹, Wei Sun¹, Tsukasa Nagaoka¹, Naoyuki Miyasaka¹, Kan Takahashi¹,

Luciano Rossetti¹

¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA

                  2144.    The Role of Cortico-Cortical Connections in Intercortical Plasticity Following Peripheral Nerve Injury

Galit Pelled¹, Kai-Hsiang Chuang¹, Stephen Dodd¹, Alan P. Koretsky¹

¹National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2145.    Mapping Neuropharmacological-Evoked BOLD Signals in Rat Brain Under Isoflurane Anesthesia:
                                A Feasibility Study

Xiaodong Guo¹, Ping Wang¹, Mike Robbins¹, Jian-Ming Zhu¹

¹Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Coronary MRA

                  2146.    Preliminary Study of Coronary MRA at 3T: Using 3D Gradient Echo Sequence in a
                                Delayed Post-Contrast Phase

Wei Sun¹, Guang Cao², Yi He³, Zhaoqi Zhang³

¹GE Healthcare China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ²GE Healthcare China, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ³Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2147.    Coronary Blood Flow Measurement at 3.0T Using Navigator-Echo Gated Phase Velocity Mapping

Kevin R. Johnson¹, Puneet Sharma, John N. Oshinski¹

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

                  2148.    3D Coronary Vessel Wall Imaging at 3 Tesla Using DIR with an Obliquely Oriented Re-Inversion Slab

Andrew Nicholas Priest¹, Paul Martin Bansmann¹, Alexander Stork¹, Michael G. Kaul¹, Gerhard Adam¹

¹University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

                  2149.    Feasibility of 350 Micron Resolution Coronary MR Angiography at 3T

Ahmed M. Gharib¹, Daniel A. Herzka², Vincent B. Ho³, Robert G. Weiss⁴, Roderic Pettigrew¹, Matthias Stuber⁴

¹NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Clinical Sites Research Program, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;
³Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2150.    Automated Identification of Minimal Myocardial Motion for Improved Image Quality in
                                Coronary MRA at 3T

Ali Oguz Ustun¹, Robert George Weiss¹, Milind Desai², Matthias Stuber¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Cleveland Clinic Heart Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2151.    Development and Evaluation of 3T Whole-Heart Coronary MR Angiography Technique

Ahmed M. Gharib¹, Vincent B. Ho², Daniel A. Herzka³, Julia Locklin¹, Matthias Stuber⁴, Roderic Pettigrew¹

¹NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ³Clinical Sites Research Program, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2152.    High-Resolution Coronary Artery MRA at 3 Tesla with Slow Infusion of an
                                Extravascular High Relaxivity Contrast Agent MultiHance

Xiaoming Bi¹, James Carr¹, Debiao Li¹

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2153.    Flow-Related Problems in Whole Heart Cine Coronary MR Angiography

Kay Nehrke¹, Peter Börnert¹, Christian Stehning¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  2154.    Respiratory Self-Gated 4D Coronary MRA with UNFOLD

Lan Ge¹, Peng Lai¹, Andrew Larson¹, Jaeseok Park¹, Xiaoming Bi¹, Debiao Li¹

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2155.    Comparison of Inversion Recovery Steady-State Free Precession and
                                Fast Low Angle Shot Sequences for 3D Magnetic Resonance Coronary Angiography

Kai-Uwe Waltering¹, Holger Eggebrecht¹, Kai Nassenstein¹, Thomas Schlosser¹, Peter Hunold¹, Joerg Barkhausen¹

¹University Hospital, Essen, NRW, Germany

                  2156.    Three-Dimensional Time-Resolved Whole-Heart Coronary Angiography Using a 3D
                                Cones Trajectory

Paul T. Gurney¹, Brian A. Hargreaves¹, Dwight G. Nishimura¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2157.    Adapting Trigger Delays to Heart Rate for Coronary MR Angiography

Garry Liu¹, Graham Arnold Wright¹

¹University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  2158.    Motion Measurement Using Echoes During SSFP Dummy Cycles for Whole-Heart
                                MR Coronary Artery

Masao Yui¹, Yoshimori Kassai¹, Shigehide Kuhara¹

¹Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara, Tochigi, Japan

                  2159.    Compensating for Beat-To-Beat Variation in Coronary Motion Improves Image Quality
                                in Coronary MR

Maneesh Dewan¹, Gregory D. Hager¹, Steven M. Shea², Christine H. Lorenz³

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;
³Siemens Corporate Research, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2160.    An Automatic Off-Resonance Correction Method for Multi-Slice Imaging

Weitian Chen¹, Craig H. Meyer¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  2161.    Magnetic Resonance Coronary Angiography Using an Intravascular Contrast Agent:
                                T1 Time Course of Normal Myocardium and Blood

Kai-Uwe Waltering¹, Holger Eggebrecht¹, Kai Nassenstein¹, Thomas Schlosser¹, Peter Hunold¹, Joerg Barkhausen¹

¹University Hospital, Essen, NRW, Germany

                  2162.    Breath Hold Magnetic Resonance Coronary Angiography with MS 325: Initial Experiences

Kai Nassenstein¹, Kai Uwe Waltering¹, Frank Breuckmann¹, Thomas Schlosser¹, Peter Hunold¹, Joerg Barkhausen¹

¹University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Germany

                  2163.    Optimal Selection of the Subject-Specific Data Acquisition Window for Coronary MRA

Xiaoming Bi¹, Yiu-cho Chung², Sven Zuehlsdorff², Debiao Li¹

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2164.    Coronary MR Angiography at 3T During Diastole and Systole

Ahmed M. Gharib¹, Daniel A. Herzka², Ali Ustun³, Milind Desai⁴, Julia Locklin¹, Roderic Pettigrew¹, Matthias Stuber³

¹NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Clinical Sites Research Program, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;
³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ⁴Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Vessel Wall Imaging

                  2165.    Delayed Enhancement MR Coronary Vessel Wall Imaging in Patients
                                with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease

Tareq Ibrahim¹, David Maintz², Josef Dirschinger¹, Silvia Schachoff¹, Albert Schomig, ¹³, Warren J. Manning⁴,

Markus Schwaiger¹, René Michael Botnar¹

¹Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany; ²University Münster, Münster, Germany; ³German Heart Center, Munich, Germany;
⁴Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2166.    T2 and ADC Values of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaques Under Fresh and Preserved Conditions

Binjian Sun¹, Don P. Giddens¹, Robert Long Jr. ², Robert Taylor², Diana Weiss², Giji Joseph², David Vega²,

John N. Oshinski¹

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

                  2167.    Characterization of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Using Multi-Contrast MRI
                                Acquired Under Simulated In-Vivo Conditions

Binjian Sun¹, ², Don P. Giddens¹, Robert Long Jr. ², Robert Taylor², ³, Diana Weiss², Giji Joseph², David Vega²,

John N. Oshinski¹, ²

¹Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA;
³Atlanta VA Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  2168.    Time Efficient Carotid Artery Imaging Using TSE with Reduced Field of View and
                                Interleaved Double Inversion at 3 Tesla

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

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

                  2169.    Multi-Contrast Black-Blood MRI of Carotid Arteries: Comparison Between
                                1.5 and 3 Tesla Magnetic Field Strengths

Vasily L. Yarnykh¹, Masahiro Terashima², Cecil E. Hayes¹, Ann Shimakawa³, Norihide Takaya¹, Patricia K. Nguyen²,
Jean H. Brittain³, Michael V. McConnell², Chun Yuan¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA;
³GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA

                  2170.    In Vivo Automated Quantification of Fibrous Tissue Content in Atherosclerosis Plaque MRI
                                with T2-Mapping and Contrast Enhanced (TMCE) Technique

Jinnan Wang¹, Vasily Yarnykh¹, Chun Yuan¹, Tobias Saam¹, Thomas Hatsukami², Marina Ferguson¹, Tong Zhu¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA;

                  2171.    Reproducibility and SNR Optimization of Quantitative T2 Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging
                                with a Dual-Echo Technique

Jinnan Wang¹, Vasily Yarnykh¹, Thomas Hatsukami², Chun Yuan¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2172.    The Forgotten Side: In–Vivo Assessment of Inflammatory Atheroma Burden on the
                                 Contralateral Side to Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis Using High Resolution
                                USPIO-Enhanced MR Imaging

Tjun Tang¹, ², Simon Peter Satterly Howarth¹, ², Ilse Joubert¹, Andrew P. Brown³, Martin John Graves¹,

Peter J. Kirkpatrick², Michael E. Gaunt², Jonathan H. Gillard¹

¹University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK; ²Addenbrooke's NHS Trust, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK;
³Glaxosmithkline, Greenford, Surrey, UK

                  2173.    High-Resolution Carotid MRA and Plaque MRI at 3T: Initial Clinical Experience and Validation
                            of Semi-Automated Plaque Characterization

Kevin DeMarco¹, David Zhu¹, Collen Hammond¹, Grant Henderson¹, William Kerwin², William Ross³,

Vasily Yarnykh², Chun Yuan²

¹Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; ²University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA;
³Pathway MRI, Inc, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2174.    An MRI Technique for the Study of the Prevalence of Atherosclerosis

Hunter Reeve Underhill¹, John Robin Crouse², Vasily Yarnykh¹, Robert Kraft², Tobias Saam¹, Norihide Takaya¹, Baocheng Chu¹,
Clement Yang¹, James Greg Terry², Chun Yuan¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

                  2175.    MRI Can Detect Intraplaque Hemorrhage in Ex-Vivo Coronary Arteries

General Leung¹, Nigel Munce¹, Richard Bitar¹, Jagdish Butany², Graham A. Wright¹, Alan R. Moody¹

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

                  2176.    Carotid Atherosclerotic Score--A New Method to Identify High Risk Carotid Plaques
                                Based on Multi-Contrast MRI: Validation and Preliminary Results from Patients

Jianming Cai¹, Tobias Saam², Marina S. Ferguson², Chun Yuan²

¹Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ²University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2177.    Distribution of Intraplaque Hemorrhage in Carotid Complicated Plaques Defined by
                                High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Direct Thrombus Imaging (HiresMRDTI)

Richard Bitar¹, Alan R. Moody², Sean Symons¹, General Leung², Jagdish Butany¹, Susan Crisp², Alexander Kiss³,

D James Sahlas², David Gladstone², Robert Maggisano²

¹University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²Sunnybrook and Women's College HSC, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
³Institutes for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  2178.    High Resolution Diffusion Weighted Imaging of Human Carotid Artery Using 2D
                                Ss-RFOV-DWEPI at 3 Tesla

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

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

                  2179.    Time-Efficient Multislice Black-Blood Imaging with Reduced Field-Of-View
                                Using Quadruple Inversion-Recovery Sequence

Vasily L. Yarnykh¹, Chun Yuan¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2180.    Non Invasive MRI Vessel Wall Evaluation in Asymtomatic Patients: Comparison of
                                Three MRI Based Parameters in Aorta and Common Carotid Arteries

Karen B. Weinshelbaum¹, Venkatesh Mani¹, Hiroaki Taniguchi¹, Silvia H. Aguiar¹, John E. Postley²,

Robert J. van der Geest³, Ellen Bondar¹, Daniel D. Samber¹, J H. Reiber³, Zahi A. Fayad¹

¹Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ²Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ³Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

                  2181.    Evaluation of Thrombus Organization as a New Parameter for Follow-Up After
                                Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair

S. A. Cornelissen¹, M. J. Van der Laan², K. L. Vincken¹, C. J. Bakker¹, H. J. Verhagen¹, W. P. Mali¹, F. L. Moll¹,

L. W. Bartels¹

¹University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands; ²Hilversum General Hospital, Hilversum, Netherlands

                  2182.    Vessel Wall Imaging in Peripheral Vascular Disease

Timothy J. Carroll¹, ², Dongxiang Xu³, Nondas Leoloudas², Jin Tan², James Carr², Debiao Li², John Koktzglou²,

Chun Yuan³, Mary McDermott²

¹Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA;
³University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2183.    Rapid and Reproducible Measurement of Atherosclerotic Plaque Volume in
                                Peripheral Arterial Disease by MRI

David C. Isbell¹, Craig H. Meyer¹, Walter J. Rogers¹, Frederick H. Epstein¹, Joseph M. DiMaria¹, Nancy L. Harthun¹,
Hongkun Wang¹, Christopher M. Kramer¹

¹University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  2184.    Black-Blood Imaging Using a Spin-Echo Spiral Sequence with Flow-Spoiling Gradients

Wen-Tung Wang¹, Peng Hu¹, Craig H. Meyer¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  2185.    Multislice Spiral Superficial Femoral Artery Wall Imaging

Christopher Thomas Sica¹, Chris M. Kramer¹, Craig H. Meyer¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  2186.    The Effect of Slice Thickness on Assessment of Atherosclerosis Geometry Measures

Ruta Gelombickaite¹, Rem van Tyen², Gregory Wong¹, Joseph Rapp¹, David Saloner, ¹²

¹VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA; ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2187.    Diffusion Based Model of Contrast Agent Kinetics for Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI

William Sean Kerwin¹, Vasily Yarnykh¹, Chun Yuan¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2188.    High-Resolution MRI with a New Cardiac and Respiratory Gating System for
                                Contrast-Enhanced MRI of the Carotids in the ApoE-/- Mouse

Hasan Alsaid¹, Maher Sabbah², Zakaria Bendahmane¹, Odette Fokapu², Philippe Robert³, Claire Corot³,

André Briguet¹, Emmanuelle Canet-Soulas¹

¹Laboratoire de RMN Méthodologie et Instrumentation en Biophysique, UCB-CNRS UMR 5012, Villeurbanne, France;
²UMR 6600, Biomécanique et Génie Biomédical, UTC, Compiègne, France; ³Guerbet, B.P. 50400, Roissy CdG cedex, France

                  2189.    Characterization of Plaque Components in Gadofluorine M-Enhanced Rabbit Atherosclerosis:
                                Toward Quantification of Plaque Progression with Biomechanics

Jie Zheng¹, Dalin Tang², Bernd Misselwitz³, Issam El Naqa¹, Joseph O. Deasy⁴, Dana Abendschein⁴

¹Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; ²Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA;
³Schering AG, Berlin, Germany; ⁴Washinfton University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  2190.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Rabbit Atherosclerotic Lesions with  MS-325

Marc Lobbes¹, Robbert-Jan Miserus¹, Andrea Wiethoff², Alfons Kessels³, Mat Daemen¹, Jos van Engelshoven¹,

Sylvia Heeneman¹, Tim Leiner¹, Eline Kooi¹

¹Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands; ²Epix Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA;
³Clinical Epidemiology and MTA, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

                  2191.    In-Vivo MRSI Detection of Lipid in Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque

Kai Wolfgang Eberhardt¹, Susan Yeon², Dana Cecil Peters², Michael Schär³, ⁴, Peter Boesiger¹, Sebastian Kozerke¹

¹University and ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
³Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ⁴Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2192.    Atherosclerotic Plaque Characterization Using NMR Spectroscopy

Said Rahnamaye Rabbani¹, Erasmo Simão da Silva¹, Antonio Carlos Bloise¹, Mauro M. Hanaoka², Tito José Bonagamba³

¹São Paulo University, São Paulo, Brazil; ²São Paulo University, São Paulo, São  Paulo, Brazil;
³São Paulo University, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

Body MR: Liver, Contrast Techniques

                  2193.    Evaluation of the Upper Abdomen on Dynamic Enhanced Coronal Liver Acceleration
                                with Volume Acquisition Imaging: Comparison with MDCT

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

Masaya Hirano²

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

                  2194.    Time-Resolved Three-Dimensional Contrast-Enhanced Dynamic MR Imaging of the
                                Whole Liver with a Parallel Imaging Technique

Katsuyoshi Ito¹, Takeshi Fujita¹, Ayame Shimizu¹, Minoru Hayashida¹, Masahiro Tanabe¹, Naofumi Matsunaga¹

¹Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

                  2195.    Clinical Evaluation of an Ultra High Spatio-Temporal Resolution Time Resolved Dynamic
                                Contrast Enhanced Imaging Technique in Hepato-Biliary Oncosurgical Imaging

Rammohan Vadapalli¹, Manojkumar Saranathan², Ramesh Venkatesan³, Mohan deseilva⁴, Aloka Pathirana⁴

¹Asiri Surgical Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka; ²Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; ³Wipro GE Medical Systems, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; ⁴University of Jayawardhenpura, Colombo, Sri Lanka

                  2196.    Comparison of a Recently Developed 3D SPGR Breath-Hold Examination for
                                Abdominal MR Imaging and 2D Fast SPGR Breath-Hold Equivalent for Image Characteristics

Kimihiko Sato¹, Takayuki Masui¹, Motoyuki Katayama¹, Masahiro Sugiyama¹, Hidekazu Seo¹, Atshushi Nozaki², Masaya Hirano²

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

                  2197.    Detection and Characterization of Hepatocellular Carcinomas£ºComparison of
                                Gadolinium-Enhanced 3D MR Imaging and Digital Subtraction Angiography in the Same Patient

Huiyi Ye¹, Maoqiang Wang¹, Jing Zhang¹, Youquan Cai¹, Lin Ma¹, Fengyong Liu¹

¹PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2198.    Biliary Enhancement of Gd-BOPTA (MultiHance®) and Gd-EOB-DTPA (Primovist®)
                                 - A Study in Healthy Volunteers

Nils Dahlström¹, ², Torkel B. Brismar³, Anders Persson¹, Nils Albiin³, Örjan Smedby¹

¹Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden; ²Hudiksvall Hospital, Hudiksvall, Sweden;
³Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

                  2199.    Hepatocellular Adenoma and the Surrounding Liver: A Spectrum of Characteristic
                                Findings at State-Of-The-Art MR Imaging, with Histopathological Correlation

Indra Celine van den Bos¹, Shahid M. Hussain¹, Pieter E. Zondervan¹, Piotr A. Wielopolski¹, Jan N M IJzermans¹,

Rob A. de Man¹

¹Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

                  2200.    MRI Estimation of Donor Liver Graft Steatosis Prior to Orthotopic Liver
                                Transplantation: Feasibility and Evaluation of Possible RF Heating Effects

Kieren Grant Hollingsworth¹, Susan Maguire², Martin John Graves¹, David J. Lomas¹

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

                  2201.    Liver Vessel Enhancement of Gd-BOPTA and Gd-EOB-DTPA

Torkel B. Brismar¹, Nils Dahlström², ³, Örjan Smedby², Anders Persson², Nils Albiin¹

¹CLINTEC, Stockholm, Sweden; ²CMIV, Linköping, Sweden; ³Department of Radiology, Hudiksvall Hospital, Sweden

                  2202.    Triple Arterial and Portal Venous Phase Dynamic MRI of Liver: To Differentiate
                                Malignant and Hypervascular Benign Focal Lesions by Enhancement Curve and Parameters

Ying Li¹, Xiao-peng Zhang¹, Lei Tang¹, Kun Cao¹

¹Beijing Cancer Hospital, Peking University School of Oncology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2203.    Focal Liver Lesion Detection and Characterization: Comparison of SSEPI
                                Diffusion-Weighted Imaging with T2-Weighted Imaging; Early Experience

Tejas Parikh¹, Stephen Drew¹, Samson Wong¹, Vivian S. Lee¹, Elizabeth M. Hecht¹, Ruth Lim¹, Bachir Taouli¹

¹NYU Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

                  2204.    Liver Function Test Using SVD-Based Deconvolutional Analysis in Gd-EOB-DTPA-Enhanced MRI

Anders Nordell¹, Henrik Nilsson², Roberto Vargas¹, Eduard Jonas², Lennart Blomqvist¹

¹Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden; ²Karolinska Institute, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

                  2205.    Characterization of Neuro-Endocrine Tumors Using MRI: Longitudinal Study in an
                                Athymic Nude Mouse Model

Loredana Baboi¹, ², Laurent Milot¹, ³, Frank Pilleul, ¹³, Jean-Yves Scoazec⁴, Olivier Beuf¹

¹Université Claude Bernard LYON1, CPE, Villeurbanne, France; ²Creatis- UMR5515 CNRS - U630 INSERM, Lyon, France;
³Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France; ⁴Faculté de Médecine Laennec, Lyon, France

                  2206.    Automatic Analysis of Hepatic DCE-MRI Data

Daniel Monleon¹, David Moratal-Pérez², Luis Marti-Bonmati³, Ignacio Blanquer², Vicente Hernández²,

Jose Carbonell², Bernardo Celda¹

¹Universitat de Valencia, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain; ²Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain;
³Hospital Universitario Dr. Peset, Valencia, Spain

                  2207.    Clinical Evaluation of Elliptical Centric Fat Suppressed Time Resolved Imaging in
                                Liver Tumor Characterization

Manojkumar Saranathan¹, Ramesh Venkatesan², Venkat Ramanan², Ananta Padmanabha³, Rammohan Vadapalli³

¹Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; ²GE Healthcare, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; ³Asiri Surgical Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka

                  2208.    Clinical Feasibility of Single Breath-Hold Multiphase Dynamic MR Imaging of Liver
                                Using THRIVE-CENTRA-Keyhole Sequence

Myeong-Jin Kim¹, Wha Sun Kim¹, Donald G. Mitchell², Jan de Becker³, Gabriele Beck³, Masayuki Kanematsu⁴,

Eun Ju Kim⁵, Ki Whang Kim¹

¹Yonsei University, Severance Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA;
³Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands; ⁴Gifu University, Gifu, Japan; ⁵Philips Medical Systems Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

                  2209.    Detection and Characterization of Hepatic Metastases with Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide 
                                Enhanced Diffusion Weighted MR Imaging

Nagaaki Marugami¹, Shinji Hirohashi¹, Satoru Kitano¹, Kimihiko Kichikawa¹

¹Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

                  2210.    Inferior Vena Cava Encirclement by Caudate Lobe Hypertrophy: Evaluation by MRI and CT
                                and Its Impact on Caval Preservation During Orthotopic Liver Transplantation

Rashi I. Mehta¹, Donald G. Mitchell¹, Liise Kayler¹, Laurence Parker¹

¹Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2211.    Phase Velocity Imaging of Portal Pressure Gradients for Evaluating Liver Cirrhosis

Yuenan Wang¹, Hyeonjin Kim¹, Alexander Pinus¹, Maolin Qiu¹, R. Todd Constable¹

¹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  2212.    Focal Nodular Enhancement on 3D MRI of Cystic Renal Lesions Predicts Malignancy

Ivan Pedrosa¹, Martin P. Smith¹, Gregory S. Adey¹, Martin G. Sanda¹, William D. DeWolf¹, Neil M. Rofsky¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Body: GI-GU

                  2213.    Specific Pathogen-Free Transgenic Mice Carrier for Molecular MR Imaging

Cory Robert Wyatt¹, Donna J. Cross¹, ², Mark Mathis¹, Cecil Hayes¹, Jennifer A. Flexman¹, Kenneth R. Maravilla¹, Satoshi Minoshima¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2214.    In Vivo Sodium Imaging of Mouse Kidney at 9.4 Tesla: A Feasibility Study

Haiying Liu¹, Martin G. Kohler¹, XL Shen¹, Maria L. Garcia¹, Donald S. Williams², Richard J. Hargreaves²

¹Merck Research Labs, Rahway, New Jersey, USA; ²Merck Research Labs, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2215.    Functional Consequences of Aquaporin-1 Deficiency: Renal MRI in a Pre-Clinical Model

Natarajan Raghunand¹, Theodore P. Trouard¹, Heddwen Brooks¹

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

                  2216.    MRI-Histopathology Correlation of N-Phenylanthranylic Acid Induced Nephropathy in Rats

Yi-Xiang Wang¹, Graham Betton¹, Eike Floettmann¹, Carsten Leiss¹

¹Astra Zeneca, Macclesfield, Cheshire, UK

                  2217.    Synchronization Strategies in T2-Weighted MR Imaging for Detection of Mouse Liver Metastasis

Loredana Baboi¹, ², Laurent Milot¹, ³, Frank Pilleul, ¹³, Carole Lartizien², ⁴, Olivier Beuf¹

¹Université Claude Bernard LYON1, CPE, Villeurbanne, France; ²Creatis - UMR5515 CNRS - U630 INSERM, Lyon, France;
³Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France; ⁴CERMEP- Plate-forme ANIMAGE, Bron, France

                  2218.    Visualization of Seminiferous Tubules by High Resolution MR Imaging in Rat Testes:
                                The Usefulness in the Evaluation of Spermatogenic Activities

Masayuki Yamaguchi¹, ², Fukiyuki Mitsumori¹, Nobuhiro Takaya¹, Hidehiro Watanabe¹, Manabu Minami²

¹National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ²University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

                  2219.    Evaluation of Autoimmune Pancreatitis with MR Imaging: A Comparative Study with Helical CT

Zhenghan Yang¹, Weifeng Zhao¹, Min Chen¹, Ye Tan¹, Xiaohua Ye¹, Min Zhang¹, Cheng Zhou¹

¹Beijing Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2220.    Quantification of the Stimulation Effect on the Exocrine Pancreas of Two Doses of Secretin Using MRCP

Maria Antonietta Bali¹, Thierry Metens¹, Marianna Arvanitakis¹, Jacques Devière¹, Celso Matos¹

¹Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

                  2221.    Role of Secretin Enhanced MRCP in Post Partial Pancreatectomy Patients

Munazza Anis¹, Koenraad J. Mortele², Servet Tatli², Alisa Suzuki², Sukru Mehmet Erturk², Peter A. Banks²,

Stuart G. Silverman²

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital,, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2222.    Free-Breathing and High B-Value Diffusion-Weighted MR Images of Solid Pancreatic
                                Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions

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

¹Univ. of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

                  2223.    Pancreatic Duct Visualisation: Secretin MRCP Compared with 2D and 3D MRCP Techniques,
                                Initial Results

Suzanne L. Wakely¹, ², Evis Sala¹, ², Lucy Bushby¹, ², Richard T. Black², Martin J. Graves¹, Ruth Beavon²,

David J. Lomas¹, ²

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

                  2224.    Quantification of Renal Volume and Length in Normal Subjects by Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Benjamin Cheong¹, Raja Muthupillai¹, ², Scott Flamm¹, ³

¹St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA;
³Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

                  2225.    Sodium MRI of the Human Kidney

Yael Rosen¹, Nimrod Maril¹, H Glenn Reynolds², Alexander Ivanishev¹, Robert E. Lenkinski¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Body: GI

                  2226.    Clinical Significance of Diffusion Weighted Image in Staging Esophageal Cancer

Aine Sakurada¹, Taro Takahara¹, Tomohiro Yamashita¹, Seiji Nasu¹, Tomohiko Horie¹, Marc Van Cauteren²,

Yutaka Imai¹

¹Tokai Univ. School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan; ²Philips Medical Systems, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

                  2227.    Ex Vivo MR Diffusion Anisotropy Measurement for the Evaluation of Gastric Tissue Fiber
                                Directions Using 3D Turbo STEAM Sequence

Roger Nana¹, Nader Metwalli¹, Lei Zhou¹, Keith Aaron Heberlein¹, Choong-Ki Eun², Xiaoping P. Hu¹,

Chi-Woong Mun¹, ³

¹Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²Inje University, Busan, South, Republic of Korea;
³Inje University, Gimhae, South, Republic of Korea

                  2228.    Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of Gastric Cancer: Preliminary Studies

Xiao Peng Zhang¹, Lei Tang¹, Ying Shi Sun¹, Jie Li¹

¹Beijing Cancer Hospital & Peking University School of Oncology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2229.    Dynamic 3D Gastric Imaging Using k-T BLAST and Image Processing of the 4D MRI
                                Data of the Human Stomach

Stefan Zwick¹, Andreas Steingoetter¹, Sebastian Kozerke¹, Werner Schwizer², Peter Boesiger¹

¹ETH and University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

                  2230.    Effect of Fat Emulsion Acid Stability on Gastric Emptying, CCK Release and Satiety: An EPI Study

Luca Marciani¹, Martin Wickham², Gulzar Singh¹, Debbie Bush¹, Barbara Pick¹, Jeff Wright¹, Annette Fillery-Travis³, Richard Faulks²,
Charles Marsden¹, Robin C. Spiller¹, Penny A. Gowland¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK; ²Institute of Food Research, Norwich, England, UK;
³Centre for Research and Dissemination, Norwich, England, UK

                  2231.    Behaviour of Calcium Gelled Alginate Beads in Simulated Gastrointestinal Conditions

Peter Jonathan Wright¹, P Rayment², C Hoad¹, I Dalhiwala², T Weaver², L Marciani³, R Spiller³, M Butler²,

P Gowland¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK; ²Unilever R&D, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, UK;
³University Hospital, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK

                  2232.    Crohn’s Disease of Small Bowel:MR Enteroclysis,dynamic Contrast Enhancement,and
                                Cross-Sectional Imaging

Liu Yu Bao¹

¹Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guang Zhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

                  2233.    MRI of Colon Wall Thickness - A Biomarker in Experimental Mouse Inflammatory Disease?

Anna E. Larsson¹, Silvia Melgar¹, Erika Rehnström¹, Lennart ET Svensson¹, Erik Michaelsson¹, Paul D. Hockings¹, Lars E. Olsson¹

¹AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden

                  2234.    How to Select B Value of Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging for Detecting Primary Rectal Cancer

Xiao Peng Zhang¹, Ying Shi Sun¹, Lei Tang¹, Jie LI¹, Kun Cao¹

¹Beijing Cancer Hospital, School of Oncology, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2235.    Dual Modality Virtual Colonoscopy Workstation: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Dongqing Chen¹

¹Viatronix Inc., Stony Brook, New York, USA

                  2236.    An Inversion Recovery Phase-Contrast EPI Scan for Rapid Simultaneous Encoding of Velocity
                                and T₁ Data for the Single Kidney Glumerular Filtration Rate

Mahmoud Abdulhamid Abdulhusain¹, Michael H. Buonocore²

¹University of California, Davis, California, USA; ²University of California Davis, Sacramento, California, USA

                  2237.    Functional Magnetic Resonance Gadolinium Enhanced Imaging of the Kidney: Detection of a
                                Physiological Change in Renal GFR in Response to an Amino Acid Challenge Test

Diego R. Martin¹, Khalil Salman¹, Richard A. Jones², J Damien Grattan-Smith², Marijn Brumner

¹Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  2238.    Rationale and Validation of a 3-Compartment Kinetic Model for Determining
                                Glomerular Filtration on Gadolinium Enhanced MR Imaging of the Kidney

John Votaw¹, Puneet Sharma¹, Khalil Salman¹, Richard Jones², Diego Martin¹

¹Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²Children's healthcare of  Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Louisa Bokacheva¹, Ambrose Huang¹, Henry Rusinek¹, Manmeen Kaur¹, Qun Chen¹, Elissa Kramer¹,

Edward Leonard², Vivian S. Lee¹

¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA; ²Columbia University, New York, USA

                  2240.    Comparison of a Rutland-Patlak Plot and a Compartmental Analysis for the Assessment
                                of Single-Kidney Glomerular Filtration Rate

David L. Buckley¹, Ala'a E. Shurrab², Philip A. Kalra²

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, UK; ²Hope Hospital, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK

                  2241.    Effect of Diabetes on the Renal Medullary Oxygenation in Rats: An Early Time Course Study

Elisabete Santos¹, Lu-Ping Li¹, Lin Ji¹, Pottumarthi V. Prasad¹

¹Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA

                  2242.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measurement of Renal Blood Flow Determined on First Pass
                                Gadolinium-Chelate Perfusion

Khalil N. Salman¹, Puneet Sharma¹, Richard Jones², John Votaw¹, Diego Martin¹

¹Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  2243.    Dynamic Measurement of Renal Perfusion Using CASL: A Tool to Evaluate the Effects of
                                Antihypertensive Agents in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

Denise Welsh¹, Alexandre Coimbra¹, Paul J. McCracken¹, Jacquelynn Cook¹, Richard Hargreaves¹,

Magdalena Alonso-Galicia¹, Donald S. Williams¹

¹Merck & Co.,Inc, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2244.    An Iterative Convolution Approach for the Non-Invasive Assessment of Cortical Perfusion in
                                Renal Transplant Using DSC MRI

Ryan C. Lipscomb¹, Elizabeth A. Sadowski¹, Arjang Djamali², Bryan N. Becker², Thomas M. Grist¹, Sean B. Fain¹

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²University of Wisconsin, Fitchburg, Wisconsin, USA

                  2245.    Conversion of the MR Signal Intensity to Gd-DTPA Concentration in Contrast-Enhanced
                                MR Renography

Louisa Bokacheva¹, Keyma Prince¹, Henry Rusinek¹, Niels Oesingmann², Qun Chen¹, Manmeen Kaur¹,

Ambrose Huang¹, Vivian S. Lee¹

¹NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., New York, USA

                  2246.    Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Prostate: A Primary Study

Guo Xuemei¹, Wang Xiaoying¹, Li Feiyu¹, Jiang Xuexiang¹

¹First Hospital, PeKing University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2247.    Primary Study of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in the Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer
                                Recurrence After Endocrinotherapy

Feiyu Li¹, Xiaoying Wang¹, Yufeng Xu¹, Jiangxi Xiao¹, Xuexiang Jiang¹

¹Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2248.    ADC of Prostate Tissue In Vivo  at 3T

Roger Bourne¹, Peter Stanwell¹, Saadallah Ramadan¹, Phillip Katelaris¹, Carolyn Mountford¹

¹Institute for Magnetic Resonance Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia

                  2249.    The Effect of Different B-Values on the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Prostate
                                Cancerous and Non-Cancerous Regions

Feiyu Li¹, Xiaoying Wang¹, Yufeng Xu¹, Jiangxi Xiao¹, Xuexiang Jiang¹

¹Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

                  2250.    Effect of Diffusion Weighted Imaging for Detection of Prostate Cancer-Comparison
                                Between Tissue Types-

Tamami Namiki¹, Yoshihisa Namiki¹, Ken Koyama¹, Hiroshi Tanaka², Junta Harada¹, Kunihiko Fukuda²,

Mituhiro Ohmura¹, Kouichi Kishimoto¹

¹Jikei Kashiwa Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; ²Jikei University School of Medicine, Nishi-Shinbashi, Tokyo, Japan

                  2251.    Influence of Local Environment and Differentiation on Experimental Prostate Cancers
                                on Tumor Metabolism and Vascularisation

Christian M. Zechmann¹, Eva C. Woenne¹, Gunnar Brix², Nicole Radzwill³, Martin Ilg³, Peter Bachert¹,

Peter Peschke¹, Stefan Kirsch¹, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor¹, Stefan Delorme¹, Fabian Kiessling¹

¹DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany; ²Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Neuherberg, Germany;
³Bruker Biospin, Ettlingen, Germany

                  2252.    Design of an Anatomically and Physiologically Realistic Prostate Phantom

Rolf F. Schulte¹, Mika W. Vogel¹, Timo Schirmer², Harry Schilling³, Adriane Groeger¹, Patrick Gross¹

¹GE Global Research, Munich, Germany; ²Applied Science Laboratory, Hallbergmoos, Germany;
³Schleifring und Apparatebau GmbH, Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany