Data Processing: Miscellaneous

                  2390.    The DICOM Standard: Is Twelve Bits Enough?

Ken Earl Sakaie¹, Mark J. Lowe¹

¹The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2391.    A Realistic fMRI Time Series Simulation with Individual Slice Motion, Geometric Distortion
                                and Spin Saturation Effect

Boklye Kim¹, Roshni Bhagalia², Desmond T. B. Yeo³

¹University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ³University of Michigan, ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2392.    Displaying Parametric Data from DCE-MRI Investigations of Breast Cancer: How to Present
                                Complex Data

Marco Borri¹, ², Michael Khazen¹, Martin O. Leach¹

¹Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, UK; ²University of Turin, Torino, Italy

                  2393.    Fast Volume Visualization Using Pre-Computed Volume Radiance Transfer

Xuejun Hao¹, Dongrong Xu¹, ², Bradley S. Peterson¹, ²

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

                  2394.    Fully Automatic Liver Scan Planning - Slice and Navigator Positioning from Stacked
                                2D Localizer Scans

Matthias Fenchel¹, ², Stefan Thesen¹, Andreas Schilling²

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ²Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Germany

                  2395.    Denoising of Complex MRI Data by Wavelet-Domain Filtering: Application to High B-Value
                                Diffusion Weighted Imaging

Ronnie Wirestam¹, Adnan Bibic¹, Jimmy Lätt¹, Sara Brockstedt¹, Freddy Ståhlberg¹

¹Lund University, Lund, Sweden

                  2396.    Enhanced MRI Resolution for Clinical Applications

Mathijs Visser¹, ², Arianne Van Muiswinkel¹, Calina Ciuhu³, Gerard de Haan, ²³

¹Philips Medical Systems, Best, NB, Netherlands; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, NB, Netherlands;
³Philips Research The Netherlands, Eindhoven, NB, Netherlands

                  2397.    A Robust Field-Map Estimation Method Using Dual-Echo GRE with Bipolar Readout
                                Gradient Structure

Desmond Teck Beng Yeo¹, ², Thomas L. Chenevert², Jeffrey A. Fessler¹, ², Boklye Kim²

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ²University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2398.    A New Single Acquisition, Two-Image Difference Method for Determining MR Image SNR

Michael C. Steckner¹

¹Hitachi Medical Systems America, Twinsburg, Ohio, USA

                  2399.    Object Orientation Independence of Susceptibility Weighted Imaging by Using a Sigmoid-Type
                                Phase Window

Francisco Manuel Martinez Santiesteban¹, Scott D. Swanson¹, Douglas C. Noll¹, David J. Anderson¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2400.    T₂*-Based Fat-Water Separation

Carsten Warmuth¹, Bernd Hamm¹, Matthias Taupitz¹

¹Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany

                  2401.    An Efficient and Effective Algorithm for Two-Point Fat-Water Separation

Maria A. Schmidt¹, Karlene M. Fraser¹

¹St. George's Hospital, London, UKRapid Imaging

                  2402.    K-SpaceTrajectory Measurement with Signal Shifting

Marine Beaumont¹, ², Christoph Segebarth¹, ², Laurent Lamalle, ²³, Emmanuel Luc Barbier¹, ²

¹U 594, Grenoble, F-38043, France; ²Univ Grenoble 1, Grenoble, F-38043, France; ³IFR 1, Grenoble, F-38043, France

                  2403.    Fast Whole Brain T1 Mapping at 3 Tesla

Femke de Smit¹, Hans Hoogduin¹

¹University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

                  2404.    Fast Spin Echo for T₂ Quantification at 3T

Feng Liu¹, ², Bradley Peterson¹, ², Yunsuo Duan¹, ², Alayar Kangarlu¹, ²

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

                  2405.    Application of Geometry Distortion Corrected SEPI Sequence

Yingbiao Xu¹, ², Mark Haacke¹, ²

¹Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA; ²The MRI Institute for Biomedical Research, Detroit, Michigan, USA

                  2406.    Accelerated Exponential Fitting for Rapid Relaxation Time Mapping

Holger Eggers¹, Peter Boesiger²

¹Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany; ²University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

                  2407.    Reducing T₂ Blurring in Fast Spin Echo Sequences Using the Point Spread Function

Huairen Zeng¹, Xiawei Ou¹, Yansong Zhao¹, Gochberg Daniel¹, Brian Welch¹, ², John C. Gore¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ²Philips medical system, cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2408.    Improvements in Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Measurements with Phase Contrast Balanced
                                Steady State Free Precession

Erin Jane McCormack¹, Michael R. Egnor¹, Mark E. Wagshul¹

¹Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA

                  2409.    Chemical Exchange in Fully-Balanced Steady-State Free Precession

Sean CL Deoni¹

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

                  2410.    Graphical Derivation of the Steady-State Magnetization in Balanced SSFP MRI

Zungho Zun¹, Krishna S. Nayak¹

¹University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2411.    Binomial Pulse Suppression to Reduce Ghosting Artifacts in Transient-State BSSFP Imaging

Yin-Cheng Kasuga Huang¹, Teng-Yi Huang², Tzu-Chao Chuang¹, Hsiao-Wen Chung¹, ³, Cheng-Yu Chen³

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei City, Taiwan;
³Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taiwan

                  2412.    Oscillating Steady States

Klaus Scheffler¹, Stefan Maderwald², Mark Ladd², Oliver Bieri¹

¹Radiology, Basel, Switzerland, Switzerland; ²Radiology, Essen, Germany, Germany

                  2413.    Modified T₂-TIDE Sequence: A Preliminary Result

Yin-Cheng Kasuga Huang¹, Teng-Yi Huang², Hsiao-Wen Chung¹, ³, Cheng-Yu Chen³

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University of Science And Technology, Taipei City, Taiwan;
³Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei City, Taiwan

                  2414.    Frequency Off-Resonance Effects on Parametric SSFP Imaging

Zhiqiang LI¹, Maria I. Altbach¹

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

                  2415.    Steady State BURST: Signal Amplitudes and the Influence of Gradient and RF Spoiling

Christian Boller¹, Klaus Scheffler¹

¹University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

                  2416.    Efficient Implementation of Hardware Optimized Gradients for Rapid Imaging Sequences

J. Andrew Derbyshire¹, Elliot R. McVeigh¹

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

                  2417.    Real-Time MRI of Upper Airway Collapse During Inspiratory Loading

Ian Michael Colrain¹, ², Krishna S. Nayak³, Jon F. Nielsen³

¹SRI International, Menlo Park, California, USA; ²University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;
³University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2418.    Real-Time Tagging of Muscle Dynamics in a 70cm Bore 1.5T Scanner

Elliot McVeigh¹, Mike Guttman¹, Cengizhan Ozturk¹, Silvia Salinas Blemker²

¹NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2419.    Real-Time Quantification of Brain Motion Using Gradient-Echo Phase

William Ryan Overall¹, John M. Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2420.    k-T SPARSE: High Frame Rate Dynamic MRI Exploiting Spatio-Temporal Sparsity

Michael Lustig¹, Juan Manuel Santos¹, David L. Donoho¹, John Mark Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2421.    Whole-Body MR Imaging with Continuously Moving Table and Multiplanar Reformations:
                                Toward Parameter Optimization for SSFP Imaging in Patient Examinations

Sonja Kinner¹, Amrei Zielonka¹, Michael O. Zenge¹, Susanne C. Ladd¹, Mark E. Ladd¹

¹University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

                  2422.    Evaluation of the SNR in the Echo-Shifted Pulse Sequence

Alexander B. Pinus¹, Hyeonjin Kim¹

¹Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  2423.    MR Imaging of Intermolecular Double-Quantum-Filtered Zero-Quantum Coherence

Zhong Chen¹, ², Bingwen Zheng¹, Xiaoqin Zhu¹, Tianliang Gu², Jianhui Zhong²

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

                  2424.    Single-Shot 3D Gradient and Stimulated Echo Imaging

Jürgen Finsterbusch¹, ², Wolfgang Weber-Fahr¹, ², Martin A. Koch¹, ²

¹University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; ²University Medical Centers Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck,
Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Germany

                  2425.    Sensitivity Encoded Proton Echo Planar Spectroscopic Imaging (SENSE-PEPSI) on Human
                                Brain Using a Large-N Coil Array

Shang-Yueh Tsai¹, ², Stefan Posse³, ⁴, Lawrence L. Wald⁵, Cheng-Wen Ko⁶, Hsiao-Wen Chung², Fa-Hsuan Lin¹

¹Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Chalestown, Massachusetts, USA;
²Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ³MIND Institute, 801 University Blvd SE, Suite 200,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; ⁴University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; ⁵Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,
Massachusetts General Hospital,, Chalestown, Massachusetts, USA; ⁶National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

                  2426.    Fast Low-Angle Dual Spin-Echo (FLADE): A New Pulse Sequence for Micro-Imaging of Trabecular Bone

Jeremy Magland¹, Branamir Vasilic¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹

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

                  2427.    Inversion-Optimized, Multi-Slice, Parallel TOSSI (T-One Insensitive Steady State Imaging)

Jamal J. Derakhshan¹, Martin Blaimer², Peter Schmitt³, Jeffrey L. Sunshine², Jeffrey L. Duerk, ¹², Mark A. Griswold²

¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA;
³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  2428.    FastDiagonal-SPRITE: A New Method for Diagonal-SPRITE Images

Andrea Protti¹, Amy Herlihy¹, Jean Tessier², Jimmy Bell¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; ²AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK

                  2429.    Efficient Phase-Encoding for 3D Turbo-Spin-Echo Imaging with Very Long Echo Trains

John P. Mugler III¹, Marion I. Menzel², Wilhelm Horger², Berthold Kiefer²

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  2430.    Flow Sensitivity of CPMG Sequences with Variable Flip Refocusing and Implications for CSF Signal
                                Uniformity in 3D-FSE Imaging

Reed F. Busse¹

¹GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2431.    Rapid High-Resolution T₁ Mapping by Variable Flip Angles: Accurate and Precise Measurements
                                in the Presence of RF Field Inhomogeneity

Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng¹, ², Graham A. Wright¹, ³

¹The University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ³Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  2432.    Time Efficient Flip Angle Measurement at 7T

Duan Xu¹, ², Charles H. Cunningham³, Douglas AC Kelley⁴, Krishna S. Nayak⁵, Albert P. Chen¹, John M. Pauly³, Daniel B. Vigneron¹, ²

¹UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; ²UCSF/UC Berkeley, San Francisco, California, USA; ³Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA;
⁴GE Healthcare Technologies, San Francisco, California, USA; ⁵University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2433.    Sweep Imaging with Fourier Transform (SWIFT)

Djaudat Idiyatullin¹, Curt Corum¹, Jang-Yeon Park¹, Michael Garwood¹

¹University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  2434.    Maintaining the CPMG Conditions with Slice Accelerated Parallel Imaging in 2D Fast Spin Echo

Kevin F. King¹

¹GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  2435.    Phase-Compensated Spin-Echo Sequence Using Hyperbolic Secant Pulses for Both Excitation and
                                Refocusing

Jang-Yeon Park¹, Michael Garwood¹

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

                  2436.    True T1 Weighted MR Imaging by a Non Selective and Selective RF Sandwich Pulse Scheme:
                                TOBAC ^{T One Beta Alpha Contrast}

Michael Deimling¹, Alto Stemmer¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  2437.    Single-Shot STEAM MRI with Cross-Sectional RF Excitations

Jürgen Finsterbusch¹, ², Martin A. Koch¹, ²

¹University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; ²University Medical Centers Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Hamburg-Kiel-Lübeck, Germany

                  2438.    Parallel Zoom EVI: Effects of Short TR on Image Quality

Cécile Rabrait¹, Cyril Poupon¹, Patrick Le Roux², Alejandro Ribès¹, Denis Le Bihan¹, Franck Lethimmonier¹

¹Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Orsay, France, France; ²GE Health Care, Buc, France, France

                  2439.    Broad Oversampling with TIme Efficiency (BOWTIE) for Increased SNR

Candice Anne Bookwalter¹, Kestutis J. Barkauskas¹, Mark A. Griswold², Jeffrey L. Sunshine², Jeffrey L. Duerk²

¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA;
²University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2440.    Deriving Oxygen-Sensitive Contrast in Tissue from MRI: A Comparison Between T2*-
                                Weighted, T2-Prepared and SSFP Methods with an Ischemia Leg Cuff Model at 1.5T

Jain Mangalathu Arumana¹, Rohan Dharmakumar¹, Nicole Campbell¹, Debiao Li¹

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2441.    Determination of the Variability of fMRI Responses Using Deconvolution Analysis

Bharat Biswal¹, Nitin Chawla²

¹University of Medicine & Dentistry, Newark, New Jersey, USA;
²University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, New Jersey, USA

                  2442.    Rapid Fat Suppressed Imaging: Application to the Cartilage and the Breast

Qi Peng¹, Roderick W. McColl², Paul T. Weatherall²

¹UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA; ²UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

                  2443.    Fast Separation of Water, Acetone, Fat and Silicone with a Multiecho Balanced SSFP Sequence

Jochen Leupold¹, Oliver Wieben, ¹², Sven Mansson³, Klaus Scheffler⁴, J Stefan Petersson⁵, Jürgen Hennig¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ²Madison Clinical Science Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA;
³Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden; ⁴University of Basel, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland; ⁵Amersham Health R&D, Malmo, Sweden

                  2444.    Rapid 3D-SPGR Imaging of the Liver with Multi-Echo IDEAL

Scott B. Reeder¹, Anthony T. Vu², Brian A. Hargreaves³, Ann Shimakawa⁴, Oliver Wieben¹, Charles A. McKenzie⁵, Jason A. Polzin², Jean H. Brittain⁶

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; ³Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA;
⁴GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ⁵Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
⁶GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2445.    Intrinsic Fat Saturation of TIDE with Variable Flip Angles Due to Modified Stop Bands

Dominik Paul¹, Maxim Zaitsev¹, Jürgen Hennig¹

¹University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

                  2446.    Single Quadrature Echo Water-Fat Separation with Robust Phase Correction

Huanzhou Yu¹, Scott B. Reeder², Charles A. McKenzie³, Ann Shimakawa¹, Anja C.S. Brau¹, Norbert J. Pelc⁴,

Jean H. Brittain⁵

¹GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ²University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA;
³Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
⁴Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ⁵GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Parallel Imaging

                  2447.    SENSE and GRAPPA Reconstruction of Multi-Shot Multi-Echo EPI Data

David B. Clayton¹, Stefan Skare¹, Rexford Newbould¹, Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2448.    Rapid Large Field-Of-View Microscopy Using Parallel Imaging

Mary Preston McDougall¹, Steven M. Wright¹, Ian Steele-Russell², Naresh Yallapragada¹, Murat Russell²

¹Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA; ²Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, USA

                  2449.    Single Breath-Hold Whole-Heart MRA Using Variable Density Spirals and
                                Localized Coil Demodulation

Juan Manuel Santos¹, Bob S. Hu², Jin H. Lee¹, John M. Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, California, USA

                  2450.    Evaluation of Sensitivity Encoded Diffusion Tensor Imaging at 4T

Xiaoping Zhu¹, Geon-Ho Jahng¹, Yu Zhang¹, Jim X. Ji², Ashish Raj¹, Hemanth T¹, Mathew Jacob³, Zhi-Pei Liang³,
Machael W. Weiner¹, Norbert Schuff¹

¹VAMCSF/UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; ²Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA;
³University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

                  2451.    Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging at 3T and 7T Using Multi-Channel Phased Array Coils and SENSE

Janine M. Lupo¹, Douglas Kelley², Duan Xu¹, Daniel B. Vigneron¹, Sarah J. Nelson¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; ²Global Applied Science Lab, GE Healthcare, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2452.    Parallel Imaging of Trabecular Bone Micro-Architecture Using Autocalibrating Technique at 3 T

Suchandrima Banerjee¹, ², Eric T. Han³, Anja CS Brau³, Sharmila Majumdar¹, ⁴

¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; ²UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA;
³GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ⁴University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

                  2453.    Highly Accelerated IDEAL for Volumetric Abdominal Imaging with Fat-Water
                                Separation in a Single Breath-Hold

Ajit Shankaranarayanan¹, Daniel Sodickson², Randy Giaquinto³, Aaron Grant², Andres Carrillo⁴, David Gurr⁵,

Ananth Madhuranthakam⁶, Huanzhou Yu¹, Ann Shimakawa¹, Sanjay Joshi⁵, Charles Dumoulin³, Scott Reeder⁷, Theodore Steger⁵,
Anja Brau¹, Norman Farrar², Neil Rofsky², Susan LaRuche², Jean Brittain⁸, Charlie McKenzie²

¹GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ²Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
³GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA; ⁴GE Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ⁵GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA;
⁶GE Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁷Radiology, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ⁸GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2454.    Motion-Free Carotid Artery Imaging with a Reduced-FOV Parallel HASTE Sequence

Ling Zhang¹, Eugene G. Kholmovski², Junyu Guo¹, Dennis L. Parker²

¹Univerisity of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; ²Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

                  2455.    Autocalibrating Parallel Imaging at 7T-High Resolution, Quantitative and
                                Phase-Sensitive Applications

Suchandrima Banerjee¹, ², Julio Carballido-Gamio¹, Janine Lupo¹, ², Jan S. Bauer¹, Duan Xu¹, Doug A. Kelley³,

Daniel B. Vigneron¹, ², Sarah J. Nelson¹, Sharmila Majumdar¹

¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA;
²University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA; ³GE HealthCare, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2456.    MR Angiography of the Carotid Circulation Using Two-Dimensional Parallel Imaging
                                on a 32 Channel 3.0T System

Michael Christian Fenchel¹, ², Kambiz Nael², J. Paul Finn², Stefan Ruehm², Stephan Miller¹, Gerhard Laub³

¹Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Tuebingen, BW, Germany; ²David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2457.    3D Time Resolved MRA: Comparison of TREAT (Time –resolved Echo-Shared
                                Angiographic Technique) of the Intracerebral Circulation at 1.5 and 3 Tesla

Jean Yves Gauvrit¹, ², Meng Law¹, P. Sunenshine¹, Q. Chen¹, R. Carson¹, J. Xu³

¹New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; ²Hopital R Salengro, Lille, France;
³Siemens Medical Solutions,, Erlangen, Germany

                  2458.    A Practical Stopping Criterion for Iterative Non-Cartesian SENSE Reconstruction

Peng Qu¹, Kai Zhong², Bida Zhang², ³, Jianmin Wang³, Gary X. Shen¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ²The Graduate School and Institute of Biophysics,
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China;
³Siemens Mindit Magnetic Resonance Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

                  2459.    Fast Toeplitz Based Iterative SENSE Reconstruction

Valur Olafsson¹, Sangwoo Lee¹, Jeffrey A. Fessler¹, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2460.    The Use of Coil Sensitivity Variations in the Read-Direction for Improved Parallel Imaging

Felix Breuer¹, Martin Blaimer², Nicole Seiberlich¹, Mark Griswold², Peter Jakob¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; ²University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2461.    A Reconstruction Algorithm of MR Images Acquired on a Radial K-Space Trajectory
                                for Parallel Imaging

Sungdae Yun¹, YeJi Han¹, HyunWook Park¹

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

                  2462.    Efficient Computation of Autocalibrating Parallel Imaging Reconstructions

Anja C.S. Brau¹, Philip J. Beatty¹, ², Stefan Skare², Roland Bammer²

¹GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ²Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2463.    Pseudo-Cartesian GRAPPA Reconstruction of Undersampled Non-Cartesian Data

Nicole Seiberlich¹, Robin M. Heidemann², Felix A. Breuer¹, Martin Blaimer¹, Mark A. Griswold³, Peter M. Jakob¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany;
³University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2464.    K-Space Inherited Parallel Acquisition (KIPA)

Junyu Guo¹, Eugene G. Kholmovski¹, Ling Zhang¹, Eun-Kee Jeong¹, Dennis L. Parker¹

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

                  2465.    Kriging and GRAPPA: A New Perspective on Parallel Imaging Reconstruction

Keith Aaron Heberlein¹, Xiaoping Hu¹

¹Emory/GA Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  2466.    Application of TurboSENSE for Non-Cartesian Trajectories

Calvin Lew¹, Frandics Chan¹, Dan Spielman¹, Chunlei Liu¹, Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2467.    Understanding the GRAPPA Paradox

Philip James Beatty¹, ², Anja C. Brau¹

¹GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ²Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2468.    A Theoretical Analysis of Errors in GRAPPA

Feng Huang¹, George Randy Duensing¹

¹Invivo Corporation, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  2469.    The Geometry Factor as a Cramér-Rao Bound for Magnitude and Phase

Angel Ramon Pineda¹, Calvin D. Lew¹, Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2470.    Iterative Solution of Transmit SENSE Using a Conjugate Gradient Method

Ingmar Graesslin¹, Ulrich Katscher¹, Ferdinand Schweser¹, Markus Niemann¹, Peter Börnert¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  2471.    B₁ Homogenisation Using a Multichannel Transmit Array

Jürgen Nistler¹, Rainer Kurth², Markus Vester¹, Dirk Diehl³, Wolfgang Renz¹, Thorsten Speckner¹, Thorsten Feiweier¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ²University Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; ³Siemens CT, Erlangen, Germany

                  2472.    SENSE Accelerated Multiple Excitation Imaging at Ultra High Field

Arthur William Magill¹, Alexa Jones¹, Paul Glover¹

¹Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK

                  2473.    Wave-Propagation Based Estimation of Coil Sensitivities

Richard Winkelmann¹, Peter Börnert², Olaf Dössel¹

¹University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; ²Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  2474.    Optimization of Regularization Parameter for GRAPPA Reconstruction

Peng Qu¹, Jing Yuan¹, Bing Wu¹, Gary X. Shen¹

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

                  2475.    SNR-Adaptive K-Space Filtering for Autocalibrated Parallel Image Reconstruction

Junyu Guo¹, Eugene G. Kholmovski¹, Ling Zhang¹, Dennis L. Parker¹

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

                  2476.    An Iterative Method for Fast Regularized Parallel MRI Reconstruction

W Scott Hoge¹, Misha E. Kilmer², Steven J. Haker¹, Dana H. Brooks³, Walid E. Kyriakos¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Tufts Univ., Medford, Massachusetts, USA;
³Northeastern Univ., Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2477.    Bayesian Parallel Imaging with Edge-Preserving Priors

Ashish Raj¹, Gurmeet Singh², Ramin Zabih²

¹UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; ²Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Contrast Mechanisms and MTC

                  2478.    A New Approach to Bright Spot MRI: Visualizing Local Dipolar Fields with the CRAZED Sequence

Cornelius Faber^{1, 2}, Carolin Heil¹, Benjamin Zahneisen¹, David Balla¹, Richard Bowtell²

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; ²University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

                  2479.    Effect of Distant Dipolar Field and T₂ on Magnetization in CRAZED-Multiecho Pulse Sequence

Chung Ki Wong¹, Edmund Kwok¹, Jianhui Zhong¹

¹University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

                  2480.    Linear Combination Filtering in White Matter with Steady-State Free Precession (SSFP) Sequences

Logi Vidarsson¹, Kelvin O. Lim², Bryon Mueller², John Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  2481.    PARACEST Detection In-Vivo Using WALTZ-16

Elena Vinogradov¹, Huamei He², Angelo Lubag³, Valerie Humblet¹, James A. Balschi², Allan Dean Sherry³, ⁴

 John Vincent Frangioni¹, Robert E. Lenkinski¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
³University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA; ⁴University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

                  2482.    MRI Detection of Glycogen (GlycoCEST)

Craig K. Jones¹, ², Jimin Ren³, Craig Malloy³, A Dean Sherry³, Peter C. M. van Zijl¹, ²

¹Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;
³University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

                  2483.    Separating Signals from Intra- And Extracellular Water Compartments in Rat Skeletal Muscle
                                In Vivo Using MEMRI

John Georg Seland¹, Karl Helmer², Govind Nair², David Gordon Bennett², Christopher Howard Sotak², ³

¹Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; ²Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA;
³University of Massachusetts Medical School,, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

                  2484.    Adiabatic Modulation of the Longitudinal and Transverse Relaxations, T1ρ and T2ρ,
                                of Gd-Fullerenol Contrast Agent: Application for the Cellular Imaging.ρ

Shalom Michaeli¹, Dennis J. Sorce¹, Stasia Anderson², Elbert Hu², Joseph Lin¹, Kamil Ugurbil¹, Michael Garwood¹, Joseph Frank²

¹CMRR, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2485.    Efficiency of Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement in Off-Resonance Rotating Frame

Huiming Zhang¹, ², Yang Xie¹

¹ENH Research Institute, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ²Feinberg Medical School, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2486.    iDQC MR Imaging with Contrast of Off-Resonance Rotating-Frame Spin-Lattice Relaxation

Bingwen Zheng¹, Zhong Chen¹, ², Scott D. Kennedy², Jianhui Zhong²

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

                  2487.    Off-Resonance Spin Echos for Probing the Cellular Microenvironment

Charles H. Cunningham¹, Steven M. Conolly, ^1,2, Ian Y. Chen¹, Yoriyasu Suzuki¹, Phillip C. Yang¹,

Michael V. McConnell¹, Sanjiv S. Gambhir¹, John M. Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

                  2488.    Modeling MRI Contrast Enhancement with Exogenous T₂ Agents

Parker Henry Mills¹, ², Eric T. Ahrens¹, ²

¹Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;
²Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2489.    Dependency of Oxygen Extraction Calculations from a Static Dephasing Model on
                                Capillary-Radius and Volume Fraction

André Bongers¹, Heiko Schroeder², Lothar Rudi Schad²

¹mediri GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany; ²German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

                  2490.    Correction on FID NMR Signal Induced by Mesoscopic Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities
                                at High Volume Fraction

Xiang He¹, Alexander L. Sukstanskii¹

¹Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  2491.    3D-Maps of T1 and Magnetization Transfer (MT) Related Saturation from MT-FLASH Images

Gunther Helms¹, Henning Dathe², Steffi Dreha-Kulaczewski¹, ², Kai Kallenberg¹, ², Peter Dechent¹

¹Göttingen University, Faculty of Medicine, Göttingen, Germany; ²Göttingen University, Göttingen, Germany

                  2492.    Quantitative Magnetization Transfer Bound Pool Mapping at 3T

Rexford Newbould¹, Chunlei Liu¹, Stefan Ropele², Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

                  2493.    Optimisation of Quantitative Magnetisation Transfer (QMT) Sequence Acquisition Parameters

Rebecca Sara Samson¹, Mark R. Symms¹, Mara Cercignani¹, Daniel J. Tozer¹, Paul S. Tofts¹

¹Institute of Neurology, London, UK

                  2494.    Quantitative Magnetization Transfer and Relaxation in Tissues at 3T

Greg Jan Stanisz¹, Ewa Odrobina, Joseph Pun, Simon J. Graham, Michael J. Bronskill, R Mark Henkelman

¹Sunnybrook & Womens' CHSC, Toronto, ON, Canada

                  2495.    Systematic Comparison of Magnetization Transfer Contrast in Human Subjects at 3.0, 1.5, and 0.2 Tesla

Petros Martirosian¹, Andreas Boss¹, Michael Deimling², Berthold Kiefer², Fritz Schick¹

¹Section on Experimental Radiology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany;
²Department of Magnetic Resonance, Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  2496.    Magnetization Transfer Effects in Single Slice Spoiled Gradient Echo Imaging

Xiawei Ou¹, John C. Gore¹, Daniel Frank Gochberg¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  2497.    3T Magnetization Transfer Imaging Reveals Correlation with Cerebral Iron Concentration In Vivo

Seth Aaron Smith¹, ², Jeff W.M Bulte², Peter C.M. van Zijl¹, ²

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

                  2498.    XTC MRI Parameter Optimization: Theoretical Considerations

Kai Ruppert¹, ², Jaime F. Mata², James R. Brookeman², Klaus D. Hagspiel², John Paul Mugler III²

¹Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, California, USA; ²University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Relaxometry

                  2499.    Improved T1 Estimation with Spoiled Gradient Recalled Echo (SPGR) Images
                                Using a Modified Variable Flip Angle Method

Cheng Yang¹, Gerald L. Wolf², Gregory S. Karczmar¹, Walter M. Stadler¹

¹University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Perceptive, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA 

 

                  2500.    Rapid Data Acquisition for T1 Mapping, Using Multishot EPI and Automated TR Variation at 3T

Xin Liu¹, Yi Feng¹, Tianyi Ke¹, Zheng-Rong Lu¹, Kevin S. Li¹, Glen Morrell¹, Eun-Kee Jeong¹

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

                  2501.    Enhancement of In Vivo T1 Contrast and Image Quality at Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields
                                (4.7-17.6T) Utilizing Fasting Imaging Techniques

Kyle Robert Padgett¹, Stephen J. Blackband², ³, Samuel C. Grant,³,⁴

¹University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA; ²University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA;
³National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA; ⁴Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

                  2502.    Spin-Lattice Relaxation and Diffusion of Hyperpolarized ³He in Phantoms

Gernot Laicher¹, Ben Anger¹, Brian T. Saam¹

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

                  2503.    Quantification and Mapping of T₁ Relaxation Time in the Tongue

Iordanis Evangelou Evangelou¹, Gloria Chi-Fishman¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2504.    Effect of Chemical Exchange on T1 Values Calculated Using DESPOT1

Sean CL Deoni¹, Brian K. Rutt², Derek K. Jones¹

¹Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, England, UK; ²Robarts Research Institute, London, Canada

                  2505.    Effect of Multi-Component T1 and T2 Relaxation on Derived Single-Component
                                DESPOT2 T2 Values

Sean CL Deoni¹

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

                  2506.    Measuring T₂ Using a T₂ Prepared Balanced Turbo Field Echo Sequence

Caroline L. Hoad¹, Eleanor F. Cox¹, Penelope A. Gowland¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

                  2507.    Comparison of Global T2 Values and Globus Pallidal T1-Weighted Signal Changes in
                                Sub-Clinical Hepatic Encephalopathy

Albert Michael Thomas¹, Rajesh Kumar², Bhagyashree Sawale², Amir Huda³, Steven Han²

¹University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA; ²UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA; ³California State University at Fresno, Fresno, California, USA

                  2508.    T₂ Measurements in the Human Brain at 4.7T Using an Adiabatic Multi-Echo Sequence -
                                Correlation Between T₂ and the Tissue Iron Content

Fumiyuki Mitsumori¹, Hidehiro Watanabe¹, Nobuhiro Takaya¹, Michael Garwood²

¹Natl. Inst. Environ. Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ²CMRR, Univ. Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  2509.    Investigation of Susceptibility-Induced MR Signal Dephasing in Phantom Measurements
                                and Model Simulations for Oxygen Extraction Mapping

André Bongers¹, ², Heiko Schroeder², Lothar Rudi Schad²

¹Mediri GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany; ²German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

                  2510.    Optimization of Voxel Based Relaxometry Parameters for the Detection of Focal T2 Changes

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

¹Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

                  2511.    Effect of Spatial Distribution of Magnetic Dipoles on Lamor Frequency Distribution and
                                MRI Signal Decay - A Numerical Approach Under Static Dephasing Conditions

Joerg Pintaske¹, Bernd Mueller-Bierl¹, Fritz Schick¹

¹University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, BW, Germany

                  2512.    Measurement of T2 of an ROI of Arbitrary Shape Using Spatially Selective Excitation

Qin Qin¹, Mark D. Does², Robin A. de Graaf, ¹³, John C. Gore²

¹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; ²Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;
³Yale Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  2513.    Measurement of Short and Ultra-Short  T₂ Components Using Progressive
                                Binomial RF Saturation

Stefan Ropele¹, Christian Enzinger¹, Thomas Seifert¹, Franz Fazekas¹

¹Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

                  2514.    Selection of T2 Components from Segmented K-Space Multiecho Data:
                                Improving Efficiency of T2 Relaxometry for Myelin Quantification

Alexey A. Samsonov¹, Andrew L. Alexander¹, Aaron S. Field¹

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2515.    A Dynamic R2*-And-Field-Map-Corrected Imaging for Single Shot Rosette Trajectories

Sangwoo Lee¹, Jeffrey A. Fessler¹, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2516.    Dependence of R₂^* on Oxygenation and Contrast Agent Concentration in Human Blood at 3T

Nicholas Paul Blockley¹, Susan T. Francis¹, Penny A. Gowland¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

                  2517.    Tri-Exponential T2 Quantification In Vivo

Jinesh J. Jain¹, Wilburn E. Reddick¹

¹St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

                  2518.    MRI Phantoms with Independently-Controllable Biexponential-T2 Decays

Robert Adam Horch¹, Mark D. Does¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  2519.    Correlation of MR Relaxation Parameters with Tissue Macromolecular Composition

Jeffrey James Luci¹, Tuhin Kumar Sinha¹, Sheerin Khatib Shahidi¹, Dale Shannen Cornett¹, Richard M. Caprioli¹,
Benoit M. Dawant¹, John C. Gore¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  2520.    Cross-Site Reproducibility of Myelin Water Estimates

Charmaine Lian Li Chia¹, Thorarin Albert Bjarnason², Alex L. MacKay, ²³, Gilbert Bruce Pike¹

¹Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; ²University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;
³University of British Columbia Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

                  2521.    Free-Breathing, Dark-Blood GESFIDE Pulse Sequence for the Measurement of R2*,
                                R2 and R2' of Myocardium

Ruitian Song¹, Hee Kwon Song¹

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

                  2522.    Prediction of Iron-Induced MRI Relaxation by Monte Carlo Modeling

Nilesh Ghugre¹, John C. Wood¹

¹Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2523.    Inversion Recovery in the Presence of Radiation Damping - Implications for Evaluating Contrast Agents

Thomas Roger Eykyn¹, Wing Chau Tung¹, Geoffrey S. Payne¹, Martin O. Leach¹

¹Institute of Cancer Research, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK

Spectroscopic Data Analysis and Quantitation

                  2524.    Decomposition Characteristics of Brain Tissue Investigated at Two Different Temperatures
                                by Means of ¹H-MRS

Eva Scheurer¹, Roland Kreis¹, Michael Thali¹, Chris Boesch¹, Michael Ith¹

¹University & Inselspital Berne, Berne, Switzerland

                  2525.    Spectral Resolution Versus SNR and Acquisition Duration: An Adversarial Balancing Act

Roman Fleysher¹, Lazar Fleysher¹, Songtao Liu¹, Oded Gonen¹

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

                  2526.    Automated Separation of Low Quality and Artifact Spectra by Pattern Recognition in the
                                Processing of MR Spectral Images

Bjoern H. Menze¹, B. Michael Kelm¹, Fred A. Hamprecht¹

¹University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

                  2527.      Could We Accurately Measure In Vivo Diffusion Coefficients of Brain Metabolites
                                Using Single-Voxel MR Spectroscopy?

Tiejun Zhao¹, Lei Zhou¹, Xiaoping Hu¹

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

                  2528.    Automatic Repositioning of CSI Grids in ¹H MRS: Impact on Reproducibility of
                                Metabolite Concentration Measurements

Ileana Hancu¹, Dan Blezek¹, Katherine Turk², Gilberto Gonzalez², Eva-Maria Ratai²

¹GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA; ²MGH, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2529.    CFIT: A Novel Circle-Fitting Approach to Spectral Analysis

Refaat ElSayed Gabr¹, Ronald Ouwerkerk¹, Paul A. Bottomley¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2530.    Study of Pilocarpine Model of Epileptic Rats at 7 Tesla by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Cristina Cudalbu¹, Sophie Cavassila¹, Alexandra Montavont², Philippe Ryvlin², André Briguet¹, Danielle Graveron-Demilly¹

¹Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, ESCPE, Villeurbanne, France; ²CERMEP and ANIMAGE, Lyon, France

                  2531.    Towards Accurate Quantification of Metabolites and Macromolecules in HR-MAS Spectra
                                of Brain Tumor Biopsies Using LCModel

Kirstie S. Opstad¹, Tiernan Byrnes¹, Alison Loosemore¹, B A. Bell¹, John R. Griffiths¹, Franklyn A. Howe¹

¹St. George's, University of London, London, UK

                  2532.    Quantitative Proton MRSI of the Human Cervical Spine at 3.0 Tesla

David Bonekamp¹, Richard A. E. Edden¹, ², Peter B. Barker¹, ²

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

                  2533.    Estimated Metabolite Concentrations in the Rat Brain with Quest:A Comparison Between
                                In Vitro and Simulated Basis Sets

Cristina Cudalbu¹, Sophie Cavassila¹, Olivier Beuf¹, Herald Rabeson¹, Dirk van Ormondt²,

Danielle Graveron-Demilly¹

¹Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, ESCPE, Villeurbanne, France; ²Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

                  2534.    Assessment of HR-MAS NMR Prostate Biopsy Tissue Spectra with Principal Component
                                Analysis and Metabolite Quantification

Paul Allen DiCamillo¹, Mark Gunnard Swanson¹, John Kurhanewicz¹, Sarah Jane Nelson¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2535.    ProFit: Two-Dimensional Prior-Knowledge Fitting of J-Resolved Spectra

Rolf F. Schulte¹, Peter Boesiger¹

¹University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

                  2536.    Vitamin C Concentration Measured in the Human Brain In Vivo Using LCModel Analysis
                                of Fully Resolved 1H Edited Spectroscopy at 7 Tesla

Melissa Jo Terpstra¹

¹University of MN, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  2537.    Postprocessing of  Spectroscopic Imaging Data with Incomplete K-Space Sampling Using a
                                Maximum Entropy Method

Wolfgang Dreher¹, ², Dieter Leibfritz¹, ²

¹University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; ²Center of Advanced Imaging (CAI), Bremen, Germany

                  2538.    Water as an Internal Reference for Spectroscopic Imaging: Errors Due to Inacurrate Water
                                Relaxation Times

Charles Gasparovic¹, ², Deidre J. Devier¹, ³

¹University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; ²MIND Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA;
³University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

                  2539.    Quantification of Human Brain Metabolites with Different RF Coils

Harald E. Möller¹, ², Timm Wetzel¹, Marc Tittgemeyer¹

¹Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; ²University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

                  2540.    Predicting SNR Gains from Constructive Averaging of Proton Spectra: Theory and Practice

Refaat ElSayed Gabr¹, Michael Schär, ^1,2, Shashank Sathyanarayana¹, Robert G. Weiss¹, Paul A. Bottomley¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland,, Ohio, USA

                  2541.    Blind Spectra Decomposition of MRSI of the Brain with Tumor by Sparse Component Analysis

Chunqi Chang¹, Xiangling Mao², Yeung Sam Hung¹, Jian Yang¹, Peter C. W. Fung¹, Dikoma C. Shungu², Ed X. Wu¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China;
²Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA

                  2542.    Continuous Saturation Correction in the Presence of Changing Metabolite Concentrations

Damian J. Tyler¹, Mark A. Cole¹, Carolyn Carr¹, Daniel J. Stuckey¹, Kieran Clarke¹

¹University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

MRS Sensitivity Enhancement Techniques for 13C and Other Nuclei through Hyperpolarization

                  2543.    Usage of Paramagnetic Contrast Agents to Enhance ¹³C Signal Detection In Vitro

Ruud B. van Heeswijk¹, João M.N Duarte¹, Sabrina Laus¹, Rolf Gruetter¹

¹EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

                  2544.    Field Inhomogeneity May Substantially Affect Hyperpolarised 129Xe Rat Head Spectra

Jeff Kershaw¹, ², Kazuhiro Nakamura¹, ², Atsushi Wakai¹, ², Yasushi Kondoh², Iwao Kanno²

¹Akita Industry Promotion Foundation, Akita, Japan; ²Akita Research Institute of Brain and Blood Vessels, Akita, Japan 

                  2545.    In Vivo Carbon-13 Spectroscopy of Rhesus Monkey Brain at 4.7T: Detecting Rapid
                                Exchange Between α-Ketoglutarate and Glutamate Using Magnetization Transfer

Shizhe Steve Li¹, Jehoo Yang¹, Zhengguang Chen¹, John Bacher¹, Robert B. Innis¹, Jun Shen¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2546.    Fast Metabolic Imaging of Systems with Sparse Spectra: Application for
                                Hyperpolarized ¹³C Imaging

Dirk Mayer¹, Yakir S. Levin¹, Gary H. Glover¹, Ralph E. Hurd², Daniel M. Spielman¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²GE Healthcare, ASL-West, Menlo Park, California, USA

                  2547.    Least Squares Reconstruction for Sparse Spectra: Application to Hyperpolarized ¹³C Imaging

Yakir S. Levin¹, ², Dirk Mayer¹, Yi-Fen Yen³, Ralph Hurd³, Daniel M. Spielman¹, ²

¹Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; ²Stanford University School of Engineering, Stanford, California, USA;
³GEHealthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA

                  2548.    ³He T₁ in Mouse Lung Estimated from Washout Curve Analysis Under Spontaneous Respiration.
                                Use of SF₆ Gas at Thermal Equilibrium to Evaluate Respiratory Term

Hirohiko Imai¹, Michiko Narazaki¹, Hiroyuki Inoshita¹, Astuomi Kimura¹, Hideaki Fujiwara¹

¹Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

                  2549.    Hyperpolarizing (1H and 13C) Naturally Occurring Amino Acids to Explore Their Function Via MRI

Joachim Bargon¹, Hanjo Heinrich¹, Ute Bommerich², Rahim R. Rizi³

¹University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; ²University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany;
³University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2550.    Method for Continuous Measurement of Nuclear Para State Enrichment in Hydrogen Gas
                                with Applications to Hyperpolarized Heteronuclear Contrast Agents

Vahid Vahdat¹, Stephen Kadlecek¹, Sheeva Rajaei¹, JiangSheng Yu¹, Kiarash Emami¹, John MacDuffie Woodburn¹, Masaru Ishii²,
Frank Hammond¹, Rahim R. Rizi¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2551.    Direct Generation of 1H- And 13C-Hyperpolarized Molecules for MRI from Parahydrogen
                                Via Reversibly Functioning Catalysts

Joachim Bargon¹, ², Rahim R. Rizi²

¹University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; ²University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 

                  2552.    Early Experience with Simple Methods for Parahydrogen-Induced Hyperpolarization

Aaron K. Grant¹, Elena Vinogradov¹, Daniel K. Sodickson¹, ², James A. Balschi³, Robert E. Lenkinski¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2553.    A Compact Counter-Flow Xenon Polarizer for Clinical Applications

Jan H. Distelbrink¹, Steven Ketel², Jeff E. Ketel¹, Korac MacArthur², Craig S. Pelissier¹, Hongguo Zhu³,

F W. Hersman, ^1,2

¹Xemed LLC, Durham, New Hampshire, USA; ²UNH, Durham, New Hampshire, USA; ³Canberra, Meriden, Connecticut, USA

                  2554.    Improvements in Spectral Resolution in In Vivo-Hyperpolarized 13C-CSI on Pigs Using
                                Spectroscopic GRASE

Jürgen Klaus Hennig¹, Sven Mansson², Jochen Leupold¹, Oliver Wieben³, J Stefan Petersson⁴

¹University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany; ²University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; ³University Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA;
⁴GE Healthcare, Malmö, Sweden

MR Elastography

                  2555.    Progress in Phased-Array Mechanical Drivers for  Magnetic Resonance Elastography

Yogesh K. Mariappan¹, Kevin J. Glaser², Richard L. Ehman²

¹Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; ²Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  2556.    Three-Dimensional Visualization of Ultrasonically Induced Shear Waves for Elasticity Imaging

Derek D. Steele¹, Kevin J. Haworth¹, Oliver D. Kripfgans¹, Scott D. Swanson¹

¹The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2557.    Group-Velocity Inversion in MR Elastography on Skeletal Muscles

Sebastian Papazoglou¹, Jens Rump¹, Dieter Klatt¹, Uwe Hamhaber², Jürgen Braun², Ingolf Sack¹

¹Institute of Radiology, Berlin, Germany; ²Institute of Medical Informatics, Berlin, Germany

                  2558.    MR Elastography Sequence Comparison: Standard PC MRE vs. Balanced
                                Alternating Steady-State Elastography

Stefan Maderwald¹, Frank Stock¹, Oliver Kraff¹, Armin de Greiff¹, Oliver Bieri², Klaus Scheffler², Mark E. Ladd¹

¹University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany; ²University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

                  2559.    High Frequency Mode Conversion Technique for Stiff Lesion Detection in Magnetic
                                Resonance Elastography

Yogesh K. Mariappan¹, Phillip J. Rossman², Armando Manduca², Anthony Romano³, Richard L. Ehman²

¹Mayo Clinic college of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; ²Mayo clinic college of medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA;
³Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

                  2560.    A Novel Fractal Model to Explain the Rheology of Liver Tissue Using MR-Elastography

Benjamin Robert¹, Ralph Sinkus¹, Jeremy Bercoff², Mickael Tanter¹, Mathias Fink¹

¹Laboratoire Ondes et Acoustique, Paris, France; ²SuperSonic Imagine, Aix-en-Provence, France

Parallel Transmission Technology

                  2561.    Self-Calibrated Transmit SENSE

Adam Bruce Kerr¹, Charles H. Cunningham¹, John Mark Pauly¹, Randy O. Giaquinto², Ronald D. Watkins²,

Yudong Zhu²

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA

                  2562.    Application of RF Current Sources in Transmit SENSE

Hyokwon Nam¹, William Grissom², Douglas C. Noll², Steven M. Wright¹

¹Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA; ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2563.    Comparison of a Current Source and a Voltage Source in Transmit SENSE

Hyokwon Nam¹, Steven M. Wright¹

¹Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

                  2564.    Potential Advantage of High Modes of Birdcage for Parallel Imaging

Chunsheng Wang¹, Peng Qu¹, Bing Wu¹, Gary X. Shen¹

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

                  2565.    Transmit Coil Array for Very High Field Head Imaging

Yu Li¹, Charles Saylor¹, George R. Duensing¹

¹Invivo Diagnostic Imaging, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  2566.    A Degenerate Bandpass Birdcage as Antenna for a 3T Wholebody Transmit Array

Jürgen Nistler¹, Rainer Kurth², Razvan Lazar¹, Markus Vester¹, Wolfgang Renz¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ²University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany

                  2567.    Improved Homogeneity of the Transmit Field Due to Simultaneous Transmission with
     Phased Arrays and Volume Coils

Nikolai I. Avdievich¹, ², Hoby H. Hetherington¹, ²

¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; ²Gruss MRRC, Bronx, New York, USA

                  2568.    Obtaining Localized Excitation in Human Abdominal Organs at 7 Tesla

Tamer S. Ibrahim¹, Roney Abraham

¹The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

                  2569.    An Optimized Four-Channel Microstrip Loop Array at 7T

Bing Wu¹, Xiaoliang Zhang², Gary X. Shen¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China; ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Parallel Receive Coil Technology

                  2570.    Evaluation of Cost Functions in the Design of RF Coils Optimized for SENSE Imaging

L Tugan Muftuler¹, Gang Chen¹, Orhan Nalcioglu¹

¹University of California, Irvine, California, USA

                  2571.    Adjustable Simultaneous Inductive Decoupling of Large Arrays

Naresh Yallapragada¹, Mary Preston McDougall¹, Steven M. Wright¹

¹Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

                  2572.    3D RF Coil Modeling Method and Its Application in Optimized SENSE Coil Design

Gang Chen¹, Lutfi Tugan Muftuler¹, Orhan Nalcioglu¹

¹University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA

                  2573.    Head RF Coil Design with Surface Current Density Optimization for SENSE Imaging

L Tugan Muftuler¹, Gang Chen¹, Orhan Nalcioglu¹

¹University of California, Irvine, California, USA

                  2574.    RF Coil Array Optimized for 2D SENSE Imaging

Gang Chen¹, Lutfi Tugan Muftuler¹, Orhan Nalcioglu¹

¹University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA

                  2575.    A 16 Channel Head Coil

Jovan Jevtic¹, Velibor Pikelja¹, Randy Duensing²

¹Invivo Corporation, Pewaukee, Wisconsin, USA; ²Invivo Corporation, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  2576.    Improved A-P Parallel MRI of the Spine Using a Twisted Array

Scott B. King¹, Sathya Vijayakumar², Feng Huang², Charles Saylor², G Randy Duensing²

¹National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²InVivo Corporation, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  2577.    A Comparison of Methods for Reducing the Number of Channels for SENSE

Dan Kenrick Spence¹, Steven M. Wright¹

¹Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

                  2578.    A 32 Channel Cardiac Array Optimized for Parallel Imaging

Titus Lanz¹, Peter Kellman², Mathias Nittka³, Andreas Greiser³, Mark Griswold⁴

¹Rapid Biomedical GmbH, Rimpar, Germany; ²NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany;
⁴Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2579.    Single Breath-Hold 3D Cine Imaging of the Thorax Using a New 32 Element Cardiac Coil

Michael Schacht Hansen¹, ², Marc Kouwenhoven³, Vivek Muthurangu², Derek L. G. Hill¹, Reza Razavi²

¹University College of London, London, UK; ²King's College London, London, UK; ³Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands

                  2580.    A Novel 16-Element  Coil for SENSE Brain/neurovascular Imaging

Cecilia Possanzini¹, Ulrike Dydak², Sebastian Kozerke², Marijn Kruiskamp¹, Roger Luechinger², Marcel Warntjes³, Mark van Uden¹,
Mika Ylihautala⁴, Peter Boesiger², Fredy Visser¹

¹Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands; ²ETH and University Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland;
³CMIV Linköpings universitet, Linköping, Sweden; ⁴Philips Medical Systems, Vantaa, Finland

                  2581.    A 34 Element 3T Brain Coil Array for Multi Dimensional Accelerated Imaging

Scott A. Lindsay¹, Kevin F. King¹, John E. Lorbiecki¹, Ed Benjamin Boskamp¹

¹GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  2582.    Experimental Comparison of Signal-To-Noise Between 16 and 8 Element Receive-Only
                                Brain Gapped Array Coils and Birdcage Head Coil at 3 Tesla

Jerzy Bodurka¹, Jeff Duyn², Lalith Talagala², Peter Bandettini¹

¹NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2583.    A Four-Channel Transceive Phased-Array Helmet Coil for 3 T

Wolfgang Driesel¹, Timm Wetzel¹, Toralf Mildner¹, Christopher J. Wiggins², Harald E. Möller³

¹Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany;
²A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA;
³University Hospital Münster, Münster, NRW, Germany

                  2584.    SENSE-Optimization of a Transceive Surface Coil Array for MRI at 4T

Robert G. Pinkerton¹, ², Graeme C. McKinnon³, Ravi S. Menon¹, ²

¹Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; ²University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada;
³GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  2585.    Multipurpose 4+4 Channel Array Setup for Parallel Imaging in 3D

Daniel Gareis¹, Volker Christian Behr¹, Felix Breuer¹, Mark Griswold², Peter Jakob¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;
²Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2586.    A Clover Leaf Coil Array for Neonatal Cardiac Imaging at 3T

David Herlihy¹, David J. Larkman¹, Julie Fitzpatrick¹, Adrienne Foran¹, David A. Edwards¹, Jo V. Hajnal¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK

                  2587.    Bilateral Surface Coil for Lower Extremity Imaging at 3T

Ryan Brown¹, Yi Wang², Ray F. Lee³, Joel D. Morrisett⁴

¹Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA;
²Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA; ³New York University, New York, New York, USA;
⁴Baylor University, Houston, Texas, USA

                  2588.    A Transceive Surface Coil Array for MRI of the Human Prostate at 4 T

Robert G. Pinkerton¹, ², James P. Near¹, ², Enzo A. Barberi³, Ravi S. Menon¹, ², Robert Bartha, ^1,2

¹University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; ²Imaging Research Labs, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada;
³XLRImaging, London, Ontario, Canada

                  2589.    4 Channel Rat Head Arrays for 7 T and 11.7 T

Titus Lanz¹, Thomas Steinberger¹, Stephen Dodd², Fernando F. Paiva², Afonso C. Silva², Alan P. Koretsky²

¹Rapid Biomedical GmbH, Rimpar, Germany; ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2590.    Inductive Decoupling of RF Coil Arrays: A Study at 7T

George Carlos do Nascimento¹, Fernando F. Paiva¹, Afonso Costa Silva¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2591.    A Volume Head Array with 8 Transmit / Receive Channels for 7 T

Alexander Weisser¹, Titus Lanz¹

¹RAPID Biomedical GmbH, Rimpar, Germany

                  2592.    Optimization of 24-Channel Receive-Only Coil Array for Brain Imaging at 7.0 Tesla
                                by the Genetic Algorithm

Shumin Wang¹, Patrick J. Ledden², Jeff H. Duyn¹

¹LFMI, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Nova Medical, Inc., Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA

RF Coils for Spectroscopy and Animal Studies

                  2593.    3T Prostate Coils for 1H and 31P MR Spectroscopic Imaging

Konstantinos George Karpodinis¹, Lucas Carvajal¹, Albert Pofu Chen¹, Bert Jimenez¹, Niles Bruce¹, James Tropp², John Kurhanewicz¹,
Daniel B. Vigneron¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; ²General Electric Medical Systems, Fremont, California, USA

                  2594.    An Endorectal Dual Frequency 13C-1H Receive Only Probe for Operation at 3.0 Tesla

James Tropp¹, Paul Calderon¹, Lucas Carvajal², Kostas Karpodinis², Albert Chen², Dan Vigneron², Ralph Hurd¹,

J-H. Ardenkjaer-Larsen³

¹GE Healthcare Technologies, Fremont, California, USA; ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA;
³GE Healthcare Technologies, Niskayuna, New York, USA

                  2595.    4T Actively-Detunable Double-Tuned 1H/31P TEM Head Volume Coil and
                                Four-Channel 31P Phased Array for Human Brain Spectroscopy

Nikolai I. Avdievich¹, ², Hoby H. Hetherington¹, ²

¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; ²Gruss MRRC, Bronx, New York, USA

                  2596.    A Double-Resonant ¹⁹F/¹H Transmit/Receive Solenoid Coil for MRI

Peter Caesar Mazurkewitz¹, Christoph Leussler¹, Jochen Keupp¹, Tobias Schaeffter¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  2597.    Developing an RF Coil for MRI and MRS of Human Breast Tissue

Denis Rubin¹, Qiuhong He¹

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2598.    A Dual Tuned RF Coil for 3T MRI

Y Duan¹, B. S. Peterson¹, F. Liu¹, T. R. Brown¹, Roney Abraham², Tamer S. Ibrahim², Alayar Kangarlu¹

¹Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ²University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

                  2599.    Implantable Multiple-Frequency Inductively-Coupled Coil System for In Vivo
                                MR Imaging and Spectroscopy of Bioartificial Pancreas at 11.1 T

Nelly A. Volland¹, Christopher A. Taylor¹, Thomas H. Mareci¹, Ioannis Constantinidis¹

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  2600.    Multi-Element Coil for Animal Imaging at 3T

Gilles Beaudoin¹

¹CHUM, hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, QC, Canada

                  2601.    Multiple Animal TEM RF Coil with Cylindrical Cavity Configuration

Hye Young Heo¹, Soo Yeol Lee¹, Kyung Nam Kim¹, Min Hyoung Cho¹, Ik Hyun Kim¹, Tae Suk Park¹

¹Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Kyungki, Republic of Korea

                  2602.    A Coil System for Multiple-Mouse Imaging at 9.4 T

Peter Gerhard¹, Jeremy W. Wellen²

¹RAPID Biomedical, Rimpar, Germany; ²GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2603.    In-Vivo Mice Imaging Using HTS Volume Coil

Yum Wing Wong¹, Geng Li¹, Edward S. Yang¹

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

                  2604.    In-Vivo Multiple Mouse MRI Using Parallel Receive-Only Coils on a 3.0 T
                                Clinical Scanner for Molecular Imaging Research

Marcelino Bernardo¹, ², Hisataka Kobayashi², Gregory Metzger³, ⁴, Yoshinori Koyama², Charlene Shaw¹, ²

David Thomasson⁵, Peter Choyke²

¹SAIC-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA; ²National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;
³Philips Medical Systems, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ⁴University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA;
⁵National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2605.    Design of Multiple-Imaging-Region Gradient Coil for Parallel Mouse Imaging

Joshua Thomas de Bever¹, Blaine A. Chronik¹

¹University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

General RF Coil Technology

                  2606.    Implementation of STR Body Coil for High Field MRI

Sung-Taek Chung¹, In-Ki Hong¹, Kyoung-Nam Kim², Yeun-Chul Ryu³, Jeong-Han Yi⁴

¹Korea Polytecnic University, Sihung-si, Kyoungi-Do, Republic of Korea;
²Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon Medical School, Incheon, Incheon-si, Republic of Korea;
³Korea University, Ahnam, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ⁴Konkuk University, Chunju, ChungBuk, Republic of Korea

                  2607.    Optimization of Resonance Mode Stability in RF Coil Design for Very High Field MRI

Charles Saylor¹, Yu Li¹

¹Invivo Diagnostic Imaging, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  2608.    Performance Comparison with 15cm Long and 23cm Long Birdcage Coil on 7T

Akira Nabetani¹, ², Graeme McKinnon³, Tsutomu Nakada²

¹GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Ltd., Hino, Tokyo, Japan; ²University of Niigata, Niigata, Japan; ³GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  2609.    4T Split TEM Volume Head and Knee Coils for Improved Sensitivity and Patient Comfort

Nikolai I. Avdievich¹, ², Ken Bradshaw³, Jing-Huei Lee⁴, Hoby H. Hetherington¹, ²

¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA; ²Gruss MRRC, Bronx, New York, USA;
³MRI Instruments Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ⁴University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

                  2610.    Shoulder Shield for 7.0T T/R Brain Coil

Gordon DeMeester¹, Zhiyong Zhai¹, Michael Morich¹, Christoph Leussler², Kai Michael Lüdeke²

¹Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  2611.    Design of Multi-Elements Transverse Field RF Surface Coils

Tomas Mazza¹, Maria Alfonsetti¹, Marcello Alecci¹

¹Università di L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

                  2612.    Slotted Surface Coil for Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 4T

Sergio Solis¹, ², Ruiliang Wang², Dardo Tomasi², Alfredo Odon Rodriguez¹

¹UAM Iztapalapa, Mexico, DF, Mexico; ²Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA

                  2613.    Optimized Litz Coil Design for Prepolarized Extremity MRI

Thomas Grafendorfer¹, ², Steven M. Conolly¹, ², Nathaniel I. Matter², John Pauly², Greig Scott²

¹UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA; ²Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2614.    Using MR Thermometry to Monitor the Frozen Effect in High-Temperature
                                Superconducting RF Coil System

Li-Wei Kuo¹, Ching Yao², Kun-Lin Tsai¹, Hong-Chang Yang¹, Jyh-Horng Chen¹

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Health Research Institute, Miaoli, Taiwan

                  2615.    A New Method of Fabricating HTS Tape Coil

Yum Wing Wong¹, Edward S. Yang¹

¹The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

                  2616.    On the SNR Gain for Copper and Superconductor Cryogenic Coils

Lian Xue¹, Leiming Xie¹, Maged Kamel¹, Jarek Wosik¹

¹University of Houston and Texas Center for Superconductivity, Houston, Texas, USA

                  2617.    A Direct Modulated Optical Link for MR Coil Array Interconnect

Jing Yuan¹, Juan Wei¹, Peng Qu¹, Gary X. Shen¹

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

                  2618.    Surface Coils with Integrated Differential Amplifiers

Jolinda Smith¹, Cliff Dax¹, Ray L. Nunnally¹

¹University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA

                  2619.    Microstrip TEM Coil Optimization at 7T

Can Akgun¹, Lance DelaBarre¹, Pierre-Francois van de Moortele¹, Carl J. Snyder¹, Kamil Ugurbil¹,

John Thomas Vaughan¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  2620.    Optimizing the SNR Performance of the Tunable Strip Detector

Ananda Kumar¹, Paul Arthur Bottomley¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2621.    Comparison of the Coax Element and Stripline Element TEM Head Coils at Ultra-High Field

Tamer S. Ibrahim¹, Roney Abraham¹, Lin Tang¹, John Thomas Vaughan²

¹University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA; ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  2622.    A Van Vaals Resonator with a Novel Quadrature Drive Circuit

Matthew George Erickson¹, Krishna N. Kurpad¹, Thomas M. Grist¹

¹University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2623.    Evaluation of Ferroelectric Resonators as RF Coils for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Ilia Geifman¹, Iryna Sergeevna Golovina²

¹Oakton Community College, Glenview, Illinois, USA; ²Institute of Semiconductors Physics, Kiev, Ukraine

                  2624.    RF Breakdown in Vacuum Layers for MRI Noise Reduction

Wolfgang Renz¹, Helmut Stark², Jürgen Nistler¹, Martin Rausch¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ²Stark Contrast MRI Coils Research, Erlangen, Germany

RF Applications: Miscellaneous

                  2625.    Saturated Double-Angle Method for Rapid B1 Mapping

Charles H. Cunningham¹, John M. Pauly¹, Krishna S. Nayak²

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2626.    Rapid Mapping of the RF Field

Glen Morrell¹

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

                  2627.    Measuring Coil Sensitivities of Transmit and Receive Arrays with
     Demonstration of RF Shimming

Martina F. Callaghan¹, Jose L. Ulloa², David J. Larkman¹, Pablo Irarrazaval², Joseph V. Hajnal¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; ²Pontif Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

                  2628.    Transmit Array Spatial Encoding (TRASE): A New Data Acquisition Method in MRI

Scott B. King¹, Donghui Yin¹, Sheryl Thingvold¹, Jonathan C. Sharp¹, Boguslaw Tomanek¹

¹National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

                  2629.    Estimating In Vivo Spatial Resolution of Magnetic Resonance Images
                                Using Radiofrequency Tagging Pulses

Wen-Tung Wang¹, Craig H. Meyer¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  2630.    Spectrally Sensitive Imaging Using Balanced Steady State Free Precession

Roland Bammer¹, Michael Markl²

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Germany