Image Reconstruction Methods

                  2938.    Noise Reduction in Multiple Echo Data Sets Using Singular Value Decomposition

Mark Bydder¹, Jiang Du¹

¹University of California, San Diego, California, USA

                  2939.    Colored Noise and Effective Resolution: Data Considerations for Non-Uniform K-Space
      Sampling Reconstructions

Rexford Newbould¹, Chunlei Liu¹, Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2940.    Noise Characteristics in POCS (Projection Onto Convex Sets)-Reconstructed MR Images

Mohammad Sabati¹, ², Haidong Peng¹, ², Richard Frayne¹, ²

¹Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ²University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  2941.    Improved Conjugate-Gradient Phase Correction Algorithm for Multi-Shot DWI

Jian Zhang¹, Chunlei Liu¹, Michael  Moseley¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2942.    Edge-Guided Localized Phase Unwrapping: Application to SWI

Hemanth Thayyullathil¹, Lara Stables¹, Michael W. Weiner¹, Norbert Schuff¹

¹DVA Medical Center and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2943.    A Method for Automatic Determination of the Global Polarity of Phase Sensitive
                                  Inversion Recovery Images

Yinan Liu¹, ², Jingfei Ma¹

¹University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA

                  2944.    A Novel Reconstruction Method for Axial 3D Data Acquisition During Continuous
                                  Table Movement

Michael O. Zenge¹, Mark E. Ladd¹, Harald H. Quick¹

¹University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

                  2945.    High Frame Rate Cardiac Imaging Using Kalman Filtering

Uygar Sümbül¹, Juan M. Santos¹, John M. Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2946.    FE-MRI: Simulation of MRI Using Arbitrary Finite Elements

Paul Simedrea¹, ², Luca Antiga³, David A. Steinman¹, ²

¹Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; ²The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada;
³Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Bergamo, Italy

                  2947.    Improving the Accuracy of the Chromophore Reconstruction in Diffuse Optical Tomography
                                by Using Structural and Functional-Priors from MRI

Roshanak Shafiiha¹, Mehmet Burcin Unlu¹, Gultekin Gulsen¹, Ozlem Birgul¹, Mark Jason Hamamura¹, Yong Chu¹, Orhan Nalcioglu¹

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

                  2948.    Improvements in Line Scan Diffusion Weighted Image Reconstruction with a Least Norm Algorithm

Jing Chen¹, Kim Butts Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2949.    Density Compensation for TrueFISP Blade Imaging in the Steady State (TrueBLISS)

Kestutis Joseph Barkauskas¹, Mark A. Griswold², Jeffrey L. Sunshine², Jeffrey L. Duerk², ³

¹Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA;
²University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA;
³Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2950.    Voronoi Based Sampling Density Correction

Costin Tanase¹, Fernando Boada¹

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2951.    Optimized Algorithm for Sampling Density Correction

Kenneth O. Johnson¹, James Grant Pipe¹

¹St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

                  2952.    Iterative Deconvolution-Interpolation Gridding

Refaat E. Gabr¹, Pelin Aksit², Paul A. Bottomley¹, AbouBakr M. Youssef³, Yasser M. Kadah³

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; ³Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

                  2953.    Fast Iterative Approximate Pseudo-Inverse Image Reconstruction from Data Acquired
                                on Arbitrary K-Space Trajectories

Souheil Inati¹, Leslie Greengard¹

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

                  2954.    Data-Sharing PROPELLER Imaging for Increased Temporal Resolution Retaining
                                Spatial Resolution and Image Contrast

Tzu-Chao Chuang¹, Teng-Yi Huang², Fu-Nien Wang¹, Yi-Ru Lin¹, Hsiao-Wen Chung¹, Kenneth K. Kwong³

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan; ³MGH-HMS-MIT Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  2955.    Image De-Blurring of PROPELLER EPI Using a K-Space Weighting Scheme

Tzu-Chao Chuang¹, Teng-Yi Huang², Fu-Nien Wang¹, Fa-Hsuan Lin³, Cheng-Wen Ko⁴, Cheng-Yu Chen⁵,

Hsiao-Wen Chung¹, ⁵, Kenneth K. Kwong³

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan;
³MGH-HMS-MIT Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA;
⁴National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan; ⁵Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan

                  2956.    An Enhanced Phase Correction Algorithm for PROPELLER DW MRI

Ajit Devaraj¹, Ryan G. Robison¹, James Grant Pipe¹

¹St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

                  2957.    Efficient Multiple Acquisitions by SPEED with Shared Spatial Information

Zheng Chang¹, Qing-San Xiang¹

¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Colmbia, Canada

                  2958.    Average and Time-Resolved  Dual Velocity Encoded Phase Contrast Vastly
                                Undersampled Isotropic Projection Imaging

Kevin Michael Johnson¹, Oliver Wieben¹, Patrick Turski¹, Chuck Mistretta¹

¹University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2959.    Super-Resolution in Single-Coil Multiple Image Reconstruction Technique

Satoshi Ito¹, Hiroki Fukaya¹, Na Liu¹, Yoshifumi Yamada¹, Kunio Tanaka²

¹Utsunomiya University, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan; ²Asahikawa Medical College, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

                  2960.    Sparse K-Space Sampling Strategies and Projection-Onto-Convex Sets Image
                                Reconstruction for Improved Fast 3D Imaging

Haidong Peng¹, ², Mohammad Sabati¹, ², M Louis Lauzon¹, ², Richard Frayne¹, ²

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
²Seaman Family MR Research Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  2961.    Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) Method for the Reconstruction of MR Images
                                from Sparsely Sampled 3D K-Space

Haidong Peng¹, ², Michael Richard Smith¹, Richard Frayne¹, ²

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
²Seaman Family MR Research Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  2962.    Adaptive-Kernel Reconstruction of Variable-Density Trajectories

Edward Walsh¹, David Ress¹

¹Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

                  2963.    Scan Time Reduction in Spectroscopic Imaging Using HYPR

John Oliver Perry¹, Oliver Wieben¹, Charles Mistretta¹, Scott Reeder¹, Yijing Wu¹, Yan Wu¹

¹University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2964.    Improved Spectroscopic Imaging Using Echo-Planar Scans and Sparse Reconstruction

Mathews Jacob¹, Bradley P. Sutton¹, Justin Haldar¹, Zhi Pei Liang¹

¹UIUC, Urbana, Illinois, USA 

Ivan Lillo¹, Johannes Plett¹, Marcelo Guarini¹, Roberto Mir¹, Pablo Irarrazaval¹

¹Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

                  2966.    Off-Resonance Correction for 3D Imaging Using a Stack of Spirals Trajectory

Weitian Chen¹, Craig H. Meyer¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  2967.    A Hybrid Homodyne Algorithm for Reconstructing Partially Acquired Two-Point Dixon Data

Dustin K. Ragan¹, Jingfei Ma¹

¹University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

                  2968.    Fast Automatic Debluring with a Linear Map

Weitian Chen¹, Craig H. Meyer¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  2969.    Field Inhomogeneity Correction Based on Gridding Reconstruction

Holger Eggers¹, Tobias Knopp², Daniel Potts³

¹Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany; ²University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany;
³Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

                  2970.    Correction of Gradient Error Distortions in Echo-Planar Imaging

Guoxiang Liu¹

¹National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

                  2971.    An Inverse Approach to the Recovery of Signal Losses in EPI Images

Guoxiang Liu¹

¹National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

                  2972.    T2 Estimation Using a Half Fourier Radial Fast Spin-Echo Method

Ali Bilgin¹, Zhiqiang Li¹, Maria I. Altbach¹

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

                  2973.    Reconstruction of SWI for Phased Array Head Coil

Hao Shen¹, ², Guang Cao³, Zesheng Tang²

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

Artifacts and Correction: Motion

                  2974.    Improved Accuracy of Shift Calculations Through Appropriate Filtering of High Resolution Navigators

Robert W. Schaffer¹, Dwight Nishimura¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2975.    ContinuousLy Adaptive Windowing Strategy (CLAWS) for Real Time Reduction of Motion Artefacts

Permi Jhooti¹, David Firmin²

¹Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK; ²Imperial College, London, UK

                  2976.    Registering Spherical Navigator Echoes Using Spherical Harmonic Expansions to Measure 3D Rotations

Andreu F. Costa¹, Maria Drangova¹, ²

¹Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; ²The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  2977.    Self-Navigated Detection of Motion in 3D Abdominal Imaging

Anja C.S. Brau¹, Ajit Shankaranarayanan¹, Jean H. Brittain²

¹GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2978.    Real Time Prospective Motion Correction for High Resolution In Vivo MRI Using an
                                Optical Motion Tracking System

Maxim Zaitsev¹, Christian Dold², Jürgen Hennig¹, Oliver Speck¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ²Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany

                  2979.    An Elastic Registration Algorithm Based on Strain Energy Minimization and Its
                                Application to Prostate MR Images

Bao Zhang¹, Rao P. Gullapalli¹

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

                  2980.    In-Plane Bulk Motion Correction in 2D Radial Fast Spin Echo MRI

Sudhir Ramanna¹, Joelle E. Sarlls¹, Rexford D. Newbould², Arthur F. Gmitro¹, Theodore P. Trouard¹

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

                  2981.    TSE with Average Specific Phase Encoding Ordering for Motion Artifact Suppression

Ling Zhang¹, ², Eugene G. Kholmovski², Junyu Guo¹, ², Dennis L. Parker²

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

                  2982.    Motion Artifact Correction in 3D Multishot EPI-DTI with Real-Time 2D Navigators

Xianfeng Shi¹, Eugene G. Kholmovski¹, Seong-Eun Kim¹, Dennis L. Parker¹, Eun-Kee Jeong¹

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

                  2983.    Optimizing Phase Correction for Multi-Shot DWI with Conjugate Gradient Method and
                                Oversampling

Chunlei Liu¹, Roland Bammer¹, Michael Moseley¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2984.    Effects of Respiratory Drift on Prospective Motion Correction Factor in Navigator Guided
                                Cardiac Imaging

Maggie M. Fung¹, Sandeep Gupta¹, Wei Sun², Ehud Schmidt³

¹GE Healthcare, Hanover, Maryland, USA; ²GE Healthcare China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ³GE Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2985.    A Method for Spatial Mapping of Gradient Field Nonlinearity in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Deming Wang¹, Gary Cowin¹, Katie McMahon¹, David M. Doddrell¹

¹The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

                  2986.    Motion Correction for DWI with Segmented EPI: Comparison Between an Iterative
                                Parameter Space Searching Technique and Conventional Navigator Echo Correction

Jeff David Winter¹, ², Neil Gelman¹, ², Robert Terry Thompson¹, ²

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

                  2987.    On the Coregistration of Diffusion Weighted Images

Bennett Allan Landman¹, Jonathan A. D. Farrell, ^1,2, Susumu Mori, ^1,2, Peter C. M. van Zijl, ^1,2, Jerry L. Prince¹, ³

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

                  2988.    Improvement in Navigator Echo Displacement Accuracy Using a Pre-Saturation Pulse

Maggie M. Fung¹, Wei Sun², Naobuki Takei³, Sandeep Gupta¹, Thomas K. Foo⁴

¹GE Healthcare, Hanover, Maryland, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Bejing, People’s Republic of China; ³GE Healthcare, Hino, Japan; ⁴GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA

                  2989.    Evaluation of Conjugate-Gradient Phase Correction Algorithm Under Noisy Conditions

Jian Zhang¹, Chunlei Liu¹, Michael  Moseley¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2990.    CASL Perfusion MRI of the Kidney Using Real-Time Tracking, Free Breathing Navigator

H. Michael Gach¹, ², Thanh Nguyen³, Yi Wang, ²³

¹Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;
³Cornell University, Weill Medical College, New York, USA

                  2991.    Self-Navigated 2D SSFP Sequence for Simultaneous Respiratory and Cardiac Motion Detection

Ajit Shankaranarayanan¹, Anja Brau¹, Mike McConnell², Jean Brittain³

¹GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ²Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA; ³GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2992.    Improved Activation Detection in fMRI Studies Using Acquisition and Reconstruction Methods
                                Robust to Susceptibility and Motion Artifacts

Kiran Kumar Pandey¹, Douglas Charles Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2993.    Motion Correction for Diffusion-Weighted Segmented EPI: Performance of an Iterative Parameter
                                Space Searching Technique Evaluated with Numerically Simulated Motion Artifacts

Jeff David Winter¹, ², Neil Gelman¹, ², Robert Terry Thompson¹, ²

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

                  2994.    Motion Detection and Removal from Registered fMRI Data by Independent Component
                                Analysis Method

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

¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

RF Pulse Design

                  2995.    A Perfectly Refocused RF Pulse Design Using Zero-Padding

Lei Zhu¹, John Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2996.    Application of a Constant Pulse Width VERSE Design to a Silver-Hoult Inversion
                                Recovery Pulse for T1Flair

Neville D. Gai¹, Yuval Zur²

¹GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; ²G.E. Healthcare, Tirat-Carmel, Haifa, Israel

                  2997.    Design of Large-Flip-Angle Half Pulses

John M. Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  2998.    Iterative Spectral-Spatial Pulse Design: Toward Full Use of Design Freedom

Chun-yu Yip¹, Sangwoo Lee¹, Jeffrey A. Fessler¹, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  2999.    Contrast Enhancement Using Slice Selective Composite Continuous Rotation Adiabatic Pulses

Ziqi Sun¹, Robert Bartha¹, ²

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

                  3000.    An RF Pulse with Reduced MT Saturation for FSE

James Grant Pipe¹, Nicholas R. Zwart¹, Ryan Grant Robison¹

¹St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

                  3001.    Advanced 3D Tailored RF Pulse for Signal Loss Recovery in T2*-Weighted Functional MRI

Chun-yu Yip¹, Jeffrey A. Fessler¹, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  3002.    Multi-Stage Simulated Annealing Optimization of Self-Refocused Radio Frequency Pulses
                                with Short T2

Bashar Issa¹

¹UAE University, Al-Ain, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

                  3003.    Spectral-Spatial Long-T₂ Suppression Pulses for Multislice UTE Imaging

Peder E Z Larson¹, John M. Pauly¹, Dwight G. Nishimura¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  3004.    Double Half RF Pulse for Reduced Sensitivity to Linear Eddy Currents in
                                Ultrashort T2 Imaging

Sonal Josan¹, Aiming Lu¹, John Pauly¹, Bruce Daniel¹, Kim Butts¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  3005.    Highly Selective Excitation Method for Short TE Localized ¹H MRS of the
                                Frontal Lobe at 3 Tesla

Helene Bataille¹, Julien Valette¹, Philippe Hantraye², Vincent Lebon¹

¹CEA-SHFJ, Orsay, France; ²URA CEA-CNRS 2210, Orsay, France

                  3006.    Multi-Band Adiabatic Pulses

Ronald Ouwerkerk¹, Richard A. Edden²

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

                  3007.    Design of Slice Multiplexed Pulses for Simultaneous Multislice Imaging

Kuan J. Lee¹, Martyn N. Paley¹, Paul D. Griffiths¹, Jim M. Wild¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

                  3008.    Design of Cosine-Modulated Very Selective Suppression Pulses for 3D MRSI at 3T

Joseph Anthony Osorio¹, Duan Xu¹, Charles H. Cunningham², Albert Chen¹, Adam B. Kerr², John M. Pauly²,

Daniel B. Vigneron¹, Sarah J. Nelson¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; ²Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  3009.    Single-Sided Quadratic Phase Outer Volume Suppression Pulses

Nikola Stikov¹, Charles Cunningham¹, Michael Lustig¹, John Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  3010.    Reduced Field-Of-View RF Pulse Designs with Fat-Suppression

Kyunghyun Sung¹, Krishna S. Nayak¹

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

                  3011.    2D and 3D Parallel RF Pulse Design for Inhomogeneity Correction and Volume Localization

Kawin Setsompop¹, Lawrence Wald², Borjan Gagoski¹, Vijayanand Alagappan², Christina Triantafyllou²,

Franz Hebrank³, Ulrich Fontius⁴, Franz Schmitt⁴, Elfar Adalsteinsson⁵

¹MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA;
³Siemens Medical Solutions, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany;
⁵Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

                  3012.    Trajectory Optimization for Variable-Density Spiral Two-Dimensional Excitation

Yakir S. Levin¹, ², Laura J. Pisani¹, Daniel M. Spielman¹, ², John M. Pauly²

¹Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; ²Stanford University School of Engineering, Stanford, California, USA

                  3013.    Matched Phase Dualband Spatial-Spectral 90º-180º Pulse Pair for MRSI at 3T

Priti Balchandani¹, John Pauly¹, Daniel Spielman¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  3014.    Parallel RF Excitation Design and Testing with an 8 Channel Array at 3T

Kawin Setsompop¹, Lawrence Wald², Borjan Gagoski¹, Vijayanand Alagappan², Franz Hebrank³, Ulrich Fontius⁴, Franz Schmitt⁴,
Elfar Adalsteinsson⁵

¹MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA;
³Siemens Medical Solutions, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany;
⁵Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

                  3015.    A Spatial Domain Method for the Design of RF Pulses in Multi-Coil Parallel Excitation

William Allyn Grissom¹, Chun-Yu Yip¹, Zhenghui Zhang², V. Andrew Stenger³, Jeffrey A. Fessler¹, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ²University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;
³University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii, USA

                  3016.    Calculation of B1 Pulses for RF Shimming at Arbitrary Flip Angle Using Multiple Transmitters

Jose L. Ulloa¹, Martina Callaghan², Marcelo Guarini¹, Joseph V. Hajnal², Pablo Irarrazaval¹

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

                  3017.    Generalized Parameter Relations for the Shinnar-Le Roux Pulse Design Algorithm

Kuan J. Lee¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

Pulse Sequence: Other

                  3018.    Whole-Body 3D Continuously Moving Table Imaging Using Radial and Spiral Sampling

Peter Börnert¹, Bernd Aldefeld¹, Jochen Keupp¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  3019.    Radial Flow-Gated Phase Contrast Imaging in Carotid Artery

Hsu-Hsia Peng¹, Teng-Yi Huang², Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng¹, Hsiao-Wen Chung¹

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan

                  3020.    Spectroscopic and Imaging Observations of Intermolecular Single-Quantum Coherence

Shuhui Cai¹, Zhong Chen¹, ², Xiaoqin Zhu¹, Bingwen Zheng¹, Jianhui Zhong²

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

                  3021.    Experimental Validation of a T2r Transverse Relaxation Model Using LASER and CPMG Acquisitions

Simona Nikolova¹, Robert Bartha¹, Chris Bowen²

¹Robarts Research Institute, London, On, Canada; ²Institute for Biodiagnostics (Atlantic), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

                  3022.    Implementation of a Three-Dimensional Double Inversion-Recovery Sequence at 3 Tesla

S.J.P. Jonathan Pierpoint Meara¹, Mark Roger Symms², Philip A. Boulby², Gareth John Barker¹

¹Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK; ²Institute of Neurology, London, UK

                  3023.    Single Point Imaging with Minimized Phase Encoding Interval

Peter Latta¹, Marco Gruwel¹, Boguslaw Tomanek¹

¹NRC, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

                  3024.    Non-CPMG Multi-Echo Spin Echo Imaging with Short Echo Times

Markus Klarhöfer¹, Jochen Hirsch², Achim Gass², Klaus Scheffler¹

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

                  3025.    A Fast Spin Echo Triple Echo Dixon (FTED) Technique for Efficient T2-Weighted Water and Fat Imaging

Jingfei Ma¹, Jong Bum Son¹, ²

¹University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA

                  3026.    Single Slab-Selective 3D CPMG Multi-Echo Sequence with Short Inter-Echo Spacing for
                                Short-Component T2 Quantitation

Dimitris Mitsouras¹, Robert Mulkern², Frank J. Rybicki¹

¹Brigham And Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Childrens Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  3027.    In-Vivo Diagonal-SPRITE Imaging at 9.4T

Andrea Protti¹, Amy Herlihy¹, Jean Tessier², Jimmy Bell¹

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

                  3028.    Comparison of Long-T₂ Suppression Techniques for 3D Ultrashort Echo-Time Imaging

Ulrike Blume¹, Jürgen Rahmer², Peter Börnert², Dietrich Holz¹

¹University of Applied Science Koblenz, Remagen, Germany; ²Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  3029.    Anisotropic 3D Radial Sampling for Ultrashort TE Imaging

Jürgen Rahmer¹, Peter Börnert¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  3030.    Optimized Short-T₂ SNR and Resolution Using Ultrashort TE Imaging with T₂-Adapted Sampling

Jürgen Rahmer¹, Peter Börnert¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  3031.    Acquisition-Weighted Stack of Spirals for High-Resolution Sodium MRI

Yongxian Qian¹, Fernando Boada¹

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  3032.    Pulse Sequence Programming in a Dynamic Visual Environment

Jeremy Magland¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹

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

                  3033.    Fast, Accurate and Precise B₁ Mapping In Vivo Using the 180  Null Signal

Nicholas G. Dowell¹, Paul S. Tofts¹

¹University College London, London, UK

                  3034.    Electrical Conductivity Estimation from Diffusion Tensor and T2: A Silk Yarn Phantom Study

Suk Hoon Oh¹, Soo Yeol Lee¹, Min Hyoung Cho¹, Tae-S Kim¹, Ik Hyun Kim¹

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

Ulrich Katscher¹, Marius Hanft², Peter Vernickel³, Christian Findeklee¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; ²University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany;
³TuTech Innovation GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

                  3036.    Defibrillation Electrode Position Study Using Current Density Imaging

Tim P. DeMonte¹, Dawn B. Jorgenson², Dinghui Wang¹, Angela W. Ma¹, Michael L. G. Joy¹

¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Philips Medical Systems, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  3037.    Electric Properties Tomography (EPT) Via MRI

Ulrich Katscher¹, Marius Hanft², Peter Vernickel³, Christian Findeklee¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany; ²University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany;
³TuTech Innovation GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

                  3038.    Accelerating MR Elastography by Means of Keyhole Imaging

Armin de Greiff¹, Stefan Maderwald¹, Mark E. Ladd¹

¹University Hospital Essen, Essen, NRW, Germany

                  3039.    Influence of the Transducer Near Field in MR Elastography Wave Images

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

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

Spectral Editing and Localization Techniques

                  3040.    Intermolecular Double-Quantum-Filtered Zero-Quantum Coherence in Liquid NMR

Xiaoqin Zhu¹, Zhong Chen¹, ², Shuhui Cai¹, Jianhui Zhong²

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

                  3041.    Improved Two-Dimensional J-Resolved Spectroscopy

Rolf F. Schulte¹, Thomas Lange¹, Johannes Beck², Dieter Meier¹, Peter Boesiger¹

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

                  3042.    Identification and Exclusion of Motion-Corrupted Data in J-Difference Editing
                                Using Interleaved Navigator Scans

Pallab Bhattacharyya¹, Mark Lowe¹, Micheal Phillips¹, Mark Brown²

¹The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Cary, North Carolina, USA

                  3043.    Investigation of Flip Angle Dependence in Spatially Resolved 2D Correlated MR Spectroscopy

Nader Binesh¹, Shida Banakar², Albert M. Thomas¹

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

                  3044.    Prostate Spectroscopy at 3 Tesla Using Two-Dimensional S-PRESS

Thomas Lange¹, Andreas H. Trabesinger², Rolf F. Schulte³, Ulrike Dydak¹, Peter Boesiger¹

¹ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²110 Stapleton Hall Road, London N8, UK; ³GE Global Research, Munich, Germany

                  3045.    Improved PRESS Sequence for Lactate Detection in the Human Vitreous Body

Evelyne Balteau¹, Nathalie Jacqueline Collignon², Pierre A. Robe², Virginie Sterpenich¹, Gabriel Llabrès¹,

André Luxen¹, Pierre Maquet¹

¹Liège University, Liège, Belgium; ²University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium

                  3046.    POM: A Simulation Program for NMR Under Inter- And Intramolecular Interactions

Congbo Cai¹, Zhong Chen¹, ², Shuhui Cai¹, Jianhui Zhong²

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

                  3047.    Simultaneous Acquisition of Signals of Different Orders of Intermolecular
                                Multiple-Quantum Coherences

Song Chen¹, Xiaoqin Zhu¹, Zhong Chen¹, ², Shuhui Cai¹, Jianhui Zhong²

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

                  3048.    A Novel Method Using a Single Selective Editing Pulse for In Vivo Glutathione Editing at 3 Tesla

Yan Zhang¹, Stefano Marenco¹, Daniel R. Weinberger¹, Jun Shen¹

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

                  3049.    Further Evidence for a Correlation Between Increased Endogenous GABA Concentration and
                                Decreased Glutamate-Glutamine Cycling Flux

Jehoon Yang¹, Jun Shen¹

¹NIMH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  3050.    J-Resolved Proton Echo Planar Spectroscopic Imaging of GABA in the Human Brain

J. Eric Jensen¹, ², Blaise Frederick¹, ², Perry Franklin Renshaw¹, ²

¹McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  3051.    Fast MRSI of Human Breast Using Spiral Sel-MQC

He Zhu¹, Dennis Rubin¹, Qiuhong He¹

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  3052.    Phase Rotation with Asymmetric RF Pulses in Localized Stimulated Echo
                                Spectroscopy (PRAISES) : A 2.5-Ms TE Sequence for Clinical Spectroscopy

Jack Knight-Scott¹, S. Andrea Dunham¹, Dattesh Dayanand Shanbhag¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

                  3053.    Short Echo Spectroscopic Imaging Combined with Lactate Editing in a Single Scan

Gerd Melkus¹, Philipp Moerchel¹, Volker Christian Behr¹, Markus Kotas¹, Peter Michael Jakob¹, Michael Flentje¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

                  3054.    Optimized Detection of Lactate at 3 Tesla Using the PRESS Sequence

Richard Anthony Edward Edden¹, ², Peter B. Barker¹, ²

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

                  3055.    Proton Spectral Editing for Separation Between Lactate and Threonine in Human Brain In Vivo

Changho Choi¹, Nicholas J. Coupland¹, Sanjay Kalra¹, Paramjit P. Bhardwaj¹, Nikolai Malykhin¹, Dan Gheorghiu¹, Peter S. Allen¹

¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

                  3056.    ¹H NMR Spectroscopy Using High Performance Gradients at Sub-Millisecond Echo Time

Vladimir Mlynarik¹, Hanne Frenkel¹, Joao Duarte¹, Ivan Tkac², Rolf Gruetter¹

¹Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  3057.    Editing Through Multiple Bonds: Threonine Detection

Malgorzata Marjanska¹, Pierre-Gilles Henry¹, Kamil Ugurbil¹, Rolf Gruetter²

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ²Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

                  3058.    A Novel Approach to Spectral Editing of Glutathione at 7 Tesla Using Echo-Time Independent
                                Signal Modulations in PRESS Sequence

Giulio Gambarota¹, Vladimir Mlynarik¹, Tibor Liptaj², Rolf Gruetter¹

¹Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland; ²Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

                  3059.    Simultaneous Measurement of Unobstructed Glutamate and Glutamine Signals in TE-Averaged
                                PRESS Spectra at 3T Using an Optimized Filter Function

Shaolin Yang¹, Elliot A. Stein¹, Yihong Yang¹

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

                  3060.    Spectrally-Selective Refocusing for Brain Glutamate and Glutamine Measures: Application to
                                Human Prefrontal and Motor Cortices

Changho Choi¹, Nicholas J. Coupland¹, Sanjay Kalra¹, Nikolai Malykhin¹, Paramjit P. Bhardwaj¹, Dan Gheorghiu¹, Peter S. Allen¹

¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

                  3061.    Response of the AB Spin System to STEAM Coherence Selection: Novel Avenues for
                                Spectral Editing at Very High B₀

Vladimir Mlynarik¹, Giulio Gambarota¹, Rolf Gruetter¹

¹Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

                  3062.    Motor Cortex GABA Concentration as Measured by Double-Quantum Filtering

Sanjay Kalra¹, Changho Choi¹, Peter S. Allen¹

¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

                  3063.    Water and Metabolite-Modulated MR Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Imaging

Robin A. de Graaf¹, Laura I. Sacolick¹, Douglas L. Rothman¹

¹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  3064.    Brain Glutamate Proton Transverse Relaxation Time as Measured by
                                Spectrally-Selective Refocusing

Changho Choi¹, Nicholas J. Coupland¹, Sanjay Kalra¹, Nikolai Malykhin¹, Paramjit P. Bhardwaj¹, Dan Gheorghiu¹, Peter S. Allen¹

¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

                  3065.    The Effect of Strong Homonuclear Proton Coupling on a PRESS-Localized Ge-HMQC Sequence

Atiyah Yahya¹, Peter S. Allen¹

¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

                  3066.    Short TE PRESS Proton NMR Spectroscopy Without Water Suppression. Application to the
                                Human Brain at 3 Tesla

Wolfgang Dreher¹, ², Christian Schuster¹, ², Dieter Leibfritz¹, ²

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

Spectroscopic Imaging Techniques and Applications

                  3067.    Measurement of Temperature Distributions in Cryopreservation Solutions
                                Using Echo-Planar Spectroscopic Imaging

Richard Thompson¹, Sarah Johnson¹, Robert Lambert¹, Locksley McGann¹

¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

                  3068.    Water Suppression in 1H MRSI by Reference Subtraction

Claudia Domenig¹, Yingjian Yu¹, Andrew Maudsley¹

¹University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA

                  3069.    Natural Linewidth Chemical Shift Imaging (NL-CSI)

Adil Bashir¹, Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy¹

¹Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  3070.    Implementation of a New Composite Pulse for Excitation in Fast Proton
                                Spectroscopic Imaging at
1.5 T

Zenon Starcuk Jr. ¹, Zenon Starcuk¹, Jana Starcukova¹, Petr Krupa²

¹Institute of Scientific Instruments, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic;
 ²St. Anna Faculty Hospital, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

                  3071.    Factor-2 Acceleration for 3D EPSI at 4T Using Modified Blipped Phase-Encoding

Andreas Ebel¹, ², Michael W. Weiner², ³, Norbert Schuff², ³

¹Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco, California, USA;
²VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA; ³University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

                  3072.    Fourier Component Imaging of Water Resonance in Human Breast: A New Source of MRI Contrast

Milica Medved¹, Gillian M. Newstead¹, Xiaobing Fan¹, Yiping Du², Olufunmilayo I. Olopade¹,
Marta A. Zamora¹, Gregory Stanislaus Karczmar¹

¹The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²The University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

                  3073.    Quantitative Metabolite Mapping in Human Brain at 4T Using Short TE ¹H LASER-CSI
                                and Tissue Segmentation

Jennifer Andrea McNab¹, ², Robert Bartha, ^1,2

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

                  3074.    Local B₀-Shift Correction for 3D EPSI of Human Brain at 1.5 and 4 Tesla

Andreas Ebel¹, ², Andrew A. Maudsley³, Michael W. Weiner², ⁴, Norbert Schuff², ⁴

¹Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco, California, USA;
²VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA; ³University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA;
⁴University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

                  3075.    Sensitivity Encoded Three Dimensional Echo Planar Spectroscopic
                                 Imaging (3D-EPSI) of Human Brain at 4T

Xiaoping Zhu¹, Andreas Ebel², Jim X. Ji³, Michael W. Weiner¹, Norbert Schuff¹

¹VAMCSF/UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; ²Northern Institute for Research & Education, San Francisco, California, USA;
³Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

                  3076.    Experimental Demonstration of Rosette Spectroscopic Imaging (RSI)

Claudiu Schirda¹, ², Fernando Boada²

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

                  3077.    Constrained Spectroscopic Imaging with Hard and Soft Anatomical Boundary Constraints

Justin Pritam Haldar¹, Mathews Jacob¹, Andreas Ebel², ³, Xiaoping Zhu³, Norbert Schuff³, Diego Hernando¹,

Bradley Sutton¹, Zhi-Pei Liang¹

¹Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA;
²Northern California Institute for Research and Education, San Francisco, California, USA;
³VA Medical Center and Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

                  3078.    Unpaired Adiabatic Refocusing Pulses for Volume Selection in Spectroscopic Imaging

Laura Sacolick¹, Douglas L. Rothman¹, Robin A. de Graaf¹

¹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  3079.    Sensitivity Encoded Proton Echo Planar Spectroscopic Imaging (PEPSI) in Human Brain at 7 Tesla

Stefan Posse¹, ², Ricardo Otazo³, ⁴, Shang-Yueh Tsai⁵, Lawrence Wald⁵, Fa-Hsuan Lin⁵

¹The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; ²University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA;
³The MIND Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; ⁴University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New mexico, USA;
⁵Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  3080.    Radiofrequency Variations in Spectroscopic Imaging at High Field: Differences in Coupled
                                and Uncoupled Spin Systems

Jeff Snyder¹, Richard B. Thompson¹, Jim M. Wild², Alan H. Wilman¹

¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; ²University of Sheffield, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK

                  3081.    Reduced Echo Time Dualband Spatial-Spectral Pulse Sequence for Brain MRSI at 3T

Priti Balchandani¹, Daniel Spielman¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  3082.    Metabolic Mapping of the Brain by Volumetric MR Spectroscopic Imaging

Andrew A. Maudsley¹, Ammar Darkazanli², Jeffry R. Alger³, Larry O. Hall⁴, Norbert Schuff⁵, Colin Studholme⁵, Yingjian Yu¹,
Andy Frew³, Dmitry Goldgof⁴, Yuhua Gu⁴, Raj Pagare³, Francois Rousseau⁵, K. Sivasankaran¹, Brian J. Soher⁶, Patrice Weber⁵, Karl Young⁵

¹University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA; ²Universiy of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA; ³UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA;
⁴University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA; ⁵UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA; ⁶Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  3083.    Regional Estimation of T1 Metabolite Relaxation Using 2D MRSI and a Bootstrap Approach at 1.5 T

Helene Ratiney¹, Susan M. Noworolski¹, Michael Sdika¹, Roland G. Henry¹, Radhika Srinivasan¹, Daniel Pelletier¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

                  3084.    Quantitative 3D Spiral 1H MRSI of the Brain with an 8 Channel Phased-Array Coil

Meng Gu¹, Dong-Hyun Kim², Daniel Spielman¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

                  3085.    Proton MRS of Bilateral Substantia Nigra in the Human Brain at 4 Tesla with
                                Hadamard Encoding

Gulin Oz¹, Ivan Tkac¹, Jodi Lowary¹, Paul Tuite¹, Rolf Gruetter¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  3086.    Automatic Outer Volume Suppression (OVS) Slice Placement for
                                Proton-Echo-Planar-Spectroscopic-Imaging (PEPSI)

Ting Li¹, Manel Martinez-Ramon¹, Greg Heileman², Stefan Posse³

¹MIND Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; ²University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA;
³MIND Imaging Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

MR Spectroscopy: x Nuclei and Other

                  3087.    A New Complex of Diperoxovanadate with 2-(2′-Pyridyl)-Imidazole: Synthesis,
                                Structure, Interaction and Bioactivity

Yanglin Pan¹, Jianghua Yan¹, Shuyu Yang², Xuejun Li², Shuhui Cai¹, Zhong Chen¹

¹Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People’s Republic of China; ²Xiamen First Hospital, Xiamen, Fujian, People’s Republic of China

                  3088.    In Vivo Large Flip Angle ³¹P MRS in the Human Brain at 3T

RoseAnn M. Blenman¹, John D. Port¹, Joel P. Felmlee¹

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

                  3089.    Comparison of Cardiac Phosphorous Spectroscopy at 1.5T and 3T

Damian J. Tyler¹, Lucy E. Hudsmith¹, Stefan Neubauer¹, Kieran Clarke¹, Matthew D. Robson¹

¹University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

                  3090.    Characterisation  of Muscle Type Lipid Relaxation Parameters for Quantification of
                                Intramyocellular Lipids Evolution in Zucker Rats

Rachida Fissoune¹, Denis Grenier², Emmanuelle Canet Soulas², André Briguet¹

¹Laboratoire de RMN  CNRS UMR 5012, Lyon, France; ²Laboratoire de RMN CNRS UMR 5012, Lyon, France

                  3091.    Changes in Specific Metabolic Pathways Are Essential Steps in the Early Apoptotic
                                Process in the Liver

Sven Gottschalk¹, ², Tom Chan¹, Valerie-Ann Raymond¹, Marc Bilodeau¹, Dieter Leibfritz², Claudia Zwingmann¹, ²

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

                  3092.    High Resolution Magic Angle Spinning MR Spectroscopy Reveals Biomarkers of
                                Insulin Resistance in Burn Trauma

Haihui Cao¹, ², Loukas G. Astrakas¹, Qunhao Zhang², Hongyue Yu¹, Michael N. Mindrinos³, Ronald G. Tompkins²,
Laurence G. Rahme², A. Aria Tzika¹, ²

¹Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;
²Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

                  3093.    OVS-Localized ³¹P NMR Spectroscopy in the Primate Brain

Julien Valette¹, Martine Guillermier², Philippe Hantraye, ^1,2, Vincent Lebon¹

¹CEA-SHFJ, Orsay, France; ²URA CEA-CNRS 2210, Orsay, France

                  3094.    ¹⁹F High Senseitivity Imaging for In Vivo Drug Dynamics in Mice at 7T with 5-FU

Yoko Kanazawa¹, Yoshiyuki Hirano¹, ², Sachiko Koike¹, Michiko Narazaki¹, Eiji Yoshitome¹, Koichi Ando³,

Masafumi Fujiita², Minoru Onozuka⁴, Hiroo Ikehira¹

¹Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan; ²Gifu University, Gifu, Japan; ³Institute of  Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan;
⁴Kanagawa Dental College, Yokosuka, Japan

                  3095.    In Vivo ³¹P–{¹H} Echo–Planar Spectroscopic Imaging of the Human Brain

Marco Ulrich¹, Tim Wokrina¹, Peter Bachert², Gabriele Ende¹

¹Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany; ²German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

                  3096.    DRESS Strategy for Improving Cardiac P-31 MRS at 3T: Coil & OVS

Hee-Won Kim¹, David M. Peterson¹

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  3097.    Effect of Patient Orientation on Cardiac ³¹P-MRS

James Lee Schroeder¹, Damian J. Tyler¹, Yaso Emmanuel¹, Matthew D. Robson², Michaela Scheuermann-Freestone¹,
Stefan Neubauer², Kieran Clarke¹

¹University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK; ²University of Oxford, Headington, Oxfordshire, UK

                  3098.    In Vivo Measurement of T₁ Relaxation Times of ³¹P Metabolites in Human Brain at 3T

RoseAnn M. Blenman¹, John D. Port¹, Joel P. Felmlee¹

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

                  3099.    Measurement of the Longitudinal Relaxation Time (T₁) of Cardiac Phosphorous Metabolites at 3T

Damian J. Tyler¹, Lucy E. Hudsmith¹, Stefan Neubauer¹, Kieran Clarke¹, Matthew D. Robson¹

¹University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

                  3100.    Quantified ¹⁹F MR Spectroscopy Reveals Heterogeneous Capecitabine Metabolism in Human Liver

Dennis WJ Klomp¹, Hanneke W.M. van Laarhoven¹, Cees Punt¹, Arend Heerschap¹

¹Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands

                  3101.    ³¹P Spectroscopy Using a Silicon-Based Needle Coil

Franklyn A. Howe¹, John R. Griffiths¹, Loreta M. Rodrigues¹, Richard R.A. Syms², Munir M. Ahmad², Iain R. Young²

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

                  3102.    Gated 31P Chemical Shift Imaging of Phosphocreatine Changes During Single Muscle Contractions

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

¹Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Non-Proton MRI

                  3103.    Initial Experience with Sodium MRI of Phantoms and Human Brain at 9.4 Tesla

Fred Damen¹, Samantha Holdsworth², Ian Atkinson¹, Ed Boskamp³, Theodore Claiborne¹, Arno Nauerth⁴, Belinda Li³,
X Joe Zhou¹, Zhi-Pei Liang⁵, Keith R. Thulborn¹

¹University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;
³GE Healthcare, Wakasha, Wisconsin, USA; ⁴Bruker Biospin, Ettlingen, Germany; ⁵University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA

                  3104.    Sodium Relaxometry (Part 2):  Towards the Characterization of the Sodium NMR
                                Environment in the Human Brain Using a Novel Relaxomety Technique

Robert W. Stobbe¹, Christian Beaulieu¹

¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

                  3105.    1H and 23Na MRI of Rat Head at 4 Tesla with a Simple Double-Tuned RF Surface Coil

Marcello Alecci¹, Sandro Romanzetti², Joachim Kaffanke², Avdo Celik², Hans Peter Wegener³, Nadim Jon Shah², ⁴

¹Università dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy; ²Institute of Medicine, Juelich, Germany; ³Central Electronic Institute, Juelich, Germany;
⁴University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

                  3106.    Comparison of FLASH and TPI Techniques for Sodium Imaging

Samantha Jane Holdsworth¹, Stephen Edward Rose¹, Katie Louise McMahon¹, Donald Maillet¹, Fred Charles Damen², Graham John Galloway¹

¹University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ²University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  3107.    Measurement of Phosphorus Content in Normal and Osteo-Malacic Rabbit Bone by
                                Solid-State 3D Radial Imaging

SeshaSailaja Anumula¹, Jeremy Magland¹, Henry Ong¹, Hualei Zhang², HeeKwon Song¹, Suzanne W. Wehrli³,

Felix W. Wehrli¹

¹University of Pennsylvania medical centre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA;
³Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  3108.    Feasibility of ¹³C-MRI of the Lung Using ¹³CO₂ Gas

Wolfgang G. Schreiber¹, Florian Meise¹, Alexander Scholz², Ursula Wolf¹

¹Mainz University Medical School, Section of Medical Physics, Mainz, Germany; ²Mainz University Medical School, Mainz, Germany

                  3109.    Ultrafast 3D Imaging of Hyperpolarized 13C In Vivo

Pratip Bhattacharya¹, ², K. Harris², Alex P. Lin², Maria Mansson², Valerie A. Norton¹, William H. Perman³,

Daniel P. Weitekamp¹, Brian D. Ross²

¹California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA; ²Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, California, USA; ³,
St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                  3110.    ¹³C PASADENA Imaging In Vivo

Alexander Peter Lin¹, ², William H. Perman³, Jochen Leupold⁴, Pratip Bhattacharya, ²⁵, Kent Harris⁵,

Jürgen Henning⁴, Brian David Ross⁵

¹Rudi Schulte Research Institute, Pasadena, California, USA; ²California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA;
³St. Louis University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; ⁴University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany;
⁵Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, California, USA

                  3111.    Orthodeuterium Induced 1H- And 2D-Hyperpolarization for MRI

Joachim Bargon¹, Arndt Limbacher¹, Rahim R. Rizi²

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

                  3112.    Transfer of Parahydrogen-Induced Polarization to 19F:

Joachim Bargon¹, Ute Bommerich², Lars T. Kuhn³, Rahim R. Rizi⁴

¹University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; ²University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany; ³Oxford University, Oxford, UK;
⁴University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  3113.    ¹⁷O Imaging for the Evaluation of Physiological Function in the Tumor Bearing Mice

Michiko Narazaki¹, Yoko Kanazawa¹, Sachiko Koike¹, Koichi Ando¹, Hiroo Ikehira¹

¹National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan