The ISMRM wishes to congratulate the winners of the 2006 Poster Awards!



Poster Award Winners

ENGINEERING

1st Place
Program No. 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

2nd Place
Program No. 2039

Simultaneous B1+ Homogenisation and SAR Hotspot Suppression by a Phased Array MR Transmit Coil
C. A.T. van den Berg1, B. van den Bergen1,, H. Kroeze1,, L. W. Bartels1,, J. J.W. Lagendijk1,
1,University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands

3rd Place
Program No. 2026

A Low Input Impedance MRI Preamplifier Using a Purely Capacitive Feedback Network
Ralph Oppelt1, Markus Vester1
1Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany
Honorable Mention
Progam No. 1365
Practical Implementation of the Stream Function Method for Design of Arbitrary-Geometry Gradient Coils
Rostislav A. Lemdiasov1, Reinhold Ludwig2
1Insight Neuroimaging Systems, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; 2Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

NEUROIMAGING

1st Place
Program No. 2336
Anorexigenic Gut Hormone Oxyntomodulin Modulates Manganese-Enhanced MRI Signal
in the Mouse Hypothalamus
Owais Bashir Chaudhri1, Yu-Ting Kuo2, James R. C. Parkinson1, Amy H. Herlihy1, Jimmy D. Bell2, Sarah A. Stanley1,
Mohammad A. Ghatei
1, Stephen R. Bloom1
1Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK; 2MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London,
Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
2nd Place
Program No. 3387
Cerebral Blood Flow and Arterial Transit Time Measurements in Patients with Chronic Occlusive
Cerebrovascular Disease Using Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling on 3T-MR: Correlative Study with CO2
PET Examination
Hirohiko Kimura1, Hiroyuki Kabasawa2, Tatsuro Tsuchida1, Yoshiharu Yonekura1, Harumi Itoh1
1University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan; 2GE Medical Systems, Tokyo, Japan
3rd Place
Program No.
933
Longitudinal Study of the Development of Beta-Amyloid Plaque Burden in a Transgenic Mouse
Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Using In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Niels Braakman1, Jörg Matysik1, Sjoerd G. van Duinen2, Fons Verbeek1, Reinhard Schliebs3, Huub J. M. de Groot1, Alia Alia1,
1,Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; 2Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; 3University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Honorable Mention
Program No. 934
In Vivo Quantification of Neuronal Degeneration in the G93A-SOD1 Transgenic Mouse Model
of ALS by T2 Mapping
Heiko G. Niessen1, Frank Angenstein,1,2, Kerstin Sander2, Hans-Jochen Heinze1,, Henning Scheich2, Stefan Vielhaber1,
1,University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, LSA, Germany; 2Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, LSA, Germany

DIFFUSION

1st Place
Program No. 1078
Combined DTI Fiber Tracking and Histological 3D Atlas Mapping of Sensorimotor, Associative
and Limbic Cortico – Striatal Circuits
Saâd Jbabdi1,, Eric Bardinet2, Habib Benali1,, Didier Dormont2, Kamil Ugurbil3, Jérôme Yelnik4, Stéphane Lehéricy1,, 3
1,Inserm/UPMC, Paris, France; 2CNRS, Paris, France; 3University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 4Inserm, Paris, France
2nd Place
Program No. 1029
Landmark Guided Spatial Normalization of Diffusion Tensor Images in the Presence
of Large Deformations
Ragini Verma1,, Christos Davatzikos1,
1,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2nd Place
Program No. 1055
High Resolution DTI of Localized Volume, Using 3D Singleshot STimulated EPI
Eun-Kee Jeong1,, Seong-Eun Kim1,, Eugene G. Kholmovski1,, Dennis L. Parker1,
1,University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
2nd Place
Program No. 1612

A Finite Difference Model of Diffusion Applied to Ischemia
Kevin D. Harkins1,, Jean-Philippe Galons1,, Timothy W. Secomb1,, Joe L. Divijak1,, Theodore P. Trouard1,
1,University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

FUNCTIONAL

1st Place
Program No. 2144
The Role of Cortico-Cortical Connections in Intercortical Plasticity Following Peripheral Nerve Injury
Galit Pelled1,, Kai-Hsiang Chuang1,, Stephen Dodd1,, Alan P. Koretsky1,
1National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
2nd Place
Program No. 2124
Distinct Characteristics of Brain Activity in Cat V1 and LGN in Response to Flicking and Grating
Visual Stimuli: A fMRI Study at 9.4T
Xiao-Hong Zhu1,, Nanyin Zhang1,, Yi Zhang1, Wei Chen1,
1,CMRR, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3rd Place
Program No. 1158
Imaging RCBF Changes in Response to Insulin-Induced Hypoglycemia at 3T Using Three-Coil CASL
Edward J. Auerbach1,, Jyothi P. Rao1,, Kamil Ugurbil1,, Elizabeth R. Seaquist1,
1,University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Honorable Mention
Program No.
1154

Spatial Non-Uniformity of the CBF Response to Sevoflurane: Implications for fMRI
Maolin Qiu1,, Ramachandran Ramani2, R Todd Constable1,
1,Yale University School of Medicine, Hew Haven, Connecticut, USA; 2Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

CARDIOVASCULAR

1st Place
Program No. 1929 
Fresh Blood Imaging (FBI) of Peripheral Arteries: Comparison with 16-Detector Row CT Angiography
Katsumi Nakamura1,, Kiyomi Kuroki1,, Akiyoshi Yamamoto1,, Akihiro Hiramine1,, Mitsue Miyazaki2, Yuka Matsufuji3
1,Tobata Kyoritsu Hospital, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan; 2Toshiba America Medical Systems, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, USA; 3Toshiba Medical Systems Co., Fukuoka, Japan
2nd Place
Program No. 1172
Rate of Myocardial Contrast Enhancement with Extracellular Contrast Agent and Relationship to Perfusion Reserve
Michael Jerosch-Herold1,2, Naveen S. Murthy2, Carsten Rickers2, 3, Arthur E. Stillman, 24
1,Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA; 2University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 3University of Kiel, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; 4Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3rd Place
Program No. 1898
Variable Density Excitation Pulses in One-Shot Fourier Velocity Encoding for Valve Flow Imaging
Daeho Lee1,, Julie Camille DiCarlo1,, Adam Bruce Kerr1,, Juan Manuel Santos1,, John Mark Pauly1,
1,Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 
Honorable Mention
Program No. 1165
Parametric Aspects of First Pass DCE MRI Myocardial Studies
Xin Li 1
1,Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
BODY
1st Place
Program No. 1312
Time Dependence of 3He Diffusion in the Human Lung: Measurement in the Long-Time Regime
Using Stimulated Echoes
Chengbo Wang1,, Grady W. Miller1,, Talissa A. Altes, 1,2, Eduard E. de Lange1,, John P. Mugler,1,
1,University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; 2Children's Hospital of Philadephia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2nd Place
Program No. 3311
Quantitation of Hepatic Steatosis in Oncologic Patients Using a Fast Dual-Echo Dixon Technique
Madelyn P. Vuong1,, Haesun Choi1,, Asif Rashid1,, Lyle D. Broemeling1,, Jean N. Vauthey1,, Jingfei Ma1,
1,MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
3rd Place
Program No. 2981
TSE with Average Specific Phase Encoding Ordering for Motion Artifact Suppression
Ling Zhang1,2, Eugene G. Kholmovski2, Junyu Guo1, 2, Dennis L. Parker2
1,University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 2Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Honorable Mention
Program No. 3323
Prostate Cancer Screening: The Clinical Value of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging and Dynamic MR Imaging
Akihiro Tanimoto1,, Jun Nakashima1,, Hiroshi Shinmoto1,, Shigeo Okuda1,, Sachio Kuribayashi1,
1,Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
CANCER
1st Place
Program No. 1743
Tumor-Antigen Targeted Imaging of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Zdravka Medarova1,, Wellington Pham1,, Young Kim1,, Guangping Dai1,, Anna Moore1,
1,Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
2nd Place
Program No. 2914
Nonlinear Correction of Arterial Input Function Measured with Spoiled Gradient Echo Sequences
Matthias C. Schabel1,
1,University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
3rd Place
Program No. 1260
In Vivo 19F MRS and 19F 2D-CSI Investigation of a Fluorine Labeled 2-Nitroimidazole (TF-MISO).
A Potential Functional Reporter of Hypoxia in Solid Tumors
Daniel Procissi1,2, Filip Claus1,, Jacek Koziorowski1,, Paul Burgman1,, Cornelia Matei1,, Sunitha Thakur1,, Clifton Ling1,, Jason A. Koutcher1,
1,Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; 2California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Honorable Mention
Program No. 2923
MR Perfusion and 1H Spectroscopic Imaging in the Longitudinal Evaluation of Brain Tumor
Angiogenesis
Narasimha Shastry Akella1,, Steven D. Buchthal1,, Louis Burt Nabors1,, Jan A. den Hollander1,
1,University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
INTERVENTIONAL
1st Place
Program No. 1439
Three-Dimensional MR Tracking of Convective Therapy Distribution in Prostate
Anil Shetty1,, Roger J. Stafford1,, Andrew M. Elliott1,, Wes Kassouf1,, Gordon A. Brown1,, Louis L. Pisters1,,
L Clifton Stephens
1, Peggy T. Tinkey1, Luc Bidaut1, John D. Hazle
1,The University of Texas M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
2nd Place
Program No. 1435
Contrast Enhanced MRI Guided Photodynamic Therapy for Non-Invasive Treatment of Cancer
Anagha Vaidya1,, Tianye Ke2, YongEn Sun2, Eun-Kee Jeong2, ZhengRong Lu2
1,Unviersity of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; 2University of Utah, Salt lake city, Utah, USA
3rd Place
Program No. 3353
Real-Time Projection Based Technique for Tracking Ferromagnetic Devices
Eric Aboussouan1,, Ouajdi Felfoul1,, Jean-Baptiste Mathieu1,, Gilles Beaudoin2, Sylvain Martel1,
1,École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM), Montréal, Québec, Canada; 2Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montréal (CHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada
3rd Place
Program No. 3356
Phased-Array Coil for Image-Guided Treatment of Occlusive Arterial Disease
Kevan James Thompson Anderson1,, John J. Graham2, General Leung1,, Nigel R. Munce1,, Alexander J. Dick2,
Graham A. Wright
1,, 2
1,University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Honorable Mention
Program No. 1419
Ultrafast 1D Approach for Phase or Frequency Mapping for MRI-Based Temperature Measurement
Nathan McDannold1,, Nankuei Chen1,, Koichi Oshio1,, Kullervo Hynynen1,, Robert V. Mulkern2
1,Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
DATA PROCESSING
1st Place
Program No. 2482
MRI Detection of Glycogen (GlycoCEST)
Craig K. Jones1,, 2, Jimin Ren3, Craig Malloy3, A Dean Sherry3, Peter C. M. van Zijl1, 2
1,Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;
3University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
2nd Place
Program No. 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,
1,University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; 2University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3rd Place
Program No. 3033
Fast, Accurate and Precise B1 Mapping In Vivo Using the 180 Null Signal
Nicholas G. Dowell1,, Paul S. Tofts1,
1,University College London, London, UK
Honorable Mention
Program No. 2939
Colored Noise and Effective Resolution: Data Considerations for Non-Uniform K-Space
Sampling Reconstructions
Rexford Newbould1,, Chunlei Liu1,, Roland Bammer1,
1,Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
OTHER TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS
1st Place
Program No. 1281
Potentiation of Cyclophosphamide Chemotherapy Using the Antiangiogenic Drug Thalidomide:
Importance of Optimal Scheduling to Exploit the Normalization Window of the Tumor Vasculature
Jerome Segers1,, Vincent Difazio2, Reginald Ansiaux1,, Philippe Martinive1,, Olivier Feron1,, Pierre Wallemacq2,
Bernard Gallez
1,
1,UCL, Woluwe, Bruxelles, Belgium; 2Saint-Luc Hospital, Woluwe, Bruxelles, Belgium
2nd Place
Program No. 2002
A Modified Golgi Impregnation Method for InVitro MR Microscopy
Xiaowei Zhang1,, Russell E. Jacobs1,
1,California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
3rd Place
Program No. 1282
New Formulation of EPR Oxygen Sensors Dispersed in Thermo-Reversible Hydrogels
Mustapha Dinguizli1,, Nelson Beghein1,, Bernard Gallez1,
1,Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, B, Belgium
Honorable Mention
Program No. 1632
Isoflurane Strongly Affects the Diffusion of Intracellular Metabolites in the Brain, Revealing the
Contribution of Subcellular Restriction to Metabolite ADC
Julien Valette1,, Martine Guillermier2, Philippe Hantraye, 1,2, Gilles Bloch1,, Vincent Lebon1,
1,CEA-SHFJ, Orsay, France; 2URA CEA-CNRS 2210, Orsay, France