MS Clinical Studies

Hall 7 10:30 - 12:30 Chairs: Ernst Radue and Frederik Barkhof

Time	Prog #
10:30	*266.*	*High-Resolution In-Vivo* Imaging of Multiple Sclerosis at 7T** Meredith Metcalf¹, Daniel Pelletier¹, Duan Xu¹, Lucas Carvajal¹, Darin T. Okuda¹, Radhika Srinivasan¹, Doug Kelley², Sarah J. Nelson¹, Daniel B. Vigneron¹ ¹University of California, San Francisco, California, USA; ²GE Healthcare, San Francisco, California, USA
10:42	*267.*	Myelin Water Imaging of Multiple Sclerosis at 7T: Correlations with Histopathology Cornelia Laule¹, Piotr Kozlowski¹, Esther Leung¹, David K.B. Li¹, Alex L. MacKay¹, GR Wayne Moore¹ ¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
10:54	*268.*	High Resolution 3D MRI of Cortical Lesions in Multiple Sclerosis Aziz Hatim Poonawalla¹, Sushmita Datta¹, Flavia Nelson¹, Jerry Wolinsky¹, Ponnada A. Narayana¹ ¹The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
11:06	*269.*	*Axial and Radial Diffusivity as MR Biomarkers of Axonal and Myelin Injury in Ex-Vivo* Cervical Spinal Cord from Multiple Sclerosis Patients** Tammie L.S. Benzinger¹, S. Liang¹, Matthew Budde¹, H. Sun¹, D. Anne Cross¹, Robert Schmidt¹, Sheng-Kwei Song¹ ¹Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
11:18	*270.*	*q-Space Diffusion Weighted MRI of the Human Spinal Cord In Vivo: Application to Multiple Sclerosis* Jonathan Andrew David Farrell¹,², Seth A. Smith¹,², Eliza Gordon-Lipkin¹, Daniel S. Reich¹, Peter A. Calabresi¹, Peter C. van Zijl¹,² ¹Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
11:30	*271.*	THE "Mirror-Neuron" and Cortical Adaptation in MS: A 3 Tesla fMRI Study Maria Assunta Rocca¹, Paola Tortorella¹, Antonia Ceccarelli¹, Andrea Falini¹, Giuseppe Scotti¹, Giancarlo Comi¹, Massimo Filippi¹ ¹Scientific Institute and University Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
11:42	*272.*	Using Relaxation, Magnetization Transfer and Diffusion to Characterise Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Pathology Irene Margaret Vavasour¹, Cornelia Laule¹, Shannon Kolind¹, David KB Li¹, Anthony L. Traboulsee¹, Alex L. MacKay¹ ¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
11:54	*273.*	Inter-Centre Agreement of Brain Atrophy Measurement in Multiple Sclerosis Patients Using Manually Edited SIENAX and SIENA Bas Jasperse¹, Paola Valsasina², Veronica Neacsu¹, Dirk L. Knol³, Nicola De Stefano⁴, Christian Enzinger⁵, Stephen M. Smith⁶, Stefan Ropele⁵, Tijmen Korteweg¹, Antonio Giorgio⁴, Valeria Anderson⁷, Chris H. Polman³, Massimo Filippi², David H. Miller⁷, Marco Rovaris², Frederik Barkhof¹, Hugo Vrenken¹ ¹VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ²Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; ³VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ⁴University of Siena, Siena, Italy; ⁵Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria; ⁶University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; ⁷University College London, London, UK
12:06	*274.*	Brain Atrophy Analysis of Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Patients Treated with Pioglitazone Dinesh K. Shukla¹, Claudia Kaiser¹, Glenn T. Stebbins², Douglas Jeffery³, Douglas L. Feinstein¹ ¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ³Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Wiston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
12:18	*275*.	Diminished Venous Vasculature on Susceptibility Weighted Imaging Venography in Multiple Sclerosis Yulin Ge¹, Etin Osa O. Osa¹, Meng Law¹, Jian Xu¹, Jens H. Jensen¹, E Mark Haacke², Robert I. Grossman¹ ¹New York University School of Medicine, New York City, New York, USA; ²MRI Institute for Biomedical Research, Detroit, Michigan, USA