TRADITIONAL POSTERS

Measurement of Perfusion Using Arterial Spin Labeling

                  1407.    Quantitative Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL) at Ultra-High Field

Alexander Graeme Gardener¹, Penny Ann Gowland¹, Susan Tracy Francis¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

                  1408.    Improved Inversion Efficiency in Arterial Spin Labeling Using Adiabatic Null Pulses

Esben Thade Petersen¹, ², Xavier Golay¹, ³

¹National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore; ²Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; ³Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Singapore, Singapore

                  1409.    A New ASL Scheme of Repeated Labeling Based on FAIR Sequence

Yasuhiro Fujiwara¹, ², Hirohiko Kimura³, Hiroyuki Kabasawa⁴, Yoshiyuki Ishimori⁵, Isao Yamaguchi¹, Tosiaki Miyati², Kyouji Higashimura¹, Harumi Itoh³

¹Fukui University Hospital, Fukui, Japan; ²Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan; ³University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan; ⁴GE Yokokawa Medical Systems, Tokyo, Japan; ⁵Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan

                  1410.    Dynamic Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion Imaging at 4T Using Parallel Imaging: Effects on

                              Parametric Mapping

Jim Ji¹, Xiaoping Zhu², ³, Kaloh Li², Norbert Schuff², ³, Matthias Guenther⁴, David Feinberg⁴, Michael Weiner², ³

¹Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA; ²University of California at  San Francisco; ³VA Medical Center, San Francisco; ⁴Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, California

                  1411.    Full Brain Coverage Perfusion Measurements at 3T  Using Pulsed Arterial Spin Labelling (PASL)

                              and Parallel Imaging

Steffen Volz¹, Marlies Wagner, ², Christine Preibisch, Heinrich Lanfermann

¹J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany; ²Henriettenstiftung,

                  1412.    PROPELLER EPI:  Application to ASL Perfusion Imaging Using FAIR

Fu-Nien Wang¹, Teng-Yi Huang², Tzu-Chao Chuang³, Chen-Yu Chen⁴, Hsiao-Wen Chung³, Kenneth K. Kwong⁵

¹National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; ³National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁴Tri-service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁵Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1413.    A Transient Model of Off-Resonance Saturation for Single-Coil CASL

Weiying Dai¹, Oscar L. Lopez¹, H. Michael Gach, ¹²

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Nevada Cancer Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

                  1414.    Model-Free Arterial Spin Labelling CBF Quantification Using Regional Arterial Input Functions

                              Identified by Factor Analysis

Linda Knutsson¹, Karin Markenroth Bloch², Anders Nilsson¹, Adnan Bibic³, Stig Holtås¹, Ronnie Wirestam³, Freddy Ståhlberg, ³

¹MR Division, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; ²Philips Medical Systems, Lund, Sweden; ³Lund University, Lund, Sweden

                  1415.    Three-Compartment Modeling of the Arterial-Spin-Labeling Data at Different Post-Labeling

                              Delays with and Without Flow-Attenuating Gradient

Tsukasa Nagaoka¹, Xiaodong Zhang¹, Robbie Champion¹, Yoji Tanaka¹, Govind Nair¹, Edward J J. Auerbach², Timothy Q. Duong¹

¹Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  1416.    On the Feasibility of White Matter Arterial Spin Labeling Measurements

Peter van Gelderen¹, Jacco Adrianus de Zwart¹, Jeff Hendricus Duyn¹

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

                  1417.    Measurement of Deep Gray Matter Perfusion Using a Segmented True FISP ASL Method at 3T

Elan Grossman¹, Ke Zhang¹, Jing An², Abram Voorhees³, Maria Matilde Inglese¹, Yulin Ge¹, Jian Xu³, Qun Chen¹

¹NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Beijing, China; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1418.    Reproducibility and Convergence of CASL Perfusion MRI at 3.0 Tesla

Aart J. Nederveen¹, Xandra W. van den Tweel¹, Marianne M.A. van Walderveen¹, Karin Fijnvandraat¹, Cristina Lavini¹, Charles B.L.M. Majoie¹

¹Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

                  1419.    Reproducibility of Pseudo-Continuous ASL at 1.5T and 3T

Ruth L. O'Gorman¹, ², Hannah Joan Coward¹, ², Fernando O. Zelaya², David C. Alsop³, Steven C.R. Williams²

¹King's College Hospital, London, UK; ²Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK; ³Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1420.    Arterial Spin Labeling Perfusion Imaging of the Thyroid Gland

Christina Schraml¹, Andreas Boss¹, Petros Martirosian¹, Nina F. Schwenzer¹, Claus D. Claussen¹, Fritz Schick¹

¹University Hospital of Tübingen, Tübingen, BW, Germany

                  1421.    Fast Whole-Brain Perfusion fMRI Using 3D GRASE Slab-Selective IR with Background Suppression

André Bongers¹, Matthias Guenther¹

¹mediri GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany

                  1422.    Complex Analysis of ASL fMRI Data Yields More Focal Activation

Daniel B. Rowe¹, Luis Hernandez-Garcia², Gregory R. Lee²

¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; ²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  1423.    Quantification of Rodent Cerebral Blood Flow (CBF) in Normal and High Flow States Using

                              Pulsed Arterial Spin Labeling Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Susanne Wegener¹, ², Wen-Chau Wu¹, ³, Joanna Elizabeth Perthen¹, Eric Che Wong¹

¹University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA; ²Berlin Neuroimaging Center, Berlin, Germany; ³University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1424.    Quantification of Cerebral Blood Flow and Vascular Territories in Normotensive and Hypertensive Rats

Fernando Fernandes Paiva¹, ², Erica C. Henning¹, Alberto Tannus², Afonso C. Silva¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil

                  1425.    Comparison of Four Quantitative Pulsed ASL Methods for Mouse Brain Perfusion MRI

Frank Kober¹, Guillaume Duhamel¹, Patrick J. Cozzone¹

¹UMR CNRS n 6612, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

                  1426.    Multiresolution Strategy to Estimate Arterial Transit Time and Cerebral Blood Flow Maps in

                              Rhesus Monkeys

Xiaodong Zhang¹, Tsukasa Nagaoka¹, Robbie Champion¹, Timothy Q. Duong¹

¹Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  1427.    Regional Differences in Cerebral Perfusion Parameters in Non-Human Primates: Comparison

                              Between DSC and ASL Perfusion Imaging

Yoji Tanaka¹, Tsukasa Nagaoka¹, Xiadong Zhang¹, Robbie Champion¹, Timothy Q. Duong¹

¹Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI

                  1428.    Multi-Resolution Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI for Improved Kinetic Modeling

William S. Kerwin¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  1429.    Does the Presence of an Intravascular Contrast Agent Affect the Analysis of DCE-MRI Data?

Marine Beaumont¹, ², Régine Farion¹, ², Christoph Segebarth¹, ², Chantal Remy¹, ², Emmanuel L. Barbier¹, ²

¹U594, Grenoble, France; ²Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

                  1430.    An Efficient Interpretation of DCE-MRI Data for Cancer Treatment Assessment

Poe-Jou Chen¹, ², Wei-Ting Zhang², ³, Emmanuelle di Tomaso³, Dan Duda³, Rakesh K. Jain³, Tracy T. Batchelor³, A. Gregory Sorensen², ³

¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1431.    A Combined Diffusion-Perfusion Model for the Analysis of DCE-MRI Data

Martin Pellerin¹, Thomas Eddison Yankeelov², Martin Lepage¹

¹Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada; ²Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  1432.    Comparison of Pharmacokinetic Models in Quantitative Analysis of T1-Weighted Dynamic

                              Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Qing Yuan¹, R. Allen White¹, Edward F. Jackson¹

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

                  1433.    Model Comparison and Reproducibility Test of DCE-MRI in Glioblastoma Patients

Poe-Jou Chen¹, ², Wei-Ting Zhang², ³, Emmanuelle di Tomaso³, Dan Gabriel Duda³, Rakesh K. Jain³, Tracy T. Batchelor³, A. Gregory Sorensen², ³

¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1434.    3T MRI Detection of Contrast Reagent Extravasation in the Normal Primate Brain

Xin Li¹, Steven G. Kohama¹, Theodore R. Hobbs¹, William D. Rooney¹, Michael Jerosch-Herold¹, Charles S. Springer, Jr. ¹

¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA

                  1435.    Assessment of Physiological Parameters Estimated by DCE MRI with Delayed or Dispersed Arterial

                              Input Function

Yeng-Peng Liao¹, Ing-Tsung Hsiao¹, Ho-Ling Liu¹

¹Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

                  1436.    The Impact of Different Arterial Input Function Models on Vascular Parameter Estimates Using DCE-MRI.

Matthew Orton¹, David Collins¹, Simon Walker-Samuel¹, James d'Arcy¹, David Hawkes², Martin Leach¹

¹Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK; ²University College London, London, UK

                  1437.    In Vivo Assessment of Renal Blood Flow and Volume in Rat Kidney by Using a Macromolecular

                             MRI Contrast Agent

Didier Laurent¹, Farid Sari-Sarraf, Rainer Kneuer, Sarah MacLaurin, Thomas Krucker, Silvia Pomposiello

¹Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

                  1438.    Dynamic Contrast Reagent Induced Differences in Transverse Relaxation and Susceptibility

                              Shift Observed by Echo Planar Spectroscopic Imaging

Gary Martinez¹, Maria Luisa Garcia-Martin², Xiaomeng Zhang¹, Robert J. Gillies¹

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; ²Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols", Madrid, Spain

                  1439.    High Resolution pHe Imaging of Tumors

Xiaomeng Zhang¹, Gary V. Martinez¹, Maria L. Garcia-Martin², Natarajan Raghunand¹, Dezheng Zhao¹, Robert J. Gillies¹

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; ²Institute of Biomedical Research “Alberto Sols”, Madrid, Spain

 

Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI

                  1440.    Can Regional Cerebral Blood Volume Be Extracted from T2-Decay Curves?

Thomas Ernst¹, Linda Chang¹

¹University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

                  1441.    Equivalence of Fourier and oSVD Deconvolution in Dynamic Perfusion Measurements:

                              Mutual Filter Transform

Peter Gall¹, Birgitte F. Kjølby², Valerij G. Kiselev¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ²Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

                  1442.    Realistic Model of Partial Volume Effect on the AIF in Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Perfusion MRI

Birgitte Fuglsang Kjølby¹, Leif Østergaard¹, Valerij G. Kiselev²

¹Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; ²University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  1443.    Arterial Input Function Measurements in the MCA: A Numerical Model Compared with

                              Phantom Experiment Results

Egbert Jan Bleeker¹, M. A. van Buchem¹, M. J.P. van Osch¹

¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

                  1444.    Dynamic Perfusion Evaluation Based on a Tissue Model

Peter Gall¹, Kim Mouridsen², Valerij G. Kiselev¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ²Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

                  1445.    Modelling the Bolus Dispersion from DSC-MRI Data

Lisa Willats¹, ², Alan Connelly², ³, Fernando Calamante², ³

¹UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK; ²Brain Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; ³University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

                  1446.    Cerebral Blood Flow Estimation Using Local Tissue Reference Functions

Jayme Cameron Kosior¹, ², Michael R. Smith¹, Richard Frayne¹, ²

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ²Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada

                  1447.    A Novel Approach to Remove the Effect of Recirculation in Arterial Input Functions

Michael Smith¹, Marina Salluzzi¹, ², Richard Frayne, ¹³

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ²Seaman Family MR Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ³Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  1448.    Robust DSC-MR Perfusion Using a Patient Motion Correction Scheme

Robert Karl Kosior¹, ², Jayme Cameron Kosior¹, ², Richard Frayne¹, ²

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

                  1449.    The Potential Sensitivity of Cerebral Blood Flow to Cross-Calibration

Jayme Cameron Kosior¹, ², Robert Karl Kosior¹, ², Richard Frayne¹, ²

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; ²Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada

                  1450.    A Self Calibrating Pulse Sequence for Real Time Quantitative Cerebral Perfusion

Wanyong Shin¹, Timothy J. Carroll¹

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1451.    Simultaneous T2 and T2* Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Perfusion Imaging Using a Multi-Echo

                              Parallel Imaging Approach

Rexford D. Newbould¹, Stefan Skare¹, Greg Albers¹, Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1452.    Quantitative CBF Measurement by T1 Weighted MRI Is Possible at 3 Tesla

Henrik Bo Wiberg Larsson¹, ², Adam Espe Hansen¹, Hilde K. Berg³, Jette Frederiksen¹, Olav Haraldseth², ⁴

¹Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark; ²Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; ³Sør-Trøndelag University College, Norway; ⁴St.Olav Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

                  1453.    A Demonstration of T2 Leakage Effects on DSC CBV Measurements

Douglas Edward Prah¹, Eric Scott Paulson¹, Kathleen Marie Schmainda¹

¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

                  1454.    Towards Quantitative Dynamic Vessel Size Imaging in Humans

Peter Gall¹, Oliver Speck¹, ², Irina Mader¹, Juergen Hennig¹, Valerij G. Kiselev¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ²Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

                  1455.    A Perfusion Phantom for Diffusible and Non-Diffusible MR Tracers

Behzad Ebrahimi¹, ², Scott David Swanson¹, Timothy E. Chupp¹, ²

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ²Focus Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  1456.    Assessment of Cerebral Hemodynamic in Patients with Schizophrenia by DSC-MRI Quantitative Imaging

Denis Peruzzo¹, Marcella Bellani², Francesca Zanderigo¹, Nicola Dusi², Gianluca Rambaldelli², Cinzia Perlini², Michele Tansella², Alessandra Bertoldo¹, Claudio Cobelli¹, Paolo Brambilla³

¹University of Padova, Padova, Italy; ²University of Verona, Verona, Italy; ³University of Udine, Udine, Italy

                  1457.    Cerebral Perfusion in Alzheimer's Disease Using Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI

Rachel DiAnne McKinsey¹, Zhifei Wen¹, Sterling C. Johnson², Alan B. McMillan¹, Mary E. Meyerand¹, Shelly Fitzgerald, Cynthia M. Carlsson, Gemma Gliori², Sean B. Fain¹

¹University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²Veterans Administration Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1458.    Cluster Analysis from Multiple MR Image Classes Can Reduce User Bias and Improve Glioma Grading

Kyrre Eeg Emblem¹, Baard Nedregaard¹, Terje Nome¹, Paulina Due-Tonnessen¹, David Scheie¹, Olivera Casar Borota¹, John K. Hald¹, Atle Bjornerud¹

¹Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet Medical Center, Oslo, Norway

                  1459.    Tissue Specificity of DCE-MRI Pharmacokinetic and Semi-Quantitative Parameters in Human

                              Liver Metastasis

Xiangyu Yang¹, Jiachao Liang¹, Johannnes Heverhagen², Guang Jia¹, Steffen Sammet¹, Regina Koch¹, Michael V. Knopp¹

¹The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; ²Philipps University, Marburg, Germany

                  1460.    Gadolinium Based Steady-State Technique for Longitudinal Fractional Cerebral Blood Volume Mapping

Kelvin K. Wong¹, ², Robert Mulkern, ²³, Kemi Cui¹, Stephen Wong¹, ²

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Regional Analysis of the Normal Human Brain by Diffusion Imaging

                  1461.    Diffusion Patterns of the Putamen and Globus Pallidus, Evaluated with DTI

Qidong Wang¹, Xiaojun Xu¹, Minming Zhang¹, Fei Sun²

¹First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China; ²GE Healthcare China,

                  1462.    Normal Regional Fractional Anisotropy and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient of the Brain on 3T

Christabel EC Lee¹, David M. Thomasson¹, Fernanda Tovar-Moll¹, Eva H. Baker¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1463.    Subdivisions of Mid-Sagittal Corpus Callosum by Cortico-Cortical Connectivity with QBI Tractography

Yi-Ping Chao¹, Su-Ping Tsao², Kun-Hsien Chou², Kuan-Hung Cho¹, Chun-Hung Yeh², Jyh-Horng Chen¹, Ching-Po Lin²

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1464.    Do Differences in the Left-Right Fractional Anisotropy in the Language Tracts of Right Handed

                              Individuals Correlate with Laterality of Functional Activation?

Mayuresh S. Korgaonkar¹, John J. Chen¹, Susan Fiore¹, Candice J. Perkins¹, Nancy K. Squires¹, Zengmin Yan¹, Mark E. Wagshul¹

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

                  1465.    Tissue-Specific, Smoothing-Compensated Voxel-Based Analysis of DTI Data

Jee Eun Lee¹, Mariana Lazar¹, Andrew L. Alexander¹, Erin D. Bigler², Moo K. Chung¹, David Hsu¹, Janet E. Lainhart²

¹University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Crossing Fibers

                  1466.    7T Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Q-Ball Imaging of the Human Brain In Vivo

Duan Xu¹, Eric T. Han², Christopher P. Hess¹, Douglas AC Kelley³, Daniel B. Vigneron¹, ⁴, Meredith Metcalf¹, ⁴, Pratik Mukherjee¹

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

                  1467.    Evaluation of Minimal Angular Discrimination for Q-Ball Imaging: A Phantom Study

Kuan-Hung Cho¹, Chun-Hung Yeh², Hsuan-Cheng Lin², Jyh-Horng Chen¹, Ching-Po Lin²

¹Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1468.    Mapping Relative Fiber Density with Composite Q-Ball and Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Chun-Hung Yeh¹, Kuan-Hung Cho², Hsuan-Cheng Lin¹, Ching-Po Lin¹, ³

¹Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Interdisciplinary MRI/MRS Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ³Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1469.    Bayesian Analysis of Uncertainty in Q-Ball Imaging

Hubert Fonteijn¹, ², Frans Verstraten¹, David Norris³

¹Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands; ²F.C. Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, Netherlands; ³F.C. Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, Netherlands

                  1470.    Comparison of Diffusion Tensor and Q-Ball Imaging of the Canine Myocardium

YUNDI SHI¹, YI JIANG², EDWARD W. HSU¹

¹University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; ²Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  1471.    Model-Based Bootstrap Resampling Methods for HARDI:  Quantitation of ODF Uncertainty Without

                              Multiple Acquisitions

Jeffrey I. Berman¹, SungWon Chung¹, Christopher P. Hess¹, Pratik Mukherjee¹, Ying Lu¹, Roland G. Henry¹

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

                  1472.    Deriving Scalar Maps from Diffusion Spectrum MRI

Patric Hagmann¹, ², Gigandet Xavier², Leila Cammoun², Van J. Wedeen³, Philippe Maeder¹, Jean-Philippe Thiran², Reto Meuli¹

¹Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland; ²Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, VD, Switzerland; ³Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, Switzerland

                  1473.    An Adaptive Regularization of Richardson Lucy Spherical Deconvolution to Reduce Isotropic Effects

Flavio Dell'Acqua¹, Paola Scifo¹, Giovanna Rizzo, ¹², Giuseppe Scotti¹, Ferruccio Fazio¹, ²

¹San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy; ²University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

                  1474.    User-Independent Optimization of Spherical Deconvolution

Ken Earl Sakaie¹

¹The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  1475.    Parametric Spherical Deconvolution: Inferring Multiple Fiber Bundles Using Diffusion MR Imaging

Enrico Kaden¹, Thomas R. Knösche¹, Alfred Anwander¹

¹Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
 

                  1476.    Resolving White Matter Fiber Crossings with Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging

Jens Hesselberg Jensen¹, Liang Xuan¹, Joseph A. Helpern¹

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

                  1477.    Disambiguation of Complex Subvoxel Fibre Configurations in High Angular Resolution

                              Fibre Tractography

Peter Savadjiev¹, Jennifer Campbell¹, Maxime Descoteaux², Rachid Deriche², G. B. Pike¹, Kaleem Siddiqi¹

¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; ²INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Sophia-Antipolis, France

                  1478.    Estimating Number of Fiber Directions Per Voxel for Multiple Fiber DTI Tractography

Chi-Wah Wong¹, Manbir Singh¹

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

                  1479.    Kissing or Crossing: Validation of DTI Tractography in Ground Truth Hardware Phantoms

Wilhelmus LPM Pullens¹, ², Alard Roebroeck¹, Rainer Goebel¹

¹Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

                  1480.    Exponential Diffusion Tensors for Efficient Higher-Order DT-MRI Computations

Angelos Barmpoutis¹, Baba C. Vemuri¹, Timothy M. Shepherd

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Diffusion Sequences

                  1481.    Rapid Isotropic Diffusion Weighted Imaging Using PROPELLER

Irvin Teh¹, ², Bingwen Zheng², Joseph V. Hajnal¹, Xavier Golay², ³, David J. Larkman¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; ²Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Singapore, Singapore; ³National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore

                  1482.    High Resolution Radial Diffusion-Weighted Imaging at 7T

Rebecca J. Theilmann¹, Miriam Scadeng¹, Lawrence R. Frank¹, ²

¹UCSD, La Jolla, California, USA; ²Veteran Affairs Medical Center San Diego,

                  1483.    3D Diffusion Tensor MRI with Isotropic Resolution Using a Steady-State Radial Acquisition

Youngkyoo Jung¹, Walter F. Block¹, Alexey Samsonov¹, Mariana Lazar¹, Jing Liu¹, Andrew L. Alexander¹

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

                  1484.    High Spatial Resolution Diffusion Imaging with Inner Volume Acquisition at 7T

Hiroyuki Kabasawa¹, ², Akira Nabetani¹, ², Hitoshi Matsuzawa², Tsutomu Nakada²

¹GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Hino-shi, Tokyo, Japan; ²Niigata University, Niigata-shi, Niigata, Japan

                  1485.    Conjugate Gradient Correction and Reconstruction of Multishot Diffusion Weighted Variable Density EPI

Ken-Pin Hwang¹, Anja C. Brau², Philip J. Beatty², Edward F. Jackson³, Qing Yuan³, Gary J. Whitman³, Scott B. Reeder⁴

¹General Electric Healthcare Technologies, Houston, Texas, USA; ²General Electric Healthcare Technologies, Menlo Park, California, USA; ³University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA; ⁴University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

                  1486.    Whole Blade Method for Robust PROPELLER DWI

James G. Pipe¹

¹Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

                  1487.    The Employment and Validation of Keyhole Imaging Technique in MR Spin-Echo Diffusion

                              Tensor Imaging

Shu-Wei Sun¹, Yu-Jen Chen², K-H. Chou², W-C. Chu²

¹Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; ²National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan

                  1488.    Diffusion Weighted Imaging with a Limited Field of View Using Interleaved Multi-Slices

                              Inner-Volume-Imaging DW HASTE

Seong-Eun Kim¹, Eun-Kee Jeong¹, Dennis L. Parker¹

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

                  1489.    Diffusion Weighted Imaging with Reduced Susceptibility Artifact, Using 2D Singleshot DW-STimulated

                              EPI (2D Ss-DWSTEPI)

Eun-Kee (EK) Jeong¹

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

                  1490.    Parallel Diffusion-Weighted Single-Shot STEAM - Less Is More

Matthias Küntzel¹, Jens Frahm¹

¹Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH, Göttingen, Germany

                  1491.    Mixed-CPMG Radial-FSE for Diffusion Imaging at 3T

Joelle E. Sarlls¹, Theodore P. Trouard², Carlo Pierpaoli¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

                  1492.    Diffusion Weighted Imaging Using a Reduced-View Projection Reconstruction Imaging (RV-PRI)

Yeji Han¹, JinYoung Hwang¹, Jun Young Chung¹, ², HyunWook Park¹

¹Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea; ²Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Incheon, Republic of Korea

                  1493.    Adiabatic Refocusing Pulses in 3T and 7T Diffusion Imaging

Stefan Skare¹, Priti Balchandani¹, Rexford D. Newbould¹, Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

                  1494.    Benchmarking SAP-EPI and PROPELLER for Diffusion Imaging

Samantha J. Holdsworth¹, Roland Bammer¹, Rexford D. Newbould¹, Stefan Skare¹

¹Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA

                  1495.    High Resolution Diffusion Tensor Image Using Segmented FOV

Tzu-Cheng Chao¹, Yi-Jui Liu², Teng-Yi Huang³, Fu-Nien Wang⁴, Hsiao-Wen Chung¹, Ming-Ting Wu⁵, ⁶, Cheng-Yu Sandy Chen⁷

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Feng-Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan; ³National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁴National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁵Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; ⁶National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁷Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1496.    Extension of the Magic Gradient Amplitude Ratio Method Used to Minimize Background Gradient

                              Cross-Terms in Diffusion-Weighted MR

Jürgen Finsterbusch¹, ²

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

                  1497.    In-Vivo, Human Diffusion Tensor Imaging at 7T: First Results

Christopher John Wiggins¹, Thomas Benner¹, Graham Charles Wiggins¹, Christina Triantafyllou¹, Lawrence Wald¹

¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1498.    Probing Short Diffusion Time Behavior by Oscillating Gradient Spin Echo Sequences

Junzhong Xu¹, Mark D. Does¹, John C. Gore¹

¹Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  1499.    Probing Intracellular Structure by Diffusion-Weighted Imaging with Oscillating Gradients

Junzhong Xu¹, Mark D. Does¹, John C. Gore¹

¹Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  1500.    SENSE Factor Optimization for Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Human Brain at 7T

Steffen Sammet¹, Regina Koch¹, Okan M. Irfanoglu¹, Petra Schmalbrock¹, Raghu Machiraju¹, Michael V. Knopp¹

¹The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

                  1501.    Steady-State Free Precession Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Human Brain Fixed and In Vivo Tissue

Eric Edward Sigmund¹, Maria Fatima Falangola¹, KelleyAnne McGorty¹

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

                  1502.    Too Many Peanuts Makes You Fat: Sensitivity of Diffusion Weighted Steady State Free

                              Precession to Anisotropic Diffusion in Ex Vivo Brain Tissue

Jennifer Andrea McNab¹, Karla L. Miller¹

¹University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

                  1503.    NMR Molecular Diffusion in the Presence of Distant Dipolar Field Interactions

Wilson Barros¹, John C. Gore¹, Daniel F. Gochberg¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Encoding Schemes and Experimental Design

                  1504.    Comparison of the Tensor Estimation Quality for Icosahedral Gradient Encoding Schemes

Sarah Charlotte Mang¹, Daniel Gembris¹, Reinhard Männer¹

¹University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, Germany

                  1505.    Optimized DTI for Fibre Bundles of Known Predominant Orientation

Sandra Huff¹, Frederik Bernd Laun¹, Bram Stieltjes¹, Jan Klein², Horst Hahn², Lothar Rudi Schad¹

¹German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; ²MeVis Research, Bremen, Germany

                  1506.    Evaluation of the Higher Order Tensor Estimation Quality for Established Gradient Encoding Schemes

Sarah Charlotte Mang¹, Daniel Gembris¹, Reinhard Männer¹

¹University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Delaware, Germany

                  1507.    Determining Optimum B Maximum Values for Diffusion Spectrum Imaging and Q-Ball Imaging in

                              Clinical MRI System

Li-Wei Kuo¹, Van Jay Wedeen², Chandan Mishra³, Timothy G. Reese², Jyh-Horng Chen¹, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng⁴, ⁵

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India; ⁴National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁵National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1508.    Optimum b-Value Vs. SNR for Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Measurements

Emine Ulku Saritas¹, Jin Hyung Lee¹, Dwight George Nishimura¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1509.    Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Admissibility of DTI Gradient Vectors

RKS Rathore¹

¹IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

                  1510.    On the Effects of Random Subject Rotation on Icosahedral Diffusion Sampling Schemes in DT-MRI

Susana Muñoz Maniega¹, Mark E. Bastin¹, Paul A. Armitage¹

¹University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK

                  1511.    Dependence of Eigenvector Coherence on B-Value Range Using the Bootstrap Method

Ai Wern Chung¹, P. G. Batchelor², Chris A. Clark¹

¹UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK; ²UCL, London, UK

                  1512.    Tradeoffs Between Tensor Orientation and Anisotropy in DTI: Impact of Diffusion Weighting Scheme

Bennett Allan Landman¹, Jonathan A. D. Farrell, ¹², Seth A. Smith, ¹², Susumu Mori¹, Jerry L. Prince¹, ³

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

Technical Developments in Diffusion MR Analysis

                  1513.    Wavelet Thresholding of Diffusion Tensor Images

Tin Man Lee¹, Usha Sinha¹

¹University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  1514.    Noise Analysis and Filtering for Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Mustafa Okan Irfanoglu¹, Steffen Sammet¹, Regina Maria Koch¹, Raghu Machiraju¹, Michael V. Knopp¹

¹The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

                  1515.    Tensor Estimation for DTI Using Non-Linear Conjugate Gradient

Murat Aksoy¹, Chunlei Liu¹, Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1516.    Anisotropy Induced by Macroscopic Boundaries: Surface Normal Mapping Using DWI

Evren Ozarslan¹, Uri Nevo¹, Peter J. Basser¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1517.    Roughness: A Reshuffling-Variant Differential Geometric Index for DWI

Evren Ozarslan¹, Lin-Ching Chang¹, Carlo Pierpaoli¹, Peter J. Basser¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1518.    Entropy-Based Characterization of Diffusion Anisotropy

Nader Metwalli¹, ², Stephen LaConte¹, Xiaoping Hu¹

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

                  1519.    Characterisation of Brain Anisotropy Using Diffusion MRI

Marta Morgado Correia¹, Sally Harding¹, Thomas Adrian Carpenter¹, Guy Williams¹

¹Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, Cambridge, UK

                  1520.    Is Pre-Optimization of DTI Data Necessary for Correct Interpretation of Group Differences of

                              Regional Fractional Anisotropy?

Siawoosh Mohammadi¹, Harald Kugel², Michael Deppe¹

¹University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany; ²Department of Radiology,

                  1521.    Diffusion Tensor Shape and Size Encoded Colormaps Reveal Fiber Features in Human Brain

                              Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Dennis Lai-Hong Cheong¹, Choie Cheio Tchoyoson Lim¹, ²

¹National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore; ²Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore, Singapore

                  1522.    Systematic Evaluation of Linear and Nonlinear DTI Estimation Methods: An Open Framework

Bennett Allan Landman¹, Susumu Mori¹, Jerry L. Prince¹, ²

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

                  1523.    A Novel DTI Method for Analyzing the Diffusion of Water in Retina

Angelos Barmpoutis¹, Saurav Chandra¹, John R. Forder¹, Baba C. Vemuri¹

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  1524.    Diffusion Tensor Imaging Detects and Quantifies Changes in Permeability in the Murine Retina

Saurav Chandra¹, Angelos Barmpoutis¹, John R. Forder¹

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  1525.    An Improved Imaged-Based Finite Difference Method for Studying Water Diffusion in Tissues

Junzhong Xu¹, Mark D. Does¹, John C. Gore¹

¹Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  1526.    Investigations of a DTI-Phantom with Properties Similar to In Vivo Neuronal Tissue

Frederik Bernd Laun¹, Bram Stieltjes¹, Sandra Huff¹, Lothar Rudi Schad¹

¹Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

                  1527.    Application of Geometric Indices of Diffusion Tensor Imaging on Ischemic Cerebral

                              Infarction: Comparison of Two Definitions

Cheng-Shian Hsu¹, Ming-Chung Chou², ³, Yi-Jui Liu¹, Chun-Jung Juan, ²³, Te-Cheng Lai¹, Tsai-Tzung Tzuo¹, Hsiao-Wen Chung², ³, Cheng-Yu Chen³

¹Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ³Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1528.    Influence of Anisotropic Conductivity Measured Using DTI on the EEG Forward Solution:

                              A Whole Human Head Sensitivity Analysis

Daniel Güllmar¹, Jens Haueisen, ¹², Jürgen R. Reichenbach¹

¹Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany; ²Technical University Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany

Q Space & Restricted Diffusion, etc.

                  1529.    Compartment-Specific Q-Space Analysis of Isolated Nerves

Itamar Ronen¹, James Hamilton¹, Dae-Shik Kim¹

¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1530.    Experimental Parameters and Diffraction Patterns at High Q Diffusion MR: Experiments and

                              Theoretical Simulations

Amnon Bar-Shir¹, Liat Avram¹, Yaniv Assaf¹, Peter J. Basser², Yoram Cohen¹

¹Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; ²The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1531.    Dynamic Displacement in Human Brain Studied Using Q-Space Diffusion MRI at a 3T Clinical Scanner

Markus Nilsson¹, Jimmy Lätt¹, Hannah Rosquist¹, Emil Nordh¹, Anna Rydhög¹, Sara Brockstedt¹, Freddy Ståhlberg¹

¹Medical Radiation Physics, Lund, Sweden

                  1532.    Does Changes in Gradient Duration Influence Q-Space-Based Determinations of Displacement In Vivo?

Emil Nordh¹, Jimmy Lätt¹, Markus Nilsson¹, Anna Rydhög¹, Sara Brockstedt¹, Freddy Ståhlberg¹

¹Lund University, Lund, Sweden

                  1533.    Effects of Gradient Amplitude and Duration on Q-Space Imaging

Henry H. Ong¹, Alex C. Wright¹, Suzanne L. Wehrli², Andre Souza¹, Eric D. Schwartz¹, Punam K. Saha¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹

¹University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1534.    Using Q-Space Diffusion MRI for Structural Studies of a Biological Phantom at 3T Clinical Scanner

Anna Rydhög¹, Jimmy Lätt¹, Markus Nilsson¹, Emil Nordh¹, Sara Brockstedt¹, Eric Carlemalm¹, Ronnie Wirestam¹, Freddy Ståhlberg¹

¹Lund University, Lund, Sweden

                  1535.    Quantification of Restricted Diffusion Via Kurtosis and Q-Space Imaging

Frank Peeters¹, Dennis Rommel¹, Thierry Duprez¹

¹St-Luc University Hospital, UCL, Brussels, Belgium

                  1536.    Non Parametric Approach for Axon Diameter Distribution Estimation from Diffusion Measurements

Yaniv Assaf¹, Peter J. Basser²

¹Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1537.    Direction-Sensitive Perfusion with Q-Space MRI: Phantom Validation and Calf-Muscle Probing

Dimitrios C. Karampinos¹, Kevin F. King², John G. Georgiadis¹

¹University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  1538.    Unified Mathematical Model of Q-Space and Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Robert W. Cox, PhD¹

¹NIMH/NIH/DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1539.    Simulation and Experimental Verification of the Diffusion in the Interstitial Space

Els Fieremans¹, Steven Delputte¹, Yves De Deene², Yves D'Asseler¹, Eric Achten², Ignace Lemahieu¹

¹Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; ²Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

                  1540.    A Simulation Framework for Diffusion Weighted MRI in Digitalized Neurons: Extracting Cytoarchitectural

                             Parameters Using a New Theoretical Model for Diffusion

Niels Buhl¹, Sune Nørhøj Jespersen¹

¹University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

                  1541.    Limits on Measuring Axon Diameters In Vivo Using Diffusion MRI

Daniel C. Alexander¹, Derek K. Jones²

¹UCL (University College London), London, UK; ²University of Cardiff, Cardiff, UK

                  1542.    Modelling Diffusion Data Using a Stretched-Exponential Model : Pitfalls in Estimation Methodology

Matthew Orton¹, David Collins¹, Sophie Riches¹, Martin Leach¹

¹Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK

                  1543.    Is the Diffusion Biexponential in Brain Grey Matter?

Valerij G. Kiselev¹, Kamil A. Il'yasov¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  1544.    Contrast Similarity Between FA and T2* Studied in White Matter of the Human Brain at 3.0 and

                                7.0 T

Tie-Qiang Li¹, S L. Talagala², Alan P. Koretsky², J Duyn²

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

                  1545.    Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reviles the Evolution of Neuronal Cell Membrane Damage in Stroke Patients:

                              A Simulation Study

Koji Sakai¹, Kei Yamada², Hiroyuki Oouchi², Tsunehiko Nishimura²

¹Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; ²Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Tractography & Tracts

                  1546.    Multi-Tensor Tractography Enables Better Depiction of Motor Pathways

Kei Yamada¹, Koji Sakai², Frank GC Hoogenraad³, Ronald Holthuizen³, Kentaro Akazawa¹, Hirotoshi Ito, Hiroyuki Oouchi¹, Shigenori Matsushima¹, Takao Kubota¹, Tsunehiko Nishimura¹

¹Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; ²Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; ³Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands

                  1547.    Reduction of Partial Volume Artifacts in DTI Tractography by Post-Processing

Darryl Hwa Hwang¹, Aarti Shetty¹, Amrita Rajagopalan¹, Manbir Singh¹

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

                  1548.    Anatomical Connectivity Mapping

Karl Vincent Embleton¹, David M. Morris¹, Hamied A. Haroon¹, Matt A. Lambon Ralph¹, Geoff J. Parker¹

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

                  1549.    Probabilistic Connectivity Using Kullback-Leibler Distance

Jee Eun Lee¹, Moo K. Chung¹, David Hsu¹, Andrew L. Alexander

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

                  1550.    Multiple Streamline Tractography Approach with High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging Data

Yi-Ping Chao¹, Chun-Hung Yeh², Kuan-Hung Cho¹, Jyh-Horng Chen¹, Ching-Po Lin²

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1551.    Integration of Magnetoencephalography and Q-Ball Tractography in the Visual Function

Chia-Yen Yang¹, Yi-Ping Chao², Ching-Po Lin¹

¹National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1552.    Long Diffusion Time Improves DTI Tractography

Swati D. Rane¹, ², Timothy Q. Duong²

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

                  1553.    Representative Colour Schemes for Visualisation of Diffusion Tensor Tractography Data

Thomas Richard Barrick¹, Ian Nigel Lawes¹, Chris A. Clark²

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

                  1554.    Reduction of False Positive Valued Area by Combining Probability Maps

Björn Wolf Kreher¹, Irina Mader¹, Jürgen Hennig¹, Kamil A. Il'yasov¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  1555.    Resolution-Dependent Differences in Fiber Tracking and Quantification

Jan Klein¹, Peter Erhard², Simon Hermann¹, Olaf Konrad¹, Horst Karl Hahn¹, Dieter Leibfritz², Heinz-Otto Peitgen¹

¹MeVis Research, Bremen, Germany; ²FB 2 (Chemistry) and Center of Advanced Imaging (CAI), Bremen, Germany

                  1556.    Template-Based Automatic DTI Fiber Bundle Labeling

Song Zhang¹, Stephen Correia², David H. Laidlaw³

¹Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, USA; ²Brown Medical School, Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; ³Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

                  1557.    Paint and Track: Surface-Based ROI Selection in DTI Fiber Tracking

Xin Guan¹, Song Lai¹, John Lackey¹, Jianrong Shi¹, Udomchai Techavipoo¹, Klaus Mueller², Ashwini Sharan¹, Adam Flanders¹, David W. Andrews¹

¹Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA

                  1558.    A High Order Accurate and Robust Fiber Tractography with Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Yonggang Lu¹, Jing Qi¹, Dehang Wang¹, Adam Anderson², John Gore², Zhaohua Ding²

¹The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, People’s Republic of China; ²Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  1559.    Algorithm and SNR Dependence of DTI Fiber Tractography

Bin Chen¹, Susumu Mori², Allen W. Song¹

¹Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA; ²The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1560.    How Much Confidence Do We Have in a MRI Tractography Experiment?

Xavier Gigandet¹, Patric Hagmann, ¹², Maciej Kurant¹, Jean-Philippe Thiran¹, Reto Meuli²

¹Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland; ²University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

                  1561.    Investigation of the Impact of Noise on Standard Fibre Tracking Algorithms

Susanne Schnell¹, Björn W. Kreher¹, Jürgen Hennig¹, Kamil A. Il'yasov¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  1562.    Visualizing Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data with Stereoscopic Vision

Jihong Wang¹, Steve Jackson¹

¹University of Texas MD Anderson Caner Center, Houston, Texas, USA

                  1563.    Cranial Nerve Tractography with 3T PROPELLER Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Hiroyuki Kabasawa¹, ², Yoshitaka Masutani¹, Osamu Abe¹, Tomohiko Masumoto¹, Shigeki Aoki¹, Kenji Asano², Hitoshi Ikeda², Naoto Hayashi¹, Kuni Ohtomo¹

¹The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; ²GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Hino-shi, Tokyo, Japan

                  1564.    Advantages of Parallel Imaging for DTI-Based Fiber Tracking at 3T

Bram Stieltjes¹, ², Benjamin Hyman², Jan Rexilius³, Horst K. Hahn³, Marco Essig¹, L G. Naul², Val Runge²

¹DKFZ, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; ²Scott and White Hospital, Temple, Texas, USA; ³MeVis, Bremen, Germany

                  1565.    A Spatial Model of White Matter Fiber Tracts

Mahnaz Maddah¹, William M. Wells, ¹², Carl-fredrik Westin², ³, Eric L. Grimson¹, Simon K. Warfield⁴

¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, USA; ³Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Surgical Planning Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1566.    Assessment of Non-Rigid Registration in Diffusion Tensor Tractography of Human Spinal Cord at 3T

Martin Kavec¹, Isabelle Delpierre¹, Gil Cunha¹, ², Thierry Metens¹, Danielle Balériaux¹

¹Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; ²Hospitais Universidade, Coimbra, Portugal

                  1567.    Improving Diffusion Tensor Fiber Tracking by Acquiring Additional FLAIR EPI Data to Eliminate

                              CSF Contamination

Yen-Wei Cheng¹, Ming-Chung Chou¹, ², Cheng-Yu Cheng², Hsiao-Wen Chung¹, ²

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan; ²Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1568.    Diffusion Tensor Spectroscopy and Imaging of Arcuate Fasciculus

Jaymin Upadhyay¹, ², Kevin Hallock¹, Mathieu Ducros¹, Dae-Shik Kim¹, Itamar Ronen¹

¹Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1569.    Evaluation of Tractography-Based Parcellation with Human Thalamus

Dae Jin Kim¹, Hae-Jeong Park², In Young Kim¹, Sun I. Kim¹

¹Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; ²Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

                  1570.    Estimation of Brain Connectivity Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Resting Temporal Correlations

Pawel Skudlarski¹, Kanchana Jagannathan¹, Vince D. Calhoune², ³, Kristen McKiernan¹, Godfrey D. Pearlson¹, ³

¹Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; ²The MIND Institute and University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; ³Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

                  1571.    Topography of the Corpus Callosum – A Comparative DTI Study of Human and Rhesus Monkey

Sabine Hofer¹, Klaus-Dietmar Merboldt¹, Roland Tammer¹, Jens Frahm¹

¹Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany

                  1572.    Reproducibility of DTI-Based Muscle Fiber Tracking

Anneriet M. Heemskerk¹, Tuhin K. Sinha¹, Zhaohua Ding¹, Charles P. Blyth¹, Bruce M. Damon¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  1573.    Fiber Statistics in the Corpus Callosum

Jeffrey Thomas Duda¹, Hui Zhang¹, Hui Sun¹, Tony J. Simon², James C. Gee¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²M.I.N.D.Institute, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, USA

                  1574.    Reconstruction of the Optic Radiation by Means of Combined DTI and fMRI

Kamil Gorczewski¹, Ralf Saur¹, Lindsay Sharpe², Michael Erb¹, Wolfgang Grodd¹, Herbert Jaegle¹, Uwe Klose¹

¹University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; ²University College London, London, UK

                  1575.    Tract Based Spatial Statistics of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Neuropsychiatric Systemic Lupus

                              Erythematodus Reveals Diffuse Involvement of White Matter Tracts

Bart Emmer¹, Ilya Veer¹, Gerda Steup-Beekman¹, Tom Huizinga¹, Mark van Buchem¹, Jeroen van der Grond¹

¹Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands

Effects of Age and Gender:  Analyses by Diffusion Imaging

                  1576.    Age-Related Diffusivity Changes in Brain White Matter Fiber Bundles

Elisabetta Pagani¹, Federica Agosta¹, Elda Judica¹, Marcella Laganà², Stefania Sala¹, Luca Dall'Occhio¹, Massimo Filippi¹

¹Scientific Institute and University Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; ²Scientific Institute Fondazione Don Gnocchi, Milan, Italy

                  1577.    Effects of Gender and Handedness on Corticospinal Tracts: Tract Specific Analysis of

                              Fractional Anisotrop Based on Diffusion Spectrum Imaging

Su-Chun Huang¹, Fang-Chen Yeh¹, Yu-Chen Tsai², Hsiao-Lan Wang¹, Van Jay Wedeen³, Timothy G. Reese³, Nicolas Trost⁴, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng¹, ⁵

¹National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; ²University of California, Los Angeles, LA, California, USA; ³Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; ⁵National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1578.    Gender Differences in Water Diffusion of the Corpus Callosum: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

Andrea Kassner¹, Fang Liu¹, Januthy Tharmakulasingam¹, Timothy Roberts²

¹University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1579.    Tract-Specific Effects of Sex and Age on Human White Matter Demonstrated with Quantitative

                              MR Diffusion Tractography

Paolo Gian Piero Nucifora¹, Elias R. Melhem¹, James W. Loughead¹, Ruben C. Gur¹, Raquel E. Gur¹, Ragini Verma¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1580.    Alterations in Brain Microstructure in ADHD by Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging

Joseph A. Helpern¹, ², M F. Falangola¹, ², A Di Martino¹, A Ramani¹, J S. Babb¹, C Hu¹, J H. Jensen¹, F X. Castellanos¹

¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ²The Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, New York, USA

                  1581.    Cerebellar White Matter Development Lags Supratentorial White Matter

Sona Saksena¹, Rakesh K. Gupta¹, Gyanendra Kumar Malik², Nuzhat Husain², Richa Trivedi¹, Divya KS Rathore³, Ankur Purwar³, Ram KS Rathore³, Ponnada A. Narayana⁴

¹Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; ²King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; ³Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India; ⁴University of Texas, Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

Uncertainty & Artifacts in Diffusion

                  1582.    Automated Judgment of Image Quality for Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Hangyi Jiang¹, ², Peter C. M. van Zijl, ²³, Susumu Mori¹, ²

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

                  1583.    Quantitative Comparisons of Measurement Uncertainty in Human Brain Data with Different DTI

                              Protocols Using a Wild Bootstrap Method

Tong Zhu¹, Xiaoxu Liu², Patrick Connelly¹, Jianhui Zhong¹

¹University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA; ²Univeristy of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

                  1584.    A Scanner Stability Test for Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Barjor Gimi¹, Jonathan Chia², Padmapriya Srinivasan¹, Nancy K. Rollins¹, ³

¹The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA; ²Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ³Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

                  1585.    Quality Analysis of DTI Images

Mustafa Okan Irfanoglu¹, Steffen Sammet¹, Regina Maria Koch¹, Raghu Machiraju¹, Michael V. Knopp¹

¹The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

                  1586.    Characterizing DTI Image Quality and the Efficacy of Dyadic Sorting with a Capillary Phantom

Nathan E. Yanasak¹, ², Jerry D. Allison¹, Tom C.-C. Hu¹

¹Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, USA; ²University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

                  1587.    Diffusion Tensor Representations and Their Applications to DTI Error Propagation

Cheng Guan Koay¹, Lin-Ching Chang¹, Carlo Pierpaoli¹, Peter Joel Basser¹

¹NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1588.    Contribution of Cardiac-Induced Brain Pulsation to the Noise of the Diffusion Tensor in Turboprop-DTI

Minzhi Gui¹, Ashish A. Tamhane¹, Konstantinos Arfanakis¹

¹Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1589.    Effect of Registration of Diffusion Weighted Images on Fractional Anisotropy

NIRVISH SHAH¹, BHARAT BISWAL¹

¹UMDNJ, NEWARK, New Jersey, USA

                  1590.    Numeric Simulations for Optimization of Wild Bootstrap Technique as a Robust Estimator of

                              DTI Measurement Uncertainty

Tong Zhu¹, Xiaoxu Liu¹, Patrick Connelly¹, Jianhui Zhong²

¹University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA; ²Univeristy of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA

                  1591.    A Framework for Evaluating the Performance of EPI Distortion Correction Strategies in Diffusion

                              Tensor MRI

Minjie Wu¹, ², Lin-Ching Chang², Alan S. Barnett², Stefano Marenco², Carlo Pierpaoli²

¹University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1592.    Correction of Geometric Distortions Due to Static Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities and Eddy

                              Currents in SENSE DTI

Trong-Kha Truong¹, Bin Chen¹, Allen W. Song¹

¹Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  1593.    Uncertainties of DTI Parameter Estimation Depend on the Fitting Algorithm:  Monte Carlo Simulations

                              and in-Vivo Data in Human Brain

Ryan Fobel¹, Nancy Lobaugh², Greg J. Stanisz²

¹University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²Sunnybrook HSC, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  1594.    Influence of the Noise Floor: Paradoxical Effects on DTI

Frederik Bernd Laun¹, Bram Stieltjes¹, Lothar Rudi Schad¹

¹Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

                  1595.    Influence of Linear Steady Background Gradients on the Accuracy of Molecular Diffusion

                              Anisotropy Evaluation Using MRI

Cristina Rossi¹, ², Andreas Boss¹, Petros Martirosian¹, Guenter Steidle¹, Silivia Capuani², ³, Claus D. Claussen¹, Bruno Maraviglia, ³⁴, Fritz Schick¹

¹Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; ²CNR-INFM CRS-SOFT c/o La Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy; ³Enrico Fermi Center, Rome, Italy; ⁴La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

                  1596.    Effect of DTI Bootstrap Bias on the DTI Uncertainty Measurements and Probabilistic Tractography

SungWon Chung¹, ², Jeffrey I. Berman², Caroline Rae³, Roland G. Henry¹, ²

¹University of California San Francisco & Berkeley, San Francisco, California, USA; ²University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; ³Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia

                  1597.    Partial Volume Effects in DTI

Arnold Skimminge¹, ², Karam Sidaros³, Matthew Liptrot³, Annette Sidaros³

¹Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark; ²Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark; ³Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark

                  1598.    Implications of Heterogeneous Variance of Tensor-Derived Quantities for Group Comparisons

John David Carew¹, Grace Wahba, Peter J. Basser²

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

                  1599.    An Optimized Tensor Orientation Strategy for Non-Rigid Alignment of DT-MRI Data

Wim Van Hecke¹, Alexander Leemans¹, Evert Vandervliet², Paul M. Parizel², Jan Sijbers¹

¹VisionLab, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium; ²University Hospital Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium

                  1600.    Noise-Induced Bias in Low-Direction Diffusion Tensor MRI: Replication of Monte-Carlo Simulation with

                              In-Vivo Scans

Casey Brett Goodlett¹, P Thomas Fletcher², Weili Lin³, Guido Gerig³

¹UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; ²University of Utah, Utah, USA; ³UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

                  1601.    Variational Framework for the Separation of Partially Volumed Tensor Compartments in the

                              Human Brain

Ofer Pasternak¹, Nir Sochen², Natahn Intrator¹, Yaniv Assaf², ³

¹Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; ²Tel-Aviv University, Israel; ³Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

                  1602.    The Cone of Uncertainty Is Elliptical: Implications for DTI Tractography

Cheng Guan Koay¹, Lin-Ching Chang¹, Peter Joel Basser¹

¹NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1603.    The Effect of Linear and Micro-Circular Shear Flow on Diffusion MR Measurements

Uri Nevo¹, Michal Komlosh¹, Evren Ozarslan¹, Cheng Guan Koay¹, Peter Joel Basser¹

¹NIH\NICHD, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1604.    Can We Expect Reproducible and Unbiased Information from Denoised Diffusion Tensor Imaging

                              with Low SNR?

Klaus Rudolf Hahn¹, Sergei Prigarin², Khader Hasan³

¹gsf-National Research Center for Environment & Health, Neuherberg, Bavaria, Germany; ²Institute Computational Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; ³University of Texas Medical School, Houston, USA

                  1605.    Influence of Microscopic Background Gradients on the Diffusion Parameters Observed in a Fiber

                              Model System

Tina Hartmann¹, ², Martin A. Koch¹, ², Jürgen Finsterbusch¹, ²

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

                  1606.    Comparison of Linear Combination Filtering to DTI and MTR in Whole Brain Myelin-Water Imaging

Sonya Bells¹, Drew Morris¹, Logi Vidarsson¹, ²

¹The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Diffusion:  Animal Studies

                  1607.    Visualization of Laminar and Columnar Organization in Rat Olfactory Bulb Using Diffusion Tensor MRI

Waqas Majeed¹, Kerry Ressler, Shella Keilholz¹

¹Georgia Institue of Technology / Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  1608.    Postnatal Neural Development of the Brain: In Vivo Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Kurt Hermann Bockhorst¹, Maged Kamel², Pallavi Ahobila¹, Jaivijay Ramu¹, Jarek Wosik², Regino Perez-Polo³, Ponnada A. Narayana¹

¹UTH Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA; ²University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA; ³University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

                  1609.    A Window for High-Resolution Post-Mortem DTI: Mapping Contrast Changes in Neural Degeneration

Bennett Allan Landman¹, Hao Huang¹, Jerry L. Prince¹, ², Sarah H. Ying¹

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

                  1610.    Diffusion Weighted MRI of Closed Head Injury and Treatment with PEG (Polyethylene-Glycol) in Rats

SK K. Hekmatyar¹, P S. Smucker², P N. Hopewell¹, R B. Borgens³, N Bansal¹

¹Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; ²Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; ³Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

                  1611.    Mapping Mossy Fiber Sprouting in Epileptic Rat Hippocampus with Diffusion Spectrum

                              Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Li-Wei Kuo¹, Chun-Yao Lee², Chih-Chuan Chen³, Horng-Huei Liou², ³, Van Jay Wedeen⁴, Jyh-Horng Chen¹, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng², ³

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; ³National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁴Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1612.    Manganese-Enhanced and Diffusion Spectrum MRI of Hippocampal Cytoarchitecture in Epileptic Rats

Jun-Cheng Weng¹, Chun-Yao Lee², Horng-Huei Liou², Jyh-Horng Chen¹, Wen-Yih Isaac Tseng²

¹National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; ²National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

                  1613.    Non-Invasive In Vivo MRI Angiogenesis Assays

Rosalie Lemay¹, Claude Pépin¹, Luc Tremblay¹, Benoit Paquette¹, Martin Lepage¹

¹Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

                  1614.    Quantitative Diffusion Tensor Imaging in a Murine Model of Parkinson’s Disease

Michael D. Boska¹, Khader M. Hasan², Danette Kibuule¹, Jaylene A. Nelson¹, Theresa Hahn¹, Ashley Reynolds¹, Howard E. Gendelman¹, R Lee Mosley¹

¹University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA; ²University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

                  1615.    Early Changes in the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Following Ischemic Stroke in Canines

Ashley D. Harris¹, ², Richard Frayne¹, ²

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

                  1616.    Cortical FA Mapping of Developing Rat Brains

Hao Huang¹, Akira Yamamoto¹, Peter C.M. van Zijl¹, ², Susumu Mori¹, ²

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

                  1617.    The Effect of Myelin on the Q-Space and Conventional DTI Indices in Excised Myelin-Deficient Rat Brains

Amnon Bar-Shir¹, Ian D. Duncan², Yoram Cohen¹

¹Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel; ²University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1618.    Analysis of High B-Value Diffusion Data May Highlight In Vivo Cellular Changes

Rebecca Milman Marsh¹, James A. Bankson¹, Nalini Patel¹, R Jason Stafford¹, Nicholas HA Terry¹, John D. Hazle¹

¹U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

                  1619.    Brain Tissue Decomposition and Its Effects on Diffusion Tensor Images

Helen E. D'Arceuil¹, Alex J. de Crespigny¹

¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1620.    Diffusion Weighted Images in the Cat Visual Cortex at 9.4 T Reveal Extravascular Related ADC

                              Decreases During Activation

Essa Yacoub¹, Kamil Uludag², Kamil Ugurbil¹, ², Noam Harel¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; ²Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

                  1621.    DW-MRI of Perfused and Thermally Controlled Neuronal Organotypic Cultures

Uri Nevo¹, Craig Vermont Stewart², Elakkat Dharmaraj Gireesh², Dietmar Plenz², Peter Joel Basser¹

¹NIH\NICHD, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²NIH\NIMH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Fat-Water Separation

                  1622.    Chemical Shift Correction in Bipolar Multi-Echo Sequences for Water and Fat Separation

Wenmiao Lu¹, Scott B. Reeder², Bruce L. Daniel¹, Brian Andrew Hargreaves¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1623.    Fast Single Breath-Hold 3D Abdominal Imaging with Water-Fat Separation

Peter Koken¹, Holger Eggers¹, Peter Börnert¹

¹Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany

                  1624.    An Algorithm for Lipid-Water Separation in the Presence of T2* Decay

Christian Graff¹, Eric W. Clarkson¹, Zhiqiang Li¹, Maria I. Altbach¹

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

                  1625.    Highly Accelerated IDEAL Vs Fat Sat Acquisition: A Comparison for Volumteric Liver Imaging

Ajit Shankaranarayanan¹, Dan Sodickson², Ananth Madhuranthakam³, Andres Carrillo⁴, Sanjay Joshi⁵, Aaron Grant⁶, Phil Robson⁶, Huanzhou Yu⁷, Ann Shimakawa⁷, Scott Reeder⁸, Jean Brittain⁹, Charlie McKenzie⁶

¹GE Healthcare, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; ³GE Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴GE Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ⁵GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; ⁶Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁷GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ⁸University of Wisconsion, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ⁹GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1626.    Dixon Fat-Water Separation by Dual-TR bSSFP Sequence

Teng-Yi Huang¹

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

                  1627.    Fat-Water Separation in Alternating Repetition Time (ATR) Balanced SSFP

Tolga Cukur¹, Dwight George Nishimura¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1628.    Fat Suppression with Weighted-Combination SSFP

Tolga Cukur¹, Dwight George Nishimura¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1629.    A Linear Prediction Approach to Joint Estimation of Water/Fat Images and Field Inhomogeneity Map

Diego Hernando¹, Justin Haldar¹, Jingfei Ma², Zhi-Pei Liang¹

¹University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA; ²The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

                  1630.    Non-Iterative Decomposition of Fat and Water Using Chemical Shift

Mathews Jacob¹, Bradley P. Sutton²

¹University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA; ²University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA

                  1631.    T2-Weighted Volumetric Acquisition with Water-Fat Separation in a Clinically Feasible Scan Time

Ananth Jayaseelan Madhuranthakam¹, Reed F. Busse², Huanzhou Yu³, Ann Shimakawa³, Philip M. Robson⁴, Anja CS Brau³, Philip J. Beatty³, Scott B. Reeder⁵, Jean H. Brittain², Charles A. McKenzie⁴

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

                  1632.    Fat-Fat Interations in Dixon-Variant Imaging

Mark Bydder¹, Gavin Hamilton¹, Takeshi Yokoo¹, Michael S. Middleton¹, Alyssa D. Chavez¹, Claude Sirlin¹

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

                  1633.    Phase Sensitive Fat Suppression SSFP with Phase Correction

Zhongliang Zu¹, Kun Zhou¹, Haitao Zhu¹, Shigang Zhang², Shanglian Bao¹

¹Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; ²Siemens Mindit MRI Center, Shenzhen, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

                  1634.    Faster Dixon Fat-Water Imaging with Multiplex RF Pulses

Kuan J. Lee¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

                  1635.    Simultaneous Off-Resonance Correction and Fat/Water Separation for Non-Cartesian Trajectories Using a

                              Multi-Frequency Least-Squares Approach

Paul Thomas Gurney¹, Brian Andrew Hargreaves¹, Dwight George Nishimura¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1636.    Imaging Water, Fat, and Silicone with Regional Iterative Phasor Extraction (RIPE)

Qing-San Xiang¹

¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

                  1637.    Histogram Based Water and Fat Identification in a Symmetrically Sampled Dual Echo Dixon Technique

Jingfei Ma¹, Zachary William Slavens², Anthony T. Vu²

¹University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

                  1638.    Multi-Resolution Non-Iterative Field Map Estimation for Water and Fat Separation

Wenmiao Lu¹, Garry E. Gold¹, Huanzhou Yu², Brian Andrew Hargreaves¹

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

                  1639.    SENSE EPI Water-Fat Imaging

Li An¹, David M. Thomasson¹, Lawrence L. Latour¹, Steven J. Warach¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1640.    T1-Contrast Enhanced Single-Point Dixon with Integrated PSIR Based on Orthogonal Phase

Jong Bum Son¹, Jim Ji¹

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

SSFP

                  1641.    Diffusion Effects in Passband Balanced SSFP fMRI

Markus Klarhöfer¹, Oliver Bieri¹, Klaus Scheffler¹

¹University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

                  1642.    LOW-TIDE: Linear Filter Based Optimal Window Transition to Driven Equilibrium for B-SSFP Sequences

Neville Gai¹, Lawrence Yao¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1643.    Guiding Off-Resonance Interventional MR with Dephased Fast Low-Angle Positive-Contrast

                              Steady-State Free Precession Imaging

Ioannis Koktzoglou¹, Debiao Li¹, Rohan Dharmakumar¹

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1644.    Reducing the TR in SSFP Imaging with Ramp-Sampled FIESTA

Glenn S. Slavin¹

¹GE Healthcare, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  1645.    Cartesian Continuous Sampling with Unequal Gradient Strengths

Candice A. Bookwalter¹, Mark A. Griswold², Jeffrey L. Sunshine², Jeffrey L. Duerk, ¹²

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

                  1646.    Slice Dispersed Linear Combination SSFP - A New Tool for Banding Reduction

Keith Wachowicz¹, B G. Fallone¹

¹Medical Physics, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

                  1647.    Off-Resonance Dependent Slice Profile Effects in Balanced SSFP Imaging

Felix Staehle¹, Jochen Leupold¹, Jürgen Hennig¹, Michael Markl¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  1648.    Magnitude-Weighted Complex-Sum SSFP

Tolga Cukur¹, Neal Kepler Bangerter¹, Dwight George Nishimura¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1649.    Real-Time Balanced Steady State Free Precession Imaging with Through-Plane Flow

Akin Yucetas¹, ², Michael A. Guttman³, John A. Derbyshire³, Elliot R. McVeigh³, Christine H. Lorenz⁴, Robert Lederman³, Cengizhan Ozturk³

¹Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; ²Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey; ³NHLBI, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ⁴Siemens Corporate Research, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1650.    SAR-Reduced TrueFISP Using Variable Flip Angels: Influence on In-Plane Resolution and SNR Properties

Dominik Paul¹, Maxim Zaitsev¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  1651.    On Magnetization Transfer and Balanced SSFP

Oliver Bieri¹, Klaus Scheffler¹

¹University of Basel / University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

RF and K-Space

                  1652.    An Extensible, Graphical Environment for Pulse Sequence Design and Simulation

William Ryan Overall¹, John M. Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1653.    IDEA Simulator Extension: A Sequence Analyzer

Claus Kiefer¹, Gerhard Schroth¹

¹University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

                  1654.    MR Fluoroscopy Employing Interactive Pulse Sequence Switching

Martin John Graves¹, ², Pauline Wong², Richard Thomas Black¹, David John Lomas²

¹Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK; ²University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

                  1655.    A Real-Time System for Interactive Large FOV MR Imaging

Mohammad Sabati¹, ², Christopher Hahn¹, Megan Ann Bates¹, Mark Jason Verano¹, Michael J. Haakstad², Richard Frayne¹, ²

¹University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; ²Calgary Health Region, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

                  1656.    Sliding Phase Encoding in Table Motion Direction for 3D Continuously Moving Table Imaging

Shinji Kurokawa¹, Yo Taniguchi¹, Kaori Narahara¹, Suguru Yokosawa¹, Hisaaki Ochi¹, Yoshitaka Bito¹

¹HItachi Ltd., Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo, Japan

                  1657.    Rapid RF-Mapping Using TurboSTEAM

Gunther Helms¹, Jürgen Finsterbusch², Peter Dechent¹

¹University of Göttingen, Faculty of Medicine, Göttingen, Germany; ²Universitätsklinikum Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

                  1658.    Fast Slice-Selective B1 Mapping

Mika W. Vogel¹, Hans-Peter Fautz, Rolf Schulte, Patrick Gross, Yudong Zhu²

¹GE Global Research - Europe, Garching bei Muenchen, Bayern, Germany; ²GE Global Research - USA,

                  1659.    A New Method for Tailored 2-D Excitation Using Frequency and Gradient Modulation Based on

                              Rapid Passage

Nathaniel James Powell¹, Jang-Yeon Park¹, Michael Garwood¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  1660.    Total Removal of Unwanted Echoes in Harmonic Phase MRI (TRUE-HARP)

Khaled Z. Abd-Elmoniem¹, Jerry L. Prince¹, ²

¹Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1661.    How to Unwind in the Low Field Limit

Zheng Xian¹, Chris Bidinosti¹, Jason L. Hobson¹, Michael E. Hayden¹

¹Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

                  1662.    Pulse Sequence for Comprehensive Evaluation of Renal Artery Stenosis

Hyun Jeong¹, Ty A. Cashen¹, James C. Carr², Timothy John Carroll¹, ²

¹Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  1663.    Radial Single-Shot STEAM MRI

Kai Tobias Block¹, Alexander Karaus¹, Jens Frahm¹

¹Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH, Goettingen, Germany

                  1664.    A New Plane Orientation Scheme for Spiral Projection Imaging

Ryan Keith Robison¹, Eric Aboussouan¹, James G. Pipe¹

¹Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

                  1665.    Elliptical Field of View in PROPELLER MRI

Ajit Devaraj¹, James G. Pipe¹

¹Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

                  1666.    Quadrant Radial K-Space (Quark) – A New Trajectory in Between Radial and Cartesian.

Kuan J. Lee¹, Jim M. Wild¹

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

                  1667.    Cog-Wheel Imaging: A Rapid Echo Shifted Technique

Maxim Zaitsev¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  1668.    Hilbert-Sampling in K-Space

Wolf Blecher¹, Daniel Gembris¹, Reinhard Maenner¹

¹University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

                  1669.    Signal Processing and Image Reconstruction for SWIFT

Curtis Andrew Corum¹, Steen Moeller¹, Djaudat Idiyatullin¹, Michael Garwood¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  1670.    Progress in Rapid and Short Acquisition Delay Imaging with SWIFT

Curtis Andrew Corum¹, Djaudat Idiyatullin¹, Steen Moeller¹, Ken Bricker¹, Jutta M. Ellermann¹, Michael Garwood¹

¹University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  1671.    Echo-Planar Imaging with Multiple Echo Trains in a Single-Shot Using Stimulated Echoes

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

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

                  1672.    Factors Affecting the Effectiveness of a Projection Dephaser in 2D Gradient-Echo Imaging

Nicky H.G.M. Peters¹, Koen L. Vincken¹, Jan-Henry Seppenwoolde¹, Martijn van der Bom¹, Christianus J.G. Bakker¹

¹University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

RF Pulse Design

                  1673.    Predicting the Energy of  Finite Time RF Pulses

Patrick Le Roux¹, Rolf F. Schulte²

¹GE Healthcare, Palaiseau, France; ²GE Global Research, Munich, Germany

                  1674.    Fast Sequence Optimization for Superior Signal Suppression with Multiple Hyperbolic Secant Pulses

Ronald Ouwerkerk¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, SOM, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1675.    Independent Phase Modulation for Dual-Slab 3D Imaging

Brian A. Hargreaves¹, Charles H. Cunningham², John M. Pauly¹, Bruce L. Daniel¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  1676.    Calibration Tools for RF Shim at Very High Field with Multiple Element RF Coils: From Ultra Fast Local

                              Relative Phase to Absolute Magnitude B1+ Mapping

Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele¹, Carl Snyder¹, Lance DelaBarre¹, Gregor Adriany², Tommy Vaughan¹, Kamil Ugurbil¹

¹University of Minnesota, MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, USA; ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  1677.    RF Pulse Design for High-Resolution Imaging with FLASE

Joelle Karine Barral¹, Michael Lustig¹, Nikola Stikov¹, Dwight G. Nishimura¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1678.    Dual-Band Adiabatic Selective Refocussing for Signal Suppression in High Field MR

Ronald Ouwerkerk¹

¹Johns Hopkins University, SOM, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  1679.    Enhancement of In Vivo iZQC Signal by Spin Locking Pulse

Jing Song¹, Chulhyun Lee¹, Gigi Galiana¹, Rosa T. Branca¹, Elizabeth Jenista¹, Warren S. Warren¹

¹Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  1680.    Comparison of the Effectiveness of Saturation Pulses for Quantitative First-Pass Cardiac Perfusion

                              MRI at 1.5T and 3T

Daniel Kim¹, Oded Gonen¹, Niels Oesingmann², Leon Axel¹

¹New York University, New York, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, New York, USA

                  1681.    High Spatial Resolution Multispectral Quantitative MRI of the Human Knee: Mixed-TSE Pulse Sequence

Akira Murakami¹, Jaroslaw Tkacz¹, Hernan Jara¹

¹Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1682.    New Slice-Selective Pulse Cascades Producing Uniform Tipping in Inhomogeneous RF Fields

Gerald B. Matson¹, ², Lana G. Kaiser¹, ³, Karl Young¹, ²

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

                  1683.    Reducing Side Lobes and SAR in Parallel Transmission Using Variable Density Spirals

Yinan Liu¹, Jim Ji¹

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

                  1684.    An Analysis of Reciprocity in Parallel MRI

Yudong Zhu¹

¹GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA

                  1685.    Joint Design of Trajectory and RF Pulses for Parallel Excitation

Chun-yu Yip¹, William Grissom¹, Jeffrey A. Fessler¹, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  1686.    RF Pulse Design Methods for Reduction of Image Artifacts in Parallel RF Excitation: Comparison of

                              3 Techniques on a 3T Parallel Excitation System with 8 Channels

Adam Charles Zelinski¹, Lawrence L. Wald¹, ², Kawin Setsompop¹, Vijayanand Alagappan², Borjan Alexsandar Gagoski¹, Franz Hebrank³, Ulrich Fontius³, Franz Schmitt³, Elfar Adalsteinsson¹

¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  1687.    Reduced-Voltage RF Shimming for Adiabatic Pulse Design in Parallel Transmission

Kawin Setsompop¹, Larry L. Wald², Elfar Adalsteinsson¹

¹Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1688.    3D RF Pulses for Parallel Transmission MRI Systems

Ingmar Graesslin¹, Sven Biederer¹, Patrick Wilhelm¹, Peter Vernickel¹, Giel Mens², Karl-Heinz Zimmermann³, Ulrich Katscher¹, Peter Börnert¹

¹Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; ²Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands; ³TU-Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany

                  1689.    Additive-Angle' Method for Fast Large-Tip-Angle RF Pulse Design in Parallel Excitation

William A. Grissom¹, Jeffrey A. Fessler¹, Douglas C. Noll¹

¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

                  1690.    Enforcing Strict Constraints in Multiple-Channel RF Pulse Optimization

David O. Brunner¹, Klaas P. Pruessmann¹

¹University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

                  1691.    Designing Fast 3-D RF Excitations by Optimizing the Number, Placement and Weighting of Spokes in

                              k-Space Via a Sparsity-Enforcement Algorithm

Adam Charles Zelinski¹, Kawin Setsompop¹, Vivek K. Goyal¹, Vijayanand Alagappan², Ulrich Fontius³, Franz Schmitt³, Lawrence L. Wald¹, ², Elfar Adalsteinsson¹

¹MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  1692.    Array-Optimized Composite Pulse for Homogeneous Whole-Brain Inversion in High Field MRI

Suk-hoon Oh¹, Zhangwei Wang¹, Michael B. Smith¹, Christopher Michael Collins¹

¹The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1693.    RF Shimming Using a Multi-Element Transmit System in Phantom and In Vivo Studies

Ulrich Katscher¹, Peter Vernickel¹, Ingmar Graesslin¹, Peter Boernert¹

¹Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  1694.    Phase Constraint Relaxation in Parallel Excitation Pulse Design

Adam B. Kerr¹, Yudong Zhu², John M. Pauly¹

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

                  1695.    Spectrum Optimized Parallel Excitation Pulse Design

Yudong Zhu¹, Joseph E. Piel¹, Randy O. Giaquinto¹, Ronald D. Watkins¹, Thomas K. Foo¹, Adam B. Kerr², John M. Pauly², Florian Wiesinger³, Mika Vogel³, Patrick Gross³

¹GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA; ²Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ³GE Global Research Center, Munich, Germany

                  1696.    Multidimensional Arbitrary-Flip-Angle Parallel Transmit Pulse Design Using an Optimal Control Approach

Dan Xu¹, Kevin F. King², Yudong Zhu³, Graeme McKinnon², Zhi-Pei Liang¹

¹University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA; ²General Electric Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; ³General Electric Corporate R&D Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA

                  1697.    Design of Linear Class Large-Tip-Angle Multidimensional RF Pulses for Parallel Transmit

Dan Xu¹, Kevin F. King², Yudong Zhu³, Graeme McKinnon², Zhi-Pei Liang¹

¹University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA; ²General Electric Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; ³General Electric Corporate R&D Center, Niskayuna, New York, USA

                  1698.    Pulse Design Methods for Reduction of Specific Absorption Rate in Parallel RF Excitation

Adam Charles Zelinski¹, Kawin Setsompop¹, Vijayanand Alagappan², Borjan Alexsandar Gagoski¹, Leonardo M. Angelone², Giorgio Bonmassar², Ulrich Fontius³, Franz Schmitt³, Elfar Adalsteinsson¹, Lawrence L. Wald¹, ²

¹MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  1699.    Designing RF Pulses with Optimal Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) Characteristics and

                              Exploring Excitation Fidelity, SAR and Pulse Duration Tradeoffs

Adam Charles Zelinski¹, Vivek K. Goyal¹, Leonardo Angelone², Giorgio Bonmassar², Lawrence L. Wald¹, ², Elfar Adalsteinsson¹

¹MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ²A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

                  1700.    Reducing B1 Inhomogeneity Using Optimized Parallel Transmit Pulses

Dan Xu¹, Kevin F. King², Graeme McKinnon², Zhi-Pei Liang¹

¹University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA; ²General Electric Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

                  1701.    k-Space Sample Density Compensation Via Basis Function Cross-Correlations,  with Application to

                             the Design of 2D RF Excitations

Dimitris Mitsouras¹, Robert V. Mulkern, ¹², Onur Afacan³, Dana H. Brooks³, Frank J. Rybicki¹

¹Brigham And Womens Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Childrens Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  1702.    Design of Refocusing Flip Angle Modulation for Volumetric 3D-FSE Imaging of Brain, Spine, Knee,

                              Kidney and Uterus

Reed F. Busse¹, Anja C S Brau², Philip J. Beatty², Jean H. Brittain¹, Ling Sun³, Hari Hariharan³, Garry A. Gold⁴, Howard A. Rowley⁵, Elizabeth A. Sadowski⁵, Scott B. Reeder⁵

¹GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ³GE Healthcare, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA; ⁴Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ⁵University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  1703.    3D Spatial Excitation Using Variable-Density K-Space Trajectories

Patrick Wilhelm¹, Peter Börnert², Kay Nehrke²

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

                  1704.    Enhanced Diffusion Weighting Generated by Selective Composite Adiabatic Pulses

Ziqi Sun¹, ², Robert Bartha¹, ³

¹Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; ²The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; ³University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  1705.    Selective Rotation Pulses Calculated with an Inverse Scattering Algorithm

Christian Oliver Bretschneider¹, David Edward Rourke¹

¹University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK

                  1706.    High Performance Computation of Spatially Selective Excitation Pulses Regarding Realistic

                              Experimental Conditions

Tony Stöcker¹, N. Jon Shah¹

¹Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany

                  1707.    Feedback-Enhanced MRI by Fixed-Point Dynamics and Nonlinear Spin-Locking

Jon Furuyama¹, YUNG-YA LIN¹

¹UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  1708.    Design of Linear-Phase Frequency-Modulated Broadband Refocusing Pulses

Rolf F. Schulte¹, Patrick Le Roux², Mika W. Vogel¹, Hartmut Koenig¹

¹GE Global Research, Munich, Germany; ²GE Healthcare, Palaiseau, France

                  1709.    Novel Design for Notched RF Saturation Pulses Using the SLR Transform

Charles H. Cunningham¹, Michael Lustig², Bob S. Hu², Juan M. Santos², Taehoon Shin³, Krishna S. Nayak³, John M. Pauly²

¹University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²Stanford, Stanford, California, USA; ³University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  1710.    Towards MRSI of the Prostate at 7T Using Adiabatic RF Pulses and a Transmit and Receive

                              Endorectal Coil

Dennis Klomp¹, ², Tom Scheenen¹, Arend Heerschap¹

¹Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands; ²International Research Center for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Cognitive Science, Essen, Germany

                  1711.    Inverted Double Half RF Pulse for Long T2 Suppression in Ultrashort Echo-Time Imaging

Sonal Josan¹, John Pauly¹, Kim Butts Pauly¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

                  1712.    Variable Slew Rate Spiral Design for Local SAR Reduction in 2D RF Pulse Design

Dan Xu¹, Kevin F. King², Zhi-Pei Liang¹

¹University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA; ²General Electric Healthcare, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Sequence Contrasts

                  1713.    Fast T_1ρ Measurements by Spin-Lock Pre-Encoded HASTE and bSSFP (SLIPS)

Eric Albert Mellon¹, Sampreet Niyogi¹, Mallikarjunarao Kasam¹, Reddy Shashank Beesam¹, Walter Witschey¹, Arijitt Borthakur¹, Ravinder Reddy¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1714.    T_1ρ MRI of the Human Brain Using a Spin-Locked SSFP Pulse Sequence

Ari Borthakur¹, Sampreet Niyogi¹, Walter Witschey¹, Chenyang Wang¹, Elias R. Melhem¹, Ravinder Reddy¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  1715.    MP-RAGE Techniques for Imaging the Mouse Abdomen at 9.4T

Nirav J. Mehta¹, Amy H. Herlihy², Li-Wen Li², Po-Wah So², Jimmy D. Bell²

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

                  1716.    Signal and Contrast Properties of Very-Long Spin-Echo Trains for 3D T2-Weighted

                              Turbo-Spin-Echo Imaging

John P. Mugler, III¹