TRADITIONAL POSTERS

Vessel Wall Imaging

                  2465.    MR Visualization of Neovascularization in Advanced Atherosclerotic Plaques Using Targeted Paramagnetic

                               and Fluorescent Micelles

Willem J. M. Mulder¹, ², Fabien Hyafil¹, Esad Vucic¹, Jean-Christophe Cornily¹, Karen C. Briley-Saebo¹, James R. Tunstead¹, Laurent J. Feldman¹, Klaas Nicolay², Gustav J. Strijkers³, Zahi A. Fayad¹

¹Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands; ³Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, USA

                  2466.    In-Vivo Serial Assessment of Aortic Aneurysm Formation in Mouse

Gregory Harrison Turner¹, Alan R. Olzinski¹, Roberta E. Bernard¹, Karpagam Aravindhan¹, Robert N. Willette¹, Beat M. Jucker¹

¹GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2467.    Accurate and Automatic Slice Repositioning for Longitudinal Carotid Imaging Studies

Daniel J. Blezek¹, Luca Marinelli¹, Ileana Hancu¹, Krishna S. Nayak², Christopher J. Hardy¹

¹GE Global Research, Niskayuna, New York, USA; ²University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2468.    MR Imaging of Adventitial Vasa Vasorum in Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque

William S. Kerwin¹, Minako Oikawa¹, Chun Yuan¹, Gail P. Jarvik¹, Thomas S. Hatsukami², ³

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²University of Washngton, Seattle, Washington, USA; ³VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2469.    Coronary Vessel Wall Contrast Uptake at MR Imaging: Comparison of Patients with Stable Angina Compared

                               to Age-Matched Healthy Controls

Suzanne C. Gerretsen¹, ², Marianne E. Kooi¹, ², René M. Botnar³, Marcus Katoh⁴, Johannes Waltenberger¹, ², Jos M. van Engelshoven¹, ², Tim Leiner¹, ²

¹Maastricht University Hospital, Maastricht, Netherlands; ²University Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands; ³Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany; ⁴University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

                  2470.    In Vivo MR Quantification of the Lipid-Rich Necrotic Core

Vincent Cappendijk¹, Sylvia Heeneman², ³, Alfons Kessel⁴, Kitty Cleutjens, ³⁴, Geert Willem Schurink¹, Rob Welten⁵, Werner Mess¹, Robert JAn van Suylen¹, Tim Leiner¹, Mat Daemen¹, ³, Jos van Engelshoven¹, ³, Eline Kooi⁶

¹Maastricht University Hospital, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands; ²Maastricht Universtity, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands; ³Cardiovascular research institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht, Netherlands; ⁴Maastricht University, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands; ⁵Atrium Medical Center, Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands; ⁶Maastricht University  Hospital, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

                  2471.    First Demonstration of Diffusion Weighted Imaging of In Vivo Carotid Plaque at 1.5T

Keith Heberlein¹, Robert O'Donnell², Szilard Voros²

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, USA, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ²Fuqua Heart Center of Atlanta; Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  2472.    Ultra-High Resolution Vessel Imaging at 1.5T: Peripheral Vein Bypass Graft Wall Imaging Via Non-Selective

                               Refocusing Inner Volume 3D Fast Spin Echo

Dimitris Mitsouras¹, Robert V. Mulkern, ¹², Cristopher D. Owens¹, Michael S. Conte¹, Mark A. Creager¹, Hale Ersoy¹, Tuan M. Luu¹, Frank J. Rybicki¹

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

                  2473.    Dynamic MR Imaging of Injured Rabbit Aortic Wall with a Blood Pool (MS-325) and Conventional ECF Agent:

                               Similarities and Differences

Eduardo J. Matta¹, Lee M. Mitsumori¹, Gregory J. Wilson², Jerry L. Ricks¹, Michael E. Rosenfeld¹, William S. Kerwin¹, Jerry O'Regan¹, Michael Hartmann³, Jeffrey H. Maki¹, ⁴

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²Philips Medical, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ³Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Puget Sound VAHCS, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2474.    MRI Characterisation of a Rat Endothelial Injury Model

King Kenneth Cheung¹, ², Manfred Junemann Ramirez¹, Pauliina Lehtolainen¹, David L. Thomas¹, David G. Gadian², Roger J. Ordidge¹, Andrew M. Taylor², Mark F. Lythgoe²

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

                  2475.    Optimization of Coronary Wall Imaging

Steven M. Shea¹, ², Chengbo Wang, ¹³, Xiaoming Bi⁴, Robson Macedo², David A. Bluemke², Christine H. Lorenz¹, ²

¹Siemens Corporate Research, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ³University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; ⁴Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2476.    Comparison of Four Clinically Approved Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents for Imaging of Experimental

                               Atherosclerosis in a Rabbit Model

Mariska de Smet¹, ², John Ronald¹, ³, Kem Rogers³, Robert Hegele¹, Klaas Nicolay², Brian Rutt¹, ³

¹Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada; ²Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands; ³University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

                  2477.    Mapping 2D Strain in the Wall of the Carotid Artery Using Displacement-Encoded MRI

Alexander Peter Lin¹, Eric Bennett², Morteza Gharib¹, Scott Fraser¹, Han Wen²

¹California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA; ²National Institutes of Health, Betheseda, Maryland, USA

                  2478.    Robust Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging at 3.0T with Black Blood Single Shot EPI

Piotr Alfred Wielopolski¹, Sitske Rozie¹, Aad van der Lugt¹

¹ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, Netherlands

                  2479.    Association Between Adventitial Vasa Vasorum and Atherosclerosis: A Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic

                               Resonance Imaging Study

Minako Oikawa¹, William Kerwin, Hunter R. Underhill, Wei Yu, Chun Yuan, Thomas S. Hatsukami²

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ²VA Puget Sound HCS and University of Washington,

                  2480.    Towards an In Vivo Model of Complicated Atherosclerosis

Stephanie E G Chiu¹, General Leung¹, Graham A. Wright¹, Peter Burns¹, Alan R. Moody¹

¹Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  2481.    Hemorrhage Detection in the Carotid Atherosclerotic Lesion – Initial Results at 3T

Kevin DeMarco¹, David Zhu¹, Hunter Underhill², Marina Ferguson², Minako Oikawa², Wei Yu², Chun Yuan²

¹Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; ²University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2482.    Quantification of Lipid-Rich Necrotic Core Size in Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque of Symptomatic

                               and Asymptomatic Patients

Vincent Cappendijk¹, Alfons Kessel², Sylvia Heeneman³, ⁴, Kitty Cleutjens², ⁴, Geert Willem Schurink¹, Rob Welten⁵, Werner Mess¹, Robert JAn van Suylen¹, Tim Leiner¹, Mat Daemen¹, ⁴, Jos van Engelshoven¹, ⁴, Eline Kooi, ⁴⁶

¹Maastricht University Hospital, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands; ²Maastricht University, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands; ³Maastricht Universtity, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands; ⁴Cardiovascular research institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht, Netherlands; ⁵Atrium Medical Center, Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands; ⁶Maastricht University  Hospital, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

                  2483.    Parallel Imaging with Concomitant Motion Compensation of the  Carotid Vessel Wall at 3T

Ravi Teja Seethamraju¹, Graham Charles Wiggins², Karen Furie³, Ricardo Cury³, Denise Hinton-Yates²

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Malden, Massachusetts, USA; ²Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2484.    Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis by MRI Is Associated with Coronary Atherosclerosis Measured by

                               CT and MRI: Initial Results

Masahiro Terashima¹, Patricia K. Nguyen¹, Vasily L. Yarnykh², Chun Yuan², Geoffrey D. Rubin¹, Carlos Iribarren³, Brian K. Courtney¹, Alan S. Go³, Stephen P. Fortmann¹, Michael V. McConnell¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA; ³Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, USA

                  2485.    Validation of Automatic Fibrous Cap Measurement with In Vivo MRI and FCPL Lesion Index Evalution

Dongxiang Xu¹, Fei Liu¹, Marina Ferguson¹, William S. Kerwin¹, Tom Hatsukami¹, Chun Yuan¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

MRA Coronary and Other

                  2486.    Transient Steady-State Free Precession Coronary Vein MRI

Reza Nezafat¹, Yuchi Han¹, Dana C. Peters¹, Peter J. Zimetbaum¹, Susan B. Yeon¹, Warren J. Manning¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2487.    Clinical Application of Whole-Heart Coronary MRA Using "Paddle-Wheel" Balanced SSFP

Shigeo Okuda¹, Koichi Oshio¹, Akihiro Tanimoto¹, Hiroshi Shinmoto¹, Minoru Yamada¹, Sachio Kuribayashi¹

¹Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

                  2488.    A Fully Automated Selection of the Optimal Data Acquisition Window in Coronary MRA Eliminating the

                               Need for User-Interaction

Xiaoming Bi¹, Yiu-cho Chung¹, Randolph M. Setser², Milind Desai², Peter Weale¹, Vibhas Deshpande¹, Sven Zuehlsdorff¹, Gary McNeal¹, Debiao Li³, Renate Jerecic¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ³Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2489.    Whole-Heart Magnetic Resonance Coronary Angiography with Visual Feedback

Shigehide Kuhara¹, Masao Yui¹, Shuhei Takemoto¹, Ayako Ninomiya¹, Yoshimori Kassai¹

¹Toshiba Medical systems corporation, Otawara-shi, Tochigi, Japan

                  2490.    MR Angiography of the Supraaortic Arteries: A Methodical Update

Claudia Fellner¹, Thomas Finkenzeller², Franz A. Fellner³

¹Landes-Nervenklinik Wagner-Jauregg, Linz, Austria; ²University Hospital of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; ³General Hospital Linz, Linz, Austria

                  2491.    Time-Resolved MR-Angiography (TWIST) of the Hand in Comparison to Digital Substraction

                               Angiography (DSA)

Katja Brauck¹, Florian M. Vogt¹, Stefan Maderwald¹, Susanne C. Ladd¹, Knut Kroeger¹, Gerhard Laub², Randall Kroeker², Harald H. Quick¹, Jörg Barkhausen¹

¹University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Germany; ²Siemens Medical Solutions USA, USA

                  2492.    Contrast Enhanced MR Angiography at 7 Tesla: Challenging the Limits of Spatial Resolution

Catherine N. Ludman¹, Paul S. Morgan², Andrew Peters², L Jiang², Matthew Clemence³, Penny A. Gowland²

¹Nottingham University NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK; ²University of Nottingham, UK; ³Philips Medical Systems, UK

                  2493.    Bilateral Time-Resolved Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography of the Hands at 3.0 Tesla

Jan Thorsten Winterer¹, Michael Markl¹, Alex Frydrychowicz¹, Thorsten Alexander Bley¹, Max Schengel¹, Juergen Hennig¹, Mathias Langer¹

¹University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany

                  2494.    First-Pass Whole-Body MRA Using the Blood Pool Contrast Medium Gadofosveset Trisodium:

                               Comparison to Gadopentetate Dimeglumine

Christian Klessen¹, Patrick Asbach¹, Hannes Kroll¹, Patrick A. Hein¹, Alexander Huppertz², Bernd Hamm¹, Matthias Taupitz¹

¹Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; ²Imaging Science Institute Charité Berlin - Siemens, Berlin, Germany

                  2495.    Flow-Preparation and Flow-Saturation-Preparation Pulses for Abdominal Non-Contrast-Agent MR Angiography

Mitsuharu Miyoshi¹, Takayuki Masui², Tetsuji Tsukamoto¹

¹GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Hino, Tokyo, Japan; ²Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

                  2496.    Aortic Morphology and Function in Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Type IV

William S. Kerwin¹, Melanie Pepin¹, Lee Mitsumori¹, Peter Byers¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2497.    Impact of Diffuse Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) on High-Energy Phosphate Metabolism in the

                               Exercising Calf Muscle

Michael Schocke¹, Regina Esterhammer, Beate Hugl, Werner Jaschke, Gustav Fraedrich, Andreas Greiner

¹Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

                  2498.    High Resolution Steady State Imaging of Peripheral Arteries with a Blood Pool Agent Compared with Standard

                               First Pass Imaging and DSA: Assessing the Clinical Benefit

Dariusch Reza Hadizadeh Kharrazi¹, Jürgen Gieseke¹, ², Thomas Bayer¹, Kai Wilhelm¹, Ralf Loetsch³, Frauke Verrel¹, Hans Heinz Schild¹, Winfried Albert Willinek¹

¹University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; ²Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands; ³Schering AG, Berlin, Germany

                  2499.    Semiautomatic 3D Segmentation and Quantification of Stenotic Carotid Arteries from CE-MRA by Means of a

                               B-Spline Tubular Surface Model

Piotr Makowski¹, Patrick J. H. de Koning¹, Emmanuelle Angelié¹, Jos J. M. Westenberg¹, Rob J. van der Geest¹, Johan H. C. Reiber¹

¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands

                  2500.    Dynamic Changes in Murine Vessel Geometry Assessed by High Resolution Magnetic

                               Resonance Angiography

Christoph Jacoby¹, Yang Chul Böring¹, Andreas Beck¹, Alma Zernecke², Volker Aurich¹, Christian Weber², Jürgen Schrader¹, Ulrich Flögel¹

¹Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany; ²Rheinisch-Westfälisch Technische Hochschule, Aachen, Germany

Cardiovascular Flow Quantification

                  2501.    Comparison of Techniques for Pulse Wave Velocity Calculation by MRI

Clare Estelle Jackson¹, Justin M S Lee¹, Ilias Kylintireas¹, Jane M. Francis¹, Robin P. Choudhury¹, Stefan Neubauer¹, Matthew D. Robson¹

¹University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK

                  2502.    MR Doppler of High-Speed Jets

Adam B. Kerr¹, Juan M. Santos¹, Daeho Lee¹, Bob S. Hu², John M. Pauly¹

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

                  2503.    On the Effect of Vascular Tree Parameters on 3D Texture of Its Images

Marek Kocinski¹, Andrzej Materka¹, Arvid Lundervold²

¹Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland; ²University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

                  2504.    Regional Pulmonary Blood Flow: Comparison of Phase Contrast MR and Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced

                               MR Perfusion

Joshua F. P. van Amerom¹, Logi Vidarsson¹, Sheng-ping Wu¹, Christopher K. Macgowan¹

¹University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  2505.    Programmable Flow Simulator with Simultaneous Physiology and MR Event Acquisition

Pauline Wong¹, Martin John Graves¹, David John Lomas¹

¹University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK

                  2506.    Coronary Blood Flow Measurement Using 3.0T Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance

Kevin Johnson¹, Puneet Sharma¹, John Oshinski¹

¹Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

                  2507.    Combining 3T, SENSE and K-Space Segmentation for Robust Coronary Sinus Flow Quantification

Karin Markenroth Bloch¹, Marcus Carlsson², Håkan Arheden², Freddy Ståhlberg, ²³

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

                  2508.    Aortic Compliance and Pulse Wave Velocity by MRI: Effects of Pulse Pressure Amplification and Reflection

Michael Jerosch-Herold¹, ², Cory Swingen², Ron T. Sih², Tony Lefebvre², Daniel R. Kaiser², Daniel A. Duprez²

¹Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA; ²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                  2509.    In Vivo MRI Quantification of Circumferential Wall Shear Stress Distribution at Atherosclerotic-Prone

                               Sites in Mouse Abdominal Aorta

Azer Karim¹, Haiying Tang¹, Michael C. Desiderio², Larry Peterson¹, Haiying Liu¹

¹Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey, USA; ²Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

                  2510.    Interactive One-Shot Spatially Resolved Real-Time Velocity Imaging

Daeho Lee¹, Juan M. Santos¹, Adam B. Kerr¹, Bob S. Hu², John M. Pauly¹

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

                  2511.    Improving Computation of Cardiovascular Relative Pressure Fields from Velocity MRI

Tino Ebbers Ebbers¹, Gunnar Farnebäck¹

¹Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

                  2512.    In-Vivo Quantification of Turbulent Velocity Fluctuations

Petter Dyverfeldt¹, John-Peder E. Kvitting, ¹², Andreas Sigfridsson¹, Jan Engvall¹, Ann F. Bolger, ¹³, Tino Ebbers¹

¹Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; ²Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden; ³University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2513.    The Use of K-T BLAST for Measuring Velocities in Stenotic Vessels with Phase-Contrast MRI

Anders Nilsson¹, Karin Markenroth Bloch², Freddy Ståhlberg¹, ³

¹Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; ²Philips Medical Systems, Lund, Sweden; ³Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden,

                  2514.    Reconstruction of Variable-Density Data in Fourier Velocity Encoding

Joao Luiz Azevedo de Carvalho¹, Julie C. DiCarlo², Adam B. Kerr³, Krishna S. Nayak¹

¹University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA; ²Synarc, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA; ³Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Cardiovascular Methods

                  2515.    CIRcumferential COMpression Encoding (CIRCOME)

Abbas N. Moghaddam¹, ², Paul Finn², Morteza Gharib¹

¹Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA; ²UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2516.    Efficient Simultaneous Multiple Volume Free Breathing Black Blood Cardiac MRI

Pascal Spincemaille¹, Thanh Dang Nguyen¹, Jonathan W. Weinsaft¹, Martin R. Prince¹, Yi Wang¹

¹Weill Medicall College of Cornell University, New York, New York, USA

                  2517.    An Optical Based Device for Dual Cardiac and Respiratory Synchronization for Small Animal MRI

Adrian RENGLE¹, Raphael SABLONG¹, Olivier BEUF¹, Loredana BABOI¹, ², Hervé SAINT-JALMES¹

¹Université de Lyon, Université Lyon1, CNRS UMR 5012, Laboratoire RMN-MIB, ESCPE Lyon, Villeurbanne, France; ²Creatis, UMR5515 CNRS, U630 INSERM, Lyon, France

                  2518.    Assessment of Magnetization Transfer Effects in Myocardial Tissue Using Balanced Steady State

                               Free Precession

Oliver M. Weber¹, ², Klaus Scheffler¹, Oliver Bieri¹

¹University and University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; ²Siemens Medical Solutions (Switzerland), Bern, Switzerland

                  2519.    Source of the Myocardial “Bite” Artifact in High Field Cardiac MRI

Douglas J. Anderson¹, ², Jeffrey M. Dendy¹, ³, Cynthia B. Paschal¹, ⁴

¹Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ²Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ³Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ⁴Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  2520.    In Vivo and post Mortem Identification of an Atrial Septal Defect in eTbx5-KO Mice

Mathieu Nadeau¹, Pierre Paradis¹, Luc Tremblay², Mona Nemer¹, Martin Lepage²

¹Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; ²Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

                  2521.    MRI Characterization of Agarose 'Cocoons'

Warren D. Foltz¹, Mark Ormiston², Duncan J. Stewart, David Courtman, Alexander J. Dick³

¹St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²St. Michael's Hospital, Canada; ³Sunnybrook Hospital

Motion Artifact Suppression - Body and Cardiovasuclar

                  2522.    Compensation of Abdominal Breathing Artifacts in Multi-Shot Acquisitions Using Parallel Imaging

                               and Automatic Coil Weight Selection from Adjacent Slices

Matthias Honal¹, Ute Ludwig¹, Maxim Zaitsev¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  2523.    Sensitivity of Low Flip Angle SSFSE of the Abdomen to Cardiac Motion

Ananth Jayaseelan Madhuranthakam¹, Reed F. Busse², Jean H. Brittain², Neil M. Rofsky³, David C. Alsop³

¹GE Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ³Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2524.    Linear Predictive Modeling of Patient Motion Using External Sensors

Freddy Odille¹, Cédric Pasquier¹, Pierre-André Vuissoz¹, Michel Claudon¹, ², Jacques Felblinger¹

¹Nancy University; INSERM ERI 13, Nancy, France; ²CHU de Nancy Hôpital de Brabois, Nancy, France

                  2525.    Respiratory Motion Estimation Using Real-Time 3D Imaging for Improving Roadmaps in Image

                               Guided Interventions

Redha Boubertakh¹, ², Sergio Uribe¹, Reza S. Razavi¹, Derek L.G. Hill², Tobias Schaeffter¹

¹King's College London, London, UK; ²University College London, London, UK

                  2526.    Displacement-Encoded 3D Imaging Sequence Using Pre-Section Encoding for Section-Following and

                               Sparse Phase-Cycling

Han Wen¹, Eric Bennett¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2527.    Is Sub-Pixel Registration Necessary for Continuously Moving Table MRI?

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

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

Myocardium

                  2528.    Implementation of a Fast Inversion Recovery Sequence to Assess Delayed Enhancement of

                               Myocardial Infarction in Mice

Anthony Price¹, Sharron Williams¹, Amy Herlihy¹, David Firmin², Jimmy Bell¹, Paolo Camici¹

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

                  2529.    Myocardial Viability Assessment During Continuous Infusion of Gd(DTPA): Comparing R1-Map-Based and

                               Signal-Intensity-Based Percent-Infarct-Mapping

Pál Surányi¹, Pál Kiss¹, Balázs Ruzsics¹, Brigitta C. Brott¹, Tamás Simor¹, Ada Elgavish¹, ², Gabriel A. Elgavish¹

¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; ²Elgavish Paramagnetics Inc., Hoover, Alabama, USA

                  2530.    3D Phase Sensitive IR Prepared Spoiled Gradient Echo Technique with Free Breathing Navigators –

                              A Tool for Quantitative Characterization of Scar

Sven Zuehlsdorff¹, Peter Kellman², YiuCho Chung¹, Peter Weale¹, Renate Jerecic¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²National Institutes of Health/NHLBI, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

                  2531.    Comparison of In Vivo and Ex Vivo R1-Map-Based Percent-Infarct-Mapping Using Gd(DTPA)

Pál Surányi¹, Pál Kiss¹, Balázs Ruzsics¹, Brigitta C. Brott¹, Tamás Simor¹, Ada Elgavish¹, Gabriel A. Elgavish¹

¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

                  2532.    Comparison of Different Field Insensitive Saturation Pulses for 3T Cardiac First Pass Perfusion

Aya Kino¹, Sven Zuehlsdorff², Peter Weale², Nondas Leloudas¹, Xin Liu¹, Renate Jerecic², James C. Carr¹

¹Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2533.    Depolarizing Hyperkalemic Arrest Reduces Mn²⁺-Induced MRI Signal Enhancement in Pig Hearts

Valery V. Kupriyanov¹, ², Yanmin Yang², Jiankang Sun¹, Marco L. H. Gruwel¹

¹Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

                  2534.    Detection of Cardiac Developmental Failures in Hey-Gen Knockout Mouse Embryos with Rapid 3D

                               MRI Microscopy

Esra Lang¹, Andreas Fischer¹, Manfred Gessler¹, Peter M. Jakob¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

                  2535.    Self-Gated PROPELLER Cine Cardiac Imaging: Simultaneously Tracking the Cardiac Pulsation and

                               the Respiratory Motion

Chi-Chung Wang¹, Teng-Yi Huang¹, Cheng-Yu Chen²

¹National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; ²Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

                  2536.    Myocardial Motion Tracking with MRI SPOTs

William S. Kerwin¹, David S. Owens¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2537.    Initial Analysis of Biventricular Cardiac Function in Preterm Neonates Using MR Imaging at 3.0T

Alan M. Groves¹, Julie A. Fitzpatrick¹, Adrienne Foran¹, Joanna M. Allsop¹, Martina F. Callaghan¹, Jo V. Hajnal¹, A D. Edwards¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK

                  2538.    An MRI Comparison of Quantitative Left Ventricular Structure, Function and Measurement

                              Reproducibility in Patient Cohorts with a Range of Clinically Distinct Cardiac Conditions

Stephen J. Gandy¹, R Stephen S. Nicholas¹, Shelley A. Waugh¹, Helen J Z Simpson¹, Patricia Martin¹, J Graeme G. Houston¹

¹Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Angus, UK

                  2539.    Strain-Encoded Magnetic Resonance Imaging Provides Reproducible Assessment of Right

                               Ventricular Regional Function

AMR A. YOUSSEF¹, ELSAYED H. IBRAHIM¹, GRIGORIOS KOROSOGLOU¹, ROSELLE ABRAHAM¹, ROBERT G. WEISS¹, NAEL F. OSMAN¹

¹JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2540.    Validation of 2D Ultrasound-Based Strain Estimates with MR Tagging

Wei-Ning Lee¹, Zhen Qian², Christina L. Tosti¹, Srirama V. Swaminathan, ¹³, Truman R. Brown¹, Dimitris N. Metaxas², Elisa E. Konofagou¹

¹Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ²Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA; ³Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2541.    HYPR Myocardial Perfusion MR Imaging

Orhan Unal¹, Frank R. Korosec¹, Oliver Wieben¹, Julia Velikina¹, Chuck A. Mistretta¹

¹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2542.    Age, Gender, and Iron Overload Effects on Cardiac Systolic and Diastolic Function in Thalassemia Major

John C. Wood¹, Shariar Mokrian¹, Nilesh Ghugre¹, Marvin D. Nelson², Thomas D. Coates¹

¹Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; ²Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2543.    Interventricular Mechanical Asynchrony in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Right-To-Left Delay in

                               Peak Shortening is Due to Right Ventricular Overload and Impairs Left Ventricular Filling

J. T. Marcus¹, C. T. Gan¹, J. J. Zwanenburg², A. Boonstra¹, C. P. Allaart³, M. J. Gotte³, A. Vonk Noordegraaf¹

¹VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ²Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands; ³VU University Medical Center, Netherlands

                  2544.    Comparison of Cardiac Iron Overload Assessment by MRI Susceptometry and R2* in Thalassemia Patients

Zhiyue J. Wang¹, ², Roland Fischer³, ⁴, Zili Chu¹, ², Donald H. Mahoney¹, ², Brigitta U. Mueller¹, ², Raja Muthupillai, ²⁵, Ellen Butensky³, Rajesh Krishnamurthy¹, ², Taylor Chung¹, ², Eric Padua³, Elliott Vichinsky³, Paul Harmatz³

¹Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; ³Children’s Hospital & Research Center, Oakland, California, USA; ⁴University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; ⁵Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2545.    Automatic Extraction of the Low-Motion Phases of the Heart

Volker Rasche¹, Vinzenz Hombach¹, Markus Kunze¹, Robert Manzke², Nico Merkle¹, Jochen Spiess¹

¹University Ulm, Ulm, Germany; ²Philips Research, Briacliff Manor, New York, USA

                  2546.    A New Robust Technique for Segmenting Different Heart Tissues Using Combined Functional and Viability

                               C-Senc MR Images

ELSAYED H. IBRAHIM¹, DARA L. KRAITCHMAN¹, ROBERT G. WEISS¹, NAEL F. OSMAN¹

¹JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2547.    A Tracking Algorithm for Three Dimensional Tags in Cardiac MRI

Yu Shimizu¹, Xiuji Jin², Akira Amano¹, Tetsuya Matsuda¹

¹Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; ²Advanced Software Technology & Mechatronics Research, Kyoto, Japan

                  2548.    A Normal Database for the Detection of Abnormal Myocardial Contraction Patterns

Jana G. Delfino¹, Robert Eisner, Angel Leon, John N. Oshinski¹

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

                  2549.    One-Shot Fourier Velocity Encoding with Higher Spatial Resolution

Daeho Lee¹, Adam B. Kerr¹, Juan M. Santos¹, Bob S. Hu², John M. Pauly¹

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

                  2550.    Usefulness of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Compare the Influence of Stentless Versus Stented

                               Valves on Left Ventricular Remodelling and Coronary Reserve in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis

Aude Tassin¹, Christophe Baufreton¹, Tanguy Blaire¹, Frédéric Pinaud¹, Jean-Baptiste Subayi¹, Fabrice Prunier¹, Jean-Louis De Brux¹, Philippe Geslin¹, Jean-Jacques Le Jeune¹, Alain Furber¹

¹University Hospital, Angers, France

                  2551.    Comprehensive Valve Evaluation System

Juan M. Santos¹, Adam B. Kerr¹, Daeho Lee¹, Michael V. McConnell¹, Phillip C. Yang¹, Bob S. Hu², John M. Pauly¹

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

                  2552.    Measurements of Diastolic Function in Rats Using High Resolution Cine-MRI

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

¹University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

                  2553.    Contribution of Myocardial Vascular Compartment to Water Diffusion

Min Sig Hwang¹, Melvin Clark¹, Angelos Barmpoutis¹, John Forder¹

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  2554.    Detection of Transient Cardiac Hypertrophy Induced by Isoproterenol in Mice

Hsiao-Wen Chen¹, Kai-Cheng Yang¹, Ching-Feng Cheng¹, Chen Chang¹

¹Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

                  2555.    Inhibition of ASK1 Enzymatic Activity Does Not Protect Heart from Angiotensin-II Induced Hypertrophy

Gregory Harrison Turner¹, Alan R. Olzinski¹, Roberta E. Bernard¹, Graham Duddy¹, Karpagam Aravindhan¹, Weike Bao¹, Robert N. Willette¹, Beat M. Jucker¹

¹GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2556.    Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Permits Visualization of Coronary Microembolization in Swine

Kai Nassenstein¹, Frank Breuckmann², Ina Konietzka¹, Christina Bucher², Torleif Sandner¹, Torleif Sandner¹, Gernot Kaiser¹, Christoph Naber², Thomas Konorza², Michael Haude², Raimund Erbel², Gerd Heusch¹, Joerg Barkhausen¹

¹University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Germany; ²West German Heart Center Essen, Essen, Germany, Germany

                  2557.    Manganese-Enhanced MRI of Acute Cardiac Ischemia and Chronic Infarction in Pig Hearts

Valery V. Kupriyanov¹, Yanmin Yang², Marco L. H. Gruwel¹, Xi Yang², Jiankang Sun¹

¹Institute for Biodiagnostics, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

                  2558.    MR Value in the Assessment of the Efficacy of Cardiac Specific Gene Expression

Maythem Saeed¹, Alexis Jacquier¹, Alastair Martin¹, Loi Do¹, Oliver Weber¹, Charles Higgins¹, David Saloner¹

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

                  2559.    Analyzing Rapid Flow from SEA-Tagged MR Images Using Harmonic Phase (HARP)

Yuttapong Jiraraksopakun¹, Steven M. Wright¹, Jim X. Ji¹

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

                  2560.    Changes in Coronary Sinus Size Throughout the Cardiac Cycle: Implications for Coronary Vein Imaging

Reza Nezafat¹, Yuchi Han¹, Dana C. Peters¹, Beth Goddu¹, Peter J. Zimetbaum¹, Susan B. Yeon¹, Warren J. Manning¹

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2561.    Examining Myocardial Tissue Properties with 3T MRI

Jared G. Cobb¹, Cynthia B. Paschal¹, Huairen Zeng¹

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  2562.    Myocardial T2* Measurement in Iron Overloaded Thalassemia: An Ex Vivo Study

Taigang He¹, Peter D. Gatehouse¹, Jenny Keegan¹, Raad H. Mohiaddin¹, Dudley J. Pennell¹, David N. Firmin¹

¹Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, UK

                  2563.    Improved Myocardial T2* Normal Values at 1.5T and 3T

Karl-Heinz Herrmann¹, Petra E. Kullnig², Jens-Peter Heyne², Ines Krumbein², Werner A. Kaiser², Jürgen R. Reichenbach¹

¹Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; ²Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

                  2564.    A Comparison Study of Myocardial T2* Measurement in Iron Overloaded Thalassemia Patients

Taigang He¹, Gilian C. Smith¹, Paul Kirk¹, Peter D. Gatehouse¹, Jenny Keegan¹, Raad H. Mohiaddin¹, Dudley J. Pennell¹, David N. Firmin¹

¹Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, UK

Perfusion and Viability

                  2565.    2D Accelerated Single Breath Hold 3D First-Pass Sequence for Coronary Artery Imaging Using

                               Segmented Elliptic Centric View Ordering

Ajit Shankaranarayanan¹, Andres Carrillo², Maggie Fung¹, Glenn Reynolds³, Dwight Nishimura⁴, Ehud Schmidt³, Bob Hu⁵

¹GE Healthcare, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ³GE Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ⁴Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA; ⁵Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, California, USA

                  2566.    Quantitative Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Using Parallel Acquisition Techniques

Stefan Weber¹, Andrea Kronfeld¹, R. Peter Kunz¹, Kerstin Münnemann¹, Georg Horstick¹, Karl Friedrich Kreitner¹, Wolfgang Günther Schreiber¹

¹Mainz University Medical School, Mainz, Germany

                  2567.    On the Influence of Respiratory Motion in Quantitative Myocardial Perfusion MRI

Henrik Pedersen¹, Henrik B.W. Larsson², Steffen Ringgaard¹, Won Yong Kim¹

¹Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark; ²Glostrup Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark

                  2568.    Combined Adenosine Stress Perfusion and Tagging Protocol for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease

                               at 3 Tesla

Daniel Thomas¹, Carsten Meyer¹, Katharina Strach¹, Mathias Hackenbroch¹, Hans H. Schild¹, Torsten Sommer¹

¹University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

                  2569.    Generation of MR Myocardial Perfusion Maps Without User Interaction

Christine H. Lorenz¹, ², Ying Sun³, Tongbai Meng¹, CH Luk⁴, Dara L. Kraitchman², Klaus J. Kirchberg³

¹Siemens Corporate Research, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ³Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; ⁴Sir Run Run Shaw Heart Center, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

                  2570.    Quantitative Analysis of Myocardial Perfusion Reserve with Correction for R-R Interval Variability

Joanna Petryka¹, Jonathan Lyne¹, Ravi Assomull¹, Peter David Gatehouse², David Firmin², Dudley Pennell¹

¹Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK; ²Royal Brompton Hospital, London, England, UK

                  2571.    Perfusion and Water Exchange Effects on T1-Based Measurements of Blood Volume

Warren D. Foltz¹, Duncan J. Stewart¹, Graham A. Wright², Alexander J. Dick²

¹St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  2572.    Inversion Recovery Echo Planar and Spin Echo MR Imaging in Assessment of the Kinetics of a New

                               MR Contrast Medium (P846) in Ischemically Injured Myocardium

Alexis Jacquier¹, Loi Do¹, Michael Wendland¹, Matthew Bucknor¹, Philippe Robert², Claire Corot², Charles Higgins¹, Maythem Saeed¹

¹University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; ²Guerbet Group, Paris, France

                  2573.    Cardiac MR Imaging of Apical Left Ventricular Aneurysm and Thinning Associated with

                               Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Yasuo Amano¹, Morimasa Takayama¹, Shinichiro Kumita¹

¹Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

                  2574.    Pericardial Enhancement in Pericarditis and Pericardial Constriction: Evaluation with Myocardial

                               Delayed Enhancement Sequences

David William Stanley¹, James F. Glockner²

¹GE Healthcare, Proctor, Minnesota, USA; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  2575.    Myocardial T1 Mapping Using Inversion Recovery SSFP Cine

Yi Wang¹, ², Katherine C. Wu³, Kakuya Kitagawa³, ⁴, Venkatesh Murthy³, Christine H. Lorenz², ³

¹University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ²Siemens Corporate Research, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ⁴Mie University, Tsu, Mie, Japan

                  2576.    Single Breathhold CINE T1 Mapping of the Heart

James William Goldfarb¹, ², Jing Han¹, Marguerite Roth¹

¹Saint Francis Hospital, Roslyn, New York, USA; ²SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, USA

                  2577.    Dark Blood Delayed Enhancement in Humans by Double Preparation and Gradient-Echo or

                               Turbo-Spin-Echo Readout

Wolfgang G. Rehwald¹, Michael Salerno², Enn-Ling Chen², Stephen Darty², Wael AlJaroudi², Corinna S. Maier³, Robert M. Judd², Raymond J. Kim²

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Durham, North Carolina, USA; ²Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA; ³Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

                  2578.    Systemic Sclerosis: Detection of Myocardial Fibrosis by Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Kai Nassenstein¹, Frank Breuckmann², Thomas Schlosser¹, Peter Hunold¹, Alexander Kreuter³, Joerg Barkhausen¹

¹University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Germany; ²West German Heart Center Essen, Essen, Germany, Germany; ³Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Gemrany, Germany

                  2579.    Fast Three-Dimensional Assessment of Delayed Enhancement MRI in a Single Breathhold:

                               Comparison with the Conventional Two - Dimensional Technique

Veronica Valeria Lenge¹, Rajid Agarwal², Raja Muthupillai³, ⁴, Brenda Lambert³, Debra Dees³, Benjamin Cheong, ¹³, Scott D. Flamm², ³

¹Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; ²Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ³St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA; ⁴2Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

                  2580.    A Method for Fast Longitudinal Relaxation Rate Mapping and for Image Enhancement: Equilibrium

                               Signal Intensity-Mapping

Pál Surányi¹, ², Pál Kiss¹, ², Balázs Ruzsics¹, Brigitta C. Brott¹, Tamás Simor¹, ², Gabriel A. Elgavish¹, ²

¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; ²Elgavish Paramagnetics Inc., Hoover, Alabama, USA

                  2581.    Feasibility of Integrating High Spatial-Resolution, 3D Whole-Heart Viability Imaging and Coronary

                               MRA at 3 Tesla

Xiaoming Bi¹, Peter Weale¹, James Carr², Edwin Wu², Debiao Li², Renate Jerecic¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

                  2582.    Analysis of Timing Dependence on Cardiac T1 Measurements in Amyloid Patients

Dan Wade Rettmann¹, David W. Stanley¹, Sandeep N. Gupta², James F. Glockner³

¹GE Healthcare, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ³Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  2583.    Quantitative Assessment for Delayed Gadolinium Enhancement of Myocardium: Detection of

                               Abnormal Enhancement in Apparently Non-Enhanced Myocardium of Cardiac Amyloidosis

Naoaki Yamada¹, Suzu Kanzaki¹, Masahiro Higashi¹, Teruo Noguchi¹

¹National Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan

                  2584.    Double Inversion Recovery First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion Imaging at 3 Tesla

Kyunghyun Sung¹, Yoon-Chul Kim¹, Houchun Harry Hu¹, Krishna S. Nayak¹

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

                  2585.    Myocardial T2 Imaging - Comparison of Free-Breathing T2-Prepared Transient-State TrueFISP to

                              Breath-Hold T2-Prepared Segmented True FISP at 1.5T and 3T

Brigitte P. Poncelet-Belliveau¹, Teng-Yi Huang², David Sosnovik³

¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestwon, Massachusetts, USA

Cardiac MRS

                  2586.    Cardiac Stress P-31 MRS at 3T for Type-I Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Hee-Won Kim¹, Padmini Varadarajan¹, Gerald M. Pohost¹, David Peterson², Adina Zeidler¹

¹University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA; ²University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  2587.    ³¹P Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy During Leg Exercise at 3 Tesla in Healthy Volunteers

Damian John Tyler¹, Lucy Elizabeth Hudsmith², Jane Mary Francis², Yaso Emmanuel¹, Steffen Edward Petersen², Stefan Neubauer², Kieran Clarke¹, Matthew David Robson²

¹University of Oxford, Sherrington Building, Oxford, UK; ²University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

                  2588.    Magic Angle Spinning MRS to Evaluate Cardiac Preservation Prior to Transplantation

Matthew E. Merritt¹, Matthias Peltz¹, David H. Rosenbaum¹, Larry Ammann², Michael Erik Jessen¹

¹University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA; ²University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA

                  2589.    ³¹P MR-Spectroscopy of the Human Myocardium Using Spatial Saturation Pulses and a B₁-Field Correction

Oliver Marcel Geier¹, Meinrad Beer², Jan Ruff³, Dietbert Hahn², Herbert Köstler²

¹Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; ²Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; ³Siemens AG Med, Erlangen, Germany

Cardiovascular: Other

                  2590.    Performance Comparison of Two Signal Decay Models in Assessment of T2-Star (T2*) for Diagnosis

                               of Myocardial Iron Overload by Multiecho Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Vincenzo Positano¹, Maria Filomena Santarelli¹, Alessia Pepe¹, Barbara Scattini¹, Anna Ramazzotti¹, Carmelo Magnano², Vincenzo Caruso², Maria Antonietta Romeo³, Massimo Lombardi¹, Luigi Landini⁴

¹Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy; ²Ospedale Garibaldi, Catania, Italy; ³Azienda Policlinico, Catania, Italy; ⁴University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

                  2591.    Elastic Registration Based Interpolation of MRI Images in 3D

Fei Liu¹, Dongxiang Xu¹, Chun Yuan¹, William S. Kerwin¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2592.    Adaptive Prediction of RR Interval for Online MR Parameters Changes

Julien Oster¹, Freddy Odille¹, Gilles Bosser², Olivier Pietquin, ¹³, Cédric Pasquier¹, Pierre-André Vuissoz¹, Jacques Felblinger¹

¹Nancy University; INSERM ERI 13, Nancy, France; ²CHU de Nancy, Nancy, France; ³Supélec, Metz, France

                  2593.    Automated Segmentation of 4D Cine MRI:  Application to the Aortic Root and Quantitative Comparison of

                               Normal Subjects and Patients with Marfan Syndrome

Fei Zhao¹, Alan Howard Stolpen¹, Daniel Ross Thedens¹, Honghai Zhang¹, Thomas D. Scholz¹, Andreas Wahle¹, Milan Sonka¹

¹University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

                  2594.    A Fully Integrated Framework for Inline Post Processing of MR Data in Real Time Without User Interaction

Sven Zuehlsdorff¹, Jean-Noel Hyacinthe², Ying Sun³, Christine H. Lorenz⁴, Renate Jerecic¹

¹Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA; ²Department of Radiology, Geneva, Switzerland; ³Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, USA; ⁴Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2595.    Analysis of In Vivo Myocardial Oscillations Using High Temporal Resolution Cine MR Elastography

Jens Rump¹, Thomas Elgeti¹, Sebastian Papazoglou¹, Dieter Klatt¹, Uwe Hamhaber², Jürgen Braun², Ingolf Sack¹

¹Charité Berlin, Berlin, Germany; ²Charité, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

                  2596.    An Improved Approach of Quantifying Magnetic Moments of Small In-Vivo Objects

Ching-Yi Hsieh¹, Yu-Chung Norman Cheng¹, Jaladhar Neelavalli¹, E. Mark Haacke¹

¹Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

                  2597.    Simultaneous Quantification of Myocardial Deformation and T1-Relaxation

Andrea Kaspar Rutz¹, Salome Ryf¹, Sven Plein², Peter Boesiger¹, Sebastian Kozerke¹

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

                  2598.    Evaluation of Regurgitation and Turbulence of In-Plane Flow in Branch Pulmonary Arteries After Repair of

                               Tetralogy of Fallot by Means of Phase-Contrast MR Imaging

Jui-Yi Kuo¹, Cheng-Wen Ko¹, Ming-Ting Wu², ³, Tsung-Yu Yang¹, Yi-Ru Lin⁴

¹National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; ²Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; ³National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; ⁴National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

Musculoskeletal

                  2599.    MADNESS: Magic Angle Diffusion Employing the Steady State

Rebecca A. Quest¹, ², Donald William McRobbie¹, ²

¹Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK; ²Imperial College, London, UK

                  2600.    The Organic-Mineral Interface in Bone is Stabilized by Polysaccharides: {31P} – 13C REDOR Solid

                               State NMR Evidence

David G. Reid¹, Erica R. Wise¹, Melinda J. Duer¹, M Elisabeth Davies², Nigel Loveridge³, Rachel C. Murray⁴, Sergey Maltsev⁵, Christian Jaeger⁵

¹Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambs. CB2 1EW, UK; ²Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge, Cambs. CB3 0ES, UK; ³Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, Cambs CB2 2QQ, UK; ⁴Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, Suffolk CB2 1EW, UK; ⁵Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, D-12489, Germany

                  2601.    In Vivo Measurement of Intramyocellular Lipids in Pre-Diabetic and Diabetic Female Zucker Diabetic

                               Fatty Rats Using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Yanping Luo¹, Vincent P. Hradil¹, Amanda K. Mika¹, Andy L. Adler¹, Bradley A. Zinker¹, Pamela A. Rakestraw¹, Antoinette L. Bolin¹, Chih-Liang Chin¹, Gerard B. Fox¹, Yu-Gui Gu¹, Bryan F. Cox¹, Heidi S. Camp¹

¹Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois, USA

                  2602.    Muscle Atrophy Observed in Burns Due to Reduced Rate of ATP Synthesis by 31P NMR

Loukas G. Astrakas¹, Katie E. Padfield¹, Qunhao M. Zhang¹, George Dai¹, Haihui Cao¹, Dionyssios Mintzopoulos¹, Michael N. Mindrinos², Ronald G. Tompkins¹, Laurence G. Rahme¹, A Aria Tzika¹

¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Stanford University, California, USA

                  2603.    Localized Exchange Spectroscopy of Muscle at 3T

S. Sendhil Velan¹, Susan K. Lemieux¹, Raymond R. Raylman¹, Richard G. Spencer², M. Albert Thomas³

¹West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA; ²National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ³David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2604.    Correlation of Insulin Sensitivity and Replenishment of Intramyocellular Lipids (IMCL) as Observed

                               by ¹H-MRS

Michael Ith¹, Karin Zwygart¹, Rodrigue Stettler², Kim-Anne Lê², Emanuel Christ³, Jean-Paul Schmid³, Roland Kreis¹, Peter Vermathen¹, Chris Boesch¹

¹University Bern, Bern, Switzerland; ²University Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ³University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

                  2605.    UTE Acquisitions of Rat Knee at 9.4T

Andrea Protti¹, Amy Herlihy¹, Carsten Liess², Jimmy Bell³, Jean Tessier⁴

¹Imperial College London, London, UK, UK; ²AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK; ³Imperial College London, London, UK; ⁴AstraZenec, Macclesfiel, UK

                  2606.    Abnormalities in Magnesium (Mg) and ATP Levels Correlate with Muscle Dysfunction in Polymyositis

Jing Qi¹, ², Brittany C. Lee², Nancy J. Olsen³, Jane H. Park²

¹First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China; ²Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ³UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas, USA

                  2607.    Characterization of Bone Tumors with In-Vivo ¹H MR Spectroscopy

K A. Danishad¹, Pannalal Sah¹, Raju Sharma¹, Virendra Kumar¹, Uma Sharma¹, Ashu Seith¹, Shishir Rastogi¹, N R. Jagannathan¹

¹All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India

                  2608.    An NMR-Compatible, Minimally Invasive Electrical Stimulation Method to Study Rat Skeletal

                              Muscle Function In Vivo

Henk M.M. De Feyter¹, Stephan J. Majoor¹, Gustav J. Strijkers¹, Larry A.H. de Graaf¹, Klaas Nicolay¹, Jeanine J. Prompers¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

                  2609.    IMCL Is Increased in Adolescent Type 1 Diabetics - Comparison with Both Age Matched and Adult Controls

Alison Sleigh¹, Fiona Regan¹, Sally Harding¹, Rachel Williams¹, Burak Salgin¹, Tero Saukkonen¹, David Dunger¹, Adrian Carpenter¹

¹University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

                  2610.    High-Energy Phosphate (HEP) Metabolism During Exhaustive Calf Exercise in Patients with

                               Bilateral Symptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)

Andreas Geiner¹, Regina Esterhammer, Wolfram Santner, Werner Jaschke, Gustav Fraedrich, Michael Schocke

¹Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria

                  2611.    Downregulation of Uncoupling Protein-3 Is Linked to Changes in Muscle Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism

                               In Vivo as a Result of Capsiate Administration

Brice Faraut¹, Benoit Giannesini¹, Valery Matarazzo², Tanguy Marqueste¹, Geneviève Rougon², Patrick Cozzone¹, David Bendahan¹

¹Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale (CRMBM), UMR CNRS 6612, Marseille, France; ²Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille Luminy, UMR CNRS 6216, Marseille, France

                  2612.    Correlating Muscle Structure and Function with MRS and DTI

Norman B. Konyer¹, Michael D. Noseworthy¹, ²

¹St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ²McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

                  2613.    Relationship Between dGEMRIC and Other Histochemical Markers for Cartilage Proteoglycan Content

Mikko Johannes Nissi¹, Paul Ek², Miika T. Nieminen³, Jukka Sakari Jurvelin¹

¹University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; ²Åbo Akademi, Turku, Finland; ³Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland

                  2614.    Quantitative Ex Vivo MR Histology in Experimental Dog Osteoarthritis

Serguei M. Liachenko¹, Shantanu Dhamija¹, Yao Wang¹, Nidhi Jaiswal¹, Ping Chiao¹, Zhiyong Xie¹, Alison Bendele², James Hartke³, Teresa Sunyer³, John J. Kotyk⁴, Paul Guimond⁵, Erich Zinser⁵, Thomas Bocan¹

¹Pfizer, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ²Boulder BioPATH, Boulder, Colorado, USA; ³Pfizer, Inc., St Louis, Missouri, USA; ⁴Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA; ⁵Pfizer, Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

                  2615.    dGEMRIC of the First Carpometacarpal (1CMC) Joint: Initial Results

Ashley Williams¹, Sanjay K. Shetty¹, ², Deborah Burstein¹, ², Charles McKenzie¹, ²

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2616.    Quantitative T2 Mapping of Matrix-Associated Autologous Chondrocyte Transplantation at 3 Tesla:

                              An In Vivo Cross-Sectional Study

Siegfried Trattnig¹, Charles Tallal Mamisch², Christian Glaser³, Pavol Szomolanyi¹, ⁴, Simone Gebetsroither¹, Oliver Stastny⁵, Wilhelm Horger⁶, Stefan Marlovits⁷

¹Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland; ³Institut für klinische Radiologie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany; ⁴Institute of Measurement Science, Bratislava, Slovakia; ⁵Zentralklinikum, St.Pölten, Austria; ⁶Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany; ⁷Center for Joints and Cartilage, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

                  2617.    Variation in T2 Values Related to Method of Calculation: Implications for Correlative and Longitudinal Studies

Matthew F. Koff¹, Kimberly K. Amrami¹, Joel P. Felmlee¹, Kenton R. Kaufman¹

¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  2618.    Multi-Echo IDEAL-GRE Water-Fat Separation for Rapid Assessment of Cartilage Morphology

Christina A. Chen¹, Chand T. John², Brian A. Hargreaves², Scott B. Reeder³, Scott L. Delp², Robert A. Siston⁴, Garry E. Gold²

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²Stanford University, California, USA; ³University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ⁴Ohio State University, Ohio, USA

                  2619.    Suitability of T1(Gd) as the "dGEMRIC Index" at 1.5T and 3.0T

Ashley Williams¹, Brandon Mikulis¹, Nitya Krishnan¹, Charles McKenzie¹, ², Deborah Burstein¹, ²

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2620.    In Vivo High Resolution Imaging of the Knee at 7T-Potential for MRI of Osteoarthritis

Suchandrima Banerjee¹, ², Roland Krug¹, Duan Xu¹, Robert Stahl¹, Lucas Carvajal¹, Thomas M. Link¹, Douglas A. Kelley³, Daniel B. Vigneron¹, ², Sharmila Majumdar¹, ²

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

                  2621.    MRI of Maturation-Related Changes in Collagen Network of Human Femoral Cartilage

Ilkka Hannila¹, Risto O. Ojala¹, Osmo Tervonen¹, Miika T. Nieminen¹

¹Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland

                  2622.    In Vivo T1ρ Mapping in Cartilage Using 3D Magnetization-Prepared Angle-Modulated Partitioned-K-Space

                              Spoiled Gradient Echo Snapshots (3D MAPSS)

Xiaojuan Li¹, Eric T. Han², Reed F. Busse³, Sharmila Majumdar¹

¹University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ³GE Healthcare, Wisconsin, USA

                  2623.    T1(Gd) of Meniscus in dGEMRIC Scans: An Index of Meniscal Tissue Degeneration?

Nitya Krishnan¹, Ashley Williams¹, Brandon Mikulis¹, Charles McKenzie¹, ², Deborah Burstein¹, ³

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2624.    Identification and Prevention of Common Artefacts in ¹H-MR Spectra of Intramyocellular Lipids (IMCL)

Michael Ith¹, Peter Vermathen¹, Roland Kreis¹, Chris Boesch¹

¹University Bern, Bern, Switzerland

                  2625.    Change in Knee Cartilage T2 in Response to Mechanical Loading at 3.0 T

Takashi Nishii¹, Kagayaki Kuroda², Yuichiro Matsuoka², Tomohiro Sahara³, Hideki Yoshikawa¹

¹Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan; ²Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Japan; ³Osaka city University Hospital, Osaka, Japan

                  2626.    The Effect of Charge on the Uptake Kinetics and Distribution of Gadolinium Chelates in dGEMRIC

                               Cartilage MRI

Kenneth W. Fishbein¹, Holly C. Canuto¹, Richard G. Spencer¹

¹National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

                  2627.    Translational Motion Self-Navigation in Center Out Radial Micro-MRI of Trabecular Bone

Jeremy Magland¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹

¹University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2628.    Quantitative Bone Matrix Density Measured by Water and Fat Suppressed Proton Projection

                              MRI (WASPI) Using a Polymer Phantom

Haihui Cao¹, ², Jerome L. Ackerman, ²³, Lila Graham¹, ², Melvin J. Glimcher¹, ², Yaotang Wu¹, ²

¹Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2629.    Fully Automated Volume of Interest Segmentation in the Virtual Bone Biopsy

Jeremy F. Magland¹, Branimir Vasilic¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹

¹University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2630.    A Histogram Deconvolution Method for Trabecular Bone Microstructure Measurements Using High

                               Resolution MRI in the Presence of the Partial Volume Effect

Nachiko Iita¹, Shinya Handa¹, Sadanori Tomiha¹, Katsumi Kose¹, Tomoyuki Haishi²

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ²MRTechnology Inc., Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

                  2631.    Implications of Testosterone Treatment on Trabecular Bone Elastic Constants Assessed by Micro-Finite

                               Element Analysis of In Vivo Images

Felix W. Wehrli¹, Xiaowei Sherry Liu², Xiaohui Henry Zhang², Branimir Vasilic¹, Peter J. Snyder¹, X. Edward Guo²

¹University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Columbia University, New York, USA

                  2632.    MR Sequences for In-Vivo Trabecular Bone Imaging at 3 Tesla: Comparison with In-Vivo Micro-CT

Roland Krug¹, Julio Carbadillo-Gamiio¹, Andrew J. Burghardt¹, Ben Hyun¹, Suchandrima Banerjee¹, ², Galateia Kazakia¹, Markus Huber¹, Thomas M. Link¹, Sharmila Majumdar¹, ²

¹University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; ²University of California San Francisco - University of California Berkeley, California, USA

                  2633.    In Vivo Assessment of Trabecular Bone Microstructure of the Distal Radius Using a Compact MRI

Shinya Handa¹, Sadanori Tomiha¹, Katsumi Kose¹, Tomoyuki Haishi²

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ²MRTechnology Inc., Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

                  2634.    In-Vivo Trabecular Bone Imaging at 7 Tesla

Roland Krug¹, Suchandrima Banerjee¹, ², Julio Carbadillo-Gamiio¹, Lucas Carvajal¹, Andrew J. Burghardt¹, Ben Hyun¹, Duan Xu¹, Daniel Vigneron¹, Thomas M. Link¹, Sharmila Majumdar¹, ²

¹University of California in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; ²University of California in San Francisco - University of California Berkeley, California, USA

                  2635.    High Time Resolution DWI of Muscle Contraction During Electrical Simulation

Yasuharu Watanabe¹, Keisaku Kimura¹, Masahiro Umeda¹, Toshihiro Higuchi¹, Chuzo Tanaka¹

¹Meiji University of Oriental Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

                  2636.    A Dynamic ¹H-MRS Study on Intramyocellular Lipid Accumulation in the Infusion of Lipids Differing in the

                               Degrees of Saturated Fatty Acid Acyl Chains

Min-Hui Cui¹, Vlad Tomuta¹, Harsha Jayatillake¹, Greg Cruikshank¹, Jong Hee Hwang¹, Daniel T. Stein¹

¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA

                  2637.    Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Function and Intramyocellular Lipids in the Diabetic ZDF Rat: A Longitudinal

                               Study Using In Vivo ³¹P and ¹H MRS

Henk M.M. De Feyter¹, Stephan J. Majoor¹, Larry A.H. de Graaf¹, Klaas Nicolay¹, Jeanine J. Prompers¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

                  2638.    Musculoskeletal Imaging Using 3D Ultrashort TE Scanning at 7.0 T

Jürgen Rahmer¹, Peter Börnert¹, Jan P. Groen², Roger Luechinger³, Peter Boesiger³

¹Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; ²Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands; ³Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Zürich, Switzerland

                  2639.    Using In Vivo High Resolution Finger MRI to Study Scleroderma – A Feasibility Study and Preliminary Results

Jinnan Wang¹, Vasily Yarnykh¹, Cecil Hayes¹, Mark Mathis¹, Stephen Schwartz¹, Chun Yuan¹

¹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2640.    Fat Water Separation in Mice

Janaka Wansapura¹, Xuandong Zhao¹, David Hui²

¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ²University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

                  2641.    Investigating GSD Type III Patients with Multi-Parametric Functional NMR Imaging and Spectroscopy

Claire Wary¹, Céline Baligand¹, Aleksandra Nadaj-Pakleza¹, ², Aurélien Monnet¹, Philippe Labrune³, Bruno Eymard¹, Pascal Laforêt¹, Pierre G. Carlier¹

¹Institute of Myology, Paris, France; ²Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; ³Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France

                  2642.    Metabolic Characterization of Muscular Dystrophy, Inflammatory and Mitochondrial Myopathy Using in

                               Vitro MRS

Uma Sharma¹, N R. Jagannathan¹, Chaturbhuj Rathore¹, Sanjay Juyal¹, Sumit Singh¹, Chitra Sarkar¹

¹All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India

                  2643.    Proton Spectroscopy of Humans Skeletal Muscle at 7T

Craig Malloy¹, Dean Sherry¹, Eddy Wong², Robert Gauss², Tom Cull², Michael Thompson², James Murdoch²

¹University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA; ²Philips Medical Systems, Cleveland, Ohio

                  2644.    Magnetic Resonance Spectoroscopic (MRS) Analysis of the Osteonecrotic Intercalated Bone

Yukihko Obara¹, Toshiyasu Nakamura, Nastuya Osada, Hiroshi Shinmoto², Yoshiaki Toyama

¹Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University, School of Medicine, Shinjyukuku Sinanomachi 35, Tokyo, Japan; ²Department of Diagnostic Radiology, School of Medicine, Keio University,

                  2645.    Metabolic Alterations in Exercising Muscle of Patients with Becker Muscular Dystophy Assessed by 31P MRS

Stefania Linsalata¹, Roberta Battini¹, Gabriele Siciliano², Claudio Cini¹, Leda Volpi², Giovanni Cioni¹, ², Otello Presciutti³, Michela Tosetti¹

¹IRCCS Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy; ²University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; ³University General Hospital, Perugia, Italy

                  2646.    Spectroscopic Imaging of Cryopreservative Concentration and Diffusion in Cartilage

Richard Thompson¹, Jianping Yu², Janet Elliott², Locksley McGann²

¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; ²University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

                  2647.    MR Arthrography in Patients with Shoulder Instability: Cartilage Loss Associated with Labral Tears and

                               Bone Marrow Edema

Gesa Neumann¹, Kelly H. Zou, ², Hiroshi Yoshioka¹, John Anthony Carrino, ¹³, Peter Millett, ¹⁴, Philipp Lang¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; ⁴Steadman Hawkins Clinic, Vail, Colorado, USA

                  2648.    In Vivo T₂, T_1ρ, and Sodium Imaging of Articular Cartilage at 3.0T: Initial Experience

Garry E. Gold¹, Neal K. Bangerter¹, Ernesto K. Staroswiecki¹, Eric Han², Paul K. Gurney¹, Graham A. Wright³, Brian A. Hargreaves¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA; ³University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

                  2649.    High-Resolution MRI of the Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex (TFCC) at 3T: Comparison of Surface

                              Coil and Volume Coil

Bernd Bittersohl¹, Thomas Huang¹, Erika Schneider², Philip Blazar³, Carl Winalski¹, Philipp Lang¹, Hiroshi Yoshioka¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²SciTrials, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ³Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2650.    Intra- And Inter-Observer Reproducibility of Meniscal Damage Scores at 3.0T: Using WORMS

Sharon Balamoody¹, Mark Oldale¹, Charles Edward Hutchinson¹

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

                  2651.    SLIPS - A Novel Method for Rapid Three-Dimensional Spin-Locked Imaging

Sampreet Niyogi¹, Walter Witschey¹, Chenyang Wang¹, Arijitt Borthakur¹, Ravinder Reddy¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2652.    Longitudinal Changes in the Heterogeneity of Cartilage T₂ in Osteoarthritis Subjects

Gabrielle Blumenkrantz¹, Robert Stahl¹, Julio Carballido-Gamio¹, Thomas M. Link¹, Sharmila Majumdar¹

¹UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2653.    Comparison of Qualitative Assessment of Knee Osteoarthritis on Three 3.0T MR Systems from

                               Different Manufacturers.

sharon Balamoody¹, john c. Waterton², richard Hodgson³, charles edward Hutchinson

¹University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; ²AstraZeneca; ³University of Liverpool,

                  2654.    Topographical Variation of T2 Relaxation Time in Adult Knee Cartilage at 1.5T

Ilkka Hannila¹, S Susanna Räinä¹, Erkki Rauvala¹, Osmo Tervonen¹, Risto O. Ojala¹, Miika T. Nieminen¹

¹Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland

                  2655.    Investigation of SNR for DTI with Human Articular Cartilage at 17.6 Tesla

Daniel Ludwig Weber¹, ², Lucianna Filidoro², Olaf Dietrich², Jürgen Weber², Maximilian Reiser², Peter Michael Jakob¹, Christian Glaser²

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; ²LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

                  2656.    Cartilage T2 Assessment at 3 Tesla: In Vivo Differentiation of Normal Hyaline Cartilage and Reparative

                               Tissue in Patients After Different Cartilage Repair Procedures

Goetz Hannes Welsch¹, Tallal Charles Mamisch², Timothy Hughes³, Stephan Domayer¹, Klaus Friedrich¹, Luisa Brandi¹, Stefan Marlovits¹, Siegfried Trattnig¹

¹Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  2657.    Simultaneous Acquisition of Morphological Images and Functional T2 Values: A Feasibility Study in Patients

                              After Cartilage Repair in the Knee Using a Double Echo Steady State (DESS) Approach at 3 Tesla

Goetz Hannes Welsch¹, Tallal Charles Mamisch², Timothy Hughes³, Klaus Friedrich¹, Stefan Marlovits¹, Michael Deimling³, Siegfried Trattnig¹

¹Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland; ³Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  2658.    Parallel Imaging of Knee Cartilage at 3 Tesla

Jin Zuo¹, Xiaojuan Li¹, Suchandrima Banerjee¹, Eric Han², Sharmila Majumdar¹

¹University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; ²GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California, USA

                  2659.    T2 and T2* Mapping of the Human Femoral-Tibial Cartilage at 1.5 and 3 Tesla

Beate M. Wietek¹, Petros Martirosian¹, Jürgen Machann¹, Christian Müller-Horvath¹, Claus D. Claussen¹, Fritz Schick¹

¹Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany

                  2660.    In Vivo Co-Registered Proton T1ρ and Sodium MRI of the Human Knee

Sampreet Niyogi¹, Mallikarjunarao Kasam¹, Reddy Shashank Beesam¹, Arijitt Borthakur¹, Ravinder Reddy¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2661.    Localized Inter-Subject Comparison of Knee Cartilage Thickness, T2 and T1ρ: Generating an Atlas of the Knee

Julio Carballido-Gamio¹, Xiaojuan Li¹, Thomas M. Link¹, Sharmila Majumdar¹

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

                  2662.    Longitudinal T2 Relaxation Times Following Treatment for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Akila Rajagopal¹, Bernard Joseph Dardzinski¹, ²

¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ²University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

                  2663.    Changes of T2 Values of Patellar Cartilage in Subjects with Osteoarthritis Over a One Year Time Period

Matthew F. Koff¹, Kimberly K. Amrami¹, Kenton R. Kaufman¹

¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

                  2664.    Validation of Rat Muscle Volume Measurement by MRI as a Frailty Biomarker

Shananu Dhamija¹, Brandy Morenko¹, Chikwendu Ibebunjo², Serguei M. Liachenko¹

¹Pfizer, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; ²Pfizer, Inc., Groton, Connecticut, USA

                  2665.    Quantitative MRI Analysis of Skeletal Muscle Injury and Regeneration in a Rat Hindlimb Model

Thomas Neuberger¹, Andrew Webb¹, Jennifer Olczak, Nicole McBrier

¹Huck Institute Magnetic Resonance Centre, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2666.    Measurement of Skeletal Muscle Perfusion at Rest and Its Change After Exercise Using Arterial

                               Spin-Labelling

Wolfgang Wiedemair¹, ², Marc-André Weber¹, Alexander Kroll¹, Peter Kindl², Lothar Rudi Schad¹

¹German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany; ²University of Technology, Graz, Austria

                  2667.    Optimization of In Vivo Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Muscles of the Human Lower Leg: 

                               Application to Fiber Tracking Under Plantarflexed Conditions of the Foot

Usha Sinha¹, David Shin¹, Reginald V. Edgerton¹, Shantanu Sinha²

¹University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA; ²University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

                  2668.    Recruitment of Spinal Muscles in Static Postures

Judith R. Meakin¹, Scott I. Semple¹, Thomas W. Redpath¹, Richard M. Aspden¹, Fiona J. Gilbert¹

¹University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

                  2669.    Bi-Exponential T2 Decay in Hydrodynamic Vascular Gene Therapy

Karl K. Vigen¹, Julia Hegge², Guofeng Zhang¹, Jon Wolff, ¹², Thomas M. Grist¹

¹University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; ²Mirus Bio Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

                  2670.    Fat Infiltration in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: Quantification on T1-Weighted Images for Steroid-Treated

                               DMD Boys and Control Subjects

Penny Garrood¹, Kieren Grant Hollingsworth¹, Peter E. Thelwall¹, Daniel Birchall², Kate Bushby¹, Volker Straub¹

¹Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; ²Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

                  2671.    High-Resolution MRI of Internal Field Diffusion-Weighting in Trabecular Bone

Eric Edward Sigmund¹, ², Hyungjoon Cho², Yi-Qiao Song², Edward X. Guo³

¹New York University, New York, New York, USA; ²Schlumberger, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA; ³Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

                  2672.    Spatial Mapping of Mineralization with Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Microscopy

Ingrid Elizabeth Chesnick¹, Jose A. Centeno², Todor I. Todorov³, Kimberlee Potter¹

¹Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, USA; ²Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, District Of Columbia, USA; ³US Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado, USA

                  2673.    Trabecular Bone Analysis: Correlation of 3D Structural Features with 3D Texture Analysis

Hussain Z. Tameem¹, Usha Sinha¹

¹University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2674.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Fractures of the Tibia Using Ultrashort TE Pulse Sequences: 

                               A Feasibility Study

Ines L. Reichert¹, Mark Bydder², Gavin Hamilton², Jiang Du², Graeme M. Bydder²

¹Charing Cross Hospital, London, England, UK; ²University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

                  2675.    Quantification of Bone-Water Concentration in the Human Tibia In Vivo by 3T Solid-State Radial Imaging

Aranee Techawiboonwong¹, Hee Kwon Song¹, Felix W. Wehrli¹

¹University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2676.    Nonlinear Modelling of Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Gd Imaging Data in Rheumatoid Arthritis:

                               Extraction of Ktrans

Paul S. Tofts¹, Kelvin K. Leung², Kate McLeish², Tobias Schaeffter³, Bruce W. Kirkham⁴, Stephen P. Oakley⁴, Derek L. Hill²

¹Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK; ²IXICO Ltd, UK; ³KCL, UK; ⁴Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation Trust, London, UK

                  2677.    Ex-Vivo MR Imaging of Trabecular Bone Structure at 1.5T and 3T

Markus B. Huber¹, Priyesh V. Patel¹, Jan S. Bauer¹, Sven Prevrhal¹, Sharmila Majumdar¹, Thomas M. Link¹

¹UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA

                  2678.    Reproducibility of Bone Microstructure Parameters Measured with a Compact MRI for a Finger

Nachiko Iita¹, Shinya Handa¹, Sadanori Tomiha¹, Katsumi Kose¹, Tomoyuki Haishi²

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; ²MRTechnology Inc., Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

                  2679.    Evaluation of Bioreactor-Cultivated Bone by Magnetic Resonance Microscopy

Ingrid Elizabeth Chesnick¹, Francis A. Avallone², Richard D. Leapman³, William J. Landis⁴, Naomi Eidelman⁵, Kimberlee Potter¹

¹Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, Maryland, USA; ²Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, District Of Columbia, USA; ³National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; ⁴Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown, Ohio, USA; ⁵National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA

                  2680.    Accuracy of Using Real-Time MRI for Joint Motion Measurements: A Phantom Study

Christine Elizabeth Draper¹, Juan M. Santos¹, Lampros Kourtis¹, Thor F. Besier¹, Gary S. Beaupre¹, ², Scott L. Delp¹, Garry E. Gold¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA

                  2681.    MR Bone Atlases for Shape Characterization

Hussain Z. Tameem¹, Siamak Ardekani¹, Usha Sinha¹

¹University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

                  2682.    1T MR Imaging of Trabecular Bone at the Distal Radius Using a Dedicated RF Coil

Xiaoli Zhang¹, Dean Inglis¹, Norm B. Konyer², Michael D. Noseworthy, ¹², Johnathan D. Adachi¹, Colin E. Webber, ¹³

¹McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ²St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ³Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

                  2683.    Quantification of the Association Between the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient and Age in Normal Pediatric Hips

John DeWolfe MacKenzie¹, Andrea Hernandez¹, Leonardo Gonzalez¹, Katherine Taylor¹, Abbas F. Jawad¹, Kai Ruppert¹, Diego Jaramillo¹

¹Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2684.    T1ρ and T2 of Fat and Water as Surrogate Markers for Trabecular Bone Structure

Eveliina Lammentausta¹, ², Miika T. Nieminen², Jukka S. Jurvelin¹, ³, Olli H J Gröhn⁴

¹University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; ²Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland; ³Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland; ⁴A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

                  2685.    Fast Parametric Imaging of the Spine with Radial IDEAL-GRASE

Maria I. Altbach¹, Zhiqiang Li¹, Ali Bilgin¹, Kenneth L. Weiss²

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; ²University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

                  2686.    In Vivo Quantification of Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Degeneration Using Axial T2 Mapping

Atsuya Watanabe¹, Lorin Benneker¹, Chris Boesch¹, Tomoko Watanabe², Takayuki Obata³, Toshiyuki Okubo⁴, Suzanne Anderson¹

¹University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; ²Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; ³National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan; ⁴Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center, Ichihara, Japan

                  2687.    Vertebral Perfusion in Disc Degeneration Patients Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhancement MR Imaging

Te-Cheng Lai¹, Yi-Jui Liu¹, Chun-Jung Juan², Wing P Chan³, Hsiao-Wen Chung⁴

¹Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, Taiwan; ²Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan; ³Taipei Medical University-Municipal Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan; ⁴National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan

                  2688.    Quantitative Assessment of Anemic Patient's Bone Marrow Using Apparent Diffusion

                               Coefficient with GRAPPA

Eito Kozawa¹, Waka Mizukoshi², Naoko Nishi³, Fumiko Kimura⁴, Atsuko Heshiki⁴

¹Saitama Medical University, Iruma-gun, saitama, Japan; ²Saitama Medical University, Iruma-gun, Japan; ³Saitama Medical University, Iruma-gun, Saitama, Japan; ⁴Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan

                  2689.    Quantitative Assessment of Compression Fracture Using Apparent Diffusion Coefficient with GRAPPA: 

                               Acute, Chronic, and Pathological Compression Fractures

Eito Kozawa¹, Kaiji Inoue¹, Waka Mizukoshi¹, Momoko Irisawa¹, Fumiko Kimura¹, Fumiko Kimura¹

¹Saitama Medical University, Iruma-gun, Saitama, Japan

                  2690.    Rabbit’s Intervertebral Disc In Vivo  Imaging at 9.4 T

Fanny Noury¹, Frédéric Szeremeta¹, Sandra Même¹, Jean-Claude Beloeil¹

¹CNRS, Orléans, France

                  2691.    Calf Muscle Perfusion Measurement by Rapid Time-Resolved Spiral FAIR-ASL

Hanna Woldeyesus¹, Christopher M. Kramer¹, Frederick H. Epstein¹, Weitian Chen¹, Christopher T. Sica¹, Wen-Tung Wang¹, Craig H. Meyer¹

¹University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

                  2692.    Accelerated High Field CINE MR Imaging of Tongue Motion During Speech Production

Sayoko Takano¹, Jane F. Utting¹, Tobias Frauenrath¹, Malte Kob¹, Thoralf Niendorf¹

¹RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

                  2693.    Ultrashort Echo Time Imaging of the Shoulder

Clemens Bos¹, Jan Groen¹, Juergen Rahmer²

¹Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands; ²Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Germany

                  2694.    T1 and T2 Relaxation Times of Human Median Nerve at 3 Tesla

Giulio Gambarota¹, Ralf Mekle¹, Vladimír Mlynárik¹, Gunnar Krueger², Rolf Gruetter¹, ³

¹Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Lausanne, Switzerland; ³Universities of Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland

                  2695.    First Protocol for High Field MRI of the Knee at 7.0 Tesla

Oliver Kraff¹, ², Jens M. Theysohn¹, ², Stefan Maderwald¹, ², Charles Saylor³, Susanne C. Ladd¹, ², Mark E. Ladd¹, ², Joerg Barkhausen²

¹University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany; ²University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany; ³Invivo Corporation, Gainesville, Florida, USA

                  2696.    Simultaneous Image Acquisition of Human Extremities Using a Super-Parallel MRI

Fumi Okada¹, Shinya Handa¹, Katsumi Kose¹

¹University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

                  2697.    Quantification of Intramyocellular Lipids (IMCL) in Mouse Models of Insulin Resistance

Basil Künnecke¹, Agnès Bénardeau¹, Philippe Verry¹, Effie Tozzo¹, Markus von Kienlin¹

¹F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland

                  2698.    Combination of IDEAL and ARC Imaging to Obtain Homogeneous Fat Saturation in the Brachial Plexus

                               Within Clinically Acceptable Time Parameters

Allison Michele Grayev¹, Wei Sun², Ann Shimakawa², Anja Brau², Philip Beatty³, Howard A. Rowley¹, Lindell R. Gentry¹, Huanzhou Yu², Jean Brittain², Scott B. Reeder¹

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

                  2699.    Severely Reduced Creatine Levels in Skeletal Muscle and Brain of Mice Lacking Arginine:

                               Glycine Amidinotransferase Assessed by Multinuclear MRS

Hermien E. Kan¹, Christine I.H.C. Nabuurs¹, W KlaasJan Renema¹, Ruben Peco², Dirk Isbrandt², Arend Heerschap¹

¹Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands; ²Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

                  2700.    Recovery Kinetics Throughout Successive Bouts of Various Exercises in Professional Road Cyclists

David Bendahan¹, François HUG, ¹², Yann Le Fur¹, Laurent Grélot¹, Patrick J. Cozzone³

¹University of Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France; ²University of Nantes, Nantes, France; ³University of Aix-Marseille II, Marseille, France, Metropolitan

Body GI & Liver

                  2701.    Feasibility of Simultaneous Evaluation of Coexistant Liver Iron and Fat Content with T2*-IDEAL

Jesse Wei¹, Charles Alexander McKenzie¹, Huanzhou Yu², Ann Shimakawa², Ivan Pedrosa¹, Jean H. Brittain², Scott B. Reeder³

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

                  2702.    Quantification of Liver Volume, Liver Fat Fraction and Subcutaneous-Visceral Fat Changes with

                              3T MRI After Hypocaloric Diet in Morbidly Obese Patients

Abe Shaikh¹, Bachir Taouli¹, Ting Song², Heekoung Youn¹, George Fielding¹, Andrew Laine², Christine Ren¹

¹NYU Medical Center, New York, New York, USA; ²Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

                  2703.    Comparison of MRI and Histopathologic Methods of Quantifying Hepatic Fat Fraction

John David Biglands¹, Daniel Wilson¹, Janice Ward¹, Darren Treanor¹, Ashley Guthrie¹, Anju Nijhawan¹, Jonathan Smith¹, Judy Wyatt¹, Philip Robinson¹

¹Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK

                  2704.    Quantifying Hepatic Lipid Content and T2* Decay Using a Single Breath-Hold Multiecho Sequence at 3 Tesla

Declan P. O'Regan¹, Martina F. Callaghan¹, Marzena Wylezinska-Arridge¹, Julie Fitzpatrick¹, Rossi P. Naoumova¹, Joseph V. Hajnal¹, Stephan A. Schmitz¹

¹Imperial College, London, UK

                  2705.    A Comparison of Continuously Moving Table and Multi–Station 3D Whole-Body Water-Fat Separation

Peter Koken¹, Jochen Keupp¹, Peter Börnert¹

¹Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany

                  2706.    Effect of Maternal and Early Dietary Intake on Body Composition and Function

Jelena Anastasovska¹, Po-Wah So¹, Neena Modi², Gary Frost³, Jimmy D. Bell¹

¹Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; ²Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK; ³School of Biomedical and Molecular Science, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

                  2707.    Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Measurements of Intra-Hepatic Lipid Levels in Mouse

                               Via Localized 1H MRS

Corin O'Dell Miller¹, Dan Zhou¹, Haiying Liu¹

¹Merck, Rahway, New Jersey, USA

                  2708.    Monitoring of Glycogen Synthesis in Liver of Diabetic Patients Using ¹³C-MR Spectroscopy

Moyoko Tomiyasu¹, Takayuki Obata¹, Yukio Nishi, ¹², Hiromitsu Nakamoto, ¹², Hiroi Nonaka¹, Yukihisa Takayama¹, ³, Hiroo Ikehira¹, Iwao Kanno¹

¹National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba city, Chiba, Japan; ²Japan Tobacco Inc., Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan; ³Kyushu University, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka, Japan

                  2709.    The Effect of Pioglitazone on Muscle and Liver Triglyceride Content and Total Body Fat in

                               Patients with Familial Combined Hyperlipidaemia

Elizabeth Louise Thomas¹, Elizabeth Potter², Isabella Tosi², Julie Fitzpatrick¹, Gavin Hamilton¹, Vian Amber³, Robert Hughes³, Chris North⁴, Paul Holvoet⁵, Mary Seed⁶, D John Betteridge⁴, Jimmy David Bell¹, Rossi Naoumova²

¹MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus, London, UK; ²MRC CSC, UK; ³Imperial College London, UK; ⁴UCL, UK; ⁵Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; ⁶Charing Cross Hospital, UK

                  2710.    Characterization of a Rodent Model of Metabolic Syndrome by MRS and MRI

David H. Johnson¹, Chris A. Flask¹, ², Dinah P. Wan¹, Paul R. Ernsberger¹, David L. Wilson¹, ²

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

                  2711.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy for Measuring Hepatic Steatosis

Gary John Cowin¹, Julie R. Jonsson², Bauer D. Judith³, ⁴, Susan Ash⁴, Azmat Ali⁵, Emma J. Osland⁵, David M. Purdie⁶, Andrew D. Clouston⁷, Graham John Galloway¹, Elizabeth E. Powell²

¹University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queenlsand, Australia; ²University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia; ³Wesley Research Institute, Australia; ⁴Queensland University of Technology, Australia; ⁵Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia; ⁶Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Australia; ⁷Histopath Laboratories, Australia

                  2712.    Assessing the Potential of ¹H MRS in Analyzing the Effects of Various Dietary Fatty Acids on Normal Colon

Sonal Davda¹, ², Ranjana Bird³, Michael Eskin², Brion Dolenko¹, Tedros Bezabeh¹, ²

¹Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ²University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ³University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

                  2713.    Changes of Rate Constant of Creatine Kinase Reaction in Human Brain During Hypoglycaemia

                               Measured by ³¹P NMR Saturation Transfer

Štefan Zbýn¹, Martina Mandl¹, Vladimír Mlynárik², Miriam Promintzer¹, Anton Luger¹, Michael Krebs¹, Christian Anderwald¹, Ewald Moser¹, Martin G. Bischof¹

¹Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

                  2714.    Patients with Acromegaly Exhibit Altered Mitochondrial Function Despite Successful Treatment

Albrecht I. Schmid¹, ², Marek Chmelik¹, ², Julia Szendroedi², Elisabeth Zwettler³, ⁴, Giovanni Pacini⁵, Gertrud Kacerovsky³, Christoph Schnack⁶, Guntram Schernthaner⁶, Oswald Wagner¹, Klaus Klaushofer³, ⁴, Ewald Moser¹, Michael Roden², ³

¹Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; ²Karl-Landsteiner Institute of Endocriniology and metabolism, Vienna, Austria; ³Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria; ⁴Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Osteology, Vienna, Austria; ⁵National Research Council, Padova, Italy; ⁶Rudolfstiftung Hospital, Vienna, Austria

                  2715.    Characterization of Liver Neoplasms with a Fast Radial-FSE Imaging Technique.

Negar Geula Knowles¹, Eric K. Outwater², Maria I. Altbach²

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; ²University or Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

                  2716.    Solid Hypervascular Liver Lesions: Accurate Identification of True Benign Lesions on

                               Delayed Hepatobiliary Phase MR Imaging After Gadobenate Dimeglumine

Giovanni Morana¹, Luigi Grazioli², Guenther Schneider³, Maria Pia Bondioni², Niccolo' Faccioli⁴, Alessandro Guarise⁵, Miles A. Kirchin⁶

¹Ospedale Cà Foncello, Treviso, Italy; ²University of Brescia, Italy; ³University Hospital, Homburg/Saar, Germany, Germany; ⁴University of Verona, Italy; ⁵Ospedale Cà Foncello, Italy; ⁶Bracco Imaging SpA, Milano, Italy, Italy

                  2717.    Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Measurements in Chemoembolized Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Sooah Kim¹, Bachir Taouli¹, Charan Singh¹, Alec Goldenberg¹, Hearns Charles¹, Theresa Aquino¹, Timothy Clark¹

¹NYU Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

                  2718.    The Liver Response to Hemorrhagic Shock and Subsequent Resuscitation – fMRI Analysis

Rinat Abramovitch¹, Orit Pappo¹, Hila Barash¹, Idit Matot¹

¹Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

                  2719.    Proton Single Voxel Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Liver Fat Evaluation of Patients with

                               Planned Liver Resection – Methods and First Experiences

Jozef Urdzik¹, Michal Bittšanský¹, Vladimír Bartoš¹, Anna Drgová¹, Ludovít Laca¹, Dušan Dobrota¹

¹Martin Faculty Hospital and Jessenius Medical Faculty, Comenius University, Martin, Slovakia

                  2720.    Application of T2* Map to the Liver Before and After SPIO Administration: Correlation with Liver Function

Kengo Yoshimitsu¹, Hiroyuki Irie¹, Tsuyoshi Tajima¹, Akihiro Nishie¹, Masakazu Hirakawa¹, Kousei Ishigami¹, Yasuhiro Ushijima¹, Daisuke Okamoto¹, Shutaro Saiki², Tomoyuki Okuaki², Marc Van Cauteren², Hiroshi Honda¹

¹Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; ²Philips Medical Systems, Tokyo, Japan

                  2721.    Application of Signal-Time Analysis for Perfusion Imaging with High Temporal Resolution

Niels Oesingmann¹, Jeffrey Goldman², ³

¹Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., New York, New York, USA; ²Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ³Manhattan Diagnostic Radiology, New York, New York, USA

                  2722.    Functional Liver Imaging Using Inter-Pixel Cross Correlation (IPCC): A Brute Force Univariate Approach

Zhaoyang Fan¹, Michael D. Noseworthy², ³, Colm Boylan, ²⁴

¹Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA; ²McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ³Brain-Body Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; ⁴St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

                  2723.    A New 3D Approach for Clinical In- And Opposed-Phase MRI at 3 T

Brian M. Dale¹, Elmar M. Merkle²

¹Siemens Medical Solutions, Cary, North Carolina, USA; ²Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  2724.    Single Session Whole Body T2-Weighted and T1-Weighted MRI (Both with and without Fat Suppression)

Jingfei Ma¹, Colleen Costelloe¹, Vikas Kundra¹, Yuxiang Zhou¹, Marjorie Green¹, Gabriel N. Hortobagyi¹, John E. Madewell¹

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

                  2725.    Diffusion-Weighted Whole Body MR Imaging with Background Body Signal Suppression:

                               A Feasibility Study at 3.0 Tesla

Petra Mürtz¹, Carsten Krautmacher¹, Frank Träber¹, Jürgen Gieseke, ¹², Hans H. Schild¹, Winfried A. Willinek¹

¹University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; ²Philips Medical Systems, Best, Netherlands

                  2726.    Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Pancreatic Inflammation in Type 1 Diabetes

Zdravka Medarova¹, Elijah Bolotin², Anna Moore¹

¹Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA; ²PharmaIN, Seattle, Washington, USA

                  2727.    Automatic Registration and Segmentation of Pancreatic Images

Girish Kumar Maniprasad¹, ², Nirvish Shah², Bharat Biswal²

¹NJIT, Newark, New Jersey, USA; ²UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, USA

                  2728.    Correlation of Diffusion WI to Histopathological Findings of Lymph Node in Rectosigmoid Cancer

Vicente Martinez Sanjuan¹, Vicente Hervas Briz², Encarna Martinez²,Jjose Vicente Roig², Isabel Elia³,Ccarlos Quiles Teodoro³, Federico Mata Escolano³, Jose Manuel Esteban³, Raquel Garcia³, Antonio Alonso Manjarres², Francisco Villalba²,Jjuan Garcia-Armengol²,  Julian Celma Marin²

¹ERESA-CHGUV, Picassent-Valencia, Valencia, Spain; ²Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia Spain; ³ERESA-CHGUV, Valencia, Spain

                  2729.    Esophagus Imaging by 3D FSE with Combination of Inner Volume Excitation and

                               Variable Refocusing Flip Angles

Yuji Iwadate¹, Takao Goto¹, Akira Nabetani¹, Mitsuharu Miyoshi¹, Kenji Asano¹, Tetsuji Tsukamoto¹

¹GE Yokogawa Medical Systems, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

Body MRI - Renal

                  2730.    Kidney and Renal Cysts Volume Calculation Based on MR Data: A Reproducibility Study with

                               ADPKD Patients

Martin Buechert¹, Ralph Strecker², Oliver Schäfer¹, Wilfried Reichardt¹

¹University Clinic Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

                  2731.    In Vivo MR-Monitoring of Kidney and Renal Cyst Volume in Preclinical Mouse Model Under Therapy

Wilfried Reichardt¹, Anne Becker¹, Dominik von Elverfeldt¹, Gerd Walz¹, Martin Buechert¹

¹University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

                  2732.    Renal Cortical Volume Measured by MRI: A Feasibility Study Towards Estimation of Total

                               Number of Glomerular in the Kidney

Kristian Karstoft¹, Anders Bergh Lødrup¹, Thomas Heide Dissing¹, Jens Randel Nyengaard¹, Michael Pedersen¹

¹Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

                  2733.    BOLD and Sodium MRI of the Human Kidney: Preliminary Experience with Patients

Yael Rosen¹, ², Gabor Bodonyi-Kovacs¹, ², Nicole Hindman¹, ², Neil M. Rofsky¹, ², Robert E. Lenkinski¹, ², Franklin H. Epstein¹, ²

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2734.    In Vivo Sodium Imaging of Rat Kidney at High Temporal and Spatial Resolutions

Haiying Liu¹, Martin G. Kohler¹, Xiaolan Shen¹, Maria L. Garcia¹, Maggie Alonso-Galicia¹, Don S. Williams², Gregory J. Kaczorowski¹, Richard J. Hargreaves²

¹Merck Research Labs, Rahway, New Jersey, USA; ²Merck Research Labs, West Point, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2735.    Evaluation of Renal Function with Diffusion Weighted MRI of the Kidneys

Byard Edwards¹, Graham Sommer¹, Bing Ho¹, Bryan D. Myers¹, Larry Chow², Roland Bammer¹

¹Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ²Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon, USA

                  2736.    Characterization of T1 Hyperintense Renal Lesions with Diffusion-Weighted Imaging: Preliminary Experience

Sooah Kim¹, Monica Jain¹, Elizabeth Hecht¹, Vivian Lee¹, Bachir Taouli¹

¹NYU Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

                  2737.    Characterization of Adrenal Tumors with Single Breath-Hold In-Phase/Opposed-Phase

                              MR Imaging at 3.0 Tesla: Comparison of Different Echo Time Pairs

Elmar Max Merkle¹, Brian J. Soher¹, Brian M. Dale², Sebastian Tobias Schindera¹

¹Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions, Cary, North Carolina, USA

                  2738.    ¹H MRS Assessment of Spermatogenic Activity in Experimentally Injured Rat Testes

Masayuki Yamaguchi¹, Fumiyuki Mitsumori¹, Hidehiro Watanabe¹, Nobuhiro Takaya¹, Manabu Minami²

¹National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan; ²Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

                  2739.    Use of MRI in the Analysis of Corporal Fibrosis in the Rat

H Carl Le¹, Nelson Bennett¹, ², Dov Winkleman¹, Jason Koutcher¹, Hedvig Hricak¹, Peter Scardino¹, John Mulhall²

¹Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; ²Cornell Medical School, New York, New York, USA

MRS of Cells and Body Fluids

                  2740.    Examination of the Role of Glutamine in Human Glioma Cell Metabolism with ¹³C and ¹⁵N NMR Spectroscopy

Anthony Mancuso¹, Ralph J. Deberardinis¹, Craig B. Thompson¹

¹University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

                  2741.    Indirect Detection of Phosphorus-31 Signals in Cells by 2D-Heteronuclear Methods

Inna Freikman¹, Meidan Goldfinger¹, Jack S. Cohen¹, Dan Gibson¹, Israel Ringel¹

¹The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

                  2742.    Choline Phospholipid Characterization of Hox B7 Overexpressing MCF-7 Cells

Tariq Shah¹, Zhu Tao², Sara Sukumar², Zaver Bhujwalla¹

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

                  2743.    Chemotherapy-Induced Changes of Intracellular Water Diffusion in Cultured Cells

Jean-Philippe Galons¹, Joseph L. Divijak¹, David Morse¹, Kevin Harkins¹, Robert J. Gillies¹, Theodore Trouard¹

¹University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

                  2744.    ³¹P NMR of Phospholipid Metabolites in Postmortem Schizophrenic Brain

Richard A. Komoroski¹, ², John M. Pearce¹, ², Robert E. Mrak²

¹University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; ²University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

                  2745.    1H-NMR Spectroscopy in the Diagnosis of Proteus Mirabilis-Induced Urinary Tract Infection

Ashish Gupta¹, Mayank Dwivedi¹, Abbas Ali Mahdi², Raja Roy³, Chunni Lal Khetrapal¹

¹Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; ²King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; ³Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

                  2746.    Assessment of Inhibitory Potency of Antibiotics by Measurement of Apparent T₂ in Bacterial Cultures

Verena Hörr¹, Kerstin Hoffmann¹, Curd Schollmayer¹, Ulrike Holzgrabe¹, Axel Haase¹, Peter Jakob¹, Cornelius Faber¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

                  2747.    Metabolism of Glutathione in Tumour Cells Before and After Irradiation as Evidenced by 1H MR Spectra

Vincenza Viti¹, Alessandra Palma¹, Claudio Giovannini², Sveva Grande¹, Laura Guidoni¹, Anna Maria Luciani¹, Antonella Rosi¹, Orazio Sapora¹

¹Istituto Superiore di sanità, Roma, Italy, Italy; ²Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy

                  2748.    Tumour Cells Irradiated with Gamma Rays and Proton Beams: A 1H MRS Study on Lipid Signals

Laura Guidoni¹, Sveva Grande¹, Anna Maria Luciani¹, Alessandra Palma¹, Antonella Rosi¹, Vincenza Viti¹, Claudio Giovannini¹, Orazio Sapora¹, Francesco Di Rosa², Pietro A. Lojacono², Valeria I. Patti², Luigi Raffaele², Lucia Maria Valastro²

¹Istituto Superiore di sanità, Roma, Italy, Italy; ²INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy

                  2749.    Temperature and Oxygenation Dependence of Haemoglobin and Hemocyanin Relaxation Times at 9.4T

Christian Bock¹, Glenn Lurman¹, Hans-Otto Pörtner¹

¹Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany

                  2750.    Metabolomic Study of AKT Activation

Yuen-Li Chung¹, Thomas Porstmann², Beatrice Griffiths², Oona Delpuech², Julian Downward², Almut Schulze², John R. Griffiths¹

¹St George's University of London, London, UK; ²Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, London, UK

                  2751.    MRS Studies of Spermine: Factors Affecting Detectability

Nicholas Gareth Spencer¹, Thomas R. Eykyn¹, Nandita M. DeSouza¹, Geoffrey S. Payne¹

¹Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey, UK

                  2752.    Metabolic and Bioenergetic Changes in the Livers of Living Mice During Acute Anti-Fas Induced Apoptosis

Manfred Brauer¹, Lesley M. Foley², Anne Baggley³

¹University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; ²Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; ³University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

                  2753.    Metabolic Characterization of Patients with Alcohol and Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis

Sven Gottschalk¹, Michaela Hohnholt², Marc Bilodeau¹, Dieter Leibfritz², Claudia Zwingmann¹

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

                  2754.    The Use of ¹H NMR Metabolic Profiling in the Differentiation of Clinical and

                               Environmental Isolates of Acanthamoeba

Harold G. Parkes¹, ², Sandra Hauber², Naveed A. Khan²

¹Institute of Neurology, London, UK; ²Birkbeck College, London, UK

                  2755.    NMR Lipid Profiles of Hepatic Bile Collected from the Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation (OLTx)

Beata Toczylowska¹, ², Malgorzata Chalimoniuk³, Agata Kacka⁴, Pawe³ Nyckowski⁴, Dorota Giercuszkiewicz⁴, Ireneusz Grzelak⁵, Marek Krawczyk⁵

¹Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, PAS, Warsaw, Poland; ²Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, PAS, Warsaw, Poland; ³Medical Research Centre, PAS, Warsaw, Poland; ⁴Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; ⁵Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

                  2756.    Decomposition of ¹H NMR Spectra of Blood Plasma for Identification of Complex Metabolic

                               Response to Glucose Uptake

Radka Stoyanova¹, Qi Zhao², Michael S. Hodavance³, Sarah Ralston⁴, Istvan Pelczer⁵, Truman R. Brown⁶

¹Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ²Columbia University, New York, USA; ³Princeton University, New Jersey, USA; ⁴Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA; ⁵Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA; ⁶Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

                  2757.    Mutation of the Mecp2 Gene Causes Perturbations of Osmolyte and Neurotransmitter Metabolism in

                               Mouse Brain. A ¹H MRS Study of Tissue Extracts

Angèle Viola¹, Véronique Saywell², Laurent Villard², Patrick J. Cozzone¹, Norbert W. Lutz¹

¹Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France; ²School of Medicine, Marseille, France

                  2758.    Chronic Unpredictable Stress and Riluzole Treatment Alters Glutamate Metabolism in Rat Prefrontal Cortex

Golam M.I. Chowdhury¹, Mounira Banasr¹, Ronald S. Duman¹, Kevin L. Behar¹, Gerard Sanacora¹

¹Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Lung & Mediastinum

                  2759.    Pulmonary Perfusion Imaging in the Rodent Lung Using Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI

Nilesh Navnitlal Mistry¹, ², James Pollaro², Jiayu Song, ¹², G. Allan Johnson²

¹Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA; ²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

                  2760.    Estimation of Gd-DTPA Concentration In Vivo for MR Perfusion Measurements in Pig Lungs by

                              Means of Computed Tomography

Frank Risse¹, Michael Puderbach¹, Julia Ley-Zaporozhan¹, Sebastian Ley¹, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor¹, Wolfhard Semmler¹

¹Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

                  2761.    How Many Compartments are Needed to Analyze Pulmonary Perfusion Data?

Logi Vidarsson¹, Sheng-Ping Wu¹, Joshua F.P. van Amerom¹, Tammy Rayner², Christopher K. Macgowan¹

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

                  2762.    Automatic Registration of Lung Nodules on 4D Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MR Images

Ting Song¹, Andrew F. Laine¹, Vivian S. Lee², Jane Ko², Harvey Pass², Daisuke Nonaka², Ke Zhang², Qun Chen²

¹Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; ²NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

                  2763.    Quantification of 3D Pulmonary Perfusion in Pigs Using a Prebolus Technique and

                               Singular Value Decomposition with a Block-Circulant Deconvolution Matrix

Frank Risse¹, Sebastian Ley¹, Julia Ley-Zaporozhan¹, ², Tristan Anselm Kuder¹, R. Peter Kunz², Michael Puderbach³, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor³, Wolfhard Semmler³

¹Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany; ²Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany; ³Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany

                  2764.    A Novel Method to Determine the Tikhonov Regularization Parameter for Pulmonary Perfusion

                               Quantification with MRI

Andreas Fieselmann¹, ², Frank Risse², Christian Fink², ³, Wolfhard Semmler²

¹University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany; ²DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany; ³University of Munich, Munich, Germany

                  2765.    The Distribution of Pulmonary Perfusion as Measured by FAIR MRI

Jason E. Moore¹, ², Michael B. Nichols¹, ³, Cynthia B. Paschal¹, ⁴

¹Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ²Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ³Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; ⁴Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

                  2766.    Free Breathing 3D Lung Imaging

Eberhard Daniel Pracht¹, Johannes F. Arnold¹, Markus Kotas¹, Michael Flentje¹, Peter Michael Jakob¹

¹University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

                  2767.    4D Lung Imaging with Time-Resolved 3D MRI and Low Pitch Helical CT: Comparison of Two

                               Techniques for the Assessment of Tumour Size and Displacement in a Ventilated Ex-Vivo Set Up

Juergen Biederer¹, ², Julien Dinkel, Gregor Remmert, Hendrik Bolte³, Thomas Welzel⁴, Michael Fabel, Carsten Thierfelder⁵, Michael Bock, Juergen Debus⁴, Martin Heller³, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor

¹University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; ²German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; ³University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel; ⁴University Hospital Heidelberg; ⁵Siemens Medical Systems, Forchheim, Germany,

                  2768.    Four Dimensional MR Microscopy of Respiratory Mechanics in Transgenic Mice with Emphysema:

                               Lung Motion Quantification Via a Non-Rigid Registration Algorithm

Masaya Takahashi¹, Shigeto Kubo¹, Tessa A. Sundaram², James C. Gee², Hiroto Hatabu³

¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ²University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ³Brigham And Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

                  2769.    A Phase-Contrast Single Shot Fast Spin Echo Sequence for Lung Motion Analysis

Nurzhas Nurpeissov¹, Wolfhard Semmler¹, Michael Bock¹

¹German Cancer Research Center (dkfz), Heidelberg, Germany

                  2770.    Real-Time Tracking and Visualization of Regional Lung Motion with Dual Gradient Echo Acquisition

Ke Zhang¹, Abram Voorhees², Jian Xu², Kenneth Berger¹, Roberta Goldring¹, Georgeann McGuinness¹, Leon Axel¹, Qun Chen¹

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

                  2771.    Landmark-Based Assessment of Human Lung Motion Analysis Via Registration of Sagittal 2-D MR Images

Tessa A. Sundaram¹, Shigeto Kubo², Takeshi Kubo², Masaya Takahashi², Hiroto Hatabu², James Gee¹