| Weekend Educational Course:
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| Cancer Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Clinical and Research Applications |
| Organizers:
N.R. Jagannathan, Ph.D. and Daniel B. Vigneron, Ph.D. |
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| Skill Level:
Intermediate |
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| Sunday, 19 April 2009 |
| 08:30 - 17:30 |
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| OVERVIEW |
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This one day course focuses
on cancer and MRS. It is designed for physicians
(radiologists and oncologists) and for research
scientists who wish to be updated on the current
state-of-the-art in MRS techniques and clinical
applications. The first part of the course will describe
how MRS is used to evaluate cancers that occur in
various body systems, and will also cover current
efforts using MRS for cancer therapy planning and
outcome assessment. The focus will be on clinical
studies in human patients. This part of the course will
introduce the basic technological underpinnings of MRS
and discuss the biochemistry and metabolic features
associated with signals that are detected with MRS. The
second part will describe how MRS is used for the study
of cancer-related animal models and tumor samples, and
is intended to prepare participants for new
cancer-related MRS applications that may emerge in the
next few years. |
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| EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
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Upon completion of this
case based session, participants should be able to:
- Discuss the basic MRS technology that is used in
human cancer patients, animal models of cancer and
tumor tissue samples;
- Explain the specific biomarkers of cancer that
can be measured with MRS;
- Describe how MRS biomarkers of cancer are used
for diagnosis of cancer, for therapy planning and
for therapeutic outcome assessment; and
- Describe how other imaging techniques relate to
MRS biomarker assessment in cancer.
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| Sunday, 19 April 2009 |
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Part 1: Clinical
MRS Applications |
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| 08:30
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Cancer Biology and
Metabolism of Choline Compounds |
Franca
Podo, D.Sc. |
| 09:00 |
Introduction to MRS
Techniques |
Jeffry
R. Alger, Ph.D. |
| 09:30
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Evaluation of Brain
Cancer with MRS |
Franklyn
A. Howe, Ph.D. |
| 10:00 |
Break - Meet the
Teachers |
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| 10:30 |
Evaluation of
Prostate Cancer with MRS |
Tom W.J.
Scheenen, Ph.D. |
| 11:00 |
Evaluation of Breast
Cancer with MRS |
N. R.
Jagannathan, Ph.D. |
| 11:30 |
MRS in Therapy
Planning and Assessment of Therapy Response |
Sarah J.
Nelson, Ph.D. |
| 12:00
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Break - Meet the
Teachers |
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Part
2: Lipid Metabolism and Recent Advances |
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13:30 |
MRS in the Study of
Lipid Metabolism |
Chris
Boesch, M.D., Ph.D. |
| 14:00 |
Recent Advances in
High-Field MRS and Other Techniques |
M.
Albert Thomas, Ph.D. |
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Part 3: MRS in
Cancer Research |
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14:30 |
Multinuclear MRS in
Animal Models |
Zaver M.
Bhujwalla, Ph.D. |
| 15:00 |
Metabolic Studies of
Cancer with Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 |
Daniel
B. Vigneron, Ph.D. |
| 15:30 |
Break - Meet the
Teachers |
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16:00 |
Evaluation of Tissue Samples by MRS
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Ingrid S. Gribbestad,
Ph.D. |
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16:30 |
Metabolic Biomarkers in Cancer Cell Models
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Sabrina M. Ronen, Ph.D. |
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17:00 |
Metabolomics of Cancer by MRS |
John R. Griffiths, D.
Phil. |
| 17:30 |
Adjournment - Meet the Teachers |
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