Contrast Agents – New Developments and Applications

Room 204 C
10:30 – 12:30

Chairs: Randall B. Lauffer and Wolfhard Semmler

10:30 340. Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancement in Off-Resonance Rotating Frame, H. Zhang, L.H. Bryant Jr and A.M. Wyrwicz, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA and National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
10:42 341. A Novel pH Sensitive MRI Contrast Agent, S. Zhang, K. Wu and A.D. Sherry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
10:54 342. High-Generation Dendrimer-Based Gadolinium Chelates: Relaxometry, Biodistribution, and MR Angiography, L.H. Bryant Jr, E.K. Jordan, J.W.M. Bulte, V. Herynek, K. Garmestani and J.A. Frank, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
11:06 343. A Calcium Sensitive Magnetic Resonance Contrast Agent, W-H. Li, S.E. Fraser and T.J. Meade, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
11:18 344. An Intelligent MRI Contrast Agent for Tumor Sensing, M. Mikawa, N. Miwa, T. Akaike and A. Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan and Nihon Schering K.K., Osaka, Japan.
11:30 345. Neurotransplantation of Magnetically Labeled Oligodendrocyte Progenitors: 3D MR Microscopy of Cell Migration and Myelination, J.W.M. Bulte, S.C. Zhang, P. van Gelderen, V. Herynek, E.K. Jordan, I.D. Duncan and J.A. Frank, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA and University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
11:42 346. Paramagnetic Metalloporphyrins: There Exist Avid and Nonavid Species for Necrosis, Y. Ni, Y. Miao, E. Cresens, P. Adriaens, J. Yu, H. Bosmans, W. Semmler and G. Marchal, University Hospitals KUL, Leuven, Belgium and Institut für Diagnostikforschung GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
11:54 347. Interstitial MR Lynphography with Gd-DOTA: Assessment in Rabbits and Human Volunteers, S.G. Ruehm, J. Fröhlich, C. Corot, B. Marincek and J.F. Debatin, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland and Laboratoire Guerbet, Paris, France.
12:06 348. Improved Mapping of Pharmacologically Induced Neuronal Activation using Superparamagnetic Iron Blood Pool Agents, Y.I. Chen, J.B. Mandeville, T.V. Nguyen, F. Cavagna and B.G. Jenkins, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA and Bracco, S.p.A., Milan, Italy.
12:18 349. Experimental Functional MRI using Dynamic Activity-Induced Manganese Dependent Contrast (DAIM), I. Aoki, C. Tanaka, T. Takegami, T. Ebisu, M. Umeda, M. Fukunaga, Y. Someya, Y. Watanabe and S. Naruse, Meiji University of Oriental Medicine and Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

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