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Wednesday
Evening, 9
July 2003,
18:30 |
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Poster Reception and
Walking Tour
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| Day One,
Thursday, 10 July
2003 |
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| 07:45 - 08:00 |
Welcome and Announcements |
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Morning Moderator: Muriel Cockburn, DC, RBSc(Hons), PGd.CERT MRI |
| 08:00 - 09:00 |
Basics of Functional Neuro
Imaging
Anne Sawyer-Glover, B.S., R.T.(R)(MR), Stanford University, Stanford,
California, USA |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Cardiac Imaging
Naeem Merchant, M.D., Toronto Hospital, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:15 - 11:15 |
Physics: New Pulse
Sequences
William Faulkner, B.S., R.T.(R)(MR)(CT), William Faulkner &
Associates, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 |
Proffered Papers
- Improving Clinical Imaging Techniques in MRI
1st Place Award -
Clinical Focus: Mercedes Pereyra, RT
Quantitative Assessment of Global LV Function Using Sensitivity
Encoding (SENSE) Accelerated Balanced FFE |
2nd Place Award -
Clinical Focus: Claudio Arena, RT (CT)(MR)
Robust Small Field-of-View, High Resolution Contrast Enhanced MRA
(CE-MRA) of Renal Arteries Using Sensitivity Encoding in Tow
Dimensions (2D-SENSE) |
3rd Place Award -
Clinical Focus: Eva Wembacher, RT
Comparison of Different Techniques for MR-Colonography |
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11:45 - 13:30 |
SMRT Business
Meeting & Awards Luncheon |
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Afternoon Moderator: Maureen Ainslie, RT(R)(MR)MS |
| 13:30 - 14:30 |
Breast Imaging
Petrina Causer, M.D., Sunnybrook and Women's College Health
Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| 14:30 - 15:30 |
Pulse Sequences and Protocols in MSK
Garry Gold, M.D. Stanford University, Stanford,
California, USA |
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| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Break |
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| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Proffered
Paper
President's Award: Eva Wembacher, RT
Combined Small and Large Bowel MR Imaging in Patients with
Inflammatory Bowel Disease |
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Pre- and Postnatal
Pediatric Neuroimaging: How and Why
Erin Simon, M.D., Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| 17:00 - 17:30 |
The Assessment of
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Silke Bosk, R.T., and Thomas Lauenstein, M.D., University Hospital
Essen, Essen, Germany |
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| Day Two,
Friday, 11 July
2003 |
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| 7:45 - 8:00 |
Welcome and Announcements |
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Morning Moderator: Julie Lowe, BS, RT(R)(MR) |
| 08:00 - 09:00 |
Functional MRI: Past,
Present, and Future
Lawrence Wald, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Stroke Imaging
Richard Frayne, Ph.D., University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:15 - 11:15 |
Contrast
Enhanced MR of the Abdomen: Contrast Agents, Techniques and Findings
Richard Semelka, M.D.,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, USA |
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| 11:15 - 13:15 |
MRI Safety Forum and
Luncheon
Frank Shellock, Ph.D., Moderator |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 |
Safety Forum:
Technologists' Responsibilities
William Faulkner, B.S., R.T.(R)(MR)(CT),
William Faulkner & Associates, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA |
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| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Safety Forum:
Radiologists' Perspective
A. Gregory Sorensen, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA |
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| 12:15 - 12:45 |
Safety Forum: MR Safety Guidelines
and Recommendations
Frank G. Shellock, Ph.D., Safety Forum Moderator, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles,
California, USA |
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| 12:45 - 13:15 |
Safety Forum:
Radiologists Perspective-Contrast Agent Safety
A. Gregory Sorensen, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA |
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Afternoon Moderator: Laurian Rohoman, ACR, RT(R)(MR) |
| 13:15 - 13:45 |
Proffered Papers
- Improving on the Analysis and Assessment of MRI Data with New
Developments in MRI Research
1st Place Award -
Research Focus: Heather Ducie, BSc(Hons)RT(MR)
Analysis of Perfusion MRI Data in Patients with Severe
Cerebrovascular Disease |
2nd Place (Tie) Award -
Research Focus: Wendy Strugnell, BSc(RT)
Cardiac MRI Analysis of RV Function - A New Approach |
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| 13:45 - 14:45 |
Talking Sense and Non-Sense
in Parallel Imaging
Donald W. McRobbie, Ph.D., Charing Cross Hospital, London,
England, UK |
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| 14:45 - 15:00 |
Break |
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| 15:00 - 16:00 |
MRI of the Female Pelvis:
Emphasis on Technique
Eric Outwater, M.D., The University of Arizona HSC, Tucson,
Arizona, USA |
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| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Why 3T?
David W. Stanley, B.S., R.T., R(MR), GE Medical Systems,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |
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| 17:00 |
Proffered
Papers - Clinical Studies that are Diagnosed with Functional MRI
Filip De Ridder, RT
Improvement in the Selection of Sterotactic Biopsy Target in
Intracerebral Gliomas Using T2* Perfusion |
Cindy Comeau, BS,
RT(N)(MR)
The Preoperative Assessment of Mitral Regurgitation by Magnetic
Resonance Imaging: A Series of 6 Patients |
David Stanley, BS,
RT(R)(MR)
Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Bilaterial Breat Technique |
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17:30 |
Adjournment |
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