ISMRM SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP ~ 19-22 February 2012
 

Fat-Water Separation: Insights, Applications & Progress in MRI
 Hotel Maya
700 Queensway Drive
Long Beach, CA, USA
 

PROGRAM

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  DAY 1 - Sunday, 19 February 2012  
15:00 Registration  
18:15 Opening Reception  (light refreshments & hors d'oeuvres)  
     
  DAY 2 - Monday, 20 February 2012  
07:00 Registration & Breakfast  
  Session 1: Keynotes  
  Moderators: Houchun Harry Hu, Ph.D. & Peter Kellman, Ph.D.  
08:15 Welcome Houchun Harry Hu, Ph.D.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
08:30 Fat-Water MRI, How It All Started? W. Thomas Dixon, Ph.D.
General Electric Global Research
Niskayuna, NY, USA
09:00 Historical Perspective: Methods & Progress Gary H. Glover, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
09:30 Fat Suppression in Body MRI: Clinical Perspective  Shahid M. Hussain, M.D.
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE, USA
10:00 Practice & Promise of Imaging Fat in Children - permission withheld Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
Rady Children's Hospital
San Diego, CA, USA
10:30 Discussion  
10:45 Break  
     
  Session 2: Technical  
  Moderators: Diego Hernando, Ph.D. & Houchun Harry Hu, Ph.D.  
11:15 Technique Developments 1 – One, Two & Three Echo Methods Qing-San Xiang, Ph.D.
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
11:45 Technique Developments 2 – Three & More Echoes, What’s the Benefit? Holger Eggers, Ph.D.
Philips Research
Hamburg, Germany
12:15 Discussion  
12:30 Lunch  
     
  Session 3: Reconstruction  
  Moderators: Peter Börnert, Ph.D. & Jingfei Ma, Ph.D.  
14:00 Flavors in Fat-Water Pulse Sequences & Fieldmap Estimation Walter F. Block, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
14:30 Accelerated Cartesian, Non-Cartesian & Advanced Dixon Methods Peter Börnert, Ph.D.
Philips Research
Hamburg, Germany
  Oral Session 1: Proffered Papers  
15:00 3D Balanced SSFP Dixon Imaging with Band-Reduction at 3T Brady Quist, B.Sc.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
15:15 Making SENSE of Chemical Shift: Separating Species in Single-Shot EPI using Multiple Coils Martin Uecker, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, USA
15:30 Validation of Whole-Body Adipose Tissue Quantification using Air Displacement Plethysmometry Olof Dahlqvist Leinhard, Ph.D.
Linköping University
Linköping, Sweden
15:45 Discussion  
16:00 Break  
     
  Session 4: Quantification  
  Moderators: Diego Hernando, Ph.D. & Scott B. Reeder, M.D., Ph.D.  
16:30 Accuracy & Repeatability Claude B. Sirlin, M.D.
University of California at San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
16:45 Different Measurements of Fat Fraction & How to Make a Fat-Water Phantom Catherine D. G. Hines, Ph.D.
Merck Research Laboratories
West Point, PA, USA
17:15 Confounding Factors – T1, T2*, Multi-Fat Peaks & Saturation Mark Bydder, Ph.D.
University of California at San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
17:45 Noise, Cramer Rao Bound & NSA Angel R. Pineda, Ph.D.
California State University at Fullerton
Fullerton, CA, USA
  Oral Session 2: Proffered Papers  
18:15 Fat-Water Separation with Triglyceride Characterization -
Validation Against Gas-Liquid Chromatography 		Johan Berglund, Ph.D.
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
18:30 Validation of Fully Automatic Adipose Tissue
Segmentation & Volume Quantification
 		 Bryan Addeman, B.Sc.
University of Western Ontario
London, ON, Canada
18:45 Discussion  
19:00 Adjournment & Hotel Dinner  
     
  DAY 3 - Tuesday, 21 February 2012  
07:00 Registration & Breakfast  
  Session 5: Applications 1  
  Moderators: Peter Börnert, Ph.D. & Scott B. Reeder, M.D., Ph.D.  
08:00 Application of Fat/Water Separated Imaging in the Heart

 		 Peter Kellman, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
08:30 Fat-Water MR Imaging: Abdomen, Spine & Pelvis Russell N. Low, M.D.
Sharp & Children’s MRI
La Jolla, CA, USA
09:00 Quantification of Hepatic Steatosis with Chemical Shift Encoded Fat-Water Imaging
 		 Scott B. Reeder, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
  Oral Session 3: Proffered Papers  
09:30 Whole-Heart Dixon Coronary MRA in Patients: Initial Results
 		 Peter Börnert, Ph.D.
Philips Research
Hamburg, Germany
09:45 Characterization of Fat & Water Content in the Human
Thymus by Localized NMR & 3-point Dixon MRI Techniques 		Kenneth W. Fishbein, Ph.D.
NIH/NIA/GRC
Baltimore, MD, USA
10:00 Discussion  
10:15 Break  
     
  Session 6: Applications 2  
  Moderators: Peter Kellman, Ph.D. & Claude B. Sirlin, M.D.  
10:45 Iron-Mediated Diabetes: A Model of Accelerated Aging John C. Wood, M.D., Ph.D.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
11:15 Obesity & Diabetes Richard Bergman, Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA
  Oral Session 4:  Proffered Oral Presentations  
11:45 Chemical Shift-Based Water/Fat Separation for
Quantification of Fat Infiltration in Rotator Cuff Muscles
 		 Dimitrios Karampinos, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
12:00 Optimization & Implementation of Dixon MRI in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Hermien E. Kan, Ph.D.
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
12:15 Rapid Fat/Water Segmentation Using Absence of a Magnetization Transfer Effect in Fat Walter F. Block, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
12:30 Discussion  
12:45 Lunch  
     
  Session 7: Spectroscopy  
  Moderators: Jingfei Ma, Ph.D. & Claude B. Sirlin, M.D.  
14:00 MRS of Fat, Technical Considerations Gavin Hamilton, Ph.D.
University of California at San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
14:30 MRS of the Pancreas & Heart
 		 Lidia S. Szczepaniak, Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA
15:00 Spectroscopy: Skeletal Muscles Chris Boesch, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
15:30 Fat-Water Separation: Application on Bone Marrow Fritz Schick, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Tubingen
Tubingen, Germany
16:00 Discussion  
16:15 Break  
     
  Session 8  
  Moderator: Houchun Harry Hu, Ph.D.  
16:45 Unmet Needs in Fat Imaging, an NIH Perspective Maren R. Laughlin, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health / NIDDK
Bethesda, MD, USA
17:15 Poster Session  
     
19:00 Adjournment & Hotel Dinner  
20:30 Evening Social (Dessert & Drinks) & Queen Mary Tour  
  DAY 4 - Wednesday, 22 February 2012  
07:00 Registration & Breakfast  
07:45 Announcement of Poster Awards  
  Session 9: Obesity  
  Moderators: Diego Hernando, Ph.D. & Houchun Harry Hu, Ph.D.  
08:00 Ethnic Differences in Body Fat Distribution Michael I. Goran, Ph.D.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
08:30 Body Adiposity: Cross-Sectional & Interventional Studies Jürgen Machann, Ph.D.
University of Tübingen
Tübingen, Germany
09:00 Brown Adipose Tissue Rosa T. Branca, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
09:30 Discussion  
09:45 Break  
     
  Session 10: Open Discussion  
10:00 Development of a Fat-Water Matlab Toolbox Diego Hernando, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
&
Houchun Harry Hu, Ph.D.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
10:30 Unsolved Problems & Unmet Needs: Technical
 		 Diego Hernando, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
&
Houchun Harry Hu, Ph.D.
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
11:00 Unsolved Problems & Unmet Needs: Clinical
 		 Scott B. Reeder, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, USA
&
Claude B. Sirlin, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
     
11:30 Adjournment  
     

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