Last updated Monday, 05 October 2009
Program

 
Sunday, 25 March
   
Registration  
18:00 Dinner  
19:00 Thomas Budinger History of High Field Human MR
Monday, 26 March - Hardware and Physics
   
07:30 Breakfast  
08:35   Welcome/Opening Remarks
08:40 Rory Warner, Magnex Scientific Ltd., Yarnton, Oxford, United Kingdom Magnet Design
09:00 Axel vom Endt, Ph.D., Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany Gradient Design
09:15 William A.Edelstein, Ph.D., MRS Science LLC, Schenectady, NY, USA Acoustic Noise
09:30 Piotr M. Starewicz, Ph.D., Resonance Research, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA Shimming
09:50 Break  
   
10:10 Tamer S.Ibrahim, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA RF Electromagnetics
10:30 Ingmar Graesslin, Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany Multichannel Excitation
10:40 Ulrich Fontius, Dipl. Phys., Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany Multichannel Excitation
10:50 Gregor Adriany, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Multichannel Excitation
11:00 Vijayanand Alagappan, M.S., University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA Multichannel Excitation
11:10 Graham C. Wiggins, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA Receiver Arrays
11:25 Patrick J. Ledden, M.D., Nova Medical, Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA Receiver Arrays
11:40 Hellmut Merkle, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Receiver Arrays
12:00 Lunch  
   
Proffered Papers  
13:00 Peter van Gelderen, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, USA Real Time Shimming for Compensation of Respiratory Induced Field Changes
13:07 Jeremiah Heilman, Ph.D., University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA On-coil Current-mode Amplifier for Parallel Transmission Arrays with High Efficiency and High Output Power
13:14 David Hoult, D.Phil., National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Multi-Nuclear, Cartesian-Feedback Transceivers at the Magnet Bore Entrance for use with High-Field Phased Arrays – a Progress Report
13:21 Lucas Carvajal, B.S., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA-not available
A Continuous Capacitance Coil for High Sensitivity 7T MRI
13:28 Pierre Vedrine DMS/DAPNIA, CEA/Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France The Whole Body 11.7T MRI Magnet for Iseult/Inumac Project
13:35 Stuart Clare, Ph.D., Oxford University, Oxford, England, UK
 		 High Order Dynamic Shimming: Issues of Implementation without Eddy Current Compensation
   
13:45 Kevin Koch B.Sc., Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Measurement of B0 Distortions
14:05 Maxim Zaitsev, Ph.D., University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Software Correction of B0 Distortions
14:25 Robin A. de Graaf, Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Hardware Correction of B0 Distortions
14:45 Christopher M. Collins, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA Calculation of RF Field Behavior
   
Proffered Papers  
15:05 Andreas Schaefer, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK-not available Understanding Phase Contrast in Susceptibility Weighted Imaging
15:12 Kyunghyun Sung, M.S., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Whole Heart B1+ Non-uniformity Correction with Transmit In-Plane Compensation (TIP-COMP) RF Pulse Design
15:19 Georgeta Mihai, M.S., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA T2 and Phase Shift Dependence on Brain Iron at
3T and 7T
   
15:26 Break  
15:45 Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA Remediation of B1 Distortions
16:05 Ulrich Katscher, Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany RF Pulses to Reduce Flip Angle Variation
16:25 William D. Rooney, Ph.D., Advanced Imaging Research Center, Portland, OR, USA T1/T2 Contrast Mechanisms
16:45 E. Mark Haacke, Ph.D., Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA SWI Contrast Mechanisms
17:05 Ravi S. Menon, Ph.D., Robarts Resarch Institute, London, ON, Canada fMRI Contrast Mechanisms
   
Proffered Papers  
17:25 Wietske van der Zwaag, M.Sc., University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK-not available Field Strength Dependence of BOLD Contrast in Motor Cortex
17:32 James Tropp, Ph.D., GE Healthcare Technologies, Fremont, CA, USA Reciprocity, Gyrotropism, and NMR Reception Outside the Quasistatic Regime
17:39 Daniel Splitthoff, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Improved Real-time shim Navigators Using Multiple Receiver Channels
17:46 N. John Shah, Ph.D., Research Centre Juelich, Juelich, Germany Investigation of USPIO-generated Field Inhomogeneities
   
17:53 Adjourn  
18:00 Dinner  
19:30 Poster Viewing  
Tuesday, March 27 - Data Acquisition and Human Applications
   
07:30 Breakfast  
08:35 Graeme C. McKinnon, Ph.D., GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI, USA EM Simulations for SAR Management
08:55 Jürgen Hennig, Ph.D., Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Pulse Sequence Optimization for SAR Management
09:15 Yudong Zhu, Ph.D., G.E. Corporate R & D Center, Niskayuna, NY, USA-not available Parallel Transmit for SAR Reduction
09:35 Steven M. Conolly, Ph.D., UC Berkeley Bioengineering, Berkeley, CA, USA RF Pulse Design for SAR Reduction
09:55 Break  
   
10:15 Matt A. Bernstein, PhD., Mayo Clinic & Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA-not available Clinical Pulse Sequences and Artifact Reduction for 3T
10:35 G. Allen Johnson, Ph,D., Duke University, Durham, NC. USA-not available Data Acquisition for Microscopic Imaging
10:55 Xiaoping P. Hu, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Non-Cartesian Trajectories
11:15 Ulrike Dydak, Ph.D., ETH and University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Clinical Impact of Parallel Imaging at 3T
11:35 Jacco A. de Zwart, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Potential Benefits of Parallel Imaging for fMRI at High Field
11:55 Adjourn  
12:00 Lunch  
   
Proffered Papers  
13:05 Dennis Klomp, M.Sc., Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegan, the Netherlands Towards 7T MRSI of the Prostate Using Adiabatic Pulses and Transmit and Receive Endorectal Coil
13:12 Oliver Speck, Ph.D., University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany Correction of Geometric Distortions in EPI at 7T
13:19 Markus Barth, Ph.D. F.C., Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) at 7 T: Protocols for Whole Brain Coverage and High Resolution for the Depiction of Small Anatomical Structures
13:26 Suchandrima Banerjee, B.E., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Rapid Musculoskeletal MRI at 7 Tesla
13:33 Michael Poole, M.Sc., University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK Evaluation of Parcellated Dynamic Shimming
13:40 R. Allen Waggoner, Ph.D,, RIKEN-Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan Spatial Smoothing Resulting from Accelerated Parallel Imaging Reconstruction
   
13:50 John Schenck, M.D., Ph.D., G.E. Corporate R & D Center, Voorheesville, NY, USA Safety
14:10 Noam Harel, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA fMRI
14:30 Michael W. Weiner, M.D., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Alzheimer's Disease
14:50
 		 Petra Schmalbrock, PhD., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
 		 Contrast Mechanisms and Applications for Imaging Brain Disease at 7T
Proffered Papers  
15:10 Roland Krug, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA In-Vivo Bone and Cartilage Imaging using bSSFP at 7 Tesla
15:17 Kai Zhong, Ph.D., University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany Permeability Difference Between Gray and White Matters
15:24 Meredith Metcalf, B.S.E., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA-not available Initial Applications of 7T MR Imaging to Multiple Sclerosis
   
15:31 Break  
15:50 Jozef H. Duyn., Ph.D.., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Contrast & Resolution Limits
16:10 Keith R. Thulborn, M.D., Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA-not available Multinuclear Applications
16:30 Sarah J. Nelson, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Brain/Prostate Tumors
16:50 Michael Garwood, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Breast Cancer
17:10 Christiane K. Kuhl , M.D., University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany-not available 3T Body Imaging
Proffered Papers
17:30 Oliver Kraff, M.Sc., University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany High Field MRI of the Human Extremities at 7 Tesla
17:37 Kathryn Hammond, B.S.E., University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA Phase Imaging of Healthy Brains and Patients with Multiple Sclerosis or Brain Tumors at 7T
17:44 Stefan Maderwald, M.Sc., University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany-not available Non-Contrast Enhanced MRA of Intracranial Vessels at 7T
   
17:51 Adjourn  
18:00 Dinner  
19:30 Poster Reception  
   
Wednesday, March 28 - Animal Applications
   
07:30 Breakfast  
08:35 Alan P. Koretsky, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Anatomical Imaging
08:55 Seong-Gi Kim, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA fMRI
09:15 Bastiaan Driehuys, Ph.D., Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Hyperpolarized Materials
09:35 Ivan Tkac, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA  1H Spectroscopy
   
Proffered Papers  
09:55 Albert Chen, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA 3D Hyperpolarized C-13 MRSI with Interleaved Flyback Echo-planar Readout Trajectory
10:02 Michael Heidenreich, Ph.D., Bruker BioSpin MRI, Ettlingen, Germany Optimized RF Coils for Rat Brain Imaging at 11.7 T
10:09 Robert Stobbe, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada Sodium MRI of Human Acute Stroke at 4.7T
   
10:16 Break  
10:35 Rolf Gruetter, Ph.D., CIBM LIFMET, Lausanne, Switzerland-not available Multinuclear Spectroscopy
10:55 Andrew G. Webb, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, University Park, PA Parallel Imaging
11:15 Josef Pfeuffer, Ph.D., Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany Spectroscopic Imaging
11:35 Craig Ferris, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA fMRI Applications
11:55 Richard Carano, San Ramon, CA, USA Pharmaceutical Applications
12:15 Brian K Rutt Ph.D. , Robarts Research Institute, London, ON, CA Cell Tracking
   
Proffered Papers  
12:35 Steffen Sammet, M.D., Ph.D., Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Spectroscopic Imaging of the Human Brain at 7T
12:42 Xiaoping Wu, B.E., M.E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA SAR Analysis for Transmit SENSE at 7T with a Human Head Model
12:49 Riccardo Lattanzi, M.S., BIDMC, Boston, MA, USA Electrodynamic Analysis of Minimum RF Power Deposition in Parallel Excitation
   
12:56 Adjourn  
 

 

  


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