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Workshop Program
 

SUNDAY, 25 February:
16:00 -- 19:00 Registration
17:30 Opening Reception
19:00 Dinner
MONDAY, 26 February
07:00 -- 08:00 Breakfast and Registration
08:00 -- 10:30 Session 1: Setting the Stage
Moderator: Brian Hargreaves, Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
08:00 Welcome: James G. Pipe, Ph.D., St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA
08:10 The Case for Non-Cartesian:  Peter Börnert, Ph.D., Philips Research Labs Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  Killer Applications for Non-Cartesian Imaging: (proffered papers)
08:40 2D Ultrashort TE (UTE) Imaging on Clinical MRI Systems, Mark Bydder, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
08:48 Radial Projection MRI of Hyperpolarised 3He Gas in the Lungs, Jim Wild, Ph.D., University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, UK
08:56 In Vivo Sodium Imaging with a 3D Cones Trajectory at 3T and 7T, Neal Bangerter, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
09:04 Free-Breathing Whole-Heart Coronary Angiography using a 3D Cones Trajectory, Paul Gurney, Stanford University, Stanford CA, USA
09:12 Lesion Characterization with 3D Radial SSFP, Catherine Moran, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
09:20 Multi-spectral Imaging with 3-dimensional Rosette Trajectories, Elizabeth Bucholz, Duke University, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
09:28 The Case Against Non-Cartesian Scanning:  Stephen J. Riederer, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
10:00 Discussion
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:45 Session 2: Methods and Errors in Non-Cartesian Scanning:
Moderator: Craig H. Meyer, Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
10:45 Data Weighting and Gridding:  John Pauly, Ph.D., Stanford University ISL, Stanford, CA, USA
11:10 The Appearance of Errors: Kevin F. King, Ph.D., G.E. Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI, USA
11:35 Off-resonance Artifacts:  Douglas C. Noll, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
12:00 Eddy Currents:  Jozef H. Duyn, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
12:25 Discussion
13:00 – 16:00 Break:  Lunch, Conversation on the Rocks
16:00 – 18:30 Session 3: Standardization and Adoption Principles:
Moderator: Walter F. Block, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
16:00 Image Metrics: Dennis L. Parker, Ph.D., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
16:30 Discussion
16:45 Vendor’s Issues. Walter F. Block, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
17:15 Vendor panel Q&A. Liesbeth Geerts-Ossevoort, Ph.D., Philips Medical Systems,
Michael Wood, Ph.D., M.B.A., GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, USA,
Stephan Kannengiesser, Ph.D., Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany
17:45 Open Forum on Open Source
18:45 Dinner
20:00 -- 22:00 Session 4:  Non-Cartesian Free-for-all – Proffered papers and discussion
20:00 Field Monitoring with NMR probes for Non-Cartesian MRI, Christoph Barmet, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
20:08 Characterization and Correction of Gradient Errors, Ethan Brodsky, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
20:16 Using Heading and Speed to Design Gradient Waveforms w/ Lower Slew Rates, Ronal Ouwerkerk, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
20:24 New Plane Orientation Scheme for Spiral Projection Imaging, Ryan Robison, Barrows Neurological Institute, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
20:32 Variable Field-of-View Shapes for Radial Trajectories, Peder Larson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
20:40 High Resolution’ Sodium Imaging Using Sampling Density Weighted Oblate-Spheroidal 3D Twisted Projection Acquisition, Rob Stobbe, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AL, Canada
20:48 The 3D Non-Cartesian Spherical Shells Trajectory, Yunhong Shu, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
20:56 GRAPPA Accelerated DW SAP-EPI Using Dual Blade Readouts, Stefan Skare, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
21:04 Fat-Water Separation and Deblurring using a Multi-Frequency Least Squares Reconstruction, Paul Gurney, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
21:12 Dual-Echo PILS PC VIPR with Weighted Trajectory and Off Resonance Corrections, Kevin Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
21:20 Improved Off-resonance Correction in Spiral Imaging, Weitian Chen, University of Virginia, Carlottesville, VA, USA
21:28 Noise Amplification in Parallel Imaging, Holger Eggers, Philips Medical Systems, Hamburg, Germany
21:36 Iterative Reconstruction of Time-Resolved Projection Images using Highly Constrained Back Projection, Sean Fain, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
21:44 HYPRIT: Generalized HYPR Reconstruction by Iterative Estimation, Alexey Samsonov, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
21:52 Discussion
22:00 Adjourn
TUESDAY, 27 February
07:30 -- 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 – 10:30 Session 5: Trajectory Design
Moderator: Krishna Nayak, Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
08:30 Trajectory Potpourri: Jeffrey L. Duerk, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
08:50 Design and Practical Considerations – Radial Methods: Dana C. Peters, Ph.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
09:20 Design and Practical Considerations – Spiral Methods: Brian A. Hargreaves, Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
09:50 Discussion
10:15 -- 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:45 Session 6: Alternatives to Gridding Reconstruction
Moderator: Douglas C. Noll, PhD., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
10:30 Improved Resampling (e.g. URS/BURS/rBURS):  Hisamoto Moriguchi, M.D., Ph.D., Yokohama, Japan
10:55 Iterative Reconstruction Methods:  Jeffrey A. Fessler, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
11:20 Discussion
12:00 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:15 Poster Viewing
16:15 – 18:00 Session 7:  Image Reconstruction
Moderator: James G. Pipe, Ph.D., St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA
  Proffered Papers
16:15 Optimal Convolution Kernel Design for Sampling Density Correction, Kenneth O. Johnson, Barrows Neurological Institute, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
16:23 Toward Practical Iterative MR Image Reconstruction, Ti-chiun  Chang, Siemens Medical Solutions, Princeton, NJ, USA
16:31 Off-resonance Correction for BOSCO Non-Cartesian Parallel Imaging Reconstruction, Weitian Chen, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
16:39 Direct Parallel Image Reconstructions for Spiral Trajectories Using GRAPPA, Robin Heidemann, Siemens Medical Solutions, Würzburg, Germany
16:47 Spiral BOSCO Reconstruction, Peng Hu, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA - not available
16:55 Further Advances in Parallel Imaging reconstruction from Arbitrary k­Space Trajectories, Michael Lustig, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
17:03 The Results Are In:  Radiologists Review:
Panel: Talissa M. Altes, M.D., Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA;
Paul J. Finn, M.D., University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;
John P. Karis, M.D., Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA;
Jeffrey Maki, M.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
17:30 Radiologists vs. Metrics: Donglai Huo, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Euclid, OH, USA
17:40 Awards
17:50 Discussion
18:30 Dinner
20:00 -- 22:00 Reception
WEDNESDAY, 28 February
07:30 -- 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 – 10:30 Session 8: Beyond the Nyquist Limit
Moderator: Peter Börnert, Ph.D., Philips Research Labs Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
08:30 (Non-Cartesian) Parallel Imaging – Static Imaging:  Klaas Pruessmann, Ph.D., Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Zürich, Switzerland
09:00 (Non-Cartesian) Parallel Imaging – Dynamic Imaging: Michael Schacht-Hansen, Ph.D., University College London, London, England, UK
09:20 Inverse Imaging:  Steven M. Wright Ph.D., Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, USA
09:40 Hyper-based Methods:  Oliver Wieben, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
10:00 Discussion
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break, checkout, remove posters
11:00 – 12:00 Session 9:
A. Panel discussion: invited speakers, radiologists, vendors
B. Workshop Summary and Closing
12:00 -- 13:30 Lunch and Departure

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