The 4th Annual Imaging Research Symposium

1:00-1:05 Opening remarks from Dr. William Dillon

1:05-1:45 Directors talk I

1:05-1:17 Henry VanBrocklin: “Constructing” Probes for Clinical and Preclinical Imaging
1:17-1:29 Ben Yeh: The Abdominal Imaging Section at UCSF
1:29-1:41 David Saloner: Research Projects in the Combined X-ray/MRI Suite

1:45-2:35 Selected Oral Presentation I

1:45-1:53 Quantitative Fiber Tracking Analysis of the Optic Radiations in Premature Newborns
JI Berman, HC Glass, SP Miller, DJ Hoisie, P Mukherjee, DA Ferriero, AJ Barkovich, DB Vigneron, RG Henry

1:53-2:01 Application of CT based three-dimensional anatomic renderings and advanced interactivity techniques in helping medical students learn anatomy: Comparison with traditional 2D textbook-type learning methods
R. Breiman, A Keedy, P Sandhu, E Chen, J Durack

2:01-2:09 Localized comparisons of knee cartilage properties using MRI: towards an atlas of the knee
J Carballido-Gamio, TM Link, S Majumdar

2:09-2:17 Assessment of coronary calcium in patients with HIV at increased risk for coronary artery disease: extracardiac findings
JS Chen, KG Ordovas, TJ Lee, PY Hsue, GP Reddy, BM Elicker

2:17-2:25 Symmetric Echo Acquisition of Hyperpolarized C-13 MRSI Data in the TRAMP Mouse at 3T
AP Chen, RE Hurd, CM Cunningham, M Albers, ML Zierhut, Y-F Yen, J Tropp, R Bok, SJ Nelson, J Kurhanewicz, DB Vigneron

2:25-2:33 MR determination of flow fields in patient-specific models of intracranial aneurysm using 7D PC-MRI
G.Acevedo-Bolton , V.Rayz , A.J. Martin, M.T. Lawton, R.T. Higashida, W.L. Young, D. Saloner

2:35 – 3:20 Poster Session with coffee and snack

3:20 – 4:00 Directors talk II

3:20-3:32 Nola Hylton: Breast Imaging Research at UCSF
3:32-3:44 Orit Glenn: Pediatric Brain Imaging Research Group
3:44-3:56 Heike Daldrup-Link: Research Projects of the Contrast Agent Research Group at CMFI

4:00-4:50 Selected Oral Presentation II

4:00-4:08 Perfusion-CT Imaging correlates with the Clinical Scores of Severity in Left Hemispheric Stroke Patients
AD Furtado, WS Smith, W Koroshetz; WP Dillon, KL Furie, MH Lev, E Vittinghoff, S Schaeffer, T Biagini, O Hazarika, M Wintermark

4:08-4:16 Chronic cigarette smoking modulates injury and short-term recovery of the medial temporal lobe in alcoholics
Stefan Gazdzinski, Timothy C. Durazzo, Ping-Hong Yeh, Dawn Hardin, and Dieter J. Meyerhoff

4:16-4:24 Phase Imaging of Healthy Brains and Patients with Multiple Sclerosis or Brain Tumors at 7T
KE Hammond, JM Lupo, D Xu, Metcalf M, P Mukherjee, SM Chang, D Pelletier, DA Kelley, DB Vigneron, SJ Nelson

4:24-4:32 Preliminary Studies of Quantitative Tissue Oxygen Measurement in Multiple Organs Using 19F MRI
S Liu, LJ Wilmes, V Kodibagkar, MF Wendland, N Hylton, H Hopf, RP Mason, MD Rollins

4:32-4:40 HR-MAS Spectroscopy of Post-Radiation Prostate Biopsy Tissues
MG Swanson, KR Keshari, ZL Tabatabai, JP Simko, MB Tessem, DJ Joun, K Shinohara, J Kurhanewicz

4:40-4:48 Age and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Effects on Cerebral Blood Flow and Arterial Transit Time of Posterior Cingulate Cortex with Dynamic Arterial Spin Labeling MRI
X Zhu, N Schuff, M Gunther, D Feinberg, Y Zhang, M Nezamzadeh, G Jahng, MW Weiner

4:50-4:55 Poster awards by Dr. David Saloner

4:55-5:00 Closing comments from Dr. Ron Arenson

5:00-6:00 Extended poster session with food and refreshments