The 8th Annual Imaging Research Symposium

Date

August 31, 201108/31/2011 1:00pm 08/31/2011 1:00pm The 8th Annual Imaging Research Symposium

Symposium Program

12:30 pm Registration
Cole Hall
1:00-1:05 pm Opening Remarks
Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
1:05-2:45 pm

Selected Oral Presentations (Session I)
Moderators: Galateia Kazakia, PhD and Esther Yuh, MD 

1:05-1:15 pm 

Noninvasive Assessment of Renal Tumor Aggressiveness using Hyperpolarized 13C MR
Keshari K, Koelsch BL, Sriram R, Iman R, Wang ZJ, Kurhanewicz J

1:15-1:25 pm

Chronic Cigarette Smoking in Alcohol Dependence: Associations with Cortical Thickness and N-acetylaspartate Levels in the Brain Reward System
Abé C, Durazzo TC, Mon A, Meyerhoff DJ

1:25-1:35 pm Abnormal Joint Kinematics are Associated With Early Cartilage Degeneration Measured by MR T1rho in ACL Reconstructed Knees

Kothari A, Souza R, Wu S, Kumar D, Ma CB, Li X

1:35-1:45 pm

Development of an Early Biomarker of MGMT Activity and Response to Temozolomide Treatment Using Hyperpolarized 13C MR Metabolic Imaging
Park I, Jalbert LE, Ozawa T, James CD, Phillips JJ, Vigneron DB, Pieper PO, Ronen SM, Nelson SJ

1:45-1:55 pm

Echo Planar Chemical Shift Imaging of Hyperpolarized 13C-Pyruvate and 13C-Lactate
Reed G, Larson PEZ, van Morze, C, Kurhanewicz J, Vigneron DB

1:55-2:05 pm

Three Component Molecular Breast Composition Predicts Lesion Type More Strongly than BI-RADS Lesion Classifiers
Duewer F, Flowers C, Kerlikowske K, Giger M, Eder S, Shepherd J

2:05-2:15 pm

Natural Course of Brain Atrophy Acceleration with Advancing Cognitive Decline from Normal Aging to Alzheimer’s Disease
Schuff N, Insel P, Chiang G, Truran-Sacrey D, Weiner MW

2:15-2:25 pm

Diffusion Weighted-MRI of White Matter Injury Produced by Ethidium Bromide and Cervical Spinal Cord Contusion Injuries in the Rat
Talbott J, Nout YS, Lin A, Hawkins J, Wendland MF, Mukherjee P, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS

2:25-2:55 pm Coffee Break
2:55-4:15 pm Oral Presentations (Session II)

Moderators: Valerie Cardenas Nicolson, PhD and Jane Wang, MD

2:55-3:05 pm Longitudinal Evaluation of MPIO-labeled Stem Cell Tropism and Biodistribution in GBM Models using High Resolution and Contrast Enhanced MR Imaging at 14.1Tesla
Chaumeil M, Gini B, Yang H, Iwanami A, Subramanian S, Ozawa T, Read EJ, Pieper RO, Mischel P, James CD, Ronen SM 
3:05-3:15 pm

Age- and Gender-Related Differences in Cortical Geometry and Microstructure in the Distal Radius and Tibia: Improved Sensitivity by Regional Analysis
Kazakia G, Nirody J, Bernstein G, Sode M, Burghardt A, Majumdar S 

3:15-3:25 pm 

Evaluation of Anatomy and Flow in Hemodialysis Fistulas
Sigovan M, Gasper W, Dyverfeldt P, Acevedo-Bolton G, Owens C, Saloner D

3:25-3:35 pm

High Resolution Diffusion MRI Characterizes Tumor Stromal Boundaries
McLaughlin RL, Newit D, Wilmes L, Sinha S, Wisner D, Hylton N

3:35-3:45 pm

Super Resolution Track Density Imaging: Initial Clinical Study in Human Brain Tumors
Barajas RF, Hess CP, Yu JP, von Morze C, Cha S 

3:45-3:55 pm 

Mapping the Structural Connectivity Network in the Baby Brain Using Diffusion MRI
Tymofiyeva O, Hess CP, Tian N, Lee PN, Bonifacio SL, McQuillen PS, Ferriero DM, Barkovich AJ, Xu D 

3:55-4:05 pm

Coronary Flow Reserve Measurement Obtained Conventional Dual-Head SPECT with 4D Spatiotemporal Iterative Reconstructions—A Clinical Study
Alhassen F, Aparci CM, Nguyen N, Bains S, Gould R, Bacharach S, Gullberg G, Seo Y 

4:05-4:15 pm

Hippocampal Volumes are Reduced After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, but do not Correlate with Verbal Memory Function
Venugopal S, Sampat M, LaHue S, Cooper S, Heffernan A, Yue J, Lee H, Ghajar J, Manley GT, Mukherjee P 

4:30-6:00 pm

Poster Session, Award Presentations, and Catered Reception

4:45 pm  Presentation of the Hasegawa Award

Ronald L. Arenson, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

5:45 pm 

Podium and Poster Presentation Awards and Closing Comments
Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, Professor and Vice-Chair, Research, Dept. of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Poster Presentation List

 # First Author Abstract Title
1 Llewellyn Jalbert   

Magnetic resonance of 2-Hydroxyglutarate (2HG) in IDH1-mutant low-grade gliomas

2 Petter Dyverfeldt Turbulence Intensity Mapping in Aortic Dilatation: Initial Experience
3 Simon Hu

In Vivo Measurement of Normal Rat Intracellular Pyruvate and Lactate Levels after Injection of Hyperpolarized [1-13C]Alanine

4 Yinan Liu Cerebral Blood Perfusion Dynamics in Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Four Phase Arterial Spin Labeling MRI model
5 Michael Lu Importing Outside Imaging to PACS Reduces Repeat Imaging
6 Adam Elkhaled Metabolic Characterization of Malignant Gliomas
7 Joseph Wilson DXA-based Body Volume Measurement for Four-compartment Body Composition
8 Eugene Ozhinsky Automated 3D MRSI Acquisition with Whole Brain Slice Selection and Outer-Volume Suppression
9 Peder Larson Metabolic Activity Decomposition with Stimulated-echoes and Hyperpolarized substrates
10 Vanja Varenika Contrast-enhanced CT Quantification of Hepatic Fibrosis
11 Michael Ewers CSF Biomarker and PIB-PET Derived Beta-Amyloid Signature Predicts Metabolic, Grey Matter and Cognitive Changes in Non-Demented Subjects
12 David Pennington Morphology Of The Brain Reward System: Relationship To Relapse And Extended Abstinence
13 Valerie Cardenas

Co-analysis of Macro- and Microstructural Brain Alterations in Mild Cognitive Impairment using Anatomical and Diffusion MRI

14 Vitaliy Rayz Simulation of Surgical Interventions Based on MRA and CTA
15 Thomas Hope Evaluation of Gadolinium Accumulation and Fibrosis within the Liver after the Administration of Gadoxetate In a Rat Model of Cirrhosis
16 Michael Lu Asymmetric Ascending Aortic Dilation with Bicuspid Aortic Valve
17 John-Paul Yu Incidental Aortic Valve Calcification on CT Scans: Significance for Bicuspid and Tricuspid Valve Diesease
18 Ania Azziz Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Breast MRI Background Enhancement in a Non-Cancer Patient Population
19 Matthew Bucknor Extraspinal Sciatica in the Setting of Proximal Hamstring Injury: An Under Diagnosed Clinical Syndrome 
20 Timothy Gilleran The Effects of Gait Biomechanics on Knee Cartilage Biochemistry
21 Michael Pun Solvent Exchange Fluorination Obviates [18F]Fluoride Ion Resolubilization
22 Anderson Mon

A Mathematical Formula for the Prediction of Brain Tissue Volume Changes: Volume Increases in Abstinent Alcoholics and Decreases in Alzheimer’s Disease

23 Misung Han Bilateral Hip MRI using Dual-Band Excitation with Slab-Phase Modulation
24 Wei Bian

Achieving Heightened Contrast in Magnitude, Phase, and Susceptibility-Weighted Brain Images at 7T 

25 Yong Pang MR Experiment Validation of Parallel Traveling-Wave with Quadrature Patch Antenna Array
26 Subramaniam Sukumar Fast 3D Imaging of  Hyperpolarized 13C Biomarkers in-vivo at 14.1T
27 Alexander Dillon

The Effect of Femoroacetabular Impingement on Hip Function Assessed By 3D Motion Analysis

28 Robert Bok Multi-Parametric Analysis of Prostatic Neoplasia and Its Response to Therapy in  a Targeted PTEN-Knockout Mouse Using Diffusion & Hyperpolarized 13C MRSI
29 Deepak Kumar Walking Mechanics, Cartilage Morphology and Composition in Young Healthy Subjects with Knee Varus
30 Ye Li Investigation of Multichannel Phased Array Configurations for Fetal MR Imaging at 1.5T
31 Christopher Drake Novel Antibody-Based Probes for the Detection and Study of Pre-Malignant Breast Cancer Cells
32 Willy Tjong Longitudinal HR-PQCT Assessment of The Influence of Reduced Weight Bearing on Bone Structure And Mechanics
33 Samuel Wu Knee Cartilage Relaxation Times at 3 Months Following Menisectomy Using Chemical Shift-Based Water/Fat Separation
34 Dimitrios Karampinos

Assessment of the Regional Distribution of Skeletal Muscle Adipose Tissue In Type 2 Diabetes 

35 Cornelius von Morze Quantitative Super-Resolution Track Density Imaging for Routine Clinical Use
36 Keerthi Shet Quantitative and Histo-pathological Analysis of Osteo-arthritic Cartilage using MRI, HRMAS

Spectroscopy and Immuno-histochemistry

37 Vickie Zhang Hyperpolarized 13C Biomarkers of Response to Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy
38 Sangtaek Kim Multi-Material Decomposition using Low-Current X-Ray and a Photon-Counting CZT Detector
39 Peter Shin Multi-coil Sensitivity Estimation using Subspace Method
40 Joseph Schooler Texture Analysis of T1ρ Relaxation Times in Knee Osteoarthritis
41 Miguel Cabarrus What is normal? Critical description of pancreatic head morphology at CT imaging
42 Sai Duriseti

Imaging the Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor in Preclinical Models of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Using Recombinant Human Antibodies

43 Christine Leon

Investigating Cancer Kinetic  Biomarkers Using Metabolic Activity Decomposition with   Stimulated-Echo Acquisition Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MR

44 Alessia Lodi Treatment with the MEK Inhibitor U0126 in Prostate and Breast Cancer Cell Lines Consistently Increased Glycolytic Rates but not Rates of Hyperpolarized Pyruvate to Lactate Conversion
45 Michael Page Ultra-sensitive, Non-invasive Quantification of Blood Clot Formation In Vivo
46 Gabriel Acevedo-Bolton Rapid-Prototyping of patient specific flow models: methods and applications
47 Marcel Brus-Ramer Idiopathic Thoracic Spinal Cord Herniation: Retrospective Analysis Supporting a Mechanism of Dural Injury and Subsequent Tamponade
48 Jason Bowen  Cardiac and Torso Phantom Measurements Acquired Under Extremely Low-Count Conditions with Highly Sensitive Multipinhole Collimators
49 Ania Azziz Breast MRI Background Enhancement in a Non-Cancer Patient Population: Comparison of Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment
50 Jing Liu Self-Gated Free-Breathing 4D Cardiac MRI with Simultaneous Water and Fat Visualization
51 Susan Noworolski A Novel Luminal Water Model for Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI of Prostatic Tissues
52 Janine Lupo The Effects of Anti-Angtiogenic Therapy on the Formation of Radiation-Induced Microbleeds in Normal Brain Tissue of Patients with Glioma
53 Lisa Wilmes Improved Spatial Resolution Diffusion-weighted Imaging for Characterizing Tumors  in Patients with Invasive Breast Cancer Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
54 Francisco Valles Combined Perfusion-Weighted and Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Groups Are Predictive of Clinical Outcomes of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

Poster Presentations

The maximum size of the poster is 4 feet by 4 feet. Poster set up is from 11am-12:45pm at Millberry Union. All posters are required to be set up during this session and before the symposium begins. Push pins will be provided for setting up posters. Authors must be at their posters during the designated poster session and must be available to answer questions during the period. Posters must be removed after the symposium. Posters that remain after 6pm will be discarded.

Awards

Certificates will be presented for the best poster and oral presentations. In addition, the Bruce Hasegawa Award for Excellence in Biomedical Imaging will be given to a student or postdoctoral researcher working in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging for outstanding work in Radiology, bioengineering, medical physics or nuclear engineering.

America/Los_Angeles public

Type

Symposium

Time Duration

1:00pm - 6:00pm

Location

513 Parnassus Ave.

Notes

Registration:
12:30pm, Cole Hall, 513 Parnassus Ave.

Speaker Presentations:
1:00pm - 4:15pm, Cole Hall, 513 Parnassus Ave.

Posters, Awards and Reception:
4:30pm – 6:00pm, Millberry Union, Golden Gate and City Lights rooms, 500 Parnassus Ave.

Symposium Booklet with Abstracts (pdf)

Watch video of the oral presentations. Note that the link is only available to UCSF employees (you must have "My Access" * to use this link successfully).

Symposium Program

12:30 pm Registration
Cole Hall
1:00-1:05 pm Opening Remarks
Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
1:05-2:45 pm

Selected Oral Presentations (Session I)
Moderators: Galateia Kazakia, PhD and Esther Yuh, MD 

1:05-1:15 pm 

Noninvasive Assessment of Renal Tumor Aggressiveness using Hyperpolarized 13C MR
Keshari K, Koelsch BL, Sriram R, Iman R, Wang ZJ, Kurhanewicz J

1:15-1:25 pm

Chronic Cigarette Smoking in Alcohol Dependence: Associations with Cortical Thickness and N-acetylaspartate Levels in the Brain Reward System
Abé C, Durazzo TC, Mon A, Meyerhoff DJ

1:25-1:35 pm Abnormal Joint Kinematics are Associated With Early Cartilage Degeneration Measured by MR T1rho in ACL Reconstructed Knees

Kothari A, Souza R, Wu S, Kumar D, Ma CB, Li X

1:35-1:45 pm

Development of an Early Biomarker of MGMT Activity and Response to Temozolomide Treatment Using Hyperpolarized 13C MR Metabolic Imaging
Park I, Jalbert LE, Ozawa T, James CD, Phillips JJ, Vigneron DB, Pieper PO, Ronen SM, Nelson SJ

1:45-1:55 pm

Echo Planar Chemical Shift Imaging of Hyperpolarized 13C-Pyruvate and 13C-Lactate
Reed G, Larson PEZ, van Morze, C, Kurhanewicz J, Vigneron DB

1:55-2:05 pm

Three Component Molecular Breast Composition Predicts Lesion Type More Strongly than BI-RADS Lesion Classifiers
Duewer F, Flowers C, Kerlikowske K, Giger M, Eder S, Shepherd J

2:05-2:15 pm

Natural Course of Brain Atrophy Acceleration with Advancing Cognitive Decline from Normal Aging to Alzheimer’s Disease
Schuff N, Insel P, Chiang G, Truran-Sacrey D, Weiner MW

2:15-2:25 pm

Diffusion Weighted-MRI of White Matter Injury Produced by Ethidium Bromide and Cervical Spinal Cord Contusion Injuries in the Rat
Talbott J, Nout YS, Lin A, Hawkins J, Wendland MF, Mukherjee P, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS

2:25-2:55 pm Coffee Break
2:55-4:15 pm Oral Presentations (Session II)

Moderators: Valerie Cardenas Nicolson, PhD and Jane Wang, MD

2:55-3:05 pm Longitudinal Evaluation of MPIO-labeled Stem Cell Tropism and Biodistribution in GBM Models using High Resolution and Contrast Enhanced MR Imaging at 14.1Tesla
Chaumeil M, Gini B, Yang H, Iwanami A, Subramanian S, Ozawa T, Read EJ, Pieper RO, Mischel P, James CD, Ronen SM 
3:05-3:15 pm

Age- and Gender-Related Differences in Cortical Geometry and Microstructure in the Distal Radius and Tibia: Improved Sensitivity by Regional Analysis
Kazakia G, Nirody J, Bernstein G, Sode M, Burghardt A, Majumdar S 

3:15-3:25 pm 

Evaluation of Anatomy and Flow in Hemodialysis Fistulas
Sigovan M, Gasper W, Dyverfeldt P, Acevedo-Bolton G, Owens C, Saloner D

3:25-3:35 pm

High Resolution Diffusion MRI Characterizes Tumor Stromal Boundaries
McLaughlin RL, Newit D, Wilmes L, Sinha S, Wisner D, Hylton N

3:35-3:45 pm

Super Resolution Track Density Imaging: Initial Clinical Study in Human Brain Tumors
Barajas RF, Hess CP, Yu JP, von Morze C, Cha S 

3:45-3:55 pm 

Mapping the Structural Connectivity Network in the Baby Brain Using Diffusion MRI
Tymofiyeva O, Hess CP, Tian N, Lee PN, Bonifacio SL, McQuillen PS, Ferriero DM, Barkovich AJ, Xu D 

3:55-4:05 pm

Coronary Flow Reserve Measurement Obtained Conventional Dual-Head SPECT with 4D Spatiotemporal Iterative Reconstructions—A Clinical Study
Alhassen F, Aparci CM, Nguyen N, Bains S, Gould R, Bacharach S, Gullberg G, Seo Y 

4:05-4:15 pm

Hippocampal Volumes are Reduced After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, but do not Correlate with Verbal Memory Function
Venugopal S, Sampat M, LaHue S, Cooper S, Heffernan A, Yue J, Lee H, Ghajar J, Manley GT, Mukherjee P 

4:30-6:00 pm

Poster Session, Award Presentations, and Catered Reception

4:45 pm  Presentation of the Hasegawa Award

Ronald L. Arenson, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

5:45 pm 

Podium and Poster Presentation Awards and Closing Comments
Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, Professor and Vice-Chair, Research, Dept. of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Poster Presentation List

 # First Author Abstract Title
1 Llewellyn Jalbert   

Magnetic resonance of 2-Hydroxyglutarate (2HG) in IDH1-mutant low-grade gliomas

2 Petter Dyverfeldt Turbulence Intensity Mapping in Aortic Dilatation: Initial Experience
3 Simon Hu

In Vivo Measurement of Normal Rat Intracellular Pyruvate and Lactate Levels after Injection of Hyperpolarized [1-13C]Alanine

4 Yinan Liu Cerebral Blood Perfusion Dynamics in Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Four Phase Arterial Spin Labeling MRI model
5 Michael Lu Importing Outside Imaging to PACS Reduces Repeat Imaging
6 Adam Elkhaled Metabolic Characterization of Malignant Gliomas
7 Joseph Wilson DXA-based Body Volume Measurement for Four-compartment Body Composition
8 Eugene Ozhinsky Automated 3D MRSI Acquisition with Whole Brain Slice Selection and Outer-Volume Suppression
9 Peder Larson Metabolic Activity Decomposition with Stimulated-echoes and Hyperpolarized substrates
10 Vanja Varenika Contrast-enhanced CT Quantification of Hepatic Fibrosis
11 Michael Ewers CSF Biomarker and PIB-PET Derived Beta-Amyloid Signature Predicts Metabolic, Grey Matter and Cognitive Changes in Non-Demented Subjects
12 David Pennington Morphology Of The Brain Reward System: Relationship To Relapse And Extended Abstinence
13 Valerie Cardenas

Co-analysis of Macro- and Microstructural Brain Alterations in Mild Cognitive Impairment using Anatomical and Diffusion MRI

14 Vitaliy Rayz Simulation of Surgical Interventions Based on MRA and CTA
15 Thomas Hope Evaluation of Gadolinium Accumulation and Fibrosis within the Liver after the Administration of Gadoxetate In a Rat Model of Cirrhosis
16 Michael Lu Asymmetric Ascending Aortic Dilation with Bicuspid Aortic Valve
17 John-Paul Yu Incidental Aortic Valve Calcification on CT Scans: Significance for Bicuspid and Tricuspid Valve Diesease
18 Ania Azziz Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Breast MRI Background Enhancement in a Non-Cancer Patient Population
19 Matthew Bucknor Extraspinal Sciatica in the Setting of Proximal Hamstring Injury: An Under Diagnosed Clinical Syndrome 
20 Timothy Gilleran The Effects of Gait Biomechanics on Knee Cartilage Biochemistry
21 Michael Pun Solvent Exchange Fluorination Obviates [18F]Fluoride Ion Resolubilization
22 Anderson Mon

A Mathematical Formula for the Prediction of Brain Tissue Volume Changes: Volume Increases in Abstinent Alcoholics and Decreases in Alzheimer’s Disease

23 Misung Han Bilateral Hip MRI using Dual-Band Excitation with Slab-Phase Modulation
24 Wei Bian

Achieving Heightened Contrast in Magnitude, Phase, and Susceptibility-Weighted Brain Images at 7T 

25 Yong Pang MR Experiment Validation of Parallel Traveling-Wave with Quadrature Patch Antenna Array
26 Subramaniam Sukumar Fast 3D Imaging of  Hyperpolarized 13C Biomarkers in-vivo at 14.1T
27 Alexander Dillon

The Effect of Femoroacetabular Impingement on Hip Function Assessed By 3D Motion Analysis

28 Robert Bok Multi-Parametric Analysis of Prostatic Neoplasia and Its Response to Therapy in  a Targeted PTEN-Knockout Mouse Using Diffusion & Hyperpolarized 13C MRSI
29 Deepak Kumar Walking Mechanics, Cartilage Morphology and Composition in Young Healthy Subjects with Knee Varus
30 Ye Li Investigation of Multichannel Phased Array Configurations for Fetal MR Imaging at 1.5T
31 Christopher Drake Novel Antibody-Based Probes for the Detection and Study of Pre-Malignant Breast Cancer Cells
32 Willy Tjong Longitudinal HR-PQCT Assessment of The Influence of Reduced Weight Bearing on Bone Structure And Mechanics
33 Samuel Wu Knee Cartilage Relaxation Times at 3 Months Following Menisectomy Using Chemical Shift-Based Water/Fat Separation
34 Dimitrios Karampinos

Assessment of the Regional Distribution of Skeletal Muscle Adipose Tissue In Type 2 Diabetes 

35 Cornelius von Morze Quantitative Super-Resolution Track Density Imaging for Routine Clinical Use
36 Keerthi Shet Quantitative and Histo-pathological Analysis of Osteo-arthritic Cartilage using MRI, HRMAS

Spectroscopy and Immuno-histochemistry

37 Vickie Zhang Hyperpolarized 13C Biomarkers of Response to Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy
38 Sangtaek Kim Multi-Material Decomposition using Low-Current X-Ray and a Photon-Counting CZT Detector
39 Peter Shin Multi-coil Sensitivity Estimation using Subspace Method
40 Joseph Schooler Texture Analysis of T1ρ Relaxation Times in Knee Osteoarthritis
41 Miguel Cabarrus What is normal? Critical description of pancreatic head morphology at CT imaging
42 Sai Duriseti

Imaging the Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor in Preclinical Models of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Using Recombinant Human Antibodies

43 Christine Leon

Investigating Cancer Kinetic  Biomarkers Using Metabolic Activity Decomposition with   Stimulated-Echo Acquisition Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 MR

44 Alessia Lodi Treatment with the MEK Inhibitor U0126 in Prostate and Breast Cancer Cell Lines Consistently Increased Glycolytic Rates but not Rates of Hyperpolarized Pyruvate to Lactate Conversion
45 Michael Page Ultra-sensitive, Non-invasive Quantification of Blood Clot Formation In Vivo
46 Gabriel Acevedo-Bolton Rapid-Prototyping of patient specific flow models: methods and applications
47 Marcel Brus-Ramer Idiopathic Thoracic Spinal Cord Herniation: Retrospective Analysis Supporting a Mechanism of Dural Injury and Subsequent Tamponade
48 Jason Bowen  Cardiac and Torso Phantom Measurements Acquired Under Extremely Low-Count Conditions with Highly Sensitive Multipinhole Collimators
49 Ania Azziz Breast MRI Background Enhancement in a Non-Cancer Patient Population: Comparison of Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment
50 Jing Liu Self-Gated Free-Breathing 4D Cardiac MRI with Simultaneous Water and Fat Visualization
51 Susan Noworolski A Novel Luminal Water Model for Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI of Prostatic Tissues
52 Janine Lupo The Effects of Anti-Angtiogenic Therapy on the Formation of Radiation-Induced Microbleeds in Normal Brain Tissue of Patients with Glioma
53 Lisa Wilmes Improved Spatial Resolution Diffusion-weighted Imaging for Characterizing Tumors  in Patients with Invasive Breast Cancer Undergoing Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
54 Francisco Valles Combined Perfusion-Weighted and Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Groups Are Predictive of Clinical Outcomes of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

Poster Presentations

The maximum size of the poster is 4 feet by 4 feet. Poster set up is from 11am-12:45pm at Millberry Union. All posters are required to be set up during this session and before the symposium begins. Push pins will be provided for setting up posters. Authors must be at their posters during the designated poster session and must be available to answer questions during the period. Posters must be removed after the symposium. Posters that remain after 6pm will be discarded.

Awards

Certificates will be presented for the best poster and oral presentations. In addition, the Bruce Hasegawa Award for Excellence in Biomedical Imaging will be given to a student or postdoctoral researcher working in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging for outstanding work in Radiology, bioengineering, medical physics or nuclear engineering.

Speakers