The 5th Annual Imaging Research Symposium

Date

September 18, 200809/18/2008 1:00pm 09/18/2008 1:00pm The 5th Annual Imaging Research Symposium

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

1:05-1:45 Directors talk I


1:05-1:15 Sharmila Majumdar: Overview of RIGs/SRGs
1:15-1:27 Norbert Schuff: The Neurodegeneration RIG: Challenges and opportunities for
imaging of neurodegenerative diseases
1:27-1:39 Thomas Link: MQIR - An Overview of an Interdisciplinary Research Group

1:40-2:30 Selected Oral Presentation I

1:40-1:48 Improved Diffusion MR Fiber Tracking for Neurosurgical Applications
J. I. Berman, D. J. Clark, M. S. Berger, and R. G. Henry

1:48-1:56 Bradley Cohn: Quantitative Metabolic Profiling of 2nd and 3rd Trimester Amniotic
Fluid Via Ex Vivo High-Resolution MR Spectroscopy
Brad R. Cohn, Mark G. Swanson, Shoujun Zhao, John Kornak, Vickie Yi Zhang, Rahwa
Iman, John Kurhanewicz, Jingwei Yu, Aaron B. Caughey, Bonnie N. Joe

1:56-2:04 Evaluation of recovery of native renal function in patients with hepatorenal syndrome following liver and kidney transplant. Is kidney transplantation necessary?
David Carlson, Jesse Qian, Doug Liou, Nhan Nguyen, Randy Hawkins, Carina Mari

2:04-2:12 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Patellofemoral Kinematics After Guided Motion Total Knee Arthroplasty
R. Dana Carpenter, Jean Brilhault, Sharmila Majumdar, Michael D. Ries

2:12-2:20 Multimodal Imaging Measures from the Posterior Medial Parietal Cortex Predict
Cognitive Decline in Patients with MCI
Linda L. Chao, Shannon T. Buckley, Kristen Peek, John Kornak, Norbert Schuff, Catherine Madison, Kristine Yaffe, Bruce L. Miller, Joel H. Kramer, Michael W. Weiner

2:20-2:28 Tracking DiD labeled NK cells to EpCAM positive prostate cancer using Optical Imaging
Priyanka Jha, Sidhartha Tavri, Reinhard Meier, Sophie Boddington, Tobias Henning, Winfred Wels, Heike Daldrup Link

2:30 – 3:30 E-poster and conventional poster session with coffee and snack.

 List and time slots of E-posters listed below.

2:35-2:39 Characterization of Glioblastoma Multiforme Biology With Physiology Based Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Ramon Barajas Jr, Graeme Hodgson, Andrew Parsa, Michael Mcdermott, Mitchel Berger, Soonmee Cha

2:39-2:43 Tumor targeting of novel scFv in nude mice implanted with human mesothelioma
tissue
Jiang He, Yong Wang, Jinjin Feng, Dongwei Gao, Courtney V. Broaddus, Henry VanBrocklin, Bin Liu

2:43-2:47 Longitudinal In Vivo Evaluation of Articular Cartilage Injuries in Small Animals Using Quantitative MR Imaging
Doan, R; Taylor, C; Dang, AC; Majumdar, S; Ma, C B

2:47-2:51 Correction of Coil Reception Profile and VSS Suppression in 1H Spectroscopic Imaging
Galen Reed, John Kurhanewicz, Daniel B. Vigneron, Peder Larson, Susan M.
Noworolski

2:51-2:55 Patient-Specific FEM Analysis of the Atherosclerotic Carotid Bifurcation
Leach, J.R., Rayz, V.L., Mofrad, M.R.K., Wintermark, M., Saloner, D.

2:55-2:59 Quantitative Evaluation of Bone Marrow Edema and Overlying Cartilage in Knees with ACL Injury using MRI
Alexander A. Theologis, Radu I. Bolbos, Julio Carballido-Gamio, Benjamin C. Ma,
Sharmila Majumdar, Xiaojuan Li

2:59-3:03 Radiation Exposure with Diagnostic CT— Estimating Effective Dose of Common CT
Exams
Jafi Lipson, Diana Miglioretti, Mahesh Mahadevappa, Kwang Pyo Kim, Rebecca
Smith-Bindman

3:03-3:07 Quality of late arterial phase hepatic CT: Comparison of patient-specific scan delays determined by a timing bolus with fixed scan delays
J. Gabriel Schneider, Zhen J. Wang, Bonnie N Joe, Zhang Yang, Seif H. Sleiman,
Benjamin M. Yeh

3:07-3:11 Changes in breast tissue composition following 3 months of tamoxifen treatment in a high risk subject using MRI and diffuse optical spectroscopy
C. Klifa, C. Spake, M. Watkins, A. Cerussi, B. Tromberg, N. Hylton

3:11-3:15 Higher Body Mass Index Associated with Poorer Neuronal Integrity in Medial Temporal Lobe of Healthy Middle-Aged Adults
S. Gazdzinski, M.W. Weiner, and D.J. Meyerhoff

3:15-3:19 Measuring blood flow speed in CT raw data
Sven Prevrhal. Benjamin Yeh, Maythem Saeed

3:19-3:23 Imaging Lymph Nodes of Metastatic Breast Cancer Using Cathepsin B Specific Dendritic Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe.
David Pham, Bo Chen, Francis Szoka, Ella Fung Jones

3:30 – 4:10 Directors talk II

3:30-3:42 Sarah Nelson: The Brain Tumor Research Imaging Group at UCSF

3:42-3:54 John Kurhanewicz: Diverse ongoing translational research in the prostate RIG

3:54-4:06 David Avrin: Overview of Informatics and Image Processing SRG

4:10-5:00 Selected Oral Presentation II

4:10-4:18 Clinical Evaluation of Aortic Coarctation with Accelerated 4D Flow MR Imaging
M.D. Hope, T.A. Hope, A.K. Meadows, K.G. Ordovas, D. Saloner, G.P. Reddy, M.T.
Alley, C.B. Higgins

4:18-4:26 Dynamic Hyperpolarized 13C MRSI with Multiband Excitation Pulses
Peder E. Z. Larson, Adam B. Kerr, Simon Hu, Michael S. Lustig, Albert P. Chen,
Matthew L. Zierhut, Charles H. Cunningham, John M. Pauly, Sarah Nelson, John
Kurhanewicz, Daniel B. Vigneron

4:26-4:34 Catheter embolization for control of hemorrhage following therapeutic abortion: 12 year experience
Jeremy D Collins, MD, Derrick Allen, Sujal Nanavati, Robert K Kerlan, Jr., Lynne
Brody, David Woo, Jeanne LaBerge, Roy Gordon, Mark Wilson

4:34-4:42 3D MRSI of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients at 3T
D. Xu, S. Veeraraghavan, Q. Zhao, H. Lee, M. R. Meeker, Y. Lu, J. Ghajar, G. T.
Manley, D. B. Vigneron, and P. Mukherjee

4:42-4:50 Reperfusion is a Better Predictor of Final Infarct Volume Than Recanalization: A Proof of Concept Using CT
Bruno P. Soares; Elizabeth Tong; Jeffrey L. Chien; Sumail Bhogal; William P. Dillon;
Max Wintermark

4:50-4:58 Quantitative Organ Oxygen Measurement Using 19F MRI
Siyuan Liu, Sameer J. Shah, Lisa J. Wilmes, Vikram Kodibagkar, Michael F.
Wendland, Nola Hylton, Harriet W. Hopf, Ralph P. Mason, Mark D. Rollins

5:00-5:05 Poster awards by Dr. David Saloner

5:05-5:10 Closing comments from Dr. Ron Arenson

5:10-6:00 Extended E-poster and poster session with food and refreshments


List of Posters
1 Ella Jones
Nuclear and Optical Imaging Specialized Resource Group (NOI SRG)

2 Ling Zhang
Tungsten Encapsulated Liposome Nanoparticle as an Novel X-ray Imaging Agent

3 Michael Wahl
Variability of Homotopic and Heterotopic Callosal Connectivity in Partial Agenesis of the
Corpus Callosum: A 3T DTI and q-ball Tractography Study

4 Yan Li
Proton spectrocopy of human brain at 3T and 7T: signal-to-noise ratio, spectral linewidth and relaxation times

5 Janine Lupo - Award Winner
Analysis of Hyperpolarized Dynamic 13C Lactate Imaging in a Transgenic Mouse Model of
Prostate Cancer

6 Susanne Mueller
Patterns of Hippocampal Atrophy in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Mild Cognitive Impairment
(MCI) and Modulation by ApoE4 Carrier State

7 Radu BOLBOS
T1ρ relaxation time of lateral meniscus and its relationship with T1ρ of adjacent cartilage

8 Rahwa Iman
HR-MAS Spectroscopy of Human Testicular Biopsy Tissue Demonstrates Phosphocholine as a
Biomarker of Male Fertility

9 Kimberly Loo
Texture of T1ρ and T2 in Enzymatically Degraded Articular Cartilage

10 Marzieh Nezamzadeh
Visualization of the cingulum bundles in-vivo using optimized MR diffusion spectrum imaging

11 Christopher Nguyen
Measuring Error of Diffusion MRI-based Brain Connectivity Matrices with Residual Bootstrap

12 Seif Sleiman
Initial clinical experience with intravenous CT cholangiography for the evaluation of biliary
disease.

13 Joseph Blecha
Carbon-11 labeled quinacrine: Preparation of an imaging agent surrogate for development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease therapeutics

14 Lydia Mandrussow
Viability and Pluripotency of ICG and Lipofectin Labeled Human Embryonic Stem Cells

15 Ajay Garg
Abnormal White Matter and Gray Matter Maturation in Premature Neonates with
Periventricular Hemorrhagic Infarction: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

16 Mark Swanson
Glycerol to choline ratio as a biomarker for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

17 Gan Du
A Modified Iterative Approach for Metal Artifact Reduction in CT Imaging

18 Simon Hu
In Vivo Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 Localized Spectroscopic Imaging of Mouse Liver

19 Ilwoo Park
Monitoring Metabolically Active Lactate Using Hyperpolarized 13C MR Spectroscopic Imaging
in a Human Glioblastoma Xenograft

20 Karen Ordovas
Cardiac MRI factors are associated with poor clinical status in postoperative tetralogy of Fallot

21 BING WU
Microstrip human head transceiver array using 1st and 2nd harmonics at 7T

22 Lisa Chu
Accuracy of cine MDCT for the measurement of contrast flow velocity in a phantom model

23 Joshua Ng
3T Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective Longitudinal Study

24 Eugene Ozhinsky
Improved Spatial Coverage for 3D MRSI by Automatic Placement of Outer-Volume Suppression Saturation Bands

25 David Wipf
Estimating the Location and Orientation of Complex, Correlated Neural Activity using MEG

26 Wei Bian
Differentiation of Low-Grade Glioma Subtypes Using Multiparametric MR Data

27 Caixia Li
Percentage of Survival Variation Explained By a Continuous Marker

28 jin zuo
MR Spectroscopy in Intact and Degenerated Bovine Intervertebral Disc

29 Jan Wooten
1H HR-MAS NMR Discrimination of Painful and Non-Painful Degenerated Intervertebral Discs

30 Jason Crane
Service Oriented Architecture for Secure and Rapid Access to Distributed DICOM Medical Images Using HealthGrid Technology: A Globus MEDICUS Plug-In for OsiriX PACS

31 Dorota Wisner
Preoperative MRI for the estimation of DCIS grade, extent, and presence of occult invasive disease

32 Robert Knebel
Optical Imaging of the Peri-tumoral Inflammatory Response in an Animal Model of Breast Cancer

33 Haris Tsachres
Correlation of Phospholipid Metabolites with the Proliferation Marker Ki-67 in Prostate Cancer Tissues

34 Lisa Wilmes
1H HR-MAS spectroscopy of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (VEGFR-TKI) effects in a model of human breast cancer

35 Charles Fang
Evaluation of Advanced Coil Correction Techniques in High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Trabecular Bone Microstructure

36 Zhang Yang
Rational selection of CT contrast material combinations for dual energy CT imaging: lessons from a phantom study on CT quantification of contrast material

37 Michelle Nystrom - Award Winner
An Aproach to Graphically Evaluate Steatosis in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

38 SungWon C
hung Bootstrap Analysis of Cardiac Gating for Diffusion MRI

39 Tracy Luks
Voxel-based morphometry shows two networks associated with attentional control dysfunction on a Flanker task in dementia.

40 Hila Wahnishe
Targeted Imaging of Prostate Cancer with Phosphoramidate- Based Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) Inhibitors

41 Wang Zhan
Comparing White Matter Integrity Changes Associated with Advancing Age, ApoE Genotype and Alzheimer’s Disease

42 Khatibi Kasra
Neuroplasticity-based cognitive training in schizophrenia normalizes MEG auditory duration mismatch responses in cortex

43 Paolo Vitali
Clinical Significance of Diffusion MRI Abnormalities in sCJD: ADC at Gyral-Nuclear Level and Clinical Scales

44 Timothy Durazzo
Effects of Chronic Cigarette Smoking on Brain Morphology and Metabolites

45 Sarmad Siddiqui
HRMAS spectral analysis of Osteoarthritic Cartilage

46 Vitaliy Rayz
Prediction of thrombus deposition regions with CFD modeling based on MRA and MRV data

47 Bryan Reutter
Comparison of Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Normal and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Heart Via Dynamic Imaging

48 Anne Sauve - Award Winner
Quantitative Single Emission Tomography (SPECT) of Small Animals Using Monte Carlo System Matrices

49 Leighton Hinkley
Cortical temporal dynamics of visually-guided behavior.

50 Ehsan Saadat
IDENTIFICATION OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC MARKERS FOR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION IN CADAVERIC SPINES AND CORRELATION TO BIOCHEMICAL FINDINGS

51 Sophia Vinogradov
Neuroplasticity-based cognitive training improves self-referential source memory compared to baseline performance in schizophrenic patients: Behavioral and fMRI assessments

52 Karuna Subramaniam
Neuroplasticity-based cognitive training improves working memory and cognitive control processes in schizophrenic patients: Behavioral and fMRI assessments.

53 Julia Owen MEG Methods for Determining Functional Connectivity in Health and Disease

54 Chunsheng Wang
A dual-tuned 13C/1H head coil for 7T MRI/S

55 Cornelius von Morze
High resolution intracranial time-of-flight (TOF) MRA at 7T using autocalibrating parallel imaging

56 Kayvan Keshari
Hyperpolarized 13C NMR and a Novel 3D Bioreactor for the Real Time Characterization of a Hepatoma Cell Line 

America/Los_Angeles public

Type

Symposium

Time Duration

1:00pm - 6:00pm

Location

513 Parnassus Ave.

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

1:05-1:45 Directors talk I


1:05-1:15 Sharmila Majumdar: Overview of RIGs/SRGs
1:15-1:27 Norbert Schuff: The Neurodegeneration RIG: Challenges and opportunities for
imaging of neurodegenerative diseases
1:27-1:39 Thomas Link: MQIR - An Overview of an Interdisciplinary Research Group

1:40-2:30 Selected Oral Presentation I

1:40-1:48 Improved Diffusion MR Fiber Tracking for Neurosurgical Applications
J. I. Berman, D. J. Clark, M. S. Berger, and R. G. Henry

1:48-1:56 Bradley Cohn: Quantitative Metabolic Profiling of 2nd and 3rd Trimester Amniotic
Fluid Via Ex Vivo High-Resolution MR Spectroscopy
Brad R. Cohn, Mark G. Swanson, Shoujun Zhao, John Kornak, Vickie Yi Zhang, Rahwa
Iman, John Kurhanewicz, Jingwei Yu, Aaron B. Caughey, Bonnie N. Joe

1:56-2:04 Evaluation of recovery of native renal function in patients with hepatorenal syndrome following liver and kidney transplant. Is kidney transplantation necessary?
David Carlson, Jesse Qian, Doug Liou, Nhan Nguyen, Randy Hawkins, Carina Mari

2:04-2:12 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Patellofemoral Kinematics After Guided Motion Total Knee Arthroplasty
R. Dana Carpenter, Jean Brilhault, Sharmila Majumdar, Michael D. Ries

2:12-2:20 Multimodal Imaging Measures from the Posterior Medial Parietal Cortex Predict
Cognitive Decline in Patients with MCI
Linda L. Chao, Shannon T. Buckley, Kristen Peek, John Kornak, Norbert Schuff, Catherine Madison, Kristine Yaffe, Bruce L. Miller, Joel H. Kramer, Michael W. Weiner

2:20-2:28 Tracking DiD labeled NK cells to EpCAM positive prostate cancer using Optical Imaging
Priyanka Jha, Sidhartha Tavri, Reinhard Meier, Sophie Boddington, Tobias Henning, Winfred Wels, Heike Daldrup Link

2:30 – 3:30 E-poster and conventional poster session with coffee and snack.

 List and time slots of E-posters listed below.

2:35-2:39 Characterization of Glioblastoma Multiforme Biology With Physiology Based Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Ramon Barajas Jr, Graeme Hodgson, Andrew Parsa, Michael Mcdermott, Mitchel Berger, Soonmee Cha

2:39-2:43 Tumor targeting of novel scFv in nude mice implanted with human mesothelioma
tissue
Jiang He, Yong Wang, Jinjin Feng, Dongwei Gao, Courtney V. Broaddus, Henry VanBrocklin, Bin Liu

2:43-2:47 Longitudinal In Vivo Evaluation of Articular Cartilage Injuries in Small Animals Using Quantitative MR Imaging
Doan, R; Taylor, C; Dang, AC; Majumdar, S; Ma, C B

2:47-2:51 Correction of Coil Reception Profile and VSS Suppression in 1H Spectroscopic Imaging
Galen Reed, John Kurhanewicz, Daniel B. Vigneron, Peder Larson, Susan M.
Noworolski

2:51-2:55 Patient-Specific FEM Analysis of the Atherosclerotic Carotid Bifurcation
Leach, J.R., Rayz, V.L., Mofrad, M.R.K., Wintermark, M., Saloner, D.

2:55-2:59 Quantitative Evaluation of Bone Marrow Edema and Overlying Cartilage in Knees with ACL Injury using MRI
Alexander A. Theologis, Radu I. Bolbos, Julio Carballido-Gamio, Benjamin C. Ma,
Sharmila Majumdar, Xiaojuan Li

2:59-3:03 Radiation Exposure with Diagnostic CT— Estimating Effective Dose of Common CT
Exams
Jafi Lipson, Diana Miglioretti, Mahesh Mahadevappa, Kwang Pyo Kim, Rebecca
Smith-Bindman

3:03-3:07 Quality of late arterial phase hepatic CT: Comparison of patient-specific scan delays determined by a timing bolus with fixed scan delays
J. Gabriel Schneider, Zhen J. Wang, Bonnie N Joe, Zhang Yang, Seif H. Sleiman,
Benjamin M. Yeh

3:07-3:11 Changes in breast tissue composition following 3 months of tamoxifen treatment in a high risk subject using MRI and diffuse optical spectroscopy
C. Klifa, C. Spake, M. Watkins, A. Cerussi, B. Tromberg, N. Hylton

3:11-3:15 Higher Body Mass Index Associated with Poorer Neuronal Integrity in Medial Temporal Lobe of Healthy Middle-Aged Adults
S. Gazdzinski, M.W. Weiner, and D.J. Meyerhoff

3:15-3:19 Measuring blood flow speed in CT raw data
Sven Prevrhal. Benjamin Yeh, Maythem Saeed

3:19-3:23 Imaging Lymph Nodes of Metastatic Breast Cancer Using Cathepsin B Specific Dendritic Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe.
David Pham, Bo Chen, Francis Szoka, Ella Fung Jones

3:30 – 4:10 Directors talk II

3:30-3:42 Sarah Nelson: The Brain Tumor Research Imaging Group at UCSF

3:42-3:54 John Kurhanewicz: Diverse ongoing translational research in the prostate RIG

3:54-4:06 David Avrin: Overview of Informatics and Image Processing SRG

4:10-5:00 Selected Oral Presentation II

4:10-4:18 Clinical Evaluation of Aortic Coarctation with Accelerated 4D Flow MR Imaging
M.D. Hope, T.A. Hope, A.K. Meadows, K.G. Ordovas, D. Saloner, G.P. Reddy, M.T.
Alley, C.B. Higgins

4:18-4:26 Dynamic Hyperpolarized 13C MRSI with Multiband Excitation Pulses
Peder E. Z. Larson, Adam B. Kerr, Simon Hu, Michael S. Lustig, Albert P. Chen,
Matthew L. Zierhut, Charles H. Cunningham, John M. Pauly, Sarah Nelson, John
Kurhanewicz, Daniel B. Vigneron

4:26-4:34 Catheter embolization for control of hemorrhage following therapeutic abortion: 12 year experience
Jeremy D Collins, MD, Derrick Allen, Sujal Nanavati, Robert K Kerlan, Jr., Lynne
Brody, David Woo, Jeanne LaBerge, Roy Gordon, Mark Wilson

4:34-4:42 3D MRSI of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients at 3T
D. Xu, S. Veeraraghavan, Q. Zhao, H. Lee, M. R. Meeker, Y. Lu, J. Ghajar, G. T.
Manley, D. B. Vigneron, and P. Mukherjee

4:42-4:50 Reperfusion is a Better Predictor of Final Infarct Volume Than Recanalization: A Proof of Concept Using CT
Bruno P. Soares; Elizabeth Tong; Jeffrey L. Chien; Sumail Bhogal; William P. Dillon;
Max Wintermark

4:50-4:58 Quantitative Organ Oxygen Measurement Using 19F MRI
Siyuan Liu, Sameer J. Shah, Lisa J. Wilmes, Vikram Kodibagkar, Michael F.
Wendland, Nola Hylton, Harriet W. Hopf, Ralph P. Mason, Mark D. Rollins

5:00-5:05 Poster awards by Dr. David Saloner

5:05-5:10 Closing comments from Dr. Ron Arenson

5:10-6:00 Extended E-poster and poster session with food and refreshments


List of Posters
1 Ella Jones
Nuclear and Optical Imaging Specialized Resource Group (NOI SRG)

2 Ling Zhang
Tungsten Encapsulated Liposome Nanoparticle as an Novel X-ray Imaging Agent

3 Michael Wahl
Variability of Homotopic and Heterotopic Callosal Connectivity in Partial Agenesis of the
Corpus Callosum: A 3T DTI and q-ball Tractography Study

4 Yan Li
Proton spectrocopy of human brain at 3T and 7T: signal-to-noise ratio, spectral linewidth and relaxation times

5 Janine Lupo - Award Winner
Analysis of Hyperpolarized Dynamic 13C Lactate Imaging in a Transgenic Mouse Model of
Prostate Cancer

6 Susanne Mueller
Patterns of Hippocampal Atrophy in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Mild Cognitive Impairment
(MCI) and Modulation by ApoE4 Carrier State

7 Radu BOLBOS
T1ρ relaxation time of lateral meniscus and its relationship with T1ρ of adjacent cartilage

8 Rahwa Iman
HR-MAS Spectroscopy of Human Testicular Biopsy Tissue Demonstrates Phosphocholine as a
Biomarker of Male Fertility

9 Kimberly Loo
Texture of T1ρ and T2 in Enzymatically Degraded Articular Cartilage

10 Marzieh Nezamzadeh
Visualization of the cingulum bundles in-vivo using optimized MR diffusion spectrum imaging

11 Christopher Nguyen
Measuring Error of Diffusion MRI-based Brain Connectivity Matrices with Residual Bootstrap

12 Seif Sleiman
Initial clinical experience with intravenous CT cholangiography for the evaluation of biliary
disease.

13 Joseph Blecha
Carbon-11 labeled quinacrine: Preparation of an imaging agent surrogate for development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease therapeutics

14 Lydia Mandrussow
Viability and Pluripotency of ICG and Lipofectin Labeled Human Embryonic Stem Cells

15 Ajay Garg
Abnormal White Matter and Gray Matter Maturation in Premature Neonates with
Periventricular Hemorrhagic Infarction: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

16 Mark Swanson
Glycerol to choline ratio as a biomarker for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

17 Gan Du
A Modified Iterative Approach for Metal Artifact Reduction in CT Imaging

18 Simon Hu
In Vivo Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 Localized Spectroscopic Imaging of Mouse Liver

19 Ilwoo Park
Monitoring Metabolically Active Lactate Using Hyperpolarized 13C MR Spectroscopic Imaging
in a Human Glioblastoma Xenograft

20 Karen Ordovas
Cardiac MRI factors are associated with poor clinical status in postoperative tetralogy of Fallot

21 BING WU
Microstrip human head transceiver array using 1st and 2nd harmonics at 7T

22 Lisa Chu
Accuracy of cine MDCT for the measurement of contrast flow velocity in a phantom model

23 Joshua Ng
3T Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective Longitudinal Study

24 Eugene Ozhinsky
Improved Spatial Coverage for 3D MRSI by Automatic Placement of Outer-Volume Suppression Saturation Bands

25 David Wipf
Estimating the Location and Orientation of Complex, Correlated Neural Activity using MEG

26 Wei Bian
Differentiation of Low-Grade Glioma Subtypes Using Multiparametric MR Data

27 Caixia Li
Percentage of Survival Variation Explained By a Continuous Marker

28 jin zuo
MR Spectroscopy in Intact and Degenerated Bovine Intervertebral Disc

29 Jan Wooten
1H HR-MAS NMR Discrimination of Painful and Non-Painful Degenerated Intervertebral Discs

30 Jason Crane
Service Oriented Architecture for Secure and Rapid Access to Distributed DICOM Medical Images Using HealthGrid Technology: A Globus MEDICUS Plug-In for OsiriX PACS

31 Dorota Wisner
Preoperative MRI for the estimation of DCIS grade, extent, and presence of occult invasive disease

32 Robert Knebel
Optical Imaging of the Peri-tumoral Inflammatory Response in an Animal Model of Breast Cancer

33 Haris Tsachres
Correlation of Phospholipid Metabolites with the Proliferation Marker Ki-67 in Prostate Cancer Tissues

34 Lisa Wilmes
1H HR-MAS spectroscopy of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (VEGFR-TKI) effects in a model of human breast cancer

35 Charles Fang
Evaluation of Advanced Coil Correction Techniques in High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Trabecular Bone Microstructure

36 Zhang Yang
Rational selection of CT contrast material combinations for dual energy CT imaging: lessons from a phantom study on CT quantification of contrast material

37 Michelle Nystrom - Award Winner
An Aproach to Graphically Evaluate Steatosis in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

38 SungWon C
hung Bootstrap Analysis of Cardiac Gating for Diffusion MRI

39 Tracy Luks
Voxel-based morphometry shows two networks associated with attentional control dysfunction on a Flanker task in dementia.

40 Hila Wahnishe
Targeted Imaging of Prostate Cancer with Phosphoramidate- Based Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) Inhibitors

41 Wang Zhan
Comparing White Matter Integrity Changes Associated with Advancing Age, ApoE Genotype and Alzheimer’s Disease

42 Khatibi Kasra
Neuroplasticity-based cognitive training in schizophrenia normalizes MEG auditory duration mismatch responses in cortex

43 Paolo Vitali
Clinical Significance of Diffusion MRI Abnormalities in sCJD: ADC at Gyral-Nuclear Level and Clinical Scales

44 Timothy Durazzo
Effects of Chronic Cigarette Smoking on Brain Morphology and Metabolites

45 Sarmad Siddiqui
HRMAS spectral analysis of Osteoarthritic Cartilage

46 Vitaliy Rayz
Prediction of thrombus deposition regions with CFD modeling based on MRA and MRV data

47 Bryan Reutter
Comparison of Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Normal and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat Heart Via Dynamic Imaging

48 Anne Sauve - Award Winner
Quantitative Single Emission Tomography (SPECT) of Small Animals Using Monte Carlo System Matrices

49 Leighton Hinkley
Cortical temporal dynamics of visually-guided behavior.

50 Ehsan Saadat
IDENTIFICATION OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC MARKERS FOR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION IN CADAVERIC SPINES AND CORRELATION TO BIOCHEMICAL FINDINGS

51 Sophia Vinogradov
Neuroplasticity-based cognitive training improves self-referential source memory compared to baseline performance in schizophrenic patients: Behavioral and fMRI assessments

52 Karuna Subramaniam
Neuroplasticity-based cognitive training improves working memory and cognitive control processes in schizophrenic patients: Behavioral and fMRI assessments.

53 Julia Owen MEG Methods for Determining Functional Connectivity in Health and Disease

54 Chunsheng Wang
A dual-tuned 13C/1H head coil for 7T MRI/S

55 Cornelius von Morze
High resolution intracranial time-of-flight (TOF) MRA at 7T using autocalibrating parallel imaging

56 Kayvan Keshari
Hyperpolarized 13C NMR and a Novel 3D Bioreactor for the Real Time Characterization of a Hepatoma Cell Line 

Speakers