7:45 AM Registration
8:30 Welcome
Kamil Ugurbil
8:40 AM THEORETICAL AND ACTUAL GAINS OF HIGH FIELDS
Moderator: Michael Garwood
8:40 - 9:10 Charles Springer Onward & Downward: Higher MRI Field Strengths for Contrast Reagents
9:10 - 9:40 Robert Bartha The Magnetic Field Dependence of T2
9:40 - 10:10 Daniel M Spielman Proton Spectroscopic Imaging at 3T
10:10 - 10:40 Ivan Tkac In Vivo 1H NMR Spectroscopy at High Magnetic Fields
10:40 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 AM MICROSCOPY AND CLINICAL IMAGING
Moderator: Xiaoping Hu
11:00 - 11:30 Matthew Bernstein Clinical MRI at 3.0 T
11:30 - 12:00 Andrew Webb High Field NMR Microscopy
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:15 PM IMAGING
Moderator: E. Mark Haacke
1:15 - 1:50 David Alsop Perfusion Imaging with Fast Spin Echo
1:50 - 2:30 Peter Boesiger SENSE: Principles and High
Field Prospects
2:30 - 2:50 BREAK
2:50 PM APPLICATIONS
Moderator: Rolf Gruetter
2:50 - 3:20 Michael Garwood MRS Studies of Breast Cancer at 4 Tesla
3:20 - 3:50 Elizabeth Seaquist Use of 1H MRS to Study in vivo Brain Glucose Metabolism in Health and Disease
3:50 - 4:20 Kamil Ugurbil Functional Brain Imaging at High Magnetic Fields
5:00 RECEPTION Center for Magnetic Resonance
Research
8:00 AM OTHER NUCLEI
Moderator: Douglas Rothman
8:00 - 8:30 Hoby Hetherington High Field 31P Spectroscopy
8:30 - 9:00 Rolf Gruetter Localized 13C NMR Spectroscopy in vivo at High Magnetic Fields
9:00 -9:30 Wei Chen Multi Nuclear MR Spectroscopy at High Magnetic Fields
9:30 - 10:00 Keith Thulborn Sodium MR Imaging as a Component of the Comprehensive Neuro :MRI Protocol: A Measure Of Tissue Viability in Stroke & Oncology
10:00 - 10:20 BREAK
10:20 AM MR SYSTEMS
Moderator: J. Thomas Vaughan
10:20 - 10:50 Franz Schmidt
10:50 - 11:20 Piotr Starewicz
11:20 - 11:50 Joe Debbins A Rapid Development Environment for Clinical & Research MR Applications
11:50 - 12:20 Dan Meyer
12:20 - 1:20 LUNCH
1:20 PM RF COILS
Moderator: Hellmut Merkle
1:20 - 1:50 John Schenck RF Transmitter Coils for 3T and Beyond
1:50 - 2:20 Randy Duensing Translating 1.5T RX-only Arrays to 3T and Beyond
2:20 - 2:50 Tommy Vaughan High Frequency RF Body Coil
2:50 - 3:10 BREAK
3:10 PM EM MODELING AND SAFETY
Moderator: Michael Smith
3:10 - 3:40 Christopher Collins Safety & Sensitivity in MRI of the Human Head & Body at Increasing Field Strengths: Insights and Predictions from Numerical Calculations
3:40 - 4:10 D. Joe Schaeffer High Field Safety Considerations
4:10 - 4:40 Qiang X Yang A Numerical Method & Analysis of Wave Behavior in Lossy Dielectric Samples at High Field
4:40 COMMERICAL HIGH FIELD SYSTEMS
Moderator: Gregor Adriany
4:40 - 6:10 Bruker, Siemens, Varian, Phillips, GE
6:30 DINNER - Speaker Costantino Iadecola
7:00 AM Registration
7:30 - 8:30 Charles Springer fMRI Educational Lecture I
8:30 AM BRAIN ENERGETICS 7 ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY
Moderator: Kamil Ugurbil
8:30 - 9:00 Louis Sokoloff Energetics of Functional Activation in Neural Tissues
9:00 - 9:30 David Attwell An Energy Budget for Signaling in the Grey Matter of the Brain
9:30 - 10:00 Martin Lauritzen Relation of Spikes and Synaptic Activity to Local Increases of Cerebral Blood Flow
10:00 - 10:30 BREAK
10:30 AM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTIONAL IMAGING
Moderator: Seiji Ogawa
10:30 - 10:50 Amir Shmuel The Intrinsic Hemodynamic Signal from the Capillary Bed is Linear with Neuronal Spike Activity
10:50 - 11:20 Dae-Shik Kim Points of Contact Between Neuronal Physiology and fMRI
11:20 - 11:50 Eric Halgren
11:50 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 PM HEMODYNAMIC RESPONSE AND FUNCTIONAL MAPPING
Moderator: Seong-Gi Kim
1:00 - 1:30 Iwao Kanno Is Activation Cerebral Blood Flow Proportional or Parallel to the Baseline Cerebral Blood Flow
1:30 - 2:00 Tim Duong Localized cerebral blood Flow Response at Sub-Millimeter Columnar Resolution
2:00 - 2:30 Noam Harel Origin of Negative BOLD fMRI Signals
2:30 - 3:00 Amir Shmuel Sustained Negative BOLD & Blood Flow Response & its Coupling to Positive Response in the Human Brain
3:00 - 3:30 BREAK
3:30 PM NEUROCHEMISTRY AND BRAIN FUNCTION
Moderator: Louis Sokoloff
3:30 - 4.10 Albert Gjedde Oxidative Metabolism of Excited Neurons and Astrocytes
4:10 - 4:50 Rolf Gruetter Neurochemistry in Action; Insights into the Regulation of In Vivo Brain Energy Metabolism
4:50 - 5:20 Douglas Rothman In Vivo MRS Studies of GABA/Glutamine and Glutamate/Glutamine Cycle: Does Functional Activation Mean More Inhibition
7:30 AM Kamil Ugurbil fMRI Educational Lecture II
8:30 AM fMRI MECHANISM
Moderator: Xiaoping Hu
8:30 -9:00 Wei Chen Functional MRS Study of BOLD Effects on Cerebral Metabolite Resonances in Human Visual Cortex During Visual Stimulation
9:00 - 9:30 Bruce Pike fMRI Signal Modeling and CBF, CBV & CMRO2
9:30 - 10:00 E. Mark Haacke Modeling BOLD Signal Changes: What Have We Learned to Date?
10:00 - 10:20 BREAK
10:20 AM SPATIAL SPECIFITY
Moderator: Ravi Menon
10:20 - 10:50 Amiram Grinvald Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of the Interactions Between Cortical Electrical Activity and Compartments
10:50 - 11:20 Manabu Tanifuji Reflection Measurement from Exposed Cat Cortex Shows Blood Volume Changes are Localized to Activated Cortical Columns
11:20 - 11:50 James Hyde High Resolution Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
11:50 - 12:20 Xiaoping Hu Mapping Human brain Function with Improved Sensitivity & Specificity at 7 Tesla
12:20 - 1:20 LUNCH
1:30 PM TEMPORAL RESOLUTION
Moderator: Wei Chen
1:30 - 2:00 Seiji Ogawa An Approach to Probe Some Fast Dynamics of Neural Systems Interaction by Functional MRI
2:00 - 2:30 Mark DíEsposito Event Related Functional MRI
2:30 - 3:00 Seong-Gi Kim Quantitative Relationship Between BOLD Signals and Neural Activity
3:00 - 3:20 BREAK
3:20 PM DATA PROCESSING
Moderator: Stephen Strother
3:20 - 3:50 Reiner Goebel Cortex-Based ICA and Cortex-Based Real-Time GLM: Anatomically Constrained Hypothesis and Data-Driven Analysis of Functional MRI Data Sets
3:50 - 4:20 Shing-Chung Ngan Template-Free Activation Detection Methods for Multi-Epoch fMRI Data
4:20 - 5:10 Scott Makeig Exploring BOLD Data with Blind Source Separation