Program Schedule
| 7:30 AM | Registration | |
| Welcome | ||
| 8:30 - 8:35 | Welcome | Kamil Ugurbil |
| Moderator: J. Thomas Vaughan | ||
| 8:35 - 8:55 | Siemens 7T Human | John Grinstead |
| 8:55 - 9:15 | Philips 7T Human | Michael Morich |
| 9:15 - 9:35 | GE 7T Human | Douglas Kelley |
| 9:35 - 9:55 | Bruker 7T & Animal | Stefan Widmeyer |
| 9:55 - 10:15 | Varian 7T & Animal | Alan Rath |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Break | |
| Moderator: Christopher Collins | ||
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Transmit Head Arrays for 7 Tesla and 9.4 Tesla | Gregor Adriany |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | Body Coils for 7T MRI | J. Thomas Vaughan |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Feasibility of Volume Body Imaging at 7T using Surface Transceiver Arrays | Carl Snyder |
| Lunch | ||
| 12:00 - 1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| Moderator: Gregor Adriany | ||
| 1:30 - 1:55 | RF Systems | Lance DelaBarre |
| 1:55 - 2:20 | Multichannel Array Technologies for Ultrahigh Field Systems, An Insight | Labros Petropoulos |
| 2:20 - 2:50 | Break | |
| 2:50 - 3:15 | Electromagnetics and Field Modeling for UHF MRI and B1 Shimming | Tamer Ibrahim |
| 3:15 - 3:40 | Modeling RF Safety of Transmit Arrays | Christopher Collins |
| 3:40 - 4:05 | RF Safety Measurements at Ultra High Fields | Devashish Shrivastava |
| Body Imaging at High Fields Moderator: Kamil Ugurbil |
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| 8:30 - 8:55 AM | Cardiovascular MRI at High Magnetic Field Strength | Matthias Stuber |
| 8:55 - 9:20 | Local B1+ Shimming for Prostate Imaging at 7 Tesla | Gregory Metzger |
| 9:20 - 9:45 | Musculoskeletal Imaging Research at 3T and 7T | Ravinder Regatte |
| 9:45 - 10:10 | Qantitative MR Spectroscopy of the Breast at High Field | Patrick Bolan |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Break | |
| Spectroscopy Moderator: Ivan Tkac |
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| 10:40 - 11:05 | High SNR MR Spectroscopic Imaging: 7T H-1 MRSI in Brain Tumor Patients and Hyperpolarized C-13 MRSI in Pre-Clinical Animal Studies | Daniel Vigneron |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | High-speed 1H MRSI at High Field using Large Scale Array Coils and Acceleration with Parallel Imaging | Stefan Posse |
| 11:30 - 11:55 | Localized Spectroscopy in Different Regions of Human Brain at High Magnetic Field | Malgorzata Marjanska |
| 11:55 - 12:20 | High Field 1H MRS from Mice to Men: On the Road to Translational Neuroscience | Gulin Oz |
| 12:20 - 1:45 PM | Lunch | |
| fMRI Moderator: Noam Harel |
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| 1:45 - 2:10 | Quantitative Measurement of Baseline Venous Oxygenation Reveals Physiologic Basis for Inter-subject Variations in fMRI Signals | Hanzhang Lu |
| 2:10 - 2:35 | Sources of Functional ADC Changes: Blood vs. Tissue | Seong-Gi Kim |
| 2:35 - 3:00 | Pushing the Limits of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Humans | Essa Yacoub |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:30 - 3:55 | In vivo Molecular Imaging using Multi-Photon Excitation Microscopy | Robert Balaban |
| 3:55 - 4:20 | Shedding Light on the Physiological Basis of the fMRI Signals | David Boas |
| 4:30 - 6:00 | Poster Viewing and Talks | |
| 6:30 PM | Reception at the CMRR | |
| Parallel Receive & Transmit B1 Management Moderator: Gregory Metzger |
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| 8:30 - 8:55 AM | PPI - Partial Parallel Imaging at High Field, with Application to fMRI | Steen Moeller |
| 8:55 - 9:20 | B1 Manipulation at Very High Fields: Methodological Considerations | Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele |
| 9:20 - 9:45 | Parallel Transmission in MRI: Infrastructure, Methods and Applications | Peter Ullman |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Patient Safety in Parallel Transmission | Ingmar Graesslin |
| 10:40 - 11:05 | Advances in Magnetic Field Monitoring with NMR Probes | Klaas Pruessmann |
| Molecular & Contrast Mechanisms Moderator: Michael Garwood |
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| 11:05 - 11:30 | Molecular Pharmacokinetics: Nuclear vs. Magnetic Resonance | Charles Springer, Jr. |
| 11:30 - 11:55 | Paramagnetic Liposomes: Routes to Enhance the Sensitivity of MR Agent | Silvio Aime |
| 11:55 - 1:15 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:20 - 1:45 | Alternative Approaches for Imaging with Magnetic Nanoparticles | Xiaoping Hu |
| 1:45 - 2:10 | Measuring Iron and Glycogen using Saturation and Saturation Transfer | Peter van Zijl |
| 2:10 - 2:35 | Development of Targeted Intracellular MR Contrast Agents | Kamil Ugurbil |
| 2:35 - 3:05 | Break | |
| Structural/Anatomical Imaging Moderator: Kelvin Lim |
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| 3:05 - 3:30 | Phase effects at High Field Stabilization / Potential Anatomical Significance | Peter van Gelderen |
| 3:30 - 3:55 | Biophysical Determinants of the Magnetic Resonance Signal in Vivo | Joseph Ackerman |
| 3:55 - 4:20 | Evaluation of Tract Specific White Matter Pathology using Diffusion Tensor Imaging | Stephane Lehericy |
| 4:20 - 4:45 | MR Imaging of Alzheimer's Disease in Humans and TG Mice | Clifford Jack, Jr. |
| Dinner Radisson Hotel Metrodome | ||
| 6:00 PM | Measuring Development and Plasticity in Human Visual Cortex | Dr. Brian Wandell |
| Neuroenergetics, Neurotransmission & Modeling Moderator: Gulin Oz |
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| 8:30 - 8:55 AM | NMR Studies of GABA Synthesis, Energetics, and Regulation | Kevin Behar |
| 8:55 - 9:20 | Sweet and Sour 13C Metabolic Modeling in the Brain | Pierre-Gilles Henry |
| 9:20 - 9:45 | Dynamic Compartmentation of Metabolism in Brain | Mary McKenna |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | In vivo 31P study of Cerebral ATP Metabolism, Bioenergetics and Brain Function | Wei Chen |
| 10:40 - 11:05 | Energy Usage during Increased and Decreased Neuronal Activity: Experimental Findings from High field 1H MRS | Silvia Mangia |
| New Frontiers Moderator: Joseph Ackerman |
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| 11:05 - 11:30 | MR Hyperpolarization in Biology and Medicine: Recent Advances in PASADENA | Brian Ross |
| 11:30 - 11:55 | Toward MR Metabolic Imaging: The Detection of Lactate | Ralph Hurd |
| 11:55 - 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 - 1:25 | RASER: A New Ultra Fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Method | Michael Garwood |
| 1:25 - 1:50 | Introduction to SWIFT (Sweep Imaging with Fourier Transformation) for Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Curt Corum |
| 1:50 - 2:15 | Break | |
| 2:15 - 2:40 | Rotating Frame Relaxations and Contrasts | Shalom Michaeli |
| 2:40 - 3:05 | New Detection Limits for Detecting Glial Metabolism, Hyperpolarized NMR and the Neurochemical Profile at 9.4 and 14Tesla | Rolf Gruetter |
| 3:05 - 3:30 | Metabolic MR Imaging of Human Brains at 9.4 Tesla | Keith Thulborn |
| Closing Remarks | ||
| 3:30 PM | Closing Remarks | Kamil Ugurbil |