2011 Minnesota Workshops

2011 MINNESOTA WORKSHOPS

Program Schedule

WORKSHOP ON HIGH AND ULTRA-HIGH FIELD IMAGING

FRIDAY OCTOBER 14th, 2011

7:30 AM	Registration
8:25 AM	Welcome Kamil Ugurbil

7T Body and Vascular Imaging: Why Bother?
Moderator: Thoralf Niendorf

8:30 AM	Mitch Schnall
9:00 AM	Jeanette Schulz-Menger “7 Tesla today and tomorrow - beside Cardiac Anatomy: Is there a Need for 7T"
9:30 AM	Matthew Robson “7T Cardiac MR in Oxford: Destination, Determination & Deliberation”
10:00 AM	BREAK
10:15 AM	Jens Frahm “Real-Time MRI – A New Horizon”
10:45 AM	Maarten Versluis “Vessel Imaging at 7T: Coronary Angiography”
11:15 AM	Greg Metzger “Non-Contrast Enhanced Angiography in the Human Torso at 7T”
11:45 AM	Siemens Medical Systems Bernd Stoeckel
12:05 PM	LUNCH - BUFFET

Short TE Imaging: Invisible no More
Moderator: Klaus Scheffler

1:00 PM	Jerome Ackerman “Technical Challenges in Quantitative Solid State MRI of Bone Mineral and Matrix”
1:30 PM	Michael Garwood “Capturing Signals from Ultrafast Relaxing Spins with SWIFT MRI”
2:00 PM	Bruker BioSpin MRI Holger Liebel “Bruker BioSpin MRI: High-Field Activities”
2:20 PM	BREAK

¹H MRS
Bench-to-Bedside Translation?
Moderators: Gulin Oz and Risto Kauppinen

2:40 PM	Kejal Kantarci "A Clinical Researcher's Perspective on ¹H MRS in Neurodegenerative Dementia"
2:50 PM	Richard Edden "Clinical MRS Studies at 7T: Preliminary Experiences"
3:00 PM	Patrick Bolan "Design of a Multi-site Clinical Trial of Breast MRS – ACRIN 6657"
3:10 PM	Gulin Oz “Clinical MRS at Ultra-High Field: Gaines and Feasibility?”
3:20 PM	Damien Galanaud
3:30 PM	Round Table Discussion
4:00 PM	BREAK

X-NUCLEI MRS
Is the SNR High Enough to make it Finally Useful?
Moderator: Malgorzata Marjanska

4:15 PM	Arnaud Comment “Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy to Study in vivo Real-Time Metabolism”
4:45 PM	Denis Klomp “31P MRSI in the Human Body Makes Sense at 7T+”
5:15 PM	Xiao-Hong Zhu “High-Field 17O MRS/MRI for Studying Oxygen Metabolism and Perfusion”
6:30 PM	DINNER TCF BANK STADIUM Dinner Speaker - David Van Essen “The Human Connectome: Opportunities and Challenges”

SATURDAY OCTOBER 15, 2011

ENGINEERING
Dealing with Short Wavelengths
Moderator: J. Thomas Vaughan

8:30 AM	Robin de Graaf “Magnetic Field Shaping in the MR Imaging and Spectroscopy”
9:00 AM	Nico Van den Berg “Electric Properties Mapping at Ultra High Field: Methods and Applications”
9:30 AM	Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele “Transmit B1 Manipulations at High Field: What Does it Take to do What?"
10:00 AM	BREAK
10:15 AM	Agilent Technologies Darren Holden
10:35 AM	Gregor Adriany “RF Coil Design Strategies for Ultra High Fields”
11:05 AM	Andreas Bitz “Numerical Simulation as a Tool for Compliance Testing of RF Transmit Coils”

POSTERS
Moderator: Michael Garwood

11:35 AM	POSTER TALKS
12:00 Noon	LUNCH and POSTER VIEWING
1:15 PM	GE Healthcare Douglas Kelley

fMRI @UHF
What is your Resolution?
Moderator: Juergen Hennig

1:35 PM	Seong-Gi Kim “Arterial CBV-based fMRI”
2:05 PM	Jonathan Polimeni “Cortical depth analysis of BOLD spatial specificity tangential and radial to the human cortex using high-resolution 7 T fMRI”
2:35 PM	BREAK
2:50 PM	David Norris “Methods for High Resolution fMRI in Humans: Where do we go from Here?”
3:20 PM	Federico De Martino "Ultra High Field High resolution fMRI: From Whole Brain Networks to Cortical Layers and Columns"
3:50 PM	Philips Medical Systems Kenneth White
4:10 PM	BREAK

fMRI @UHF
Encoding or Decoding
Moderator: Alard Roebroeck

4:25 PM	Rainer Goebel “Looking Inside Specialized Brain Areas: Direct Mapping of Columnar-Level Features at Ultra-High Magnetic Fields”
4:55 PM	Cheryl Olman “Diversity in the Neural Code: Which Activity are We Trying to Infer?”
5:25 PM	Frank Tong “Decoding Visual and Cognitive Signals from the Human Visual Cortex”
6:15 PM	CMRR RECEPTION

SUNDAY OCTOBER 16, 2011

Translational UHF Neuroimaging
Is it Clinical?
Moderator: Noam Harel

8:30 AM	Thomas Henry “Ultrahigh Field Imaging of Gray matter Lesions: The Epileptic Hippocampus at 7 Tesla”
9:00 AM	Pratik Mukherjee "Clinical 7T Brain Imaging: Is there a Killer App?"
9:30 AM	Yulin Ge “What Ultra-High-Field (7T) Susceptibility Sensitive Brain MR Imaging Can Offer”
10:00 AM	Aviva Abosch "High Field Imaging and Functional Neurosurgery"
10:30 AM	BRUNCH

Human Connectome
Moderator: Greg Farber

11:30 AM	Greg Farber
11:45 AM	Derek Jones “Tractometry”
12:15 AM	Peter Basser “Making the Invisible Visible with Diffusion MRI”
12:45 PM	Christophe Lenglet “Comprehensive in vivo Mapping of the Human Basal Ganglia and Thalamic Connectome in Individuals using High-resolution 7T MRI”
1:15 PM	BREAK
1:30 PM	Essa Yacoub “High Field High Resolution Imaging of Brain Function and Structure”
2:00 PM	Christian Beckmann “Resting-State Functional Connectivity and the Human Connectome”
2:30 PM	Bruce Rosen
3:00 PM	CLOSING Michael Garwood

Walking Directions from the Days Inn Hotel to the CMRR

Leave the Days Inn front door and cross the parking lot to University Avenue sidewalk.
Turn right and walk 1/2 block to 23rd Ave SE.
Cross 23rd Ave SE and turn right. Walk 3 blocks to 6th St SE.
Turn left and walk down 6th St SE. The CMRR is on the right (north) side of the street.
Cross 6th Ave SE to the CMRR main entrance