International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

16th Annual Meeting, 3-9 May 2008
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Traditional and Electronic Posters

Title: 23Na DQF Signal Induced by Paramagnetic Shift Reagents: Dependence on the Pseudo-Contact Shift [PDF]
Authors: P. Rong1 , G. Navon2 , and A. Jerschow1 

  1. New York University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Title: 3T Sodium MRI of patients with Multiple Sclerosis [PDF]
Authors: G. Madelin1 , N. Oesingmann2 , S. Nielles-Vallespin3 , J. Herbert4 , G. Johnson1 , and M. Inglese1, 4 

  1. Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Siemens Medical Solutions, New York, NY, United States
  3. AG Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany
  4. Neurology, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: 3D High Resolution Susceptibility Weighted Imaging (SWI) Venography at 3T and 7T [PDF]
Authors: Y. Ge1 , S. Barnes2 , S. Heller1 , Y. Xu2 , Q. Chen1 , E. M. Haacke2 , and R. I. Grossman1 

  1. Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, NY, United States
  2. MRI Research Facility/Department of Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Title: 7T MRI: A Powerful Vision of Microvascular Abnormalities in Multiple Sclerosis [PDF]
Authors: Y. Ge1 , V. Zohrabian1 , and R. I. Grossman1 

  1. Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York City, NY, United States

Title: Anterior-To-Posterior Hippocampal Metabolic Heterogeneity in Healthy Elderly and Young Adults Using 3D 1H MR Spectroscopy [PDF]
Authors: Kevin King1 , S. Liu1 , L. Glodzik-Sobanska2 , J. Babb1 , M. de Leon2 , and O. Gonen1 

  1. Radiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. Center for Brain Health, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: Approaching Ultimate SNR and Ideal Current Patterns with Finite Surface Coil Arrays on a Dielectric Cylinder [PDF]
Authors: R. Lattanzi1, 2 , A. K. Grant2, 3 , and D. K. Sodickson4 

  1. Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
  2. Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
  3. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
  4. New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

Title: Assessing Local Lung Function: Measurement of Regional FEV1/FVC Using Tissue Tracking MRI [PDF]
Authors: K. Zhang1 , A. Voorhees2 , E. Grossman1 , K. I. Berger3 , R. M. Goldring3 , J. Reibman3 , C. Xu4 , L. Dougherty4 , and Q. Chen1 

  1. Dept of Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Siemens Medical USA, Malvern, PA, United States
  3. Dept of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  4. Dept of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Title: Brain Morphology and Vascular Patterning Analysis in Gli2-KO Mutant Mice Using Contrast Enhanced Micro-MRI [PDF]
Authors: C. A. Berrios-Otero1 , Y. Zaim Wadghiri2 , A. Joyner3 , and D. H. Turnbull4 

  1. Developmental Biology, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. Department of Radiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  3. Developmental Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States
  4. Structural Biology, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: Characterization of Prostate Cancer with Perfusion MR Imaging [PDF]
Authors: L. Bokacheva1 , K. Sheikh1 , H. Rusinek1 , A. Mikheev1 , D. Kim1 , X. Kong2 , J. Melamed2 , and B. Taouli1 

  1. Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: Clean Separation of Bound vs. Free Sodium by 23Na Inversion Recovery [PDF]
Authors: P. Rong1 , R. R. Regatte2 , and A. Jerschow1 

  1. New York University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Radiology Department, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: Comparison of Synthetic HDL Contrast Agents for Atherosclerosis Imaging [PDF]
Authors: D. P. Cormode1 , R. Chandrasekar2 , K. C. Briley-Saebo1 , A. Barazza1 , W. J. Mulder1 , E. A. Fisher3 , and Z. A. Fayad1 

  1. Department of Radiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. The Cooper Union for the Advancement in Science and Art, New York, NY, United States
  3. School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: Correlating Iron with T2 Signal Intensity in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions using Susceptibility Weighted Imaging [PDF]
Authors: E. M. Haacke1 , M. Makki2 , Y. Ge3 , M. Maheshwari1 , J. Garbern4 , O. Khan5 , J. Hu1 , M. Selvan1 , and L. Zahid1 

  1. Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mi, United States
  2. Radiology and Neurology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mi, United States
  3. Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  4. Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mi, United States
  5. Neurology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mi, United States

Title: CSF Partial Volume Effect for Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging [PDF]
Authors: C. Hu1 , J. H. Jensen1 , M. F. Falangola1 , and J. A. Helpern1 

  1. Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York, NY, United States

Title: Diagnosis of Liver Metastatic Lesions: Performance of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Compared to Contrast-Enhanced T1-Weighted Imaging [PDF]
Authors: A. D. Hardie1 , M. Naik1 , E. M. Hecht1 , H. Chandarana1 , V. S. Lee1 , and B. Taouli1 

  1. Radiology, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

Title: Diffusion in Internal Field (DDIF) and R2* contrast in Bovine Tibiae Samples at 3 T and 7 T [PDF]
Authors: E. E. Sigmund1 , E. X. Guo2 , and Y-Q. Song3 

  1. Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  3. NMR Research, Schlumberger-Doll Research, Cambridge, MA, United States

Title: Diffusion-weighted imaging for detection and staging of urothelial neoplasms [PDF]
Authors: M. Naik1 , A. D. Hardie1 , H. Chandarana1 , C. H. Hajdu2 , V. Lee1 , and B. Taouli1 

  1. Radiology, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
  2. Pathology, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

Title: Diffusional Kurtosis Approximation of the Orientation Distribution Function in the Human Brain [PDF]
Authors: M. Lazar1 , J. H. Jensen1 , and J. A. Helpern1 

  1. Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: Diffusional Kurtosis Imaging (DKI) of in Vivo Human Brain at 7T [PDF]
Authors: E. E. Sigmund1 , C. Hu1 , M. Lazar1 , M. F. Falangola1 , J. H. Jensen1 , and J. A. Helpern1 

  1. Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: Diffusional Restrictivity: Looking at the Slow Water [PDF]
Authors: M. Lazar1 , J. H. Jensen1 , and J. A. Helpern1 

  1. Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: Double Inversion Recovery MRI with Fat Suppression at 3T and 7T [PDF]
Authors: G. Madelin1 , M. Inglese2 , and N. Oesingmann3 

  1. Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Radiology and Neurology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  3. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, New York, NY, United States

Title: Dyadic Wavelet-Based Image Noise Suppression and Enhancement in High-Speed Cardiac MR Parallel Acquisition [PDF]
Authors: Q. Duan1 , J. Chen1 , A. F. Laine1 , and V. M. Pai2 

  1. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Radiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States

Title: Dynamic Accelerated 3He MRI of Human Lungs with a 128-Element Receive Coil Array at 3T [PDF]
Authors: D. Santoro1 , V. Pai1 , A. Voorhees2 , R. Lee1 , B. Stoeckel3 , N. Oesingmann3 , J. Reid1 , G. Johnson1 , and D. Sodickson1 

  1. Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc., Malvern, PA, United States
  3. Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc., New York, NY, United States

Title: Dynamic 3D Contrast-Enhanced Perfusion Imaging of Lung Cancer with One-Second Temporal Resolution [PDF]
Authors: P. Storey1 , J. P. Ko1 , D. Nonaka2 , H. Pass3 , A. D. Hardie1 , D. Moses1 , K. Mcgorty1 , J. Reid1 , J. L. Zhang1 , K. Zhang1 , and Q. Chen1 

  1. Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  3. Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: Dynamic MRI Evaluation of Small Bowel Peristalsis Pattern Using Software: A Feasibility Study [PDF]
Authors: S. Kim1 , C. ChefdHotel2 , L. Rueff1 , R. P. Lim1 , and V. S. Lee1 

  1. Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, United States

Title: The Effect of Time-Resolved K-Space Sampling on Contrast-Enhanced MRA: A Method to Optimize Imaging Parameters [PDF]
Authors: T. Song1 , P. Storey2 , Q. Chen2 , H. Rusinek2 , R. Lim2 , A. F. Laine1 , and V. S. Lee2 

  1. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Radiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: Enhancement of MT, CEST and NOE Contrast via Intermolecular Multiple Quantum Coherences [PDF]
Authors: W. Ling1 , U. Eliav1 , X. Yang2 , G. Navon1 , and A. Jerschow2 

  1. Tel Aviv University, Israel
  2. New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: Evaluation of Dysfunctional Renal Transplants Using Low-Dose MR Renography [PDF]
Authors: L. Bokacheva1 , H. Rusinek1 , K. Prince1 , M. Kaur1 , T. Diflo2 , D. John2 , J. Benstein3 , L. Barisoni-Thomas4 , and V. Lee1 

  1. Department of Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  3. Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  4. Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: Fast and Accurate Voxel-by-Voxel Perfusion Imaging Using Convolution Models [PDF]
Authors: A. Mikheev1 , and H. Rusinek1 

  1. Radiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: First-Pass Cardiac Perfusion MRI with 50%-Reduced Contrast Agent Dosage [PDF]
Authors: D. Kim1 

  1. Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: GdAAZTA-C17 (q=2) Labeled High Density Lipoproteins (HDL) for the In Vivo Detection of Atherosclerotic Plaque [PDF]
Authors: K. Briley-Saebo1 , S. Geninatti2 , D. Cormode1 , A. Barazza1 , W. Chen1 , E. Fisher3 , S. Aime2 , and Z. A. Fayad1 

  1. Radiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. University of Torino, Torino, Italy
  3. Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: Glomerular Filtration Rate Measurements by Dual-Injection MR Renography [PDF]
Authors: J. L. Zhang1 , H. Rusinek1 , L. Bokacheva1 , Q. Chen1 , P. Storey1 , C. Prince1 , and V. S. Lee1 

  1. Department of Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Assessment of Tumor Oxygenation with BOLD MRI [PDF]
Authors: M. Naik1 , L. Mannelli1 , H. Chandarana1 , V. Lee1 , and B. Taouli1 

  1. Radiology, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

Title: Hippocampal Blood Flow and Vascular Reserve: TrueFisp ASL at 3T [PDF]
Authors: H. Rusinek1 , M. Brys2 , R. Switalski2 , F. Haas2 , K. Mcgorty2 , M. de Leon2 , and Q. Chen2 

  1. NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. NYU School of Medicine

Title: Human Brain Perfusion MRI at 7T Using a Segmented True FISP ASL Method [PDF]
Authors: E. J. Grossman1 , K. Zhang1 , J. An2 , Y. Ge1 , J. Xu3 , and Q. Chen1 

  1. Dept of Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Siemens Medical China, Beijing,  People's Republic of China
  3. Siemens Medical USA, Malvern, PA, United States

Title: Lower RF Power Absorption Combined with Uniform Excitation Using Multi-Port B1 Shimming: Numerical Simulations and Experiments at 7T [PDF]
Authors: L. Tang1 , T. S. Ibrahim2,3 , and Y-K. Hue4 

  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
  2. Radiology and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
  3. Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
  4. Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Title: MRI of Neural Stem Cell Migration in the Adult Mouse Brain [PDF]
Authors: J. Y. Shyu1 , B. J. Nieman1 , and D. H. Turnbull1 

  1. Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: An MRI System with 128 Seamlessly Integrated Receive Channels for Multi-Nuclear Operation [PDF]
Authors: B. Stoeckel1 , A. Potthast1 , N. Oesingmann1 , D. Sodickson2 , R. Lee2 , D. Santoro2 , G. Johnson2 , T. Heumann3 , T. Arnold3 , M. Wullenweber3 , and M. Buettner4 

  1. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., New York, NY, United States
  2. NYU School of Medicine, Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York, NY, United States
  3. Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc., Erlangen, Germany
  4. Astrum IT, Erlangen, Germany

Title: Myofiber Developmental Plasticity in Fetal Hearts Delineated with Diffusion Tensor MRI [PDF]
Authors: L. Zhang1 , J. Chen1 , A. Gibson1 , M. R. Holland1 , G. M. Lanza1 , and S. A. Wickline1 

  1. Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States

Title: Non contrast enhanced MRA of the Lower Extremities Using an ECG-gated Variable Flip Angle 3D Fast Spin Echo Sequence [PDF]
Authors: R. P. Lim1 , A. D. Hardie1 , E. M. Hecht1 , D. C. Kim1 , J. Xu2 , P. Storey1 , T. P. Mulholland1 , S. Kim1 , J. S. Babb1 , and V. S. Lee1 

  1. Radiology, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
  2. Siemens Medical Solutions, New York, NY, United States

Title: The Optimal Acquisition Strategy for Exponential Decay Constants Estimation [PDF]
Authors: R. Fleysher1 , L. Fleysher1 , and O. Gonen1 

  1. Radiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States

Title: Overexpression of SOD-2 Rescues Reduced Cerebral Blood Flow in the Tg2576 (APP) Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease [PDF]
Authors: S. K. Amin1 , C. Massaad1 , L. Hu1 , E. Klann2 , and R. G. Pautler1 

  1. Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States
  2. New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: Perfusion quantification in hepatocellular carcinoma using dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI [PDF]
Authors: R. S. Johnson1 , H. Rusinek1 , A. Mikheev1 , L. Bokacheva1 , H. Yee2 , C. Hajdu2 , and B. Taouli1 

  1. Radiology, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
  2. Pathology, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

Title: Quantification of SNR and g-Factor for Parallel MRI: Universal Application to Image-Based and k-Space-Based Image Reconstructions [PDF]
Authors: P. M. Robson1 , A. K. Grant1 , A. J. Madhuranthakam2 , R. Lattanzi1, 3 , D. K. Sodickson4 , and C. A. McKenzie5 

  1. Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
  2. Global Applied Sciences Lab., GE Healthcare, Boston, MA, United States
  3. Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA, United States
  4. Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  5. Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Title: Rapid Reference-Free Noise Reduction for Parallel MR Images Using a Principal Component Technique in Combination with Adaptive Dyadic Wavelet-Based Denoising [PDF]
Authors: Q. Duan1, 2 , A. S. Patel3 , A. F. Laine1 , P. M. Robson3 , C. A. McKenzie4 , and D. K. Sodickson2 

  1. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Radiology, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States
  3. Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, United States
  4. Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Title: Rapid RF Flip Angle Imaging [PDF]
Authors: D. Kim1 , S. Chung1 , D. K. Sodickson1 , and L. Axel1 

  1. Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: Real-Time Myocardial Segmentation in MRI [PDF]
Authors: Q. Duan1 , A. F. Laine1 , and V. M. Pai2 

  1. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Radiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States

Title: Regional Metabolife T2 in the Healthy Rhesus Macaque Brain at 7 T [PDF]
Authors: S. Liu1 , O. Gonen1 , L. Fleysher1 , R. Fleysher1 , B. J. Soher2 , S. Pilkenton3 , M. R. Lentz3 , E-M. Ratai3 , and R. G. Gonzalez3 

  1. Radiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States
  3. Radiology,Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

Title: Relaxation Times of Human Skeletal Muscle Metabolites at 7T [PDF]
Authors: L. Wang1 , N. Salibi2 , M. E. Schweitzer1 , and R. R. Regatte1 

  1. Radiology, Center for Biomedical Imaging, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States
  2. Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA, United States

Title: Renal Cortical and Medullar Oxygenation Changes After Oxygen Challenge: Evaluation with BOLD MRI [PDF]
Authors: H. Chandarana1 , M. Naik1 , P. Storey1 , V. Lee1 , and B. Taouli1 

  1. Radiology, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

Title: Serial Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Measurements in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Before and After Transarterial Chemoembolization [PDF]
Authors: L. Mannelli1 , S. Kim1 , C. Hajdu1 , M. Losada1 , T. Clark1 , and B. Taouli1 

  1. Radiology, NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, United States

Title: SodiumMRI with Triple Quantum Filter and Inversion Recovery at 7T [PDF]
Authors: G. Madelin1 , N. Oesingmann2 , G. Johnson1 , A. Jerschow3 , and M. Inglese1, 4 

  1. Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, New York, NY, United States
  3. Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  4. Neurology, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Title: Superresolution Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging [PDF]
Authors: R. Otazo1 , F-H. Lin2 , G. Wiggins2 , R. Jordan1 , and S. Posse1, 3 

  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
  2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States,
  3. Psychiatry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Title: TRITONE: RF Insensitive T1 Estimator Using SPGR Acquisitions Superresolution Parallel Imaging [PDF]
Authors: R. Fleysher1 , L. Fleysher1 , S. Liu1 , and O. Gonen1 

  1. Radiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States

Title: Turbo Spin Echo Diffusion Tensor Imaging (TSE-DTI) in the Brain at 3T and 7T [PDF]
Authors: E. E. Sigmund1 , D. Kim1 , F. T. Braga1 , and J. Xu2 

  1. Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  2. Research, Siemens Medical Systems, New York, NY, United States

Title: Utility of the Optical Flow Method for Motion Tracking in the Lung [PDF]
Authors: C. Xu1 , K. Zhang2 , L. Dougherty1 , A. Voorhees3 , and Q. Chen2 

  1. Univ. of Pennsylvania
  2. Dept of Radiology, New York University, New York, NY, United States
  3. Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc