| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:45 pm | Implications of Diffusion Tensor Imaging |
| Discussion Leader: Peter J. Basser, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Chris Sotak
Opening Remarks |
| 7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | Van J. Wedeen, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
"Unraveling the Brain: Investigations of Water Diffusion as a Tracer of
Neural Architecture." |
| 8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:25 pm | Carlo Pierpaoli, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD
"Inferring Structural and Architectural Features of Tissue from DT-MRI Measurements" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:45 pm | Discussion |
| 9:45 pm | Adjourn |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Faster MRI: Reduced k-space vs. Reduced Image-Space |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Turner, University College London, London, UK |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Robin Heidemann, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, DE
"Parallel Imaging From the k-Space Perspective" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Klaas P. Pruessmann, ETH and Univ. of Zurich, Zurich, CH
"New Faces in MRI: Maxwell, Abbe, and Others" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Roger Ordidge, University College London, London, UK
"New Sequences to Speed-Up EPI Without the Need for Multiple Coils" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | High Field Exclusives |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas F. Budinger, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Kamil Ugurbil, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
"High Field Perspectives on Functional Imaging of the Brain" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | William D. Rooney, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
"Contrast Reagent Detection: Seeing Less with More" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Adjourn |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | "Molecular" Imaging: Contrast Reagent Design |
| Discussion Leader: Charles S. Springer, Jr., Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Randall B. Lauffer, Epix Medical, Inc., Cambridge, MA
"Water Exchange Rates on Gadolinium(III) Contrast Reagents: Fast is Always Better" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | A. Dean Sherry, University of Texas at Dallas and Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
"Not so Fast: Slow Water Exchange may be an Advantage After All" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Thomas J. Meade, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
"Fast, Slow: Subjecting Water Exchange to the Chemist's Will" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Contrast Optimization for Molecular Imaging and Genetic Expression |
| Discussion Leader: Alan P. Koretsky, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Zaver Bhujwalla, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
"Molecular Imaging Applications in Cancer" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Alan P. Koretsky, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
"Anatomical, Functional, and Molecular Imaging of the Brain" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Adjourn |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Multi-Component Water Diffusion in Biological Tissue |
| Discussion Leader: Denis LeBihan, SHFJ Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Orsay, FR |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Stephen J. Blackband, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
"Probing the Origins of Multicomponent Diffusion in MR With Physical Models" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Yoram Cohen, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, IL
"q-Space Diffusion MRS and MRI in Neuronal Tissue: What Can We Learn Using the Present Technology?" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Greg J. Stanisz, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
"The Role of Inter-Compartmental Exchange in NMR Diffusion Experiments" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:45 pm | Emerging Developments |
| Discussion Leader: Christopher H. Sotak, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Laurence Clarke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
| 7:45 pm - 8:25 pm | R. Kim Butts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
"MR Thermometry of the Cryosurgical Iceball" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:25 pm | Oskar Axelsson, Amersham Health R&D, Malmö, SE
"Parahydrogen-Induced Polarization for In Vivo NMR" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:45 pm | Discussion |
| 9:45 pm | Adjourn |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NMR Assessment of Tissue Viability |
| Discussion Leader: Jeffrey F. Dunn, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Ekkehard Küstermann, Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research, Köln, DE
"Apoptotic and Non-Apoptotic Mechanisms of Delayed Energy Failure After Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Sabrina M. Ronen, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Surrey, UK
"Apoptosis in Cancer Cells - Metabolism Morphology and NMR" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Risto Kauppinen, The University of Kuopio, Kuopio, FI
"Monitoring Gene-Therapy-Induced Programmed Cell Death In Vivo by NMR" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Perfusion by MRI: CR Bolus-Tracking vs. Arterial Spin Labeling |
| Discussion Leader: Robert M. Weisskoff, Epix Medical, Inc., Cambridge, MA |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | David Alsop, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
"Non-Invasive Perfusion Imaging With Arterial-Spin-Labeling MRI"
|
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Lief Østergaard, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DM
"Blood Flow Measurements by Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Imaging: Promises and Pitfalls" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Adjourn |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
