| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Sensor Contrast Reagents |
| Discussion Leader: A. Dean Sherry, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas TX |
| Charles S. Springer - Opening Remarks |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Robert J. Gillies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
(nature of tumor environment; exogenous CEST CRs for pH mapping) |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Jinyuan Zhou, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
(endogenous CEST CRs for pH mapping) |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cellular and Targeted Contrast Reagents |
| Discussion Leader: Charles S. Springer, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Joseph A. Frank, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
(preparation and administration of cellular CRs) |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break and Group Photo |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Brian K. Rutt, Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
(detection of single cellular CRs using clinical instrumentation) |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Daniel H. Turnbull, New York University, New York, NY
(CRs targeted for brain pathologies [prion-based diseases]) |
| 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 | Pushing in Vivo MR Limits |
| Discussion Leader: J. Thomas Vaughan, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Lawrence Wald, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
(the current B0 limit for humans: 7T, 8T, or 9.4T?) |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Joseph V. Hajnal, Imperial College, London, UK
(the acquisition-speed limit) |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Molecular Mechanisms of BOLD fMRI Effects |
| Discussion Leader: Richard B. Buxton, University of California, San Diego, CA |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Nikos K. Logothetis, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen, GE
(the neural basis of BOLD-based fMRI) |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Penny A. Gowland, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
(calibrating BOLD-based fMRI; MRI detection of neural magnetism) |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Seong-Gi Kim, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
(mechanisms of BOLD-based fMRI) |
| 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 | Non-BOLD (Timid?) fMRI |
| Discussion Leader: Anders Dale, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Allen W. Song, Duke University, Durham, NC
(diffusion-weighted fMRI; tract-tracing with diffusion-weighting) |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Peter A. Bandettini, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
(MRI detection of neural magnetism) |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MEMRI and Hypercarbon MRI |
| Discussion Leader: Afonso C. Silva, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Robia G. Pautler, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
(Mn2+ tract-tracing in the mouse) |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Afonso C. Silva, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
(Applications of MEMRI to Visualization of Neuroarchitecture) |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Klaes Golman, Amersham Health Research, Malmö, Sweden
(exogeneous CRs for hyperpolarized 13C MRA) |
| 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 | Perfusion Quantitation |
| Discussion Leader: Jerry D. Glickson, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Eric C. Wong, University of California, San Diego, CA
(quantitative, endogeneous ASL measurements of perfusion) |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Kathleen M. Donahue Schmainda, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
(quantitative perfusion measurements using exogeneous CRs) |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Diffusion Measurements and Applications |
| Discussion Leader: Lawrence R. Frank, University of California, San Diego, CA |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | John M. Pauly, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
(SSFP measurements of water diffusion in vivo) |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Susumu Mori, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, MD
(new tract-tracing developments) |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Peter J. Basser, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
(survey of tract-tracing principles and results) |
| 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 | Molecular Mechanisms of Diffusion Effects |
| Discussion Leader: Greg J. Stanisz, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Christopher H. Sotak, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
(effect of ischemia on diffusion of intracellular water) |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
(diffusion of intra- and intercellular water in tissue) |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
