SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Opening Remarks: Richard B. Buxton |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | CELLS |
| Discussion Leader: Michal Neeman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Jeff W. M. Bulte (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
"Cell Tracking" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Eric T. Ahrens (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
"Cell Function" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NOVEL MR SIGNALS AND IMAGING |
| Discussion Leader: Klaus Scheffler (University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jurgen Hennig (Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)
"Hyperechoes and MR-Encephalography" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Graeme M. Bydder (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA)
"Ultra-Short TE Imaging" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA)
"Imaging in MicroTesla Fields" |
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 | BRAIN ACTIVATION |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas T. Liu (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Fahmeed Hyder (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)
"Brain Oxygen Metabolism" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topics: |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Fei Du (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) "In Vivo 31P-MRS Study of Cerebral Bioenergetics and ATP Metabolism: Methodology Development and Application" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Eric Mellon (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA) "Detection of Metabolically Produced H2-17O in Brain by T1rho-weighted MRI" |
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Ivan Tkac (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) "Subtle Neurochemical Changes in Activated Human Visual Cortex Revealed by In Vivo 1H NMR Spectroscopy at 7T" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Alice Wyrwicz (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA) "Relating Neural Activity to BOLD fMRI Response" |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MR SPECTROSCOPY |
| Discussion Leader: Oded Gonen (New York University, New York, NY, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Sarah J. Nelson (University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA)
"MRS and Cancer" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Gerald I. Shulman (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)
"MRS and Diabetes" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Craig R. Malloy (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA)
"Cardiac Energetics" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | CONTRAST MECHANISMS |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Garwood (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Charles S. Springer Jr. (Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA)
"Exchange and the ‘Shutter Speed’" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Elena Vinogradov (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA)
"CEST and PARACEST" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MR EXTREMES |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Jezzard (University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Andrew Webb (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA)
"MR microscopy" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Daniel K. Sodickson (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA) "Parallel Imaging" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Pierre-Francois van de Moortele (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) "Imaging at High Fields" |
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 - 8:15 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
8:15 pm - 9:30 pm | HOT TOPICS |
| Discussion Leader: Carolyn Mountford (University of Sydney, Australia) |
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(10 min presentation, 5 min discussion) |
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Gigi Galiana (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA) "Intermolecular Multiple-Quantum MR Thermometry" |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Barjor Gimi (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA) "MRI of Implantable Microcapsules for Cell Based Therapy" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Djaudat Idiyatullin (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) "In Vivo MRI of Fast Relaxing Spins Using a Swept Radiofrequency" |
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Sander Van Kasteren (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK) "Functionalized Iron Oxide Particles for the Pre-symptomatic Detection of Brain Inflammation" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Lin Zhao (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA) "Water Diffusion in Mammalian Cells is NOT Slow" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PHYSIOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: Klaas Nicolay (Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Bruce M. Damon (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
"Physiological MRI of Exercising Skeletal Muscle" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Egill Rostrup (Hvidovre Hospita, Hvidovre, Denmark)
"BOLD, CBF and Hypoxia" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Anne-Marie Van der Linden (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
"Neuro-MRI in Small Animals" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | DIFFUSION |
| Discussion Leader: Richard B. Buxton (University of California, San Diego, CA, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Derek K. Jones (Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom)
"Diffusion Tensor Imaging" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Jeffrey J. Neil (Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA)
"In Vivo Diffusion Mechanisms" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |