SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | GOING with the FLOW |
| Discussion Leader: Penny Gowland (University of Notthingham, Nottingham, UK) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Laura Parkes (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
"Auto-regulation and Reactivity of cerebral blood flow" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | David Buckley (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
"Measuring renal perfusion and function with dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Susceptibility-based Contrast: Iron and Beyond |
| Discussion Leader: John Schenck (General Electric Global Research) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Karin Shmueli (University College London, UK)
"Resonance Frequency Contrast: Sources and Applications" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Jens Jensen (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA)
"Iron Effects on R2 and MFC" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Claudia Hillenbrand (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA)
"Iron in the body" |
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 |
| Discussion Leader: Corree Laule (University of British Columbia) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Advances in Diffusion (in memory of Chris Sotak) |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Smith (Novartis) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Mark Does (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
"Diffusion at small scales" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Valerij Kiselev (University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)
"But what do experiments reveal" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Fats & Lipids |
| Discussion Leader: Tom Dixon (General Electric) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Holger Eggers (Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany)
"Water-Fat MRI: Separation, Identification, and Suppression" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Houchun Harry Hu (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
"Quantitative Water-Fat MRI & Obesity: Measuring Fat in Organs and the Body" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Roy Taylor (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
"Watch your liver" |
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 |
| Discussion Leader: Corree Laule (University of British Columbia) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Breast MRI |
| Discussion Leader: Mike Noseworthy (McMaster University, ON, Canada) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Nola Hylton (University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA)
"Quantitative breast MRI in the multi-center clinical trial setting"
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8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Bruce Daniel (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA)
"Challenges and opportunities in Breast MRI technology" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NEWEST PROBES |
| Discussion Leader: John Kurhanewicz (University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Maja Cassidy (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA)
"Hyperpolarized silicon nanoparticles" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Daniella Goldfarb (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
"Good, old Gadolinium in New Applications" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Eduard Chekmenev (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
"What about Choline" |
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 |
| Discussion Leader: Corree Laule (University of British Columbia) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SNR Skyrockets |
| Discussion Leader: Piotr Kozlowski (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Tom Mareci (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)
"Inductively coupled implanted coils at high fields" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Daniel Marek (Bruker BioSpin AG, Fällanden, Switzerland)
"Preclinical cryogenic MRI coils - SNR and $$$" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Advances in Imaging Techniques |
| Discussion Leader: Joel Garbow (Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Nicole Seiberlich (Case Western Reserve University)
"Compressed SENSE"
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9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | David Feinberg (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA)
"Fast Imaging Techniques" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Michael Bock (University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany)
"Travelling Waves" |
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 |
| Discussion Leader: Corree Laule (University of British Columbia) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Less "flashy" but still important |
| Discussion Leader: Risto Kauppinen (Bristol University, Bristol, UK) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Vasily Yarnykh (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
"MT not limited to brain" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Louis Bouchard (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
"Microfluidics" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |