| Sunday
Afternoon |
Arrival
& Registration |
2:00-11:00
PM
6:00 PM
7:30-7:45 PM |
Arrival
and Registration
Dinner
Opening Remarks - Michael
Smith |
| Sunday
Evening |
Implications
and Potential Limits of High Field Magnetic Resonance in Humans |
Discussion Leader: Robert Balaban,
NIH, NHLBI, Bethesda, MD
| 7:30-7:45
PM |
Opening
Remarks |
7:45-8:25 PM
8:25-8:45 PM |
Speaker 1 - Michael
Garwood, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN - "Widening the Frontiers
of In Vivo NMR with High Magnetic Fields"
Discussion |
| 8:45-9:25
PM
9:25-9:45 PM |
Speaker
2 - Peter Jezzard, Oxford University, Oxford UK - "Should Every Radiology
Department Have a 3+ Tesla MR System?"
Discussion |
| 9:45
PM |
Adjourn |
| Monday
Morning |
New
Designs for Optimum High Frequency RF Resonators |
Discussion Leader: Eiichi Fukushima,
New Mexico Resonance, Albuquerque, NM
| 8:30-9:00
AM |
Conference
Photo |
9:00-9:40 AM
9:40-10:00 AM |
Speaker 1 - Michael
Smith, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA - "RF Challenges for
High(est) Field NMR"
Discussion |
| 10:00-10:40
AM
10:40-11:00 AM |
Speaker
2 -Tommy Vaughn, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN - "RF Solutions
for High(est) Field NMR"
Discussion |
| 11:00-11:20
AM |
Coffee
Break |
11:20-12:00
AM
12:00-12:20 PM |
Speaker
3 - Eiichi Fukushima, New Mexico Resonance, Albuquerque, NM -
"LARGE Surface Coil NMR: Ultra Low-Field Analog of the RF Penetration Problem
at High Field?"
Discussion |
| 12:30
PM |
Lunch |
| Monday
Afternoon |
Free
Of All Formal Activity |
| 4:30
- 6:00 PM |
Poster
Sessions I or Posting Walking Tour (Richard Briggs, Discussion Leader) |
| 6:00
PM |
Dinner |
| Monday
Evening |
Removing
or Exploiting Susceptibility for Functional, High Speed, and Micro Imaging |
Discussion Leader: Gary Glover,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
7:30-8:10
PM
8:10-8:30 PM |
Speaker
1 - Qing Yang, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA - "A Challenge
and a Reward in High Field MRI: Magnetic Susceptibility Contrast and Artifacts"
Discussion |
| 8:30-9:10
PM
9:10-9:30 PM |
Speaker
2 - R. Todd Constable, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven
CT - "Echo Planar Imaging in the Presence of Field Inhomogeneities"
Discussion |
| 9:30
PM |
Adjourn |
| Tuesday
Morning |
Functional
and Dynamic Spectroscopy In Vivo |
Discussion Leader: E. Douglas
Lewandowski, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital , Charlestown, MA
| 9:00-9:40
AM
9:40-10:00 AM |
Speaker
1 - Craig Malloy, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center -
"Sources of Carbon for Gluconeogenesis In Vivo: Analysis by 2H and 13C
NMR"
Discussion |
10:00-10:40
AM
10:40-11:00 |
Speaker
2 - Patrick J. Cozzone, PhD, CRMBM, Marseille 13005 France - "Integrated
MRI/MRS Exploration of Neurological Diseases in Children and
Adults"
Discussion |
| 11:00-11:20
AM |
Coffee
Break |
11:20-1200
PM
12:00-12:20 PM |
Speaker
3 - E. Douglas Lewandowski, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital , Charlestown,
MA - "NMR of Isotope Kinetics, Enzyme Activity, and Metabolic Flux"
Discussion |
| 12:30
PM |
Lunch |
| Tuesday
Afternoon |
Free
Of All Formal Activity |
| 4:30
- 6:00 PM |
Poster
Sessions (optional) |
| 6:00
PM |
Dinner |
| Tuesday
Evening |
Interpretation
of Diffusion Measurement in Biological Tissues |
Discussion Leader: Christopher
Sotak, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
7:30-8:10
PM
8:10-8:30 PM |
Speaker
1 - Mark Henkelman, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Toronto - "Understanding
MR Diffusion Measurements in Tissues: The Role of
Multidimensional Experiments"
Discussion |
| 8:30-9:10
PM
9:10-9:30 PM |
Speaker
2 - Mathias Hoehn, Max-Planck Institut, Koln, Germany - "Metabolic
Interpretation of Diffusion Changes during Experimental Stroke"
Discussion |
| 9:30
PM |
Adjourn |
| Wednesday
Morning |
Emerging
Techniques in Magnetic Resonance |
Discussion Leader: Joseph Ackerman,
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
9:00-9:40
AM
9:40-10:00 AM |
Speaker
1 - DmitriyYablonskiy, Washington University, St. Louis, MO - "Functional-Activation-Induced
Changes in the Brain Temperature and Their Effect on Brain Metabolism and
fMRI Signal"
Discussion |
10:00-10:40
AM
10:40-11:00 AM |
Speaker
2 - Brian Saam, Dept. of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
UT - "The Technological Adolescence of Hyperpolarized Gas MRI: Current
and
Future Directions."
Discussion |
| 11:00-11;20
AM |
Coffee
Break |
| 11:20-12:00
PM
12:00-12:20 PM |
Speaker
3 - Denis Le Bihan, SHFJ/CEA, Orsay, France - "Bridging the gap
between brain structure
and function with Diffusion Tensor Imaging"
Discussion |
| 12:30
PM |
Lunch |
| Wednesday
Afternoon |
Free
Of All Formal Activity |
| 4:30
- 6:00 PM |
Poster
Sessions II or Posting Walking Tour (Richard Briggs, Discussion Leader) |
| 6:00
PM |
Dinner |
| Wednesday
Evening |
High
Speed Imaging (Non-Fourier or Non-Traditional Imaging Approaches) |
Discussion Leader: Douglas C.
Noll, PhD , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
| 7:30-8:10
PM
8:10-8:30 PM |
Speaker
1 - Oliver Speck, Universitat Freiburg, Freiburg Germany - 'Non-Traditional
Data Sampling Strategies.'
Discussion |
8:30-9:10
PM
9:10-9:30 PM |
Speaker
2 - Juergen Finsterbusch, Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH, Göttingen,
Germany - "Rapid Line Scan Imaging. New Methods and Applications"
Discussion |
| 9:30
PM |
Adjourn |
| Thursday
Morning |
Mechanisms
of Functional MRI |
Discussion Leader: Robert Turner,
Institute of Neurology, London, UK
9:00-9:40
AM
9:40-10:00 AM |
Speaker
1 - Peter Van Zijl, John Hopkins University Medical, Baltimore MD -
BOLD fMRI. Requirements for Quantitative Interpretation of Relaxation
Rates in Terms of Physiological
Parameters.
Discussion |
| 10:00-10:40
AM
10:40-11:00 AM |
Speaker
2 - Richard B. Buxton, UCSD Medical Center, San Diego CA - "The Blood
Oxygenation Level Dependent (BOLD) Hemodynamic Response in fMRI"
Discussion |
| 11:00-11:20
AM |
Coffee
Break |
| 11:20
AM-12:00 AM
12:00-12:20 PM |
Speaker
3 - Robert Turner, Institute of Neurology, London, UK - "FMRI as an
Imaging Neuroscience Tool: Scope and Limitations"
Discussion |
| 12:30
PM |
Lunch |
| Thursday
Afternoon |
Free
Of All Formal Activity |
| 4:30
- 6:00 PM |
Poster
Session II (optional) |
| 6:00
PM |
Dinner |
| Thursday
Evening |
Functional
Genomics in the Mouse Using NMR |
Discussion Leader: Alan Koretsky,
The Division of Intramural Research of the National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda MD
| 7:30-8:10
PM
8:10-8:30 PM |
Speaker
1 - Bruce Jenkins,MGH NMR Center, Charletown, MA - "NMR Spectroscopy
in Transgenic Mouse Models of Neurodegenerative Illness."
Discussion |
| 8:30-9:10
PM
9:10-9:20 PM |
Speaker
2 - Russell E. Jacobs, Biological Imaging Center Beckman Institute,
Caltech Pasadena. - "Looking Deeper into Vertebrate Development"
Discussion |
| 9:30
PM |
Adjourn |
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