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Thursday AM
07:30 Surface, Edge & Voxel-Based Analyses
Douglas N. Greve
Plenary Session
Room Plenary Hall 08:00-08:30 Chair: Debiao Li, ISMRM President
08:00 Young Investigator Awards & Poster Awards
2011 Lauterbur Lecture
Room Plenary Hall 08:30-09:10 Chair: Debiao Li, ISMRM President
08:30 fMRI at 20 – Has It Changed the World?
Bruce R. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA
Plenary Lectures
Reducing Radiation: MR & CT in the Era of Radiation Dose Concerns
Room Plenary Hall 09:10-10:10 Organizers: Thoralf Niendorf & Bachir Taouli
09:10 518. CT Radiation Exposure: How Bad is it & How Can it Be Reduced in Practice?
Aaron D. Sodickson
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
The objective of this talk is to convey some understanding about the approximate levels of risk imparted by CT, and the factors influencing
these risks. I will review common radiation terminology, typical dose values for common CT exam types, and technology and patient
factors that influence dose. I will demonstrate how to make order of magnitude cancer risk estimates using the most common Linear-No-
Threshold risk model. Finally, we will explore practical opportunities to reduce radiation exposure, including potential opportunity areas
where MRI may play a role if the common challenges of access, exam duration, and technical complexity can be overcome.
09:30 519. A Hard Look At MR: is It Simple Enough & Fast Enough to Fill the Gap?
Elmar M. Merkle
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
This plenary session will focus on abdominal and pelvic CT and MR imaging with an emphasis on: 24/7 availability of MR and CT,
robustness of the data acquisition, vulnerability to artifacts causing substantial study limitations, in room time versus sequence acquisition
time, lack of standardized sequence protocols, and the MR incompatible patient.
09:50 520. A Look Ahead: How Will New MR Techniques & Technologies Change the Landscape?
Heinz-Peter W. Schlemmer
German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
Through the persistent progress in medicine over the last 4 centuries MR has become an indispensible tool for basic, translational, clinical
research and every-day clinical application. the capability to comprehensively visualize morphology, function and metabolism without
necessitating ionization radiation essentially drives the ongoing progress of personalized medicine. But the whole extent of potentials for
prevention, diagnosis and therapy of diseases by MR will only be exploited if a team of medical doctors, physicists, biologists, chemists,
computer specialists, etc. efficiently works together in optimized processes. Furthermore, Radiologists will have to use “spacey”
communication technology to handle the increased amount and complexity of information.
Hands-On Workshop 1 (Repeat)
Neuro & Musculoskeletal Protocol Optimization
GE Healthcare
Room 520A-D 10:30-12:30
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