Monday AM 1 Opening Session 2011 Mansfield Lecture ... - ISMRM

Poster Sessions
Gradients, Shims & Magnets: Design, Construction & Characterization
Exhibition Hall Tuesday 13:30-15:30
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1830. Permanent Magnet Assembly Producing a Strong Tilted Homogeneous Magnetic Field: Towards Magic Angle
Field Spinning NMR & MRI
Dimitrios Sakellariou 1 , Cedric Hugon 1 , Angelo Guiga 1 , Aubert Guy 1 , Sandrine Cazaux 1 , Philippe Hardy 1
1 CEA Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, Essonne, France
1831. Influence of Protection Circuit on Quench Characteristics for Clinical MRI Superconducting Magnets
Ran Zhang 1 , Feng Liu 2 , Xiuhe Wang 1 , Stuart Crozier 2
1 School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, People's Republic of; 2 School of Information
Technology & Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
1832. A Single Magnet Fast Field-Cycling MRI System with Detection at 0.5T
Gareth Reynold Davies 1 , Kerrin James Pine 1 , David John Lurie 1 , Fred Goldie 2
1 2
Bio-medical Physics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom; Tesla Engineering Ltd., Storrington,
United Kingdom
1833. A Field Offset Coil for Spatially Localised In Vivo Field-Cycling Relaxometry
Kerrin James Pine 1 , Fred Goldie 2 , David John Lurie 1
1 Aberdeen Biomedical Imaging Centre, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom; 2 Tesla Engineering Ltd,
Storrington, West Sussex, United Kingdom
1834. Innovations in Gradient Coil Construction
William Bradfield Handler 1 , Brian Dalrymple 1 , Craig K. Goodrich 2 , Dennis L. Parker 2 , Timothy John Scholl 3,4 , Frank
Van Sas 1 , Blaine Alexander Chronik 1
1 Physics & Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 2 University of Utah, U.C.A.I.R., Salt Lake City,
UT, United States; 3 Robarts Research Institute, Imaging Research Laboratories, London, Ontario, Canada; 4 Department of Medical
Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
1835. Insert Gradient Subsystem Tuning by Direct Impedance Measurements
Wesley M. Skeffington 1 , Franco M. Martinez-Seantiesteban 2 , Bruce D. Collick 3 , Andrew Alejski 2 , Brian K. Rutt 4 , Luis J.
Garces 1 , Paul M. Szczesny 1
1 GE Global Research, Niskayuna, NY, United States; 2 Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada; 3 GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States; 4 Radiology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
1836. Experimental Validation of an Improved Analytical Temperature Distribution Model for Gradient Coils
Peter T. While 1 , Michael Poole 2 , Hector Sanchez Lopez 2 , Larry K. Forbes 1 , Stuart Crozier 2
1 2
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia; ITEE, University of Queensland, Brisbane,
QLD, Australia
1837. Planar Gradient System for Imaging with Non-Linear Gradients
Sebastian Littin 1 , Anna Masako Welz 1 , Daniel Gallichan 1 , Gerrit Schultz 1 , Christian Cocosco 1 , Jürgen Hennig 1 , Willem
de Boer 2 , Maxim Zaitsev 1
1 2
Dept. of Radiology, Medical Physics, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Institute of Experimental nuclear
Physics, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
1838. Novel Gradient Transparent RF Shielding Technologies for Integrated PET/MR
Daniel Truhn 1 , Fabian Kiessling 1 , Volkmar Schulz 1,2
1 2
Institute of Experimental & Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, NRW, Germany; Philips Research Europe, Aachen,
Germany
1839. A Practical Insert Design for DreMR Imaging in the Human Head
Chad Tyler Harris 1 , William B. Handler 1 , Jamu K. Alford 2 , Blaine A. Chronik 1
1 Physics & Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 2 Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Radiology, Boston, MA, United States
1840. Reducing Image Artefacts in Concurrent TMS/fMRI by Passive Shimming
Andreas Bungert 1,2 , Christopher Chambers 1 , John Evans 1
1 Cubric, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; 2 Magnetic Resonance Centre, School of Physics &
Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
1841. Autocalibration of Field Monitoring Arrays by Reference Tones
David Otto Brunner 1 , Christoph Barmet 1 , Maximilian Haeberlin 1 , Bertram Jacob Wilm 1 , Klaas Paul Pruessmann 1
1 Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University & ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland