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

Tuesday AM
11:06 207. Parallel Transmit using 3D Spokes RF Pulses for Improved B 1 + Homogeneity over 3D Volumes
Mohammad Mehdi Khalighi 1 , Manojkumar Saranathan 2 , William Grissom 3 , Adam B. Kerr 4 , Ron Watkins 2 , Brian K.
Rutt 2
1 Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, USA; 2 Department of Radiology, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, USA; 3 Imaging Technologies Lab, General Electric Global Research, Garching B. Munchen, Germany; 4 Department of
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
11:18 208. Parallel Transmission Design of Multi-Pulse Sequences using Spatially Resolved Extended Phase Graphs
(SREPG)
Shaihan J. Malik 1 , Hanno Homann 2 , Peter Börnert 3 , Joseph V. Hajnal 1
1 Robert Steiner MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College
London, London, United Kingdom; 2 Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;
3 Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany
11:30 209. Joint Optimization of Tip-Down & Tip-Up RF Pulses in Small-Tip (Non-Spin-Echo) Fast Recovery Imaging
Jon-Fredrik Nielsen 1 , Daehyun Yoon 2 , Neal Anthony Hollingsworth 3 , Katherine Lynn Moody 4 , Mary Preston
McDougall 3,4 , Steven M. Wright 3,4 , Douglas C. Noll 1
1 Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; 2 Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of
Michigan; 3 Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University; 4 Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University
11:42 210. Parallel RF Pulse Design with Subject-Specific Global SAR Supervision
Cem Murat Deniz 1,2 , Leeor Alon 2,3 , Ryan Brown 3 , Hans-Peter Fautz 4 , Daniel K. Sodickson 3 , Yudong Zhu 3
1 Center for Biomedical Imaging , Department of Radiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 2 Sackler Institute of
Graduate Biomedical Sciences, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 3 Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of
Radiology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; 4 Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany
11:54 211. Parallel Spatially Selective Excitation using Nonlinear Non-Bijective PatLoc Encoding Fields: Experimental
Realization & First Results
Johannes Thomas Schneider 1,2 , Martin Haas 2 , Stéphanie Ohrel 1 , Heinrich Lehr 1 , Wolfgang Ruhm 1 , Hans Post 1 , Jürgen
Hennig 2 , Peter Ullmann 1
1 2
Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH, Ettlingen, Germany; Dept. of Radiology, Medical Physics, University Medical Center Freiburg,
Freiburg, Germany
12:06 212. Parallel Transmission with Spectral-Spatial Pulses for Susceptibility Artifact Correction
Cungeng Yang 1 , Weiran Deng 1 , Vijayanand Alagappan 2 , Lawrence L. Wald 3 , Victor Andrew Stenger 1
1 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA; 2 General Electric Medical Systems, Waukesha, WI, USA; 3 Athinoula A. Martinos Center
for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA
12:18 213. Through-Plane Signal Loss Recovery & B 1 Inhomogeneity Reduction In Vivo at 7T using Parallel Transmission
Hai Zheng 1 , Tiejun Zhao 2 , Yongxian Qian 3 , Tamer Ibrahim 1,3 , Fernando Boada 1,3
1 Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 2 Siemens Medical Solutions, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 3 Radiology,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Myocardial Perfusion: Experimental Models & Human Studies
Room 513A-D 10:30-12:30 Moderators: Rohan Dharmakumar & Michael Jerosch-Herold
10:30 214. Adenosine-Induced Stress Myocardial Perfusion MRI using SW-CG-HYPR with Whole Left Ventricular
Coverage: Comparison of Results with X-Ray Angiography in Patients with Suspected Coronary Artery Disease
Heng Ma 1 , Lan Ge 2 , Jing An 3 , David Chen 2 , Lixin Jin 4 , Xiaoming Bi 5 , Renate Jerecic 4 , Kuncheng Li 1 , Debiao Li 2,6
1 Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, People's Republic of; 2 Northwestern University; 3 Siemens Healthcare,
MR Collaboration NE Asia, Siemens Mindit Magnetic Resonance; 4 Siemens Healthcare, MR Collaboration NE Asia, Siemens
Limited China; 5 Siemens Healthcare, Cardiovascular MR R&D, USA; 6 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center & UCLA
10:42 215. Cardiac ASL: Optimisation & Validation in the Mouse Heart
Adrienne E. Campbell 1,2 , Anthony N. Price 3 , Jack A. Wells 1 , Roger J. Ordidge 2 , Mark F. Lythgoe 1
1 Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, Division of Medicine & Institute of Child Health, University College London, London,
United Kingdom; 2 Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 3 Robert
Steiner MRI Unit, Imaging Science Department, Hammersmith Hostpital, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
10:54 216. Quantitative MRI of the Myocardial Microcirculation in Mice using FAIR Look-Locker Arterial Spin Labeling
& a Gamma-Variate Model of Blood Transit Time Distribution
Frederick H. Epstein 1,2 , Nivedita K. Naresh 2 , Patrick F. Antkowiak 2 , Moriel H. Vandsburger 2 , Xiao Chen 2
1 2
Radiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA; Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA,
USA
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