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

Poster Sessions
15:00 3877. Optimum SNR Data Compression for Complex Arrays
Scott B. King 1 , Mike J. Smith 1 , Boguslaw Tomanek 2
1 Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; 2 Institute for Biodiagnostics
(West), National Research Council of Canada, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
15:30 3878. Ultimate Intrinsic Signal-To-Noise Ratio of the Human Head at 9.4T
Jörg Felder 1 , Nadim Joni Shah 1 , 2
1 Institute of Neuroscience & Medicine-4, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich, NRW, Germany; 2 Department of Neurology,
Faculty of Medicine, JARA, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Exhibition Hall Tuesday 13:30-15:30 Computer 73
13:30 3879. Predicting Potential SNR Gain for High Field Body Imaging at 7 Tesla using Radiative Coil Array Element
Sensitivity Patterns
Alexander J. E. Raaijmakers 1 , Cornelis A. T. van Den Berg 1 , Dennis W. J. Klomp 2
1 Radiotherapy, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; 2 Radiology, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
14:00 3880. Investigating Parallel Imaging Performance of the 8-Channel Transceiver Array with Tilted Microstrip
Elements
Yong Pang 1 , Bing Wu 1 , Daniel Vigneron 1,2 , Xiaoliang Zhang 1,2
1 Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States; 2 UCSF/UC Berkeley
Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, San Francisco & Berkeley, CA, United States
14:30 3881. Effect of Receive Only Array Inserts on B 1+ Field & Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)
Narayanan Krishnamurthy 1 , Tamer S. Ibrahim 1
1 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
15:00 3882. Effects of Channel Numbers on Signal-To-Noise Ratio in Multi T/Rx Coils at 7.0 Tesla
Hongbae Jeong 1 , Suk-Min Hong 1 , Joshua Haekyun Park 1 , Myung-Kyun Woo 1 , Young-Bo Kim 1 , Zang-Hee Cho 1
1 Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Incheon, Korea, Republic of
Exhibition Hall Wednesday 13:30-15:30 Computer 73
13:30 3883. Do We Need Preamplifier Decoupling?
Arne Reykowski 1 , Charles Saylor 1 , G. Randy Duensing 1
1 ACD, Invivo Corporation, Gainesville, FL, United States
14:00 3884. Investigating the Use of Carbon Nanotubes in MRI Receiver Coils
Mohamed Aly Saad Aly 1 , Nibardo Lopez 1 , Daniel Weyers 2 , Sarbast Rasheed 1 , Eihab M. Abdel-Rahman 1 , Arsen
Hajian 2,3
1 System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; 2 Tornado Medical Systems, Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada; 3 System Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ontario, Canada
14:30 3885. 7T Imaging of the Head &Neck Region: B0 &B1+ Challenges
Johanna Jacoba Bluemink 1 , Anna Andreychenko 1 , Astrid L. H. M. W. van Lier 1 , Marielle Phillippens 1 , Jan J. W.
Lagendijk 1 , Peter R. Luijten 2 , Cornelis A. T. van Den Berg 1
1 2
Radiotherapy, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht,
Netherlands
15:00 3886. Fast Automatic Matching Control: Technical Advances & Initial Results of SNR Optimization
Matteo Pavan 1 , Roger Lüchinger 2 , Klaas Paul Pruessmann 2
1 Institute for Biomedical Engineering,, University & ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2 Institute for Biomedical Engineering,
University & ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Exhibition Hall Thursday 13:30-15:30 Computer 73
13:30 3887. Theoretical Determination of the Dielectric Constant for Passive RF Shimming at High Field
Mohan Lal Jayatilake 1,2 , Judd Storrs 1,3 , Wen-Jang Chu 1,3 , Jing-Huei Lee 1,4
1 Center for Imaging Research, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States; 2 Department of Physics, University of
Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States; 3 Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, OH, United States; 4 School of Energy, Environmental, Biological, & Medical Engineering, University of Cincinnati,
Cincinnati, OH, United States
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