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

Poster Sessions
Exhibition Hall Tuesday 13:30-15:30 Computer 93
13:30 4078. Whole Brain 3D Spiral Imaging for Multi-Component T 2 Relaxometry of Multiple Sclerosis in 10 Minutes: A
Feasibility Study at 3 Tesla
Thanh D. Nguyen 1 , Cynthia Wisnieff 2 , Joseph Comunale 1 , Mitchell Cooper 2 , Dushyant Kumar 1 , Ashish Raj 1 , Martin R.
Prince 1 , Yi Wang 1 , Tim Vartanian 3 , Susan A. Gauthier 3
1 Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States; 2 Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,
United States; 3 Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States
14:00 4079. FLAIR-SWI: A Combination of 3 Tesla FLAIR & 7 Tesla SWI Phase for Multiple Sclerosis Research
Günther Grabner 1,2 , Assunta Dal-Bianco 3 , Melanie Schernthaner 1 , Karl Vass 3 , Hans Lassmann 4 , Siegfried Trattnig 1,2
1 Department of Radiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2 MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria; 3 Department of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 4 Center for Brain Research, Medical
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
14:30 4080. Regional Gray & White Matter Atrophy are Largely Unrelated in Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Elisabetta Pagani 1 , Maria Assunta Rocca 1,2 , Gianna Riccitelli 1 , Vittorio Martinelli 2 , Marta Radaelli 2 , Andrea Falini 3 ,
Giancarlo Comi 2 , Massimo Filippi 1,2
1 Neuroimaging Research Unit, Institute of Experimental Neurology, Division of Neuroscience, Scientific Institute & University
Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, MI, Italy; 2 Department of Neurology, Scientific Institute & University Hospital San Raffaele, Milan,
MI, Italy; 3 Department of Neuroradiology, Scientific Institute & University Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
15:00 4081. Similar Global N-Acetylaspartate in Benign & Non-Benign Multiple Sclerosis
Daniel J. Rigotti 1 , Lutz Achtnichts 2 , Oded Gonen 1 , James S. Babb 1 , Yvonne Naegelin 2 , Kerstin Bendtfield 2 , Jochen
Hirsch 2 , Michael Amann 2 , Robert I. Grossman 1 , Ludwig Kapposs 2 , Achim Gass 2
1 2
Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States; Neurology & Neuroradiology, University
Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Exhibition Hall Wednesday 13:30-15:30 Computer 93
13:30 4082. Normalization of Magnetization Transfer Ratio MRI for Multicentre Clinical Trials
Robert Allan Brown 1 , Sridar Narayanan 1 , Harold Atkins 2 , Mark S. Freedman 3 , Douglas L. Arnold 1
1 Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; 2 Division of Hematology, Ottawa Hospital Regional
Cancer Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada; 3 Department of Medicine (Neurology), the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada
14:00 4083. Sensitive Detection of Myelination Change in Multiple Sclerosis by McDESPOT
Jason Su 1 , Hagen H. Kitzler 2 , Michael Zeineh 1 , Cyndi Harper-Little 3 , Andy Leung 4 , Marcelo Kremenchutzky 5 , Sean C.
Deoni 6 , Brian Keith Rutt 1
1 Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; 2 Department of Neuroradiology, Technische
Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany; 3 Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada;
4 Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 5 Department of
Clinical Neurological Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; 6 Brown University, Providence, RI, United
States
14:30 4084. A New Quantitative MRI Contrast for Measuring White Matter Myelin
Aviv A. Mezer 1 , Nikola Stikov 2 , Kendrick Kay, Robert Dougherty, Jason Yeatman, Josef Parvizi 3 , Brian Wandell
1 Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; 2 Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United
States; 3 Neurology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
15:00 4085. Voxel-Wise Assessment of WM Architecture Integrity in MS Patients with Different Clinical Phenotypes
Elisabetta Pagani 1 , Maria Assunta Rocca 1,2 , Gianna Riccitelli 1 , Vittorio Martinelli 2 , Filippo Martinelli-Boneschi 2 ,
Andrea Falini 3 , Giancarlo Comi 2 , Massimo Filippi 1,2
1 Neuroimaging Research Unit, Institute of Experimental Neurology, Division of Neuroscience, Scientific Institute & University
Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy; 2 Department of Neurology, Scientific Institute & University Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy;
3 Department of Neuroradiology, Scientific Institute & University Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Exhibition Hall Thursday 13:30-15:30 Computer 93
13:30 4086. Brain Atlas-Based Lesion Spatial Distribution & Modeling of Wallerian Degeneration in Multiple Sclerosis
Khader M. Hasan 1 , Indika S. Walimuni 1 , Sushmita Datta 1 , Flavia Nelson 2 , Jerry S. Wolinsky 3 , Ponnada A. Narayana 4
1 Radiology, UTHSCH, Houston, TX, United States; 2 Neurology, UTHSCH, Houston, TX; 3 Neurology, UTHSCH, Houston, Texasa,
United States; 4 Radiology, UTHSCH, Houston, Uexasa, United States
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