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

Poster Sessions
15:00 4292. 4D Flow Characteristics of Cerebrospinal Fluid Dynamics at the Craniocervical Junction & the Cervical Spinal
Canal in Patients with Chiari Malformation Type I
Alexander Christian Bunck 1 , Jan-Robert Kröger 1 , Alena Jüttner 1 , Angela Brentrup 2 , Barbara Fiedler 3 , Gerard R.
Crelier 4 , Wolfram Schwindt 1 , Walter Heindel 1 , Thomas Niederstadt 1 , David Maintz 1
1 Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospital of Münster, Münster, Germany; 2 Department of Neurosurgery, University
Hospital of Münster, Münster, Germany; 3 Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Münster, Münster, Germany; 4 Institute for
Biomedical Engineering, ETH & University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
15:30 4293. Detection of Spinal Cord Abnormality on Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) in Patients with Unilateral Deficit
using Pattern Classification
Arturo Cardenas-Blanco 1 , Santanu Chakraborty 2 , Fahad Alkherayf 3 , Eve Tsai 3 , Mark Schweitzer 2 , Thanh Nguyen 2
1 Diagnostic Imaging Department, the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 2 Radiology, the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada; 3 Neurosurgery, the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario
Exhibition Hall Tuesday 13:30-15:30 Computer 108
13:30 4294. Detection of Nerve Injury with Diffusion Weighted Wide Band Steady State Free Precession (DW-WBSSFP) in
the Lumbar Spine
Giovanna Danagoulian 1 , Rivka R. Colen, Krishna Nayak 2 , Srinivasan Mukundan, Ferenc Jolesz, Ehud J. Schmidt
1 Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; 2 University of Southern California
14:00 4295. Spatial Normalization of Cervical Cord 3D T 1-Weighted Images & Regional Assessment of Cord Atrophy with a
Voxel-Based Approach
Paola Valsasina 1 , Maria Assunta Rocca 1 , Stefania Sala 1 , Mark Andrew Horsfield 2 , Patrick Stroman 3 , Martina
Absinta 1 , Giancarlo Comi 4 , Massimo Filippi 1
1 Neuroimaging Research Unit, Institute of Experimental Neurology, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy;
2 Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom; 3 Centre for Neuroscience Studies,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; 4 Department of Neurology, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
14:30 4296. Peripheral Nerve Imaging with 3D Gradient Recalled Echo-Selective Species Imaging Sequence at 3.0T: A
Preliminary Study
Hao Shen 1 , Guang Cao 2 , Xin Lou 3 , Ailian Zhang 3 , Jinfeng Li 3 , Zhikui Xiao 1 , Qian Jiang 4 , Anthony T. Vu 5
1 Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Beijing, China, People's Republic of; 2 Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE
Healthcare, Hong Kong, China, People's Republic of; 3 Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China,
People's Republic of; 4 MR Modality, GE Healthcare, Shanghai, China, People's Republic of; 5 MR PSD/Applications Engineering, GE
Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States
15:00 4297. Pain or No Pain: Paradigm to Image Lower Back Pain with fMRI
Harish A. Sharma 1 , Raj Gupta 2 , William Olivero 3
1 Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; 2 Medicine, University of Illinois;
3 Neurosurgery, Carle Foundation Hospital
Exhibition Hall Wednesday 13:30-15:30 Computer 108
13:30 4298. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Human Cervical Spondylosis at 3T
Rajakumar Nagarajan 1 , Michael Albert Thomas 1 , Benjamin M. Ellingson 1 , Langston Holly 2 , Noriko Salamon 1
1 2
Radiological Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Neurosurgery, University of
California Los Angeles
14:00 4299. Evidence of Wallerian Degeneration in the Human Spinal Cord using In Vivo High-Resolution DTI &
Magnetization Transfer
Julien Cohen-Adad 1,2 , Bradley Buchbinder 2,3 , Lawrence L. Wald 1,4 , Anne Louise Oaklander 2,3
1 A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, United
States; 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; 3 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; 4 Harvard-
MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
14:30 4300. Understanding the fMRI Response to Thermal Stimuli in the Human Spinal Cord
Christopher Alan Kidd 1 , Rachael Lee Bosma 1 , Patrick W. Stroman 1,2
1 Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; 2 Departments of Diagnostic Radiology & Physics,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
15:00 4301. MRI Monitoring of Neural Precursor Cell Transplantation Therapy in a Rat Spinal Cord Injury Model
Rafal Janik 1 , Greg Hawryluk 2,3 , Kimberly Lara Desmond 4 , Ryan Fobel 4 , Micheal Fehlings 2,3 , Greg J. Stanisz 1,4
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