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

Wednesday AM
11:06 401. Medullar & Thalamic Metabolic Alterations Following Spinal Cord Injury (SCI): A Preliminary Mice Study,
Combining Early & Longitudinal Follow-Ups using High-Spatially Resolved MRS & DTI At High Field
Mohamed Tachrount 1 , Guillaume Duhamel 1 , André Maues de Paula 2 , Jérôme Laurin 3 , Tanguy Marqueste 3 , Patrick
Decherchi 3 , Patrick J. Cozzone 1 , Virginie Callot 1
1 Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale (CRMBM, UMR 6612, CNRS), Faculté de Médecine, Université de la
Méditerranée, Marseille, France; 2 Service d’Anatomie Pathologique, Hôpital de la Timone, Marseille, France; 3 Institut des Sciences du
Mouvement (ISM, UMR CNRS 6233), Faculté des sciences, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
11:18 402. The Treatment Impact of Minocycline On Quantitative MRI in Acute Spinal Cord Injury
Yunyan Zhang 1 , V. Wee Yong 1 , R. John Hurlbert 1 , Steve Casha 2
1 University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; 2 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
11:30 403. Atrophy of the Whole Cervical Cord Differs Among the Major Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Phenotypes & is
Associated with Disability: A Multicenter Study
Maria Assunta Rocca 1,2 , Mark A. Horsfield 3 , Stefania Sala 1 , Paola Valsasina 1 , J. Drulovic 4 , Maria Emma Rodegher 2 ,
Domenico Caputo 5 , Massimiliano Copetti 6 , T. Stosic-Opincal 7 , Sarlota Mesaros 4 , 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 Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom; 4 Institute of Neurology, Clinical Centre
of Serbia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade; 5 Department of Neurology, Scientific Institute Fondazione Don
Gnocchi, Milan, Italy; 6 Biostatistics Unit, IRCCS-Ospedale Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy; 7 Institute of
Radiology, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade
11:42 404. Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Human Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy using a 2D RF Excitation Pulse
Combined with a Reduced Field-Of-View Single-Shot Echoplanar Readout (Zoomed-EPI)
Benjamin M. Ellingson 1 , John Grinstead 2 , Josef Pfeuffer 3 , Thorsten Feiweier 3 , Langston Holly 4 , Noriko Salamon 1
1 Radiological Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 2 Siemens Healthcare, Portland, OR, USA;
3 Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany; 4 Neurosurgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
11:54 405. Myelin Water Measurement in the Presence of Myelin Debris
Henry Szu-Meng Chen 1 , Nathan Holmes 2 , Jie Liu 2 , Wolfram Tetzlaff 2 , Piotr Kozlowski 1,2
1 UBC MRI Research Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 2 ICORD, Vancouver, BC, Canada
12:06 406. Non-Water Suppressed Proton MR Spectroscopy Allows Spectral Quality Improvement in the Human Cervical
Spinal Cord
Andreas Hock 1 , Erin Leigh MacMillan 2 , Alexander Fuchs 1 , Roland Kreis 2 , Peter Boesiger 1 , Spyros Kollias 3 , Anke
Henning 1
1 Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University & ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 2 Dept. of Clinical Research, University of Bern,
Bern, Switzerland; 3 University Hospital of Zurich, Institute of Neuroradiology, Zurich, Switzerland
12:18 407. Application of Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) Imaging to Examine Amide Proton Transfer
(APT) in the Spinal Cord at 3T
Adrienne N. Dula 1,2 , Richard D. Dortch 1,2 , Bennett A. Landman 1,3 , John C. Gore 1,2 , Seth A. Smith 1,2
1 Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; 2 Radiology & Radiological Sciences,
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; 3 Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN, USA
Diffusion Tensor & Beyond
Room 710B 10:30-12:30 Moderators: Matthew D. Budde & Mara Cercignani
10:30 408. Diffusion Tensor Spectroscopic Imaging of Rat Brains
Yoshitaka Bito 1 , Yuko Kawai 2 , Koji Hirata 1 , Toshihiko Ebisu 3 , Toru Shirai 1 , Satoshi Hirata 1 , Yoshihisa Soutome 1 ,
Hisaaki Ochi 1 , Masahiro Umeda 2 , Toshihiro Higuchi 4 , Chuzo Tanaka 4
1 Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Kokubunji-shi, Tokyo, Japan; 2 Medical Informatics, Meiji University of Integrative
Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; 3 Neurosurgery, Nantan General Hospital, Kyoto, Japan; 4 Neurosurgery, Meiji University of Integrative
Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
10:42 409. Changes to the Fractional Anisotropy & Mean Diffusivity of In Vivo Rat Brain Measured At Short Effective
Diffusion-Times
Jeff Kershaw 1,2 , Christoph Leuze 3 , Takayuki Obata 1 , Iwao Kanno 1 , Ichio Aoki 1
1 Molecular Imaging Centre, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Japan; 2 School of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan; 3 Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain
Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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