Program

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5

Registration

07:30
Registration and Speaker Upload

Session 1: Cells to Networks

Moderator: Kamil Ugurbil
08:30
Prakash Kara, University of Minnesota
The Spatial Precision of Neural and Vascular Circuits in the Neocortex


08:55
Alan Jasanoff, MIT
Functional MRI using Molecular Probes


09:20
Gordon Smith, University of Minnesota
Imaging Neural Networks in the Developing Brain


09:45
Anna Wang Roe, Zhejiang University
Imaging at the Level of Neural Circuits: Towards a Mesoscale Functional Connectome in Primates


10:10
Mikhail Shapiro, Caltech
Proteins, Air and Water: New Mechanisms for Biomolecular MRI


10:35
Break


Session 2: MR Above 7 T

Moderator: Gregor Adriany
10:55
Yigitcan Eryaman, University of Minnesota
RF Heating Studies with Dipole Antennas at 10.5 T


11:20
Klaus Scheffler, Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen
Human Functional Brain Imaging at 9.4 T: Can We Resolve Subcortical Responses?


11:45
Benedikt Poser, Maastricht University
Sequences and Parallel Transmit for Neuroimaging at 9.4 T


12:10
Proffered Abstract: Bart Steensma, University Medical Center Utrecht
Optimization and Validation of Dipole Antenna Geometry for Body Imaging at 10.5 T


12:20
Lunch


Session 3: Novel Contrasts

Moderator: Rolf Gruetter
13:40
Vendor Presentation: GE Healthcare - Doug Kelley

14:00
Assaf Gilad, Michigan State University
Bioengineering Contrast Agents for High-Field MRI


14:25
Julien Valette, CEA
Diffusion-Weighted MRS to Probe Brain Cell Structure - and Beyond


14:50
Proffered Abstract: Cameron Cushing, University of Iowa
In Vivo 2D Double-Quantum Filtered Correlated Spectroscopy (DQF-COSY) at 7 T


15:00
Break

15:20
Vendor Presentation: Siemens Healthcare - Christina Triantafyllou

15:40
Matthew Merritt, University of Florida
Metabolic Imaging: Hyperpolarized Carbon for Measuring Kinetics in Living Systems


16:05
Peter van Gelderen, NIH NINDS
Novel Insight into Old Contrast Mechanisms:the Link between MT and T1 in the Brain


16:30
Proffered Abstract: An Vu, University of California San Francisco
StImulus Locked K-space Shuffling (SILK) for Ultra-High Resolution fMRI



Dinner at TCF Bank Stadium

18:00
Reception
19:00
Dinner
20:00
Dinner Presentation: Joseph Ackerman, Washington University
MR and Other Adventures (Some True) of a Wayward Peter Pan Wannabe


21:00
Adjournment


FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6

Session 4: Neuroimaging

Moderator: Cheryl Olman
08:30
Amir Shmuel, McGill University
Analysis of the Spatial Specificity of Functional MRI


08:55
Kendrick Kay, University of Minnesota
Ultra-High Resolution fMRI: Challenges in Data Analysis and Interpretation for Neuroscience Applications


09:20
Jonathan Polimeni, MGH/Harvard
Acquisition and Analysis Strategies for High-Spatiotemporal Resolution Human fMRI at Ultra-High Fields


09:45
Peter Bandettini, NIH NIMH
High Field, High Resolution Mapping of Activation, Resting State, and Connectivity Dynamics


10:10
Alessandro Sbrizzi, University Medical Center Utrecht
Nonlinear Inversion Problems in Neuroimaging


10:35
Break


Session 5: Connectomics

Moderator: Essa Yacoub
10:55
Proffered Abstract: Cirong Liu, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Towards a Marmoset Connectome: a Multi-Modal and Multi-Level 3D MRI Brain Atlas


11:05
Christophe Lenglet, University of Minnesota
Cortical Microstructure Mapping using In-Vivo 7 T Diffusion MRI


11:30
Todd Constable, Yale University
Linking Brain to Behavior - Characterizing Individual Performance/Symptoms from Connectome Data


11:55
David Van Essen, Washington University
Highlights from the Human Connectome


12:20
Proffered Abstract: Merry Mani, University of Iowa
High Resolution Multi-Shot Diffusion Imaging at 7 T without Navigators


12:30
Lunch


Session 6: New Directions in Instrumentation

Moderator: Michael Garwood
13:50
Vendor Presentation: KinetiCor - Thomas Ernst

14:10
Edward Auerbach, University of Minnesota
Integration and Applications of High Transmit and Receive Channel Counts for UHF MR


14:35
David Brunner, ETH Zurich
Sensor Networks in the Bore


15:00
Matt Bernstein, Mayo Clinic
Compact 3 T with High Performance Gradients


15:25
Break

15:45
Vendor Presentation: Bruker - Wulf-Ingo Jung

16:05
Robin de Graaf, Yale University
Multi-Coil Magnetic Field Generation - From Shimming to Imaging and Beyond


16:30
Jason Stockman, MGH/Harvard
AC/DC Coils: Integrating RF and B0 Shim Array Elements


16:55
Proffered Abstract: Hoby Hetherington, University of Pittsburgh
Dynamic B0 Shim Updating without Pre-Emphasis



Poster Session

17:05
Power Poster Presentations
Moderators: Malgorzata Marjanska & Gregory Metzger
17:30
Traditional Poster Session


Reception at CMRR

18:45
Reception
21:45
Adjournment


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7

Session 7: Body Imaging at Ultra High Field

Moderator: Patrick Bolan
08:30
Martijn Cloos, NYU
Body Imaging at UHF


08:55
Gregory Metzger, University of Minnesota
Exploring Body Applications at High Field


09:20
Tom Scheenen, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center and the Erwin L. Hahn Institute
Use the Field, Find the Nodes! Toward Accurate Staging of High-Risk Cancer in the Lower Abdomen


09:45
Sharmila Majumdar, UCSF
Quantitative Musculoskeletal Imaging at 7 Tesla


10:10
Break

10:30
Arthur Magill, DKFZ Heidelberg
Whole-Body Imaging at 7 Tesla with a 32-Channel Parallel Transmit System


10:55
Proffered Abstract: Alan Seifert, Mount Sinai NY
Brainstem and Cervical Spinal Cord MRI at 7 T



Session 8: RF Management

Moderator: Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele
11:05
Xiaoping Wu, University of Minnesota
Human Connectome Project-Style Diffusion and Functional MRI at 7 Tesla Through RF Parallel Transmission


11:30
Priti Balchandani, Mt Sinai School of Medicine
RF Pulse and Pulse Sequence Design for Ultrahigh Field Imaging


11:55
Proffered Abstract: Arian Beqiri, King's College London
Accelerated Turbo Spin-Echo Prostate Imaging at 7 T using SAR Constrained Direct Signal Control


12:05
Lunch

13:25
Vendor Presentation: Tesla Engineering - Simon Pittard

13:45
Riccardo Lattanzi, New York University
New Physical Insights into Ideal Radiofrequency Coil Design


14:10
Mihir Pendse, Stanford University
SAR-optimized Parallel Transmit Pulse Design


14:35
Andrew Webb, Leiden University Medical Center
Novel Materials to Control RF


15:00
Adjournment



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