FRIDAY OCTOBER 5, 2001 7:45 AM - 4:30 PM

High Field MR Imaging and Spectroscopy


7:45 AM Registration

8:30  Welcome
  Kamil Ugurbil

8:40 AM THEORETICAL AND ACTUAL GAINS OF HIGH FIELDS
  Moderator:  Michael Garwood

8:40 - 9:10 Charles Springer  Onward & Downward:  Higher MRI Field Strengths for Contrast Reagents

9:10 - 9:40 Robert Bartha   The Magnetic Field Dependence of T2

9:40 - 10:10 Daniel M Spielman  Proton Spectroscopic Imaging at 3T

10:10 - 10:40 Ivan Tkac   In Vivo 1H NMR Spectroscopy at High Magnetic Fields

10:40 - 11:00 BREAK

11:00 AM MICROSCOPY AND CLINICAL IMAGING
  Moderator:  Xiaoping Hu

11:00 - 11:30 Matthew Bernstein  Clinical MRI at 3.0 T

11:30 - 12:00 Andrew Webb   High Field NMR Microscopy

12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH

1:15 PM IMAGING
  Moderator:  E. Mark Haacke

1:15 - 1:50 David Alsop   Perfusion Imaging with Fast Spin Echo

1:50 - 2:30 Peter Boesiger   SENSE:  Principles and High Field Prospects
 

2:30 - 2:50 BREAK

2:50 PM APPLICATIONS
  Moderator:  Rolf Gruetter

2:50 - 3:20 Michael Garwood  MRS Studies of Breast Cancer at 4 Tesla

3:20 - 3:50 Elizabeth Seaquist  Use of 1H MRS to Study in vivo Brain Glucose Metabolism in Health and Disease

3:50 - 4:20 Kamil Ugurbil   Functional Brain Imaging at High Magnetic Fields

5:00 RECEPTION    Center for Magnetic Resonance Research
 
 

SATURDAY OCTOBER 6, 2001 8:00 AM - 6:10 PM


8:00 AM OTHER NUCLEI
  Moderator:  Douglas Rothman

8:00 - 8:30 Hoby Hetherington  High Field 31P Spectroscopy

8:30  - 9:00 Rolf Gruetter   Localized 13C NMR Spectroscopy in vivo at High Magnetic Fields

9:00 -9:30 Wei Chen   Multi Nuclear MR Spectroscopy at High Magnetic Fields

9:30 - 10:00 Keith Thulborn  Sodium MR Imaging as a Component of the Comprehensive Neuro :MRI Protocol:  A Measure Of Tissue Viability in Stroke & Oncology

10:00 - 10:20 BREAK
 

MR ENGINEERING


10:20 AM MR SYSTEMS
  Moderator:  J. Thomas Vaughan

10:20 - 10:50 Franz Schmidt

10:50 - 11:20 Piotr Starewicz

11:20 - 11:50 Joe Debbins   A Rapid Development Environment for Clinical & Research MR Applications

11:50 - 12:20 Dan Meyer

12:20 - 1:20 LUNCH

1:20 PM RF COILS
  Moderator:  Hellmut Merkle

1:20 - 1:50 John Schenck   RF Transmitter Coils for 3T and Beyond

1:50 - 2:20 Randy Duensing  Translating 1.5T RX-only Arrays to 3T and Beyond

2:20 - 2:50 Tommy Vaughan  High Frequency RF Body Coil

2:50 - 3:10 BREAK
 

3:10 PM EM MODELING AND SAFETY
  Moderator:  Michael Smith

3:10 - 3:40 Christopher Collins  Safety & Sensitivity in MRI of the Human Head & Body at Increasing Field Strengths:  Insights and Predictions from Numerical Calculations

3:40 - 4:10 D. Joe Schaeffer  High Field Safety Considerations

4:10 - 4:40 Qiang X Yang   A Numerical Method & Analysis of Wave Behavior in Lossy Dielectric Samples at High Field

4:40  COMMERICAL HIGH FIELD SYSTEMS
  Moderator:  Gregor Adriany

4:40 - 6:10 Bruker, Siemens, Varian, Phillips, GE

6:30  DINNER - Speaker Costantino Iadecola
 
 

SUNDAY OCTOBER 7, 2001 7:00 AM - 5:20 PM

MR Imaging of Brain Function


7:00 AM Registration

7:30 - 8:30 Charles Springer  fMRI Educational Lecture I

8:30 AM BRAIN ENERGETICS 7 ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY
  Moderator:  Kamil Ugurbil

8:30 - 9:00 Louis Sokoloff  Energetics of Functional Activation in Neural Tissues

9:00 - 9:30 David Attwell   An Energy Budget for Signaling in the Grey Matter of the Brain

9:30 - 10:00 Martin Lauritzen  Relation of Spikes and Synaptic Activity to Local Increases of Cerebral Blood Flow

10:00 - 10:30 BREAK
 

10:30 AM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY AND FUNCTIONAL IMAGING
  Moderator:  Seiji Ogawa

10:30 - 10:50 Amir Shmuel   The Intrinsic Hemodynamic Signal from the Capillary Bed is Linear with Neuronal Spike Activity

10:50 - 11:20 Dae-Shik Kim   Points of Contact Between Neuronal Physiology and fMRI

11:20 - 11:50 Eric Halgren

11:50 - 1:00 LUNCH
 

1:00 PM HEMODYNAMIC RESPONSE AND FUNCTIONAL MAPPING
  Moderator:  Seong-Gi Kim

1:00 - 1:30 Iwao Kanno   Is Activation Cerebral Blood Flow Proportional or Parallel to the Baseline Cerebral Blood Flow

1:30 - 2:00 Tim Duong   Localized cerebral blood Flow Response at Sub-Millimeter Columnar Resolution

2:00 - 2:30 Noam Harel   Origin of Negative BOLD fMRI Signals

2:30 - 3:00 Amir Shmuel   Sustained Negative BOLD & Blood Flow Response &  its Coupling to Positive Response in the Human Brain

3:00 - 3:30  BREAK

3:30 PM NEUROCHEMISTRY AND BRAIN FUNCTION
  Moderator:  Louis Sokoloff

3:30 - 4.10 Albert Gjedde   Oxidative Metabolism of Excited Neurons and Astrocytes

4:10 - 4:50 Rolf Gruetter   Neurochemistry in Action; Insights into the Regulation of In Vivo Brain Energy Metabolism

4:50 - 5:20 Douglas Rothman  In Vivo MRS Studies of GABA/Glutamine and Glutamate/Glutamine Cycle:  Does Functional Activation Mean More Inhibition

 
 
 

MONDAY OCTOBER 8, 2001 7:30 AM - 5:10 PM


7:30 AM Kamil Ugurbil   fMRI Educational Lecture II

8:30 AM fMRI MECHANISM
  Moderator:  Xiaoping Hu

8:30 -9:00 Wei Chen   Functional MRS Study of BOLD Effects on Cerebral Metabolite Resonances in Human Visual Cortex  During Visual Stimulation

9:00 - 9:30 Bruce Pike   fMRI Signal Modeling and CBF, CBV & CMRO2

9:30 - 10:00 E. Mark Haacke  Modeling BOLD Signal Changes:  What Have We Learned to Date?

10:00 - 10:20 BREAK

10:20 AM SPATIAL SPECIFITY
  Moderator:  Ravi Menon

10:20 - 10:50 Amiram Grinvald  Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of the Interactions Between Cortical Electrical Activity and Compartments

10:50 - 11:20 Manabu Tanifuji  Reflection Measurement from Exposed Cat Cortex Shows Blood Volume Changes are Localized to Activated Cortical Columns

11:20 - 11:50 James Hyde   High Resolution Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

11:50 - 12:20 Xiaoping Hu   Mapping Human brain Function with Improved Sensitivity & Specificity at 7 Tesla

12:20 - 1:20 LUNCH
 

1:30 PM TEMPORAL RESOLUTION
  Moderator:  Wei Chen

1:30  - 2:00 Seiji Ogawa   An Approach to Probe Some Fast Dynamics of Neural Systems Interaction by Functional MRI

2:00 - 2:30 Mark DíEsposito  Event Related Functional MRI

2:30 - 3:00 Seong-Gi Kim   Quantitative Relationship Between BOLD Signals and  Neural Activity

3:00 - 3:20 BREAK

3:20 PM DATA PROCESSING
  Moderator:  Stephen Strother

3:20 - 3:50 Reiner Goebel   Cortex-Based ICA and Cortex-Based Real-Time GLM:  Anatomically Constrained Hypothesis and Data-Driven Analysis of Functional MRI Data Sets

3:50 - 4:20 Shing-Chung Ngan  Template-Free Activation Detection Methods for Multi-Epoch fMRI Data

4:20 - 5:10 Scott Makeig   Exploring BOLD Data with Blind Source Separation