Program Schedule
| 7:30 AM | Registration | |
| Welcome | ||
| 8:30 AM | Welcome | Kamil Ugurbil |
| MANUFACTURERS | Moderator: Kamil Ugurbil | |
| 8:40 AM | Siemens | Karsten Wicklow |
| 9:00 AM | Philips Medical Systems | Tom Cull |
| 9:20 AM | GE | Greg Hurst |
| 9:40 AM | Bruker | Holger Liebel |
| 10:00 AM | Varian | Alan Rath |
| 10:20 AM | BREAK | |
| COILS / ENGINEERING | Moderator: J Thomas Vaughan | |
| 10:40 AM | "Subject Insensitive and Efficient RF Arrays for High Fields" | Tamer S. Ibrahim |
| 11:05 AM | "RF Transmission Concepts for High Field Body MR Imaging" | Cornelis A.T. Van den Berg |
| 11:30 AM | "Exploring New Methods for MR Signal Excitation and Reception" | Xiaoliang Zhang |
| 11:55 AM | "Development of a Versatile Simulator Considering Static, Gradient and RF Field Distribuion Including SAR and Noise Correlation for Arrays" | Christopher Collins |
| 12:20 PM | "RF Coil Design Strategies for Ultra-High Fields" | Gregor Adriany |
| 12:45 PM | SESSION DISCUSSION | |
| 1:00 PM | LUNCH | |
| PARALLEL TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE | Moderator: Klass Pruessmann | |
| 2:00 PM | "T1 and T2 Effects During Radio-Frequency Pulses in MRI Sequences" | Nicolas Boulant |
| 2:25 PM | "Parallel Excitation at 7T" | Elfar Adalsteinsson |
| 2:50 PM | "What's Your SAR? Minimizing Energy Deposition with Parallel Transmission" | Daniel Sodickson |
| 3:15 PM | BREAK | |
| 3:40 PM | "An Introduction to Compressed Sensing and How it Could Change Everything We do in MRI" | Mark A. Griswold |
| 4:05 PM | "Predistortion and Feedback for Transmit Array Control" | John Pauly |
| 4:25 PM | "How Far Can We Probe B1+ at High Field in the Small Flip Angle Regime" | Pierre-Francois Van de Moortele |
| 4:50 PM | SESSION DISCUSSION | |
| 6:00 PM | RECEPTION AT THE CMRR |
| MRS | Moderator: Michael Garwood | |
| 8:30 AM | "Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Brain at 7T using B0 and B1 Shimming" | Hoby Hetherington |
| 8:55 AM | Topic to be announced. | Rolf Gruetter |
| 9:20 AM | "SSFP and RARE Based Fast Spectroscopic Imaging at High Magnetic Fields" | Wolfgang Dreher |
| 9:45 AM | BREAK | |
| 10:15 AM | "High-Field 1H and 13C MRS in the Brain" | Pierre-Gilles Henry |
| 10:40 AM | "Short-echo, Single Voxel 1H MRS of the Human Brain at 7T with Multi-Channel Coils" | Uzay Emir |
| 11:05 AM | SESSION DISCUSSION | |
| BRAIN FUNCTION | Moderator: Joseph Ackerman | |
| 11:30 AM | Topic to be announced. | Van J. Wedeen |
| 11:55 AM | "Neural Correlates of Global fMRI Signal Fluctuations in the Resting State" | David Leopold |
| 12:20 PM | "Structural and Functional MRI at 7 Tesla" | Robert Turner |
| 12:45 PM | LUNCH | |
| Moderator: Kelvin Lim | ||
| 2:00 PM | "Understanding the fMRI Signal for GRE and SE Sequences up to 16.4T" | Kamil Uludag |
| 2:25 PM | "Physiologic Noise and Spontaneous Activity in Human fMRI at 7T" | Marta Bianciadrdi |
| 2:50 PM | "Basic and Pre-Clinical Research with 7.0T MRI - From Molecular Fusion Imaging to the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease" | Zang Hee Cho |
| 3:15 PM | "Structural and Functional Mapping of the Brain at 7T MRI" | Noam Harel |
| 3:40 PM | SESSION DISCUSSION | |
| 3:55 PM | BREAK | |
| 4:20 PM | POSTER VIEWING AND TALKS | Moderator: Malgorzata Marjanska |
| DINNER AT THE RADISSON HOTEL | ||
| 6:30 PM | "My 40 Years in NMR Instrumentation" Speaker: Josef Dadok Professor Emeritus – Carnegie Mellon University |
| NEW FRONTIERS | Moderator: Warren S. Warren | |
| 8:30 AM | "New Developments in Magnetic Resonance Imaging" | Tamara Branca |
| 8:55 AM | "Prospects of Hyperpolarized Water as a Contrast Agent for Perfusion MRI" | Songi Han |
| 9:20 AM | "MR Elastiography: A New Touch in Medical Imaging" | Richard Ehman |
| 9:45 AM | "9.4 Tesla Human Magnetic Resonance NeuroImaging of Non-Proton Signals and Their Quantification as Bioscales" | Keith Thulborn |
| 10:10 AM | "Frequency-Swept MRI: No Acoustic Noise or Echoes" | Michael Garwood |
| 10:35 AM | SESSION DISCUSSION | |
| 10:50 AM | BREAK | |
| CONTRAST | Moderator: Charles Springer, Jr | |
| 11:05 AM | "Quantitative T2* Contrast - qBOLD, GEPCI and Phase" | Dmitriy Yablonskiy |
| 11:30 AM | "Transverse Relaxation of the Tissue Water in Human Brain is Predominantly Determined by Iron and Macromolecules" | Fumiyuki Mitsumori |
| 11:55 AM | "Estimation of Magnetic Field Correlation in the Brain" | Jens H. Jensen |
| 12:20 PM | "MRI Contrasts Based on Relaxation Along a Fictitious Field (RAFF)" | Shalom Michaeli |
| 12:45 PM | SESSION DISCUSSION | |
| 1:00 PM | LUNCH | |
| BODY | Moderator: Patrick Bolan | |
| 2:00 PM | "Cardiac and Abdominal Imaging at 7 Tesla using an 8-Channel Static RF Shimming System" | Mark E. Ladd |
| 2:25 PM | "Musculoskeletal Imaging at Ultra-High Fields" | Jutta Ellermann |
| 2:50 PM | "Torso Imaging at Ultra-High Fields" | Gregory Metzger |
| 3:15 PM | "7T Body Imaging Methods and Technology" | J. Thomas Vaughan |
| 3:40 PM | SESSION DISCUSSION | |
| 3:55 PM | CLOSING REMARKS | Kamil Ugurbil |
