Welcome

Program

General Information

Registration

Abstracts

Meeting Venue

Friday Morning, August 28, 2009
Friday Afternoon, August 28, 2009
Saturday Morning, August 29, 2009
Saturday Afternoon, August 29, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009


Program

Friday Morning, August 28, 2009

Satellite MRI Symposium

09.00–13.00
„Imaging Pain Processing – Insights from Different MRI Techniques“
Organized by H. Boecker (Bonn) and T. Tölle (Munich)

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Friday Afternoon, August 28, 2009

13.30–13.35
Welcome
H. H. Schild (Bonn, Germany)

Session I – Neuro
Chairs: P. van Zijl, S. Mukherji (Baltimore, USA/Ann Arbor, USA)

13.35–14.00
Keynote lecture: Hot topics in highfield MRI of head and neck
S. Mukherji (Ann Arbor, USA)

14.00–14.25
Keynote lecture: Regional perfusion imaging
X. Golay (London, UK)

14.25–14.50
Keynote lecture: Measuring CBV and arterial CBV changes non-invasively using Vascular Space Occupancy (VASO) MRI
P. van Zijl (Baltimore, USA)

14.50–15.00
Break

15.00–15.10
Detection of cerebral microbleeds with dual echo T2*-weighted imaging at 7.0 Tesla MRI
N. Conijn, P. Luijten, J. Zwanenburg, F. Visser, G. Biessels, M. Geerlings, J. Hendrikse (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

15.10–15.20
Is a 3.0 Tesla MRI cost effective for brain imaging in a general hospital?
L. de Leeuw, B. Ziedses des Plantes, B. Zonneveld, J. Aarts, J. Nahuis (Deventer, The Netherlands)

15.20–15.30
Perfusion territories of the deep brain structures: territorial arterial spin labeling MRI at 3.0 Tesla fieldstrength
J. Hendrikse, E. Petersen, S. Chng, N. Venketasubramanian, X. Golay, (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

15.30–15.40
Magnetization prepared 3D-FLAIR Imaging at 7.0 Tesla
F. Visser, J. Zwanenburg, P. Luijten (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

15.40–15.50
Magnetic resonance imaging of cranial nerves at 7 Tesla
A. Grams, O. Kraff, S. Orzada, S. Maderwald, J. Kalkmann, M. Ladd, M. Forsting, E. Gizewski (Essen, Germany)

15.50–16.10
Break

Session II – Molecular imaging
Chairs: B. Pichler, J. Bulte (Tübingen, Germany/Baltimore, USA)

16.10–16.35
Keynote lecture: Molecular imaging of atherosclerosis
G. Lanza (St. Louis, USA)

16.35–17.00
Keynote lecture: MRI reporter genes
J. Bulte (Baltimore, USA)

17.00–17.15
Break

Session III – Multimodality imaging
Chairs: X. Golay, H. Boecker (London, UK/Bonn, Germany)

17.15–17.40
Keynote lecture: Update: Radiopharmaceuticals
H.-J. Wester (Munich, Germany)

17.40–18.05
Keynote lecture: MR-PET
B. Pichler (Tübingen, Germany)

Saturday Morning, August 29, 2009

Session IV – Whole body & parallel transmit
Chairs: P. Harvey, M.-J. Kim (Best, the Netherlands/Seoul, Korea)

09.00–09.20
Keynote lecture: Parallel transmit
P. Harvey (Best, The Netherlands)

09.20–09.45
Keynote lecture: Liver
M.-J. Kim (Seoul, Korea)

09.45–10.10
Keynote lecture: Diffusion-weighted imaging
T. Takahara (Tokyo, Japan/Utrecht, The Netherlands)

10.10–10.30
Break

10.30–10.40
Liver MRI at 3.0 Tesla in patients with focal or diffuse liver disease: An intraindividual comparative study of T1-, T2- and diffusion weighted imaging using parallel RF transmission with patient-adaptive B1 shimming
G. M. Kukuk, J. Gieseke, M. Nelles, F. Träber, P. Mürtz, H. H. Schild, W. A. Willinek (Bonn, Germany)

10.40–10.50
Liver MR imaging in humans at 7 Tesla: Initial results
L. Umutlu, A. Bitz, S. Maderwald, S. Orzada, S. Kinner, O. Kraff, I. Brote, G. Antoch, S. Ladd, L. Schaefer, A. Bahr, K. Solbach, M. Ladd, H. Quick, T. Lauenstein (Essen, Germany)

10.50–11.00
Abdominal MR Imaging at 3.0T: Preliminary Clinical Experience with 2-Point mDIXON as an Alternative to eThrive and Chemical Shift Imaging
T. Perkins, G. Herigault, H. Eggers, A. Duijndam, J. Van Tilburg, S. Hussain (Cleveland, USA)

11.00–11.10
Liver fat quantitation at 3T using a single breath hold multi-echo sequence
M. Ivancevic, J. Smink, H. Hussain, T. Chenevert (Cleveland, USA)

11.10–11.20
Improving image quality in shoulder MRI at 3T-BLADE vs. TSE
A. Horng, P. Pietschmann, M. Notohamiprodjo, P. Müller, M. Reiser, C. Glaser (Munich, Germany)

11.20–11.30
Cost-effectiveness of 3T MRI versus 1,5T in imaging of the knee in general radiology practice.
H. Wiersma, R. Westerbeek, L. de Leeuw, B. Ziedses des Plantes (Deventer, The Netherlands)

11.30–11.40
Kidney MR imaging in humans at 7 Tesla: Initial results
L. Umutlu, S. Orzada, S. Maderwald, S. Kinner, O. Kraff, I. Brote, A. Bitz, G. Antoch, L. Schaefer, M. Ladd, H. Quick, T. Lauenstein (Essen, Germany)

Session V – Oncology & intervention
Chairs: T. Takahara, K. Hynynen (Tokyo, Japan; Utrecht, the Netherlands/Toronto, Canada)

11.40–12.05
Keynote lecture: MR-HIFU
K. Hynynen (Toronto, Canada)

12.05–12.15
1H-Spectroscopy at 7T in Prostate Cancer for Metabolite Detection to improve tumor characterization
C. Arteaga de Castro, U. van der Heide, P. Luijten, D. Klomp (Utrecht, The Netherlands)

12.15–12.25
R2* response of intracranial tumors during (C)O2 challenges at 3.0
A. Müller, S. Remmele, I. Wenningmann, S. Flacke, R. König, F. Träber, H. Clusmann, T. Pietsch, J. Gieseke, W. Willinek, H. H. Schild, P. Mürtz (Bonn, Germany)

12.25–13.30
Lunch Break

Saturday Afternoon, August 29, 2009

Special focus
Chair: H. H. Schild (Bonn, Germany)

13.30–13.45
The future of energy
Solarworld AG (Bonn, Germany)

13.45–14.15
Pulse sequence design: art and mystery
P. Wittmann (Cambridge, USA)

14.15–14.30
Break

Session VI – Cardiovascular
Chairs: G. Lanza, W. Willinek (St. Louis, USA/Bonn, Germany)

14.30–14.55
Keynote lecture: Towards robust cardiac imaging at high field strength: technical developments and initial results
M. Kouwenhoven (Best, The Netherlands)

14.55–15.05
7 Tesla Cardiac MRI in Humans
H. Quick, S. Maderwald, S. Orzada, O. Kraff, K. Nassenstein, A. Bitz, I. Brote, M. Ladd (Essen, Germany)

15.05–15.15
3D Reconstructed Contrast Enhanced MR Angiography: 1.5 Tesla versus 3 Tesla in Detection of the Different Branches of the Internal Iliac Artery before Uterine Artery Embolization
N. Naguib, N.-E. Nour-Eldin, T. Lehnert, J. Abskharon, T. Vogl (Frankfurt am Main/Germany)

15.15–15.25
Perfusion Imaging in the Soft Tissues in Patients with Diabetic Foot Syndrome (DFS) – Preliminary Results
S. Weber, B. Röhrl, C. Espinola-Klein, L. Schreiber, K. Kreitner (Mainz/Germany)

15.25–15.35
MR-Lymphangiography at 3.0T-Correlation with Lymphoscintigraphy
M. Notohamiprodjo, M. Weiss, R. Baumeister, T. Jakobs, C. Glaser, M. Reiser, K. Herrmann (Munich, Germany)

15.35–16.00
Break

Session VII – Hot topics
Chairs: H. H. Schild, W. Kalender (Bonn, Germany/Erlangen, Germany)

16.00–16.30
Keynote lecture: Why not CT?
W. Kalender (Erlangen, Germany)

Session VIII – Why highfield MR – The vendors perspective

16.30–16.45
Bruker

16.45–17.00
Siemens Medical Solutions

17.00–17.20
GE Healthcare

17.20–17.40
Phillips Healthcare

17.40–17.45
Closing remarks
H. H. Schild (Bonn, Germany)

17.45
"Bonner Abend"
Get together with live music, typical German food and beer!

Sunday, August 30, 2009

9:00–16:30
MultiTransmit MR Workshop

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