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Download the 2011 Program Book Poster Sessions Electronic Poster Hepatobiliary/Pancreas Exhibition Hall Monday 14:00-16:00 Computer 1 1 14:00 2930. Assessment of Hepatic Perfusion with Diffusion Weighted & Dynamic Contrast Enhanced H MRI in CCl4 Treated Rat Liver Andriy Babsky1, Beena George1, George Sandusky2, Navin Bansal1 1Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, United States; 2Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, United States 14:30 2931. Quantification of T1 Relaxation Time of Liver & Spleen Before & After Oxygen Inhalation in Patients with & Without Liver Cirrhosis Kyung Ah Kim1,2, Mi-Suk Park2, In Seong Kim Kim3, Myeong-Jin Kim2, Ki Whang Kim2 1Radiology, Inje University Ilsan-Paik Hospital, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Republic of; 2Radiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of; 3Simens Medical Solution 15:00 2932. Hepatic Fibrosis by Chronic Viral Hepatitis: Segmental Localization of Degree of Fibrosis using Double Contrast Material-Enhanced MRI Jeong-Sik Yu1, Jae Ho Shim, Jae-Joon Chung, Joo Hee Kim, Ki Whang Kim 1Radiology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of 15:30 2933. Effect of Cirrhosis on Portal Venous Flow Reserve Hwayoung Kate Lee1, Zhitong Zou2, Martin Raymond Prince2 1Radiology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, United States; 2Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States Exhibit Hall Tuesday 3:30-5:30 Computer 1 13:30 2934. Comparison of Liver Stiffness with MRE & Fibrosis Quantification with Fibro-C Index in Chronic Hepatitis B Patients. Sudhakar Kundapur Venkatesh1, Dean Tai2, Aileen Wee3, Shuoyu Xu4, Hanry Yu5 1Diagnostic Imaging, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore; 2Institute of Bioengineering & Nanotechnology, Singapore, Singapore; 3Pathology, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore; 4Singapore-MIT Alliance, Singapore, Singapore; 5Physiology, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore 14:00 2935. Liver Stiffness Assessment by Tagged MRI of Cardiac-Induced Liver Motion Sohae Chung1, Elodie Breton1, Lorenzo Mannelli1, Leon Axel1 1Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States 14:30 2936. MR Elastography: Reproducibility of Measurements of Mean Liver Stiffness Russell N. Low1,2, Tarek Hassanein3, Neeraj Panchal 1Sharp & Children's MRI Center, San Diego, CA, United States; 2San Diego Imaging, San Diego, CA, United States; 3Southern California Liver Centers 15:00 2937. Tag MRI of the Liver as a New Method to Differentiate Normal vs. Cirrhotic Livers Lorenzo Mannelli1, Orpheus Kolokythas1, Theodore Jay Dubinsky1, Martin Gunn1, Christopher A. Potter1, Jeffrey H. Maki1 1Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States 308 Poster Sessions Exhibition Hall Wednesday 3:30-5:30 Computer 1 13:30 2938. In Vivo 19 F MRI to Detect Biliary Excretion of 19 F-Labeled Drugs in Mice Su Xu1,2, Kunrong Cheng3, Sandeep Khurana3, Diana Johnson4, James Polli4, Da Shi1,2, Steven Roys1,2, Rao Gullapalli1,2, Jean-Pierre Raufman3 1Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States; 2Core for Translational Research in Imaging @ Maryland University of Maryland School ; 3Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; 4Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy 14:00 2939. Fluid Suppression for MRI Screening by Dual Echo Subtraction Ananth J. Madhuranthakam1, Karen S. Lee2, Jean H. Brittain3, Ivan Pedrosa2, Neil M. Rofsky4, David C. Alsop2 1Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Boston, MA, United States; 2Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; 3Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Madison, WI, United States; 4Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States 14:30 2940. Parallel Transmission in Liver MRI at 7T: Initial Results Xiaoping Wu1, Sebastian Schmitter1, Edwards J. Auerbach1, J. Pfeuffer2, Michael Hamm3, Kamil Ugurbil1, P-F. Van De Moortele1 1CMRR, Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; 2MR Application Development, Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany; 3Siemens Healthcare, Charlestown, MA, United States 15:00 2941. Ultra-High Spatio-Temporal Resolution Liver Imaging using a New View Ordering Scheme & a 2-Point Dixon Acquisition Manojkumar Saranathan1, Dan Rettmann2, Anja S. Brau3, Brian A. Hargreaves1, Shreyas Vasanawala1 1Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States; 2Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Rochester, MN, United States; 3Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States Exhibition Hall Thursday 3:30-5:30 Computer 1 13:30 2942. Radial K-Space Sampling for 3D Fat-Suppressed Contrast-Enhanced Imaging of the Liver During Free Breathing Hersh Chandarana1, Andrew B. Rosenkrantz1, Ruth P. Lim1, Danny Kim1, David I. Mossa1, Konstantinos Arhakis1, Berthold Kiefer2, Tobias Kai Block2, Vivian S. Lee1 1Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States; 2MR Application & Workflow Development, Siemens AG Healthcare Sector, Erlangen, Germany 14:00 2943. Measurement of Field Inhomogeneity & Susceptibility Effects for Liver Iron Quantification in Patients with Iron Overload Brian A. Taylor1, Ralf B. Loeffler1, Ruitian Song1, R. Jason Stafford2, Beth McCarville1, Jane S. Hankins3, Claudia M. Hillenbrand1 1Radiological Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States; 2Imaging Physics, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States; 3Hematology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States 14:30 2944. The Secretory Flow of Pancreatic Juice in the Main Pancreatic Duct: Visualization by Means of MRCP with Spatially Selective Inversion Recovery Pulse Teruyuki Torigoe1, Katsuyoshi Ito2, Tsutomu Tamada2, Akihiko Kanki2, Kouji Yoshida2 1KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan; 2KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan 15:00 2945. Automated Liver Parenchyma & Vessel Segmentation in Radial Gradient & Spin-Echo (GRASE) Datasets for Characterization of Diffuse Liver Disease Ali Bilgin1,2, Rajagopalan Sundaresan, Christian G. Graff3, Chuan Huang4, Tomoe Barr1, Maria I. Altbach5 1Biomedical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States; 2Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States; 3Division of Imaging & Applied Mathematics, Food & Drug Administration; 4Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States; 5Radiology, University of Arizona Kidney: Functional Exhibition Hall Monday 14:00-16:00 Computer 2 14:00 2946. In Vivo Sodium MR Imaging of Rabbit Kidney using Dual-Tuned RF Coil at 3T Chan Hong Moon1, Alessandro Furlan1, Jung-Hwan Kim1, Lloydine Jacobs2,3, Tiejun Zhao4, Kyongtae Ty Bae1 309 Poster Sessions 1Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 2Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 3Ferguson Laboratory for Orthopaedic & Spine Research; 4MR Research Support, Siemens Healthcare, Pittsburgh, PA, United States 14:30 2947. Sodium MR Imaging of Human Kidney using a Dual-Tuned (23Na/1H) Body RF Coil at 3T: Quantitative Assessment of Sodium Concentration & Corticomedullary Gradient in Healthy Subjects Alessandro Furlan1, Chan-Hong Moon1, Jung-Hwan Kim1, Xiang He1, Bumwoo Park1, Tiejun Zaho2, Kyongtae Ty Bae1 1Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; 2MR Research Support, Siemens Healthcare, Pittsburgh, PA, United States 15:00 2948. Evaluation of Therapeutic Effect on Renal Fibrosis by Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Osamu Togao1, Shigehiro Doi2, Makoto Kuro-O2, Masaya Takahashi1 1Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States; 2Departement of Pathology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States 15:30 2949. MR Elastography in Renal Transplant Patients: A Feasibility Study Christine U. Lee1, Kevin J. Glaser1, James F. Glockner1, Meng Yin1, Jun Chen1, Richard L. Ehman1 1Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States Exhibition Hall Tuesday 13:30-15:30 Computer 2 13:30 2950. Renal Cortico-Medullary Differentiation in Liver Cirrhotic Patients: Is the Pathology Cortical or Medullary or Both? Umer Abdur Rahim Khan1, Pierre Hugues Vivier1, Pippa Storey1, Akira Yamamoto1, Henry Rusinek1, Lei Zhang1, Kristopher Tantillo1, Ruth Lim1, James Babb1, John Devon2, David Stoffel1, Lewis Teperman2, Judith Benstein3, Samuel Sigal3, Edward Skolnik3, Vivian S. Lee1 1Radiology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States; 2Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States; 3Internal Medicine, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States 14:00 2951. Interleaved T1- & T2*-Mapping for Dynamic Abdominal Tissue Oxygenation Applications Yao Ding1, Qing Yuan2, Rami R Hallac1, Ralph P. Mason2, Roderick W. McColl2, Robert D. Sims2, Paul T. Weatherall2 1Radiological Sciences Graduate Program, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States; 2Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, United States 14:30 2952. Noninvasive Evaluation of Renal Oxygen Extraction
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