Poster Award Winners
 

Pulse Sequences/Other

Honorable Mention
Progam No. 2342

1H Single and Double Quantum MRI Evaluation of  Tendon Regeneration Mediated by Engineered Stem Cells
Keren Keinan-Adamsky1, Hadassah Shinar1, Gadi Pelled2, Yoram Zilberman2, Dan Gazit2, Gil Navon1
1
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; 2Heberew University-Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Body/Cardiac Imaging

1st Place
Program No. 795

Phosphorylated Guanidinoacetate in muscle of GAMT deficient mice only partly compensates for PCr as assessed by 31P MRS and functional measurements
Hermien E. Kan1, W Klaas Jan Renema1, Arnold de Haan2, Dirk Isbrandt3, Arend Heerschap1
1
University Medical Center St Radboud, Nijmegen, Netherlands; 2Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands; 3University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany               

2nd Place
Program No. 1954 

Complete Assessment of LV and RV Function and Volume in a Single Breathold Using Real-Time, Spiral, Steady-State Free Precession
Girish Narayan1, Krishna Nayak1, John Pauly1, Bob Hu1
1
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA              

3rd Place
Program No. 1955

Respiratory Self-Gating for Free-Breathing Segmented Cine MRI
Andrew Christian Larson1, Peter Kellman1, Andrew Arai1, Glenn A. Hirsch1, Elliot McVeigh1, Orlando Simonetti2
1
LCE, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2Siemens Medical Solutions, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Neuroimaging

1st Place
Program No. 1311

Grey matter abnormalities before the onset of psychosis: An automated MR image analysis
Bridget Soulsby1, Paola Dazzan2, Xavier Chitnis2, Stephen J. Wood1, John Suckling3, Philip K. McGuire2, Patrick D. McGorry1, Robin M. Murray2, Dennis Velakoulis1, Lisa J. Phillips1, Alison R. Yung1, Christos Pantelis1
1
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 2Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK; 3University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

2nd Place
Program No. 1695

Sodium MRI of Reversible Focal Brain Ischemia in the Monkey
G. C. LaVerde1, F. E. Boada1, D. Davis2, E. Nemoto2, C A. Jungreis2
1
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; 2University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA  

3rd Place
Program No. 1299

Combined Voxel-based analysis of volume and T2-relaxometry in temporal lobe epilepsy
Gaby Simon Pell1, Regula Sofia Briellmann1, Anthony B. Waites1, David Fenton Abbott1, Patrick CH Chan1, Graeme David Jackson2
1
Brain Research Institute, Heidelberg West, Victoria, Australia; 2Brain Reseach Institute, Heidelberg West, Victoria, Australia

Honorable Mention                  
Program No. 1084

Combined correction for geometric distortion and its interaction with head movement in fMRI
Chloe Hutton1, Ralf Deichmann1, Robert Turner1, Jesper Andersson2
1
UCL, London, UK; 2Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 

Honorable Mention
Program No. 1298

Post-Surgical Failure after Temporal Lobectomy is Associated with Increased Medial Temporal Lobe Damage
Simon Keller1, Christine Denby1, Udo Wieshmann2, Neil Roberts1
1
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK; 2The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK

Hardware/EMF

1st Place
Program No. 1691

Liquid Hyperpolarized Xenon Production by Phase Exchange
Steven W. Morgan1, Tining Su1, Gary L. Samuelson1, Gernot Laicher1, Brian Saam1
1
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA  

2nd Place
Program No. 1548

An Elevated Endring Birdcage Coil for Improved Performance at 3 Tesla
Daniel Weyers1, David Keren1, Eddy Boskamp1, Graeme McKinnon1, Kevin Kinsey1
1
GE Medical Systems, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

3rd Place
Program No. 1583

Conductor Losses in Many Channel RF Coil Arrays
Randy Duensing1, James Akao1, Charles Saylor1, David Molyneaux1
1
MRI Devices, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Honorable Mention
Program No.
1662

Wave Behavior in Phantoms at 11.1 Tesla
Barbara L. Beck1, Kelly A. Jenkins1, Jeffrey R. Fitzsimmons1
1
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA   

Honorable Mention
Program No. 1624

An RF Shield Comparative Study of Different Materials and Types
Daniel Weyers1, Qin Liu1
1
GE Medical Systems, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

Honorable Mention
Program No. 1599     

Investigating Tissue-Coil Interactions of an 8-elements Transmit/Recieve Torso Phased Array Coil
Bing Keong Li1, Feng Liu1, Ian Gregg1, Nicholas Shuley1, Stuart Crozier1, Graham Galloway1
1
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia 

Honorable Mention
Program No. 1562

A New Microstrip Resonator Coil for Imaging Rhesus Monkeys
Gene Bogdanov1, Mathew Brevard2, Timothy Fisher1, Craig Ferris2, Reinhold Ludwig1
1
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; 2University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Cancer/Spectroscopy

1st Place
Program No. 2000  

The anti-angiogenic drug, SU11657, decreases brain tumor size and normalizes perfusion as indicated by DSC-MRI perfusion parameters
Christopher Chad Quarles1, Scott D. Rand1, Hendrikus G.J. Krouwer1, Kathleen M. Schmainda1
1
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

2nd Place
Program No. 2007

Changes in the tumor microenvironment early after treatment with the anti-angiogenic agent thalidomide
Réginald Ansiaux1, Christine Baudelet1, Bénédicte Jordan1, Nelson Beghein1, Olivier Feron1, Vincent Grégoire1, Bernard Gallez1
1
Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

3rd Place
Program No. 923

Association between Hepatic Fat Accumulation and Hepatic Glucose Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetes
Martin Krssak1, Attila Brehm1, Elisabeth Bernroider1, Peter Nowotny1, Gary W. Cline2, Gerald I. Shulman2, Werner Waldhäusl1, Michael Roden1
1
Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria; 2Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA