Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2014 ○ 10-16 May 2014 ○ Milan, Italy
STUDY GROUP SESSION
(no CME credit)
DIFFUSION
Tuesday, 13 May 2014 (13:30-15:30)
Theater: Amber 5
Lounge: Amber 1 & 2

Study Group Committee: Chair, Claudia A. Wheeler-Kingshott, Ph.D.; Chair-Elect, Christopher P. Hess, Ph.D.; Program Director, Jacques-Donald Tournier, Ph.D.; Program Director-Elect, Alan Connelly, Ph.D.; Secretary, Sune N. Jespersen, Ph.D.; Secretary-Elect, Alexander Leemans Ph.D.
 

Program, Part 1 (Room: Theater, Amber 5)

         
13:30     Study Group Business Meeting & Announcements
 		 Christopher P. Hess, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco, USA
         
13:40     Debate 1 Taster  
         
13:45     Debate 2 Taster  
         
14:00     Break & Move to Lounge  
         

Program, Part 2 (Room: Lounge, Amber 1 & 2)

      (Debates & Poster Award Presentations run parallel)  
         
      Parallel Debate Sessions  
      Debate 1: "Bigger Magnets or Bigger Gradients: Which Bigger is Better?"  
14:00     Bigger Gradients Debate Team Henrik Lundell, Ph.D.
Danish Research Centre for MR, Denmark
Caster K. Sønderby, B.Sc.
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Tim B. Dyrby, Ph.D.
Danish Research Centre for MR, Denmark
         
      Bigger Magnets Debate Team Cornelius Eichner, M.Sc.
Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Robin M. Heidemann, Ph.D.
Siemens AG, Germany
         
      Debate 2: "Connectomics: Is It Worth the Money?"  
14:00     "Yes, It's Worth Every Penny!" Maxime Descoteaux, Ph.D.
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
         
      "No, It's A Waste of Money!" Dmitry Novikov, Ph.D.
New York University School of Medicine, USA
         
14:00     Poster Award Presentations  
         
      Electronic Poster Finalists  
      Fast & Robust Measurement of Microstructural Dimensions using Temporal Diffusion Spectroscopy Hua Li, B.A.
Vanderbilt University, USA
         
      Accelerated Human Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging using Simultaneous Multi-Slice Imaging Angus Z. Lau, Ph.D.
University of Oxford - OCMR, UK
         
      Comparison of Fitting Methods & b-Value Sampling Strategies for Intravoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) in Breast Cancer Gene Y. Cho, M.Sc.
New York University School of Medicine, USA
         
      Traditional Poster Finalists  
      The Effect of Very Low b-Values on the IVIM-Derived Pseudodiffusion Parameter in the Liver Alexander D. Cohen, M.Sc.
Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
         
      In Vivo Oscillating Gradient Diffusion MRI Provides Unique Microstructural Information in Normal & Hypoxic-Ischemic Injured Mouse Brains Dan Wu, M.Sc.
Johns Hopkins University, USA
         
      Assessing Microstructural Substrates of White Matter Abnormalities using NODDI - Application to a Metabolic Disease Inge Timmers, B.Sc.
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
         
15:00     Awards & Concluding Remarks Christopher P. Hess, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco, USA
         
15:30     Adjournment