Primary sponsors of the meeting:

Bracco - General Electric - MedCat - Philips - Pie Medical Imaging - Siemens - Toshiba

Basic sponsors:

Bruker - Varian

Schedule - Detailed Program - Notes for Speakers - Notes for Poster Presenters

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Schedule

09.30 Opening and coffee

10.00 Opening and welcome

10.15 Parallel sessions 1

• Room 1 Neuro (4)
• Room2 Spectroscopy (4)

11.03 Poster teasers

11.15 Continuation parallel sessions 1

• Room 1 Neuro (3)
• Room2 Spectroscopy (3)

11.51 Poster teasers

12.00 Lunch and poster session

13.15 Annual general meeting

14.00 Parallel sessions 2

• Room 1 Cardiac and body (6)
• Room 2 Molecular imaging (6)

15.15 Tea and coffee

16.00 Parallel sessions 3

• Room 1 MR physics (5)
• Room 2 Angio, perfusion, permeability (5)

17.00 Drinks

18.00 Dinner in Restaurant "De Beleving", Oudegracht 125 a/d werf, Utrecht. Find directions here.

Schedule - Detailed Program - Notes for Speakers - Notes for Poster Presenters

BENELUX ISMRM CHAPTER MEETING – 18th JANUARY 2010 – UTRECHT

Detailed Program - List of Oral Presentations

Morning session ONE: Neuro: fMRI and DW-MRI

Ben Jeurissen, University of Antwerp; Counting the number of fiber orientations in diffusion MRI voxels using constrained spherical deconvolution 2

Mark Bouts, University Medical Center Utrecht; Effects of treatment on brain tissue classification with serial MRI-based ISODATA cluster analysis in an experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage model

Jelle Veraart, University of Antwerp; A more accurate and b-value independent estimation of diffusion parameters using Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging4

Matthan Caan, University of Amsterdam; Dual Tensor Tracking in Low Angular Resolution Diffusion Weighted MRI5

Wolter deGraaf, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam; 7 Tesla 3D-FLAIR and 3D-DIR: high sensitivity in cortical regions in Multiple Sclerosis

Willem Otte, University Medical Center Utrecht; Spatiotemporal Network Alterations in Experimental Focal Cortical Epilepsy: MRI-based Longitudinal Functional Connectivity and Weighted Graph Analysis

Morning session TWO: Spectroscopy1

Richard Jonkers, Eindhoven University of Technology; Real-time assessment of in vivo postprandial lipid storage in rat liver using 1H-[13C] MRS

Thiele Kobus, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre; Validation of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy (DWI/MRSI) to assess prostate cancer aggressiveness3

Christine Nabuurs, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre; Can you really use the creatine kinase equilibrium to calculate free ADP concentrations?4

Catalina Arteaga, UMC Utrecht; 1H MR Spectroscopy of the human prostate using an adiabatic sequence with a SAR optimized endorectal RF coil

Isabell Steinseifer, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre; Fast 31P metabolic imaging of human muscle

Ot Bakermans, Eindhoven University of Technology; Effects of fasting on myocardial lipid content in fatty acid beta-oxidation deficient mice studied with in vivo 1H-MRS7

Ingmar Voogt, UMC Utrecht; 8-channel transmit and receive RF headcoil for interleaved OVS and excitation at 7T

Afternoon session ONE: Cardiac, Body MR

Anja Kolk, University Medical Center Utrecht; Hyperintense Carotid Plaque on T1-Weighted TFE MRI in Symptomatic Patients with Low Grade Carotid Stenosis and Carotid Occlusion2

Martijn Intven, University Medical Centre, Utrecht; Diffusion-weighted imaging for rectal cancer response monitoring after neo-adjuvant radiochemotherapy: a good correlation with pathological response.

Maartje Vossen, Leiden University Medical Center; Data acquisition parameters and hardware architecture for imaging the human vertebral column at 7 tesla4

Andre Sprengers, AMC Amsterdam; A scalespace based algorithm for linetracking in tagged MRI images5

Michiel van den Bosch, University Medical Center Utrecht; Proof of principle of an MR-compatible robot for MRI-guided interventions using a unique tapping device6

Bastiaan van Nierop, Eindhoven University of Technology; Global and local LV function in mice during the development of heart failure. An in vivo MRI study

Afternoon session TWO:Molecular Imaging

Martijn Wolters, Maastricht University Medical Center; Molecular susceptibility contrast MRI of tumor angiogenesis with targeted iron oxide nanoparticles2

Leonie Paulis, Eindhoven University of Technology; Contrast enhanced cardiac MRI of LV remodeling after myocardial infarction using lipid-based bimodal nanoparticles3

Mariska deSmet, Eindhoven University of Technology; Temperature sensitive liposomes for drug delivery with MRI-HIFU4

Lisette Deddens, UMC Utrecht; RGD-Functionalized Superparamagnetic Nanoemulsions for Target-Specific Imaging of Tumor Angiogenesis

Tessa Geelen, Eindhoven University of Technology; Towards in vivo MR imaging of apoptotic myocardium after ischemia/reperfusion injury

Igor Jacobs, Eindhoven University of Technology; In vivo molecular MRI of ICAM-1 expression after cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury in mice

Late afternoon session ONE: MR Physics

Ozlem Ipek, UMC Utrecht; A novel radiative surface antenna for high field MRI

Maarten Versluis, Leiden University Medical Center; Assessment of motion and f0 artifacts in 7T high resolution T2*-weighted imaging in Alzheimer’s disease patients, and application of a navigator-based correction scheme.

Kevin Moerman, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam; Experimental Validation of SPAMM Tagged Magnetic Resonance Imaging Based Measurement of Non-uniform 3D Soft Tissue Deformation 4

Michel Italiaander, UMC Utrecht; Design of a modular 16-channel receive only surface phased-array for high SNR and resolution at 7T 5

Sara Sprinkhuizen, Image Sciences Institute; PRFS-based MR thermometry is hampered by susceptibility changes caused by the heating of fat

Late afternoon session TWO: Angiography, perfusion, permeability

Bram Coolen, Eindhoven University of Technology; Mouse myocardial first-pass perfusion imaging2

Karolien Jaspers, Maastricht University; Detection of skeletal muscle perfusion differences with DCE-MRI: contrast agent and pharmacokinetic model3

Wouter Teeuwisse, Leiden University Medical Center; Whole brain pseudo continuous ASL at 7T using a single coil for imaging and labeling.

Valerio Zerbi, UMC St. Radbound, Nijmegen; Cerebral blood volume mapping of macro- and microvasculature in mouse brain with 3D gradient echo MRI

Stefanie Hectors, Eindhoven University of Technology; Paramagnetic polymersomes and polymeric micelles for imaging and drug delivery

Schedule - Detailed Program - Notes for Speakers - Notes for Poster Presenters

Notes for Speakers

• please be at the parallel session in time (10-15mins before start) to hand over the presentation (ppt/pdf) to the session chair.
• time keeping will be strict

Schedule - Detailed Program - Notes for Speakers - Notes for Poster Presenters

Notes for Poster Presenters

• Poster size is A0 (1189 by 841mm). Posters should be presented in portrait orientation
• Poster presenters have the opportunity to pitch their poster in the parallel sessions, during the so-called poster teaser sessions.
• You have 30 seconds to present your work, and may use up to 1 powerpoint slide .
• Please send your poster teaser as powerpoint (*.ppt) using the Poster Teaser Submission page
• Slides > 1 will be discarded without further notice!

Primary sponsors of the meeting:

Bracco - General Electric - MedCat - Philips

Pie Medical Imaging - Siemens - Toshiba

Basic sponsors:

Bruker - Varian