4th Kraków – Winnipeg Workshop
on Imaging Technology
October 2 – 5, 2007
Tuesday, October 2 – Venue: Krakow City Hall – pl. Wszystkich Swietych 3-4
17:00 – 18:00
Registration
18:00 – 20:00
Get Together Party
Wednesday, October 3 - Venue: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, ul. Slawkowska 17
http://pau.krakow.pl/index_e.htm
8:30 –
9:00 –
9:10 –
9:20 –
9:00
9:10
9:20
9:30
9:30 – 9:40
9:40 – 9:50
1
MR Image-Guided Therapy
Chairperson:
Dr Ian C.P. Smith
National Research Council Canada, Canada
9:50 – 10:10 Dr Garnette Sutherland, University of Calgary, Canada
Integration of robotic technology with intraoperative MRI
10:10 – 10:30 Dr Gino Fallone, Cross Cancer Institute, Canada
Development of a novel linac-MRI system
10:30 –11:00
2
Registration
Welcome Remarks
Mr David Preston, Canadian Ambassador
Prof. Jacek Kossut, Deputy Chairman, Division III Mathematical, Physical and
Chemical Sciences PAN and representative of the Ministry of Science and
Higher Education
Dr Arthur Carty, National Science Advisor, Canada
Dr Roman Szumski, Vice President, National Research Council of Canada /
Prof. Marek Jeżabek, General Director, the Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of
Nuclear Physics
Coffee Break
High Field Human MRI
Chairperson:
Dr Piotr Kozlowski
University of British Columbia, Canada
11:00 – 11:20 Dr Peter G. Morris, University of Nottingham, England
MR at ultra-high-field
11:20 – 11:40 Dr Franciszek Hennel, Bruker BioSpin MRI Germany
Challenges of ultra-fast MRI at high magnetic fields
11:40 – 12:00 Mr John Blacker, Varian, USA
High field MRI
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch Break
3
MRI in Cardiology
Chairperson:
Dr Roxanne Deslauriers
National Research Council Canada, Canada
13:30 – 13:50 Dr Luca Menichetti, CNR Instituto di Fisiologia Clinica, Italy
Use of secondary ion mass spectrometry for the imaging of microvascular
perfusion in isolated murine heart
13:50 –14:10 Dr Krzysztof Szybinski, Siemens AG, Med MREC-LC, Germany
Advance data processing in cardiovascular imaging
14:10 – 14:30 Prof. Stefan Chlopicki, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Poland
Dr Tomasz Skorka, H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Poland
Development of heart failure in Tgalfaq*44 mice
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 17:00
Poster Session
Thursday, October 4 – Venue: ul. Sławkowska 17
4
MRI Techniques 1
Chairperson:
Dr Franciszek Hennel
Bruker BioSpin MRI, Germany
9:00 – 9:15
Dr Marco Gruwel, National Research Council Canada, Canada
MR micro imaging of hard and soft materials
9:15 – 9:30 Dr Scott King, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Transmit array RF imaging
9:30 – 9:45 Dr Jonathan C. Sharp, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Gradient-Free MRI: Complete 3D RF MRI using TRASE
9:45 – 10:05 Dr Maxim Zaitsev, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany
Magnetic Resonance Imaging using mon-bijective curvilinear spatial encoding
fields
10:05 – 10:30
5
MR Techniques 2
Chairperson:
Prof. Jerzy S. Blicharski
Jagiellonian University, Poland
10:30 – 10:50 Prof. Wiktor Kozminski, Warsaw University
Multidimensional Fourier Transform and nonlinear data sampling
10:50 – 11:10 Dr Alex MacKay, University of British Columbia, Canada
Measuring T2 relaxation in vivo
11:10 – 11:30 Dr Zenon Starcuk, Institute of Scientific Instruments, Czech Republic
Pulse sequences for fast proton MR spectroscopic imaging
11:30 – 13:00
6
Clinical MR 1
Chairperson:
13:00 – 13:20
13:20 – 13:40
13:40 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:20
14:20 – 15:00
7
Coffee Break
MRI of Gases
Chairperson:
15:00 – 15:20
15:20 – 15:40
15:40 – 16:00
16:00 –16:20
Lunch Break
Dr Alex MacKay
University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr Ian C.P. Smith, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Early detection of cancer in humans by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Dr Rajmund Somorjai, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Visualization and classification of high-dimensional biomedical date in classproximity planes
Dr Lawrence Ryner, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Magnetic Resonance tools for In Vivo clinical metabolomics
Dr Piotr Bogorodzki, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Measuring Regional BOLD response with Baloon Model
Coffee Break
Prof. Jacek Hennel
H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Poland
Dr Harald Möller, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences, Germany
MR Imaging of pulmonary perfusion using hyperpolarized 129Xe dissolved in
an injectable carrier
Prof. Tomasz Dohnalik, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Optical polarization of He3 for MRI
Prof. Karol Jackowski, Warsaw University, Poland
3He NMR spectroscopy
Dr Yannick Crémillieux, University of Lyon, France
Longitudinal 3He and Proton imaging of magnetite biodistribution in a rat model
of instilled nanoparticles
Friday, October 5
8
Venue: ul. Sławkowska 17
Neuro MR Applications
Chairperson:
Prof. Jerzy Walecki, Dr Bożena Kubas
Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Radiology Department, Medical University of Bialystok, Poland
9:00 – 9:20
Dr Jeff Dunn, University of Calgary, Canada
Multimodal imaging (Optical and MRI) to study brain metabolic rate
9:20 – 9:40
Dr Greg Stanisz, University of Toronto/ Sunnybrook Health Science Centre,
Canada
MRI monitoring of stem cell therapies in central nervous system
9:40 – 10:00 Dr Piotr Kozlowski, University of British Columbia, Canada
High resolution MRI of rat spinal cord
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
9
Other Imaging Techniques
Chairperson:
Dr Boguslaw Tomanek
National Research Council Canada, Canada
10:30 – 10:50 Dr Mike Sowa, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Intra-operative and interventional applications of photonics technologies in
revascularization and tissue reconstruction
10:50 – 11:10 Dr Teodore Veres, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Synthesis and characterisation of multifunctional magnetic nano-carriers for
imaging and biomedical applications
10
Clinical MR 2
Chairperson:
11:10 – 11:30
11:30 – 11:50
11:50 – 12:10
12:10
Dr Garnette Sutherland
University of Calgary, Canada
Prof. Jerzy Walecki, Dr Bozena Kubas
Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Radiology Department, Medical University of Bialystok, Poland
Metabolite profile in pyramidal tracts after ischemic brain stroke1H MRS study
Prof. Paweł Grieb,
Medical Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Failure of brain glucose metabolism in Alzheimer disease and related
therapeutic approaches
Dr Dariusz Adamek, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland
Neuropathology and neuroimaging - what do they have in common apart from
the prefix "neuro"? Some remarks from the perspective of neuropathologist
with a handful of examples of typical and not typical but significant cases
Closing Remarks