Program
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Courtyard Ballroom, Vaughan Estate, Estates of Sunnybrook
(Located on the campus of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)
2075 Bayview Ave., Toronto ON
8:00 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
8:15 |
Welcome - Graham A. Wright, PhD, PI, Ontario Consortium for Cardiac Imaging, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto |
8:30 |
MOTIVATIONS FOR REAL-TIME CARDIAC MRI |
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Challenges in Cardiac Disease Assessment - Bob S. Hu, MD, Palo Alto Medical Foundation |
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Challenges in Image-guided Intervention - Alexander J. (Sandy) Dick, MD, NHLBI, NIH |
9:30 |
CHALLENGES IN RAPID DATA ACQUISITION WITH MULTIPLE SEQUENCES |
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Architecture for a Virtual Scanner - Juan Santos, Stanford University |
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Sequence Design for Maximizing Hardware Performance - J. Andrew Derbyshire, PhD, Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, NHLBI, NIH |
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
10:45 |
RAPID DATA RECONSTRUCTION/PARALLEL RECON SCHEMES |
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Rapid 3D Time-resolved Contrast-enhanced MRA: Acquisition and Reconstruction Methods - Wally Block, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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UNFOLD and SENSE Applied to Cardiac MRI - Bruno Madore, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University |
11:45 |
VISUALIZATION/CONTROL |
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Real-time Visualization and Control Interface for Navigation - Jeff Stainsby and Nick Hu, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre |
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Cardiac Multimodality Registration and Fusion - Piotr Slomka, PhD, Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Los Angeles, CA |
12:30 |
Lunch, demonstrations and tours |
14:00 |
REAL-TIME CORONARY IMAGING/MOTION CORRECTION |
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Self-navigated Approaches to MR Coronary Angiography - Christopher J. Hardy, PhD, GE Global Research Center |
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Real-Time Image Combination: A Better Approach for Imaging in the Presence of Motion? - Marshall Sussman, University Health Network |
15:00 |
Coffee Break |
15:15 |
HEMODYNAMIC VISUALIZATION |
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Qualitative and Quantitative Color Flow MRI - Krishna S. Nayak, PhD, Stanford University |
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Real-Time Control and Processing of Velocity Spectra - Christopher K. Macgowan, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute |
16:00 |
DESIGN AND VISUALIZATION OF CATHETER DEVICES |
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Design and Visualization of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guidewires - Ergin Atalar, PhD, Johns Hopkins University |
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A Method for Catheter Steerage and Visualization in Interventional MRI - Timothy P.L. Roberts, PhD, University of Toronto |
17:00 |
Adjournment |