The North American Society for Cardiac Imaging (NASCI) is an
international organization dedicated to the advancement of cardiovascular imaging.

Young Investigator Travel Stipends & Young Investigator Awards

The North American Society for Cardiac Imaging wishes to thank The American Heart Association, Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention for providing support for Young Investigators (residents, postdocs, fellows and students) who demonstrated potential for cardiovascular imaging as first authors of accepted abstracts at Cardiovascular Imaging 2004. Travel grant awards in the amount of $500 will be given to the following meritorious trainees who participated in Cardiovascular Imaging 2004. Selection of travel grant recipients was based upon an evaluation of their abstracts and travel award application. In addition, the three best presentations were awarded $1,500 each as the top three Young Investigator Awards.

The Top Three Young Investigators Awards were presented as follows:
Armin M. Huber, MD, Grosshadern, München, Germany
Assessment of coronary artery lesion by MR perfusion of the myocardium and pressure derived fractional flow reserve

Haosen Zhang, Washington University, School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Steady-state Measurements of Myocardial Blood Flow in A Canine Model with Coronary Artery Stenosis

Wesley D. Gilson, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Biodistribution and Homing of Labeled Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Myocardial Infarction in a Canine Model: Assessment by SPECT/CT and MRI

$500 Travel Grant Stipens were awarded to the following:
Alexander W. Leber, MD, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
Detection and Differentiation of coronary plaques by 16-Slice CT in comparison to intravascular ultrasound

Andrew L. Rivard, MD, Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Perfusion Changes with Prolonged Storage of the Donor Heart as Identified with Gadolinum Contrast MRI

Tobias Saam, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Quantitative and Morphological Assessment of Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Symmetry Using Noninvasive Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Pál Surányi, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Repeated In-Vivo T1 mapping for the Detection of Myocardial Viability Using a Persistent Contrast Agent, Gd(ABE-DTTA). Comparison with Delayed Hyperenhancement Using Gd(DTPA)

Guy J. Friedrich, MD, University Hospital Cardiology Department, Innsbruck, Austria
Multislice Computer Tomographic Angiography for Evaluation of Coronary Lesion Morphology and Correlation to Clinical Presentation

Hugo J. Montes, MD., Shands Jacksonville, UFL, USA.
HydroCoil: A Novel Use in Percutaneous Transluminal Treatment of Coronary Saphenous Vein Graft Aneurysms

Kush R. Desai, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Balanced Gradient Echo Cardiac Cine Imaging Before and After Gadolinium Contrast Administration

Kevin Johnson, Engineering, Georgia Tech/Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Three-Dimensional, Time-Resolved Motion of the Coronary Arteries

Adam H. Jacobi, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Ventricular Myocardial Fat: CT Findings and Clinical Correlates

Prachi P. Agarwal, MD, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada
‘Look-alike’ vascular anomalies of the thorax

Patcharee Paijitprapaporn, M.D., Bangkok Heart Institiute, Bangkok Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Accuracy of Sixteen-slice CT Scanners in Detected Coronary Artery Disease

To browse their abstracts please click here and search for their presentations by Author Last Name.

BERLEX BEST POSTER AWARDS

Berlex Best Poster Awards were sponsored by Berlex Laboratories, Inc. for the 5th year in 2004. Winners of the Berlex Best Poster Awards 2004 were:

First Place: Presentation # 171
John M. Cahill, MD, BCh, Tyler Miller, BA, Cathleen Kenny, RNm, Bertron M. Groves, MD and Robert A. Quaife, MD
University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, CO, USA.
Effects on outcome of Geographical Variations in Infarct Position Following Septal Ablation Therapy in Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy - Predictive Value of Intra-Procedural Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography Correlated with Infarct Size and Position by Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Delayed Contrast Enhancement

Second Place: Presentation # 152 Torsten Beck, MD, Axel Kuettner, Christof Burgstahler, Martin Heuschmid, Andreas F. Kopp, MD, Stephen Schroeder, MD.
Uni Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Multi-slice spiral computed tomography as first- line imaging technique in patients with chest pain:Experience in 213 patients

Third Place: Presentation # 141 Tobias Saam, MD1, Nayak L. Polissar, PhD2, Thomas S. Hatsukami, MD3, Chun Yuan, PhD1.
1Dept. of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 2The Mountain-Whisper-Light Statistical Consulting, Seattle, WA, USA, 3Dept. of Surgery, University of Washington, VA Puget Sound HCS, Seattle, WA, USA.
Quantitative and Morphological Assessment of Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Symmetry Using Noninvasive Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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