Risk Assessment & Advanced CT Imaging Abstract Session (Salon III), Moderator: Richard Tello, MD, PhD

2:40PM - 2:45PM     030 Implementation of standards for coronary artery calcium measurement with MDCT established by an international consortium
Sandra Halliburton, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.

2:45PM - 2:50PM     031 Detection of Coronary Arterial Narrowing With a New Generation 40- Slice Multi-Detector CT Scanner in an Unselected Patient Population
Tamar Gaspar, MD, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.

2:50PM - 2:55PM     032 ECG-Gated Cardiac Scanning with a 64-Slice CT-System Using z-Flying Focal Spot
Stefan Ulzheimer, PhD, Siemens Medical Solutions, Forchheim, Germany.

2:55PM - 3:00PM     033 Comparison of Multi-Slice CT with Echocardiography for the Diagnosis and the Quantification of Aortic Stenosis
Jean-Louis Sablayrolles, MD, Centre Cardiologique du Nord, Saint-Denis, France.

3:00PM - 3:10PM     034 The Value of Gated Cardiac CT for Evaluation of Coronary Bypass Artery Grafts
J. Bayne Selby, Jr., MD, Medical University of South Carolina, SC, USA.

3:10PM - 3:40PM     Coffee Break, Visit the Exhibits and Posters (Plaza Ballroom & Foyer)

Atherosclerosis & Clinical Cardiac MR Applications Abstract Session (Salon III)
Moderator: Matthijs Oudkerk, MD

3:40PM - 3:55PM     035 Is There a Role for Functional MRI in Organ Screening?
Jeffrey P. Goldman, MD, Mount Sinai-NYU Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.

3:55PM - 4:10PM     036 Rest-Stress Perfusion Imaging vs. Coronary Angiography, Cases
C.H. Luk, MD, St Teresa's Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.

4:10PM - 4:15PM     037 Intraindividual assessment of atherosclerosis progression with different multislice CT scanner generations: possible or impossible?
Barbara M. Richartz, MD, Hospital Muenchen-Pasing, Germany, München, Germany.

4:15PM - 4:20PM     038 Automatc Delineation and Lesion Quantification of Coronary CTA Images
Henk Marquering, PhD, LKEB/LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands.

4:20PM - 4:25PM     039 Ellipsicity Index by Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Reliable Indicator of Constrictive Pericardial Disease
Michael J. Welker, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

4:25PM - 4:30PM     040 Role of post-atrioventricular block systolic potentiation in predicting myocardial viablity in ischemic cardiomyopathy patients during adenosine-stress myocardial perfusion MRI
Atiar M. Rahman, MD, PhD, UTMB, Galveston, TX, USA.

4:30PM - 4:35PM     041 Coronary MR Angiography in CINE acquisition: An Alternative to Three-Dimensional Acquisition
Liuquan Cheng, MD, MR Research Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

4:35PM - 4:40PM     042 Non-invasive Evaluation of Cardiac Vasculopathy after Heart Transplantation by Multi-slice Computed Tomography and MRI
Christof Burgstahler, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.

4:40PM - 4:45PM     043 Is CTA a Reliable Method to Measure Vascular Wall Area in Atherosclerotic Carotid Artery: Compared with High-Resolution MRI?
Jianming Cai, MD, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

4:45PM - 4:50PM     044 Balanced Gradient Echo Cardiac Cine Imaging Before and After Gadolinium Contrast Administration
Kush R. Desai, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

4:50PM - 5:00PM     045 3DGRE Gadolinium MR Angiography of muskuloskeletal disease; a new MRA frontier
Richard Tello, MD, PhD, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.

5:00PM - 6:00PM     Read with the Experts Session
Participants: Gautham Reddy, MD (Chair), David Bleumke, MD, Thomas Gerber, MD, and Pamela Woodard, MD

5:00PM – 6:00 PM     Poster Session II in Plaza Ballroom Foyer – all Odd Numbered Presentations

1:00PM - 3:00PM     MR and/or CT Hands-On ADD-ON Sessions (See descriptions on Monday afternoon)
Participating vendors include:
GE Healthcare in the Boardroom,
Philips Medical Systems in the Ambassador Room,
Siemens Medical Solutions in the Director’s Room.
These three vendors will offer hands-on sessions on Sunday afternoon as well as on Monday & Tuesday afternoons.

4:00PM - 5:00PM     RN Breakout Training Session II in Kings Bay Room
Pharmacological Stress Testing in the MR Setting
William Culp, RN, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
This one-hour breakout session designed especially for nurses and interested technologists will provide pharmacological information, overview of patient preparation and precedures employed for intravenous administration in the MRI setting. This material was initially presented in Saturday’s Session I.

7:00PM - 10:00PM     Havana Nights Extravaganza – Dinner, Libations, Casino Gambling and Latin Entertainment (Salons I & II) – for all participants & registered spouse/guests
Monday Evening’s Gala Dinner Event is supported by unrestricted educational grants from Philips Medical Systems and Siemens Medical Solutions

Monday October 4, 2004
8:00AM - 9:00AM     Registration/Continental Breakfast in the Plaza Ballroom
Continental Breakfast is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Toshiba America Medical Systems

MR/CT Hot Topics (Salon III)
Moderators: William Stanford, MD & Gautham Reddy, MD

9:00AM - 9:30AM     050 Value of Cardiac MR for Cardiac Surgery
Vincent Dor, MD, Entre Cardio-Thoracique De Monaco, Monaco.

9:30AM - 10:00AM     051 Value of Cardiac MR/CT for Pediatric Cardiology
Margaret M. Samyn, MD, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Advanced Cardiac MR and CT Applications Abstract Session, Moderator: Daisy Chien, PhD

10:00AM - 10:10AM     052 Catheter Contrast-Enhanced Coronary CT-Angiography Using An Aortic Root Injection : Preliminary Technical Development in Four Patients
Kostaki G. Bis, M.D.,FACR, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA.

10:10AM - 10:15AM     053 HydroCoil: A Novel Use in Percutaneous Transluminal Treatment of Coronary Saphenous Vein Graft Aneurysms
Hugo J. Montes, MD, Shands Jacksonville, UF, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

10:15AM - 10:20AM     054 Biodistribution and Homing of Labeled Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Myocardial Infarction in a Canine Model: Assessment by SPECT/CT and MRI
Wesley D. Gilson, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

10:20AM - 10:25AM     055 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)
Pál Surányi, MD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, and Elgavish Paramagnetics Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA.

10:25AM - 10:30AM     056 Myocardial perfusion Imaging and Angiogenesis: Follow up of myocardial neovascularisation.
Prasad M. Panse, MD, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

10:30AM - 11:00AM     Coffee Break, Visit the Exhibits and Posters (Plaza Ballroom & Foyer)

MR/CT Hot Topics, Continued (Salon III)
Moderators: William Stanford, MD & Gautham Reddy, MD

11:00AM - 11:30AM     057 Contrast Agents - Drug Trials
E. Kent Yucel, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

11:30AM - 12:00PM     058 MR Interventional Perspectives
Carsten Rickers, MD, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

12:00PM - 1:00PM     Lunch Buffet on the Lawn (Backup in case of rain is Salon II)
Lunch is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from GE Healthcare

Advanced MR Applications & Contrast Agents
Moderators: André Duerinckx, MD, PhD & Matthijs Oudkerk, MD

1:00PM - 1:20PM     059 MR Molecular Imaging and Gene Therapy: Cardiac Applications
Glenn Walter, MD, University of Florida Cancer Center, Gainesville, FL, USA

1:20PM - 1:40PM     060 Advanced Contrast Agents
Friedrich M. Cavagna, PhD, Bracco, Imaging S.p.A., Milan, Italy.

1:40PM - 2:00PM     061 Blood Pool Agents vs. Extracellular Agents
Kohkan Shamsi, MD, PhD, Berlex Laboratories Inc., Montville, NJ, USA.

Next Generation Cardiac CT
Moderators: Arnold Friedman, MD & Arthur Stillman MD, PhD

2:00PM - 2:20PM     062 Advances in Cardiac CT Imaging: 64-Slice Scanner
Konstantin Nikolaou, MD, University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

2:20PM - 2:40PM     063 Advancements in LightSpeedVCT (Volume CT) for Cardiac Imaging
David Dowe, MD, Atlantic Medical Imaging, Galloway, NJ, USA

2:40PM - 3:00PM     064 Coronary Artery CTA: Validation and Implementation in the Community Setting (the Radiologist’s Perspective)
Rans Douglas, MD, Wake Medical, Raleigh, NC, USA.

3:00PM - 3:30PM     Coffee Break, Visit the Exhibits and Posters (Plaza Ballroom & Foyer )

Next Generation Cardiac MR
Moderators: Carsten Schmalfuss, MD & Jeff Fitzsimmons, MD

3:30PM - 3:45PM     065 Cardiovascular 3-Tesla Imaging - Siemens Perspective
Gerhard Laub, PhD, Siemens Cardiovascular Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

3:45PM - 4:00PM     066 Cardiovascular 3 Tesla Imaging - GE Medical Systems
Krishna S. Nayak, PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

4:00PM - 4:15PM     067 Cardiovascular 3 Tesla Imaging - Philips Medical Systems
Matthias Stuber, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

4:15PM - 4:30PM     Grand Panel Discussion
Participants: Gerhard Laub, PhD , Krishna S. Nayak, PhD, and Matthias Stuber, PhD

4:30PM - 5:30PM     Read with the Experts Session
Participants: Robert Steiner, MD (Chair), Murray Baron, MD, Ronald Kuzo, MD, Harold Litt, MD, PhD, and Lewis Wexler, MD

1:00PM - 3:00PM     MR Hands-On Session I
Participating vendors include:
GE Healthcare in Santa Maria I,
Philips Medical Systems in Santa Maria II,
Siemens Medical Solutions in Director’s Room,
MR & CT - Toshiba/Vital Images in Suite (Room # to be posted), and
MR & CT TeraRecon in Suite (Room # to be posted)
MR sessions for each vendor will occur concurrently with the Monday afternoon scientific session. This 2-hour session will allow participants (20 maximum, pre-registration required) to ask questions, learn about current cardiovascular MR software, and participate in hands-on use of image reconstruction software and scanning simulation (if the vendor has this available). No continuing education credit will be provided due to the vendor-specific nature of these hands-on sessions.

3:15PM - 5:15PM     CT Hands-On Session I
Participating vendors include:
GE Healthcare in Santa Maria I,
Philips Medical Systems in Santa Maria II,
Siemens Medical Solutions in Director’s Room,
MR & CT - Toshiba/Vital Images in Suite (Room # to be posted), and
MR & CT TeraRecon in Suite (Room # to be posted)
CT sessions for each vendor will occur concurrently with the Monday afternoon scientific session. This 2-hour session will allow participants (20 maximum, pre-registration required) to ask questions, learn about current cardiovascular CT software, and participate in hands-on use of image reconstruction software and scanning simulation (if the vendor has this available). No continuing education credit will be provided due to the vendor-specific nature of these hands-on sessions.

Free Evening for Dining Around in Downtown Historic Fernandina Beach

Tuesday October 4, 2004
8:00AM - 9:00AM     Registration/Continental Breakfast in the Plaza Ballroom
Continental Breakfast is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Vital Images, Inc.

8:30AM – 9:00 AM     Annual Members Business Meeting & NASCI Gold Medal Award Presentation (Salon III)
NASCI 2004 Gold Medal in Cardiac Imaging Award – Presented to Martin J. Lipton, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, USA

Assessment of Early Atherosclerosis with CT (Salon III)
Moderators: Ted Bass, MD & William Stanford, MD

9:00AM - 9:30AM     069 Characterization of Plaque Morphology
Marco Costa, MD, PhD, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

Plaque Characterization Abstract Session (Salon III), Moderators: Ted Bass, MD & William Stanford, MD

9:30AM - 9:35AM     070 Accuracy of 16-slice CT to detect and quantify coronary stenoses in comparison to conventional angiography and IVUS
Alexander W. Leber, MD, University of Munich, Germany.

9:35AM - 9:40AM     071 Comparison of MS-325 Dynamic and Steady State MRA Data for Detection and Quantification of Arterial Stenosis
Robert Weisskoff, PhD, EPIX Medical, Cambridge, MA, USA.

9:40AM - 9:45AM     072 Development of Mn-Mesoporphyrin labeled LDL for use as a contrast agent to assess lipoprotein kinetics in early attherosclerotic disease
Lee M. Mitsumori, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

9:45AM - 9:50AM     073 Intraarterial Injection of Contrast Medium for Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography
Thomas C. Gerber, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

9:50AM - 9:55AM     074 Can Multidetector Cardiac CT Diagnose In-Stent Restenosis? Value of Novel 40 Slice Imaging
Tamar Gaspar, MD, Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.

9:55AM - 10:00AM     075 Detection and Differentiation of coronary plaques by 16-Slice CT in comparison to intravascular ultrasound
Alexander W. Leber, MD, University of Munich, Germany.

10:00AM - 10:05AM     076 Multi-Slice CT Angiography Identifies Atherosclerosis Missed by Traditional Catheter Angiography
Jeffrey J. Fine, MS, South Carolina Heart Center, Columbia, SC, USA.

10:05AM - 10:10AM     077 Semi-Automated Analysis of 3D CE-MR Angiograms of Stenoses in Aortoiliac Arteries
Patrick de Koning, MSc, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

10:10AM - 10:15AM     078 Volume CT for Cardiac Imaging: Clinical Benefit of Wide Coverage
Laura Mintandjian, GE Healthcare, Buc, France.

10:15AM - 10:20AM     079 Coronary artery plaque characterization with multislice computed tomography (MSCT) in comparison to intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)
Gudrun M. Feuchtner, MD, Medical Universtity, Innsbruck, Austria

10:20AM – 10:45AM     Coffee Breaks – Last Chance to Visit the Exhibits & Posters (Plaza Ballroom & Foyer)

Assessment of Early Atherosclerosis with CT, Continued (Salon III)
Moderators: Ted Bass, MD & William Stanford, MD

10:45AM - 11:15AM     080 Assessment of Early and Intermediate Atherosclerosis with MR
Chun Yuan, PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

11:15AM - 11:45AM     081 Assessment of Arterial Remodeling and Regression of Plaque
Paul Schoenhagen, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.

11:45AM - 12:00PM     Panel Discussion & Presentation of Young Investigator Travel Awards & Berlex Best Poster Awards

12:00 PM     Meeting Adjourns