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Thursday, April 14, 2005
Presented by:
The Mary Nell and Ralph B. Rogers
Magnetic Resonance Center
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The National Center for Research Resources
Program Objective | Guest Speakers | UT Southwestern Speakers | Program Schedule | Acknowledgments
Program Objective
The goal of the NIH-funded Research Resource at UT Southwestern is
to develop novel Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technologies for
measuring and understanding intermediary metabolism in
vivo. One major emphasis is to use
2H and 13C as metabolic
tracers and modern NMR methodologies to unravel the complexities of
multi-organ metabolism in animals and humans. A second
component of the Research Resource is to develop novel imaging
agents that respond to metabolism in vivo.
There is widespread interest in brain activation as well as
excitement about the potential for both spectroscopy and molecular
imaging tools for in vivo detection of activation.
We decided that a symposium emphasizing the current methods for
detecting brain activation by MR would be timely and
educational. Therefore, outstanding speakers in brain
metabolism and physiology will discuss their work and the core
research interests of this group will be discussed in the context
of application to brain studies.
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Guest Speakers
Pierre-Gilles Henry, Ph.D., Research Associate, Center for Magnetic
Resonance Research, University of Minnesota
Ralph E. Hurd, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and Director, Biochemical
Imaging Laboratory, GE Healthcare Technologies
Fahmeed Hyder, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology
and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
Allen Song, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Center for
Brain Imaging & Analysis, Duke University
Keith Thulborn, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Radiology and Director of
Center for MR Research, University of Illinois at Chicago
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UT Southwestern Speakers
Craig Malloy, M.D., Professor of Radiology and Internal Medicine
and Staff Physician, VA North Texas Health Care System
Shawn Burgess, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology
Dean Sherry Ph.D., Professor of Radiology & Professor of
Chemistry, University of Texas at Dallas
Carol Tamminga, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry
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Program Schedule
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8:00 a.m. |
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On-Site Registration - North Campus
Continental Breakfast |
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8:30 a.m. |
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Metabolic Pathways by Stable Isotopes and NMR
Shawn Burgess, Ph.D. |
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9:15 a.m. |
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Isotopomer Analysis and Biochemical Fluxes
Craig R. Malloy, M.D. |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Break
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10:15 a.m. |
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Measuring Brain Energy Metabolism and Glutamatergic Neurotransmission in the Brain using 13C NMR
Pierre-Gilles Henry, Ph.D. |
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11:00 a.m. |
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Principles and Prospects of Hyperpolarized 13C
Ralph E. Hurd, Ph.D. |
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12:00 a.m. |
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Catered Lunch
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1:00 p.m. |
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Using In Vivo Imaging to understand Diseases of the Brain
Carol Tamminga, M.D. |
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1:45 p.m. |
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Minute Electrical Activities
Allen Song, Ph.D. |
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2:30 p.m. |
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Cellular Physiology of Brain Activation
Fahmeed Hyder, Ph.D. |
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3:15 p.m. |
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Discussion / Break
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3:45 p.m. |
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Human Brain Metabolic Studies at High Fields
Keith Thulborn, M.D., Ph.D. |
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4:30 p.m. |
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Metabolic Imaging of Tissues using Responsive Magnetic Resonance Imaging Agents
A. Dean Sherry, Ph.D. |
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5:30 p.m. |
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Wine and Cheese Reception
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Acknowledgments
Original image of cover figure courtesy of Carol Tamminga, M.D.
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