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Tuesday August 25, 2009

Pre-Conference Course: Introduction to Opensource Software Slicer and its applications to IGT

Evening Gala Reception Keynote Speaker
Professor Venkaesh Naraynamurti
Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy in School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Boston, USA

Wednesday August 26, 2009

07.00 – 08.00    Congress registration

08.00 – 09.00    Official Welcome & Introduction

Congress Chairman: Babak Kateb
Founding Chairman of the Board of Directors IBMISPS; Founding Chairman of the Board, Brain Mapping Foundation; Scientific Director of Brain Mapping Foundation; Managing Editor of IBMISPS-NeuroImage
IBMISPS Past and Future

Key Note Speaker
Admiral Michael Mullen
Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, USA

09.00 – 09.30    Coffee Break

09.30 – 10.30 President of IBMISPS (2009-2010)
Neal Prakash, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Medicine; Neurologist, Veterans Affairs Pacific Island Health Care System, USA

Scientific Session 1: Image Guided Therapy in Brain

Chair: Arthur L. Day, M.D.
Chairman and Program Director, Director, Cerebrovascular Center Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
- The Evolution of Intraoperative Imaging:  How Has it Changed Neurosurgery?

Co-Chair: Alexandra Golby, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Associate Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Director of Image-guided Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Bridging the Gap:  Integrating White and Grey Matter Maps for Pre-surgical Planning

Vadim S. Zotev, Ph.D.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Applied Modern Physics Group, USA
- Toward Microtesla MRI of Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 for Angiography and Metabolic Imaging

10.30 – 10.40    Break

10.40 – 11.00    Oral Poster Session 1
Chair: Elizabeth Bullitt

11.00 – 11.40  Scientific Session 2: Operating Room of the Future

Chair: Ferenc A. Jolesz, M.D.
Director, MRI & Image Guided Therapy Program, Director, National Center for Image Guided Therapy,Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
- AMIGO - The Advanced Technological  Environment for Multi-Modality Image Guided Therapy

Kenneth P. Green, D.M.D.
Commander, US Navy, Senior Healthcare Analyst, US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Washington, DC, USA
- The OR as a Cockpit: The next phase of Aviation Safety Lessons Learned for Medicine

Eriks Lusis, M.D.
Department of Neurological Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis,  USA
- Initial One Year Experience with Movable Ceiling Mounted Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Resection of Intrinsic Brain Lesions

11.50 – 12.10     Break

Keynote speaker: Jim Cloar
Vice President & General Manager, Medtronic Navigation, USA
- Enhancing the value of Therapies through Research and New Technology: The convergence of imaging, navigation and decision support

Keynote Speaker: Sam Nazarian
Founding President and CEO of SBE
- Applying Behavioral Science to the World of Hospitality and Design

13.00 – 13.45    Lunch Break

13.45 – 14.45    Scientific Session 3: Traumatic Brain Injury

Chair: Anthony Pacifico, Ph.D.
Portfolio Manager, Medical Imaging Technologies, Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center, USA
- Medical Imaging Standards: A TATRC Perspective

Co-chair: Joel D. Stitzel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tech. Director, Center for Injury Biomechanics, Wake Forest University Health Sciences Medical Center, USA
- Assessment of Strain patterns in the Brain from Real-World Acceleration Data from Collegiate Football Players

James C. Benneyan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Director of Quality and Productivity Laboratory, Northeastern University, USA
- System Engineering Approaches and Opportunities to Improve Traumatic Brain Injury Care in the Military Health System

Jeffrey D. Lewine, Ph.D.
Illinois MEG Center and the Alexian Brothers Center for Brain Research, Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Chicago, USA
- Making the invisible wounds of War Visible: Functional Brain Imaging of PTSD, Mild TBI, and Depression Using Magnetoencephalography

José León-Carrióen, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuropsychology and Director of the Human Neuropsychology Laboratory, University of Seville, Spain
- The InfraScanner, a Portable Device which can Immediately Detect, in situ, the Presence of Brain Hematomas

Q&A Session

14.45 – 15.05    Break

15.05 – 15.35    Oral Poster Session 2
Chair: Clark Chen

15.35 – 16.25    Scientific Session 4: Brain Mapping in Psychiatry

Chair: Claudia M. Szobot, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, ADHD Outpatient Clinic, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brasil.
- Molecular Imaging Genetics of Methylphenidate Response in ADHD and Substance Use comorbidity

Tejas Bhojraj, M.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
- Structural Alteration in the Default Network and Cognitive Deficits in Offspring of Schizophrenics

Elakkat Gireesh, M.D.
Post Doctoral Fellow, Section on Critical Brain Dynamics, MEG Core Facility, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), USA
- Increased Local Fluctuations and Decreased Global Synchronization in Resting State Activity of Left Prefrontal Cortex from Patients with Schizophrenia

Lyubomir Zagorchev, Ph.D.
Philips Research North America, USA
- Biomarkers for Rapid Volumetric Shape Analysis of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Akemi Tomoda, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Child Development, Faculty of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan
- Neurobiological Behavior Consequences of Early Stress and Childhood Maltreatment

Q&A Session

16.35 – 16.55    Break

16.55 – 17.45    Scientific Session 5: New Horizons

Chair: Thilo Hoelscher M.D.
Assistant Professor of Radiology, UCSD Department of Radiology and Neurosciences

Eyal Zadicario
InSightec, Inc, USA
- Transcranial Clot Lysis Using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound

Songbai Ji, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College,Norris Cotton Cancer Center Section of Neurosurgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, USA
- An Integrated Neurosurgical Guidance System Incorporateing Ultrasound, Stereovision, Computational Modeling, and Fluorescence Imaging

Co-chair: Mike Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuosurgery, Brain Tumor Program, Department of Neurosurgery
City of Hope National Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA
- In-vitro Investigation of the use of Tissue-Specific Promotor Controlled Expression of Saporin for Selective Eradication of Metastatic Brain Tumors

Reza Jarrahy, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, USA
- Three-dimensional radiography and endoscopy in the diagnosis and management of acquired and congenital craniofacial disorders

Q&A Session

End of Day 1

Thursday August 27, 2009

08.00 – 08.30    Official Welcome & Introduction

Keynote Speaker:
Michael S. Jaffee, M.D., FS, USAF
National Director, Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) Walter Reed Army Medical Center
US ARMY, USA
- Overview of Department of Defense Initiatives in Traumatic Brain Injury

08.30 – 09.30 Scientific Session 6: Traumatic Brain Injury

Chair: David Moore, M.D., Ph.D.
Deputy Director for Research, DVBIC, Interim Director, DVBIC/DCoE – AFIP Laboratory
of Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI Scientific Advisor, DCoE, USA
- The Blast (+) Syndrome of Traumatic Head Injury

Co-chair: Neal Prakash M.D., Ph.D. PRESIDENT OF IBMISPS, Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Hawaii, USA
- Advances in Neuroimaging for Traumatic Brain Injury

Ming-Xiong Huang, Ph.D.
Research Radiology, Rehabilitation and Psychiatry Services, VA San Diego Healthcare System
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA
- Integrated Imaging Approach with MEG and DTI to Detect Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Military and Civilian Patients

Cheng Cao, Ph.D.
Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Describing the Spectral Nonstationary Level of EEG Signals based on Shannon Entropy of Dominant Frequency Shifting and Its Application as Index of Residual Functional Deficits after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Jiangang Shen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Chinese Medicine, Research Centre of Heart, Brain, Hormone & Healthy Aging, The University of Hong Kong, China
- Development of 3-actoxymethoxycarbonyl-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-1-pyrrolidinyloxyl as an Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Imaging Reagent for In Vivo Mapping Brain Oxygen Distribution and Infarction in Ischemic Brain

Q&A Session

09.30 – 09.45    Coffee Break

09.50 – 10.10    Oral Poster Session 3
Chair: Alex Golby

10.10 – 11.10    Scientific Session 7: Neuro-Physionology and Brain mapping

Chair: Aaron A. Cohen, M.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Indiana School of Medicine, Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group, USA
- Awake Craniotomy and Brain Mapping:  Nuances of Technique

Sarat Chandra, M.D.
Associate Professor and Director of Epilepsy Surgery Program, Department of Neurosurgery
Neurosciences Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
- Role of PET-MRI Fusion Based Neuronavigation Along with Simultaneous Electrocorticography for Resections in Neocortical Epilepsies:  A Pilot Study

Hosam Al-Jehani, M.D.
Department of Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Canada
- Revisiting the Lower Sensory Strip: Functional Results Depending on 500 Cases

H. Hallez, M.D.
MEDISIP-IBBT-UGENT, IBITECH, Ghent University, Belgium
- Feasibility of Incorporating a Priori Information in Ictal EEG Source Localization of Patients Suffering from Epilepsy

Michele Aizenberg, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Section of Neurosurgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
- Reliability of  non-invasive functional mapping techniques for pre-operative planning

Q&A Session

11.10 – 11.30    Break

11.30 – 12.20    Scientific Session 8: Convection – Enhanced Delivery of Therapeutic Agents

Chair: John Heiss, M.D.
Head, Clinical Unit, Surgical Neurology Branch, NINDS, National Institutes of Health, USA
- Convection-Enhanced Delivery of Therapeutic Agents into the Epileptic Focus: Preclinical and Clinical Research

Co-Chair: Malisa Sarntinoranont, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, USA
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging-based Computational Models for Convection-Enhanced Delivery

Bharat Guthikonda M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Director of Skull Base Research, Department of Neurosurgery LSU, HSC, Shreveport, USA
- Image Guided Placement of Ventricular Catheters: Does it affect Proximal Malfunction rate?

Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D.
Acting Chief, Image-Guided Interventions Branch, Cancer Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, USA
- Image Guided Drug Delivery in Cancer

Q&A Session

12.20 – 12.40  Break

12.40 – 13.20 Key Note Speaker
Captain Melissa Kaime, M.D.
Director of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), USA
- Overview of Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP)

13.20 – 14.05    Lunch

14.05 – 14.35    Oral Poster Session 4:
Chair: John Heiss

14.35 – 15.35    Scientific Session 9: Brain Implants & Human Brain Machine Interface

Chair: Michael S. Okun, M.D.
Adelaide Lackner Associate Professor of Neurology, Co-Director Movement Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, McKnight Brain Institute, Medical Director, National Parkinson Foundation, USA
- Sorting out Verbal Fluency/Cognitive Issues in Deep Brain Stimulation

Jun Yao, Ph.D.
Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University, USA
- Can Brain Machine Interface be used for controlling hand function in moderately to severely affected stroke survivors?

D. Fontaine, M.D.
CHU de Nice; CHU de Toulouse; CHU de Lyon;  CHU de Lille; CHU de Saint-Étienne;  Equipe de Recherche en Imagerie Médicale, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Anatomical Location of Effective Contacts in Patients with Chronic Cluster Headache Treated by Deep Brain Stimulation

Julia Kuss, M.Sc.
Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
- Head Phantom for Verification of a Localization Tool of Subdural Implanted Electrodes in Epilepsy Surgery

Q&A Session

15.35 – 15.55    Break

15.55 – 16.55    Scientific Session 10: Multi-Modality Imaging

Ihtsham Ul Haq M.D.
Senior Fellow at the Movement. Disorders Center of the McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida Department of Neurology, USA
- A Novel MRI sequence, the Fast Gray Matter Acquisition T1 Inversion Recovery (FGATIR), is Superior to Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery (FLAIR) for the Resolution of White Matter Lesions (WMLs)

Chair: Georg Widhalm M.D.
Medical University of Vienna (MUW), Department for Neurosurgery, Austria
- Value of 1H-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Chemical Shift Imaging (CSI) for Grading of Gliomas with Non-Significant Contrast Enhancement in Comparison to ¹¹C-Methionine Positron Emission Tomography (MET-PET)

Wei-Chan Lin, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Imaging & Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Effects of Long-Term Addiction of Cocaine on Rat Dopaminergic and Serotonergic Systems Assays by Multimodalities of Molecular Imaging

Co-chair: Chris Baeken, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry, UZ Brussels, Belgium
- The Use of 3D-MRI to Localize the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in TMS Research

David Coope, MRCS(Eng), MB.ChB, BSc(Hons)
Ogelsby Clinic Research Fellow, Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre, University of Manchester, UK
- Co-Registration of High Resolution Multi-Modality Imaging for Tumor Evaluation and Treatment Planning in Gliomas

Q&A Session

16.55 – 17.15 Tea Recess

17.15 – 18.15    Scientific Session 11: New Horizons

Chair: Arminas Ragauskas, D.Sc.
Professor, Head of Telematics Sc. Lab., Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
- Non-invasive Absolute ICP Value Measurement Technology: Healthy Volunteers' and Neurological Patients' Studies

Christoph Zehendner, Ph.D.
Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
- Cortical Tissue Is Involved In Altering ZO-1 Distribution and Enhanced  Caspase-3 Activation in Brain Endothelial Cells Under Hypoxia

AI Samara, Ph.D.
Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Department of Clinical Research, Laboratory Of Endocrinology, Athens Medical School, Greece
- Proteomics Revealing Rat Hippocampal Lateral Asymmetry

Co-chair: Johan Montagnat, Ph.D.
CNRS Researcher, I3S laboratory, Sofia Antipolis, France
- Building collaborative Multi-centric federations of Neurological Resources with Grid Technologies

Dr L. Shi
Prince of Wales Hospital,  Hong Kong, China
- Statistical Morphometry of the Vestibular System in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Q&A Session

Close of Day 2

Friday August 28, 2009

08.30 – 09.10    Official Welcome & Introduction
           
2009 IBMISPS PIONEER IN MEDICINE AWARD:
Excellence in Research, Discovery and Education, and Pioneering work on Selective Opening of  Blood Brain Barrier and Immunotherapy of Brain Cancers

Keith Black, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Director of Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgery Institute, USA
- Outsmarting Brain Tumors –  from Nanodrugs to Optical Imaging

Q&A Session

09.10 – 10.10 Scientific Session 12:  NanoMedicine

Chair:  Warren Grundfest, M.D., FACS
Professor of Bioengineering & Electrical Engineering, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering & Applied Science, Professor of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Past President of IBMISPS, USA
- The Application of Nanotechnologies to Brain Mapping and Image-Guided Therapy

William Olbricht, Ph.D. 
Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, USA
- Nanoparticle Transport in Convection-enhanced Drug Delivery

Co-chair: Rutledge G. Ellis-Behnke, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Technology Transfer Office, University of Hong Kong, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine Dept of Anatomy & State Key Lab of Brain & Cognitive Sciences & Research Centre for Heart, Brain and Healthy Aging Hong Kong SAR, China
Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Cambridge, MA USA Associate Editor, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology & Medicine
- Redefining Tissue Engineering for Nanomedicine: Visualizing the Progress of Regenerating Axons in the Mammalian Visual System after Complete Transection and Treatment with Self-Assembling Nanomaterial

H. Bagher-Ebadian, M.S.
Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital & Department of Physics, Oakland University, USA
- MRI Estimation of Gadolinium and Albumin Effects on Water-Proton

Paul Borm, Ph.D.
Director of Centre of Expertise in Life Sciences, Hogeschool Zuyd, The Netherlands 
- Inhalation of Diesel Exhaust and Carbon Nanoparticles Causes EEG Changes in the Frontal Cortex of Human Volunteers

Q&A Session

10.10 – 10.30    Coffee Break

10.30 – 11.20    Scientific Session 13: Rehabilitation Medicine: Stem Cell

Chair: Louis Yuge Dr.Med.Sc., PhD
Professor & Main Director, Hiroshima University, Faculty of Medicine, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Division of Bio-Environmental Adaptation Sciences & Space Bio- Laboratories, Hiroshima, Japan; Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
- Microgravity Facilitates Stem Cell Proliferation and Neural Differentiation after Transplantation

Vicky Yamamoto (Ph.D. Candidate)
USC-Keck School of Medicine, USA
- Cleavage of the Wnt receptor Ryk regulates neuronal differentiation during cortical neurogenesis.

Josh Neman (M.D., Ph.D. Candidate)
Dept of Neurobiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles Mental Retardation Research Center, USA
- Specification of Oligodendrocytes from Embryonic Stem Cells:  Implications for White Matter Repair

Q&A Session

11.20 – 11.40    Oral Poster Session 5
Chair: Shouleh Nikzod

11.40 – 12.40    Lunch Break

12.40 – 13.50    Scientific Session 14: New Horizons

Chair: Michael J. Roy, M.D., MPH
Colonel, Medical Corps, US Army Director, Division of Military Internal Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA
- An Update on the ViRTICo (Virtual Reality Therapy and Imaging in Combat Veterans) Trial
           
Yau-Zen Chang, Ph.D.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
- Robust and Fast Face Registration Using a Three Dimensional Spatial Filter and Evolutionary Optimization Algorithm

Zahra Moussavi, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Objective Measures of Human Brain Spatiotemporal Perception using Computer Games with Manipulandum

Stefan Wolfsberger M.D.
Medical University Vienna (MUW), Department of Neurosurgery, Austria
- The Value of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid (5-ALA) for Intraoperative Detection of Anaplastic Foci in Diffusely Infiltrating Gliomas with Non-Significant Contrast-Enhancement

Pratik Y. Chhatbar, M.B.B.S.
Program in Biomedical Engineering, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, USA
- Ethical Needs for Tomorrow’s Neural Prostheses: Where to Draw the Line?

Juan C Fernandez-Miranda, M.D.
Clinical Instructor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, USA
- Advanced MRI Techniques for Presurgical Planning in Minimially Invasive Brain Surgery

Q&A Session

13.50 – 14.10 Tea Recess

14.10 – 14.50 Scientific Session 15: Spine

Chair: Patrick Johnson, M.D.
Cedars-Sinai Institute for Spinal Disorders, Director, Neurological and Orthopedic Spine-Fellowship Program, Co-Director, Spine Stem Cell Program, Director, California Association of Neurological Surgeons, USA
- State-of-the-art in Spinal Instrumentation

Co-Chair:  Rahul Jandial, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, Section Head Spine Program, City of Hope, National Cancer Centre; Adjunct Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
- Biologics and Bone Grafting in Spine Surgery

Steven A. Toms, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S.
Director, Department of Neurosurgery, Surgical Director, Neuroscience Services Geisinger Health System; Neuroscience Administration M.C., USA
- Nanotechnology in Spinal Surgery: Nanoscale imaging and scaffolding

Q&A Session

14.50- 15.10 Tea Recess

15.10 – 16.10 Scientific Session 16: Multi-modality Mapping

Chair: Aria A. Tzika Ph.D.
Director of NMR Surgical Laboratory,  Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Burns Institute, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Brain Mapping in Stroke Patients by Combining fMRI and MR Compatible Rehabilitation

Co-chair: Peter Bandettini, Ph.D.
Section Head, Functional Imaging Methods FMRI Core Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, USA
- Functional MRI Dynamics, Fluctuations, and Patterns

Louis Lemieux, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept of Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy (DCEE), UCL Institute of Neurology
The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, UK
- Multi-Modal Synchronous Imaging

B. Kim, M.D.
Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, USA
- Accurate Localization of Subdural Grid Electrodes in Epilepsy Patients Undergoing Presurgical Evaluation With Electrocortical Stimulation Mapping
           
Nathalie Y.R. Agar, Ph.D.
Instructor in Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Mass Spectrometry Approaches to Intraoperative Surgical Planning

End of Day 3

Saturday August 29, 2009

09.00 – 09.40    Keynote Speaker

2009 IBMISPS PIONEER IN MEDICINE AWARD:
Excellence in Research, Discovery and Education, and Pioneering work in the Field of Image Guided Surgery

Peter M. Black, M.D., Ph.D.
Franc D. Ingraham Professor of Neurosurgery, Founding Chair, Dept. of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
- New Developments in Image-Guided Brain Tumor Therapy

09.40 – 10.40    Scientific Session 17: State-of-the Art in Brain Mapping

Chair: Shahram Sherkat, M.D.
Department of Neurosurgery, San Filippo Neri Hospital of Rome, Italy
- Three Dimensional Rendering Software of Brain MR Images and Their Application for Planning Surgical Procedures: Clinical Experience on a Series of 90 Patients

Aaron Filler, M.D., Ph.D., FRCS
Medical Director Institute for Nerve Medicine, Neurosurgical Staff, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
- The Anti-symmetric Dyadic Tensor Model, the Arctangent Tractographic Function and their Role in the Past & Intra-Operative Future Of Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Co-chair: Liliana Goumnerova, M.D. FRCSC
Director, Clinical Pediatric Neurosurgical Oncology Children’s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Associate Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery) Harvard Medical School, USA
- Experience with Intraoperative MRI at Children’s Hospital Boston

Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh, Ph.D.
Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran & Image Analysis Laboratory, Radiology Department, Henry Ford Hospital, USA
- Atlas-based Fiber Bundle Segmentation Using Principal Diffusion Directions and Spherical Harmonic Coefficients

Benjamin Burt M.D.
Orbito-Facial Department, Jules Stein Eye Institute, University of California at Los Angeles,  & Oculoplastics Department, Texas Tech University, Paul. L. Foster School of Medicine, USA
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) of the Human Orbit

Q&A Session

10.40 – 11.00    Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.30    Oral Poster Session 6:
Chair: Keyvan Farahani

11.30 – 12.10    Scientific Session 18:  Vascular Blood Flow and Stroke

Chair:  Walter J. Koroshetz, M.D.
Deputy Director, National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, USA
- Promise of Imaging in the Management of Cerebro-vascular Diseases

Co-Chair:  Elizabeth Bullitt, M.D.
Van Weatherspoon Jr. Professor of Surgery, Director of CASILab, University of North Carolina, USA
- The effect of exercise on cerebral vascular morphology of healthy aged subjects as visualized by magnetic resonance angiography

Aneesh Singhal, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Kistler Stroke Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Effects of Oxygen Therapy in Stroke - Insights from Brain MRI Studies

Clark C. Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor, Division of Neurosurgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Instructor, Department of Genetics, Instructor, Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Functional Mapping for Detection of Tumor Recurrence after Anti-angiogenic Therapy

Tania Correa de Toledo Ferraz Alves, M.D., PhD
Colaborator Medical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Hospital, University of São Paulo Medical School,  Brazil.
- Evidence of Subtle Gray Matter Reduction in the Parieto Occipital Cortex in Association to the Presence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Possible Link Between Vascular Dementia And Alzheimer Disease

12.30 – 13.15    Lunch

13.15 – 14.15    Scientific Session 19:  Brain mapping in Radiosurgery and Radiation Oncology

Chair: Antonio A. F. De Salles, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurosurgery, Head of Stereotactic Radiosurgey, David Geffen-UCLA School of Medicine, USA
- Importance of Fibertracking Maps for Functional Neurosurgery

Co-chair: Reinhard Schulte, M.D., M.S.
Associate Professor of Radiation Medicine, Translational Research, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, USA
- New Directions in Treatment Planning, Image Guidance and Delivery of Focused Proton Radiation Therapy

Ken’ichi Morooka, M.D.
Digital Medicine Initiative, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
- Digital Brain Atlas for Safe and Accurate Stereotactic Neurosugery

Lars Ewell, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Arizona, USA
- Difficulties in Glioma Diagnosis/Monitoring:  Apparent Diffusion Coefficients, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and the Role of Uncertainty

Q&A Session

14.15 – 14.35    Tea Recess

14.35 – 15.15    Scientific Session 20: Brain mapping in Social Sciences: NeuroEconomics and NeuroMarketing

Chair: Bernd Weber, M.D., PhD
Head - NeuroCognition | Imaging, Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany
- Social Preferences of the Brain

David Laibson, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, FAS, Harvard University, USA
- Neuroeconomics, Instantaneous Gratification, and the Multiple Systems Hypothesis

Co-chair: Daniel Houser, PhD
Director of Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES), Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, George Mason University, USA
- A Functional Imaging Study of Reciprocity in Personal and Anonymous Exchange: The Role of Faces

Q&A Session

15.15    Close of Conference