Presentations galore at international conference in Milan in May 2014

The GI MRI research team sent back in November 2013 a number of abstracts to an international MRI conference to be held in Milan, Italy in May this year. The results of the review process have just come out and our abstracts have all been accepted: two as oral and 5 as poster presentations.

The presentations will focus on:

• A new semi-automatic method to segment visceral, subcutaneous and total fat in the abdomen from MRI data
• An investigation of colonic motility from MRI movies using registration techniques and quantitative analysis
• Quantification of gastrointestinal liquid volumes following the standard dose of water taken to ingest pills in drug trials
• The postprandial response of the colon in healthy volunteers and patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome with diarrhoea 
• The effect of feeding fatty foods on the brain response to the taste of fat
• The mode of action of a macrogol based formula on colonic function in chronic constipation MRI
• A new method of simultaneously monitoring lipid and glycogen levels in the liver using spectroscopy

Join us in Milan if you can! http://www.ismrm.org/14/