Ryan Fobel won the WMSG student poster competition with his abstract/poster. The two other finalists were Bennett Landman and Ives Levesque. Thank you to all students for submitting their abstracts for consideration. This year students conducted research primarily in diffusion and spinal cord. The details of the three finalist abstracts are:
Fobel R, Stanisz G. Improved detection of non-Gaussian diffusion with nonlinear fitting at high b-values. ISMRM: Toronto, Canada, 16; 1859 (2008).
Levesque IR, Giacomini PS, Narayanan S, Ribeiro LT, Sled JG, Arnold DL, Pike GB. Evolution of quantitative magnetization transfer imaging parameters in acute lesions of multiple sclerosis. ISMRM: Toronto, Canada, 16; 2138 (2008).
Landman BA, Farrell JA, Smith SA, Calabresi PA, van Zijl PC, Prince JL. Exploring the information content of q-space diffusion weighted imaging: application ot multiple sclerosis (MS) spinal cord lesions.

Thank you also to my fellow judges, Wendy Oakden and Roland Henry.