Medical Imaging Laboratory

• (2.1) Cardiac Tagging with Breath-hold CINE MRI E.R. McVeigh and E. Atalar, (originally published in Magn. Reson. Med. 28:318-327 (1992)).
• (2.2) MRI of Myocardial Function: Motion Tracking Techniques E.R. McVeigh (originally published in Magn. Reson. Imag. 14(2):137-150, (1996)). STRAIN MAPS, FINDTAGS, MOVIES

• Ph.D. Project: Intravascular MRI
• Programmer for Research and System Administration

• High Resolution Intravascular MRI and MRS using a Catheter Receiver Coil. E. Atalar, P.A. Bottomley, O. Ocali, L.C. Correia, M.D. Kelemen, J.A.C. Lima and E.A. Zerhouni. (Accepted for publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine)
• MRI of Myocardial Function: Motion Tracking Techniques

E.R. McVeigh
(Magn. Reson. Imag. 14(2):137-150 (1996)).
• Pencil Excitation with Interleaved Fourier Velocity Encoding: NMR Measurement of Aortic Distensibility

Christopher J. Hardy, *Bradley D. Bolster, Jr., *Elliot R. McVeigh, Icko E. T. Iben, *Elias A. Zerhouni:
(in press, Magn. Reson. Med.)
• Cardiac Tagging with Breath-hold CINE MRI

E.R. McVeigh and E. Atalar,
(Magn. Reson. Med. 28:318-327 (1992)).
• Visualization and Analysis of Functional Cardiac MRI Data

E.R. McVeigh, M.A. Guttman et. al.,
(SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2168 (1994), ISBN 0-8194-1463-8)
• Minimization of Dead Periods in MRI Pulse Sequences for Imaging Oblique Planes. E. Atalar and E.R. McVeigh (originally published in Magn. Reson. Med. Vol 32, No 6, pp. 773-777, December 1994).
• Optimization of Tag Thickness for Measuring Position with Magnetic Resonance Imaging. E. Atalar and E.R. McVeigh (originally published in IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging Vol 13, No 1, pp. 152-160, March 1994.)
• Displacement Field Fitting forCalculating 3D Myocardial Deformations from Tagged MR Images

W.G. O'Dell, C.C. Moore, W. Hunter, E.A. Zerhouni, E.R. McVeigh
(Radiology, 195:829-835 (1995))
• Multi-shot EPI for Improvement of Myocardial Tag Contrast: Comparison with Segmented SPGR.

Chao Tang, Elliot R. McVeigh, Elias A. Zerhouni.
(Magn. Reson. Med. 33(3):443-447 (1995))
• Interactive Visualization for Rapid Noninvasive Cardiac Assessment

M. Solaiyappan, T. Poston, P.A. Heng, E.R. McVeigh, M.A. Guttman, E.A. Zerhouni:
(in press, IEEE, Computer)
• Analysis and Visualization of Cardiac Function from MR Images

M. A. Guttman, E.A. Zerhouni and E. R. McVeigh:
(IEEE, Computer Graphics and Applications)

• Ultra-High Resolution Imaging of Esophagel Wall using a Quadrature Detector Placed within Gut Ergin Atalar, Elias A. Zerhouni, and Pankaj Jay Pasricha. ISMRM Fourth Scientific Meeting, NY, NY, 1996.
• A Flexible Catheter Coil for Imaging and Spectroscopy of Atherosclerotic Plaques. Ergin Atalar, Paul A. Bottomley, and Elias A. Zerhouni, SMR/ESMRBM Joint Meeting, Nice, France, 1995.
• A Phased Array Coil for In-Vivo Microscopic MR Imaging of Breast Lesions. Ergin Atalar and Elias A. Zerhouni, SMR/ESMRBM Joint Meeting, Nice, France, 1995.
• Temporal Evolution of Three Dimensional Deformation in the Ischemic Human Left Ventricle: Assessment by MR Tagging. Carlos H. Lugo-Olivieri, M.D., et. al.
• Spatial resolution of 3D cardiac tagging reconstruction: Impulse response analysis for displacement field-fitting. Society of Magnetic Resonance, Book of Abstracts, Vol 3., 1417, (1995) W.G. ODell, C.C. Moore, E.A. Zerhouni, E.R. McVeigh

Additional Information of Interest.

This mpeg movie shows the combination of a reconstructed LV with the original imaging data, visualized on the SGI Reality Engine. This shows how precise mechanical information can be displayed in the original context of the imaging data. The tags and color are displayed on the calculated epicardial surface. The color represents radial thickening ( [low] yellow --> [high] red ). 

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A graph for making a T1/T2 phantom, showing how much CuSO4 and agar to mix to get the T1 and T2 you want.

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