Han Lab

Witschey Lab – Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Lab

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

History of CMR at Penn

Nathaniel Reichek, MDJoao Lima, MD

Gerry AurigemmaNeil Clark

Susan YeonLinda PalmonChris KramerVictor Ferrari

Radiology Faculty and Fellows

1982-1993Leon Axel

Herb KresselReuben Mezrich

Bob LenkinskiAlbert de RoosMark Scheibler

Phil Bergey

Peter ChoykeHiroto HatabuEric HoffmanAlistair Young

Larry Dougherty

Cardiology Faculty & Fellows

1982-1992

Litt Lab

Nazarian Lab

Arterial Spin Labeling (1995)Myocardial Tagging (1991)

Good Ideas!

• Imaging of patients with implanted devices• Program has scanned over 3500 patients

• Optimization of CMR in device patients and those with arrhythmia

• Modeling of cardiac motion as an image registration problem

• Automated disease classification by shape analysis Harold Litt

Vic Ferrari and Chris Kramer at Berlin SMRM

Herb Kressel, Stanley Baum, Leon Axel, 1982, 0.1 T at Penn

Chirinos Lab

Ferrari / Zhou Labs