Research

Clinical Research, Division of Clinical Radiology

Funded Clinical Research—Recent or Pending

Richard Bronen, Risk and Predictors of Intractable Epilepsy in Children: A long-term follow-up, (NINDS)

Tara Catanzano, Efficacy and safety of Visipaque in . suspected arterial occlusive disease undergoing CT angiography (protocol #303) (Amersham); Efficacy and safety of Visipaque for CT angiography. abdominal visceral vessels (protocol #304) (Amersham)

David Cheng, Increasing FDG-PET specificity with Kreb cycle flux using MR spectroscopy (Pfizer)

Robert Fulbright, MR Spectroscopy of Reading Disability and of the Effects of Estrogen on Reading Systems (NIH), High Dimensional Index Imaging in Medical Image Databases (NIH), Randomized Indomethacin GMH/IVH Prevention Trial (NIH), Adolescent Literacy: Classification, Mechanisms, Outcome (NIH), Neuroimaging of Genetically defined Incipient CJD (NIH), Effects of Aging on Memory for Source of Information (NIH/NIA), Risk and Predictors of Intractable Epilepsy in Children: A long-term follow-up (NINDS)

Robin Goodman, Metabolic markers and predictors of childhood obesity (NIH)

Regina Hooley, Pilot study. "Clinical Evaluation of Elasticity Imaging and its Implementation for Breast Cancer Detection and Characterization" (ALOKA)

Albert Sinusas, Imaging of MMP activation and myocardial strain (NIH-NHLBI); Non-invasive Methods for Imaging Angiogenesis (NIH-NHLBI); Dedicated Animal SPECT X-ray CT (NIH NCRR); Dynamic Analysis of LV Deformation from 4D Images (NIH-NHLBI); Chronic DTH and IFN-y in Human graft arteriosclerosis (NIH); Small Animal imaging and hotspot quantification methods (NIH - NIBIB); Noninvasive Imaging and Localization of Matrix Metalloproteinase in Pig Myocardium Post-MI (Bristol-Myers Squibb); Robust estimation of myocardial kinematics and material properties (Hong Kong Research Grants Council) ; Imaging of Vitronectin Receptor in Animal Models of Ischemia: Potential Targeted Marker of Myocardial Angiogenesis (Amersham); Pre-clinical evaluation of a selective A2A Agonist (CVT-3146) for stress myocardial MR perfusion imaging (Cardiovascular Therapeutics)

Gordon Sze, Line Scan Diffusion Imaging in the Evaluation of Spinal Vertebrae (ASSR)

Michael Tal, Model of diabetes: pancreatic MR & PET (Pfizer)

Frans Wackers, Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics (Fujisawa Healthcare); Detection of Ischemia in Asymptomatic Diabetics (Bristol-Meyers-Squib); EVOLVE multicenter study; SPECT Core Laboratory (Mitsubishi); Acusphere Echo Contrast multicenter study; SPECT Core laboratory (Acusphere Inc); Hawkeye Multicenter trial on X-ray-based Attenuation Correction of SPECT; Principal Investigator and radionuclide core laboratory (General Electric)

Jeffrey Weinreb, PhaseII sequence optimization of MS325 (gadofosveset) (Epix)
Multicenter Study of In Vivo MR Spectroscopy for the Evaluation of Prostate Cancer; (NCI/ACRIN)