CorLab | Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Lab

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The research focus of the Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Lab is the development of next-generation imaging technologies for cardiovascular disease. As an interdisciplinary team of Radiologists, Physicists, Computational Scientists, and Engineers, we solve complex problems and develop new tools, to improve our scientific understanding of cardiovascular disease and the clinical care of patients.

Principal Investigator: Walter RT Witschey, PhD

Support

Our work is supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the McCabe Foundation, the Penn Center for Precision Medicine, and the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics.

Keywords

machine learning, artificial intelligence, magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, computed tomography, image reconstruction, autonomous systems, cardiovascular disease, metabolic imaging, electrodynamics, computer vision, arrhythmias, ischemic heart disease, heart attack, image-derived phenotypes, bioinformatics

 

Recent News

***We are actively recruiting postdoctoral fellows for projects in Computational Science, Biomedical Imaging, and other positions!***


November 11, 2023

Sophie gave a talk at the 2023 AHA Scientific Sessions as a finalist for the Melvin Judkins Early Career Clinical Investigator Award!

Her presentation, "Imaging Local And Systemic Reactive Oxygen Species After Ischemia-reperfusion Injury In Swine With Multimodal-18 F-ROStrace PET/CT And CMR" was on Saturday, November 11, 2023, as part of the Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention. Congratulations Sophie!!


September 29, 2023

Ryan Sokolow will be presenting at BMES! You can catch his poster "Reduced Order Modeling of an Aortic Hemodynamic Fingerprint in the Penn Medicine Biobank" on Friday, October 13, 2023 at 3:30 PM.


August 28, 2023

A big welcome to Cameron and Marina, our new PhD students!

profile picture of Cameron BeecheProfile picture of Marina Awad


June 3, 2023

CorLab in Toronto: Sophie is presenting two poster abstracts at ISMRM 2023!

"1H NMR of downfield metabolites in swine heart after myocardial infarction" and ""Imaging reactive oxygen species and tissue iron in ischemia-reperfusion injury in swine with multimodal [18F]ROStrace PET/CT and QSM"

You can see both posters in the Cardiomyopathy II Session on Thursday, 08 June 2023


February 18, 2023

Sophie Swago's new paper "Quantification of cross-relaxation in downfield 1 H MRS at 7 T in human calf muscle" was published in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, congratulations to Sophie and colleagues!


January 29, 2023

Congrats to Sophie Swago and Walter Witschey, who both gave talks at the annual SCMR 2023 Scientific Sessions on January 25-28!

Sophie: "Imaging reactive oxygen species in ischemia-reperfusion injury in swine with multimodal [18F]-ROStrace PET/CT and CMR" during ISMRM Workshop Session 1: Emerging Myocardial and Adipose Mapping

Sophie presenting

Walter: "Novel CMR parameters for tissue characterization" during the main conference session on Quantitative Tissue Characterization

Walter presenting

 

Congratulations to Sophie and Walter!


January 20, 2023

Congrats to graduate students Beth Thompson and Sophie Swago, who will be presenting their work at the annual SCMR 2023 Scientific Sessions on January 25-28!

Sophie: "Imaging reactive oxygen species in ischemia-reperfusion injury in swine with multimodal [18F]-ROStrace PET/CT and CMR" during ISMRM Workshop Session 1: Emerging Myocardial and Adipose Mapping (Jan 25, 9:20 AM PST)

Beth: "Feasibility of T1rho measurements in patients with Single Ventricle Disease" during ISMRM Posters and Reception (Jan 25, 5:00-6:30 PM PST)