Lorenna L. M. Vidal, MD, DABR
Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Active Medical Staff, Pennsylvania Hospital
Active Medical Staff, Chester County Hospital
Active Medical Staff, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Pediatric Neuroradiologist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Director of Quality and Safety, Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Chair of Patient Safety, Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Department: Radiology
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Radiology
3401 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Radiology
3401 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-1000
Email:
vidall@chop.edu
vidall@chop.edu
Education:
MD
Universidade Federal do Pará, School of Medicine, Belém, BR, 2005.
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Universidade Federal do Pará, School of Medicine, Belém, BR, 2005.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Radiology, Neuroradiology, Pediatric NeuroradiologyDescription of Research Expertise
Pediatric Cerebral Malaria, Low-field MRI, Advanced MRI technique, Fetal MRISelected Publications
Alkhulaifat, D., Vidal, L., Larsen, E., Serai, S. D., Sinti-Ycochea, M., Mecca, P., Orfe, L., & Sotardi, S: MRI safety-developing the right culture. Pediatric radiology 55(5): 895-901, May 2025 Notes: DOI: 10.1007/s00247-025-06179-5.Marcus Otavio Silva de Campos Meneses, Taisa Guarilha, Sara Reis Teixeira and Lorenna L. Moreira Vidal: Neuroimaging of Mosquito-Borne Tropical Diseases. Mosquito-Borne Tropical Diseases [Working Title] March 2025 Notes: DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.1008304.
Flanders TM, Punchak MA, Oliver ER, Land SD, Flohr SJ, Reynolds TA, Schmidt KM, Ertz DD, Moldenhauer JS, Adzick NS, Heuer GG: The clinical significance of lack of hindbrain herniation in fetal myelomeningocele/myeloschisis patients. Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics Page: 1-6, Oct 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.3171/2024.6.PEDS24170, Online ahead of print as of November 2024.
Vidal, LM; Orfe, L: The Important Role of the Magnetic Resonance Safety Officer (MRSO) in MRI Safety. CHOP Radiology Bulletin. CHOP Department of Radiology,(28), March 2024 Notes: Internal publication available via PDF; Dr. Vidal is an author.
Goyal, M. S., Vidal, L., Chetcuti, K., Chilingulo, C., Ibrahim, K., Zhang, J., Small, D. S., Seydel, K. B., O'Brien, N., Taylor, T. E., & Postels, D. G.: MRI-Based Brain Volume Scoring in Cerebral Malaria Is Externally Valid and Applicable to Lower-Resolution Images. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 45(2): 205-210, February 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A8098.
Tu D, Goyal MS, Dworkin JD, Kampondeni S, Vidal L, Biondo-Savin E, Juvvadi S, Raghavan P, Nicholas J, Chetcuti K, Clark K, Robert-Fitzgerald T, Satterthwaite TD, Yushkevich P, Davatzikos C, Erus G, Tustison NJ, Postels DG, Taylor TE, Small DS, Shinohara RT: Automated analysis of low-field brain MRI in cerebral malaria. Biometrics 79(3): 2417-2429, September 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.1111/biom.13708.
Fathi Kazerooni A, Arif S, Madhogarhia R, Khalili N, Haldar D, Bagheri S, Familiar AM, Anderson H, Haldar S, Tu W, Chul Kim M, Viswanathan K, Muller S, Prados M, Kline C, Vidal L, Aboian M, Storm PB, Resnick AC, Ware JB, Vossough A, Davatzikos C, Nabavizadeh A: Automated tumor segmentation and brain tissue extraction from multiparametric MRI of pediatric brain tumors: A multi-institutional study. Neuro-oncology advances 5(1): vdad027, March 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdad027; eCollection.
Spence, L.H., Eklund, M., Wineland, R., Alkis, M., Vidal, L.: Approach to Fetal Anomalies. Evidence-Based Imaging in Pediatrics. Evidence-Based Imaging. Otero, H.J., Kaplan, S.L., Medina, L.S., Blackmore, C.C., Applegate, K.E. (eds.). Springer, Cham, Page: 1-32, January 2023 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38095-3_64-1.
Kazerooni, AF; Madhogarhia, R; Arif, S; Ware, JB; Bagheri, S; Haldar, D; Anderson, H; Familiar, A; Vidal, LLM; Aboian, M; Storm, PB; Resnick, AC; Vossough, A; Davatzikos, C; Nabavizadeh, A & NIMG-102: Rapno-Defined Segmentation And Volumetric Assessment Of Pediatric Brain Tumors On Multi-Parametric MRI Scans Using Deep Learning; A Robust Tool With Potential Application In Tumor Response Assessment. Neuro-Oncology 24(Suppl 7): vii188-9, November 2022 Notes: From the 2022 Society for Neuro-Oncology’s 27th Annual Scientific Meeting and Education Day; https://academic.oup.com/neuro-oncology/issue/24/Supplement_7?page=5.
O'Brien, N. F., Fonseca, Y., Johnson, H. C., Postels, D., Birbeck, G. L., Chimalizeni, Y., Seydel, K. B., Bernard Gushu, M., Phiri, T., June, S., Chetcuti, K., Vidal, L., Goyal, M. S., & Taylor, T. E.: Mechanisms of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound phenotypes in paediatric cerebral malaria remain elusive. Malaria journal. BioMed Central, 21(1): 196, June 2022 Notes: DOI: 10.1186/s12936-022-04163-0.