Cardiac Imaging Group
Members
Yuchi Han, MD, MMSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Han's major interests are to use imaging tools such as echocardiography and cardiac MRI to understand cardiac physiology/pathophysiology and to characterize the myocardium in different disease states. Our current major areas of work include right ventricular function, real-time imaging, and valvular heart disease.
Contact
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Cardiovascular Division - Room 9022 East Gates
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
Phone: 215-662-2855
yuchi.han@uphs.upenn.edu
Walter RT Witschey, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
Research Interests
Dr. Witschey's interests are the study of heart disease with an emphasis on the development of novel magnetic resonance imaging methods for assessing myocardial function and energetics. The focus of this work is molecular imaging with T1rho MRI and the determination ventricular elastic properties in heart disease, emphasizing the development of new non-Cartesian acquisitions and innovative MR reconstructions.
Contact
Smilow Center for Translational Research
3400 Civic Center Blvd, Bldg 421
7th Floor, RM 103
215-746-4048
witschey@med.upenn.edu
Jing Wang
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Wang is an echocardiographer from PLA Hospital in Beijing, China. She is spending the year learning cardiac MRI and is doing research on tissue mapping.
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Jacob Pickle
Research Assisant
Jacob recruits and manages a number of human studies for Dr. Han.
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Past Members
Francisco Contijoch
Graduate Student
Education
University of Pennsylvania, PhD in Bioengineering, Present
Johns Hopkins University, MSE in Biomedical Engineering 2010
Johns Hopkins University, BS in Biomedical Engineering, 2008
Research Interests
Francisco is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Francisco's research interest involves understanding cardiac function and dysfunction through the use of non-invasive imaging. His current research focus is directed towards development of advanced MRI techniques for real-time MRI imaging. Francisco is also interested in MRI's ability to detect physiologic/functional changes in addition to structure and size.
Current Position
Postdoc at UCLA (2016)
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Joyce Qiao Han
Research Assistant
Education
B.A. in Music and Mathematics, High Honors, Swarthmore College, 2013
Research Interests
Joyce is currently working on understanding RV and PA function through 4D flow imaging as well as correcting artifacts in T1rho MRI, a noncontrast MRI method.
Current Position
Medical student at Dartmouth Medical School