CorLab | Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Lab
Research
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!***
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Walter Witschey are pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Sophia Swago.
Title: "Downfield proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy at ultra-high fields: quantification of metabolite relaxation properties in vivo"
Date:March 12, 2025
Time: 2 PM
Location: BRB 1412
Zoom option:
https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99353041730.
The public is welcome to attend.
Our lab is going to SCMR 2025! Check out all our research being presented in Washington D.C. at the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Annual Meeting
Walter Witschey
Emerging Contrasts for Cardiac MRI
Science Session 1: Novel Contrasts and Novel Field Strengths
Thursday January 30
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Mohamed Ghonim
Phenotyping Individuals with Suspected Cardiac Sarcoidosis with CMR and PET: Focus on Outcomes
Session: Rapid Fire 2- Non-ischemic Primary and Secondary Cardiomyopathy I Kiosk 1
Thursday January 30
2:10 PM – 2:20 PM
Marina Awad
Susceptibility, Infarct Characteristics, and Reactive Oxygen Species in Myocardial Infarction Reperfusion Injury
Session: Rapid Fire 6- Tissue Characterization II Kiosk 4
Friday January 31
11:40 AM – 11:50 AM
Mohanad Ghonim
T2 mapping has limited performance in predicting FDG-defined myocardial inflammation in patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis
Session: Rapid Fire 8- Non-ischemic Primary and Secondary Cardiomyopathy III kiosk 6
Friday January 31
3:30 PM – 3:40 PM
August 28, 2024
The Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Walter Witschey proudly announce the Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Beth Thompson!
Title: Right ventricular remodeling in tetralogy of Fallot
Advisor: Walter Witschey
Date: Thursday, August 22, 2024
Time: 10:00AM EST
Location: Class of '62 Auditorium, John Morgan Building
Zoom:
https://upenn.zoom.us/j/99590672633?pwd=0kNQLS3kz65nZgab4WJrAWAyOB0UEN.1
Meeting ID: 995 9067 2633
Passcode: 192482
The public is welcome to attend.
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!
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
Walter: "Novel CMR parameters for tissue characterization" during the main conference session on Quantitative Tissue Characterization
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)