News
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)
August 19, 2022
Check out the SCMR-ISMRM CO-PROVIDED WORKSHOP: CUTTING EDGE METABOLIC AND ENDOGENOUS CONTRAST CMR happening on 25-26 January, 2023 at the annual SCMR 2023 Scientific Sessions. More info to come!
March 31, 2022
Abhijit Bhattaru was awarded the Bradley-Alavi Student Fellowship by the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) for his his proposal "Deep Learning approach for automated detection of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis in patients undergoing whole-body bone scintigraphy.” Congratulations, Abhi!
This fellowship is funded by Education and Research Foundation for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (ERF) in order to support students’ interest in molecular imaging and nuclear medicine.
February 11, 2022
Sophie Swago is presenting a power pitch and poster presentation at the 2022 ISMRM Workshop on Ultra-High Field MR (March 19-22): "Quantification of High-Field 1H Downfield MRS Metabolites & Cross-Relaxation Using Time-Domain Spectral Fitting" on March 20 in Lisbon, Portugal.
February 4, 2022
Congratulations to Beth Thompson and Sophie Swago, Ph.D. candidates, whose abstracts were accepted at the 2022 Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB & ISMRT 31st Annual Meeting in London, UK (May 7-12, 2020).
Beth: "Feasibility of machine learning for cardiovascular function analysis in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot", digital poster on May 10, 17:45 BST (UTC+1)
Sophie: ""Quantification of cross-relaxation in human skeletal muscle using downfield 1H MRS at 7T", oral presentation on May 9, 9:15 BST (UTC+1)
February 5, 2022
Beth's paper "Endogenous T1ρ cardiovascular magnetic resonance in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy" was nominated for Best JCMR Manuscript at SCMR 2022! Congratulations, Beth!
May 19, 2021
Sophie Swago presents her work on downfield MRS at the 2021 ISMRM.
May 4, 2021
Abhijit Bhattaru has been awarded the 2021 Medical & Science Student Research Grant: Discovering Molecular Imaging from the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Congratulations Abhi!
January 19, 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Eileen Hwuang on the successful defense of her dissertation, "Magnetic resonance imaging assessment of maternal uteroplacental hemodynamics during pregnancy." An incredible job well done!
November 9, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Brianna Moon on the successful defense of her dissertation, "Iron Imaging in Myocardial Infarction Reperfusion Injury." We are incredibly proud!
June 29, 2020
Congratulations to Brianna Moon and colleagues for publishing the article "Iron imaging in myocardial infarction reperfusion injury" in Nature Communications!
May 01, 2020
Great news! Our recent paper "Assessment of Uterine Artery Geometry and Hemodynamics in Human Pregnancy With 4D Flow MRI and Its Correlation With Doppler Ultrasound" published in Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging was ranked among the top 10% downloaded papers from 2018-2019.
April 24, 2020
Brianna Moon and Eileen Hwuang, Bioengineering Ph.D. students, making PPE for healthcare workers with Penn Health-Tech Face Shields Rapid Response and Project SHIELDS (https://www.projectshields.org).
February 08, 2020
Congratulations to Brianna and Srikant for their accepted abstracts at ISMRM 28th Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Sydney, Australia!
Brianna will be presenting "Magnetic susceptibility R2* and iron evolve during reperfusion injury wound healing" as an oral presentation and "The effect of voxel size on magnetic susceptibility and R2* of intramyocardial hemorrhage at 3 and 7T" as a digital poster on Thursday April 23, 2020.
Srikant will be presenting "A non-local filtering based approach for high quality quantitative susceptibility mapping reconstruction" as a power pitch presentation on April 21, 2020.
January 20, 2020
Congratulations to Brianna for being selected for an Early Career Award at SCMR! She will be giving a talk on "Magnetic susceptibility and iron evolve during myocardial infarction wound healing" at the SCMR meeting on February 14, 2020.
June 21, 2019
Corlab recently celebrated Matt and Veronica for accomplishing great work in the lab this year.
June 14, 2019
Congratulations to Matt MacLean for winning Best Clinical Trainee Poster Presentation award at this year's Radiology Pendergrass Symposium!
February 18, 2019
Congratulations to Srikant, Brianna, and Eileen whose abstracts were accepted at the ISMRM 27th Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Montreal, Canada (May 11-16, 2019).
Srikant:"Loss Adaptive Dipole Inversion (LADI): A novel data driven approach for quantitative susceptibility mapping" (oral on May 13, 16:00)
Brianna:"Magnetic susceptibility and T2* of myocardial reperfusion injury at 3 and 7 T" (oral on May 14, 08:15)"Imaging myocardial reperfusion injury using cardiac quantitative susceptibility mapping" (digital poster on May 13, 16:00)
Eileen:"Measurement of Uterine Artery and External Iliac Artery Pulse Wave Velocity using 4D Flow MRI" (digital poster on May 15, 15:45)"Pattern Analysis of Placental Blood Flow Distribution using ASL MRI" (digital poster on May 15, 15:45)
January 15, 2019
Congratulations to Srikant Iyer whose paper "Accelerated free-breathing 3D T1ρ cardiovascular magnetic resonance using multicoil compressed sensing" was recently published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance!
January 8, 2019
Congratulations to Srikant Iyer and Brianna Moon whose abstracts were accepted at the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Seattle, Washington (Feb. 6-9, 2019). Brianna also received a travel award to present her work.
Srikant: "Residual deep learning reconstruction of cine MRI in cardiomyopathy patients"Brianna: "Magnetic susceptibility imaging of myocardial infarction reperfusion injury" (Feb. 8)
Congratulations to Nick for giving an excellent mid-summer chalk talk on Cardiac QSM and COSMOS to SUPERS program students and mentors!
July 6, 2018
Congratulations to Eileen Hwuang whose paper has been accepted into the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging! The article is entitled "Assessment of uterine artery geometry and hemodynamics in human pregnancy with 4D flow MRI and its correlation with Doppler Ultrasound" (publication pending).
June 5, 2018
Check out photos of Corlab and bioengineering Interfaces PhD students engaging parents and children at the Philadelphia Science Festival! Our booth was called "How do doctors look inside your body?"
April 28, 2018
Congratulations to Anya Hall for a wonderful poster presentation at the bioengineering research symposium. He will be heading off to medical school at the University of Miami!
April 18, 2018
Congratulations to Avanti Gulhane who received the SCMR travel award to the annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain this year. She presented two studies:
- "Determination of Conducting Channels from LGE CMR in patients with Myocardial Infarction-Comparison with Electroanatomic Mapping for Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation"
- "Evaluation of LGE-CMR for predicting ventricular tachycardia (VT) ablation sites in Nonischemic cardiomyopathy (NICM) –comparison with electroanatomic maps (EAM)"
The first study was recognized in the "Best of Moderated" electronic poster session.
March 9, 2018
Congratulations to Srikant Iyer, Brianna Moon, and Eileen Hwuang whose abstracts were accepted at the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2018 in Paris, France (June 16-21, 2018).
Srikant:
"Quantitative susceptibility mapping Accelerated Reconstruction Technique (QUART): A novel Split Bregman based approach for rapid reconstruction of quantitative susceptibility maps" (electronic poster on June 20, 4:15pm)
"Accelerated free breathing 3D cardiac T1rho mapping in humans using compressed sensing and improved k-space reordering" (electronic poster on June 20, 2:45pm)
Brianna:
"Magnetic susceptibility of hemorrhagic myocardial infarction: correlation with tissue iron and comparison with relaxation time MRI" (oral on June 18, 4:15pm)
Eileen:
"Background-suppressed pulsed arterial spin labeling of placental perfusion at 1.5T" (electronic poster on June 20, 9:15am)
"Characterization of uterine artery geometry in normal pregnancy with time-of-flight angiography" (electronic poster on June 20, 9:15am)
February 19, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Harold Litt and Dr. Avanti Gulhane who will be giving oral presentations at the 2018 SCMR Meeting in Barcelona, Spain (Jan 31-Feb 3, 2018) and Eileen Hwuang who will be giving an oral presentation at the 2018 ISMRM Placenta Workshop in Atlanta, GA (Feb 4-6, 2018).
December 8, 2017
Corlab members enjoyed some axe-throwing together!
July 28, 2017
Congratulations to all Corlab students who presented at Pendergrass symposium!
Srikant giving his presentation on free-breathing cardiac imaging using T1rho with compressed sensing
Michael giving his presentation on comparing LGE with T1 and T1rho MRI in characterizing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
June 16, 2017
Corlab at ISMRM Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii!
Hiking at Diamond Head
Eileen giving her presentation on uterine artery 4D flow in pregnancy
May 3, 2017
New article! Isosorbide Dinitrate, With or Without Hydralazine, Does Not Reduce Wave Reflections, Left Ventricular Hypertrophy, or Myocardial Fibrosis in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
February 27, 2017
New article! Assessment of myocardial injury after reperfused infarction by T1ρ cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
February 18, 2017
Congratulations to Eileen Hwuang whose abstract "Assessment of uterine artery hemodynamics in normal pregnancy with 4D Flow MRI" was accepted as an oral presentation at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in April 2017!
February 6, 2017
Corlab's newest member has arrived, Clara Elizabeth Witschey (born Friday, October 28, 2016). Congrats, Walter!
November 4, 2016
Congratulations to Michael Solomon whose abstract "Endogenous T1rho mapping in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy" was accepted as an oral presentation at Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) in February 2017!
October 20, 2016
New article! Self‐gated MRI of multiple beat morphologies in the presence of arrhythmias.
September 6, 2016
Congratulations to Anya Hall for winning 2nd place at the National Science Foundation, Greater Philadelphia Region Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Summer Undergraduate Research Conference.
August 19, 2016
New article! Regional myocardial three-dimensional principal strains during post-infarction remodeling.
February 10, 2015
New article! Injectable microsphere gel progressively improves global ventricular function, regional contractile strain, and mitral regurgitation after myocardial infarction.
January 9, 2015
New article! Dextran coated bismuth-iron oxide nanohybrid contrast agents for computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
January 9, 2015
Welcome Marie Madden to CorLab!
December 15, 2014
New publication! Dextran-coated bismuth-iron oxide nanoparticles.
December 15, 2014