{"586810":{"#nid":"586810","#data":{"type":"event","title":"BME Speaker Seminar with Francisco Contijoch, Ph.D.* ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E*** FACULTY CANDIDATE ***\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EFrancisco Contijoch, Ph.D.*\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUC President\u0026rsquo;s Postdoctoral Research Fellow\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUCSD IRACDA Postdoctoral Research Fellow\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSulpizio Cardiovascular Center,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;School of Medicine\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nUniversity of California - San Diego\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EDeveloping New Views of the Heart\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of the death in the US, clinical and translational imaging plays a critical role in the early detection of disease, in the development of novel therapies, and in aiding our understanding of physiology. However, our ability to assess critical parameters can be limited by imaging constraints or physiologic confounders. To tackle these challenges, we develop novel image acquisition, processing, and analysis techniques to better quantify disease and provide patient-specific assessments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn my talk, I will present techniques we developed to improve assessment of patients with coronary artery disease and patients with irregular heart rhythms. First, I will describe our work to improve coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA), a non-invasive method to assess coronary disease. Next, I will discuss our imaging-based approach to obtain better measures of post-myocardial infarction cardiac function using real-time MRI.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nImaging patients with arrhythmias is challenging due to limitations in how images are acquired and the fact that these patients can have multiple types of heartbeats. I will describe how we designed a technique to improve the quality of images and how we quantified cardiac function of different beat types. \u0026nbsp;Finally, I will outline future plans to use imaging to tackle clinical challenges faced when assessing the right ventricle and pulmonary vasculature.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHost: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:stas@gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EStanislav Emelianov, Ph.D.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThursday, February 9\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n10:30 a.m.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMcIntire Room 3115,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWhitaker Bldg.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVideoconference:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEmory: HSRB E182\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Tech: TEP 104\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"BME Speaker Seminar with Francisco Contijoch, Ph.D.* "}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2017-02-02 16:04:48","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:13:01","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-02-09T10:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2017-02-09T11:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-02-09T11:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-02-09 15:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-02-09 16:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-02-09 16:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"586809":{"id":"586809","type":"image","title":"Francisco Contijoch, Ph.D.*","body":null,"created":"1486051102","gmt_created":"2017-02-02 15:58:22","changed":"1486051102","gmt_changed":"2017-02-02 15:58:22","alt":"Francisco Contijoch, Ph.D.*","file":{"fid":"223629","name":"Francisco-image002-fixedStretch-315px.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Francisco-image002-fixedStretch-315px.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Francisco-image002-fixedStretch-315px.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":124147,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Francisco-image002-fixedStretch-315px.jpg?itok=sBPuYV1Y"}}},"media_ids":["586809"],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. 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