The Lund Cardiac MR Group performs research, teaching and clinical diagnostics at the Center för Medical Imaging and Physiology, Department of Clinical Physiology at Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, Lund.
Under the leadership of Professor Håkan Arheden MD, PhD [Publications], the group works together with cardiologists, thoracic surgeons, clinical physiogists, radiologists, physicists, mathematicians and programmers.
Lund University Hospital is the largest center in Scandinavia for cardiac MRI in patients. The cardiac MRI group at the Department of Clinical Physiology consists of eleven physicians (four PhD students, six post docs, and one professor), five engineers and mathematicians, two research technical assistants and one physiotherapist. The multidisciplinary composition of the group is essential when performing research in the field of cardiac MRI. The senior engineer, Assistant Professor Einar Heiberg, has developed a widely used software (Segment, www.heiberg.se/segment) for image analysis which is continuously adapted for the research needs of the group. The cardiac MRI group has a close collaboration in specific projects with researchers in the MR physics group and researchers at the department of cardiology (group Erlinge) and (group Jovinge) cardiothoracic surgery, pediatric cardiology, internal medicine and rheumathology. The cardiac MRI group has international collaborations with Duke University, Durham, UCSF, San Francisco and Johns Hopkins, Baltimore.
For more than 10 years, a central theme for the research pursued by the Lund cardiac MR group has been the pathophysiological mechanisms associated with acute myocardial infarction, including quantitative assessments of infarct size, myocardium at risk and, consequently, myocardial salvage. One of the seminal articles generated from this work was awarded the prize “Editor´s pick of 2009” in JCMR, http://jcmr-online.com/content/11/1/38.
The work on cardiac pumping using cardiac MRI was awarded the Crafoord´s prize for best thesis at Faculty of Medicine, Lund University 2007 http://www.med.lu.se/nyheter/080410_crafoordpris. Current research also includes patients with congenital heart disease, athletes and patients with heart failure including pulmonary hypertension.
Visualization and image analysis is a core research focus within the cardiac MR group with three PhD-students working on four-dimensional flow, segmentation of cardic imaging and quantification of myocardial SPECT. This part of the group is supervised by Einar Heiberg.
The project "Visualization and quantification of complex fluid dynamics in life sciences" granted by KK-stiftelsen has a separate project page describing the project in more detail.
Post doctoral fellows |
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| Marcus Carlsson MD, PhD | ||
| Henrik Engblom MD, PhD | ||
| Bo Hedén MD PhD | ||
| Erik Hedström PhD | ||
| Einar Heiberg MSc computer engineering, PhD, Ass Prof | ||
| Karin Markenroth MSc physics engineering, PhD | ||
| Henrik Mosén MD, PhD | ||
| Katarina Steding, physiotherapist, PhD | ||
| Joey FA Ubachs MD, PhD | ||
Ellen Ostenfeld PhD student [Publications]
Den kliniska nyttan av tre-dimensionell ekokardiografi som standardundersökning
se även Lund Pulmonary Hypertension Research Network
Mikael Kanski PhD student
Non-invasive measures of heart failure
Helen Soneson MSc applied mathematics, PhD student [Publications]
Quantification of myocardial perfusion gated SPECT
Jane Sjögren MSc applied mathematics, PhD student [Publications]
Segmentation of cardiac imaging
Johannes Töger MSc engineering physics, PhD student
Four-dimensional flow visualization and quantification
Sverrir S Stephensen, MD, PhD student [Publications]
New methods for quantification of cardiac function in congenital heart disease using MRI
Ulrika Pahlm Webb, MD, PhD student
Strain quantification in normals and athletes using MRI
Ann-Helen Arvidsson
Christel Carlander
Peter Cain, MBBS, PhD, cardiologist, post doc 2002-2004 [Publications]
Martin Ugander MD, PhD 2001-2009 [PhD thesis] [Publications]
David Strauss PhD 2007-2010 [PhD thesis] [Publications]
Rainer Petzina MD, PhD [PhD thesis] [Publications]
Vacuum-assisted closure of sternotomy wounds
Erik Bergvall [PhD thesis] [Publications]
Shruti Agarwal, MSc mathematics, PhD [Publications]
Loriano Galoetti, PhD, Post-Doc part of 2009, [Publications]
Frågor om innehållet: Kerstin Brauer
Uppdaterad: 2012-04-25
