Dr. James Carr, MD

• Interventional Radiology

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• Mcgaw Medical Center Of Northwestern University

  Fellowship Hospital, 2001

• St. Vincent's Hospital (ireland)

  Residency Hospital, 1999

• Royal College Of Surgeons (ireland)

  Medical School, 1992

• English

• Gaelic

• Assessment of left atrial and left atrial appendage flow and stasis in atrial fibrillation, 2015-02-03

• Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) guidance for re-activation of cardiovascular magnetic resonance practice after peak phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020-08-10

• A Non-Invasive Assessment of Cardiopulmonary Hemodynamics with MRI in Pulmonary Hypertension, 2015-08-14

• Displacement- versus velocity-encoding: tracking regional myocardial motion using MR imaging, 2016-01-27

• Changes in the specific absorption rate (SAR) of radiofrequency energy in patients with retained cardiac leads during MRI at 1.5 T and 3 T, 2018-06-12

• Thoracic aortic wall shear stress atlases in patients with bicuspid aortic valves, 2014-01-16

• Ankle-brachial index (ABI) and quiescent-interval single shot (QISS) MRA in peripheral arterial disease (PAD): comparison of diagnostic accuracy and need for additional imaging procedures, 2011-02-02

• Automated assessment of left ventricular function and mass using heart deformation analysis: initial experience in 160 older adults, 2016-01-27

• Multiparametric Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Can Detect Acute Cardiac Allograft Rejection After Heart Transplantation, 2019-03-13

• Application of feature tracking at cine cardiac MR for the semiautomated prediction of normal right ventricular systolic function: a feasibility study, 2014-01-16

• Myocardial strain analysis in patients with Heart Failure with preserved Ejection Fraction using bright blood cine MR images: A comparison with speckle-tracking echocardiography, 2014-01-16

• The use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in diagnosing and characterizing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 2016-01-27

• MR-derived right ventricular parameters can predict pulmonary hypertension, 2011-02-02

• CMR myocardial tissue characterization in a mouse model of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity, 2015-02-03

• Cardiac MR feature tracking identifies abnormal biventricular global strain values in biopsy-proven non-ischemic cardiomyopathies, 2015-02-03

• Voxel-by-Voxel 4D Flow MRI Based Assessment of Regional Reverse Flow in the Aorta, 2017-09-18

• Heart deformation analysis: Measuring regional myocardial velocity with MR imaging, 2016-04-13

• Segmented CMR acquisition with iterative SENSE reconstruction using L1-regularization in the evaluation of right ventricular systolic function, 2014-01-16

• Combined Renal MRA and Perfusion with a Single Dose of Contrast, 2012-04-20

• Regional left ventricular myocardial T1 and velocity mapping: elevated extracellular volume fraction is associated with altered myocardial velocities, 2014-01-16

• Restoration of physiologic hemodynamics in the ascending aorta following aortic valve Rreplacement: a 4D flow MR study, 2016-01-27

• Assessment of Altered 3D Blood Characteristics in Aortic Disease by Velocity Distribution Analysis, 2014-09-23

• From Unicuspid to Quadricuspid: Influence of Aortic Valve Morphology on Aortic 3D Hemodynamics, 2013-11-21

• Heart deformation analysis: The distribution of regional myocardial motion patterns at left ventricle, 2016-10-25

• Perioperative evaluation of regional aortic wall shear stress patterns in patients undergoing aortic valve and/or proximal thoracic aortic replacement, 2017-11-16

• High-resolution modified look-locker inversion recovery (HR-MOLLI) for RV extracellular volume fraction at 3T and 1.5T: A feasibility study, 2014-01-16

• Time-resolved MRA using sliding window reconstruction for evaluation of renal arterial anatomy and perfusion, 2009-01-28

• 4D Flow and 2D PC MRI: impact of volumetric coverage and three-directional velocity encoding on quantification of aortic hemodynamics, 2016-01-27

• Potential quantitative MR imaging biomarkers of coronary remodeling in older hypertensive patients, 2012-04-26

• Assessment of transvalvular flow jet angle in aortic dilation patients using 4D flow jet shear layer detection method, 2014-01-16

• Virtual Electrophysiologic Study in a Three-dimensional Cardiac MRI Model of Porcine Myocardial Infarction, 2012-05-23

• Accelerating Time-Resolved MRA With Multiecho Acquisition, 2010-03-12

• Reproducibility of cine displacement encoding with stimulated echoes (DENSE) in human subjects, 2016-08-26

• The detection of coronary stiffness in cardiac allografts using MR imaging, 2014-05-29

• Wideband LGE MRI Permits Unobstructed Viewing of Myocardial Scarring in a Patient with an MR-Conditional Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator, 2018-05-04

• Combined modality PET/MR for the detection of severe large vessel vasculitis, 2022-08-15

• Impact of cardiac arrhythmia on velocity quantification by ECG gated phase contrast MRI, 2015-02-03

• Detection and Hemodynamic Evaluation of Flap Fenestrations in Type B Aortic Dissection with 4D Flow MRI: Comparison with Conventional MRI and CTA., 2019-04-25

• Systolic reverse flow derived from 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance in bicuspid aortic valve is associated with aortic dilation and aortic valve stenosis: a cross sectional study in 655 subjects, 2023-01-26

• Peripheral Arterial Disease in a Symptomatic Diabetic Population: Prospective Comparison of Rapid Unenhanced MR Angiography (MRA) With Contrast-Enhanced MRA, 2011-10-17

• Prognostic value of MRI T2 quantification in heart transplant patients: a 5-year outcome study, 2016-01-27

• Variability of Native T1 values: Implication for defining regional myocardial changes using MRI, 2018-05-22

• Time Resolved MRA: Evaluation of Intrapulmonary Circulation Parameters in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, 2010-10-21

• Semi-quantitative Myocardial Perfusion MRI in Heart Transplant Recipients at Rest: Repeatability in Healthy Controls and Assessment of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy, 2019-12-19

• Improved assessment of aortic 3D blood flow with combined k-t accelerated 3D CINE bSSFP & 4D flow MRI, 2016-01-27

• Effects of respiratory motion on coronary wall MR imaging: A quantitative study of older adults, 2013-02-03

• Age-Related Changes in Aortic 3D Blood Flow Velocities and Wall Shear Stress: Implications for the Identification of Altered Hemodynamics in Patients with Aortic Valve Disease, 2015-10-19

• Noncontrast MR Angiography of the Hand: Improved Arterial Conspicuity by Multi-Directional Flow-Sensitive Dephasing Magnetization Preparation in 3D Balanced SSFP Imaging, 2011-05-26

• Comprehensive evaluation of aortic disease by in-vivo 4D flow MRI and 3D printing of patient-specific models: a feasibility study, 2016-01-27

• Right-ventricular assessment using a segmented cine acquisition employing iterative SENSE reconstruction with spatio-temporal L1 regularization: Initial clinical experience, 2016-01-27

• Distribution of Blood Flow Velocity in the Normal Aorta: Effect of Age and Gender, 2017-05-26

• Cardiac magnetic resonance T2 mapping for monitoring acute cardiac transplant rejection, 2011-02-02

• Aortic pulse wave velocity evaluated by 4D flow MRI across the adult lifespan, 2022-01-10

• Measurement of myocardial blood volume and water exchange using ferumoxytol, 2015-02-03

• Real time flow imaging in atrial fibrillation, 2015-02-03

• Ascending aorta flow derangement is a marker of outflow obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 2014-01-16

• Detection of renal dysfunction by point of care creatinine testing in patients undergoing peripheral MR angiography, 2011-02-02

• k-t accelerated aortic 4D flow MRI in under 2 minutes: feasibility and impact of resolution, k-space sampling patterns, and respiratory navigator gating on hemodynamic measurements, 2017-03-07

• MR tissue phase mapping reveals reduced left ventricular velocities in patients with myocardial scar, 2016-01-27

• Clinical utility of cardiac magnetic resonance T2 mapping for acute myocardial edema, 2011-02-02

• 4D Flow MRI, Cardiac Function, and T1-Mapping: Association of Valve Mediated Changes in Aortic Hemodynamics with Left Ventricular Remodeling, 2017-12-05

• Pilot Tone-Triggered MRI for Quantitative Assessment of Cardiac Function, Motion, and Structure, 2022-09-06

• Left Ventricular Extracellular Volume Expansion does not Predict Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation following Catheter Ablation, 2020-01-09

• Baseline 4D Flow-Derivedin vivoHemodynamic Parameters Stratify Descending Aortic Dissection Patients With Enlarging Aortas, 2022-06-09

• Volumetric Quantification of Absolute Local Normalized Helicity in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Aortic Dilatation, 2016-08-19

• Evaluation of accelerated real-time CMR using sparse sampling with iterative SENSE reconstruction in patients and volunteers, 2014-01-16

• Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging of aorto-iliac and ilio-femoral vascular calcifications using proton density-weighted in-phase stack of stars, 2018-08-06

• The validity of a free breathing motion corrected phase sensitive inversion recovery sequence in the detection of delayed myocardial enhancement in non-ischemic heart disease, 2014-01-16

• 4D flow MRI of the aorta demonstrates age- and gender-related differences in aortic size and blood flow velocity in healthy subjects, 2015-02-03

• Imaging of cardiovascular complications in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, 2015-06-02

• Comparison of hemodynamics after aortic root replacement using valve-sparing or bioprosthetic valved conduit, 2015-07-23

• The compensation for asynchronous cardiac quiescence in coronary wall MR imaging, 2013-10-30

• Thoracic Aorta 3D Hemodynamics in Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With Bicuspid Aortic Valve, 2015-01-22

• Determination of the Optimal First-Order Gradient Moment for Flow-Sensitive Dephasing Magnetization-Prepared 3D Non-Contrast MR Angiography, 2011-02-24

• Impact of beta-blocker therapy on thoracic aorta 3D wall shear stress in patients with bicuspid aortic valve, 2014-01-16

• Stress perfusion cardiac MRI with regadenoson and gadofoveset trisodium, 2015-02-03

• A theoretical framework for retrospective T2* correction to the arterial input function in quantitative myocardial perfusion MRI, 2021-03-24

• Heart deformation analysis for automated quantification of cardiac function and regional myocardial motion patterns: a proof of concept study in patients with cardiomyopathy and healthy subjects, 2016-08-10

• Impact of Age and Cardiac Disease on Regional Left and Right Ventricular Myocardial Motion in Healthy Controls and Patients with Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot, 2019-02-04

• Biventricular strain analysis at 1.5T cardiac MR imaging: preliminary results in volunteers using an iterative SENSE reconstruction with L1 regularization, 2014-01-16

• Cardiac MR reliably identifies patients with clinically significant left ventricular noncompaction using a novel mass quantification technique, 2015-02-03

• The role of latency period in quality management for free-breathing coronary wall MRI, 2015-01-09

• MR Imaging of Ilio-Femoral Peripheral Vascular Calcifications using Proton Density-Weighted, In-Phase 3D Stack-of-Stars Gradient-Echo, 2016-06-14

• Comparison of derived strain values of myocardial regions, levels, and segments by field strength and temporal resolution via cine bSSFP MR imaging, 2016-01-27

• Influence of Beta-Blocker Therapy on Aortic Blood Flow in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve, 2016-01-27

• Clinical evaluation of inline motion correction for cardiac perfusion MRI, 2011-02-02

• Four-Dimensional Flow MRI Quantification of Blood Flow in Bicuspid Aortic Valve, 2020-11-01

• Myocardial Perfusion MRI Using SW-CG-HYPR in Canine with Stenotic Coronary Arteries, 2010-07-19

• Aortic Volumetry at Contrast-enhanced MR Angiography: Feasibility as a Sensitive Method for Monitoring Bicuspid Aortic Valve Aortopathy, 2016-09-28

• Myocardial strain analysis with CMR in cardiotoxicity patients using deformation field analysis: Comparison to healthy volunteers and heart transplant patients, 2016-01-27

• Hemodynamics in bicuspid aortic valve relatives with trileaflet aortic valves compared to normal controls using 4D flow MRI, 2014-01-16

• Leakage and Water Exchange Characterization of Gadofosveset in the Myocardium, 2013-12-07

• Accelerated Dual-Venc4D flow MRI for neurovascular applications, 2017-02-02

• Parametric Hemodynamic 4D Flow MRI Maps for the Characterization of Chronic Thoracic Descending Aortic Dissection, 2019-11-12

• Two-minute k-t accelerated aortic 4D flow MRI: Dual-center study of feasibility and impact on velocity and wall shear stress quantification, 2019-06-27

• Comprehensive non-contrast MR assessment of the iliofemoral arteries with visualization of vascular calcifications in TAVR candidates - initial experience, 2016-01-27

• Clinical evaluation of accelerated cardiac cine imaging using iterative k-t-sparse SENSE, 2014-01-16

• Beta-blocker therapy does not reduce ascending aorta wall shear stress in patients with bicuspid aortic valve, 2015-02-03

• Automated Assessment of Left Ventricular Function and Mass Using Heart Deformation Analysis: Initial Experience in 160 older adults, 2015-12-31