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Overview

Ashley J. Welch is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans the intersecting fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on subfields such as Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Oncology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes
  • Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Welch's recent papers demonstrate a focus on both clinical and psychological aspects of health. Selected publications include:

  • "Esophageal Protection and Temperature Monitoring Using the Circa S-Cath™ Temperature Probe during Epicardial Radiofrequency Ablation of the Pulmonary Veins and Posterior Left Atrium" (2022) published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • "Let us ask the patient: psychological well-being from a patients'-perspective due to postponed care of cardiac surgery during the COVID-19 lockdown" (2025) published in Acta chirurgica Belgica
  • "Impaired perception of trustworthy faces at low spatial frequency (LSF) and untrustworthy faces at high spatial frequency (HSF) in individuals with higher beck depression inventory scores" (2025) published in Visual Cognition
  • "Police Buffer Zones: Balancing Speech and Safety" (2025) published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Welch include:

  • Ines Van Loo
  • Mark La Meir
  • Rani Kronenberger
  • Orlando Parise
  • Sandro Gelsomino

Welch's studies are regularly published in various academic venues, including:

  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Acta chirurgica Belgica
  • Visual Cognition
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • A review of the optical properties of biological tissues

    W.F. Cheong;S.A. Prahl;A.J. Welch

  • Optical-Thermal Response of Laser-Irradiated Tissue

    Ashley J. Welch;Martin J. C. van Gemert

  • Determining the optical properties of turbid media by using the adding–doubling method

    S. A. Prahl;M. J. C. Van Gemert;A. J. Welch

  • In vivo bidirectional color Doppler flow imaging of picoliter blood volumes using optical coherence tomography

    Joseph A. Izatt;Manish D. Kulkarni;Siavash Yazdanfar;Jennifer K. Barton

  • The thermal response of laser irradiated tissue

    A. Welch

  • Use of an agent to reduce scattering in skin

    Gracie Vargas;Eric K. Chan;Jennifer K. Barton;H. Grady Rylander

  • Light distributions in artery tissue: Monte Carlo simulations for finite-diameter laser beams.

    Marleen Keijzer;Steven L. Jacques;Scott A. Prahl;Ashley J. Welch

  • Holmium: YAG lithotripsy: photothermal mechanism.

    George J. Vassar;Kin F. Chan;Joel M.H. Teichman;Randolph D. Glickman

  • Effects of compression on soft tissue optical properties

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  • Temperature dependence of the absorption coefficient of water for midinfrared laser radiation.

    E. D. Jansen;T. G. Van Leeuwen;Massoud Motamedi;C. Borst

  • Time constants in thermal laser medicine.

    M. J. C. Van Gemert;A. J. Welch

  • Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Blood Vessels from in vivo Color Doppler Optical Coherence Tomography Images

    J. Kehlet Barton;J.A. Izatt;M.D. Kulkarni;S. Yazdanfar

  • Propagation of fluorescent light.

    A. J. Welch;Craig Gardner;Rebecca Richards-Kortum;Eric Chan

  • Holmium:YAG laser lithotripsy: A dominant photothermal ablative mechanism with chemical decomposition of urinary calculi

    Kin Foong Chan;George J. Vassar;T. Joshua Pfefer;Joel M.H. Teichman

  • Laser thermal ablation

    A. J. Welch;Massoud Motamedi;Sohi Rastegar;Gerald L. LeCarpentier

  • Fluorescence spectroscopy of tissue: recovery of intrinsic fluorescence from measured fluorescence.

    Craig M. Gardner;Steven L. Jacques;Ashley J. Welch

  • Use of osmotically active agents to alter optical properties of tissue: Effects on the detected fluorescence signal measured through skin

    Gracie Vargas;Kin F. Chan;Sharon L. Thomsen;A.J. Welch

  • Dehydration mechanism of optical clearing in tissue.

    Christopher G. Rylander;Oliver F. Stumpp;Thomas E. Milner;Nathaniel Joseph Kemp

  • Stone retropulsion during holmium:YAG lithotripsy.

    H.O. Lee;R. Tres Ryan;Joel M.H. Teichman;Jeehyun Kim

  • Investigating pulsed dye laser-blood vessel interaction with color Doppler optical coherence tomography.

    Jennifer Kehlet Barton;Ashley J. Welch;Joseph A. Izatt

  • Spectrally resolved white-light interferometry for measurement of ocular dispersion

    Daniel X. Hammer;Ashley J. Welch;Gary D. Noojin;Robert J. Thomas

  • Rate process model for arterial tissue thermal damage: implications on vessel photocoagulation.

    Ramtin Agah;John A. Pearce;Ashley J. Welch;Massoud Motamedi

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas E. Milner
Thomas E. Milner University of California, Irvine
Joseph A. Izatt
Joseph A. Izatt Duke University
J. Stuart Nelson
J. Stuart Nelson University of California, Irvine
Susan T. Weintraub
Susan T. Weintraub The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Dennis Brown
Dennis Brown Harvard University
Frank K. Tittel
Frank K. Tittel Rice University
Ralph V. Clayman
Ralph V. Clayman University of California, Irvine
Cynthia A. Toth
Cynthia A. Toth Duke University

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