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Heinrich R. Schelbert is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, Rheumatology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work centers on several key topics including:

  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity

Frequent publication venues for Schelbert include:

  • Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
  • Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • Clinical Nuclear Medicine
  • JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging
  • Journal of the American Heart Association

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Juhani Knuuti
  • Robert J. Gropler
  • Vasken Dilsizian
  • Artineh Hayrapetian
  • Wolfgang Weber

Notable recent publications of Heinrich R. Schelbert include:

  • "The Future of Nuclear Medicine, Molecular Imaging, and Theranostics," 2020, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • "Myocardial Perfusion PET for the Detection and Reporting of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction," 2023, JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging
  • "Assessment of cerebral glucose metabolism in patients with heart failure by 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging," 2020, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
  • "Incidental Detection of Elastofibroma Dorsi With 68Ga-FAPI-46 and 18F-FDG PET/CT in a Patient With Esophageal Cancer," 2020, Clinical Nuclear Medicine
  • "Interplay Between Systemic Inflammation, Myocardial Injury, and Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results From the LiiRA Study," 2024, Journal of the American Heart Association

Best Publications

  • Reversibility of Cardiac Wall-Motion Abnormalities Predicted by Positron Tomography

    Jan Tillisch;Richard Brunken;Robert Marshall;Markus Schwaiger

  • Anatomic versus physiologic assessment of coronary artery disease. Role of coronary flow reserve, fractional flow reserve, and positron emission tomography imaging in revascularization decision-making.

    K. Lance Gould;Nils P. Johnson;Timothy M. Bateman;Rob S. Beanlands

  • Value of metabolic imaging with positron emission tomography for evaluating prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction

    Marcelo F. Di Carli;Michael Davidson;Roderick Little;Sandeep Khanna

  • Noninvasive quantification of regional blood flow in the human heart using N-13 ammonia and dynamic positron emission tomographic imaging

    Gary D. Hutchins;Markus Schwaiger;Karen C. Rosenspire;Janine Krivokapich

  • Positron emission tomography and autoradiography: Principles and applications for the brain and heart

    Michael E. Phelps;John C. Mazziotta;Heinrich R. Schelbert

  • N-13 ammonia as an indicator of myocardial blood flow.

    H R Schelbert;M E Phelps;S C Huang;N S MacDonald

  • Influence of age and hemodynamics on myocardial blood flow and flow reserve.

    J. Czernin;P. Müller;Sammy Chan;R. C. Brunken

  • Quantitative Relation Between Myocardial Viability and Improvement in Heart Failure Symptoms After Revascularization in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

    M. F. Di Carli;Farbod Asgarzadie;H. R. Schelbert;R. C. Brunken

  • Identification and differentiation of resting myocardial ischemia and infarction in man with positron computed tomography, 18F-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose and N-13 ammonia.

    Robert C. Marshall;Jan H. Tillisch;Michael E. Phelps;Sung-cheng Huang

  • ASNC imaging guidelines/SNMMI procedure standard for positron emission tomography (PET) nuclear cardiology procedures.

    Vasken Dilsizian;Stephen L. Bacharach;Rob S. Beanlands;Steven R. Bergmann

  • Improvements in cancer staging with PET/CT: literature-based evidence as of September 2006.

    Johannes Czernin;Martin Allen-Auerbach;Heinrich R Schelbert

  • Noninvasive assessment of coronary stenoses with myocardial perfusion imaging during pharmacologic coronary vasodilatation. V. Detection of 47 percent diameter coronary stenosis with intravenous nitrogen-13 ammonia and emission-computed tomography in intact dogs.

    K. Lance Gould;Heinrich R. Schelbert;Michael E. Phelps;Edward J. Hoffman

  • Relation Among Stenosis Severity, Myocardial Blood Flow, and Flow Reserve in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

    Marcelo Di Carli;Johannes Czernin;Carl K. Hoh;Victor H. Gerbaudo

  • Cardiac PET imaging for the detection and monitoring of coronary artery disease and microvascular health

    Thomas H. Schindler;Heinrich R. Schelbert;Alessandra Quercioli;Vasken Dilsizian

  • Regional perfusion, glucose metabolism, and wall motion in patients with chronic electrocardiographic Q wave infarctions: evidence for persistence of viable tissue in some infarct regions by positron emission tomography.

    R Brunken;J Tillisch;M Schwaiger;J S Child

  • Simple noninvasive quantification method for measuring myocardial glucose utilization in humans employing positron emission tomography and fluorine-18 deoxyglucose.

    Sanjiv S. Gambhir;Markus Schwaiger;Sung-Cheng Huang;Janine Krivokapich

  • Positron Tomography with Deoxyglucose for Estimating Local Myocardial Glucose Metabolism

    Osman Ratib;Michael E. Phelps;Sung-Cheng Huang;Eberhard Henze

  • Long-term survival of patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction: implications for the role of myocardial viability assessment in management decisions.

    Marcelo F. Di Carli;Jamshid Maddahi;Sepehr Rokhsar;Heinrich R. Schelbert

  • Positron emission tomography detects tissue metabolic activity in myocardial segments with persistent thallium perfusion defects

    Richard Brunken;Markus Schwaiger;Maleah Grover-McKay;Michael E. Phelps

  • ASNC IMAGING GUIDELINES/SNMMI PROCEDURE STANDARD ASNC imaging guidelines/SNMMI procedure standard for positron emission tomography (PET) nuclear cardiology procedures

    Vasken Dilsizian;Stephen L. Bacharach;Rob S. Beanlands;Steven R. Bergmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael E. Phelps
Michael E. Phelps University of California, Los Angeles
Sung-Cheng Huang
Sung-Cheng Huang University of California, Los Angeles
Johannes Czernin
Johannes Czernin University of California, Los Angeles
Jorge R. Barrio
Jorge R. Barrio University of California, Los Angeles
James Sayre
James Sayre University of California, Los Angeles
Markus Schwaiger
Markus Schwaiger Technical University of Munich
Sanjiv S. Gambhir
Sanjiv S. Gambhir Stanford University
Carl K. Hoh
Carl K. Hoh University of California, San Diego
Marcelo F. Di Carli
Marcelo F. Di Carli Brigham and Women's Hospital
Heiko Schöder
Heiko Schöder Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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