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Medicine

D-Index
77
Citations
26424
World Ranking
18313
National Ranking
9139

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association

Best Publications

  • Clearance systems in the brain—implications for Alzheimer disease

    Jenna M. Tarasoff-Conway;Roxana O. Carare;Ricardo S. Osorio;Lidia Glodzik

  • MR imaging of motion with spatial modulation of magnetization.

    L Axel;L Dougherty

  • Cerebral blood flow determination by rapid-sequence computed tomography: theoretical analysis.

    L Axel

  • Heart wall motion: improved method of spatial modulation of magnetization for MR imaging.

    L Axel;L Dougherty

  • XD-GRASP: Golden-angle radial MRI with reconstruction of extra motion-state dimensions using compressed sensing.

    Li Feng;Leon Axel;Hersh Chandarana;Kai Tobias Block

  • Blood flow effects in magnetic resonance imaging.

    L Axel

  • Mechanisms of myocardial infarction in women without angiographically obstructive coronary artery disease.

    Harmony R. Reynolds;Monvadi B. Srichai;Sohah N. Iqbal;James N. Slater

  • Three-dimensional left ventricular deformation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

    Alistair A. Young;Christopher M. Kramer;Victor A. Ferrari;Leon Axel

  • Quality assurance methods and phantoms for magnetic resonance imaging: report of AAPM nuclear magnetic resonance Task Group No. 1.

    Ronald R. Price;Leon Axel;Tommie Morgan;Robert Newman

  • Difference between liver and spleen CT numbers in the normal adult: its usefulness in predicting the presence of diffuse liver disease.

    J Piekarski;H I Goldberg;S A Royal;L Axel

  • Three-dimensional motion and deformation of the heart wall: estimation with spatial modulation of magnetization--a model-based approach.

    A A Young;L Axel

  • Intensity correction in surface-coil MR imaging

    L Axel;J Costantini;J Listerud

  • Analysis of left ventricular wall motion based on volumetric deformable models and MRI-SPAMM

    Jinah Park;Dimitris N. Metaxas;Leon Axel

  • Regional differences in function within noninfarcted myocardium during left ventricular remodeling.

    C. M. Kramer;J. A. C. Lima;N. Reichek;V. A. Ferrari

  • Avascular necrosis of the hip: comparison of MR, CT, and scintigraphy.

    Mitchell;HL Kundel;ME Steinberg;HY Kressel

  • Breath-hold ultrafast three-dimensional gadolinium-enhanced MR angiography of the aorta and the renal and other visceral abdominal arteries.

    G A Holland;L Dougherty;J P Carpenter;M A Golden

  • Rapid B1+ mapping using a preconditioning RF pulse with TurboFLASH readout

    Sohae Chung;Daniel Kim;Elodie Breton;Leon Axel

  • Myocardial first-pass perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance: history, theory, and current state of the art.

    Bernhard L Gerber;Subha V Raman;Krishna Nayak;Frederick H Epstein

  • Circumferential myocardial shortening in the normal human left ventricle. Assessment by magnetic resonance imaging using spatial modulation of magnetization.

    N R Clark;N Reichek;P Bergey;E A Hoffman

  • Deformable models with parameter functions for cardiac motion analysis from tagged MRI data

    Jinah Park;D. Metaxas;A.A. Young;L. Axel

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitris N. Metaxas
Dimitris N. Metaxas Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Herbert Y. Kressel
Herbert Y. Kressel Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Nathaniel Reichek
Nathaniel Reichek Stony Brook University
Ricardo Otazo
Ricardo Otazo Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Daniel K. Sodickson
Daniel K. Sodickson New York University
Shaoting Zhang
Shaoting Zhang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Zahi A. Fayad
Zahi A. Fayad Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Junzhou Huang
Junzhou Huang The University of Texas at Arlington
Xiaolei Huang
Xiaolei Huang Pennsylvania State University
Gabor T. Herman
Gabor T. Herman City University of New York

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