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3347
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William D. Carlson is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics primarily in the fields of medicine and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on surgery, geophysics, biomedical engineering, hepatology, and infectious diseases.

The core topics of their work include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Muscle and Compartmental Disorders
  • TGF-β signaling in diseases

Notable frequent co-authors collaborating with William D. Carlson are:

  • Frederic Roy Carlson
  • Dattatreyamurty Bosukonda
  • Peter Keck
  • Van-Khue Ton
  • Erin Coglianese

William D. Carlson has contributed to several publication venues multiple times, including:

  • American Journal of Transplantation
  • JACC Basic to Translational Science
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Geosphere
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

The following are recent papers authored or co-authored by William D. Carlson:

  • "Multiorgan Damage in Patients With COVID-19" (2020), published in JACC Basic to Translational Science
  • "A Process for the Design and Development of Novel Bone Morphogenetic Protein-7 (BMP-7) Mimetics With an Example: THR-184" (2022), published in Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • "Cardiac preservation using ex vivo organ perfusion: new therapies for the treatment of heart failure by harnessing the power of growth factors using BMP mimetics like THR-184" (2025), published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Other papers related to their collaborators or research fields include:

  • "Lithium in garnet as a tracer of subduction zone metamorphic reactions: The record in ultrahigh-pressure metapelites at Lago di Cignana, Italy" (2022), published in Geosphere
  • "Optimal Dosing of Enoxaparin to Achieve Therapeutic Anticoagulation in Heart Transplant Recipients" (2020), published in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

William D. Carlson was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Acquisition, optimization and interpretation of X-ray computed tomographic imagery: applications to the geosciences

    Richard A. Ketcham;William D. Carlson

  • Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics: III. Extrapolation to geological time scales

    Richard A. Ketcham;Raymond A. Donelick;Raymond A. Donelick;William D. Carlson

  • Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics: I. Experimental results

    William D. Carlson;Raymond A. Donelick;Raymond A. Donelick;Richard A. Ketcham

  • Variability of apatite fission-track annealing kinetics; II, Crystallographic orientation effects

    Raymond A. Donelick;Richard A. Ketcham;William D. Carlson

  • Three-dimensional quantitative textural analysis of metamorphic rocks using high-resolution computed X-ray tomography: Part I. Methods and techniques.

    C. Denison;W. D. Carlson;R. A. Ketcham

  • Three-dimensional quantitative textural analysis of metamorphic rocks using high-resolution computed X-ray tomography: Part II. Application to natural samples

    C. Denison;William D Carlson

  • Scales of disequilibrium and rates of equilibration during metamorphism

    William D. Carlson

  • Rates of Fe, Mg, Mn, and Ca diffusion in garnet

    William D. Carlson

  • The significance of intergranular diffusion to the mechanisms and kinetics of porphyroblast crystallization

    William D. Carlson

  • Mechanisms and kinetics of apatite fission-track annealing

    William D. Carlson

  • Rates and mechanism of Y, REE, and Cr diffusion in garnet

    William D. Carlson

  • Disequilibrium for Ca during growth of pelitic garnet

    C. B. Chernoff;William D Carlson

  • The polymorphs of CaCO 3 and the aragonite-calcite transformation

    William D. Carlson

  • Optical Determination of Topotactic Aragonite-Calcite Growth Kinetics: Metamorphic Implications

    William D. Carlson;John L. Rosenfeld

  • Mechanisms of Porphyroblast Crystallization: Results from High-Resolution Computed X-ray Tomography.

    William D. Carlson;Cambria Denison

  • Trace element zoning as a record of chemical disequilibrium during garnet growth

    Carlotta B. Chernoff;William D. Carlson

  • Plagioclase-chain networks in slowly cooled basaltic magma

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  • Three-dimensional imaging of earth and planetary materials

    William D. Carlson

  • Applications of high-resolution X-ray computed tomography in petrology, meteoritics and palaeontology

    William D Carlson;Timothy B Rowe;Richard A Ketcham;Matthew W Colbert

  • Controls on the nucleation and growth of porphyroblasts: Kinetics from natural textures and numerical models

    William D. Carlson;Cambria Denison;Richard A. Ketcham

  • The origin of olivine-plagioclase coronas in metagabbros from the Adirondack Mountains, New York

    C. D. Johnson;W. D. Carlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Ketcham
Richard A. Ketcham The University of Texas at Austin
James N. Connelly
James N. Connelly University of Copenhagen
Dork Sahagian
Dork Sahagian Lehigh University
Lawrence A. Taylor
Lawrence A. Taylor University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Harry Y. McSween
Harry Y. McSween University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Nikolai V. Sobolev
Nikolai V. Sobolev Russian Academy of Sciences
Jay J. Ague
Jay J. Ague Yale University
Donald H. Lindsley
Donald H. Lindsley Stony Brook University
John W. Valley
John W. Valley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Rhonda M. Stroud
Rhonda M. Stroud Arizona State University

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