Fellowship Director: Elizabeth Hecht, M.D.
Administrative Assistant: Simmone Sam
Email: hechte01@med.nyu.edu, Simmone.Sam@nyumc.org
Phone: 212-263-0232
The body MRI fellowship is an intensive one year fellowship which provides a comprehensive experience in body and cardiovascular MR imaging. The body MR service sees a high volume of clinical cases (over 4000 cases per year) which encompasses imaging of the heart and chest, abdomen, pelvis, breast and MR angiography from the level of the thoracic inlet to the toes. The fellowship is designed to enable fellows to have direct experience with MR image acquisition in order to be able to optimize imaging sequences and protocol design, in addition to learning the skills of image interpretation. The NYU Department of Radiology currently has 9 clinical Siemens MR imaging scanners, including two new whole body MR Avanto systems and two 3T whole body systems with state of the art imaging and post processing technology. A Siemens 7T research scanner is also available. The high volume clinical MR service also encompasses imaging at the Bellevue Medical Center where there are two clinical Siemens MR scanners including a whole body 1.5T Avanto and Symphony magnet and the Manhattan Veteran Affairs hospital where there is a Siemens 1.5T whole body Avanto system as well as additional offsite private facilities.
There are a broad range of opportunities for research which is a strong component of the fellowship. Fellows are expected to participate in research projects and are given academic time to complete them. Each fellow will be matched with a member of the faculty to serve as a mentor. This enables success in their research endeavors, which should culminate with the presentation of their work at a national meeting and subsequent publications in the radiology literature. The range of research interests of faculty members are illustrated in a list of selected recent publications from the group provided below.
The Body and Cardiovascular MR Imaging divisions consist of 8 full-time faculty members with expertise in all applications of body MR imaging and MR angiography and 2 dedicated cardiac MR imaging radiologists. All are dedicated to teaching and making the body MRI fellowship a fantastic and educational experience. We invite you to visit our educational website and our faculty webpages.
Universal Fellowship Application
Please note: The match is no longer available for body imaging fellowships. Please have your fellowship applications in as soon as possible as we will begin a rolling admissions policy (we will review and decide on applications as they are received until there are no openings left in the entering class).
Body and Cardiovascular MR Imaging Faculty:
Leon Axel, MD, PhD
Elizabeth Hecht, MD
Nicole Hindman, MD
Danny C. Kim, MD
Sooah Kim, MD
Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD
Ruth Lim, MBBS,M.Med,FRANZ
Michael Macari, MD
Barbara Srichai-Parsia, MD
Bachir Taouli, MD
The following is a listing of our publications from 2003 through 2006.
Attal P, Vilgrain V, Brancatelli G, Paradis V, Terris B, Belghiti J, Taouli B, Menu Y. Telangiectatic Focal Nodular Hyperplasia: US, CT and MR Findings With Histopathologic Correlation In 13 Cases. Radiology 2003; 228: 465-472.
Axel L, Montillo A, Kim D.Tagged magnetic resonance imaging of the heart: a survey. Med Image Anal. 2005 Aug;9(4):376-93.
Axel L. Assessment of pericardial disease by MR and CT. J Magn Reson Imaging 2004;19:.816-826.
Axel L. Tagged MRI-based studies of cardiac function. FIMH 2003, I Magnin et al. (Eds.): LNCS 2674, 1-7, 2003.
Axel L. The papillary muscles do not attach directly to the solid heart wall. Circulation 2004;109:3145-3148.
Bluemke D, Krupinski EA, Ovitt T, Gear K, Unger E, Axel L, Boxt LM, Casolo G, Ferrari V, Funaki B, Globits S, Higgins CB, Julsrud P, Lipton M, Mawson J, Nygren A, Pennel DJ, Stillman A, White RD, Wichter T, Marcus F. MR imaging of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: morphologic findings and interobserver reliability. Cardiology 2003: 99;153-162.
Bokacheva L, Huang AJ, Chen Q, Oesingmann N, Storey P, Rusinek H, Lee VS. Single breath-hold T1 measurement using low flip angle TrueFISP. Magn Reson Med. 2006 May;55(5):1186-90.
Chang JS, Taouli B, Salibi N, Hecht EM, Chin DG, Lee VS. Opposed-phase MRI for fat quantification in fat-water phantoms with 1H MR spectroscopy to resolve ambiguity of fat or water dominance. AJR 2006 Jul;187 (1)
Chang S, Metaxas DN, Axel L. Scan-conversion algorithm for ridge point detection on tubular objects. R.E. Ellis and T.M. Peters (Eds.): MICCAI 2003, LNCS 2879, 158-165, 2003.
Fernandez-Valles M, Srichai MB , Stillman AE, White RD. Isolated Left Ventricular Apical Hypoplasia: A New Congenital Anomaly Discovered With Cardiac Tomography. Heart 90:552-555, 2004.
Gupta AA*, Lee VS, Chung Y-C, Babb JS, Simonett OP. Delayed contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging for myocardial infarction: Optimizing inversion times. Radiology , in press.
Gupta AA*, Kim DC, Krinsky GA , Lee VS. CT and MRI of cirrhosis and its mimics. AJR 2004; 183(6):1595-601
Guermazi A, Zaim S, Taouli B, Miaux Y, Peterfy C.G., Genant H.K. MR Imaging findings in knee osteoarthritis. Eur Radiol 2003; 13: 1370-1386.
Hahn WY, Hecht EM, Friedman B, Babb JS, Jacobowitz GR, Lee VS. Distal Lower Extremity Imaging: Prospective Comparison of 2D Time-of-Flight, 3D Time-Resolved Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography, and 3D Bolus Chase Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography. JCAT 2006 In press
Hahn W, Israel GM, Lee VL. MR imaging of female urethral pathology and its symptomologic mimics. AJR 2004 182:677-82.
Hecht EM, Holland AE , Israel GM, Hahn WY, Kim DC, Brian West A, Babb JS, Taouli B, Lee VS, Krinsky GA. Dynamic Gadolinium enhanced Three-Dimensional MR Imaging as a Stand Alone Sequence for the diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Cirrhotic Liver. Radiology 2006; May; 239(2): 438-47
Hecht EM, Israel GM, Krinsky GA, Hahn WY, Kim DC, Belitskaya-Levy I, Lee VS. Renal masses: quantitative analysis of enhancement with signal intensity measurements versus qualitative analysis of enhancement with image subtraction for diagnosing malignancy at MR imaging.Radiology. 2004 Aug; 232(2):373-8.
Heller SL, Lee VS. MR imaging of the gallbladder and biliary system. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2005 May;13 (2):295-311.
Holland AE, Hecht EM, Hahn WY, Kim, DC, Lee VS, KrinskyGA. Significance of Small (<2 cm) Enhancing Lesions Seen Only on the Hepatic Arterial Phase at MR Imaging in the Cirrhotic Liver: Evaluation with Whole Explant Correlation. Radiology 2005; 237(3):938-44.
Hu Z, Metaxis D, Axel L. In vivo strain and stress estimation of the heart left and right ventricles from MRI images. Medical Image Analysis 2003;7:435-444.
Hu ZH, Metaxas D, Axel L Left ventricle composite material model for stress-strain analysis . Lect Notes Comput Sci. 2673: 218-229 2003.
Huang AJ*, Lee VS, Rusinek H. MRI of renal function. Radiol Clin North Am 2003;41(5):1001-1017.
Huang AJ*, Lee VS, Rusinek H. Functional renal MRI. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2004 Aug;12(3):469-86
Israel GM, Hecht EM, Bosniak MA. CT and MR Findings of Complications of Partial Nephrectomy. Radiographics. 2006 Sep-Oct;26(5):1419-29
Israel GM, Bosniak MA. Calcification in Cystic Renal Masses: Is It Important in Diagnosis? Radiology 2003 226: 47-52.
Israel GM, Bosniak MA. Follow-up CT studies for moderately complex cystic renal masses (Bosniak category IIF). AJR 2003;181:627-633.
Israel GM, Hindman N, Bosniak MA. Comparison of CT and MRI in the evaluation of cystic renal masses. Radiology 2004; 231:365-371.
Israel GM, Korobkin M, Wang C, Hecht E, Krinsky GA. Comparison of unenhanced CT and chemical shift MR imaging in evaluating lipid rich adrenal adenomas. AJR 2004; 183:215-9.
Kim D, Cernicanu A, Axel L. B(0) and B(1)-insensitive uniform T(1)-weighting for quantitative, first-pass myocardial perfusion magnetic resonance imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2005 Dec;54(6):1423-9.
Kim D, Axel L. Multislice, dual-imaging sequence for increasing the dynamic range of the contrast-enhanced blood signal and CNR of myocardial enhancement at 3T.
J Magn Reson Imaging. 2006 Jan;23(1):81-6.
Kim D, Lee VS, Srichai MB. Improved visualization of non-transmural scar using slice-selective inversion-recovery delayed contrast-enhanced MRI: a preliminary report.
NMR Biomed. 2006 Sep 25
Kim D, Epstein FH, Gilson WD, Axel L. Increasing the signal-to-noise ratio in DENSE MRI by combining displacement-encoded echoes. Magn Reson Med 2004, 52:188-192.
Krinsky GA, Israel G. Nondysplastic nodules that are hyperintense on T1-weighted gradient-echo MR imaging: frequency in cirrhotic patients undergoing transplantation. AJR 2003 Apr;180(4):1023-7.
Lee VS, Hecht EM, Taouli B, Chen Q, Prince C, Oesingmann N. Special Review: Body and Cardiovascular MRI at 3.0 T. In press Radiology
Lee VS. Can living kidney donors be evaluated accurately with the use of MRI alone? Nat Clin Pract Nephrol. 2006 Jan;2(1):22-3.
Lee VS. Science to Practice: Can MR imaging replace liver biopsy for the diagnosis of early fibrosis? Radiology. 2006 May;239(2):309-10.
Lee VS, Resnick D, Tiu SS, Sanger JJ, Nazzaro CA , Israel GM, Simonetti OP. MR Imaging Evaluation of Myocardial Viability in the Setting of Equivocal SPECT Results with 99mTc Sestamibi. Radiology 2004;230:191-197.
Lee VS, Rusinek H, Noz M, Lee P, Raghavan M, Kramer EL. Dynamic three-dimensional MR renography for the measurement of single kidney function—Initial experience. Radiology 2003; 227:289-294.
Lee VS, Morgan JN, Tan AGS, Pandharipande PV, Krinsky GA, Barker JA, Lo C, Weinreb JC. Celiac artery compression by the median arcuate ligament: a pitfall of end-expiratory MR imaging. Radiology 2003; 228:437-442.
Lee VS, Krinsky GA , Nazzaro CA , Chang JS, Babb JS, Lin JC, Morgan GR, Teperman LW. Mangafodipir-enhanced 3D MR cholangiography versus conventional T2-weighted MR cholangiography to define intrahepatic biliary anatomy in living liver transplant donor candidates. 2004 Dec;233(3):659-66.
Lee VS, Morgan GR, Lin JC, Nazzaro CA, Chang JS, Teperman LW, Krinsky GA. Liver transplant donor candidates: Associations between vascular and biliary anatomic variants. Liver Transplantation , 2004 Aug;10(8):1049-54.
Lui YW, Macari M, Israel GM, Bini EJ, Wang H, Babb J. Effect of Different Slice Thickness on CT Colonography Data Interpretation: Preliminary Observations. Radiology 2003;791-797.
Macari M, Lazarus D, Israel GM, Megibow AJ. Duodenal diverticula mimicking cystic neoplasms of the pancreas: CT and MR imaging findings in seven patients. AJR 2003; 180:195-199.
Montillo A, Udupa J, Axel L, Metaxas D. Interaction between noise suppression and inhomogeneity correction in MRI. Proceedings of SPIE: Medical Imaging 2003; 5032:1025-1036.
Montillo A, Metaxas D, Axel L. Automated segmentation of the left and right ventricles in 4D cardiac SPAMM images. MICCAI 2002, LNCS 2488, 620-633.
Montillo A, Metaxas D, Axel L. Automated model-based segmentation of the left and right ventricles in tagged cardiac MRI. R.E. Ellis and T.M. Peters (Eds.): MICCAI 2003, LNCS 2878, 507-515, 2003.
Montillo A, Metaxas D, Axel L. Extracting tissue deformation using Gabor filters. Proceedings of SPIE: Medical Imaging 2004; 5369:1-9.
Moses D, Axel L. Quantification of curvature and shape of the interventricular septum. Magn Reson Med 2004, 52:154-163.
Pai VM, Axel L. Advances in MRI tagging techniques for determining regional myocardial strain. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2006 Feb;8(1):53-8.
Park K, Montillo A, Metaxas D, Axel L. An anatomical heart model for segmentation, analysis and classification. Communications of the ACM (in press, 2003).
Park K, Metaxas D, Axel L. A finite element model for functional analysis of 4D cardiac-tagged MR images. R.E. Ellis and T.M. Peters (Eds.): MICCAI 2003, LNCS 2878, 491-498, 2003.
Mohr A., Priebe M, Taouli B, Grimm J, Heller M, Brossmann J. Selective water-excitation for faster imaging of articular cartilage defects: preliminary study in 16 patients. Eur Radiol 2003;13: 686-689
Pandharipande PV*, Krinsky GA , Rusinek H, Lee VS. Perfusion imaging of the liver: current challenges and future goals. Radiology. 2005 Mar;234(3):661-73. Review.
Schvartzman PR, Srichai MB , Kasper JM, Obuchowski NA, Hammer DF, Grimm RA, White RD. Non-stress delayed-enhancement cardiac MRI predicts recovery of wall motion after coronary revascularization. Am Heart Journal 146(3):535-41, 2003, Sep.
Song T, Lee VS, Rusinek H, Kaur M, Laine AF. Automatic 4-D registration in dynamic MR renography based on over-complete dyadic wavelet and Fourier transforms.Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2005;8(Pt 2):205-13.
Srichai MB, Junor C, Rodriguez LL, Stillman AE, Grimm RA, Lieber ML, Weaver JA, Smedira NG, White RD. Clinical, imaging, and pathological characteristics of left ventricular thrombus: a comparison of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, transthoracic echocardiography, and transesophageal echocardiography with surgical or pathological validation. Am Heart J. 2006 Jul;152(1):75-84.
Srichai MB, Axel L. Magnetic resonance imaging in the management of pericardial disease. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2005 Dec;7(6):449-57.
Srichai MB, Griffin B, Banbury M, Sabik EM. Images in cardiovascular medicine. Inverted left atrial appendage ligation mimicking thrombus. Circulation. 2005 Apr 12;111(14):e178-9.
Srichai MB, Schvartzman PR, Sturm B, Kasper JM, Lieber ML, White RD. Extent of myocardial scarring on nonstress delayed-contrast-enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance imaging correlates directly with degrees of resting regional dysfunction in chronic ischemic heart disease. Am Heart J. 2004 Aug;148(2):342-8.
Srichai MB , Lieber ML, Lytle BW, Kasper JM, White RD. Acute Dissection of the Descending Aorta: Non-Communicating Versus Communicating Forms. Ann Thor Surg, 77(6):2012-2020, 2004, Jun.
Srichai MB , Jaber WA, Prior DL, Marso SP, Houghtaling PL, Menon V, Simoons ML, Harrington RA, Hochman JS. Evaluating the Benefits of Gp IIb/IIIa in Heart Failure at Baseline in Acute Coronary Syndromes. Am Heart Journal, 147(1):84-90, 2004, Jan.
Srichai MB , Casserly IP, Lever HM. Cardiac tamponade masking the clinical presentation and hemodynamic effects of papillary muscle rupture following acute myocardial infarction. J Am Soc Echo 15(9):1000-3, 2002, Sep.
Taouli B. MR spectroscopic imaging for evaluation of prostate cancer. Radiol. 2006 Feb;87(2 Pt 2):222-7. Review. French.
Taouli B, Goh JS, Lu Y, Qayyum A, Yeh BM, Merriman RB, Coakley FV. Growth rate of hepatocellular carcinoma: evaluation with serial computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2005 Jul-Aug;29(4):425-9.
Taouli B, Losada M, Holland A, Krinsky G. Magnetic resonance imaging of hepatocellular carcinoma. Gastroenterology. 2004 Nov;127(5 Suppl 1):S144-52.
Taouli B, Martin AJ, Qayyum A, Merriman RB, Vigneron D, Yeh BM, Coakley FV. Parallel imaging and diffusion tensor imaging for diffusion-weighted MRI of the liver: preliminary experience in healthy volunteers. AJR. 2004 Sep;183(3):677-80.
Taouli B, Zaim S, Peterfy CG, Lynch JA, Stork A, Fan B, Fye KH, Genant HK. Rheumatoid arthritis of the hand and wrist: comparison of three imaging techniques. AJR 2004;182:937-943.
Taouli B, Ghouadni M, Corréas JM, Hammel P, Couvelard A, Richard S, Vilgrain V. Abdominal lesions in von Hippel-Lindau disease: spectrum of imaging findings. AJR 2003;181: 1049-1054.
Taouli B, Vilgrain V, Dumont E, Daire JL, Menu Y. Diffusion MR evaluation of liver isotropism and characterization of focal liver lesions with 2 single-shot-EPI sequences: prospective study in 66 patients. Radiology. 2003; 226: 71-78.
Wetzel SG, Law M, Lee VS , Cha S, Johnson G, Nelson K. Imaging of the intracranial venous system with a contrast-enhanced volumetric interpolated examination. Eur Radiology 2003; 13(5):1010-1018.
Yeh BM, Breiman RS, Taouli B, Qayyum A, Roberts JP, Coakley FV. Biliary tract depiction in living potential liver donors: comparison of conventional MR, mangafodipir trisodium-enhanced excretory MR, and multi-detector row CT cholangiography: initial experience. Radiology 2004; 230: 645-651.
Zhang J, Hecht EM, Israel GM, Lee VS. Isotropic 3D T2-weighted MR Cholangiopancreatography with Parallel Imaging- A Feasibility Study. AJR 2005 In press
Zhang, J, Hecht EM, Maldonado T, Lee VS. Time-Resolved Three-Dimensional MR Angiography with Parallel Imaging for Evaluation of Hemodialysis Fistulas and Grafts: Initial Experience AJR 2006 May;186(5):1436-42.
Zhang J, Israel GM, Krinsky, GALee VS. Masses and pseudomasses of the kidney: imaging spectrum on MR. JCAT , 2004 Sep-Oct;28(5):588-95.
Zuzek RW, White RD, Srichai MB, Jaber WA. Images in cardiovascular medicine. Rare form of right ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Circulation. 2004 Dec 7; 110 (23):e524.
