Scientific Publications on
Interventional and Therapeutic MR


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Medica Mundi IMR - 2
Application of MR Technology to Endovascular Interventions in an XMR Suite. by Martin AJ, Weber OM, Saloner D, Higashida R, Wilson M, Saeed M, Higgins CB. Medica Mundi (December, 2002), Volume 46.


Journal Articles:

  • Saeed M, Lee R, Martin AJ, Weber OM, Krombach G, Schalla S, Lee M, Saloner D, Higgins CB. MRI in Guiding and Assessing Intramyocardial Therapy. European Radiology, in press.
  • Ko NU, Achrol AS, Martin AJ, Chopra M, Saloner DA, Higashida RT, Young WL. Magnetic Resonance Perfusion Tracks 133Xe Cerebral Blood Flow Changes after Carotid Stenting. Stroke, in press.
  • Martin AJ, Saloner DA, Roberts TPL, Roberts H, Weber OM, Dillon W, Cullen S, Halbach V, Dowd CF, Higashida RT. Carotid Stent Delivery in an XMR Suite: Immediate Assessment of the Physiologic Impact of Extracranial Revascularization. Amer J of Neuro Radiology, in press.
  • 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 Normal Volunteers. American Journal of Roentgenology 2004; 183: 677-680..
  • Weber OM, Pujadas S, Martin AJ, Higgins CB. Free-Breathing, Three-Dimensional Coronary Artery Magnetic Resonance Angiography: Comparison of Sequences. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2004; 20: 395-402. Saeed M, Lee R, Martin AJ, Weber OM, Krombach G, Schalla S, Lee M, Saloner D, Higgins CB. Transendocardial delivery of extracellular myocardial tracers using MRI-guidance: feasibility study in dogs. Radiology 2004; 231: 689-696.
  • Jou LD, Quick CM, Young WL, Lawton MT, Higashida R, Martin A, Saloner D. Computational approach to quantifying hemodynamic forces in giant cerebral aneurysms. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2003 Oct;24(9):1804-10.
  • Weber OM, Martin AJ, Higgins CB. Whole heart steady-state free precession coronary artery magnetic resonance angiography. Magn Reson Med, 50: 1223-1228, 2003.
  • Weber OM, Schalla S, Martin AJ, Saeed M, Lee R, Shunk KA, Moore P, Higgins CB. Interventional Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Seminars in Roentgenology 2003; 38(4): 352-357.
  • Schalla S, Saeed M, Higgins CB, Martin A, Weber O, Moore P. Magnetic resonance-guided cardiac catheterization in a swine model of atrial septal defect. Circulation 2003; 108: 1865-1870.
  • Wilson MW, Fidelman N, Weber OM, Martin AJ, Gordon RL, Laberge JM, Kerlan RK, Wolanske KA, Saeed M. Experimental renal artery embolization in a combined MR imaging/angiographic unit. J Vasc Interv Radiology 2003; 14: 1169-1175. Martin AJ, Weber OM, Saeed M, Roberts TPL. Steady State Imaging for Visualization of Endovascular Interventions. Magn Reson Med, 50: 434-438, 2003.
  • Kuehne T, Moore P, Saeed M, Weber O, Gleason K, Martin A, Krombach G, Turner D, Teitel D, Higgins CB. MRI Guided Deployment and Post-interventional Assessment of Endovascular Stents in the Pulmonary Position in Swine. Radiology, in press.
  • Wilson MW, LaBerge JM, Kerlan RK Jr,Weber OM, Martin AJ, et al. Magnetic resonance portal venography: feasibility of fast acquisition without contrast media or breath holding. Academic Radiology 2002 Oct; 9: 1179-1184.
  • Fidelman N, Wilson MW, Weber OM, Martin AJ, Kerlan RK, LaBerge JM, Gordon RL. Real-time MR Properties of Particulate Embolic Agents Tested in a Dynamic Flow Model.J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2002 Jun; 13(6): 613-618.
  • Integrating X-ray angiography and MRI for endovascular interventions by T.P.L. Roberts, A. Martin, W.P. Dillon, R.L. Arenson and C.B. Higgins, Medica Mundi (November, 2000), Volume 44.


  • Conference Presentations:

  • Martin AJ, Larson PS, Sootsman K, Lindsey N, Talke P, Weber O, Meyers J, Starr PA. Image Guided Placement of Deep Brain Stimulator Electrodes Using Real-Time High Field Interventional MRI. Proceedings of the 5th Interventional MRI Symposium; Boston, 2004.
  • Saloner D, Martin AJ, Ko NU, Achrol AS, Chopra M, Higashida RT, Young WL. Assessment of Cerebral Blood Flow after Carotid Stenting. Proceedings of the 5th Interventional MRI Symposium; Boston, 2004
  • Martin AJ, Starr PA, Larson PS, Sootsman K. Development of an Image Guided Approach for the Delivery of Deep Brain Stimulator Electrodes. Proceedings of the 5th Interventional MRI Symposium; Boston, 2004.
  • Saeed M, Henk C, Weber O, Martin A, Wilson M, Shunk K, Saloner D, Higgins CB. X-ray/MR Fluoroscopy for Delivery and Assessment of Endovascular Stents to Repair Aortic Coarctation. Proceedings of the 5th Interventional MRI Symposium; Boston, 2004.
  • Weber DL, Dale CL, Gitcho N, Hough MG, Martin AJ, Luks TL, Ferree TC, Simpson, GV. Spatio-temporal activity in cortical networks for deployment of visual spatial attention: cortically constrained source estimation from magnetoencephalography. 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California, October 23-27, 2004.
  • Martin A, Saloner D, Weber O, Roberts T, Roberts H, Dillon B, Halbach V, Dowd C, Higashida R. MR Assessment of Carotid Stent Therapy. Proceedings of the 12th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Kyoto, #381, 2004.
  • Saeed M, Henk C, Weber OM, Martin AJ, Wilson M, Shunk K, Saloner D, Higgins CB. A combined MR Imaging/Angiographic Assessment of Collateral Blood Flow in Acute Aortic Coarctation Before and After Stent Deployment. Proceedings of the 12th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Kyoto, #964, 2004.
  • Zaharchuk G, Martin AJ, Saloner D, Dillon WP. Impact of Model Choice on Quantitative Perfusion Measurements using Continuous Arterial Spin Label Imaging. Proceedings of the 12th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Kyoto, #1365, 2004.
  • Weber OM, Martin AJ, Higgins CB. Whole-Heart Coronary MRA with High SENSE Factors. Proceedings of the 12th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Kyoto, #1881, 2004.
  • Saeed M, Henk C, Weber O, Martin A, Wilson M, Saloner D, Higgins CB. Deployment of Endovascular Stent for Aortic Coarctation Repair Under XMR-Guidance. Proceedings of the 7th Meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, #143, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
  • Weber OM, Martin AJ, Higgins CB. Whole-Heart Coronary MRA Using High Sense Factors. Proceedings of the 7th Meeting of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, #438, Barcelona, Spain, 2004. 12. Reddy GP, Pujadas S, Weber OM, Martin AJ, Tan C, Higgins CB. Feasibility of Velocity-Encoded Cine MR Imaging to Measure Changes in Collateral Blood Flow after Stenting of Aortic Coarctation. Proceedings of the 89th Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, 2003.
  • Weber OM, Martin AJ, Higgins CB. Whole-heart coronary MRA. XV MR Angio Club Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, 2003.
  • Weber OM, Martin AJ, Higgins CB. Near-isotropic whole-heart coronary MRA. Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, pg. 723, 2003.
  • Weber OM, Pujadas S, Martin AJ, Higgins CB. Coronary MRA - A comparison of readout strategies. Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, pg. 730, 2003.
  • Wilson M, Fidelman N, Weber O, Martin A, Saeed M. Realtime interventional MR-guided renal artery embolization. Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, pg. 1189, 2003.
  • Schalla S, Saeed M, Moore P, Weber O, Martin A, Higgins CB. Left and right heart catheterization using real-time MR catheter guidance. Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, pg. 1198, 2003.
  • Saloner D, Jou L, Martin A, Higashida R, Young W. MR flow velocity measurements for determining numerical simulation boundary values. Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, pg. 1694, 2003.
  • Wilson M, Fidelman N, Saeed M, Weber O, Martin AJ, Gordon RL. Realtime interventional MR-guided renal artery embolization. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Society of Interventional Radiology, pg S23, 2003.
  • Weber O, Martin A, Higgins C. Whole heart coronary MR angiography using a magnetization prepared SSFP sequence. In: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 5(1), page 23-24, 2003.
  • Shunk K, Weber O, Saeed M, Martin A, Higgins C. The hybrid interactive magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI)/X-ray suite is a cardiovascular interventional procedure development tool. In: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 5(1), page 39, 2003.
  • Schalla S, Saeed M, Martin AJ, Weber O, Higgins C, Moore P. Quantitative assessment of atrial septal defect closure using a hybrid XMR system. In: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 5(1), page 45-46, 2003.
  • Weber OM, Martin AJ, Higgins CB. Cartesian, spiral, and radial coronary MR angiography - a comparison. In: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 5(1), page 188-189, 2003.
  • Martin AJ, Saeed M, Weber O, Wilson M, Higgins C, Saloner D. Optimization of intra-arterial contrast agent delivery for MR angiography. In: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 5(1), page 193-194, 2003.
  • Martin AJ, Saloner D, Kapadia B, Roberts T, Roberts H, Weber, Dillon B, Dowd C, Halbach V, Higashida R. MR Evaluation of Carotid Stent Therapy. Proceedings of the 4th Interventional MRI Symposium: Euro Radiol 12, pg F13; 2002.
  • Martin AJ, Weber OM, Roberts TPL. Comparison of acquisition techniques for MR fluoroscopy of vascular interventions. Proceedings of the 4th Interventional MRI Symposium: Euro Radiol 12, pg F14; 2002.
  • Saeed M, Lee R, Martin A, Krombach G, Weber O, Lee M, Schalla S, Higgins C. Transendocardial delivery of extracellular myocardial tracers using MRI-guidance. Proceedings of the 4th Interventional MRI Symposium: Euro Radiol 12, pg F27; 2002.
  • Martin AJ, Roberts TPL, Weber OM. Fluoroscopic steady state imaging strategies: implications for guidance of interventional procedures. Proceedings of the 4th Interventional MRI Symposium: Euro Radiol 12, pg F29; 2002.
  • Roberts H, Roberts T, Martin A, Weber O, Dowd C, Halbach V, Dillon W, Higashida R. Quantitative online evaluation of carotid stent placement using a combined MRI/X-ray angiography suite. Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Honolulu, pg. 336, 2002.
  • Weber OM, Martin AJ, Raddy GP, Higgins CB. Magnetization-prepared, free-breathing, steady state free precession, Cartesian and radial coronary MR angiography. Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Honolulu, pg. 1590, 2002.
  • Martin AJ, Weber OM, Roberts TP. Steady state imaging for guiding endovascular interventions. Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Honolulu, pg. 2252, 2002
  • Fidelman N, Wilson M, Weber O, Martin A, Kerlan R, LaBerge J, Gordon R. Real-time MR-guided particulate embolization in a dynamic flow model. Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Honolulu, pg. 2264, 2002.
  • Saeed M, Lee R, Martin A, Krombach G, Weber O, Lee M, Schalla S, Higgins C. Feasibility of direct catheter delivery of therapeutics to the mypcardium using dual x-ray/MR imaging. Proceedings of the 10th Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Honolulu, pg. 2268, 2002
  • Weber O, Saeed M, Krombach G, Martin A, Higgins C. Simultaneous determination of myocardial function and assessment of fractional distribution volume by slice-following CSPAMM tagging. In: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 4(1), page 102-3, 2002.
  • van Vaals J, Martin A, Roberts T, Higgins C. Development of an interventional suite combining high-field MR and a digital X-ray catheterization lab. In: 3rd Interventional MRI Symposium Program. Leipzig, Germany; v-03, (2000).