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Carissa Fonseca
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Diagnostic CardioVascular Imaging Section
UCLA Department of Radiology
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NIH Co-Investigator and Project Manager, The Cardiac Atlas Project, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 - present: |
Manager, MRI Core Lab for the DETERMINE Trial, UCLA Radiology, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2005 - present: |
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Diagnostic CardioVascular Imaging, UCLA Radiology, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2001 - 2004: |
PhD, Anatomy with Radiology, University of Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1997 - 2000: |
Bachelor of Technology (1st class honors), Biomedical Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand
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Cardiac Function and Mechanics. Establishing Normative Values for Myocardial Function. |
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Myocardial Infarction: Analysis and Characterization of Myocardial Scar
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Data Repository Design and Development.
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The Cardiac Atlas Project |
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DEfibrillators To REduce Risk by MagnetIc ResoNance Imaging Evaluation (DETERMINE) Study |
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Myocardial Function with cardiac MR Tagging |
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Image processing
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Nael K, Saleh R, Nyborg GK, Fonseca C, Weinmann HJ, Laub G, Finn JP.
Pulmonary MR perfusion at 3.0 Tesla Using a Blood Pool Contrast Agent: Initial Results in a Swine Model.
J Magn Reson Imaging. .
2007 Jan; 25(1):66-72
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Fonseca CG, Nael K, Weinmann HJ, Nyborg G, Laub G, Finn JP.
Cardiac Cine MRI at 3.0 T: Initial Experience with Gadomer-17 in a Swine Model.
Abstract presented orally at International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 14th Scientific Meeting. Seattle, WA, 2006
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Fonseca CG, Dissanayake AM, Doughty RN, Whalley GA, Gamble GD, Cowan BR, Occleshaw CJ, Young AA. 3D Assessment of LV Systolic Strain in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Diastolic Dysfunction and Normal LV Ejection Fraction. American Journal of Cardiology. 2004; 94(11):1391-1395.
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Fonseca CG, Oxenham HC, Cowan BR, Occleshaw CJ, Young AA. Aging Alters Patterns of Regional Non-Uniformity in LV Strain Relaxation: A 3D MR Tissue Tagging Study. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2003; 285(2): H621-H630.
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Oxenham HC, Young AA, Cowan BR, Gentles TL, Occleshaw CJ, Fonseca CG, Doughty RN, Sharpe N. Age-Related Changes in Myocardial Relaxation using Three-Dimensional Tagged Magnetic resonance Imaging. Journal of Cardiovascular magnetic resonance. 2003; 5(3):421-430.
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Fonseca CG, Green CR, Nicholson LFB. Upregulation in Astrocytic Connexin 43 Gap Junction levels may Exacerbate Generalized Seizures in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Brain Research. 2002; 929(1): 105-116.
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