Gerhard Laub
Director, Cardiovascular Collaborations
Siemens Medical Solutions, Inc., USA
Background
2003 - present: Director, Cardiovascular Collaborations, Siemens Los Angeles,
Visiting Professor, UCLA Radiology, Los Angeles, CA
1999 - 2002: Cardiovascular MR Program Manager, Chicago, IL
1993 - 1998: Senior Scientist, Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany
1991 - 1992: R&D Manager, Siemens Medical Solutions, Iselin, USA
1986 - 1990: Applications Scientist, Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany
1980 - 1985: University Stuttgart, Germany

Honors
2002: ESMRMB for contributions to basic and applied research in medical magnetic resonance.
1997: Fellow of the ISMRM for contributions in the area of ultra-fast imaging techniques and clinical applications.
1992: Gold Medal Award ISMRM for pioneering time-of-flight techniques for three-dimensional MR Angiography.

Clinical/Research Interests
  To expand and broaden the clinical use of MR instruments based on a close collaboration between industry and academic centers.

Current Projects
  Fast MR Imaging
  MR Angiography
  Cardiac MRI
  High-field Imaging (3T)
  Clinical protocol optimization

Select Publications
  Shankaranarayanan A, Simonetti OP, Laub G, Lewin JS, Duerk JL. Segmented k-space and realtime cardiac cine MR imaging with radial trajectories. Radiology. 2001; 221(3):827-836.
  Goyen M, Laub G, Ladd ME, Debatin JF, Barkhausen J, Truemmler KH, Bosk S, Ruehm SG. Dynamic 3D MR angiography of the pulmonary arteries in under four seconds. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2001; 13(3): 372-377.
  Kessler W, Laub G, Achenbach S, Ropers D, Moshage W, Daniel WG. Coronary arteries: MR angiography with fast contrast-enhanced three-dimensional breath-hold imaging -- initial experience. Radiology. 1999; 210(2):566-572.
  Simonetti OP, Finn JP, White RD, Laub G, Henry DA. "Black blood" T2-weighted inversion-recovery MR imaging of the heart. Radiology. 1996; 199(1):49-57.
  Laub G. Basic principles of MR angiography. An introduction. Radiology. 1994; 34(8):416-422.
  Hausmann R, Lewin J, Laub G. Phase-Contrast MR Angiography with Reduced Acquisition Time: New Concepts in Sequence Design. J Magn Reson Imaging.1991; 1(4):415-22.
  Bomans H, Hoehne K, Laub G. Improvement of 3D Acquisition and Visualization in MRI. Mag. Res. Imag.. 2001; 9:597-609.
  Lewin J, Laub G. Intracranial MR Angiography: A Direct Comparison of three Time-of-Flight Techniques. AJNR. 1991; 12:1133-1139.
  Reggieri PM, Laub G, Masaryk TJ, et al. Intracranial circulation: Pulse-Sequence Considerations in Three-dimensional (Volume) MR Angiography. Radiology. 1989; 171(3):785-791.
  Laub GA, Kaiser WA. Angiography with Gradient Motion Refocussing. J. Comp. Assist. Tomogr.. 1988; 12:377-382.





 
 
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