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- Received January 9, 2015
- Accepted in final form May 6, 2015
- First Published July 31, 2015.
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Author Disclosures
- Behnam Sabayan, MD, PhD,
- Mark A. van Buchem, MD, PhD,
- Anton J.M. de Craen, PhD,
- Sigurdur Sigurdsson, MSc,
- Qian Zhang, MSc,
- Tamara B. Harris, MD, MSc,
- Vilmundur Gudnason, MD, PhD,
- Andrew E. Arai, MD and
- Lenore J. Launer, PhD
- Behnam Sabayan, MD, PhD,
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- Mark A. van Buchem, MD, PhD,
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- Anton J.M. de Craen, PhD,
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PLoS Medicine, academic editor, 2013-present
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- Sigurdur Sigurdsson, MSc,
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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (N01-AG-12100); National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program; Hjartavernd (Icelandic Heart Association); Althingi (the Icelandic Parliament). The current study was conducted without any influence from the above.
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- Qian Zhang, MSc,
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- Tamara B. Harris, MD, MSc,
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J of Gerontology: Medical Science, Editorial advisory board member, 2008-present.
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Principal Investigator, Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study, 2002-present, Contact: N01-AG-12100 Principal Investigator, Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study, Contracts: AG-6-2101, AG-6-2103, AG-6- 2106, and AG021918, 1998-present.
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- Vilmundur Gudnason, MD, PhD,
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NIH/AG-1-2100/PI/2001-2017
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Icelandic Heart Association
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- Andrew E. Arai, MD and
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US Patent# 6,031,374 Title:Method for extracting deformations from velocity-encoded magnetic resonance images of the heart. Description: This represents a computer analysis of myocardial function. US Patent# 5,997,883 Title: Retrospective ordering of segmented MRI cardiac data using cardiac phase. Description: This is a methodology for prospectively acquiring MRI data across the cardiac cycle and retrospectively sorting the data in a way that can create images across the cardiac cycle depsite heart rate variability during the raw image acquisition.
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1. National Institutes of Health, NHLBI Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Laboratory.
1. Siemens - Research support for cardiac MRI (technical) 2. Toshiba - Research support for cardiac CT
National Institutes of Health,NHLBI, Division of Intramural Research, I am the PI on 6 projects (years follow the hyphen in the grant number): ZIA HL004607-16 Technical Development of Cardiovascular MRI ZIA HL006136-04 Area at Risk, Myocardial Infarction, and Myocardial Salvage ZIA HL006137-04 Quantification of Myocardial Perfusion ZIA HL006138-04 Cardiovascular CT Research ZIE HL006139-04 Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship ZID HL006140-04 Clinical Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging
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- Lenore J. Launer, PhD
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National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, Employee, 1999-present
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- From the Departments of Radiology (B.S., M.A.v.B.) and Gerontology and Geriatrics (B.S., A.J.M.d.C.), Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands; Icelandic Heart Association (S.S., V.G.), Reykjavik, Iceland; Intramural Research Program (Q.Z., T.B.H., L.J.L.), National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD; Faculty of Medicine (V.G.), University of Iceland, Reykjavik; and Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch (A.E.A.), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
- Correspondence to Dr. Launer: launerl{at}nia.nih.gov
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