Staff physician S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center, Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Associate Professor, Medicine, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen SOM
Nuclear Medicine
Louise E. Thomson, MB CHB
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Louise E. Thomson, MB CHB is an expert in the field of Nuclear Medicine. She researched medicine at University of Otago School of Medicine. She received 1 awards: "Chair". Louise Thomson is also a published doctor. She has 92 publication published. The most recent publication is: Lack of evidence for context-dependent cocaine-induced sensitization in humans: preliminary studies. Louise Thomson is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging for myocardial perfusion and diastolic function-reference control values for women.
- Prognostic Contribution of Exercise Capacity, Heart Rate Recovery, Chronotropic Incompetence, and Myocardial Perfusion Single-Photon Emission Computerized Tomography i...
- Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Myocardial Perfusion Reserve Index Is Reduced in Women With Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction: A National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-...
- Automatic registration of misaligned CT attenuation correction maps in Rb-82 PET/CT improves detection of angiographically significant coronary artery disease.
- Extensive thoracic aortic calcification is an independent predictor of development of coronary artery calcium among individuals with coronary artery calcium score of z...
- Quantitative high-efficiency cadmium-zinc-telluride SPECT with dedicated parallel-hole collimation system in obese patients: Results of a multi-center study.
- Quantification of myocardial blood flow using non-ECG-triggered MR imaging.
- Two-position supine/prone myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) imaging improves visual inter-observer correlation and agreement.
- The incidence, diagnosis, and management of pulmonary vein stenosis as a complication of atrial fibrillation ablation.
- Non-ECG-gated myocardial perfusion MRI using continuous magnetization-driven radial sampling.
- Long-term mortality following normal exercise myocardial perfusion SPECT according to coronary disease risk factors.
- Improved quantification of myocardial blood flow using highly constrained back projection reconstruction.
- Towards elimination of the dark-rim artifact in first-pass myocardial perfusion MRI: Removing gibbs ringing effects using optimized radial imaging.
- Cardiac risk factors and myocardial perfusion reserve in women with microvascular coronary dysfunction.
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging myocardial perfusion reserve index assessment in women with microvascular coronary dysfunction and reference controls.
- Relationship of dyspnea vs. typical angina to coronary artery disease severity, burden, composition and location on coronary CT angiography.
- An unusual case of saline contrast injected in the anterior cubital vein appearing in the left heart prior to the right heart.
- Temporal trends in the frequency of inducible myocardial ischemia during cardiac stress testing: 1991 to 2009.
- Whole-heart coronary MRA with 100% respiratory gating efficiency: Self-navigated three-dimensional retrospective image-based motion correction (TRIM).
- Mortality Risk as a Function of the Ratio of Pulmonary Trunk to Ascending Aorta Diameter In Patients With Suspected Coronary Artery Disease.
- Reproducibility of myocardial perfusion reserve - variations in measurements from post processing using commercially available software.
- Assessment of the morphological features of degenerative mitral valve disease using 64-slice multi detector computed tomography.
- Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography: a novel approach for the diagnosis of cholecystitis for equivocal diagnoses after ultrasound imaging.
- Relation of diagonal ear lobe crease to the presence, extent, and severity of coronary artery disease determined by coronary computed tomography angiography.
- Comparative Value of Coronary Artery Calcium and Multiple Blood Biomarkers for Prognostication of Cardiovascular Events.
- Do psychological risk factors predict the presence of coronary atherosclerosis?
- Dual-source coronary computed tomography angiography in patients with atrial fibrillation: initial experience.
- Predicting success of prospective and retrospective gating with dual-source coronary computed tomography angiography: development of selection criteria and initial exp...
- Entrapment of mitral chordal apparatus causing early postoperative dysfunction of a St. Jude mitral prosthesis.
- Thoracic aortic calcium versus coronary artery calcium for the prediction of coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease events.
- Coronary artery calcium scoring using electron-beam computed tomography: where does this test fit into a clinical practice?
- An intracardiac mass in a young man with congenitally acquired HIV.
- Magnetic resonance imaging for the assessment of myocardial viability.
- Scar formation after ischemic myocardial injury in MRL mice.
- Functional assessment of myoblast transplantation for cardiac repair with magnetic resonance imaging.
- Roles of nuclear cardiology, cardiac computed tomography, and cardiac magnetic resonance: assessment of patients with suspected coronary artery disease.
- Rapid assessment of left ventricular segmental wall motion, ejection fraction, and volumes with single breath-hold, multi-slice TrueFISP MR imaging.
- Roles of nuclear cardiology, cardiac computed tomography, and cardiac magnetic resonance: Noninvasive risk stratification and a conceptual framework for the selection ...
- Cardiovascular magnetic resonance of primary tumors of the heart: A review.
- Comparative use of radionuclide stress testing, coronary artery calcium scanning, and noninvasive coronary angiography for diagnostic and prognostic cardiac assessment.
- Predicting therapeutic benefit from myocardial revascularization procedures: are measurements of both resting left ventricular ejection fraction and stress-induced myo...
- Quantitation of infarct size in patients with chronic coronary artery disease using rest-redistribution Tl-201 myocardial perfusion SPECT: correlation with contrast-en...
- A stone heart: fatal cardiac microcalcification.
- Underestimation of extent of ischemia by gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with left main coronary artery disease.
- Added value of rest to stress study for recognition of artifacts in perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
- Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in clinically suspected cardiac amyloidosis: diagnostic value of a typical pattern of late gadolinium enhancement.
- Effects of time, dose, and inversion time for acute myocardial infarct size measurements based on magnetic resonance imaging-delayed contrast enhancement.
- Are shades of gray prognostically useful in reporting myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography?
- Multimodality evaluation of a rare intracardiac tumor: cardiac hemangioma.
- The case of the disappearing myxoma.
- SCCT guidelines for performance of coronary computed tomographic angiography: a report of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Guidelines Committee.
- Automatic detection and size quantification of infarcts by myocardial perfusion SPECT: clinical validation by delayed-enhancement MRI.
- Direct quantitative in vivo comparison of calcified atherosclerotic plaque on vascular MRI and CT by multimodality image registration.
- Prognostic accuracy of B-natriuretic peptide measurements and coronary artery calcium in asymptomatic subjects (from the Early Identification of Subclinical Atheroscle...
- A tale of two coronaries.
- Lack of evidence for context-dependent cocaine-induced sensitization in humans: preliminary studies.
- Relationship of epicardial fat volume to coronary plaque, severe coronary stenosis, and high-risk coronary plaque features assessed by coronary CT angiography.
- Weight change modulates epicardial fat burden: A 4-year serial study with non-contrast computed tomography.
- Patient management after noninvasive cardiac imaging results from SPARC (Study of myocardial perfusion and coronary anatomy imaging roles in coronary artery disease).
- Subendocardial ischemia and myocarditis in systemic lupus erythematosus detected by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
- Increase in epicardial fat volume is associated with greater coronary artery calcification progression in subjects at intermediate risk by coronary calcium score: A se...
- Vulnerable plaque features on coronary CT angiography as markers of inducible regional myocardial hypoperfusion from severe coronary artery stenoses.
- Threshold for the Upper Normal Limit of Indexed Epicardial Fat Volume: Derivation in a Healthy Population and Validation in an Outcome-Based Study.
- Increased pericardial fat volume measured from noncontrast CT predicts myocardial ischemia by SPECT.
- Myocardial ischemia in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease in systemic lupus erythematosus.
- Impact of ischaemia and scar on the therapeutic benefit derived from myocardial revascularization vs. medical therapy among patients undergoing stress-rest myocardial ...
- Assessment of left ventricular regional wall motion and ejection fraction with low-radiation dose helical dual-source CT: Comparison to two-dimensional echocardiography.
- Impact of Coronary Artery Calcium Scanning on Coronary Risk Factors and Downstream Testing The EISNER (Early Identification of Subclinical Atherosclerosis by Noninvasi...
- Ranolazine improves angina in women with evidence of myocardial ischemia but no obstructive coronary artery disease.
- The relationship between epicardial fat volume and incident coronary artery calcium.
- 64-slice multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) reduces other diagnostic studies for coronary artery disease.
- Prognostic implications of myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography in the elderly.
- Reduction in downstream test utilization following introduction of coronary computed tomography in a cardiology practice.
- Impact of carbohydrate restriction with and without fatty acid loading on myocardial 18F-FDG uptake during PET: A randomized controlled trial.
- Integrated coronary computed tomographic angiography in an office-based cardiology practice.
- Coronary artery calcium scoring using a reduced tube voltage and radiation dose protocol with dual-source computed tomography.
- Quantification of 3D regional myocardial wall thickening from gated magnetic resonance images.
- Low-density lipoprotein and noncalcified coronary plaque composition in patients with newly diagnosed coronary artery disease on computed tomographic angiography.
- Assessment of the relationship between stenosis severity and distribution of coronary artery stenoses on multislice computed tomographic angiography and myocardial isc...
- Diastolic dysfunction: improved understanding using emerging imaging techniques.
- Comparison of the extent and severity of myocardial perfusion defects measured by CT coronary angiography and SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging.
- Quantitative upright-supine high-speed SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging for detection of coronary artery disease: correlation with invasive coronary angiography.
- Image quality and artifacts in coronary CT angiography with dual-source CT: initial clinical experience.
- Impact of body mass index on cardiac mortality in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease undergoing myocardial perfusion single-photon emission compu...
- Myeloperoxidase, subclinical atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease events.
- Direct en face imaging of secundum atrial septal defects by velocity-encoded cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients evaluated for possible transcatheter closure.
- Algorithm for radiation dose reduction with helical dual source coronary computed tomography angiography in clinical practice.
- Quantitative assessment of myocardial perfusion abnormality on SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging is more reproducible than expert visual analysis.
- Aortic size assessment by noncontrast cardiac computed tomography: normal limits by age, gender, and body surface area.
- Moving beyond binary grading of coronary arterial stenoses on coronary computed tomographic angiography: insights for the imager and referring clinician.
- Stress thallium-201/rest technetium-99m sequential dual isotope high-speed myocardial perfusion imaging.
Doctors Specialties
- Nuclear Medicine
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Awards
- Chair
Education
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center -
Duke University Hospital -
University of Otago School of Medicine
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center -
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1487780813 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | THOMSON |
| First Name Of The Provider | LOUISE |
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