NAME: Refaat Elsayed Gabr REFAAT E. GABR, PHD 3-Jul-13 5 pages PRESENT TITLE: ADDRESS: BIRTHDATE: CITIZENSHIP: Assistant Professor of Radiology Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging University of Texas Medical School at Houston 6431 Fannin Street, MSE R102D, Houston, Texas 77030 10-19-1977 Egypt UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: CAIRO UNIVERSITY B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, 2000 GRADUATE EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2009 M.S.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006 CAIRO UNIVERSITY M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, 2003 POSTGRADUATE TRAINING: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiology, 2012 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Assistant Professor Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (AND COMMITTEES OF THESE): NATIONAL: International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2006 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008 HONORS AND AWARDS: Junior Fellow Award, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), 2013 EDITORIAL POSITIONS: Reviewer, IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering Reviewer, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Reviewer, International Journal of Biomedical Imaging PUBLICATIONS: Abstracts and Conference Papers Elsayed, R. E.; Youssef, T. A. & Badawi, A. M. Localization of Face Features Using Pulse-Coupled Neural Network and Active Contour IEEE, International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology and Automation IETA2001, 2001 Ahmed, H. M.; Gabr, R. E.; Youssef, A.-B. M.; Heberlein, K.; Hu, X. & Kadah, Y. M. Combined intra-and inter-slice motion artifact suppression in magnetic resonance imaging Medical Imaging 2003, 2003, 296-305 Ahmed, H. M.; Gabr, R. E.; Heberlein, K.; Hu, X. & Kadah, Y. M. New strategy for simultaneous suppression of intra- and inter-slice motion Proc. ISMRM 11th Annual Meeting, Toronto, p. 1060, May 2003, 2003, 7622, 762258-1 Ahmed, H. M.; Gabr, R. E.; Youssef, A.-B. M.; Heberlein, K.; Hu, X. & Kadah, Y. M. Combined intra- and inter-slice motion artifact suppression in magnetic resonance imaging Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging 2003, San Diego, February 2003, 2003, 7622, 762258-1 Gabr, R. E. & Bottomley, P. A. Improving the Circle Fitting (CFIT) Performance for MRS Data Quantification ISMRM Workshop on Data Processing for MR Spectroscopy and Imaging, Warrenton VA, 2006, 2006
Gabr, R. E.; Aksit, P.; Bottomley P. A.and Youssef, A. M. & Kadah, Y. M. Iterative Deconvolution-Interpolation Gridding Proc. ISMRM 14th Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2006, 2006 Gabr, R. E.; Schär, M.; Sathyanarayana, S.; Weiss, R. G. & Bottomley, P. A. Predicting SNR gains from constructive averaging of proton spectra: theory and practice Proc. ISMRM 14th Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2006, 2006 Gabr, R. E.; Schär, M.; Edelstein, A. D.; Bottomley, P. A. & Edelstein, W. A. MRI dynamic range: theory and measurement Proc. ISMRM 16th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2008, 2008 Ahmed, H. M.; Gabr, R. E.; Kadah, Y. M. & Youssef, A. A New Method for Data Acquisition and Image Reconstruction in Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC), Cairo, Egypt, 1-4, 2008, 2008, 1-6 Ahmed, H. M.; Gabr, R. E.; Youssef, A. & Kadah, Y. M. New approach for data acquisition and image reconstruction in parallel magnetic resonance imaging Radio Science Conference, 2009. NRSC 2009. National, 2009, 1-6 Ahmed, H. M.; Gabr, R. E.; Youssef, A.-B. M. & Kadah, Y. M. Optimizing kernel size in generalized auto-calibrating partially parallel acquisition in parallel magnetic resonance imaging Proc. of SPIE Vol, 2010, 7622, 762258-1 Zhang, Y.; Gabr, R. E.; null Schär, M.; Zhu, H.; Barker, P.; Weiss, R. G. & Bottomley, P. A. Encoding of pre-selected compartments produces large SNR and speed advantages for 31P MRS Proc. ISMRM 19th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2011, 2011 Gabr, R. E.; El-Sharkawy, A. M.; Schär, M.; Weiss, R. G. & Bottomley, P. A. Measuring energy diffusion: phosphocreatine in human skeletal muscle Proc. ISMRM 19th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2011, 2011 El-Sharkawy, A. M.; Gabr, R. E.; Schär, M.; Weiss, R. G. & Bottomley, P. A. Human Cardiac 31P Metabolite Concentrations at 3T Proc. ISMRM 20th Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 2012, 2012 Zhang, Y.; Gabr, R. E.; null Schär, M.; Weiss, R. G. & Bottomley, P. A. Dramatic speedup in 1D-, 2D- and 3D-MRS scan times with linear algebraic modeling
(SLAM) Proc. ISMRM 20th Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 2012, 2012 Panjrath, G. S.; Schär, M.; El-Sharkawy, A.-M.; Gabr, R.; Schulman, S. P.; Gerstenblith, G.; Bottomley, P. A. & Weiss, R. G. Skeletal muscle ATP kinetics during exercise in patients with systolic heart failure Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, BioMed Central, 2013, 15, O29 Zhang, Y.; Gabr, R. E.; Zhou, J.; Weiss, R. G. & Bottomley, P. A. Spectroscopy with Linear Algebraic Modeling (SLAM): Speed and Quantification in Brain Tumor Studies Proc. ISMRM 21st Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2013, 2013 Gabr, R. E.; El-Sharkawy, A. M.; Schär, M.; Weiss, R. G. & Bottomley, P. A. Noninvasive assessment of cardiac work and CK energy supply in healthy and failing human hearts Proc. ISMRM 21st Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2013, 2013 Refereed Original Articles in Journals El-Sharkawy, A.-M. M., Gabr, R. E., Schar, M., Weiss, R. G., & Bottomley, P. A. (2013). Quantification of human high-energy phosphate metabolite concentrations at 3 T with partial volume and sensitivity corrections. NMR in Biomedicine. Gabr, R. E., Aksit, P., Bottomley, P. A., Youssef, A.-B. M., & Kadah, Y. M. (2006). Deconvolution-interpolation gridding (DING): Accurate reconstruction for arbitrary k- space trajectories. Magnetic resonance in medicine, 56(6), 1182-1191. Gabr, R. E., El-Sharkawy, A.-M. M., Schar, M., Weiss, R. G., & Bottomley, P. A. (2011). Highenergy phosphate transfer in human muscle: diffusion of phosphocreatine. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, 301(1), C234--C241. Gabr, R. E., Ouwerkerk, R., & Bottomley, P. A. (2006). Quantifying in vivo MR spectra with circles. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 179(1), 152-163. Gabr, R. E., Sathyanarayana, S., Schar, M., Weiss, R. G., & Bottomley, P. A. (2006). On restoring motion-induced signal loss in single-voxel magnetic resonance spectra. Magnetic resonance in medicine, 56(4), 754-760. Gabr, R. E., Schar, M., Edelstein, A. D., Kraitchman, D. L., Bottomley, P. A., & Edelstein, W. A. (2009). MRI dynamic range and its compatibility with signal transmission media. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 198(2), 137-145.
Gabr, R. E., Weiss, R. G., & Bottomley, P. A. (2008). Correcting reaction rates measured by saturation-transfer magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 191(2), 248-258. Kadah, Y. M., Fahmy, A. S., Gabr, R. E., Heberlein, K., & Hu, X. P. (2006). Progressive magnetic resonance image reconstruction based on iterative solution of a sparse linear system. International journal of biomedical imaging, 2006. Zhang, Y., Gabr, R. E., Schar, M., Weiss, R. G., & Bottomley, P. A. (2012). Magnetic resonance Spectroscopy with Linear Algebraic Modeling (SLAM) for higher speed and sensitivity. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 218, 66-76. Presentations Gabr RE, Noninvasive Assessment of Cardiac Work and CK Energy Supply in Healthy and Failing Human Hearts, ISMRM 21st Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2013. (Presentation) Gabr RE Measuring energy diffusion: phosphocreatine in human skeletal muscle, ISMRM 19th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2011. (Poster) Gabr RE A New Method for Data Acquisition and Image Reconstruction in Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging, ISMRM 17th Annual Meeting, Hawaii, USA, 2009. (Poster) Gabr RE MRI dynamic range: theory and measurement, ISMRM 16th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2008. (Poster) Gabr RE Improving the Circle Fitting (CFIT) Performance for MRS Data Quantification, ISMRM Workshop on Data Processing for MR Spectroscopy and Imaging, Warrenton VA, 2006. (Poster) Gabr RE CFIT: A novel circle-fitting approach to spectral analysis, ISMRM 14th Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2006. (Poster) Gabr RE Iterative Deconvolution-Interpolation Gridding, ISMRM 14th Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2006. (Poster) Gabr RE Predicting SNR gains from constructive averaging of proton spectra: theory and practice, ISMRM 14th Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2006. (Poster)