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Paul Finn, M.D.
Professor of Radiology and Medicine
Office:  3371 PVUB
Phone: 310-825-0233
Email:  pfinn@mednet.ucla.edu 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interest

  • Development and Validation of MRI techniques for Cardiovascular and Cardiopulmonary Imaging

  • Applications of MRI for anatomic and functional imaging in Heart Failure

  • Development of techniques for whole-body Cardiovascular MRI

  • Cardiovascular MR Imaging at 3.0T

  • MRI Scanning by Remote Control

Representative Publications

Green JD, Omary RA, Finn JP, Chung YC, Tang R, Li YZ, Vasireddy S, Li D. Two- and Three-dimensional MR Coronary Angiography with Intraarterial Injections of Contrast Agent in Dogs: A Feasibility Study.  Radiology. 2003 Jan;226(1):272-7. Radiology 2003 Jan;226(1):272-7

Omary RA, Green JD, Fang WS, Viohl I, Finn JP, Li D. Use of Internal Coils for Independent and Direct MRI-Guided Endovascular Device Tracking. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2003 Feb;14(2):247-54.

Carr JC, Nemcek A, Abecassis M, Blei A, Clark L, Pereles FS, McCarthy R, Finn JP. Pre-operative evaluation of the entire hepatic vasculature in living donors using contrast-enhanced MR angiography and TrueFISP. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2003;14:441-449.

Baskaran V, Pereles FS, Russell EJ, Georganos SA, Shaibani A, Spero KA, Krupinski EA, Zhang A, Finn JP. 3D TrueFISP for Axial Myelographic MR Imaging of the Cervical Spine. Radiology 2003;227(2):585-92

McCarthy RM, Shea SM, Deshpande VS, Green JD, Finn JP, Li D. Coronary magnetic resonance angiography: improved TrueFISP imaging by prolonging breath-holds with preoxygenation. Radiology 2003;227:283-288

Munger T, Zheng J, Finn JP, Li D.  Coronary artery imaging with breath-hold and retrospective motion correction.  Accepted by Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, revision pending.

Omary RA, Green JD, Schirf BE, Li Y, Finn JP, Li D.  Real-time magnetic resonance imaging-guided coronary catheterization in Swine. Circulation. 2003;107:2656

Rinella ME, McCarthy R, Thakrar K, Finn JP, Rao SM, Koffron AJ, Abecassis M, Blei AT. Dual-echo, chemical shift gradient-echo magnetic resonance imaging to quantify hepatic steatosis: Implications for living liver donation. Liver Transpl. 2003 Aug;9(8):851-6

François CJ, Bonow RO, Shors SM, Finn JP. Cardio-Pulmonary Transit Times in Heart Disease Evaluated with Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance ImagingRadiology 2003 May;227(2):447-52.

Shors SM, Cotts WG, Pavlovic-Surjancev B, François CJ, Gheorghiade M, Finn JP. Heart failure: evaluation of cardiopulmonary transit times with time-resolved MR angiographyRadiology 2003; 229(3):743-8.

François CJ, Fieno DS, Shors SM, Finn JP. Left Ventricular Mass: Manual and Automatic Segmentation of True FISP and FLASH Cine MR Images in Dogs and PigsRadiology. 2004 Feb;230(2):389-95.  

Shors SM, Fung CW, François CJ, Finn JP, Fieno DS. Accurate Quantification of Right Ventricular Mass at MR Imaging by Using Cine True Fast Imaging with Steady-State Precession: Study in DogsRadiology. 2004 Feb;230(2):383-8

Fenchel M, Helber U, Simonetti OP, Stauder NI, Kramer U, Nguyen CN, Finn JP, Claussen CD, Miller S. Multislice first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging: Comparison of saturation recovery (SR)-TrueFISP-two-dimensional (2D) and SR-TurboFLASH-2D pulse sequences. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2004 May;19(5):555-63

Fieno DS, Shea SM, Li Y, Harris KR, Finn JP, Li D.  Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Based on the Blood Oxygen Level-Dependent Effect Using T2-Prepared Steady-State Free-Precession Magnetic Resonance ImagingCirculation. 2004 Aug 23 [Epub ahead of print]. 

Pereles FS, Collins JD, Carr JC, Francois C, Morasch MD, McCarthy RM, Krupinski EA,Butler GM, Finn JPAccuracy of Stepping-Table Lower Extremity MR Angiography with Dual-Level Bolus Timing and Separate Calf Acquisition (Hybrid pMRA).  Radiology (accepted pending revision)

Yang CW, MD; Carr JC, Futterer SF, Morasch MD, Benson P. Yang BP,  Shors SM, Finn JP. Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Angiography of the Vertebrobasilar Circulation. AJNR (accepted pending revision).

Finn JP, Nael K, Deshpande V, Ratib O, Laub GA.  Cardiac MRI: State of the Art.  Radiology (accepted pending revision).

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