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Investigator Bob S. Hu, M.D.

Bob S. Hu, M.D.

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Bob S. Hu, M.D., board certified in cardiovascular disease and internal medicine, practices at PAMF's Palo Alto Center. His interests include anatomic vascular studies, non-invasive cardiac testing, transesophageal echocardiography, cardiac imaging, and cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Hu completed his medical training and residency at Stanford University. He is involved in the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association.


Sutter Health Research Enterprise
87 Encina Avenue
Palo Alto, CA, 94301
(650) 853-2975  
hub@sutterhealth.org

Primary Research Interests

  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Disease Management
  • Ischemic Heart

Related Clinical Trials

Myocardial Ischemia - MRI

Integrated Examination of Myocardial Ischemia with MRI

Investigator: Bob S. Hu M.D.

Status: Completed

Publications

3D image-based navigators for coronary MR angiography.

The ability to acquire isotropic-resolution 3D iNAVs every heartbeat during a CMRA scan was demonstrated.

Nonrigid motion correction with 3D image-based navigators for coronary MR angiography.

We have developed a nonrigid motion-correction method based on 3D iNAVs and an autofocusing algorithm that improves the vessel sharpness of free-breathing whole-heart coronary MRA.

Off-resonance-robust velocity-selective magnetization preparation for non-contrast-enhanced peripheral MR angiography.

Non-contrast-enhanced MRA using the new VS magnetization preparation can reliably provide high angiographic contrast in the lower extremities with significantly improved immunity to field inhomogeneity.

Nonrigid autofocus motion correction for coronary MR angiography with a 3D cones trajectory.

The proposed technique corrects nonrigid motion artifacts in free-breathing 3D cones acquisitions, improving image quality compared to rigid-body motion correction.

Non-contrast-enhanced peripheral angiography using a sliding interleaved cylinder acquisition.

Non-contrast-enhanced angiography using SLINCYL can provide angiograms with improved artery-vein contrast in the lower extremities.

Rapid single-breath-hold 3D late gadolinium enhancement cardiac MRI using a stack-of-spirals acquisition.

Stack-of-spiral acquisition combined with non-Cartesian SPIRiT parallel imaging enables rapid 3D LGE MRI in a 12 heartbeat-long breath-hold.

Combined outer volume suppression and T2 preparation sequence for coronary angiography.

OVS-T2 Prep is a compact sequence: can accelerate coronary MRA by suppressing signals from tissues surrounding the heart while enhancing blood-myocard contrast.

High-resolution variable-density 3D cones coronary MRA.

Coronary MR angiography with isotropic submillimeter spatial resolution and high temporal resolution can be performed with VD 3D cones to improve the depiction of coronary arteries.

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance phase contrast imaging.

Comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art in CMR phase contrast imaging methodology and clinical applications.

Self-gated fat-suppressed cardiac cine MRI.

The proposed self-gated ATR-SSFP sequence enables fat-suppressed cardiac cine imaging at 1.5 T without the need for ECG gating and without decreasing the imaging efficiency of ATR-SSFP.

Whole-heart coronary MR angiography using a 3D cones phyllotaxis trajectory.

Phyllotaxis 3D cones results in improved qualitative image scores & coronary vessel sharpness for whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography.

Research Studies

Clinical MRI of Peripheral Arterial Disease

This study is aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of MRI to evaluate peripheral arterial disease.

Investigator: Bob S. Hu M.D.

Comprehensive Assessment of Valvular Function with MRI

The goal of this research program is to develop and validate a comprehensive examination of valvular heart diseases.

Investigator: Bob S. Hu M.D.

Integrated Examination of Myocardial Ischemia with Magnetic Resonance

This study aims to develop & evaluate a comprehensive integrated system of new MRI components for evaluating patients with inadequate blood supply to the heart.

Investigator: Bob S. Hu M.D.

International Study of Comparative Health Effectiveness With Medical and Invasive Approaches (ISCHEMIA)

To determine whether a strategy of early cardiac catheterization reduces incidence of the composite of cardiovascular death or nonfatal myocardial infarction.

Investigator: Bob S. Hu M.D.

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