The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has announced the recipients of the Toshiba Young Investigator Award (YIA) presented at the society's annual meeting.
Sponsored by an educational grant from Toshiba America Medical Systems, the YIA supports the professional and clinical development of those within five years of completing a training program.
The finalists each submitted a minimanuscript of 1,000 words on research related to the technical and clinical advancement of cardiovascular CT.
The following were named winners:
- Dr. Amit Patel -- University of Chicago Medical Center, for "Detection of Myocardial Perfusion Abnormalities Using Ultra-Low Radiation Dose Regadenoson Stress Multidetector Computed Tomography"
- Brad Traeger, PhD -- North Dakota State University, for "Characterization of Anatomic (AOA) versus Effective Orifice Area (EOA) and Pressure Recovery of Native Aortic Valve Stenosis (NAS) Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computed Tomography (CT) Derived In Vivo Aortic Valve-Root Geometry (IVG)"
The other three finalists for this year's YIA were:
- Dr. Onkar Jha -- Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, for "Evaluation of Left Atrial Appendage Stasis with Multidetector Computed Tomography: A Comparison with Transesophageal Echocardiography"
- Dr. Takehiro Nakahara -- Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, for "'Replacement Injection Methods May Enable Better Visualization in the Right Heart"
- Dr. Ryo Nakazato -- Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, for "Incremental Value of Epicardial Fat Volume Over Coronary Calcium Scoring for Predicting Myocardial Ischemia by Positron-Emission Tomography and Obstructive Coronary Artery Stenosis by Invasive Angiography"
