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UM Sivananthan, JP Ridgway, 1995. Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart. RAD Magazine, March 1995, 21(238), 17-18.

JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan, 1994. MRI in Cardiomyopathies. RAD Magazine, April 1994, 20(227), 23-25.

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Conference Proceedings Abstracted in Refereed Journals

Burns J, Sivananthan M.U, Mary D.A.S.G, Mackintosh A.F, Ball S.G, Greenwood J.P. "Sympathetic nerve activity and the magnitude of left ventricular mass assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging." Heart, May 2004.

Burns J, Sivananthan M.U, Mary D.A.S.G, Mackintosh A.F, Ball S.G, Greenwood J.P. "Relationship between sympathetic activation in hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy quantified by magnetic resonance imaging." American Journal of Hypertension, May 2004.

S Plein, WHT Smith, TN Bloomer, DJ Beacock, JP Ridgway, A Kassner, UM Sivananthan. Cardiac Real-time MRI for qualitative and quantitative analysis of wall motion kinetics. Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the European Society of Cardiology, Amsterdam, May 2000, European Heart Journal 21: 571-571 Suppl. Aug-Sep 2000.

WHT Smith, S Plein, A Kassner, S Williams, DJ Beacock, TN Bloomer, JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan. Real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging for measurement of left ventricular dimensions. Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the British Cardiac Society, Glasgow, May 2000, Heart 83(S1), 9, 2000.

T Bloomer, S Plein, JP Ridgway, DJ Beacock, UM Sivananthan. Cardiac MRI diagnosis of ventricular abnormalities associated with arrhythmias of right ventricular origin. Abstracts of the 1st Scientific Meeting of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance of the European Society of Cardiology, Amsterdam, J Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 2(4): 293, 2000.

T Bloomer, DJ Beacock, JP Ridgway, S Plein, UM Sivananthan. Characterisation of right ventricular wall motion by cardiac MRI in normal individuals. Abstracts of the 1st Scientific Meeting of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance of the European Society of Cardiology, Amsterdam, J Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 2(4): 303, 2000.

T Bloomer, JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan. Cardiac MRI is sensitive for the diagnosis and follow up of right ventricular extension of inferior myocardial infarction. Abstracts of the 1st Scientific Meeting of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance of the European Society of Cardiology, Amsterdam, J Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 2(4): 304, 2000.

S Plein, WHT Smith, TN Bloomer, DJ Beacock, JP Ridgway, A Kassner, UM Sivananthan. Cardiac Real-time MRI for qualitative and quantitative analysis of wall motion kinetics. Abstracts of the 1st Scientific Meeting of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance of the European Society of Cardiology, Amsterdam, J Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 2(4): 307, 2000.

S Plein, W Smith, JP Ridgway, A Kassner, DJ Beacock, T Bloomer, S Williams, UM Sivananthan, 2000. Fast Acquisition of left ventricular volumes and mass using a multiple-slice real time method. Abstracts from the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Third Annual Scientific sessions, Atlanta, 21-23 January 2000. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 1(4) 1999, 312.

DJ Beacock, JP Ridgway, PD Batin, JI Wilson, UM Sivananthan. Global and regional left ventricular dimensions post-anterior myocardial infarction: The effects of medical therapy on left ventricular remodelling. Abstracts from the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Third Annual Scientific sessions, Atlanta, 21-23 January 2000. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 1(4) 1999, 364.

WHT Smith, DJ Beacock, AR Moody, JR Hampton, JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan. Left ventricular dimensions measured by magnetic resonance imaging: Reproducibility between two centres. Abstracts from the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Third Annual Scientific sessions, Atlanta, 21-23 January 2000. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 1(4) 1999, 365.

AJP Goddard, DJ Beacock, WH Smith, TN Bloomer, JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan, 1999. Review of Pericardial Pathology using MRI. Proceedings of the 57th Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology, Birmingham, 17-19 May 1999, Br J Radiol, 72(Supplement), 65.

WH Smith, DJ Beacock, JP Ridgway TN Bloomer, UM Sivananthan, 1998. MRI Evaluation of Pericardial Pathology. Proceedings of the 84rd Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, 29 Nov- 4 Dec, 1998. Radiology, 209(P): 543. (Poster Awarded Certificate of Merit)

DJ Beacock, WH Smith, TN Bloomer, JP Ridgway, CJ Cowan, UM Sivananthan, 1998. The Morphological and Functional Evaluation of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD) Using MRI. Proceedings of the 84rd Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, 29 Nov- 4 Dec, 1998. Radiology, 209(P): 542. (Poster Awarded Magna Cum Laude)

DJ Beacock, A Goddard, WH Smith, JP Ridgway, TN Bloomer, MU Sivananthan, 1998. Thoracic Aortic Pathologies Anatomically and Functionally Assessed by Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Proceedings of the 84rd Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, 29 Nov- 4 Dec, 1998. Radiology, 209(P): 542

JP Ridgway, A Kassner, D Beacock, TN Bloomer, JC Cowen, UM Sivananthan, 1998. The Development of an MRI Protocol for the Investigation of Right Ventricular Dysplasia. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology, Birmingham, 1-3 June 1998, Br J Radiol, 71(Supplement), 92.

WR Crum, E Berry, JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan, LB Tan, MA Smith, 1997. Multi-spectral classification of tagged tissue in cardiac MRI. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology, Birmingham, 19-21 May 1997, Br J Radiol, 70(Supplement), 17.

JP Ridgway, A Kassner, UM Sivananthan, 1997. Implementation of a black-blood cardiac MRI pulse sequence using double inversion prepulses. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology, Birmingham, 19-21 May 1997, Br J Radiol, 70(Supplement), 17.

M Veiga, DJ Beacock, TN Bloomer, JP Ridgway, J Cullingworth, UM Sivananthan, 1997. Right ventricular wall motion assessment by MRI. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology, Birmingham, 19-21 May 1997, Br J Radiol, 70(Supplement), 62.

TN Bloomer, JB Ball, JP Ridgway, J Cullingworth, UM Sivananthan, 1997. Assessment of right ventricular volumes by breath-hold cine MRI in normal adults. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology, Birmingham, 19-21 May 1997, Br J Radiol, 70(Supplement), 62.

TN Bloomer, JB Ball, JP Ridgway, DJ Beacock, J Cullingworth, GJ Williams, UM Sivananthan, 1997. Assessment of right ventricular volumes by breath-hold cine MRI in repaired Fallot's tetralogy. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology, Birmingham, 19-21 May 1997, Br J Radiol, 70(Supplement), 80.

Cubukcu AA, Ridgway JP, Sivananthan UM, Cooke A, Nair UR, Tan LB. Detection Of Contractile Reserve By Tagged Cine MRI During Low-Dose Dobutamine Infusion. Circulation 92: (8) 2428-2428, Suppl. Oct 15 1995

AA Cubucku, UM Sivananthan, JP Ridgway, ANS Deaner, GJ Williams, MR Rees, LB Tan, 1994. Tagged cine MR imaging during low dose dobutamine infusion to identify viable myocardium. Abstracts of the 43rd annual scientific session of the American College of Cardiology, Atlanta, March 13-17. Journal of The American College of Cardiology, A297-A297, Sp. Iss. 1994.

UM Sivananthan, JP Ridgway, A Cubukcu, K Bann, 1994. 3D reconstruction in complex congenital heart diseae. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology, Harrogate, 23-25 May 1994, Br J Radiol, 67(Supplement), 70.

UM Sivananthan, AA Cubukcu, JP Ridgway, MR Rees, 1993. Role of conventional MR imaging and tagging in the assessment of cardiomyopathies. Proc. 79th Annual Meeting of the RSNA, Chicago, 28 November-3 December, 1993. Radiology, 189(P), 198.

JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan, K Bann, AA Cubukcu, MR Rees, 1993. The use of 3D reconstruction in the assessment of cardiovascular disease. Proc. BIR meeting: 'Progress in in-vivo Magnetic Resonance,' London, 30 September 1993. Br J Radiol, 67, 919.

JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan, A Cubucku, SP Verma, K Bann, J Cullingworth, MR Rees, 1993. Assessment of Cardiomyopathies with Tagged Cine MRI. Abstracts of the 51st Annual Congress of the British Institute of Radiology, Glasgow, 17-19 May 1993, Br J Radiol, 66(Supplement), 64.

UM Sivananthan, D Waller, MR Rees, JP Ridgway, K Bann, 1992. MR Imaging in the long term follow-up after correction of right ventricular outflow obstruction. Proc. 78th Annual Meeting of the RSNA, Chicago, 28 November-4 December, 1992. Radiology, 185(P), 133.

UM Sivananthan, D Waller, JP Ridgway, K Bann, D Walker, MR Rees, 1992. MR Imaging of the heart after correction of tetralogy of Fallot. Proc. 50th Annual Congress BIR, Birmingham, 18-20 May 1992, Br J Radiol, 65(Supplement), 38.

UM Sivananthan, MR Rees, JP Ridgway, SP Verma, K Bann, J Ward, 1992. Fast MR angiography using turboFLASH sequences in advanced aorto-iliac disease. Proc. 50th Annual Congress BIR, Birmingham, 18-20 May 1992, Br J Radiol, 65(Supplement), 113.

UM Sivananthan, JP Ridgway, K Bann, MR Rees, 1992. Gadolinium-DTPA enhanced turboFLASH imaging in advanced aorto-iliac disease - results and comparison with conventional angiography. Proc. BIR meeting: Progress in MRI: Scientific and clinical developments in the UK, London, 14 October, 1991. Br J Radiol, 65, 841.

UM Sivananthan, AR Essop, JP Ridgway, K Bann, MR Rees, 1992. Magnetic Resonance Imaging in adult congenital heart disease - does it compare well with echocardiography and angiography. Proc. BIR meeting: Progress in MRI: Scientific and clinical developments in the UK, London, 14 October, 1991. Br J Radiol, 65, 841.

UM Sivananthan, MR Rees, SP Verma, GM Gundroo, JP Ridgway, K Bann, 1991. Should MR Imaging be used as the first line of investigation in adult congenital heart disease? Proc. 77th Annual Meeting of the RSNA, Chicago, 1-6th December, 1991. Radiology, 181(P), 218.

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Conference Proceedings Published in Full or as an Abstract

K. Alfakih, K. Walters, T. Jones, J. Ridgway, A. Hall, M. Sivananthan. New gender-specific partition values for ECG criteria of left ventricular hypertrophy: Recalibration against left ventricular mass as measured by cardiac MRI. Accepted by the European Society of Cardiology Conference, Munich, September, 2004.

S. Clay, K. Alfakih, G. Bainbridge, J. Ridgway, M. Sivananthan. Comparison of LV volume measurements using Black Blood and SSFP imaging sequences. Presented at the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Barcelona, February, 2004.

S. Clay, K. Alfakih, T. Jones, J. Ridgway, M. Sivananthan. Normal Human Left Ventricular Dimensions for MRI using the radial orientation and SSFP Imaging. Presented at the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Barcelona, February, 2004.

K. Alfakih, A. Maqbool, M. Sivananthan, G. Bainbridge, J. Ridgway, A. Balmforth, A. Hall. The clinical significance of a functional, X- linked Ang II type 2-receptor gene polymorphism (-1332 G/A) in patients with hypertension. Presented at the American College of Cardiologists Conference, New Orleans, March, 2004.

Higgins DM, Ridgway JP, Radjenovic A, Sivananthan M, Smith MA. A method for fast T1 measurement in the heart. In: "Proc. Intl. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med., Toronto, 2003," p. 2377.

Higgins DM, Ridgway JP, Radjenovic A, Sivananthan M, Smith MA. A mathematical formulation for fast T1 measurement in cardiac applications. In: "Proc. Intl. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med., Toronto, 2003," p. 2460.

K. Alfakih, S. Plein, H. Thiele, T. Jones, J. Ridgway, M. Sivananthan. Normal human left and right ventricular dimensions for MRI as assessed by TGE and SSFP imaging sequences. Sixth Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Orlando, 7-9 February, 2003.

K. Alfakih, S. Plein, T. Bloomer, T. Jones, J. Ridgway, M. Sivananthan. Comparison of Right Ventricular Volume Measurements between Axial and Short Axis Orientation using a Steady-State Free Precession Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Sixth Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Orlando, 7-9 February, 2003.

K. Alfakih, T. Bloomer, S. Slight, G. Bainbridge, J. Ridgway, G. Williams, M. Sivananthan. Comparison of LV mass between 2-D echocardiography, using fundamental and harmonic imaging, and cardiac MRI in patients with hypertension. Sixth Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Orlando, 7-9 February, 2003.

Plein S, Radjenovic R, Greenwood JP, Ridgway, JP, Ball SG, Sivananthan MU. Semiquantitative analysis of myocardial perfusion imaging with SENSE. Sixth Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Orlando, 7-9 February, 2003, p. 91-92.

K. Alfakih, H. Thiele, S. Plein, G. Bainbridge, J. Ridgway, M. Sivananthan. Comparison of right ventricular volume measurement between segmented k-space gradient-echo and steady-state free precession magnetic resonance imaging. Fifth Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Orlando, 2002.

Higgins DM, Radjenovic A and Ridgway JP. Fast T1 measurement for quantitative cardiac perfusion applications. 7th Annual Meeting of the British Chapter of the ISMRM, 2001.

Ridgway JP, Radjenovic A, Higgins DM, Kassner A, and Sivananthan M. A fast, multiple-slice multiple-point method for the determination of T1 relaxation time for use in quantitative myocardial perfusion measurement. In: "Proc. Intl. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med., Glasgow, 2001," p. 1905.

Radjenovic A, Ridgway JP, Bloomer TN, Plein S, Higgins DM, Meaney JFM, Kassner A, Sivananthan UM. Global measurement of the myocardial perfusion index: application to the assessment of the incomplete Gd-DTPA clearance in rest/stress studies of cardiac perfusion. In: "Proc. Intl. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med., Glasgow, 2001," p. 229.

Bloomer T, Plein S, Radjenovic S, Higgins D and Sivananthan M. The radial long axis balanced FFE method can be recommended to evaluate left ventricular volume, function and mass. Fourth Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Atlanta, 26-28 January, 2001, p. 43.

Plein S, Bloomer T, Jones T, Higgins D, Bainbridge G, Radjenovic A and Sivananthan M. Evaluation of short-axis, parallel long-axis and radial long-axis measurements of ventricular mass in ex vivo pig hearts. Fourth Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Atlanta, 26-28 January, 2001, p. 70.

T Bloomer, J Ridgway, M Sivananthan. Cardiac MRI demonstrates changes in right ventricular function after inferior myocardial function. Fourth Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Atlanta, 26-28 January, 2001, 58.

S Plein, J Ridgway, T Bloomer, M Sivananthan. TrueFISP imaging of the heart may provide information about myocardial viability in patients with chronic myocardial ischaemia - first observations. Fourth Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Atlanta, 26-28 January, 2001, 95.

S Plein, T Bloomer, J Ridgway, M Sivananthan. True FISP and conventional turbo gradient echo MRI result in significantly different estimations of left ventricular dimensions and function. Fourth Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Atlanta, 26-28 January, 2001, 162.

S Plein, TN Bloomer, JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan. TrueFISP imaging of the heart improves the success rate of automatic contour detection. Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Annual Scientific Session. Atlanta, January 2001, .

S Plein, W Smith, JP Ridgway, A Kassner, DJ Beacock, T Bloomer, S Williams, UM Sivananthan, 2000. Real time imaging of left ventricular dimensions: Reliability and reproducibility in clinical practice. Abstracts of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Denver, 1-7 April, 2000, 192.

JP Ridgway, A Kassner, DJ Beacock, UM Sivananthan, 1999. Fast Left Ventricular Volume Measurement Using a Multiple-Slice 'Real'Time' Acquisition: A Pilot Study. Abstracts of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Philadelphia,22-28 May, 1999, 388.

JP Ridgway, A Kassner, UM Sivananthan, MA Smith. Multiple phase, black blood imaging of the heart using real-time acquisition: Initial results. Abstracts of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Sydney, 18-24 April, 1998, 807, 1998

D Beacock, AA Cubucku, WR Crum, E Berry, JP Ridgway, LB Tan, UM Sivananthan, 1998. Quantitative assessment of intra-myocardial contraction patterns in ischaemic heart disease using dobutamine stress magnetic resonance imaging with tagging. Abstracts of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Sydney,18-24 April, 1998, 883.

E Berry, D Beacock, WR Crum, JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan, LB Tan, MA Smith, 1998. Reproducibility of tracking of MR tags in clinical cardiac images using a semi-automated technique. Abstracts of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Sydney,18-24 April, 1998, 2095.

JP Ridgway, A Kassner, UM Sivananthan, 1997. Optimisation of parameters for ultrafast dynamic image acquisition: towards 'real-time' cardiac imaging. Abstracts of the Third annual general meeting of the British Chapter of the international society for magnetic resonance in Medicine, Manchester, 22-23rd December, 1997.

A Kassner, JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan. Black blood imaging of the heart: A comparison of breathhold, non-breathhold and respiratory gated techniques. Proc ESMRMB, Brussels, 1997.

JP Ridgway, A Kassner, UM Sivananthan, 1997. Development of a heart-rate-independent pulse sequence for breathhold MR imaging of the heart with black blood contrast. Abstracts of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vancouver, 12-18 April, 1997, 851.

WR Crum, E Berry, JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan, LB Tan, MA Smith, 1997. Multi-spectral classification of tagged MRI. Abstracts of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vancouver, 12-18 April, 1997, 2025.

JP Ridgway, A Kassner, UM Sivananthan, 1996. Practical aspects of pulse sequence design for breath-hold MR imaging of the heart with black blood contrast. Abstracts of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the British Chapter of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, London, 19th-20th December, 1996.

JP Ridgway, T Bloomer, UM Sivananthan, 1996. Fast left and right ventricular volume measurement using breathhold magnetic resonance. Abstracts of 2nd annual meeting of IPEMB, Leeds, 10-12 September, 1996, 36.

WR Crum, E Berry, JP Ridgway, UM Sivananthan, LB Tan, MA Smith, 1996. Tracking cardiac motion with tagged magnetic resonance images. Abstracts of 2nd annual meeting of IPEMB, Leeds, 10-12 September, 1996, 36.

Bloomer TN, Ball JB, Ridgway J, Cullingworth J, Williams GJ, Sivananthan UM. Assessment of Right Ventricular volumes and function by breathold cine Magnetic resonance Imaging in normal subjects. Abstracts of the 48th Annual Conference of the Cardiological Society of India 1996.

AA Cubucku, UM Sivananthan, K Bann, MR Rees, JP Ridgway, 1993. Improved myocardial contractility assessment with tagged cine MRI in cardiomyopathic patients. Proc. Computers in Cardiology, 5-8 September, 1993, 751-754.

UM Sivananthan, MR Rees, JP Ridgway, K Bann, J Ward, J Cullingworth, 1992. The use of contrast-enhanced turboFLASH sequences in aorto-iliac disease and their comparison with conventional angiography. Abstracts of 11th annual meeting of Soc. Mag. Res. in Medicine, Berlin 8-14 August 1992, 3108.