Summary
David Firmin is Professor of Biomedical Imaging at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and the Physics Director of the Royal Brompton Hospitals CMR Unit.
His involvement in Cardiovascular MR began in 1982 and he is one of the founding members of the Royal Brompton Unit which opened in 1984. His major contribution to MRI has been in the development of quantitative phase contrast velocity imaging.
As the Director of Physics he has also led a number of pioneering advances in atheroma imaging, rapid and interactive cardiovascular MR, coronary angiography, myocardial perfusion imaging and tissue characterisation.
Professor Firmin has served on many scientific programme committees and in 1999 he organised a highly successful ISMRM Workshop on Flow & Motion in Cardiovascular MR and recently, in recognition of his service, he has been made a Fellow of ISMRM. He is an Assistant Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular MR, and a referee for several major international scientific journals, and a former panel member of the Wellcome Trust Infrastructure Grant.
Professor Firmin has more than 350 publications in cardiovascular MR imaging, including over 170 peer reviewed academic journal papers.
Publications
Journals
Xing X, Del Ser J, Wu Y, et al., 2023, HDL: hybrid deep learning for the synthesis of myocardial velocity maps in digital twins for cardiac analysis, Ieee Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol:27, ISSN:2168-2194, Pages:5134-5142
Zhou Z, Gao Y, Zhang W, et al., 2023, Artificial intelligence-based full aortic CT angiography imaging with ultra-low-dose contrast medium: a preliminary study, European Radiology, Vol:33, ISSN:0938-7994, Pages:678-689
Ferreira PF, Banerjee A, Scott AD, et al., 2022, Accelerating Cardiac Diffusion Tensor Imaging With a U-Net Based Model: Toward Single Breath-Hold, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Vol:56, ISSN:1053-1807, Pages:1691-1704
Hatipoglu S, Gatehouse P, Krupickova S, et al., 2022, Reliability of pediatric ventricular function analysis by short-axis "single-cycle-stack-advance" single-shot compressed-sensing cines in minimal breath-hold time, European Radiology, Vol:32, ISSN:0938-7994, Pages:2581-2593