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Maria Drangova

Professor and Scientist
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Cited by 6833

In vivo small-animal imaging using micro-CT and digital subtraction angiography

CT Badea, M Drangova, DW Holdsworth… - Physics in medicine & …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Small-animal imaging has a critical role in phenotyping, drug discovery and in providing a
basic understanding of mechanisms of disease. Translating imaging methods from humans to …

Delayed enhancement magnetic resonance imaging predicts response to cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with intraventricular dyssynchrony

…, A Skanes, M Parker, G Klein, M Drangova - Journal of the American …, 2006 - jacc.org
Objectives : We evaluated the ability of delayed enhancement magnetic resonance imaging
(DE-MRI) to predict clinical response to cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). …

Prediction of arrhythmic events in ischemic and dilated cardiomyopathy patients referred for implantable cardiac defibrillator: evaluation of multiple scar quantification …

…, TR Thompson, F Prato, M Drangova… - Circulation …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
… Drs White, Gao, Pallaveshi, and Drangova have had full access to the study data and take
responsibility for its integrity. The authors would like to thank Linda Marziali, Kris Carter (RN), …

Implementation of dual‐and triple‐energy cone‐beam micro‐CT for postreconstruction material decomposition

…, SI Pollmann, NL Ford, M Drangova… - Medical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Micro‐CT has become a powerful tool for small animal research, having the ability to obtain
high‐resolution in vivo and ex vivo images for analyzing bone mineral content, organ …

Design and performance evaluation of a remote catheter navigation system

…, JS Bax, DW Holdsworth, M Drangova - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Thakur, JH Cakiroglu, DW Holdsworth, and M. Drangova, “A device for real-time … Maria
Drangova received the BASc. degree in engineering science from the University of Toronto, …

Utility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in identifying substrate for malignant ventricular arrhythmias

…, H Warren, T Thompson, M Drangova… - Circulation …, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Background— Sudden cardiac death (SCD) and sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia
(SMVT) are frequently associated with prior or acute myocardial injury. Cardiovascular …

Fibroblast growth factor 9 delivery during angiogenesis produces durable, vasoresponsive microvessels wrapped by smooth muscle cells

MJ Frontini, Z Nong, R Gros, M Drangova… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
… In contrast, FGF2/FGF9-generated blood vessels briskly constricted in response to 10 −6 M
phenylephrine, with more widespread constriction along the length of the vessel with 10 −5 M

[HTML][HTML] Intervention with citrus flavonoids reverses obesity and improves metabolic syndrome and atherosclerosis in obese Ldlr−/− mice

…, CG Sawyez, JY Edwards, M Drangova… - Journal of Lipid …, 2018 - ASBMB
Obesity and its associated metabolic dysfunction and cardiovascular disease risk represent
a leading cause of adult morbidity worldwide. Currently available pharmacological therapies …

Naringenin prevents obesity, hepatic steatosis, and glucose intolerance in male mice independent of fibroblast growth factor 21

…, SS Chhoker, CG Sawyez, M Drangova… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The molecular mechanisms and metabolic pathways whereby the citrus flavonoid, naringenin,
reduces dyslipidemia and improves glucose tolerance were investigated in C57BL6/J wild…

Conditional generative adversarial network for 3D rigid‐body motion correction in MRI

PM Johnson, M Drangova - Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Subject motion in MRI remains an unsolved problem; motion during image acquisition
may cause blurring and artifacts that severely degrade image quality. In this work, we …