publications

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Patents:

— Sharif B, Pang J, Berman DS, Li D. Method and System for Push-Button Comprehensive Cardiac MR Examination Using Continuous Self-Gated Radial 3D Imaging. U.S. Patent No. 9,655,522; Patent issued on May 23, 2017.

— Kali A, Yang H, Sharif B, Dharmakumar R. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Myocardial Viability Without Exogenous Contrast Media. U.S. Provisional Patent Appl. No. 62/171,088, 2015.

— Sharif B, Berman DS, Merz CN, Li D. Systems and Methods for Myocardial Perfusion MRI Without the Need for ECG Gating and Additional Methods for Improved Cardiac Imaging. U.S. Patent Appl. No. 14/590,935, 2014.

— Sharif B, Bresler Y. Auto-calibrating Parallel MRI Technique with Distortion-Optimal Image Reconstruction. United States Patent No. 8,831,318; Patent issued on Sept. 9, 2014.

— Sharif B, Bresler Y, Aggarwal N. Adaptive Parallel Acquisition And Reconstruction of Dynamic MR Images. United States Patent No. 7,423,430; Patent issued on Sept. 9, 2008.

Articles in Peer-reviewed Publications (Accepted or Published):

44. Shaw JL, Nelson M, Wei J, Motwani M, Mehta PK, Thomson L, Berman DS, Li D, Bairey Merz CN, Sharif B*. Inverse Association of MRI-derived Native Myocardial T1 and Perfusion Reserve in Women with Evidence of Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and No Obstructive CAD: A Pilot Study. International Journal of Cardiology 2018;270:48-53. [PubMed PMID: 30041981; doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.06.086]

43. Wei J, Nelson M, Sharif B, Shufelt C, Bairey Merz CN. Why Do We Care About Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction: Addressing Knowledge Gaps for Evidence-based Guidelines. European Heart Journal 2018;39:3451–3453. [PubMed PMID: 30165471; doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehy558]

42. Al-Badri A, Sharif B, Wei J, Samuels B, Azarbal B, Peterson JW, Anderson D, Gadh A, Henry T, Pepine CJ, Bairey Merz CN. Intra-coronary Bolus Injection versus Intravenous Infusion of Adenosine for Assessment of Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve in Women with Signs and Symptoms of Myocardial Ischemia and No Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease. J. American College of Cardiology (JACC): Cardiovascular Interventions 2018;11(20):2125-2127. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2018.07.052

41. Sharif B*, Motwani M, Arsanjani R, Dharmakumar R, Fish M, Germano G, Li D, Berman DS, Slomka P. Impact of Incomplete Ventricular Coverage on Diagnostic Performance of Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. International J. Cardiovascular Imaging 2018;34(4):661-669. [PubMed PMID: 29197024; doi: 10.1007/s10554-017-1265-1]

40. Al-Badri A, Wei J, Landes S, Motwani M, Cook-Wiens G, Nelson M, Mehta P, Shufelt C, Sharif B, Li D, Berman D, Thomson L, Bairey Merz N. Inter-scan Reproducibility of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Derived Myocardial Perfusion Reserve Index in Women with no Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease. Curr Trends Clin Med Imaging 2018;2(3):555587. doi: 10.19080/CTCMI.2018.02.555587

39. Salerno M, Sharif B, Arheden H, Kumar A, Axel L, Li D, Neubauer S. Recent Advances in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: Techniques and Applications. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 2017;10(6):e003951. [PubMed PMID: 28611116; doi: 10.1161/circimaging.116.003951; peer-reviewed “state of the art” article]

38. Yang HJ, Dey D, Sykes J, Klein M, Butler J, Kovacs M, Sobczyk O, Sharif B, Bi X, Cokic I, Yumul R, Tsaftaris SA, Tighiouart M, Li D, Slomka PJ, Berman DS, Prato FS, Fisher JA, Dharmakumar R. Arterial CO2 as a Potent Coronary Vasodilator: A Preclinical PET/MR Validation Study with Implications for Cardiac Stress Testing. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2017;58(6):953-960. [PubMed PMID: 28254864; doi: 10.2967/jnumed.116.185991]

37. Nelson M, Mehta P, Wei J, Sharif B, Thomson L, Berman D, Li D, Bairey Merz CN. Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibition may reduce diastolic function in women with ischemia but no obstructive coronary artery disease. J. Med. Case Rep. 2017;11(1):144. [PubMed PMID: 28528579; doi: 10.1186/s13256-017-1307-2]

36. Zhou Z, Bi X, Wei J, Yang HJ, Dharmakumar R, Arsanjani R, Bairey Merz CN, Li D, Sharif B*. First-pass myocardial perfusion MRI with reduced subendocardial dark-rim artifact using optimized Cartesian sampling. J. of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (JMRI) 2017;45:542-555. [PubMed PMID: 27532501; doi: 10.1002/jmri.25400]

35. Nelson MD, Sharif B, Shaw JL, Cook-Wiens G, Wei J, Shufelt C, Mehta PK, Thomson LEJ, Berman DS, Thompson RB, Handberg EM, Pepine CJ, Li D, Bairey Merz CN. Myocardial tissue deformation is reduced in subjects with coronary microvascular dysfunction but not rescued by treatment with Ranolazine. Clinical Cardiology 2017;40(5):300-306. [PubMed PMID: 28004395; doi: 10.1002/clc.22660]

34. Chen D, Sharif B, Bi X, Wei J, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow using Non-Electrocardiogram-Triggered MR Imaging with Three-Slice Coverage. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2016;75(5):2112--2120. [PubMed PMID: 26059326; doi: 10.1002/mrm.25787]

33. Yang HJ, Sharif B, Pang J, Kali A, Bi X, Cokic I, Li D, Dharmakumar R. Free-Breathing, Motion-Corrected, Highly Efficient Whole-Heart T2 Mapping at 3T with Hybrid Radial-Cartesian Trajectory. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2016;75(1):126-36. [PubMed PMID: 25753385; doi: 10.1002/mrm.25576]

32. Bakir M, Nelson M, Jones E, Li Q, Wei J, Sharif B, Minissian M, Shufelt C, Sopko G, Pepine CJ, Bairey Merz CN. Heart Failure Hospitalization in Women with Signs and Symptoms of Ischemia: A Report from the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation Study. International Journal of Cardiology, 2016;15(223):936-939. [PubMed PMID: 27589041; doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.07.301]

31. Sharif B*, Arsanjani R, Dharmakumar R, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. All-Systolic Non-ECG-gated Myocardial Perfusion MRI: Feasibility of Multi-Slice Continuous First-Pass Imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2015;74(6):1661-1674. [PubMed PMID: 26052843; doi: 10.1002/mrm.25752]

30. Kali A, Park JS, Sharif B, Bi X, Cokic I, Yang H, Li D, Berman DS, Dharmakumar R. Native T1 Mapping by 3-T CMR Imaging for Characterization of Chronic Myocardial Infarctions. J. American College of Cardiology (JACC): Cardiovascular Imaging 2015;8(9):1019-30. PubMed PMID: 26298071; doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2015.04.018

29. Bakir M, Wei J, Nelson M, Mehta P, Jones E, Sharif B, Chen D, Shufelt C, Gill E, Berman DS, Slomka P, Minissian M, Li D, Bairey Merz CN, Thomson L. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imagining for Myocardial Perfusion and Diastolic Function – Reference Control Values for Women. Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 2016;6(1):78-86.[PubMed PMID: 26885495; doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2223-3652.2015.09.03]

28. Thomson L, Wei J, Shufelt C, Mehta PK, Gill E, Johnson D, Kenkre T, Handberg E, Li D, Sharif B, Berman DS, Petersen J, Pepine CJ, Bairey Merz CN. Cardiac magnetic resonance myocardial perfusion reserve index is reduced in women with coronary microvascular dysfunction: A National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-sponsored study from the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE). Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 2015;8(4):e002481. [PubMed PMID: 25801710; doi: 10.1161/circimaging.114.002481]

27. Deng Z, Pang J, Yang W, Yue Y, Sharif B, Tuli R, Li D, Fraass B, Fan Z. 4D MRI Using 3D Radial Sampling with Respiratory Self-Gating to Characterize Temporal Phase-Resolved Respiratory Motion in the Abdomen. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2016;75(4):1574-1585. [PubMed PMID: 25981762; doi: 10.1002/ mrm.25753]

26. Chen D, Sharif B, Dharmakumar R, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow using Non-ECG-Triggered MR Imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2015;74(3):765-71. Epub ahead of print: Sept 2014. [PubMed PMID: 25227935; doi: 10.1002/mrm.25451]

25. Pang J, Sharif B, Arsanjani R, Bi X, Yang Q, Berman DS, Li D. Accelerated Whole-Heart Coronary MRA Using Motion-Corrected Sensitivity Encoding with Three-Dimensional Projection Reconstruction. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2015;73(1):284–291. [PubMed PMID: 24435956; doi: 10.1002/mrm.25097]

24. Sharif B, Dharmakumar R, Arsanjani R, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Non-ECG-Gated High-Resolution Myocardial Perfusion MRI Using Continuous Magnetization-Driven Golden-Angle Radial Sampling. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2014;72(6):1620-1628. Epub date: Jan 2014. [PubMed PMID: 24443160; doi: 10.1002/mrm.25074]

23. Pang J, Sharif B, Fan Z, Bi X, Arsanjani R, Berman DS, Li D. ECG and Navigator-Free 4D Whole-Heart Coronary MRA for Simultaneous Visualization of Cardiac Anatomy and Function. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2014; 72(5):1208-1217. [PubMed PMID: 25216287; doi: 10.1002/mrm.25450]

22. Nguyen C, Fan Z, Xie Y, Dawkins J, Tseliou E, Bi X, Sharif B, Dharmakumar R, Marbán E, Li D. In vivo non-contrast chronic myocardial infarction characterization using cardiac diffusion-weighted MRI. Journal of Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2014;16(1):68. [PubMed PMID: 25230598]

21. Kali A, Cokic I, Tang R, Yang H, Sharif B, Marbán E, Li D, Berman DS, Dharmakumar R. Determination of Location, Size and Transmurality of Chronic Myocardial Infarction without Exogenous Contrast Media Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 3T. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 2014;7(3):471-481. [PubMed PMID: 24682268; doi: 10.1161/circimaging.113.001541]

20. Nelson M, Szczepaniak L, Wei J, Haftabaradaran A, Bharadwaj M, Sharif B, Mehta P, Zhang X, Thomson L, Berman DS, Li D, Bairey Merz CN. Diastolic dysfunction in women with signs and symptoms of ischemia in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease: A hypothesis generating study. Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 2014;7(3):510-516. [PubMed ID: 24633782; doi: 10.1161/circimaging.114.001714]

19. Yang H, Yumul R, Tang R, Cokic I, Klein M, Kali A, Sobczyk O, Sharif B, Tang J, Bi X, Tsaftaris S, Li D, Conte A, Fisher J, Dharmakumar R. Assessment of Myocardial Reactivity to Controlled Hypercapnia with Free-breathing T2-prepared Cardiac Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent MR Imaging. Radiology 2014;272(2):397-406. [PubMed PMID: 24749715; doi: 10.1148/radiol.14132549]

18. Agarwal M, Shufelt C, Mehta P, Gill E, Berman DS, Li D, Sharif B, Li N, Bairey Merz CN, Thomson L. Cardiac Risk Factors and Myocardial Perfusion Reserve in Women with Microvascular Coronary Dysfunction. Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 2013;3(3):146–152. [PubMed PMID: 24282763]

17. Nguyen C, Fan Z, Sharif B, Yi H, Dharmakumar R, Berman DS, Li D. In vivo 3D High Resolution Cardiac Diffusion Weighted MRI: A Motion Compensated Diffusion-prepared Balanced Steady State Free Precession Approach. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2014;72(5):1257-67. Epub: Nov 2013. [PubMed PMID: 24259113]

16. Chen D, Sharif B, Dharmakumar R, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Improved Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow at Rest using HYPR Reconstruction. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2014;72(3): 749-755. Epub date: Oct 2013. [PubMed ID: 24122950; doi: 10.1002/ mrm.24958]

15. Sharif B, Dharmakumar R, LaBounty T, Arsanjani R, Shufelt C, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Towards Elimination of the Dark-Rim Artifact in First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion MRI: Removing Gibbs Ringing Effects Using Optimized Radial Imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2014;72(1):124–136. Epub date: Sept. 2013. [PubMed PMID: 24030840; doi: 10.1002/mrm.24913]

14. Pang J, Bhat H, Sharif B, Fan Z, Gill E, Thomson L, LaBounty T, Friedman J, Berman DS, Li D. Whole-heart Coronary MRA With 100% Respiratory Gating Efficiency: Self-navigated Three-dimensional Retrospective Image-based Motion Correction (TRIM). Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2014;71(1):67–74. Epub date: Feb 2013. [PubMed PMID: 23401157; doi: 10.1002/mrm.24628]

13. Sharif B*, Bresler Y. Generic Feasibility of Perfect Reconstruction with Short FIR Filters in Multi-channel Systems. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 2011;59(12):5814--5829. [doi: 10.1109/ TSP.2011.2166550]

12. Sharif B*, Bresler Y. Distortion-Optimal Self-Calibrating Parallel MRI By Blind Interpolation In Subsampled Filter Banks. IEEE Proceedings Intl Symp Biomedical Imaging 2011;52–56. [PubMed PMID: 24404208; doi: 10.1109/ ISBI.2011.5872352]

11. Sharif B*, Derbyshire JA, Faranesh AZ, Bresler Y. Patient-Adaptive Reconstruction and Acquisition in Dynamic Imaging with Sensitivity Encoding (PARADISE). Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2010;64(2):501–513. [PubMed PMID: 20665794; doi: 10.1002/mrm.22444]

10. Sharif B*, Bresler Y. Upper Bounds on Aliasing Error Energy for Multidimensional Sampling of Nonbandlimited Signals. IEEE Proceedings Intl Conf Signal Processing 2008;3717-3720. [doi: 10.1109/ ICASSP.2008.4518460]

9. Sharif B*, Kamalabadi F. Optimal Sensor Configuration in Remote Image Formation. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 2008; 17(2):155–166. [PubMed ID: 18270108; doi: 10.1109/TIP.2007.914225]

8. Sharif B*, Bresler Y. Adaptive Real-Time Cardiac MRI Using PARADISE: Validation by the Physiologically Improved NCAT Phantom. IEEE Proceedings Intl Symp Biomedical Imaging 2007;1020-23. [PubMed PMID: 24398475; doi: 10.1109 /ISBI.2007.357028]

7. Bresler Y, Aggarwal N, Sharif B. Patient-Adaptive Spatiotemporal MRI: From PARADIGM to PARADISE and Beyond. IEEE Proceedings Intl Symp Biomedical Imaging 2007;980-983. [doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2007.357018]

6. Sharif B*, Bresler Y. Affine-Corrected PARADISE: Free-Breathing Patient-Adaptive Cardiac MRI with Sensitivity Encoding. IEEE Proceedings Intl Symp Biomedical Imaging 2007;1076–1079. [PubMed PMID: 24390159; doi: 10.1109/ ISBI.2007.357042]

5. Sharif B*, Bresler Y. Optimal Multi-Channel Time-Sequential Acquisition in Dynamic MRI with Parallel Coils. IEEE Proceedings Intl Symp Biomedical Imaging 2006;45-48. [PubMed PMID: 24390162; doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2006.1624848]

4. Sharif B*, Kamalabadi F. Optimal Resolution in Algebraic Image Reconstruction. American Institute of Physics (AIP) Proceedings: Bayesian Inference & Maximum Entropy Methods in Science & Engineering 2005;803:199–206. [doi: 10.1063/1.2149796]

3. Sharif B*, Sharif B. Discrete Tomography in Discrete Deconvolution: Deconvolution of Binary Images Using Ryser’s Algorithm. Elec Notes in Discrete Mathematics 2005;20:555-571. [doi: 10.1016/j.endm.2005.05.085; Selected as ScienceDirect’s Top 25 Hottest Articles in ENDM in 2005]

2. Sharif B*, Kamalabadi F. Optimal Sensor Configuration in Remote Image Formation. IEEE Proceedings Intl Conf Image Processing 2005;2:197–200. [doi: 10.1109/ ICIP.2005.1530025]

1. Kamalabadi F, Sharif B*. Robust Regularized Tomographic Imaging with Convex Projections. IEEE Proceedings Intl Conf Image Processing 2005;2:205-208. [doi: 10.1109/ ICIP.2005.1530027]

Book Chapter:

Dharmakumar R, Sharif B, Yang H-J. CMR Pulse Sequences. In: Syed MA, Raman SV, Simonetti OP, eds. Basic Principles of Cardiovascular MRI. Springer International Publishing; 2015:25-40. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22141-0_3

Selected Peer-reviewed Conference Abstracts (selected from 100+ refereed abstracts):

◉ Van Dyke J, Sandoval Z, Dharmakumar R, Sharif B*. Unsupervised Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow in Free-breathing Perfusion Cardiac MRI Using Spatio-temporal Deep Learning. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 27th Scientific Sessions, Montreal 2019, In Press. [ ISMRM 2019 Oral Presentation ]

◉ Van Dyke J, Cokic I, Dharmakumar R, Sharif B*. Optimizing native T1-based detection of chronic myocardial infarctions at 3T: Influence of MOLLI flip angle on the relative T1-map contrast. Proc. 22nd SCMR Scientific Sessions, Bellevue 2019, pp. 1310-1311.

◉ Sandoval Z, Van Dyke J, Dharmakumar R, Sharif B*. Rapid Automatic Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow in Free-breathing Perfusion CMR without Motion Correction: A Novel Spatio-temporal Deep Learning Approach. Proc. 22nd SCMR Scientific Sessions, Bellevue 2019, pp. 454-456. [ SCMR 2019 Oral Presentation ]

◉ Sandoval Z, Bairey Merz N, Sharif B*. Quantification of Native T1 Rest/Stress Reactivity without T1 Mapping: Towards a Noncontrast Surrogate Marker of Myocardial Blood Volume Reserve Using a Novel Gradient-Echo Hybrid 2D/3D Acquisition Scheme. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2018;20(Suppl 1):O43. [ SCMR 2018 Oral Presentation ]

◉ Sandoval Z, AlBadri A, Wei J, Thomson L, Azarbal B, Samuels B, Berman D, Bairey Merz N, Sharif B*. Development of a stress-only perfusion gradient marker for detection of coronary microvascular dysfunction in women with no obstructive CAD: a new quantitative approach validated by invasively measured coronary reactivity. J. Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2018;20(Suppl 1):P011.

◉ AlBadri A, Sharif B, Wei J, Mehta P, Samuels B, Azarbal B, Petersen J, Li Q, Marpuri R, Henry T, Pepine C, Bairey Merz N. Intra-coronary Adenosine Versus Intravenous Adenosine for Assessment of Coronary Flow Reserve in Subjects with Signs and Symptoms of Ischemia and No Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease. Circulation 2017;136:A19119. [ AHA 2017 Scientific Sessions ]

◉ Sandoval Z, Berman D, Bairey Merz N, Sharif B*. End-systolic myocardial T1 mapping using a spoiled steady-state approach: Towards reducing the confounding effect of intra-myocardial blood on native T1. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 2017, p. 2724.

◉ Sharif B*, AlBadri A, Wei J, Azarbal B, Samuels B, Li D, Berman DS, Bairey Merz CN. Hyperemic Subendocardial-to-Subepicardial Perfusion Ratio as a Surrogate Marker For Coronary Endothelial Dysfunction: Initial Results In Women With Microvascular Dysfunction. JACC 2017;69(11):1564. doi: 10.1016/S0735-1097(17)34953-7 [ Am. College of Cardiology 2017 Sessions ]

◉ Sandoval Z, Berman D, Bairey Merz N, Sharif B*. Purely-systolic T1 mapping using an ungated spoiled steady-state approach: Towards reducing the confounding effect of intra-myocardial blood volume on native T1. J. Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2017;19(Suppl 1):O23. [ SCMR 2017 Oral Presentation ]

◉ Shaw J, Christodoulou A, Sharif B, Li D. Free-Breathing Non-ECG-Gated Continuous Myocardial T1 Mapping with Cardiac MR Multitasking. J. Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2017;19(Suppl 1): O52. [ SCMR 2017 Oral Presentation ]

◉ Christodoulou A, Shaw J, Sharif B, Li D. Non-ECG First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion T1 Mapping Using CMR Multitasking. J. Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2017;19(Suppl 1):R23. [ SCMR 2017 Oral Presentation ]

◉ Sharif B*, Albadri A, Wei J, Berman DS, Li D, Bairey Merz CN. Vasodilator-induced Myocardial Perfusion Gradients as a Surrogate Marker of Coronary Endothelial Function: Initial Results in Women with Suspected Microvascular Dysfunction. J. Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2017;19(Suppl 1):P38.

◉ Sharif B*, Berman DS, Dharmakumar R, Bairey Merz CN. High-Resolution End-Systolic Myocardial Perfusion MRI Enables Reliable Detection Of Subendocardial Ischemia In The Absence of Obstructive Coronary Disease. JACC 2016;67(13):1688. doi: 10.1016/S0735-1097(16)31689-8 [ Am. College of Cardiology 2016 Sessions ]

◉ Christodoulou A, Shaw J, Sharif B, Li D. Low-Rank Tensor Imaging for Non-ECG Multidimensional Cardiovascular MRI. Proc. 28^th Conf. on MR Angiography, 2016, p. 32. [ Winner of the SMRA 2016 Potchen Award ]

◉ Sharif B*, Dharmakumar R, Berman D, Li D, Bairey Merz N. End-systolic Myocardial Perfusion MRI Using a Hybrid 2D/3D Steady-State Acquisition Scheme: Towards Reliable Detection of Subendocardial Ischemia in Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 24, 2016, p. 467. [ ISMRM 2016 Cardiovascular Top 15 session; Oral “Power Pitch” ]

◉ Shaw J, Nelson M, Wei J, Mehta P, Thomson L, Berman D, Li D, Bairey Merz N, Sharif B*. Tissue Characterization with Native T1 Mapping in Suspected Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction and No Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease: Results from the NHLBI-sponsored WISE Study. J. Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2016;18(Suppl 1):O43. doi:10.1186/1532-429X-18-S1-O43 [ SCMR 2016 Oral Presentation ]

◉ Sharif B*, Dharmakumar R, Berman D, Li D, Bairey Merz N. Reliable Detection of Subendocardial Ischemia by High-Resolution End-Systolic First-pass Perfusion Imaging in the Absence of Obstructive Coronary Disease. J. Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2016;18(Suppl 1):O12. doi:10.1186/1532-429X-18-S1-O12 [ SCMR 2016 Oral Presentation ]

◉ Nelson M, Shaw J, Wei J, Shufelt C, Mehta P, Berman D, Thompson R, Li D, Bairey Merz N, Sharif B*. Subclinical Systolic and Diastolic Dysfunction in Women with Signs and Symptoms of Ischemia But No Obstructive Coronary Disease: Novel Insights Using Myocardial Feature Tracking in the NHLBI WISE Study. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2016;18(Suppl 1):O3. doi: 10.1186/1532-429X-18-S1-O3 [SCMR 2016 Oral Presentation]

◉ Sharif B*, Arsanjani R, Yang H, Dharmakumar R, Baiery Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Steady-state Real-time Cine Imaging of Stress/Rest Myocardial Perfusion for Rapid Detection of High-grade Coronary Stenosis. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 23, 2015, p. 25. [ ISMRM 2015 Oral Presentation ]

◉ Shaw J, Wei J, Mehta PK, Thomson L, Berman DS, Bairey Merz CN, Li D, Sharif B*. Application of native myocardial T1 mapping in subjects with coronary microvascular dysfunction and no obstructive coronary artery disease. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 23, 2015, p. 661. [ ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Merit Award ]

◉ Sharif B*, Arsanjani R, Yang H, Dharmakumar R, Baiery Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Real-time Cine First-pass Perfusion Imaging Enables Rapid Detection of Functionally Significant High-grade Coronary Stenosis. Journal of Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2015;17(Suppl 1):O12. [ SCMR 2015 Oral Presentation ]

◉ Sharif B*, Arsanjani R, Dharmakumar R, Baiery Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. All-Systolic Non-ECG-gated Stress Perfusion CMR: Improved Visualization of Subendocardial Defects Compared to Conventional ECG-gated Imaging. Journal of Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2015;17(Suppl 1):Q122.

◉ Zhou JZ, Bi X, Yang H, Dharmakumar R, Arsanjani R, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D, Sharif B*. First-Pass Perfusion CMR with Reduced Dark-Rim Artifact and Instantaneous Image Reconstruction Using Optimized Cartesian Sampling and Apodization. Journal of Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2015;17(Suppl 1):P001.

◉ Sharif B*, Arsanjani R, Dharmakumar R, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Artifact-free Non-ECG-Gated First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion MRI: Continuous Acquisition for All-Systolic Imaging. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 22, 2014, p. 879. [ ISMRM Oral Presentation ]

◉ Zhou JZ, Fan Z, Xie Y, Li D, Sharif B*. Improved Spatial and Temporal Resolution Black-Blood Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Carotid Artery Wall MRI Using Compressed Sensing. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 22, 2014, p. 3919.

◉ Sharif B*, Arsanjani R, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D, Slomka P. Motivation for Whole-heart Perfusion CMR: A Simulation Study Based on Retrospective Comparison of the Diagnostic Performance of 3-slice Vs. Whole-heart SPECT. Journal of Cardiovasc. Magn. Resonance 2014;16(Supp 1):O99. [ SCMR Oral Presentation ]

◉ Sharif B*, Arsanjani R, Shalev A, Dharmakumar R, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Dark-Rim-Free Ungated First-Pass Perfusion CMR with 3-Slice End-Systolic Imaging: Initial Experience. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2014;16(Suppl 1):P177.

◉ Sharif B*, Arsanjani R, Dharmakumar R, Shalev A, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Real-time Non-ECG-gated First-Pass Perfusion MRI Enabling Concurrent Assessment of Myocardial Function and Perfusion Abnormalities. Circulation 2013;128:A18181. [ AHA 2013 Scientific Sessions ]

◉ Sharif B*, Arsanjani R, Shalev A, Dharmakumar R, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Real-time First-Pass Perfusion Myocardial MRI Using Ungated Continuous Radial Acquisition. Proc. 25^th Intl. Conf. on Magnetic Resonance Angiography (“Angio Club”), 2013, p. 77. [ SMRA Best Presentation Award in Cardiac Imaging ]

◉ Sharif B*, Dharmakumar R, LaBounty T, Shufelt C, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Eliminating Dark-Rim Artifacts in First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion Imaging. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2013, 15(Suppl 1):O3. Winner of the 2013 SCMR Early Career Award, San Francisco. [PubMed PMCID: PMC3559457]

◉ Sharif B*, Dharmakumar R, Arsanjani R, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Ungated Cine First-Pass CMR for Concurrent Imaging of Myocardial Perfusion Defects and Wall Motion Abnormalities. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2013, 15(Suppl 1):O1. Finalist for the SCMR Early Career Award. [PubMed PMCID: PMC3559542]

◉ Sharif B*, Dharmakumar R, Arsanjani R, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Ungated Cine First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion Imaging for Simultaneous Detection of Wall Motion and Perfusion Abnormalities. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 21, 2013, p. 1401. [ ISMRM Magna Cum Laude Merit Award ]

◉ Sharif B, Dharmakumar R, Shufelt C, LaBounty T, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Projection Imaging of Myocardial Perfusion: Minimizing the Subendocardial Dark-Rim Artifact. SCMR 2012, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2012, 14(Suppl 1):P275. [PubMed PMCID: PMC3304738]

◉ Sharif B*, Dharmakumar R, Thomson L, Bairey Merz CN, Berman DS, Li D. Motion-induced Dark-Rim Artifact in First-Pass Myocardial Perfusion MR: A Controlled Canine Study. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 20, May 2012, p. 1149.

◉ Sharif B*, Li D, Wagner S. Temporal Acceleration in Hyperpolarization Imaging Using Image-domain Compressed Sensing. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 19, 2011, p. 2855.

◉ Sharif B* and Bresler Y. Auto-Calibrated Parallel Imaging using a Distortion-Optimal Filter Bank. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 18, Stockholm, 2010, p. 4910.

◉ Sharif B*, Derbyshire JA, Bresler Y. High Spatio-temporal Fidelity Non-gated Cardiac MRI with a 3 Second Patient-Adaptive Scan. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 18, Stockholm, May 2010, p. 3573.

◉ Sharif B*, Derbyshire JA, Faranesh AZ, Lederman RJ, Bresler Y. Real-time Non-gated Cardiac MRI Using PARADISE: Doubly Adaptive Accelerated Imaging. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. (ISMRM) 17, Honolulu, April 2009, p. 767. [ ISMRM Oral Presentation ]

◉ Sharif B*, Derbyshire JA, Bresler Y. Prospective SNR Optimization in k-t-based Sensitivity-encoded Dynamic Imaging Using a Fast Geometric Algorithm. Proc. Intl. Soc Mag Reson Med (ISMRM) 17, 2009, p. 2729.

◉ Sharif B*, Derbyshire JA, Faranesh AZ, Lederman RJ, Bresler Y. Real-time Shallow-breathing Cardiac MRI Using Patient-adaptive Parallel Imaging. Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag Reson Med (ISMRM) 17, 2009, p 4568.

◉ Sharif B* and Bresler Y. Self-calibrating MIMO Reconstruction in Multichannel MRI. Proc. SIAM Conf. on Imaging Science, San Diego, CA, Jul. 2008, p. 133. [ Oral Presentation ]

◉ Sharif B*, Aggarwal N, Bresler Y. PARADISE: Patient-Adaptive Reconstruction and Acquisition in Dynamic Imaging with Sensitivity Encoding. Proc. Intl Soc Mag Reson Med (ISMRM) 15, 2007, p. 151. [ Oral Presentation ]

◉ Sharif B* and Bresler Y. Physiologically Improved NCAT Phantom (PINCAT) Enables in-silico Study of the Effects of Beat-to-Beat Variability on Cardiac MR. Proc. Intl Soc Mag Reson Med (ISMRM) 15, 2007, p. 3418.