Craig Hamilton, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Dr. Craig Hamilton was born and raised in south Georgia. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1977. After several years working in Dallas, TX as a communications engineer for Rockwell International and Mobil Pipeline Company, he attended graduate school at North Carolina State University and obtained a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1992. Upon graduation, he accepted a faculty position at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston Salem, NC. As a founding faculty member of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Dr. Hamilton is the Program Director of the graduate program in BME. He teaches signal and image processing as well as medical imaging.

SYNOPSIS OF AREA OF INTEREST: Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging with a primary focus on the acquisition, reconstruction, and analysis of coronary blood flow images

DETAILED AREA OF INTEREST: Magnetic resonance imaging holds great promise as a non-invasive means of acquiring blood flow measurements throughout the vasculature system. Due to the motion of the heart, the coronary arteries present the greatest challenge for accurate measurement of blood flow. Dr. Hamilton's current research involves developing new acquisition techniques to improve the temporal resolution of phase-contrast MRI flow measurements as well as more automated, reproducible analysis techniques. Collaborating Departments include the Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Internal Medicine - Cardiology.

PUBLICATIONS:

Tan P, Hamilton CA, Link KM, Kitzman DW, Hundley WG. Automated analysis of phase-contrast magnetic resonance images in the assessment of endothelium-dependent flow-mediated dilation. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2003; 5:325-332.

Rerkpattanapipat P, Gandhi S, Darty SN, Williams RT, Davis AD, Mazur W, Clark HP, Little WC, Link KM, Hamilton CA, Hundley WG. Feasibility to detect severe coronary artery stenoses with upright treadmill exercise magnetic resonance imaging. Am J Cardiol 2003;92:603-606.

Hundley WG, Hamilton CA, Rerkpattanapipat P. Magnetic resonance imaging assessment of cardiac function. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2003;5(1):69-74.

Dall'Armellina E, Baugh BA, Morgan TM, Hamilton CA, Tan P, Herrington DM, Link KM, Hundley WG. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance measurement of coronary arterial blood flow at rest and after submaximal exercise. J Comp Asst Tomogr 2006. (in press).

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