Editor’s note February 2017

NASCI AHA young investigator finalists 2016

Suhny Abbara, Phillip Young, Gregory Kicska, Gautham Reddy, U. Joseph Schoepf

Evaluation of a novel 2D perfusion angiography technique independent of pump injections for assessment of interventional treatment of peripheral vascular disease

Jan B. Hinrichs, Tim Murray, Muharrem Akin, Michael Lee, Micheal Ulrich Brehm, Mathias Wilhelmi, Frank K. Wacker, Thomas Rodt

Simulator training to minimize ionizing radiation exposure in the catheterization laboratory

Aric Katz, Avraham Shtub, Amir Solomonica, Adva Poliakov, Ariel Roguin

Disruption of bioresorbable vascular scaffold struts due to loss of radial integrity: insights from optical coherence tomography

Ana Rita Ramalho, João Silva Marques, Guilherme Mariano Pêgo

Right ventricular relative wall thickness as a predictor of outcomes and of right ventricular reverse remodeling for patients with pulmonary hypertension

Hiroyuki Sano, Hidekazu Tanaka, Yoshiki Motoji, Yuko Fukuda, Yasuhide Mochizuki, Yutaka Hatani, Hiroki Matsuzoe, Keiko Hatazawa, Hiroyuki Shimoura, Junichi Ooka, Keiko Ryo-Koriyama, Kazuhiko Nakayama, Kensuke Matsumoto, Noriaki Emoto, Ken-ichi Hirata

The interplay between renin-angiotensin system activation, abnormal myocardial deformation and neurohumoral activation in hypertensive heart disease: a speckle tracking echocardiography study

Ignatios Ikonomidis, Stavros Tzortzis, Argirios Tsantes, Konstantina Ntai, Helen Triantafyllidi, Paraskevi Trivilou, George Katsimaglis, Kleanthi Dima, John Parissis, John Lekakis

Characterizing the spectrum of right ventricular remodelling in response to chronic training

Marta Sitges, Beatriz Merino, Constatine Butakoff, Maria Sanz de la Garza, Carles Paré, Silvia Montserrat, Barbara Vidal, Manel Azqueta, Georgia Sarquella, Josep Antoni Gutierrez, Ramon Canal, Josep Brugada, Bart H. Bijnens

Association between bicuspid aortic valve morphotype and regional dilatation of the aortic root and trunk

Karam M. Habchi, Elena Ashikhmina, Vanessa Montiero Vieira, Jasmin T. Shahram, Eric M. Isselbacher, Thoralf M. Sundt III, Prem Shekar, Jochen D. Muehlschlegel, Simon C. Body

Heart deformation analysis: the distribution of regional myocardial motion patterns at left ventricle

Kai Lin, Leng Meng, Jeremy D. Collins, Varun Chowdhary, Michael Markl, James C. Carr

The role of left ventricular deformation in the assessment of microvascular obstruction and intramyocardial haemorrhage

Pankaj Garg, Ananth Kidambi, Peter P. Swoboda, James R. J. Foley, Tarique A. Musa, David P. Ripley, Bara Erhayiem, Laura E. Dobson, Adam K. McDiarmid, Graham J. Fent, Philip Haaf, John P. Greenwood, Sven Plein

Temporal averaging for analysis of four-dimensional whole-heart computed tomography perfusion of the myocardium: proof-of-concept study

S. Feger, A. Shaban, S. Lukas, C. Kendziorra, M. Rief, E. Zimmermann, M. Dewey

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with magnetic resonance conditional pacemaker systems at 1.5 T: influence of pacemaker related artifacts on image quality including first pass perfusion, aortic and mitral valve assessment, flow measurement, short tau inversion recovery and T1-weighted imaging

Oliver Klein-Wiele, Marietta Garmer, Martin Busch, Serban Mateiescu, Rhyan Urbien, Gianluca Barbone, Kaffer Kara, Michael Schulte-Hermes, Frauke Metz, Birgit Hailer, Dietrich Grönemeyer

A comparison study between 3D T2-weighted SPACE and conventional 2D T2-weighted turbo spin echo in assessment of carotid plaque

Peng Lv, Yuanyuan Dai, Jiang Lin, Weisheng Zhang, Hao Liu, Hui Liu, Xiao Tang

High prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis in Brazilian postmenopausal women with low and intermediate risk by Framingham score

Ana Claudia Gomes Pereira Petisco, Jorge Eduardo Assef, Carlos Alberto de Jesus, Mohamed Hassan Saleh, Jose Eduardo Martins Barbosa, David Costa de Souza Le Bihan, Ibraim Masciarelli França Pinto, Simone Rolim Fernandes Fontes Pedra, Rodrigo Bellio de Mattos Barretto, Amanda Guerra de Moraes Rego Sousa

Accurate quantification of vessel cross-sectional area using CT angiography: a simulation study

Sabee Molloi, Travis Johnson, Huanjun Ding, Jerry Lipinski

Normal values of regional left ventricular myocardial thickness, mass and distribution-assessed by 320-detector computed tomography angiography in the Copenhagen General Population Study

Louise Hindsø, Andreas Fuchs, Jørgen Tobias Kühl, Emma Julia P. Nilsson, Per Ejlstrup Sigvardsen, Lars Køber, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Klaus Fuglsang Kofoed

Accuracy of coronary computed tomography angiography for bioresorbable scaffold luminal investigation: a comparison with optical coherence tomography

Carlos Collet, Yohei Sotomi, Rafael Cavalcante, Taku Asano, Yosuke Miyazaki, Erhan Tenekecioglu, Pieter Kistlaar, Yaping Zeng, Pannipa Suwanasson, Robbert J. de Winter, Koen Nieman, Patrick W. Serruys, Yoshinobu Onuma