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Janaka P. Wansapura, PhD

Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Radiology

Phone: 513-636-9384

Email: janaka.wansapura@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Cardiovascular function; vascular compliance; MR of imaging of familial cardiomyopathy; MR thermometry and fat/water decomposition; fat quantification; MR image guided thermal therapy; diffusion tensor imaging; modeling of MR phenomena

Education and Training

PhD: Physics, University of Cincinnati, OH, 1998.

MS: Physics, University of Cincinnati, OH, 1996.

BSc: Special Degree in Physics with first class honors. University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1991.

Publications

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Mazur W, Hor KN, Germann JT, Fleck RJ, Al-Khalidi HR, Wansapura JP, Chung ES, Taylor MD, Jefferies JL, Woodrow Benson D, Gottliebson WM. Patterns of left ventricular remodeling in patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: a cardiac MRI study of ventricular geometry, global function, and strain. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2011 Jan 8.

Acehan D, Vaz F, Houtkooper RH, James J, Moore V, Tokunaga C, Kulik W, Wansapura J, Toth MJ, Strauss A, Khuchua Z. Cardiac and skeletal muscle defects in a mouse model of human barth syndrome. J Biol Chem. 2011 Jan 14;286(2):899-908.

Wansapura JP, Millay DP, Dunn RS, Molkentin JD, Benson DW. Magnetic resonance imaging assessment of cardiac dysfunction in δ-sarcoglycan null mice. Neuromuscul Disord. 2011 Jan;21(1):68-73.

Dasgupta S, Wansapura J, Hariharan P, Pratt R, Witte D, Myers MR, Banerjee RK. HIFU lesion volume as a function of sonication time, as determined by MRI, histology, and computations. J Biomech Eng. 2010 Aug;132(8):081005.

Hagenbuch SC, Gottliebson WM, Wansapura J, Mazur W, Fleck R, Benson DW, Hor KN. Detection of progressive cardiac dysfunction by serial evaluation of circumferential strain in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Am J Cardiol. 2010 May 15;105(10):1451-5.

Sundaram N, Tailor A, Mendelsohn L, Wansapura J, Wang X, Higashimoto T, Pauciulo MW, Gottliebson W, Kalra VK, Nichols WC, Kato GJ, Malik P. High levels of placenta growth factor in sickle cell disease promote pulmonary hypertension. Blood. 2010 Jul 8;116(1):109-12.

Wansapura JP, Hor KN, Mazur W, Fleck R, Hagenbuch S, Benson DW, Gottliebson WM. Left ventricular T2 distribution in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2010 Mar 18;12:14.

Hor KN, Gottliebson WM, Carson C, Wash E, Cnota J, Fleck R, Wansapura J, Klimeczek P, Al-Khalidi HR, Chung ES, Benson DW, Mazur W. Comparison of magnetic resonance feature tracking for strain calculation with harmonic phase imaging analysis. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010 Feb;3(2):144-51.

Zhao X, Pratt R, Wansapura J. Quantification of aortic compliance in mice using radial phase contrast MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2009 Aug;30(2):286-91.

Hor KN, Wansapura J, Markham LW, Mazur W, Cripe LH, Fleck R, Benson DW, Gottliebson WM. Circumferential strain analysis identifies strata of cardiomyopathy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a cardiac magnetic resonance tagging study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 Apr 7;53(14):1204-10.

Grants

Cardiac Structure and Function in Early Familial Cardiomyopathy. Principal Investigator. National Institutes of Health. Jan 2010 - Mar 2015. #K25 HL102244-01.