Radiology / Nuclear Medicine

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Robert J. Gropler, MD

Specialty Areas
Nuclear Medicine
Radiology

Areas of Clinical Interest
Nuclear medicine, cardiovascular imaging, coronary artery disease, PET imaging

Major or Recent Publications/Awards

Honors and Awards

Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2003, 2005-2009 (Best Doctors, Inc)

Editorial Responsibilities

Reviewer:
Circulation
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Amercian Journal of Cardiology
Diabetes
European Heart Journal
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
Coronary Artery Disease

Peer Reviewed Articles

Herrero P, Kisrieva-Ware Z, Dence CS, Patterson B, Coggan AR, Han DH, Ishii Y, Eisenbeis P, Gropler RJ. In Vivo Estimates of 1-¹¹C-glucose myocardial uptake, metabolism, oxidation and glycogen measured with PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2007; 48:955-964

Fuentes Lde L, Brown AL, Mathews SJ, Waggoner AD, Soto PF, Gropler RJ, Davila-Roman VG. Metabolic syndrome is associated with abnormal left ventricular diastolic function independent of left ventricular mass. European Heart Journal 2007; 28:553-559

Peterson LR, Waggoner AD, de las Fuentes L, Schectman KB, McGill JB, Gropler RJ, Davila-Roman VG. Alterations in left ventricular structure and function in type-1 diabetics: a focus on left atrial contribution to function. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2006; 19:749-55

De las Fuentes L, Herrero P, Waggoner A, Gropler RJ, Davila-Roman VG. Hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy is associated with abnormal myocardial fatty acid metabolism and myocardial efficiency. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 2006; 13:369-377

Welch MJ, Lewis JS, Kim J, Sharp TL, Dence C, Gropler RJ, Herrero P. Assessment of myocardial metabolism in diabetic rats utilizing small animal PET imaging: a feasibility study. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2006; 47689-97

Goldstein TA, Zhang H, Misselwitz B, Gropler RJ, Zheng J. Improved quantification of myocardial first-pass mapping: a temporal and spatial wavelet denoising method. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2006; 56:439-45

Herrero P, Peterson LR, McGill JB, Mathew S, Lesniak D, Dence C, Gropler RJ. Increased myocardial fatty acid metabolism in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. J Am Coll Cardiol 2006; 47: 598-604

Zheng J, Li D, Maggioni F, Abendschein D, Simonetti O, Laub G, Finn JP, Gropler RJ, Cavagna FM. Single-session magnetic resonance coronary angiography and myocardial perfusion imaging using the new blood pool compounds B-22956 (gadocoletic acid): initial experience in a porcine model of coronary artery disease. Invest Radiol 2005; 40(9):604-13

Invited Publications

Saeed I, Barry M, Peterson LR, Gropler RJ. Position emission tomography in the cardiometabolic syndrome. Journal of the Cardiometabolic Syndrome, in press

Cresci S, Gropler RJ. Image-guided cardiovascualr functional genomics: finding the needle in the haystack. J Nucl Cardiol 2007; 14:275-6

Machac J, Bacharach SL, Bateman TM, Bax JJ, Beanlands R, Bengel F, Bergmann SR, Brunken RC, Case J, Delbeke D, DiCarli MF, Garcia EV, Goldstein RA, Gropler RJ, Travin M, Patterson R, Schelbert HR; Quality Assurance Committee of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. Positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion and glucose metabolism imaging. J Nucl Cardiol 2006; 13:e121-51

Bax JJ, Abbott BG, German DS, Garcia EV, Gropler RJ, Hendel RC, Jain D, Mieres JH, Russell RR, Shaw LJ, Udelson JF, Wackers FJth. Highlights of the 2005 scientific sessions of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Seattle Washington, September 29 - October 2, 2005. J Am Coll of Cardiol 2006; 47:1478-84

Gropler RJ. PET measurement of myocardial metabolism. In DiCarli, M ed. Cardiac PET-CT. Mosby, St. Louis, in press

Books and Book Chapters

Li D and Gropler RJ. Measurements of myocardial oxygenation by MRI. In Manning W and Pennell D, Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. Mosby, St. Louis, 2002

Woodard PK, Li D, Zheng J, Haacke EM, Gropler RJ: Coronary MR angiography. In: MRI Clinics of North America 1999, 7:365-377

Gropler RJ. PET assessment of myocardial viability with acetate. In: Zaret BL and Beller GA ed. Nuclear Cardiology State of the Art and Future Directions. Second edition. Philadelphia, Mosby, 1998; 561-572

Journal Articles

Herrero P, Sharp T, Dense C, Haraden BM and Gropler RJ. Comparison of 1-11 C-glucose and 18-F-FDG for quantifying myocardial glucose use with PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2002; 43:1-12

Robert J. Gropler, MD