CardioLab brings together cardiologists, radiologists, PhD students and medical students working on cardiac CT.
Lab lead
Bálint Szilveszter, MD, PhD, FEACVI, FSCCT
Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, head of the Cardiac CT Working Group and lead of the scientific cardiac CT program. EACVI Level III cardiac CT expert and Hungary’s ambassador for the EACVI Heart Imagers of Tomorrow initiative.
- Multicentre CT research: site and core lab contributions to international multicentre CT trials.
- Photon-counting CT protocol optimisation: ultra-high-resolution acquisition, reconstruction kernels, quantum iterative reconstruction and virtual monoenergetic levels for stenosis, plaque and stent imaging.
- From reconstruction to outcomes: PhD on novel iterative reconstruction in coronary CT, followed by work on quantitative plaque imaging, CT strain, myocardial perfusion and CT-guided prevention.
- Mentoring: supervises PhD and MD-PhD students and numerous young researchers and medical students, several with award-winning student research; clinical teacher in cardiac imaging since 2015, in Hungarian and English.
- Grants and service: NKFIH OTKA Starting Grant and János Bolyai Research Scholarship; board member of the Cardiovascular Imaging Section of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology.
People
Core team
Milán Vecsey-Nagy, MD, PhD
Fellow in Radiology
Borbála Vattay, MD, PhD
Fellow in Cardiology
EACVI Level III Cardiac CT
Zsófia Jokkel, MD
Fellow in Radiology
Barbara Sipos, MD
Fellow in Cardiology
Bettina Nagy, MD, PhD
Fellow in Cardiology
Clinical members
Ádám Jermendy, MD, PhD
Radiologist · Assistant Lecturer
EACVI Level III Cardiac CT
Alexisz Panajotu, MD
Radiologist
EACVI Level III Cardiac CT
Ferenc Imre Suhai, MD, PhD
Radiologist · Assistant Lecturer
EACVI Level III Cardiac CT
Sarolta Borzsák, MD, PhD
Radiologist
EACVI Level III Cardiac CT
Join us
Students and fellows
We welcome motivated medical students (TDK), PhD candidates and visiting fellows interested in cardiovascular imaging.