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CARIM's Confidential Contact Persons

CARIM's Confidential Contact Persons

27 November 2024

Dr Magdi Nagy (Dept of Biochemistry) and Prof. Peter de Leeuw (Dept of Internal Medicine) have been appointed as CARIM Confidential Contact Persons.

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ZonMw grant on appropriate palliative care

ZonMw grant on appropriate palliative care

27 November 2024

Prof. Marc Hemmelder (Dept of Internal Medicine) and his team received a ZonMw grant to promote early palliative care for dialysis patients who are non-waitlisted for transplantation.

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Rob Holtackers

Assistant Professor

Rob studied Biomedical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where he obtained his master’s degree with cum laude distinction in 2015. Immediately after, Rob started his PhD within the department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine at the Maastricht University Medical Centre+ (Maastricht UMC+) under supervision of prof. dr. J.E. Wildberger. His fascination for cardiac MRI made him focus on improving the detection and assessment of subtle subendocardial scar tissue.

In 2017, he got a staff position as MR physicist at Maastricht UMC+ and continued his PhD on a part-time basis. After multiple short- and long-term working visits in London, his research collaboration with King’s College London (KCL) was further intensified by becoming an honorary visiting research associate of KCL in 2019.

Rob successfully defended his PhD thesis with cum laude distinction in early 2022. After obtaining his PhD degree, Rob continues his career as MR physicist at Maastricht UMC+ and CARIM

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Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine
Prof. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht
Building UNS 60, room M1.05
T: +31 43 387 2478

  • 2024
    • Jada, L., Holtackers, R. J., Martens, B., Nies, H. M. J. M., Van De Heyning, C. M., Botnar, R. M., Wildberger, J. E., Ismail, T. F., Razavi, R., & Chiribiri, A. (2024). Quantification of myocardial scar of different etiology using dark- and bright-blood late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 5395. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52058-8
    • Jaspers, T. J. M., Martens, B., Crawley, R., Jada, L., Amirrajab, S., Breeuwer, M., Holtackers, R. J., Chiribiri, A., & Scannell, C. M. (2024). Deep Learning Synthesis of White-Blood From Dark-Blood Late Gadolinium Enhancement Cardiac Magnetic Resonance. Investigative Radiology, 59(11), 767-773. https://doi.org/10.1097/RLI.0000000000001086
    • Nies, H. M. J. M., Linz, D., Bijvoet, G. P., Holtackers, R. J., Luermans, J. G. L. M., van der Velden, K. E. H. M., Wildberger, J. E., Vernooy, K., van Kuijk, S. M. J., Mihl, C., & Chaldoupi, S. M. (2024). Local atrial bipolar electrogram voltage drops during cardiac magnetic resonance guided catheter ablation of typical atrial flutter: Associations with delivered radiofrequency energy and peri-procedural imaging. Heart Rhythm O2, 5(11), 778-787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hroo.2024.08.015
    • Ramos-Prada, A., Redondo-Rodríguez, A., Roca-Luque, I., Porta-Sánchez, A., Ter Bekke, R. M. A., Quintanilla, J. G., Sánchez-González, J., Peinado, R., Merino, J. L., Cluitmans, M., Holtackers, R. J., Marina-Breysse, M., Galán-Arriola, C., Enríquez-Vázquez, D., Vázquez-Calvo, S., Alfonso-Almazán, J. M., Pizarro, G., Ibáñez, B., González-Ferrer, J. J., ... Filgueiras-Rama, D. (2024). Novel systematic processing of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging identifies target regions associated with infarct-related ventricular tachycardia. EP Europace, 26(10), Article euae244. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euae244
    • Bijvoet, G. P., Hermans, B. J. M., Linz, D., Luermans, J. G. L. M., Maesen, B., Nijveldt, R., Mihl, C., Vernooy, K., Wildberger, J. E., Holtackers, R. J., Schotten, U., & Chaldoupi, S.-M. (2024). Optimal Threshold and Interpatient Variability in Left Atrial Ablation Scar Assessment by Dark-Blood LGE CMR. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 10(10), 2186-2197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2024.05.017
    • Holtackers, R. J., & Stuber, M. (2024). Free-Running Cardiac and Respiratory Motion-Resolved Imaging: A Paradigm Shift for Managing Motion in Cardiac MRI?Diagnostics, 14(17), Article 1946. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14171946
    • Crawley, R., Amirrajab, S., Lustermans, D., Holtackers, R. J., Plein, S., Veta, M., Breeuwer, M., Chiribiri, A., & Scannell, C. M. (2024). Automated cardiovascular MR myocardial scar quantification with unsupervised domain adaptation. European Radiology Experimental, 8(1), Article 93. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41747-024-00497-3
    • Gnasso, C., Pinos, D., Schoepf, U. J., Vecsey-Nagy, M., Aquino, G. J., Fink, N., Zsarnoczay, E., Holtackers, R. J., Stock, J., Suranyi, P., Varga-Szemes, A., & Emrich, T. (2024). Impact of reconstruction parameters on the accuracy of myocardial extracellular volume quantification on a first-generation, photon-counting detector CT. European Radiology Experimental, 8(1), Article 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41747-024-00469-7
    • Bijvoet, G. P., Nies, H. M. J. M., Holtackers, R. J., Martens, B. M., Smink, J., Linz, D., Vernooy, K., Wildberger, J. E., Nijveldt, R., Chaldoupi, S. M., & Mihl, C. (2024). Tissue characterization of acute lesions during cardiac magnetic resonance-guided ablation of cavo-tricuspid isthmus-dependent atrial flutter: a feasibility study. European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging, 25(5), 635-644. Article jead334. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jead334
    • Aizaz, M., van der Pol, J. A. J., Schneider, A., Munoz, C., Holtackers, R. J., van Cauteren, Y., van Langen, H., Meeder, J. G., Rahel, B. M., Wierts, R., Botnar, R. M., Prieto, C., Moonen, R. P. M., & Kooi, M. E. (2024). Extended MRI-based PET motion correction for cardiac PET/MRI. EJNMMI Physics, 11(1), Article 36. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40658-024-00637-z
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