Amir Pourmorteza

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Amir Pourmorteza is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Amir Pourmorteza has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 38 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Amir Pourmorteza's work include Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging (37 papers), Radiation Dose and Imaging (33 papers) and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (28 papers). Amir Pourmorteza is often cited by papers focused on Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging (37 papers), Radiation Dose and Imaging (33 papers) and Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (28 papers). Amir Pourmorteza collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Amir Pourmorteza's co-authors include Dominik Fleischmann, Mats Persson, Martin J. Willemink, Norbert J. Pelc, Rolf Symons, David A. Bluemke, Stefan Ulzheimer, Veit Sandfort, Tyler E. Cork and S. Kappler and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Radiology and Physics in Medicine and Biology.

In The Last Decade

Amir Pourmorteza

48 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Photon-counting CT: Technical Principles and Clinical Prospects

2018 835 citations Martin J. Willemink, Mats Persson et al. Radiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amir Pourmorteza United States	22	2.3k	2.2k	284	212	182	52	2.7k
Achille Mileto United States	35	2.6k 1.2×	2.5k 1.2×	85 0.3×	195 0.9×	500 2.7×	98	3.3k
Steven M. Jorgensen United States	17	990 0.4×	907 0.4×	67 0.2×	99 0.5×	165 0.9×	47	1.5k
Jodie A. Christner United States	16	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	54 0.2×	77 0.4×	377 2.1×	24	2.5k
Thomas Sartoretti Switzerland	24	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	106 0.4×	62 0.3×	158 0.9×	96	1.7k
Francis Baffour United States	20	980 0.4×	940 0.4×	100 0.4×	80 0.4×	106 0.6×	65	1.4k
Jan Persliden Sweden	24	1.2k 0.5×	822 0.4×	85 0.3×	61 0.3×	646 3.5×	77	1.7k
Kai Roman Laukamp Germany	22	924 0.4×	718 0.3×	54 0.2×	116 0.5×	275 1.5×	78	1.4k
Toru Higaki Japan	23	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	75 0.3×	27 0.1×	275 1.5×	96	2.1k
Shengzhen Tao United States	20	1.2k 0.5×	934 0.4×	36 0.1×	76 0.4×	74 0.4×	68	1.4k
Robert Goetti Switzerland	31	2.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	244 0.9×	19 0.1×	313 1.7×	55	2.5k

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Pourmorteza, Amir, U. Joseph Schoepf, Marly van Assen, et al.. (2025). Beam hardening of K-edge contrast agents: a phantom study comparing clinical energy-integrating detector and photon-counting detector CT systems. European Radiology Experimental. 9(1). 31–31. 3 indexed citations

Zhou, Jun, Justin Roper, Anees Dhabaan, et al.. (2025). Photon-counting CT in cancer radiotherapy: technological advances and clinical benefits. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 70(10). 10TR01–10TR01. 2 indexed citations

Schiebler, Mark L., Masahiro Jinzaki, Masahiro Yanagawa, et al.. (2025). Future Applications of Cardiothoracic CT. Radiology. 315(3). e240085–e240085.

Yin, Zhye, et al.. (2024). Ultrahigh-Resolution K-Edge Imaging of Coronary Arteries With Prototype Deep-Silicon Photon-Counting CT: Initial Results in Phantoms. Radiology. 311(3). e231598–e231598. 8 indexed citations

Gleason, Patrick, Shobhit Sharma, Kurt S. Schultz, et al.. (2024). Dose-efficient characterization of coronary artery plaques with a prototype CdZnTe-based photon-counting CT scanner. 121–121. 1 indexed citations

Douek, Philippe, Sara Boccalini, Edwin H. G. Oei, et al.. (2023). Clinical Applications of Photon-counting CT: A Review of Pioneer Studies and a Glimpse into the Future. Radiology. 309(1). e222432–e222432. 77 indexed citations

Okerlund, Darin, et al.. (2023). Improved Stent Visualization In Cardiac Reconstructions On A Deep-silicon Photon Counting CT. Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography. 17(4). S78–S78. 2 indexed citations

Pourmorteza, Amir, et al.. (2023). Evaluating Low-dose Performance Of A Cardiac Super-resolution Deep-learning Based Reconstruction Algorithm. Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography. 17(4). S52–S52. 1 indexed citations

Kwan, Alan C., Amir Pourmorteza, D. Stutman, David A. Bluemke, & João A.C. Lima. (2020). Next-Generation Hardware Advances in CT: Cardiac Applications. Radiology. 298(1). 3–17. 41 indexed citations

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Sandfort, Veit, Mats Persson, Amir Pourmorteza, et al.. (2020). Spectral photon-counting CT in cardiovascular imaging. Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography. 15(3). 218–225. 93 indexed citations

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Symons, Rolf, Amir Pourmorteza, Andrew J. Dwyer, et al.. (2018). Differentiating papillary type I RCC from clear cell RCC and oncocytoma: application of whole-lesion volumetric ADC measurement. Abdominal Radiology. 43(9). 2424–2430. 20 indexed citations

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McVeigh, Elliot R., Amir Pourmorteza, Michael A. Guttman, et al.. (2018). Regional myocardial strain measurements from 4DCT in patients with normal LV function. Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography. 12(5). 372–378. 28 indexed citations

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Symons, Rolf, Tyler E. Cork, Manu N. Lakshmanan, et al.. (2017). Dual-contrast agent photon-counting computed tomography of the heart: initial experience. International journal of cardiac imaging. 33(8). 1253–1261. 102 indexed citations

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Pourmorteza, Amir, Rolf Symons, Daniel S. Reich, et al.. (2017). Photon-Counting CT of the Brain: In Vivo Human Results and Image-Quality Assessment. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 38(12). 2257–2263. 91 indexed citations

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Sandfort, Veit, Alan C. Kwan, Davis M. Vigneault, et al.. (2017). Automatic high-resolution infarct detection using volumetric multiphase dual-energy CT. Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography. 11(4). 288–294. 4 indexed citations

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Behar, Jonathan M., Ronak Rajani, Amir Pourmorteza, et al.. (2017). Comprehensive use of cardiac computed tomography to guide left ventricular lead placement in cardiac resynchronization therapy. Heart Rhythm. 14(9). 1364–1372. 37 indexed citations

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Pourmorteza, Amir, Rolf Symons, Veit Sandfort, et al.. (2016). Abdominal Imaging with Contrast-enhanced Photon-counting CT: First Human Experience. Radiology. 279(1). 239–245. 163 indexed citations

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Pourmorteza, Amir, Hao Dang, J. H. Siewerdsen, & J. Webster Stayman. (2016). Reconstruction of difference in sequential CT studies using penalized likelihood estimation. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 61(5). 1986–2002. 21 indexed citations

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Otani, Tomohiro, et al.. (2016). A Computational Framework for Personalized Blood Flow Analysis in the Human Left Atrium. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 44(11). 3284–3294. 68 indexed citations

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Oubel, Estanislao, Mathieu De Craene, Alfred O. Hero, et al.. (2011). Cardiac motion estimation by joint alignment of tagged MRI sequences. Medical Image Analysis. 16(1). 339–350. 19 indexed citations

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