Victor Mergen

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Victor Mergen is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor Mergen has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 40 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 10 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Victor Mergen's work include Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging (40 papers), Radiation Dose and Imaging (32 papers) and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (18 papers). Victor Mergen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging (40 papers), Radiation Dose and Imaging (32 papers) and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics (18 papers). Victor Mergen collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands. Victor Mergen's co-authors include Hatem Alkadhi, André Euler, Matthias Eberhard, Thomas Sartoretti, Kai Higashigaito, Bernhard Schmidt, Robert Manka, Lisa Jungblut, Thomas Flohr and Katharina Martini and has published in prestigious journals such as Radiology, Advanced Science and American Journal of Roentgenology.

In The Last Decade

Victor Mergen

50 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Ultra-High-Resolution Coronary CT Angiography With Photon-Counting Detector CT

2022 144 citations Victor Mergen, Thomas Sartoretti et al. Investigative Radiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Victor Mergen Switzerland	22	1.2k	1.2k	127	113	75	52	1.4k
Fabian Morsbach Switzerland	20	867 0.7×	692 0.6×	58 0.5×	145 1.3×	55 0.7×	38	1.1k
Sebastian Faby Germany	16	773 0.6×	759 0.6×	43 0.3×	89 0.8×	68 0.9×	48	908
Masahiro Hatemura Japan	16	928 0.8×	750 0.6×	35 0.3×	151 1.3×	19 0.3×	40	1.1k
Toshihide Itoh Japan	12	384 0.3×	360 0.3×	71 0.6×	144 1.3×	34 0.5×	35	537
Balázs Ruzsics United States	16	949 0.8×	773 0.7×	158 1.2×	50 0.4×	14 0.2×	45	1.1k
Ralf Gutjahr Germany	15	873 0.7×	870 0.7×	21 0.2×	84 0.7×	92 1.2×	31	937
Roy Marcus Germany	15	820 0.7×	670 0.6×	94 0.7×	52 0.5×	11 0.1×	45	973
Niels R. van der Werf Netherlands	16	671 0.5×	531 0.5×	58 0.5×	68 0.6×	21 0.3×	38	812
Damien Racine Switzerland	17	855 0.7×	792 0.7×	13 0.1×	140 1.2×	37 0.5×	39	953
Gregor Pahn Germany	14	548 0.4×	513 0.4×	17 0.1×	50 0.4×	47 0.6×	26	616

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Mergen, Victor, et al.. (2025). Relationship Between Myocardial Strain and Extracellular Volume: Exploratory Study in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis Undergoing Photon-Counting Detector CT. Diagnostics. 15(2). 224–224. 1 indexed citations

Mergen, Victor, Silvio Valdec, Sebastian Winklhofer, et al.. (2025). Cone-beam versus photon-counting detector CT: Influence of dose variations on the detection of simulated mandibular osseous lesions. Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery. 53(8). 1236–1245. 4 indexed citations

Klotz, Ernst, Tanya V. Kalin, Andrea Biondo, et al.. (2025). Myocardial Late Enhancement With Photon-Counting Detector CT in Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection. Investigative Radiology. 61(1). 32–40. 3 indexed citations

Mergen, Victor, Michael Würdinger, Davide Di Vece, et al.. (2025). Diagnostic performance of coronary CT angiography to diagnose acute spontaneous coronary artery dissection. Journal of cardiovascular computed tomography. 20(1). 33–41.

Sandhu, Simarpreet Virk, Victor Mergen, Hatem Alkadhi, et al.. (2025). Comparative evaluation of photon-counting detector CT and cone-beam CT in the assessment of simulated mandibular trauma. Journal of Stomatology Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 127(2). 102603–102603. 1 indexed citations

Mergen, Victor, Martin F. Reiner, Corinna Brunckhorst, et al.. (2025). Myocardial characterization using late enhancement photon-counting detector CT in ventricular arrhythmia: comparison with electroanatomical mapping. Insights into Imaging. 16(1). 187–187. 1 indexed citations

Mergen, Victor, Simarpreet Virk Sandhu, Maximilian E.H. Wagner, et al.. (2025). Postoperative assessment of fracture reduction and osteosynthesis materials using photon-counting detector CT in maxillofacial trauma – a pilot study. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 29(1). 171–171. 1 indexed citations

Sartoretti, Thomas, Victor Mergen, Lisa Jungblut, et al.. (2024). Multi-Energy Low–Kiloelectron Volt versus Single-Energy Low-Kilovolt Images for Endoleak Detection at CT Angiography of the Aorta. Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging. 6(2). e230217–e230217. 1 indexed citations

Mergen, Victor, et al.. (2024). Advanced myocardial characterization and function with cardiac CT. The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging. 42(3). 449–464. 7 indexed citations

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Mergen, Victor, Filippo Civaia, Philippe Rossi, et al.. (2024). Virtual calcium removal in calcified coronary arteries with photon-counting detector CT—first in-vivo experience. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 11. 1367463–1367463. 20 indexed citations

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Mergen, Victor, Thomas Sartoretti, Robert Manka, et al.. (2023). Cardiac Virtual Noncontrast Images for Calcium Quantification with Photon-counting Detector CT. Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging. 5(3). e220307–e220307. 31 indexed citations

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Schmid, Florian, et al.. (2023). Atherosclerosis of the iliac arteries for the prediction of erectile dysfunction and epistaxis in men undergoing abdominal CT scan. BMC Urology. 23(1). 173–173. 2 indexed citations

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Cundari, Giulia, Victor Mergen, Matthias Eberhard, et al.. (2023). Saving Contrast Media in Coronary CT Angiography with Photon-Counting Detector CT. Academic Radiology. 31(1). 212–220. 30 indexed citations

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Skornitzke, Stephan, Victor Mergen, Jürgen Biederer, et al.. (2023). Metal Artifact Reduction in Photon-Counting Detector CT. Investigative Radiology. 59(6). 442–449. 21 indexed citations

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Sartoretti, Thomas, Matthias Eberhard, Victor Mergen, et al.. (2022). Quantum Iterative Reconstruction for Abdominal Photon-counting Detector CT Improves Image Quality. Radiology. 303(2). 339–348. 89 indexed citations

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Mergen, Victor, Damien Racine, Lisa Jungblut, et al.. (2022). Virtual Noncontrast Abdominal Imaging with Photon-counting Detector CT. Radiology. 305(1). 107–115. 46 indexed citations

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Sartoretti, Thomas, Damien Racine, Victor Mergen, et al.. (2022). Quantum Iterative Reconstruction for Low-Dose Ultra-High-Resolution Photon-Counting Detector CT of the Lung. Diagnostics. 12(2). 522–522. 61 indexed citations

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Mergen, Victor, Thomas Sartoretti, Bernhard Schmidt, et al.. (2022). Ultra-High-Resolution Coronary CT Angiography With Photon-Counting Detector CT. Investigative Radiology. 57(12). 780–788. 144 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sartoretti, Thomas, Victor Mergen, Lisa Jungblut, Hatem Alkadhi, & André Euler. (2022). Liver Iodine Quantification With Photon-Counting Detector CT: Accuracy in an Abdominal Phantom and Feasibility in Patients. Academic Radiology. 30(3). 461–469. 26 indexed citations

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Mergen, Victor, Matthias Eberhard, Robert Manka, André Euler, & Hatem Alkadhi. (2022). First in-human quantitative plaque characterization with ultra-high resolution coronary photon-counting CT angiography. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 9. 981012–981012. 96 indexed citations

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