Kawal Rhode is an English biomedical engineer. He is a full

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and the head of education at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at

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(KCL),

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Biography

Rhode completed his BSc degree at the Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals Medical School, and

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at the

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. He then started working at KCL in 2001 as a post-doctoral scientist in the area of image-guided interventions. He worked on the

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methods to register

cardiac MRI Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (cardiac MRI, CMR), also known as cardiovascular MRI, is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology used for non-invasive assessment of the function and structure of the cardiovascular system. Conditions in wh ...

and X-ray fluoroscopy data. He progressed to the post of a

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in 2007, and senior lecturer in 2011, Reader in 2015, and a full-professor in 2016. He oversees the

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s, and iBSc courses at

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's and

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's levels. His research focuses on image processing based guided surgical interventions, 3D printing, cardiac biophysical modelling in humans, medical robotics, and pedagogy for biomedical engineering. His research on pacemakers in patients is mentioned in Science Newsletters. He was covered in a news article for developing a novel steerable catheter in a collaborative effort between KCL and Cambridge Design Partnership (CDP). Rhode was also covered by ''BioScience Today,'' where he spoke with Ellen Rossiter explaining him about his research work, inspirations, and motivations behind his research in the area of biomedical engineering.

Selected publications

A list of selected publications with over 1000 total citations are listed below: * 356 citations: Native T1 mapping in differentiation of normal myocardium from diffuse disease in hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathy. Valentina O Puntmann, Tobias Voigt, Zhong Chen, Manuel Mayr, Rashed Karim, Kawal Rhode, Ana Pastor, Gerald Carr-White, Reza Razavi, Tobias Schaeffter, Eike Nagel. '' JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging'' 6 (4), 475–484. * 355 citations: Cardiac catheterisation guided by MRI in children and adults with congenital heart disease. Reza Razavi, Derek LG Hill, Stephen F Keevil, Marc E Miquel, Vivek Muthurangu, Sanjeet Hegde, Kawal Rhode, Michael Barnett, Joop van Vaals, David J Hawkes, Edward Baker. ''

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'' 362 (9399), 1877–1882. * 208 citations: A registration-based propagation framework for automatic whole heart segmentation of cardiac MRI. X Zhuang, KS Rhode, RS Razavi, DJ Hawkes, S Ourselin. ''IEEE transactions on medical imaging'' 29 (9), 1612–1625. * 206 citations: Patient-specific electromechanical models of the heart for the prediction of pacing acute effects in CRT: a preliminary clinical validation. Maxime Sermesant, Radomir Chabiniok, Phani Chinchapatnam, Tommaso Mansi, Florence Billet, Philippe Moireau, Jean-Marc Peyrat, K Wong, Jatin Relan, Kawal Rhode, Matthew Ginks, Pier Lambiase, Hervé Delingette, Michel Sorine, C Aldo Rinaldi, Dominique Chapelle, Reza Razavi, Nicholas Ayache. ''

Medical image analysis Medical image computing (MIC) is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of computer science, information engineering, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics and medicine. This field develops computational and mathematical methods fo ...

'' 16 (1), 201–215. * 197 citations: A system for real-time XMR guided cardiovascular intervention. Kawal S Rhode, Maxime Sermesant, David Brogan, Sanjeet Hegde, John Hipwell, Pier Lambiase, Eric Rosenthal, Clifford Bucknall, Shakeel A Qureshi, Jaswinder S Gill, Reza Razavi, Derek LG Hill. ''IEEE transactions on medical imaging'' 24 (11), 1428–1440. * 169 citations: Intensity-based 2-D-3-D registration of cerebral angiograms. John H Hipwell, Graeme P Penney, Robert A McLaughlin, Kawal Rhode, Paul Summers, Tim C Cox, James V Byrne, J Alison Noble, David J Hawkes. ''IEEE transactions on medical imaging'' 22 (11), 1417–1426.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rhode, Kawal Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English engineers 21st-century English engineers British biomedical engineers British bioengineers Academics of King's College London Alumni of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School