Research Fellow
Mentor: Reza Nezafat, Ph.D.
Dr. Kato was a research fellow from 2013-2015 in Dr. Nezafat's laboratory. He subsequently joined the Department of Cardiology at the Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center in Yokohama, Japan. During his time at BIDMC, he was a recipient of the Early Career Poster award by the American Heart Association.
Selected Publications:
Kato S, Nakamori S, Bellm S, Jang J, Basha T, Maron M, et al. Myocardial Native T1 Time in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Am J Cardiol. 2016;118 (7):1057-62.
Basha TA, Bellm S, Roujol S, Kato S, Nezafat R. Free-breathing slice-interleaved myocardial T2 mapping with slice-selective T2 magnetization preparation. Magn Reson Med. 2016;76 (2): 555-65.
Jang J, Bellm S, Roujol S, Basha TA, Nezafat M, Kato S, et al. Comparison of spoiled gradient echo and steady-state free-precession imaging for native myocardial T1 mapping using the slice-interleaved T1 mapping (STONE) sequence. NMR Biomed. 2016;29 (10) :1486-96.
Kato S, Foppa M, Roujol S, Basha T, Berg S, Kissinger KV, et al. Left ventricular native T1 time and the risk of atrial fibrillation recurrence after pulmonary vein isolation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. Int J Cardiol. 2016;203 :848-54.
Nakamori S, Bui AH, Jang J, El-Rewaidy HA, Kato S, Ngo LH, et al. Increased myocardial native T1 relaxation time in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy with complex ventricular arrhythmia. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2017.