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Professor of Radiology - University of Crete Chair "Dpt of Medical Imaging, Heraklion University Hospital" Head "Advanced Hybrid Imaging Systems, ICS - FORTH"

Heraklion, Greece

Dr. Apostolos Karantanas undertook musculoskeletal training on metabolic bone disorders in New York University Medical Center and on MR imaging-MSK applications in Manchester Medical School/Manchester Royal Infirmary. His PhD (1989) was focused on the development and applications of quantitative computed tomography in metabolic bone disorders. He has been given more than 650 invited lectures in 36 countries and is a regular faculty member in European Congress of Radiology, IDKD, ISS, EULAR, Erasmus courses MSK MRI, School of MRI/ESMRMB, ESOR and ESSR.
He is the author of more than 310 publications in peer review journals (>7.700 citations in Google Scholar, h-index 47, i10-index 153), 7 books (3 international), and 80 chapters in books. His main research is focused on imaging of musculoskeletal disorders including trauma and emergencies, bone marrow, osteoporosis, sports injuries, hip joint, osteoarthritis, spondyloarthropathies, and applications of newer MR sequences.
Dr. Karantanas is currently Professor of Radiology-Medical School-University of Crete, Chairman of the Dpt of Medical Imaging - Heraklion University Hospital, Affiliated Researcher in Computational BioMedicine Laboratory and Head Advanced Hybrid Imaging Systems/Institute of Computer Science- Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Member of the Sports Injuries Subcommittee/ESSR, and Board Member of the "Greek Atomic Energy Commission".
He is chairing the "European Society of Radiology Subspecialties and Allied Sciences Committee ".

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