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Robert deKemp

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Associate ProfessorDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Ottawa

Robert deKemp

Associate Professor

Department of Medicine

Faculty of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (2 CIHR, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2014.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Research

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Coronary Flow Reserve Endothelial Function Micro-Pet Imaging Micro-Vascular Disease Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Non-Invasive Nuclear Medicine Imaging Positron Emission Tomography (Pet)

Latest papers

Fully automatic left ventricle segmentation in [Formula: see text]Rb PET/CT Using a semi-supervised nnU-net.
EJNMMI research · 2026
Myocardial Flow Reserve With 13N-Ammonia PET: From Quantification to Clinical Consequence.
Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging · 2026
Diagnostic utility of longitudinal flow gradient for diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease in Rubidium-82 positron emission tomography.
Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2026 · senior author

All 29 publications

Latest funding

SHARP-VT: A Novel Treatment Planning Tool for Stereotactic Arrhythmia Radiotherapy
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$3,000
Multiparametric Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Surveillance After Heart Transplantation: MARINER Trial
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$952,425
Cardiac Sarcoidosis Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial (CHASM CS- RCT)
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$944,776

All 20 grants and awards

29 publications.

Fully automatic left ventricle segmentation in [Formula: see text]Rb PET/CT Using a semi-supervised nnU-net.

Amirian M, Chevalley A, Asiain MM, Klein R, DeKemp R, Moulton E, Prior JO, Kamani CH, Jreige M, Depeursinge A

EJNMMI research2026

DOI: 10.1186/s13550-026-01455-3 PMID: 42207374

Myocardial Flow Reserve With 13N-Ammonia PET: From Quantification to Clinical Consequence.

Boczar KE, deKemp R, Beanlands RS

Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging2026

DOI: 10.1161/circimaging.126.019571 PMID: 41937635

Diagnostic utility of longitudinal flow gradient for diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease in Rubidium-82 positron emission tomography.

Kadoya Y, Boczar K, Tavoosi A, Small GR, Chow BJW, Beanlands R, deKemp R

Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102586 PMID: 41325822

Virtual myocardial blood flow and flow reserve from static PET imaging using artificial intelligence.

Urs M, Kwieciński J, Lemley M, Chareonthaitawee P, Ramirez G, Shanbhag A, Killekar A, deKemp R, Acampa W, Le VT, Mason S, Knight S, Packard RRS, Al-Mallah M, Berman DS, Dey D, Miller RJH, Di Carli M, Slomka PJ

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2026

DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.03.26345376 PMID: 41674596

Artificial intelligence-enabled parametric mapping of myocardial blood flow with 82Rb positron emission tomography compared to 18F-flurpiridaz perfusion imaging: A paired pilot study of image quality.

Moulton E, Gagliano L, Kaviani S, Klein R, deKemp R, Pelletier-Galarneau M

Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102531 PMID: 41093107

Flurpiridaz rest residual: Additional corrections needed for off-label use?

deKemp R

Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2025First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2025.102444 PMID: 40816801

Safety and Efficacy of Stereotactic Cardiac Radio-Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients at High Risk of Mortality.

Redpath CJ, Crean AM, Nery PB, Nair GM, Golian M, Hansom S, Haberl C, deKemp R, Cuculich PS, Robinson CG, Lekx-Toniolo KS, Tiberi D, Cook G

CJC open2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjco.2025.01.015 PMID: 40433215

Positron Range Correction Helps Enhance the Image Quality of Cardiac 82Rb PET/CT.

Lassen ML, Kertész H, Rausch I, Panin V, Conti M, Zuehlsdorff S, Cabello J, Bharkhada D, DeKemp R, Kjaer A, Beyer T, Hasbak P

Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2025

DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.124.267855 PMID: 39915127

Myocardial flow reserve recovery in patients with Takotsubo syndrome: Insights from positron emission tomography.

Kadoya Y, Chong AY, Small GR, Chow B, deKemp R, Ruddy TD, Beanlands R, Crean AM

Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.101869 PMID: 38685396

Positron emission tomography assessment of coronary microvascular angina in patients with angina and nonobstructive coronary artery disease.

Tavoosi A, Paquin A, deKemp R, Chong AY, Boczar KE, Beanlands RSB, Coutinho TA

Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2024.101853 PMID: 38537732

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Robert deKemp

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Fully automatic left ventricle segmentation in [Formula: see text]Rb PET/CT Using a semi-supervised nnU-net.

Myocardial Flow Reserve With 13N-Ammonia PET: From Quantification to Clinical Consequence.

Diagnostic utility of longitudinal flow gradient for diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease in Rubidium-82 positron emission tomography.

Virtual myocardial blood flow and flow reserve from static PET imaging using artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence-enabled parametric mapping of myocardial blood flow with 82Rb positron emission tomography compared to 18F-flurpiridaz perfusion imaging: A paired pilot study of image quality.

Flurpiridaz rest residual: Additional corrections needed for off-label use?

Safety and Efficacy of Stereotactic Cardiac Radio-Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients at High Risk of Mortality.

Positron Range Correction Helps Enhance the Image Quality of Cardiac 82Rb PET/CT.

Myocardial flow reserve recovery in patients with Takotsubo syndrome: Insights from positron emission tomography.

Positron emission tomography assessment of coronary microvascular angina in patients with angina and nonobstructive coronary artery disease.

Respiratory motion-correction for CO2-stress PET imaging

Frequent collaborators

Rob Beanlands

Benjamin Chow

Ran Klein

Ellamae Stadnick

George Chandy

George Wells

Kajenny Srivaratharajah

Jean DaSilva

Benjamin Rotstein

Stewart Gaede

Jean-Paul Soucy

Yan Burelle

Sharon Chih

Lauri Tuominen

Synthia Guimond

Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau

Kevin Boczar

Katie Dinelle

Zacharie Saint-Georges

Clifford Cassidy

Kathryn Ascah

Lisa Mielniczuk

Peter Liu

Andre Lamy

Michael Gollob

Lynn Megeney

Paul Hendry