Dr. Wilson is a physician and biomedical engineer with expertise in cardiovascular mechanics and imaging, particularly related to aortic disease, and the integration of engineering and medical education. Joining the Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine in 2023, Dr. Wilson is active in the classroom across multiple medical and engineering courses and now serves as the Assistant Dean of Engineering Education to provide oversight to the Engineering Medicine (EnMed) program’s engineering curriculum and its unique integration within preclerkship and clerkship medical education.
Research Interests
Cardiovascular Mechanics
Cardiovascular MRI
Aortic Aneurysms & Dissections
Integration of Engineering and Medical Education
Publications
Bracamonte JH, Truong U, Wilson JS, Soares JS. Correction of phase offset errors and quantification of background noise, signal-to-noise ratio, and encoded-displacement uncertainty on DENSE MRI for kinematics of the descending thoracic and abdominal aorta. J Mag Res Img. 2024 Feb:106:91-103. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2023.12.003
Omidi A, Weiss E, Rosu-Bubulac M, Thomas G, Wilson JS. Quantitative analysis of radiotherapy-induced cardiac and aortic sequelae in lung cancer patients via magnetic resonance imaging: A pilot study. Intl J of Rad Onc Bio Phys. 2023 Nov 10. In press.
Omidi A, Weiss E, Trankle CR, Rosu-Bubulac M, Wilson JS. Quantitative assessment of radiotherapy-induced myocardial damage using MRI: a systematic review. Cardiooncology. 2023 May 18;9(1):24. doi: 10.1186/s40959-023-00175-0.
Omidi A, Weiss E, Wilson JS, Rosu-Bubulac M. Effects of respiratory and cardiac motion on estimating radiation dose to the left ventricle during radiotherapy for lung cancer. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2023 Mar;24(3):e13855. doi: 10.1002/acm2.13855.
Bracamonte JH, Saunders S, Wilson JS, Truong U, Soares JS. Patient-specific inverse modeling of in vivo cardiovascular mechanics with medical image-derived kinematics as input data: concepts, methods, and applications. Appl. Sci. 2022, 12, 3954. doi:10.3390/app12083954.
Bracamonte JH, Wilson JS, Soares JS. Quantification of the heterogeneous effect of static and dynamic perivascular structures on patient-specific local aortic wall mechanics using inverse finite element modeling and DENSE MRI. May 5; 138:111119. doi 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2022. 111119.
Bracamonte JH, Saunders S, Wilson JS, Truong U, Soares JS. Patient-specific inverse modeling of in vivo cardiovascular mechanics with medical image-derived kinematics as input data: concepts, methods, and applications. 12, 3954. do:10.3390/app12083954.
Omidi A, Weiss E, Wilson JS, Rosu-Bubulac M. Quantitative assessment of intra- and inter-modality deformable image registration of the heart, left ventricle, and thoracic aorta on longitudinal 4D-CT and MR images. Feb; 23(2): e13500. doi: 10.1002/acm2.13500
Wilson JS, Islam M, Oshinski JN. In vitro validation of regional circumferential strain assessment in a phantom aortic model using cine displacement encoding with stimulated echoes MRI. Oct 27; (in print). doi: 10. 1002/mri. 27972.
Bracamonte JH, Wilson JS , Soares JS. Modeling patient-specific periaortic interactions with static and dynamic structures using a moving heterogeneous elastic foundation boundary condition. Springer Intl. Publishing, Jun 17, 2021. Eds. Ennis DB, Perotti LE, and Wang WY. p 315-327. doi: 10. 1007/978-3-030-78710-3_31.
Jones PA, Wilson, JS. The potential for quantifying regional distributions of radial and shear strain in the thoracic and abdominal aortic wall using spiral cine DENSE MRI. Jun 1;143(6):061005. do: 10. 1115/1.4050029.
Bracamonte JH, Wilson JS, Soares JS. Assessing patient-specific mechanical properties of aortic wall and periaortic structures from in vivo DENSE MR imaging using an inverse finite element method and elastic foundation boundary conditions. Jul 7. 142 (12) pp. 121001. do: 10.1115/1.4047721
Wilson JS, Taylor WR, Oshinski JN. Assessment of the regional distribution of normalized circumferential strain in the thoracic and abdominal aorta using DENSE cardiovascular magnetic resonance. Sep 16;21(1):59. doi: 10.1186/12968-019-0565-0.
Iffrig E, Wilson JS, Zhong X, Oshinski JN. Demonstration of circumferential heterogeneity in displacement and strain in the abdominal aortic wall by spiral cine DENSE MRI. Mar; 49(3):731-743. doi: 10.1002/mri. 26304.
Wilson JS, Zhong X, Hair JB, Taylor WR, Oshinski JN. In vivo quantification of regional circumferential Green strain in the thoracic and abdominal aorta by 2D spiral cine DENSE MRI. Jul 20. do: 10.1115/1.4040910.
Wilson JS, Bersi MR, Li G, Humphrey JD. Correlation of wall microstructure and heterogeneous distributions of strain in evolving murine abdominal aortic aneurysms. 8(2):193-204. doi: 10. 1007/s13239-017-0301-6.
Virag L, Wilson JS, Humphrey JD, Karsaj I. Potential biomechanical roles of risk factors ni the evolution of thrombus-laden abdominal aortic aneurysms. 33(12). doi: 10. 1002/cnm. 2893.
Virag L, Wilson JS, Humphrey JD, Karsaj .I A computational model of biochemomechanical effects of intraluminal thrombus on the enlargement of abdominal aortic aneurysms. 43(12):2852-2867. doi: 10.1007/s10439-015-1354-z.
Cyron CJ, Wilson JS, Humphrey JD. Mechanobiological stability: a new paradigm to understand the enlargement of aneurysms. 11(100):20140680. doi: 10.1098/sif. 2014.0680.
Wilson Js, Humphrey JD. Evolving anisotropy and degree of elastolytic insult ni abdominal aortic aneurysms: potential clinical relevance? 47 (12):2995-3002. doi 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.07.003.
Wilson JS, Virag L, Di Achille P, Karsaj ,I Humphrey JD. Biochemomechanics of intraluminal thrombus in abdominal aortic aneurysms. 135(2):021011. Doi 10.1115/1.4023437.
Wilson JS, Baek S, Humphrey JD. Parametric study of effects of collagen turnover on the natural history of abdominal aortic aneurysms. 469(2150): 20120556. do: 10.1098/spa.2012.0556.
Wilson JS, Baek S, Humphrey JD. Importance of initial aortic properties on the evolving regional anisotropy, stiffness, and wall thickness of human abdominal aortic aneurysms. 9(74):2047-58. do: 10.1098/sif. 2012.0097.
Schlegel TT, Kulecz WB, DePalma JL, Feiveson AH, Wilson JS, Rahman MA, Bungo MW. Real- time high-frequency QRS electrocardiography for enhanced detection of myocardial ischemia and coronary artery disease. T 79(3):339-50. doi 10.4065/79.3.339.