U.joseph Schoepf MD

Joe Schoepf is a Professor with appointments in Radiology, Medicine, and Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, SC. At MUSC Dr. Schoepf serves as director of the Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, of CT Research and Development, and as Cardiovascular Imaging Director of the University Designated Center for Biomedical Imaging.

Dr. Schoepf, a native of Austria, graduated from the medical school of Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, in 1996. After his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany, he assumed a position at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, MA, which he held from 2001-2004. Dr. Schoepf holds a current medical license in the State of South Carolina and is certified in Diagnostic Radiology by the American and Austrian Specialty Boards as well as in cardiac CT by the American College of Radiology and the Certification Board of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. His main clinical and scientific interest is non-invasive cardiovascular and thoracic imaging, especially the use of advanced CT and MRI techniques for diagnosing disorders of the heart and lung.

His publications are as follows:
The brain following transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: the perspective from neuroimaging. Chen HJ, Zheng G, Wichmann JL, Schoepf UJ, Lu GM, Zhang LJ. Metab Brain Dis. 2015 Sep 24. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26404041.
Image quality, radiation dose, and diagnostic accuracy of prospectively ECG-triggered high-pitch coronary CT angiography at 70 kVp in a clinical setting: comparison with invasive coronary angiography. Zhang LJ, Wang Y, Schoepf UJ, Meinel FG, Bayer RR 2nd, Qi L, Cao J, Zhou CS, Zhao YE, Li X, Gong JB, Jin Z, Lu GM. Eur Radiol. 2015 Sep 17. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26382844.
Impact of an advanced image-based monoenergetic reconstruction algorithm on coronary stent visualization using third generation dual-source dual-energy CT: a phantom study. Mangold S, Cannaó PM, Schoepf UJ, Wichmann JL, Canstein C, Fuller SR, Muscogiuri G, Varga-Szemes A, Nikolaou K, De Cecco CN. Eur Radiol. 2015 Sep 15. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26373752.