Dr. Gerard Boyle

Dr. Gerard Boyle

Adjunct Associate Professor, Clinical Medicine


Biography

Dr. Gerard Boyle is a Principal Physicist at St. James's Hospital with a special interest in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He is an electronics engineer by background, with an MSc in Biomedical Engineering and a PhD in the optical measurement of eye movements. He directs the MSc in Physical Sciences in Medicine at Trinity College and is the SJH scientific director for the Centre for Advanced Medical Imaging (CAMI) MRI research centre at St. James's.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

  • Soraghan, C.J., Fan, C.W., Hayakawa, T., (...), Kenny, R.-A., Finucane, C. , TILDA Signal Processing Framework (SPF) for the analysis of BP responses to standing in epidemiological and clinical studies, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2014, 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2014, Vienna, 1-4 June, 2014, pp793-796Conference Paper, 2014, DOI
  • Soraghan, C.J., Fan, C.W., Hayakawa, T., (...), Kenny, R.-A., Finucane, C., TILDA Signal Processing Framework (SPF) for the analysis of BP responses to standing in epidemiological and clinical studies, 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2014, 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2014, Valencia, 2014, pp793-796Conference Paper, 2014, DOI
  • Soraghan, C.J., Hermann, S., Boyle, G., User-Centered Design and Older People: Introductory Considerations for Engaging Users, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 300, 2014, p221-231Journal Article, 2014, DOI
  • Frewen, J. King-kallimanis, B. Boyle, G. Kenny, R.A., Recent syncope and unexplained falls are associated with poor cognitive performance, Age Ageing , 44, (2), 2015, p282 - 286Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Finucane C, Kenny R.A, Boyle G, Cardioinhibitory Carotid Sinus Syndrome - A mathematical model, Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, 2015, 2015-November, 2015, pp2059 - 2062Conference Paper, 2015, DOI , URL
  • Whelan C.D, Alhusaini S, O'Hanlon E, Cheung M, Iyer P.M, Meaney J.F, Fagan A.J, Boyle G, Delanty N, Doherty C.P, Cavalleri G.L, White matter alterations in patients with MRI-negative temporal lobe epilepsy and their asymptomatic siblings, Epilepsia, 56, (10), 2015, p1551 - 1561Journal Article, 2015, DOI , URL
  • Soraghan C.J, Boyle G, Dominguez-Villoria L, Feighan J, Robinson D, Challenges of implementing a social prescription service in the clinic: Social prescribing in the LAMP project, International Symposium on Technology and Society, Proceedings, 2016, 2016-March, 2016Conference Paper, 2016, DOI , URL
  • Saleh K, Carballedo A, Lisiecka D, Fagan A.J, Connolly G, Boyle G, Frodl T, Corrigendum to Impact of family history and depression on amygdala volume [Psychiatry Res.: Neuroimaging 203 (2012) 24-30], Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging, 222, (3), 2014, p176-Journal Article, 2014, DOI , URL
  • Finucane, C. and Colgan, M.P. and O'Dwyer, C. and Fahy, C. and Collins, O. and Boyle, G. and Kenny, R.A., The accuracy of anatomical landmarks for locating the carotid sinus, Age and ageing, 45, (6), 2016, p904-907Journal Article, 2016, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • Boyle, G. and Soraghan, C. and Robinson, D., Design and implementation of a web portal for non-medical prescribing, European Medical and Biological Engineering Confernce Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics , 65, 2017, pp868-871Conference Paper, 2017, DOI , URL
  • Shields N, O'Hare N, Boyle G, Gormley J, An evaluation of safety guidelines to restrict exposure to stray radiofrequency radiation from short-wave diathermy units., Physics in Medicine and Biology, 49, (13), 2004, p2999 - 3015Journal Article, 2004, DOI
  • MALONE, JF, BOYLE, G, MARSH, DM, TEUNEN, D, DOSE AND IMAGE QUALITY IN DIGITAL IMAGING AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY, RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY, 94, 2001, 9 - 9Miscellaneous, 2001
  • BOYLE, G, INTERFEROMETRY FOR OCULAR MICROTREMOR MEASUREMENT, Applied Optics, 40, 2001, p167 - 175Journal Article, 2001, DOI , URL
  • JP Malone, G Boyle, D Teunen, D Marsh, Dose and Image Quality in Digital Imaging and in Interventional Radiology, Kent, UK,, Nuclear Technology Publishing, 2001Book, 2001, DOI
  • J Malone, G Boyle, DM Marsh, D Teunen, Editorial (Introduction to Proceedings of the Workshop on Dose and Image Quality in Digital Imaging and Interventional Radiology), Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 94, (1-2), 2001, p5 - 7Journal Article, 2001
  • B Moran, J Upton, M Rafferty, G Boyle, JF Malone, An Initial Report on the Investigation of High Patent Doses for the lateral Lumbo-sacral Projection in the Lumbar Spine Examination, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 57, 1995, p423 - 427Journal Article, 1995
  • Shields N, O'Hare N, Boyle G, Gormley J. , Development and application of a quality control procedure for shortwave diathermy units. , Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 41, (8), 2003, p62 - 68Journal Article, 2003, DOI
  • O'Sullivan M, Blake C, Cunningham C, Boyle G, Finucane C, Correlation of accelerometry with clinical balance tests in older fallers and non-fallers, Age and Ageing, 38, (3), 2009, p308 - 313Journal Article, 2009, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Finucane C, Boyle G, Fan CW, Hade D, Byrne L, Kenny RA, Mayer Wave Activity in Vasodepressor Carotid Sinus Hypersensitivity, EP Europace, 12, (2), 2010, p247-253Journal Article, 2010, DOI , URL , TARA - Full Text
  • O'Sullivan C, Meaney J, Boyle G, Gormley J, Stokes M., The validity of Rehabilitative Ultrasound Imaging for measurement of trapezius muscle thickness., Manual Therapy, 14, (5), 2009, p572 - 578Journal Article, 2009, DOI , URL
  • Boyle GE, Ahern M, Cooke J, Sheehy NP, Meaney JF, An interactive taxonomy of MR imaging sequences., Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc, 26, (6), 2006, pe24; quiz e24Journal Article, 2006
  • Frewen, J., Finucane, C., Savva, G. M., Boyle, G., Coen, R. F., & Kenny, R. A., Cognitive function is associated with impaired heart rate variability in ageing adults: the Irish longitudinal study on ageing wave one results.,  Clinical Autonomic Research, 23, (6), 2013, p313 - 323Journal Article, 2013, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Frewen, J, Savva, GM, Boyle, G, Finucane, C, Kenny, RA, Cognitive Performance in Orthostatic Hypotension: Findings from a Nationally Representative Sample, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 62, (1), 2014, p117-122Journal Article, 2014, DOI
  • King, G, Foley, JB, Royse, CF, Yastrebov, K, Hussey, M, Boyle, G, Bennet, K, Cosgrave, J, Crean, P, Walsh, M, Myocardial stiffness and the timing difference between tissue Doppler imaging Ea and peak mitral valve opening can distinguish physiological hypertrophy in athletes from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, 7, (6), 2006, p423-429Journal Article, 2006, DOI
  • Sheehy, NP, Boyle, GE, Meaney, JFM, Normal anterior spinal arteries within the cervical region: High-spatial-resolution contrast-enhanced three-dimensional MR angiography, RADIOLOGY, 236, (2), 2005, p637-641Journal Article, 2005, DOI
  • Sheehy, N, MacNally, S, Smith, CS, Boyle, G, Madhavan, P, Meaney, JFM, Contrast-enhanced MR angiography of subclavian steal syndrome: Value of the 2D time-of-flight "localizer" sign, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY, 185, (4), 2005, p1069-1073Journal Article, 2005, DOI
  • Collins, N., Al-Kalbani, M., Boyle, G., Baily, C., Kilmartin, D., Coakley, D., , Characterisation of the tremor component of fixational eye movements, Journal of Eye Movements Research, 14th European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM2007), Potsdam, August 19 - 23, 2007Conference Paper, 2007, DOI
  • Al-Kalbani, M., Collins, N., Boyle, G., Hegarty, F., Foran, T., Sheahan, N., Coakley, D., An automated ocular microtremor feature extraction using the Gabor thresholding technique, Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc., Lyon, 22-26 Aug, 5, IEEE, 2007, pp2851-4Conference Paper, 2007, DOI
  • Mayer Wave Activity in Vasodepressor Carotid Sinus Hypersensitivity Pathological Modulation of Baroreflex Sensitivity and Latency in Carotid Sinus Hypersensitivity in, editor(s)Howard M. Fillit MD, Kenneth Rockwood MD FRCPC, Kenneth Woodhouse , Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine, 2009, pp1- 1152 , [Finucane, C., Boyle, G., Fan, C.W., Hade, D., Byrne, L., Kenny, R.A.]Book Chapter, 2009
  • Finucane, C., Collins, O., O'Dwyer, C., Hade, D., Boyle, G., Kenny, R.A., Pathological Modulation of Baroreflex Sensitivity and Latency in Carotid Sinus Hypersensitivity, AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 2010, p1-Journal Article, 2010
  • Frewen J, Finucane C, Savva GM, Boyle G, Kenny RA, Orthostatic hypotension is associated with lower cognitive performance in adults aged 50 plus with supine hypertension., The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 69, (7), 2014, p878-85Journal Article, 2014, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • E Kenny, D Coakley and G Boyle, Non-contact in vivo measurement of ocular microtremor using laser speckle correlation metrology, Physiological Measurement, 35, 2014, p1229-1243Journal Article, 2014, DOI
  • Kenny, E, Coakley, D, Boyle, G, Biospeckle in the human sclera and impact on laser speckle correlation measurement of eye tremor, JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS, 18, (9), 2013, p097009 -Journal Article, 2013, DOI
  • McCamy MB, Collins N, Otero-Millan J, Al-Kalbani M, Macknik SL, Coakley D, Troncoso XG, Boyle G, Narayanan V, Wolf TR, Martinez-Conde S, Simultaneous recordings of ocular microtremor and microsaccades with a piezoelectric sensor and a video-oculography system, Peer J, 2013, pe14-Journal Article, 2013, DOI , TARA - Full Text
  • Kenny, E, Coakley, D, Boyle, G, Ocular microtremor measurement using laser-speckle metrology, JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS, 18, (1), 2013, p016010-Journal Article, 2013, DOI
  • Saleh, K, Carballedo, A, Lisiecka, D, Fagan, AJ, Connolly, G, Boyle, G, Frodl, T, Impact of family history and depression on amygdala volume, PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING, 203, (1), 2012, p24-30Journal Article, 2012, DOI
  • AlKalbani M, Collins N, Boyle G, Hegarty F, Foran T, Sheahan N, Coakley D., Wavelets as a tool in ocular microtremor (OMT) signal processing, Association of Physical Scientists in Medicine, Dublin, May 10-11, 2007Conference Paper, URL

Research Expertise

Ocular mictrotremor, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, applications of technology in medicine for older people.