George Segall

Clinical Focus

• Nuclear Medicine

Administrative Appointments

• Chief, Nuclear Medicine Service, VA Palo Alto Health Care System (1998 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Commendation, Department of Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (2004)
• Taplin Lecturer, Western Regional Chapters Society of Nuclear Medicine (2005)
• Distinguished Service Award, Western Regional Chapters Society of Nuclear Medicine (2006)

Professional Education

Community & International Work

• President Correlative Imaging Council Society of Nuclear Medicine 

Research Interests

Scintigraphic evaluation of coronary blood flow and myocardial function using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET). Tumor imaging and characterization of pulmonary nodules with PET/CT.

Clinical Trials

• Cervical Nodal Mets in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of H&N - MRI, FDG-PET, & Histopathologic Correlation No longer recruiting
• Correlation of PET-CT Studies with Serum Protein Analysis Completed

Publications

• A comparison of the diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG PET and CT in the characterization of solitary pulmonary nodules. Fletcher JW, Kymes SM, Gould M, Alazraki N, Coleman RE, Lowe VJ, Marn C, Segall G, Thet LA, Lee K. J Nucl Med. 2008; 49 (2): 179-85
• Concurrent metabolic and osseous metastatic disease on a Tc99m-MDP bone scan. Mittra E, Segall G. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2007; 34 (12): 2150
• A case of three synchronous primary tumors demonstrated by F-18 FDG PET. Mittra E, Vasanawala M, Niederkohr R, Rodriguez C, Segall G. Clin Nucl Med. 2007; 32 (8): 666-7
• F-18 FDG PET visualization of urinary leak after nephrostomy tube removal. Iagaru A, Gamie S, Segall G. Clin Nucl Med. 2007; 32 (2): 168-9
• F-18 FDG PET imaging of urinary bladder oat cell carcinoma with widespread osseous metastases. Iagaru A, Gamie S, Segall G. Clin Nucl Med. 2006; 31 (8): 476-8