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MIPS researchers are highly prolific in driving innovations in biomarker discovery and state-of-the-art technologies for first-in-human clinical translation. These achievements are driven by a strong collaborative environment amongst members as well as the broader molecular imaging and theranostics research and clinical communities.

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Park EY, Cai X, Foiret J, Bendjador H, Hyun D, Fite BZ, Wodnicki R, Dahl JJ, Boutin RD, Ferrara KW. Fast volumetric ultrasound facilitates high-resolution 3D mapping of tissue compartments. Sci Adv. 2023 Jun 2;9(22):eadg8176. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adg8176. Epub 2023 May 31. PMID: 37256942.

Ahmed R, Foiret J, Ferrara K, Trahey GE. Large-Array Deep Abdominal Imaging in Fundamental and Harmonic Mode. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control. 2023 May;70(5):406-421. doi: 10.1109/TUFFC.2023.3255800. Epub 2023 Apr 26. PMID: 37028314.

Dai T, Xie J, Buonomo JA, Moreno A, Banaei N, Bertozzi CR, Rao J. Bioluminogenic Probe for Rapid, Ultrasensitive Detection of β-Lactam-Resistant Bacteria. Anal Chem. 2023 May 9;95(18):7329-7335. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c00478. Epub 2023 Apr 21. PMID: 37083185; PMCID: PMC10175212.

Dong Q, Chang CM, Lee BJ, Sacco I, Sajedi S, Adams Z, Fischer P, Levin CS. The PETcoil project: PET performance evaluation of two detector modules for a second generation RF-penetrable TOF-PET brain dedicated insert for simultaneous PET/MRI. Phys Med Biol. 2023 Apr 5;68(8). doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/acc3f2. PMID: 36913739.

Dong Q, Adams Z, Watkins RD, Lee BJ, Chang CM, Sacco I, Levin CS. Study of compatibility between a 3T MR system and detector modules for a second-generation RF-penetrable TOF-PET insert for simultaneous PET/MRI. Med Phys. 2023 Mar 13. doi: 10.1002/mp.16354. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36912373.

Song H, Guja KE, Yang EJ, Guo HH. 64Cu-DOTATATE Uptake in a Pulmonary Hamartoma. Clin Nucl Med. 2023 Jan 1;48(1):58-60. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004390. Epub 2022 Sep 6. PMID: 36469060.

Natarajan A, Khan S, Liang X, Nguyen H, Das N, Anders D, Malik N, Oderinde OM, Chin FT, Rosenthal E, Pratx G. Preclinical Evaluation of 89Zr-Panitumumab for Biology-Guided Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2023 Jan 18:S0360-3016(23)00056-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.01.007. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36669541.

Reyes ST, Azevedo EC, Cropper HC, Nagy S, Deal EM, Chaney AM, James ML. Imaging CD19+ B Cells in an Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis Mouse Model using Positron Emission Tomography. J Vis Exp. 2023 Jan 20;(191). doi: 10.3791/64133. PMID: 36744792.

Jackson IM, Buccino PJ, Azevedo EC, Carlson ML, Luo ASZ, Deal EM, Kalita M, Reyes ST, Shao X, Beinat C, Nagy SC, Chaney AM, Anders DA, Scott PJH, Smith M, Shen B, James ML. Radiosynthesis and initial preclinical evaluation of [11C]AZD1283 as a potential P2Y12R PET radiotracer. Nucl Med Biol. 2022 Nov-Dec;114-115:143-150. doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2022.05.001. Epub 2022 May 20. PMID: 35680502.

Levinstein MR, Carlton ML, Di Ianni T, Ventriglia EN, Rizzo A, Gomez JL, Budinich RC, Shaham Y, Airan RD, Zarate CA Jr, Bonaventura J, Michaelides M. Mu Opioid Receptor Activation Mediates (S)-ketamine Reinforcement in Rats: Implications for Abuse Liability. Biol Psychiatry. 2022 Dec 24:S0006-3223(22)01854-6. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.12.019. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36841701.

Thaler C, Tian Q, Wintermark M, Ghanouni P, Halpern CH, Henderson JM, Airan RD, Zeineh M, Goubran M, Leuze C, Fiehler J, Butts Pauly K, McNab JA. Changes in the Cerebello-Thalamo-Cortical Network After Magnetic Resonance-Guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy. Brain Connect. 2023 Feb;13(1):28-38. doi: 10.1089/brain.2021.0157. Epub 2022 Jul 7. PMID: 35678063; PMCID: PMC9942176.

Baratto L, Nyalakonda R, Theruvath AJ, Sarrami AH, Hawk KE, Rashidi A, Shen S, States L, Aboian M, Jeng M, Daldrup-Link HE. Comparison of whole-body DW-MRI with 2-[18F]FDG PET for staging and treatment monitoring of children with Langerhans cell histiocytosis. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2023 Jan 31. doi: 10.1007/s00259-023-06122-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36717409.

Wang YJ, Wang P, Adams LC, Sheybani ND, Qu L, Sarrami AH, Theruvath AJ, Gatidis S, Ho T, Zhou Q, Pribnow A, Thakor AS, Rubin D, Daldrup-Link HE. Low-count whole-body PET/MRI restoration: an evaluation of dose reduction spectrum and five state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2023 Jan 12. doi: 10.1007/s00259-022-06097-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36633614.

Wu WE, Chang E, Jin L, Liu S, Huang CH, Kamal R, Liang T, Aissaoui NM, Theruvath AJ, Pisani L, Moseley M, Stoyanova T, Paulmurugan R, Huang J, Mitchell DA, Daldrup-Link HE. Multimodal In Vivo Tracking of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells in Preclinical Glioblastoma Models. Invest Radiol. 2022 Dec 22. doi: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000946. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36729074.

Zhao J, Van Vleck A, Winetraub Y, Du L, Han Y, Aasi S, Sarin KY, de la Zerda A. Rapid Cellular-Resolution Skin Imaging with Optical Coherence Tomography Using All-Glass Multifocal Metasurfaces. ACS Nano. 2023 Feb 28;17(4):3442-3451. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.2c09542. Epub 2023 Feb 6. PMID: 36745734.

Safir F, Vu N, Tadesse LF, Firouzi K, Banaei N, Jeffrey SS, Saleh AAE, Khuri-Yakub BPT, Dionne JA. Combining Acoustic Bioprinting with AI-Assisted Raman Spectroscopy for High-Throughput Identification of Bacteria in Blood. Nano Lett. 2023 Mar 1. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c03015. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36856600.

Dhanasekaran R, Hansen AS, Park J, Lemaitre L, Lai I, Adeniji N, Kuruvilla S, Suresh A, Zhang J, Swamy V, Felsher DW. MYC Overexpression Drives Immune Evasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma That Is Reversible through Restoration of Proinflammatory Macrophages. Cancer Res. 2023 Feb 15;83(4):626-640. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-0232. PMID: 36525476; PMCID: PMC9931653.

Yu JH, Jeong MS, Cruz EO, Alam IS, Tumbale SK, Zlitni A, Lee SY, Park YI, Ferrara K, Kwon SH, Gambhir SS, Rao J. Highly Excretable Gold Supraclusters for Translatable In Vivo Raman Imaging of Tumors. ACS Nano. 2023 Feb 14;17(3):2554-2567. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.2c10378. Epub 2023 Jan 23. PMID: 36688431.

Rafat M, El Kaffas A, Swarnakar A, Shostak A, Graves EE. Technical note: Noninvasive monitoring of normal tissue radiation damage using spectral quantitative ultrasound spectroscopy. Med Phys. 2023 Feb;50(2):1251-1256. doi: 10.1002/mp.16184. Epub 2023 Jan 8. PMID: 36564922; PMCID: PMC9940792.

Hu Z, Bieniosek M, Ferri V, Iagaru A, Kovalchuk N, Han B, Xing L, Vitzthum L, Olcott P, Narayanan M, Laurence T, Ren Y, Oderinde OM, Shirvani SM, Chang D, Surucu M. Image-mode performance characterisation of a positron emission tomography subsystem designed for Biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT). Br J Radiol. 2023 Jan 1;96(1141):20220387. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20220387. Epub 2022 Nov 15. PMID: 36317922.

Duan H, Baratto L, Fan RE, Soerensen SJC, Liang T, Chung BI, Thong AEC, Gill H, Kunder C, Stoyanova T, Rusu M, Loening AM, Ghanouni P, Davidzon GA, Moradi F, Sonn GA, Iagaru A. Correlation of 68Ga-RM2 PET with Postsurgery Histopathology Findings in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Intermediate- or High-Risk Prostate Cancer. J Nucl Med. 2022 Dec;63(12):1829-1835. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.122.263971. Epub 2022 May 12. PMID: 35552245.

Moradi F, Duan H, Song H, Davidzon GA, Chung BI, Thong AEC, Loening AM, Ghanouni P, Sonn G, Iagaru A. 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET/MRI in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Intermediate- or High-Risk Prostate Adenocarcinoma: PET Findings Correlate with Outcomes After Definitive Treatment. J Nucl Med. 2022 Dec;63(12):1822-1828. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.122.263897. Epub 2022 May 5. PMID: 35512996.

Nakamoto R, Ferri V, Duan H, Hatami N, Goel M, Rosenberg J, Kimura R, Wardak M, Haywood T, Kellow R, Shen B, Park W, Iagaru A, Gambhir SS. Pilot-phase PET/CT study targeting integrin αvβ6 in pancreatic cancer patients using the cystine-knot peptide-based 18F-FP-R01-MG-F2. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2022 Dec;50(1):184-193. doi: 10.1007/s00259-021-05595-7. Epub 2021 Nov 3. PMID: 34729628.

Nazari-Farsani S, Yu Y, Duarte Armindo R, Lansberg M, Liebeskind DS, Albers G, Christensen S, Levin CS, Zaharchuk G. Predicting final ischemic stroke lesions from initial diffusion-weighted images using a deep neural network. Neuroimage Clin. 2022 Dec 1;37:103278. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103278. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36481696; PMCID: PMC9727698.

Afjei R, Sadeghipour N, Kumar SU, Pandrala M, Kumar V, Malhotra SV, Massoud TF, Paulmurugan R. A New Nrf2 Inhibitor Enhances Chemotherapeutic Effects in Glioblastoma Cells Carrying p53 Mutations. Cancers (Basel). 2022 Dec 12;14(24):6120. doi: 10.3390/cancers14246120. PMID: 36551609; PMCID: PMC9775980.

Khessib T, Franc B, Yang E, Moradi F. Retroperitoneal Inflammation Detected on FDG PET/CT in Patient on Long-Term Immunotherapy. Clin Nucl Med. 2023 Apr 1;48(4):e165-e166. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004513. Epub 2023 Feb 1. PMID: 36728374.

Schultz L, Davis KL, Walkush A, Baggott C, Erickson C, Ramakrishna S, Aftandilian C, Lacayo N, Nadel HR, Oak J, Mackall CL. Role of peripheral blood MRD and 18F-FDG PET in the post-CAR relapse setting: a case study of discordant peripheral blood and bone marrow MRD. J Immunother Cancer. 2023 Feb;11(2):e004851. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2022-004851. PMID: 36849202; PMCID: PMC9972424.

Zhang Y, Wang J, Ghobadi SN, Zhou H, Huang A, Gerosa M, Hou Q, Keunen O, Golebiewska A, Habte FG, Grant GA, Paulmurugan R, Lee KS, Wintermark M. Molecular Identity Changes of Tumor-Associated Macrophages and Microglia After Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Focused Ultrasound-Induced Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in a Mouse Glioblastoma Model. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2023 Jan 28:S0301-5629(22)00666-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2022.12.006. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36717283.

Kim SB, Nishihara R, Paulmurugan R. Near-Infrared Imaging of Steroid Hormone Activities Using Bright BRET Templates. Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Dec 30;24(1):677. doi: 10.3390/ijms24010677. PMID: 36614119; PMCID: PMC9820568.

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Klein JS, Kim TJ, Pratx G. Development of a lensless radiomicroscope for cellular-resolution radionuclide imaging. J Nucl Med. 2023 Mar, 64 (3) 479-484; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.122.264021

Yin Q, Luo W, Mallajosyula V, Bo Y, Guo J, Xie J, Sun M, Verma R, Li C, Constantz CM, Wagar LE, Li J, Sola E, Gupta N, Wang C, Kask O, Chen X, Yuan X, Wu NC, Rao J, Chien YH, Cheng J, Pulendran B, Davis MM. A TLR7-nanoparticle adjuvant promotes a broad immune response against heterologous strains of influenza and SARS-CoV-2. Nat Mater. 2023 Jan 30. doi: 10.1038/s41563-022-01464-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36717665.

Early S, Saad MA, Mallidi S, Mansour A, Seist R, Hasan T, Stankovic KM. A fluorescent photoimmunoconjugate for imaging of cholesteatoma. Sci Rep. 2022 Nov 19;12(1):19905. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-22072-9. PMID: 36402793; PMCID: PMC9675863.

Marić I, Contrepois K, Moufarrej MN, Stelzer IA, Feyaerts D, Han X, Tang A, Stanley N, Wong RJ, Traber GM, Ellenberger M, Chang AL, Fallahzadeh R, Nassar H, Becker M, Xenochristou M, Espinosa C, De Francesco D, Ghaemi MS, Costello EK, Culos A, Ling XB, Sylvester KG, Darmstadt GL, Winn VD, Shaw GM, Relman DA, Quake SR, Angst MS, Snyder MP, Stevenson DK, Gaudilliere B, Aghaeepour N. Early prediction and longitudinal modeling of preeclampsia from multiomics. Patterns (N Y). 2022 Dec 9;3(12):100655. doi: 10.1016/j.patter.2022.100655. PMID: 36569558; PMCID: PMC9768681.

Stevenson DK, Wong RJ, Nayak NR. Molecular Mechanisms of Pregnancy-Related Vascular Remodeling and Pregnancy Complications. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Feb 13;24(4):3712. doi: 10.3390/ijms24043712. PMID: 36835124; PMCID: PMC9965456.

Ganguly A, Swaminathan G, Garcia-Marques F, Regmi S, Yarani R, Primavera R, Chetty S, Bermudez A, Pitteri SJ, Thakor AS. Integrated transcriptome-proteome analyses of human stem cells reveal source-dependent differences in their regenerative signature. Stem Cell Reports. 2023 Jan 10;18(1):190-204. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2022.11.006. Epub 2022 Dec 8. PMID: 36493779; PMCID: PMC9860079.

Islam MT, Xing L. Cartography of Genomic Interactions Enables Deep Analysis of Single-Cell Expression Data. Nat Commun. 2023 Feb 8;14(1):679. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36383-6. PMID: 36755047; PMCID: PMC9908983.

Eminaga O, Abbas M, Shen J, Laurie M, Brooks JD, Liao JC, Rubin DL. PlexusNet: A neural network architectural concept for medical image classification. Comput Biol Med. 2023 Mar;154:106594. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.106594. Epub 2023 Jan 26. PMID: 36753979.

Riley NM, Wen RM, Bertozzi CR, Brooks JD, Pitteri SJ. Measuring the multifaceted roles of mucin-domain glycoproteins in cancer. Adv Cancer Res. 2023;157:83-121. doi: 10.1016/bs.acr.2022.09.001. Epub 2022 Oct 8. PMID: 36725114.

Su Y, Walker JR, Hall MP, Klein MA, Wu X, Encell LP, Casey KM, Liu LX, Hong G, Lin MZ, Kirkland TA. An optimized bioluminescent substrate for non-invasive imaging in the brain. Nat Chem Biol. 2023 Feb 9. doi: 10.1038/s41589-023-01265-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36759751.

Wong JYC, Yamauchi DM, Adhikarla V, Simpson J, Frankel PH, Fong Y, Melstrom KA, Chen YJ, Salehian BD, Woo Y, Dandapani SV, Colcher DM, Poku EK, Yazaki PJ, Wu AM, Shively JE. First-In-Human Pilot PET Immunoimaging Study of 64Cu-Anti-Carcinoembryonic Antigen Monoclonal Antibody (hT84.66-M5A) in Patients with Carcinoembryonic Antigen-Producing Cancers. Cancer Biother Radiopharm. 2023 Feb;38(1):26-37. doi: 10.1089/cbr.2022.0028. Epub 2022 Sep 26. PMID: 36154291.

Oh J, Gutkin P, Wang YP, Sandhu N, Majzner RG, Nadel H, Shimada H, Lansinger O, von Eyben R, Donaldson S, Bruzoni M, Sodji QH, Hiniker SM. Time to resolution of iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine (123 I-MIBG) avidity and local control outcomes for high-risk neuroblastoma following radiation therapy. J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol. 2023 Feb;67(1):81-88. doi: 10.1111/1754-9485.13487. Epub 2022 Oct 27. PMID: 36300562.