Overview
Percutaneous Image-Guided Thermal Ablation of Hepatic and Renal Tumors
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Medical Professor in the Department of Radiology
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2025 - Present
Radiology,
Clinical Science Departments
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
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1994 - Present
Duke Cancer Institute,
Institutes and Centers
Recent Publications
Comparison of clinical efficacy, subjective user experience, and safety for two different core biopsy needles, the Achieve® and Marquee®.
Journal Article Abdom Radiol (NY) · August 2022 PURPOSE: To compare clinical efficacy, subjective radiologist preference, and complication rates for two different core biopsy needles, the Achieve® and Marquee®. METHODS: Retrospective review included consecutive patients who underwent 18 gauge non-target ... Full text Link to item CiteDual-Energy CT Vital Iodine Tumor Burden for Response Assessment in Patients With Metastatic GIST Undergoing TKI Therapy: Comparison With Standard CT and FDG PET/CT Criteria.
Journal Article AJR Am J Roentgenol · April 2022 BACKGROUND. CT-based criteria for assessing the gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) response to tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy are limited in part because tumor attenuation is influenced by treatment-related changes including hemorrhage and calc ... Full text Link to item CiteHSP90-Specific nIR Probe Identifies Aggressive Prostate Cancers: Translation from Preclinical Models to a Human Phase I Study.
Journal Article Mol Cancer Ther · January 2022 A noninvasive test to discriminate indolent prostate cancers from lethal ones would focus treatment where necessary while reducing overtreatment. We exploited the known activity of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) as a chaperone critical for the function of n ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
High-Throughput Volumetric Photoacoustic Imaging of Living Vascularized Organoids
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2023A Patient-Adaptive, High MI Abdominal Scanner
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2018 - 2023A Multicenter, Open-label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Diagnostic Efficacy of Mangoral in Patients with known or Suspected Focal Liver Lesions and Severe Renal Impairment
Clinical TrialPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Ascelia Pharma AB · 2020 - 2023View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Loma Linda University, School of Medicine ·
1980
M.D.