Timothy James Amrhein | Scholars@Duke

Timothy James Amrhein
Assistant Professor of Radiology

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Radiology, Radiology, Neuroradiology, Radiology 2014

Contact Information

Box 3808 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
Dept Of Radiology, Durham, NC 27710
(919) 684-8111

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- M.D., New York Medical College 2006
Research
Selected Grants
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Amrhein, TJ, and Kranz, PG. "Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: Imaging in Diagnosis and Treatment." Radiologic Clinics of North America 57, no. 2 (March 2019): 439-451. (Review) Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, and Amrhein, TJ. "Imaging Approach to Myelopathy: Acute, Subacute, and Chronic." Radiologic Clinics of North America 57, no. 2 (March 2019): 257-279. (Review) Full Text
  - Rajpurkar, P, Irvin, J, Ball, RL, Zhu, K, Yang, B, Mehta, H, Duan, T, Ding, D, Bagul, A, Langlotz, CP, Patel, BN, Yeom, KW, Shpanskaya, K, Blankenberg, FG, Seekins, J, Amrhein, TJ, Mong, DA, Halabi, SS, Zucker, EJ, Ng, AY, and Lungren, MP. "Deep learning for chest radiograph diagnosis: A retrospective comparison of the CheXNeXt algorithm to practicing radiologists." Plos Medicine 15, no. 11 (November 20, 2018): e1002686-null. Full Text
  - Haskell, GT, Mori, M, Powell, C, Amrhein, TJ, Rice, GI, Bailey, L, Strande, N, Weck, KE, Evans, JP, Berg, JS, and Kishnani, P. "Combination of exome sequencing and immune testing confirms Aicardi-Goutières syndrome type 5 in a challenging pediatric neurology case." Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies 4, no. 5 (October 2018). Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Malinzak, MD, and Amrhein, TJ. "Approach to Imaging in Patients with Spontaneous Intracranial Hemorrhage." Neuroimaging Clinics of North America 28, no. 3 (August 2018): 353-374. (Review) Full Text
  - Parivash, SN, Kranz, PG, Gray, L, and Amrhein, TJ. "CT Fluoroscopy-Guided Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injections in the Cervical Spine: Rate of Nontarget Injection Into the Retrodural Space of Okada." Ajr. American Journal of Roentgenology 211, no. 2 (August 2018): 426-431. Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Gray, L, and Amrhein, TJ. "Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: 10 Myths and Misperceptions." Headache 58, no. 7 (July 2018): 948-959. (Review) Full Text
  - Chen, MC, Ball, RL, Yang, L, Moradzadeh, N, Chapman, BE, Larson, DB, Langlotz, CP, Amrhein, TJ, and Lungren, MP. "Deep Learning to Classify Radiology Free-Text Reports." Radiology 286, no. 3 (March 2018): 845-852. Full Text
  - Banerjee, I, Ling, Y, Chen, MC, Hasan, SA, Langlotz, CP, Moradzadeh, N, Chapman, B, Amrhein, T, Mong, D, Rubin, DL, Farri, O, and Lungren, MP. "Comparative effectiveness of convolutional neural network (CNN) and recurrent neural network (RNN) architectures for radiology text report classification(Accepted)." Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (January 1, 2018). Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Amrhein, TJ, and Gray, L. "CSF Venous Fistulas in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: Imaging Characteristics on Dynamic and CT Myelography." AJR. American journal of roentgenology 209, no. 6 (December 2017): 1360-1366. Full Text
  - Amrhein, TJ, Parivash, SN, Gray, L, and Kranz, PG. "Incidence of Inadvertent Dural Puncture During CT Fluoroscopy-Guided Interlaminar Epidural Corticosteroid Injections in the Cervical Spine: An Analysis of 974 Cases." AJR. American journal of roentgenology 209, no. 3 (September 2017): 656-661. Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Malinzak, MD, Amrhein, TJ, and Gray, L. "Update on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension." Current pain and headache reports 21, no. 8 (August 2017): 37-. (Review) Full Text
  - Hassanpour, S, Langlotz, CP, Amrhein, TJ, Befera, NT, and Lungren, MP. "Performance of a Machine Learning Classifier of Knee MRI Reports in Two Large Academic Radiology Practices: A Tool to Estimate Diagnostic Yield." Ajr. American Journal of Roentgenology 208, no. 4 (April 2017): 750-753. Full Text
  - Amrhein, TJ, Mostertz, W, Matheus, MG, Maass-Bolles, G, Sharma, K, Collins, HR, and Kranz, PG. "Reformatted images improve the detection rate of acute traumatic subdural hematomas on brain CT compared with axial images alone." Emergency radiology 24, no. 1 (February 2017): 39-45. Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Joshi, AB, Roy, LA, Choudhury, KR, and Amrhein, TJ. "Inadvertent Intrafacet Injection during Lumbar Interlaminar Epidural Steroid Injection: A Comparison of CT Fluoroscopic and Conventional Fluoroscopic Guidance." Ajnr. American Journal of Neuroradiology 38, no. 2 (February 2017): 398-402. Full Text
  - Ceponis, PJ, Fox, W, Tailor, TD, Hurwitz, LM, Amrhein, TJ, and Moon, RE. "Non-dysbaric arterial gas embolism associated with chronic necrotizing pneumonia, bullae and coughing: a case report." Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine : Journal of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Inc 44, no. 1 (January 2017): 73-77.
  - Kranz, PG, Amrhein, TJ, Choudhury, KR, Tanpitukpongse, TP, and Gray, L. "Time-Dependent Changes in Dural Enhancement Associated With Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension." Ajr. American Journal of Roentgenology 207, no. 6 (December 2016): 1283-1287. Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Tanpitukpongse, TP, Choudhury, KR, Amrhein, TJ, and Gray, L. "How common is normal cerebrospinal fluid pressure in spontaneous intracranial hypotension?." Cephalalgia : an International Journal of Headache 36, no. 13 (November 2016): 1209-1217. Full Text
  - Amrhein, TJ, Befera, NT, Gray, L, and Kranz, PG. "CT Fluoroscopy-Guided Blood Patching of Ventral CSF Leaks by Direct Needle Placement in the Ventral Epidural Space Using a Transforaminal Approach." Ajnr. American Journal of Neuroradiology 37, no. 10 (October 2016): 1951-1956. Full Text
  - Amrhein, TJ, Joshi, AB, and Kranz, PG. "Technique for CT Fluoroscopy-Guided Lumbar Medial Branch Blocks and Radiofrequency Ablation." AJR. American journal of roentgenology 207, no. 3 (September 2016): 631-634. Full Text
  - Ruth, NM, Amrhein, T, Passo, M, and Gilkeson, G. "Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Complicated by Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome in the Context of Kidney Dialysis and Plasma Exchange in Pediatric Lupus." Journal of Pediatric Neurology 14, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 105-109. Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Amrhein, TJ, Schievink, WI, Karikari, IO, and Gray, L. "The "Hyperdense Paraspinal Vein" Sign: A Marker of CSF-Venous Fistula." Ajnr. American Journal of Neuroradiology 37, no. 7 (July 2016): 1379-1381. Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Tanpitukpongse, TP, Choudhury, KR, Amrhein, TJ, and Gray, L. "Imaging Signs in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension: Prevalence and Relationship to CSF Pressure." AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 37, no. 7 (July 2016): 1374-1378. Full Text
  - Amrhein, TJ, Schauberger, JS, Kranz, PG, and Hoang, JK. "Reducing Patient Radiation Exposure From CT Fluoroscopy-Guided Lumbar Spine Pain Injections by Targeting the Planning CT." AJR. American journal of roentgenology 206, no. 2 (February 2016): 390-394. Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Luetmer, PH, Diehn, FE, Amrhein, TJ, Tanpitukpongse, TP, and Gray, L. "Myelographic Techniques for the Detection of Spinal CSF Leaks in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension." Ajr. American Journal of Roentgenology 206, no. 1 (January 2016): 8-19. (Review) Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Amrhein, TJ, and Gray, L. "Incidence of Inadvertent Intravascular Injection during CT Fluoroscopy-Guided Epidural Steroid Injections." AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 36, no. 5 (May 2015): 1000-1007. Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Amrhein, TJ, and Provenzale, JM. "Spontaneous brain parenchymal hemorrhage: an approach to imaging for the emergency room radiologist." Emergency radiology 22, no. 1 (February 2015): 53-63. (Review) Full Text
  - Amrhein, TJ, Tabesh, A, Collins, HR, Gordon, LL, Helpern, JA, and Jensen, JH. "Instituting a radiology residency scholarly activity program." Education for health (Abingdon, England) 28, no. 1 (January 2015): 68-73. Full Text
  - Amrhein, TJ, Paxton, BE, Lungren, MP, Befera, NT, Collins, HR, Yurko, C, Eastwood, JD, and Kilani, RK. "Physician self-referral and imaging use appropriateness: negative cervical spine MRI frequency as an assessment metric." AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 35, no. 12 (December 2014): 2248-2253. Full Text
  - Kranz, PG, Amrhein, TJ, and Gray, L. "Rebound intracranial hypertension: a complication of epidural blood patching for intracranial hypotension." AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 35, no. 6 (June 2014): 1237-1240. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Kranz, PG, Amrhein, TJ, and Provenzale, JM. "Spontaneous brain parenchymal hemorrhage: an approach to imaging for the emergency room radiologist." Emergency Radiology 22, no. 1 (2014): 53-63. Full Text
  - Lungren, MP, Amrhein, TJ, Paxton, BE, Srinivasan, RC, Collins, HR, Eastwood, JD, and Kilani, RK. "Physician self-referral: frequency of negative findings at MR imaging of the knee as a marker of appropriate utilization." Radiology 269, no. 3 (December 2013): 810-815. Full Text
  - Amrhein, TJ, Lungren, MP, Paxton, BE, Srinivasan, R, Jung, S-H, Yu, M, Eastwood, JD, and Kilani, RK. "Journal Club: Shoulder MRI utilization: relationship of physician MRI equipment ownership to negative study frequency." AJR Am J Roentgenol 201, no. 3 (September 2013): 605-610. Full Text Link to Item
  - Mouraviev, V, Venkatraman, TN, Tovmasyan, A, Kimura, M, Tsivian, M, Mouravieva, V, Polascik, TJ, Wang, H, Amrhein, TJ, Batinic-Haberle, I, and Lascola, C. "Mn porphyrins as novel molecular magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents." J Endourol 26, no. 11 (November 2012): 1420-1424. Full Text Link to Item
  - Mouraviev, V, Venkatraman, TN, Tovmasyan, A, Kimura, M, Tsivian, M, Mouravieva, V, Polascik, TJ, Wang, H, Amrhein, TJ, Batinic-Haberle, I, and Lascola, C. "Mn-porphyrins as novel molecular magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents." J Endourol (November 3, 2011): 1420-1424. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Amrhein, TJ, Kim, C, Smith, TP, and Washington, L. "Bronchial artery arising from the left vertebral artery: case report and review of the literature." J Clin Imaging Sci 1 (2011): 62-. Full Text Link to Item
  - Cosetti, M, Amrhein, T, and Linstrom, C. "Perioperative management of intracranial aneurysms and otologic disease." The Laryngoscope 117, no. 1 (January 2007): 35-39. Full Text
- Book Sections
  - Amrhein, TJ, Jennings, JP, Carr, CM, and Bartynski, WS. "Back pain." In Imaging Acute Neurologic Disease: A Symptom-Based Approach, 76-90. January 1, 2014. Full Text
  - Amrhein, TJ, and Kim, CY. "Vascular radiology: Case 20." In Duke Radiology Case Review: Imaging, Differential Diagnosis, and Discussion: 2nd Edition, 420-421. January 19, 2012.
  - Kim, CY, Newman, GE, Smith, TP, Stackhouse, DJ, Suhocki, PV, Payne, CS, Husum, K, Bryant, JA, Hayes, MA, Engstrom, B, Toomayan, GA, Amrhein, TJ, and Duncan, SM. "Vascular radiology." In Duke Radiology Case Review: Imaging, Differential Diagnosis, and Discussion: 2nd Edition, 381-null. January 19, 2012.

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