Ellen Ackerstaff, Ph.D.
Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, Division of Diagnostic Imaging
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Volunteer - Adult Basic Education, Greater Homewood Community Services, Baltimore, MD
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Non-Employee Contingent, Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NJ
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 1998 | University of Bremen, Bremen, DE, Physics & Electrical Engineering, Dr. rer. nat. (PHD) |
| 1994 | Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, DE, Physics, Dipl.- Phys. (MS) |
Postgraduate Training
| 2012-2012 | Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development, American Association of Medical Colleges, Potomac, Maryland |
| 1998-2001 | Research Fellowship, Division of MR Research, Russell H. Morgan Dept. of Radiology & Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland |
Experience & Service
Faculty Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2023 - 2023
Non-Employee Contingent, Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, NY, 2022 - 2022
Assistant Laboratory Member, Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 2012 - 2022
Assistant Attending Physicist, Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, NY, 2012 - 2022
Instructor, Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 2006 - 2012
Member, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2005 - 2006
Research Associate, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2005 - 2006
Research Associate, Department of Division of MR Research, Russell H. Morgan Dept. of Radiology & Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2001 - 2006
Research & Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics & Electrical Engineering, University of Bremen, Breman, 1996 - 1998
Other Professional Positions
Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), New York, NY, 2020 - 2022
Various roles, Dr. Jason A. Koutcher’s Research Laboratory Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,, New York, NY, 2006 - 2022
Volunteer – Parental Business, Website design, programming & maintenance (http://www.nietberg.de), Bad Bentheim, Bad Bentheim, Germany, 2003 - Present
Volunteer - Adult Basic Education, Greater Homewood Community Services, Baltimore, MD, 2001 - 2006
Various roles, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 1998 - 2006
Student Assistant, Computer Lab (Data Center), Klinik und Poliklinik für Allgemeine Orthopädie, Universitätskliniken, Münster, 1993 - 1994
Laboratory Assistant (Temp employee), Gesellschaft für Arbeitsplatz – und Umweltanalytik mbH, Münster, 1992 - 1992
Volunteer – Parental Business, Bad Bentheim, Bad Bentheim, 1986 - 1998
Editorial Activities
Review Editor, Frontiers in Oncology, 2015 - 2020
Honors & Awards
| 2024 - Present | Faculty Senate, Faculty Senate |
| 2012 | Awarded competitive admission to the American Association of Medical Colleges, American Association of Medical Colleges |
| 2012 | Nominated for active membership in the American Association for Cancer, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) |
| 2004 | Bill Negendank Student Poster Award, Poster, Workshop on Advances in Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research |
| 2000 - 2001 | Educational Stipends for Students and Postdoctoral Trainees - Travel Award, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) |
| 1996 | Stipend for Young Scientists - Travel Award, International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS) |
| 1996 | Stipend for Young Scientists - Travel Award, University of Bremen |
| 1995 | Research Scholarship - , Funding of research conducted in the Ph.D. program, University of Bremen |
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Li Z, Nguyen C, Jang H, Hoang D, Min S, Ackerstaff E, Koutcher JA, Shi L. Multimodal imaging of metabolic activities for distinguishing subtypes of breast cancer. Biomed Opt Express 14(11):5764-5780, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 38021123.
- Zappasodi R, Serganova I, Cohen IJ, Maeda M, Shindo M, Senbabaoglu Y, Watson MJ, Leftin A, Maniyar R, Verma S, Lubin M, Ko M, Mane MM, Zhong H, Liu C, Ghosh A, Abu-Akeel M, Ackerstaff E, Koutcher JA, Ho PC, Delgoffe GM, Blasberg R, Wolchok JD, Merghoub T. CTLA-4 blockade drives loss of Treg stability in glycolysis-low tumours. Nature 591(7851):652-658, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33588426.
- Mane MM, Cohen IJ, Ackerstaff E, Shalaby K, Ijoma JN, Ko M, Maeda M, Albeg AS, Vemuri K, Satagopan J, Moroz A, Zurita J, Shenker L, Shindo M, Nickles T, Nikolov E, Moroz MA, Koutcher JA, Serganova I, Ponomarev V, Blasberg RG. Lactate Dehydrogenase A Depletion Alters MyC-CaP Tumor Metabolism, Microenvironment, and CAR T Cell Therapy. Mol Ther Oncolytics 18:382-395, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32913888.
- Bendau E, Smith J, Zhang L, Ackerstaff E, Kruchevsky N, Wu B, Koutcher JA, Alfano R, Shi L. Distinguishing metastatic triple-negative breast cancer from nonmetastatic breast cancer using second harmonic generation imaging and resonance Raman spectroscopy. J Biophotonics 13(7):e202000005, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32219996.
- Jin S, Han S, Stoyanova R, Ackerstaff E, Cho H. Pattern recognition analysis of dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC)-MRI curves automatically segments tissue areas with intact blood-brain barrier in a rat stroke model: A feasibility and comparison study. J Magn Reson Imaging 51(5):1369-1381, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31654463.
- Bodo S, Campagne C, Thin TH, Higginson DS, Vargas HA, Hua G, Fuller JD, Ackerstaff E, Russell J, Zhang Z, Klingler S, Cho H, Kaag MG, Mazaheri Y, Rimner A, Manova-Todorova K, Epel B, Zatcky J, Cleary CR, Rao SS, Yamada Y, Zelefsky MJ, Halpern HJ, Koutcher JA, Cordon-Cardo C, Greco C, Haimovitz-Friedman A, Sala E, Powell SN, Kolesnick R, Fuks Z. Single-dose radiotherapy disables tumor cell homologous recombination via ischemia/reperfusion injury. J Clin Invest 129(2):786-801, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30480549.
- Han S, Stoyanova R, Lee H, Carlin SD, Koutcher JA, Cho H, Ackerstaff E. Automation of pattern recognition analysis of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI data to characterize intratumoral vascular heterogeneity. Magn Reson Med 79(3):1736-1744, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 28727185.
- Chang YC, Ackerstaff E, Tschudi Y, Jimenez B, Foltz W, Fisher C, Lilge L, Cho H, Carlin S, Gillies RJ, Balagurunathan Y, Yechieli RL, Subhawong T, Turkbey B, Pollack A, Stoyanova R. Delineation of Tumor Habitats based on Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI. Sci Rep 7(1):9746, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28851989.
- Simões RV, Veeraperumal S, Serganova IS, Kruchevsky N, Varshavsky J, Blasberg RG, Ackerstaff E, Koutcher JA. Inhibition of prostate cancer proliferation by Deferiprone. NMR Biomed 30(6), 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28272795.
- Patel BB, Ackerstaff E, Serganova IS, Kerrigan JE, Blasberg RG, Koutcher JA, Banerjee D. Tumor stroma interaction is mediated by monocarboxylate metabolism. Exp Cell Res 352(1):20-33, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28132882.
- Cho H, Ackerstaff E, Carlin S, Lupu ME, Wang Y, Rizwan A, O'Donoghue J, Ling CC, Humm JL, Zanzonico PB, Koutcher JA. Corrigendum to "Noninvasive Multimodality Imaging of the Tumor Microenvironment: Registered Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography Studies of a Preclinical Tumor Model of Tumor Hypoxia" [Neoplasia 11 (2009) 247-259]. Neoplasia 18(12):811, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27978998.
- Sun X, Ackerstaff E, He F, Xing L, Hsiao HT, Koutcher JA, Ling CC, Li GC. Visualizing the antivascular effect of bortezomib on the hypoxic tumor microenvironment. Oncotarget 6(33):34732-44, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26416246.
- Simões RV, Serganova IS, Kruchevsky N, Leftin A, Shestov AA, Thaler HT, Sukenick G, Locasale JW, Blasberg RG, Koutcher JA, Ackerstaff E. Metabolic plasticity of metastatic breast cancer cells: adaptation to changes in the microenvironment. Neoplasia 17(8):671-84, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26408259.
- Viola-Villegas NT, Carlin SD, Ackerstaff E, Sevak KK, Divilov V, Serganova I, Kruchevsky N, Anderson M, Blasberg RG, Andreev OA, Engelman DM, Koutcher JA, Reshetnyak YK, Lewis JS. Understanding the pharmacological properties of a metabolic PET tracer in prostate cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111(20):7254-9, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24785505.
- Pu Y, Xue J, Wang W, Xu B, Gu Y, Tang R, Ackerstaff E, Koutcher JA, Achilefu S, Alfano RR. Native fluorescence spectroscopy reveals spectral differences among prostate cancer cell lines with different risk levels. J Biomed Opt 18(8):87002, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23912761.
- Xing L, Sun X, Deng X, Kotedia K, Zanzonico PB, Ackerstaff E, Koutcher JA, Ling CC, Li GC. A triple suicide gene strategy that improves therapeutic effects and incorporates multimodality molecular imaging for monitoring gene functions. Cancer Gene Ther 20(6):358-65, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23722591.
- Han SH, Ackerstaff E, Stoyanova R, Carlin S, Huang W, Koutcher JA, Kim JK, Cho G, Jang G, Cho H. Gaussian mixture model-based classification of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI data for identifying diverse tumor microenvironments: preliminary results. NMR Biomed 26(5):519-32, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23440683.
- Stoyanova R, Huang K, Sandler K, Cho H, Carlin S, Zanzonico PB, Koutcher JA, Ackerstaff E. Mapping Tumor Hypoxia In Vivo Using Pattern Recognition of Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MRI Data. Transl Oncol 5(6):437-47, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 23326621.
- Han S, Paulsen JL, Zhu G, Song Y, Chun S, Cho G, Ackerstaff E, Koutcher JA, Cho H. Temporal/spatial resolution improvement of in vivo DCE-MRI with compressed sensing-optimized FLASH. Magn Reson Imaging 30(6):741-52, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22465192.
- Rattigan YI, Patel BB, Ackerstaff E, Sukenick G, Koutcher JA, Glod JW, Banerjee D. Lactate is a mediator of metabolic cooperation between stromal carcinoma associated fibroblasts and glycolytic tumor cells in the tumor microenvironment. Exp Cell Res 318(4):326-35, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22178238.
- Darpolor MM, Kennealey PT, Le HC, Zakian KL, Ackerstaff E, Rizwan A, Chen JH, Sambol EB, Schwartz GK, Singer S, Koutcher JA. Preclinical study of treatment response in HCT-116 cells and xenografts with (1) H-decoupled (31) P MRS. NMR Biomed 24(9):1159-68, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21994185.
- Suehiro M, Yang G, Torchon G, Ackerstaff E, Humm J, Koutcher J, Ouerfelli O. Radiosynthesis of the tumor hypoxia marker [18F]TFMISO via O-[18F]trifluoroethylation reveals a striking difference between trifluoroethyl tosylate and iodide in regiochemical reactivity toward oxygen nucleophiles. Bioorg Med Chem 19(7):2287-97, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21398131.
- Kakkad SM, Solaiyappan M, O'Rourke B, Stasinopoulos I, Ackerstaff E, Raman V, Bhujwalla ZM, Glunde K. Hypoxic tumor microenvironments reduce collagen I fiber density. Neoplasia 12(8):608-17, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20689755.
- Shah T, Wildes F, Penet MF, Winnard PT, Glunde K, Artemov D, Ackerstaff E, Gimi B, Kakkad S, Raman V, Bhujwalla ZM. Choline kinase overexpression increases invasiveness and drug resistance of human breast cancer cells. NMR Biomed 23(6):633-42, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20623626.
- Cho H, Ackerstaff E, Carlin S, Lupu ME, Wang Y, Rizwan A, O'Donoghue J, Ling CC, Humm JL, Zanzonico PB, Koutcher JA. Noninvasive multimodality imaging of the tumor microenvironment: registered dynamic magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography studies of a preclinical tumor model of tumor hypoxia. Neoplasia 11(3):247-59, 2p following 259, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19242606.
- Xing L, Deng X, Kotedia K, Ackerstaff E, Ponomarev V, Clifton Ling C, Koutcher JA, Li GC. Non-invasive molecular and functional imaging of cytosine deaminase and uracil phosphoribosyltransferase fused with red fluorescence protein. Acta Oncol 47(7):1211-20, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18661431.
- Ackerstaff E, Artemov D, Gillies RJ, Bhujwalla ZM. Hypoxia and the presence of human vascular endothelial cells affect prostate cancer cell invasion and metabolism. Neoplasia 9(12):1138-51, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 18084621.
- Ackerstaff E, Gimi B, Artemov D, Bhujwalla ZM. Anti-inflammatory agent indomethacin reduces invasion and alters metabolism in a human breast cancer cell line. Neoplasia 9(3):222-35, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17401462.
- Gimi B, Mori N, Ackerstaff E, Frost EE, Bulte JW, Bhujwalla ZM. Noninvasive MRI of endothelial cell response to human breast cancer cells. Neoplasia 8(3):207-13, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 16611414.
- Gimi B, Pathak AP, Ackerstaff E, Glunde K, Artemov D, Bhujwalla ZM. Molecular Imaging of Cancer: Applications of Magnetic Resonance Methods. Proc IEEE Inst Electr Electron Eng 93(4):784-799, 2005. e-Pub 2005. PMID: 19779604.
- Pathak AP, Gimi B, Glunde K, Ackerstaff E, Artemov D, Bhujwalla ZM. Molecular and functional imaging of cancer: advances in MRI and MRS. Methods Enzymol 386:3-60, 2004. e-Pub 2004. PMID: 15120245.
- Glunde K, Ackerstaff E, Natarajan K, Artemov D, Bhujwalla ZM. Real-time changes in 1H and 31P NMR spectra of malignant human mammary epithelial cells during treatment with the anti-inflammatory agent indomethacin. Magn Reson Med 48(5):819-25, 2002. e-Pub 2002. PMID: 12417996.
- Pilatus U, Aboagye E, Artemov D, Mori N, Ackerstaff E, Bhujwalla ZM. Real-time measurements of cellular oxygen consumption, pH, and energy metabolism using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med 45(5):749-55, 2001. e-Pub 2001. PMID: 11323800.
- Ackerstaff E, Pflug BR, Nelson JB, Bhujwalla ZM. Detection of increased choline compounds with proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy subsequent to malignant transformation of human prostatic epithelial cells. Cancer Res 61(9):3599-603, 2001. e-Pub 2001. PMID: 11325827.
- Bhujwalla ZM, Artemov D, Natarajan K, Ackerstaff E, Solaiyappan M. Vascular differences detected by MRI for metastatic versus nonmetastatic breast and prostate cancer xenografts. Neoplasia 3(2):143-53, 2001. e-Pub 2001. PMID: 11420750.
- Pilatus U, Ackerstaff E, Artemov D, Mori N, Gillies RJ, Bhujwalla ZM. Imaging prostate cancer invasion with multi-nuclear magnetic resonance methods: the Metabolic Boyden Chamber. Neoplasia 2(3):273-9, 2000. e-Pub 2000. PMID: 10935513.
Review Articles
- Ramamonjisoa N, Ackerstaff E. Characterization of the Tumor Microenvironment and Tumor-Stroma Interaction by Non-invasive Preclinical Imaging. Front Oncol 7:3, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28197395.
- Bokacheva L, Ackerstaff E, LeKaye HC, Zakian K, Koutcher JA. High-field small animal magnetic resonance oncology studies. Phys Med Biol 59(2):R65-R127, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24374985.
- Zakian KL, Shukla-Dave A, Ackerstaff E, Hricak H, Koutcher JA. 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy of prostate cancer: biomarkers for tumor characterization. Cancer Biomark 4(4-5):263-76, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18957715.
- Glunde K, Ackerstaff E, Mori N, Jacobs MA, Bhujwalla ZM. Choline phospholipid metabolism in cancer: consequences for molecular pharmaceutical interventions. Mol Pharm 3(5):496-506, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 17009848.
- Ackerstaff E, Glunde K, Bhujwalla ZM. Choline phospholipid metabolism: a target in cancer cells?. J Cell Biochem 90(3):525-33, 2003. e-Pub 2003. PMID: 14523987.
- Bhujwalla ZM, Artemov D, Aboagye E, Ackerstaff E, Gillies RJ, Natarajan K, Solaiyappan M. The physiological environment in cancer vascularization, invasion and metastasis. Novartis Found Symp 240:23-38; discussion 38-45, 152-3, 2001. e-Pub 2001. PMID: 11727932.
Editorials
- Ackerstaff E, López-Larrubia P. Editorial: Differentiating brain cancers and glioblastoma through imaging methodologies. Front Oncol 13:1351874, 2023. PMID: 38164194.
Abstracts
- Jang, H, Li, Z, Li, Y, Baheri, P, Ackerstaff, E, Koutcher, J, Shi, L. Ultrafast nonlinear multimodal metabolic imaging platform for studying aging and diseases, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Ackerstaff, E, Budhu, S, Winkleman, DP, Min, SS, Ijoma, JN, Serganova, IS, Blasberg, RG, Merghoub, T, Koutcher, JA. Deferiprone alters macrophage function and metabolism. Cancer Res, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
- Zappasodi, R, Serganova, I, Cohen, I, Maeda, M, Senbabaoglu, Y, Shindo, M, Maniyar, R, Mane, MM, Leftin, A, McLane, W, Verma, S, Lubin, M, Ko, MK, Ghosh, A, Mohsen, A-A, Ackerstaff, E, Koutcher, JA, Ho, P-C, Delgoffe, GM, Blasberg, R, Wolchok, JD, Merghoub, T. CTLA-4 blockade promotes Treg glucose metabolism and reduces Treg functional stability in glycolysis-defective tumors. J Immunother Cancer, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Zappasodi, R, Serganova, I, Cohen, I, Maeda, M, Shindo, M, Senbabaoglu, Y, Leftin, A, Maniyar, R, Verma, S, Lubin, M, Ko, MK, Mane, MM, Ghosh, A, Ackerstaff, E, Koutcher, JA, Ho, P-C, Delgoffe, GM, Blasberg, R, Wolchok, JD, Merghoub, T. CTLA-4 blockade drives loss of regulatory T cell functional stability in glycolysis defective tumors. Cancer Res, 2020. e-Pub 2020.
- Mane, MM, Shalaby, Cohen K, I, Albeg, AS, Ijoma, J, Myat, K, Maeda, M, Vemuri, Satagopan K, J, Moroz, A, Zurita, J, Shenker, L, Ackerstaff, E, Shindo, M, Moroz, E, Moroz, MA, Serganova, I, Koutcher, J, Ponomarev, V, Blasberg, RG. The effect of lactate dehydrogenase-A (LDH-A) knockdown and human prostate-specific membrane antigen (hPSMA) directed CAR T cell treatment on hPSMA(+) Myc-CaP tumors. Cancer Immunol Res, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Chang Y, Solorzano G, Ackerstaff E, Yechieli R, Subhawong T, Stoyanova R. Delineation of Tumor Habitats Based On Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI. Med Phys, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Zappasodi, R, Ghosh, A, Serganova, I, Cohen, I, Senbabaoglu, Y, Shindo, M, Mane, MM, Leftin, A, Ackerstaff, E, Koutcher, JA, Wolchock, JD, Blasberg, RG, Merghoub, T. Overcoming intratumor T-cell exclusion by modulation of lactate metabolism to improve immune checkpoint therapies in aggressive breast cancer. Cancer Immunol Res, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Campagne CG, Thin TH, Fuller JD, Ackerstaff E, Koutcher JA, Haimovitz-Friedman A, Powell SN, Kolesnick RN, Fuks Z. Epigenetic loss-of-function BRCA1 mediates tumor cure by single dose radiotherapy. Cancer Res, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
- Pu, Y, Xue, J, Xu, B, Wang, W, Gu, Y, Tang, R, Achilefu, S, Ackerstaff, E, Koutcher, JA, Alfano, RR. Investigation of native fluorescence spectral difference among prostate cancer cell lines with different risk levels. Proc. SPIE 8577, Optical Biopsy XI, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Simões, RV, Ackerstaff, E, Serganova, I, Kruchevsky, N, Sukenick, G, Blasberg, Koutcher RG, JA. Metastatic and Non−Metastatic Isogenic Breast Cancer Cells Lines Show Different Metabolic Signatures in Response to Intermittent Hypoxia and Transient Glutamine/Glucose Deprivation. Cancer Res, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
- Patel BB, Rattigan YI, Ackerstaff E, Koutcher J, Sukenick G, Glod JW, Banerjee D. Adaptive exploitation of stromal cell metabolism by tumor cells. FASEB J, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
- Patel B, Rattigan YI, Ackerstaff E, Sukenick G, Glod JW, Banerjee D. Adaptive exploitation of stromal cell metabolism by tumor cells. Eur J Cancer, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Patel BB, Rattigan YI, Ackerstaff E, Sukenick G, Glod JW, Koutcher J, Banerjee D. Adaptive exploitation of stromal cell metabolism by tumor cells. Cancer Res, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Ackerstaff E, Cho H, Carlin S, Rizwan A, Suehiro M, Ouerfelli O, Zanzonico PB, Humm JL, Koutcher JA. Hypoxia Imaging in Cancer – Preclinical Studies. Advanced BioTech, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- He F, Sun X, Ackerstaff E, Xing L, Minami A, Hsiao HT, Carlin S, Ling CC, Koutcher J, Li GC. The effect of proteasome inhibitor velcade on tumor microenvironment. Cancer Res, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- Stoyanova R, Ackerstaff E, Cho H, Koutcher JA, Pollack A. DCE-MRI for Delineation of Hypoxic Regions in Prostate Tumor. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- Suehiro M, Ouerfelli O, Torchon G, Koziorowski J, Humm J, Ackerstaff E, Koutcher JA. Approaches Towards Radiolabeling of Trifluoro-Miso with 18F. Special Issue of the Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
- Sun X, He F, Ackerstaff E, Xing L, Minami A, Carlin, S, Ling C, Koutcher J, Li G. The Effect of Proteasome Inhibitor Velcade on Tumor Microenvironment. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
- Bhujwalla ZM, Solaiyappan M, Pathak AP, Ackerstaff E, Raman V, Glunde K, Artemov D. Characterizing Tumors with Multi-Modality Imaging. Molecular Imaging, 2004. e-Pub 2004.
- Ackerstaff E, Wildes F, Raman V, Artemov D, Bhujwalla ZM. Human Prostate Cancer Cells Overexpressing VEGF Exhibit Increased Invasion and Metabolic Changes under Hypoxia in the Presence of Endothelial Cells. Molecular Imaging, 2004. e-Pub 2004.
- Gimi B, Mori N, Ackerstaff E, Frost EE, Bulte JWM, Bhujwalla ZM. MR Imaging Of Superparamagnetically Labeled Endothelial Cells Revealed Directed Migration In Response To Factors Secreted By Human Breast Cancer Cells. Molecular Imaging, 2004. e-Pub 2004.
- Ackerstaff E, Mironchik Y, Raman V, Artemov D, Bhujwalla ZM. VEGF Overexpressing Human Prostate Cancer Cells Exhibit Increased Invasion. Molecular Imaging, 2003. e-Pub 2003.
- Ackerstaff E, Artemov D, Gillies RJ, Bhujwalla ZM. Endothelial Cells Promote Invasion of the Human Prostate Cancer Cell Line PC-3 under Hypoxia. Molecular Imaging, 2002. e-Pub 2002.
- Fichtner A, Luebberstedt H, Ackerstaff E, Mayer A. Diffusion-weighted 1H nmr studies of the microalgae Chlorella fusca. Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology, 1996. e-Pub 1996.
Book Chapters
- Jacobs MA, Glunde K, Gimi B, Pathak AP, Ackerstaff E, Artemov D, Bhujwalla ZM. Chapter 8. In: Molecular and cellular MR imaging. 1st ed. Taylor & Francis CRC Press, 141-160, 2007.
- Bhujwalla ZM, Glunde K, Ackerstaff E, Pathak AP, Gimi B, Mori N, Raman V, Artemov D. Chapter 13. In: Functional and Molecular MRI of Preclinical Cancer Models in Drug Discovery and Development, 255-278, 2006.
- Bhujwalla ZM, Ackerstaff E, Artemov D, Glunde K, Pathak AP, Raman V, Solaiyappan M. Chapter 19. In: In Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging of Cancer, 247-256, 2005.
- Bhujwalla ZM, Artemov D, Ackerstaff E, Mayappan S. Chapter 12. In: MRI and MRS Studies of Cancer, 262-280, 2005.
Books (edited and written)
- Ackerstaff E. Kernspinresonanzspektroskopie - Untersuchungen zum Stoffwechsel und zur Wasserdiffusion in der photoautotrophen Mikroalge Chlorella fusca. Logos Verlag, 1998.
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