James A. Bankson, Ph.D.
Department of Imaging Physics, Division of Diagnostic Imaging
About Dr. Bankson
Dr. Bankson leads the Magnetic Resonance Engineering Laboratory at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and he is Deputy Director of the Small Animal Imaging Facility. His research is focused on the use of engineering principles (RF engineering, systems engineering, electromagnetics, signal and image processing) to refine, optimize, and extend methods to characterize disease non-invasively using magnetic resonance imaging, spectroscopy, and spectroscopic imaging
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Professor, Department of Imaging Physics, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Adjoint Associate Professor, Department of Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
Keck Faculty Affiliate, The Gulf Coast Consortia, Houston, TX
Program Faculty, Department of Medical Physics Program, Division of Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Research Interests
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Phased Arrays, Parallel MRI and fast acquisition techniques
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2001 | Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, PHD, Electrical Engineering |
| 1994 | Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, BS, Electrical Engineering |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Adjoint Professor, Department of Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, 2017 - Present
Adjunct Professor, Department of Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2017 - Present
Associate Professor, Department of Imaging Physics, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2011 - 2017
Adjoint Assistant Professor, Department of Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, 2010 - 2011
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2005 - 2011
Assistant Professor, Department of Imaging Physics, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2003 - 2011
Institutional Committee Activities
Chair, Mid-Tenure Review Committee (Will Norton), 2019 - Present
Member, MD Anderson Electronic Lab Notebook Committee, 2019 - Present
Program Review Committee, MD Anderson Odyssey Committee, 2019 - Present
Member, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Master's Degree Program Review, 2019 - Present
Member, MD Anderson Cancer Center Graduate Education Committee, 2019 - Present
Internal Grant Reviewer, INTEREST, 2017 - 2020
Member, Department of Pediatrics Research Imaging Team, 2017 - Present
Inaugural Chair, Medical Physics Candidacy Examination Committee, 2016 - 2017
Member, CABI Hyperpolarization Steering Committee, 2015 - Present
Member, UT Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) Curriculum Review Committee, 2015 - 2018
Member, Mid-Tenure Review Committee (Cynthia Lockhart), 2015 - Present
Member, Division of Diagnostic Imaging Research Functional Committee, 2013 - Present
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Michel KA, Ragavan M, Walker CM, Merritt ME, Lai SY, Bankson JA. Comparison of selective excitation and multi-echo chemical shift encoding for imaging of hyperpolarized [1-13C]pyruvate. J Magn Reson 325:106927, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33607386.
- Joint Head and Neck Radiation Therapy-MRI Development Cooperative, Mohamed ASR, He R, Ding Y, Wang J, Fahim J, Elgohari B, Elhalawani H, Kim AD, Ahmed H, Garcia JA, Johnson JM, Stafford RJ, Bankson JA, Chambers MS, Sandulache VC, Fuller CD, Lai SY. Quantitative Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Identifies Radiation-Induced Vascular Damage in Patients With Advanced Osteoradionecrosis: Results of a Prospective Study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 108(5):1319-28, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32712257.
- Xu Z, Niedzielski JS, Sun C, Walker CM, Michel KA, Einstein SA, Martinez GV, Bankson JA. Correction and optimization of symmetric echo-planar spectroscopic imaging for hyperpolarized [1-13C]-pyruvate. J Magn Reson 321:106859, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33160268.
- Niedzielski JS, Wei X, Xu T, Gomez DR, Liao Z, Bankson JA, Lai SY, Court LE, Yang J. Development and application of an elastic net logistic regression model to investigate the impact of cardiac substructure dose on radiation-induced pericardial effusion in patients with NSCLC. Acta Oncol 59(10):1193-2000, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32678696.
- Walker CM, Gordon JW, Xu Z, Michel KA, Li L, Larson PEZ, Vigneron DB, Bankson JA. Slice profile effects on quantitative analysis of hyperpolarized pyruvate. NMR Biomed 33(10):e4373, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32743881.
- Mitchell DP, Hwang KP, Bankson JA, Jason Stafford R, Banerjee S, Takei N, Fuentes D. An information theory model for optimizing quantitative magnetic resonance imaging acquisitions. Phys Med Biol 65(22):225008, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32947269.
- Harlan CJ, Xu Z, Michel KA, Walker CM, Lokugama SD, Martinez GV, Pagel MD, Bankson JA. Technical Note: A deuterated 13 C-urea reference for clinical multiparametric MRI prostate cancer studies including hyperpolarized pyruvate. Med Phys 47(7):2931-2936, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32286689.
- Ravoori MK, Singh S, Yang P, Wei W, Chen H, Ma J, Bankson JA, Kundra V. In vivo magnetic resonance imaging of orthotopic prostate cancer. Biotechniques 69(1):395-403, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32363906.
- Piotrowski SL, Wilson L, Maldonado KL, Tailor R, Hill LR, Bankson JA, Lai S, Kasper FK, Young S. Effect of Radiation on DCE-MRI Pharmacokinetic Parameters in a Rabbit Model of Compromised Maxillofacial Wound Healing: A Pilot Study. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 78(6):1034.e1-1034.e10, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32147226.
- Einstein SA, Thompson EA, Guo C, Whitley EM, Bankson JA, Cressman ENK. Application of trifluoroacetic acid as a theranostic agent for chemical ablation of solid tissue. J Vasc Interv Radiol 31(1):169-75, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 6926148.
- Michel KA, Zielinski R, Walker CM, Le Roux L, Priebe W, Bankson JA, Schellingerhout D. Hyperpolarized Pyruvate MR Spectroscopy Depicts Glycolytic Inhibition in a Mouse Model of Glioma. Radiology 293(1):168-173, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Walker CM, Fuentes D, Larson PEZ, Kundra V, Vigneron DB, Bankson JA. Effects of excitation angle strategy on quantitative analysis of hyperpolarized pyruvate. Magn Reson Med 81(6):3754-3762, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30793791.
- Kennis BA, Michel KA, Brugmann WB, Laureano A, Tao RH, Somanchi SS, Einstein SA, Bravo-Alegria JB, Maegawa S, Wahba A, Kiany S, Gordon N, Silla L, Schellingerhout D, Khatua S, Zaky W, Sandberg D, Cooper L, Lee DA, Bankson JA, Gopalakrishnan V. Correction to: Monitoring of intracerebellarly-administered natural killer cells with fluorine-19 MRI. J Neurooncol 142(3):409, 2019. PMID: 30968268.
- Muñoz NM, Minhaj AA, Maldonado KL, Kingsley CV, Cortes AC, Taghavi H, Polak U, Mitchell JM, Ensor JE, Bankson JA, Rashid A, Avritscher R. Comparison of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and contrast-enhanced ultrasound for evaluation of the effects of sorafenib in a rat model of hepatocellular carcinoma. Magn Reson Imaging 57:156-164, 2019. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30465870.
- Kurhanewicz J, Vigneron DB, Ardenkjaer-Larsen JH, Bankson JA, Brindle K, Cunningham CH, Gallagher FA, Keshari KR, Kjaer A, Laustsen C, Mankoff DA, Merritt ME, Nelson SJ, Pauly JM, Lee P, Ronen S, Tyler DJ, Rajan SS, Spielman DM, Wald L, Zhang X, Malloy CR, Rizi R. Hyperpolarized 13C MRI: Path to Clinical Translation in Oncology. Neoplasia 21(1):1-16, 2019. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30472500.
- Kirpich A, Ragavan M, Bankson JA, McIntyre LM, Merritt ME. Kinetic Analysis of Hepatic Metabolism Using Hyperpolarized Dihydroxyacetone. J Chem Inf Model 59(1):605-614, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30602117.
- Bader DA, Hartig SM, Putluri V, Foley C, Hamilton MP, Smith EA, Saha PK, Panigrahi A, Walker C, Zong L, Martini-Stoica H, Chen R, Rajapakshe K, Coarfa C, Sreekumar A, Mitsiades N, Bankson JA, Ittmann MM, O'Malley BW, Putluri N, McGuire SE. Mitochondrial pyruvate import is a metabolic vulnerability in androgen receptor-driven prostate cancer. Nat Metab 1(1):70-85, 2019. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 31198906.
- Das S, Parga K, Chakraborty I, Tinoco AD, Delgado Y, López PM, Fernández Vega L, Sanakis Y, Ghosh S, Bankson J, Klostergaard J, González-Méndez R, Raptis RG. Magnetic resonance imaging contrast enhancement in vitro and in vivo by octanuclear iron-oxo cluster-based agents. J Inorg Biochem 186:176-186, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29957454.
- Jones KM, Michel KA, Bankson JA, Fuller CD, Klopp AH, Venkatesan AM. Emerging Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologies for Radiation Therapy Planning and Response Assessment. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 101(5):1046-1056, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30012524.
- Henderson L, Neumann O, Kaffes C, Zhang R, Marangoni V, Ravoori MK, Kundra V, Bankson J, Nordlander P, Halas NJ. Routes to potentially safer T1 magnetic resonance imaging contrast in a compact plasmonic nanoparticle with enhanced fluorescence. ACS Nano 12(8):8214-8223, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30088917.
- Sun CY, Walker CM, Michel KA, Venkatesan AM, Lai SY, Bankson JA. Influence of parameter accuracy on pharmacokinetic analysis of hyperpolarized pyruvate. Magn Reson Med 79(6):3239-3248, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29090487.
- Zhao J, Wang H, Hsiao CH, Chow DS, Koay EJ, Kang Y, Wen X, Huang Q, Ma Y, Bankson JA, Ullrich SE, Overwijk W, Maitra A, Piwnica-Worms D, Fleming JB, Li C. Simultaneous inhibition of hedgehog signaling and tumor proliferation remodels stroma and enhances pancreatic cancer therapy. Biomaterials 159:215-228, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29331808.
- Elhalawani H, Ger R, Mohamed ASR, Awan M, Ding Y, Li K, Fave X, Beers A, Driscoll B, Hormuth D, van Houdt P, He R, Zhou S, Mathieu K, Li H, Coolens C, Chung C, Bankson J, Huang W, Wang J, Sandulache V, Lai S, Howell R, Stafford J, Yankeelov T, van der Heided U, Frank S, Barboriak D, Hazle J, Court L, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Fuller C. Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging for head and neck cancers. Sci Data 5:180008, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29437167.
- Hua AA, Mawlawi O, Stafford RJ, Bankson J, Shao Y, Guindani M, Wendt REI. An investigation of the required MR bone attenuation correction for quantitative whole-body PET/MR Imaging using clinical NaF PET/CT studies. Int J Med Phys Clin Eng Radiat Oncol 7(3):273-95, 2018.
- Ravoori MK, Singh SP, Lee J, Bankson JA, Kundra V. In Vivo Assessment of Ovarian Tumor Response to Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Pazopanib by Using Hyperpolarized (13)C-Pyruvate MR Spectroscopy and (18)F-FDG PET/CT Imaging in a Mouse Model. Radiology 285(3):161772, 2017.
- Ger RB, Mohamed ASR, Awan MJ, Ding Y, Li K, Fave XJ, Beers AL, Driscoll B, Elhalawani H, Hormuth DA, Houdt PJV, He R, Zhou S, Mathieu KB, Li H, Coolens C, Chung C, Bankson JA, Huang W, Wang J, Sandulache VC, Lai SY, Howell RM, Stafford RJ, Yankeelov TE, Heide UAV, Frank SJ, Barboriak DP, Hazle JD, Court LE, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Fuller CD. A Multi-Institutional Comparison of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Parameter Calculations. Sci Rep 7(1):11185, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28894197.
- Marangoni VS, Neumann O, Henderson L, Kaffes CC, Zhang H, Zhang R, Bishnoi S, Ayala-Orozco C, Zucolotto V, Bankson JA, Nordlander P, Halas NJ. Enhancing T1 magnetic resonance imaging contrast with internalized gadolinium(III) in a multilayer nanoparticle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 114(27):6960-6965, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28630340.
- Sandulache VC, Chen Y, Feng L, William WN, Skinner HD, Myers JN, Meyn RE, Li J, Mijiti A, Bankson JA, Fuller CD, Konopleva MY, Lai SY. Metabolic interrogation as a tool to optimize chemotherapeutic regimens. Oncotarget 8(11):18154-18156, 2017. PMID: 28184025.
- Ravoori MK, Singh S, Bhavane R, Sood AK, Anvari B, Bankson J, Annapragada A, Kundra V. Multimodal Magnetic Resonance and Near-Infrared-Fluorescent Imaging of Intraperitoneal Ovarian Cancer Using a Dual-Mode-Dual-Gadolinium Liposomal Contrast Agent. Sci Rep 6:38991, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 28004770.
- Benito J, Ramirez MS, Millward NZ, Velez J, Harutyunyan KG, Lu H, Shi YX, Matre P, Jacamo R, Ma H, Konoplev S, McQueen T, Volgin A, Protopopova M, Mu H, Lee J, Bhattacharya PK, Marszalek JR, Davis RE, Bankson JA, Cortes JE, Hart CP, Andreeff M, Konopleva M. Hypoxia-activated prodrug TH-302 targets hypoxic bone marrow niches in pre-clinical leukemia models. Clin Cancer Res 22(7):1687-98, 2016. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26603259.
- Walker CM, Merritt M, Wang JX, Bankson JA. Use of a Multi-compartment Dynamic Single Enzyme Phantom for Studies of Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance Agents. J Vis Exp(110):e53607, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27166971.
- Walker CM, Chen Y, Lai SY, Bankson JA. A novel perfused Bloch-McConnell simulator for analyzing the accuracy of dynamic hyperpolarized MRS. Med Phys 43(2):854, 2016. PMID: 26843246.
- Redis RS, Vela LE, Lu W, Ferreira de Oliveira J, Ivan C, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Adamoski D, Pasculli B, Taguchi A, Chen Y, Fernandez AF, Valledor L, Van Roosbroeck K, Chang S, Shah M, Kinnebrew G, Han L, Atlasi Y, Cheung LH, Huang GY, Monroig P, Ramirez MS, Catela Ivkovic T, Van L, Ling H, Gafà R, Kapitanovic S, Lanza G, Bankson JA, Huang P, Lai SY, Bast RC, Rosenblum MG, Radovich M, Ivan M, Bartholomeusz G, Liang H, Fraga MF, Widger WR, Hanash S, Berindan-Neagoe I, Lopez-Berestein G, Ambrosio ALB, Gomes Dias SM, Calin GA. Allele-Specific Reprogramming of Cancer Metabolism by the Long Non-coding RNA CCAT2. Mol Cell 61(4):520-34, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26853146.
- Sandulache VC, Chen Y, Skinner HD, Lu T, Feng L, Court LE, Myers JN, Meyn RE, Fuller CD, Bankson JA, Lai SY. Acute tumor lactate perturbations as a biomarker of genotoxic stress: development of a biochemical model. Mol Cancer Ther 14(12):2901-8, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26376962.
- Lee J, Ramirez MS, Walker CM, Chen Y, Yi S, Sandulache VC, Lai SY, Bankson JA. High-throughput hyperpolarized (13)C metabolic investigations using a multi-channel acquisition system. J Magn Reson 260:20-27, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26397217.
- Bankson JA, Walker CM, Ramirez MS, Stefan W, Fuentes D, Merritt ME, Lee J, Sandulache VC, Chen Y, Phan L, Chou PC, Rao A, Yeung SC, Lee MH, Schellingerhout D, Conrad CA, Malloy C, Sherry AD, Lai SY, Hazle JD. Kinetic modeling and constrained reconstruction of hyperpolarized 1-13C-pyruvate offers improved metabolic imaging of tumors. Cancer Res 75(22):4708-17, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26420214.
- Phan L, Chou PC, Velazquez-Torres G, Samudio I, Parreno K, Huang Y, Tseng C, Vu T, Gully C, Su CH, Wang E, Chen J, Choi HH, Fuentes-Mattei E, Shin JH, Shiang C, Grabiner B, Blonska M, Skerl S, Shao Y, Cody D, Delacerda J, Kingsley C, Webb D, Carlock C, Zhou Z, Hsieh YC, Lee J, Elliott A, Ramirez M, Bankson J, Hazle J, Wang Y, Li L, Weng S, Rizk N, Wen YY, Lin X, Wang H, Wang H, Zhang A, Xia X, Wu Y, Habra M, Yang W, Pusztai L, Yeung SC, Lee MH. The cell cycle regulator 14-3-3σ opposes and reverses cancer metabolic reprogramming. Nat Commun 6:7530, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26179207.
- Ramirez MS, Lee J, Walker CM, Chen Y, Kingsley CV, De La Cerda J, Maldonado KL, Lai SY, Bankson JA. Feasibility of multianimal hyperpolarized (13) C MRS. Magn Reson Med 73(5):1726-32, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24903532.
- Ravoori MK, Nishimura M, Singh SP, Lu C, Han L, Hobbs BP, Pradeep S, Choi HJ, Bankson JA, Sood AK, Kundra V. Tumor T1 Relaxation Time for Assessing Response to Bevacizumab Anti-Angiogenic Therapy in a Mouse Ovarian Cancer Model. PLoS One 10(6):e0131095, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26098849.
- Ng CS, Wei W, Bankson JA, Ravoori MK, Han L, Brammer DW, Klumpp S, Waterton JC, Jackson EF. Dependence of DCE-MRI biomarker values on analysis algorithm. PLoS One 10(7):e0130168, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26208254.
- Bhatnagar P, Alauddin M, Bankson JA, Kirui D, Seifi P, Huls H, Lee DA, Babakhani A, Ferrari M, Li KC, Cooper LJ. Tumor lysing genetically engineered T cells loaded with multi-modal imaging agents. Sci Rep 4:4502, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24675806.
Abstracts
- Harlan CJ, Xu Z, Michel KA, Walker CM, Lokugama SD, Pagel MD, Bankson JA . A deuterated 13C-urea reference to eliminate 1H imaging artifacts in hyperpolarized 13C MRI studies. ISMRM 28th Scientific Meeting, Online, 2020.
- Bankson JA, Michel KA, Xu Z, Harlan CJ, Martinez G, Walker CM. The filtering effect of signal excitations on hyperpolarized imaging agents. ISMRM 28th Scientific Meeting, Online, 2020.
- Michel K, Walker C, Merrit M, Bankson J . Comparison of selective excitation and IDEAL for chemical shift imaging of hyperpolarized [1-13C]-pyruvate. ISMRM 28th Scientific Meeting, Online,, 2020.
- Mohamed A, He R, Ding Y, Wang J, Fahim J, Elgohari B, Elhalawani H, Johnson J, Stafford J, Bankson J , Chambers M, Sandulache V, Fuller C, Lai S. Prospective assessment of DCE-MRI parameters associated with advanced mandibular osteoradionecrosis after IMRT of head and neck cancer. Proc. ISMRM 28th Scientific Meeting, Online, 2020.
- Michel K, Walker C, Merritt M, Bankson J .. Optimization of spatial and spectral encoding for hyperpolarized [1-13C]-pyruvate MRI. Proc AAPM 61st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2019.
- Mitchell D, Hwang K, Stafford RJ, Bankson J , Fuentes D.. Calibration of synthetic MRI acquisition parameters through information theory modeling. Proc AAPM 61st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2019.
- Niedzielski J, Wei X, Xu T, Gomez D, Liao Z, Bankson J , Lai S, Court L, Yang J.. Impact of cardiac substructure dose for modeling radiation toxicity in the heart. Proc AAPM 61st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2019.
- Thompson E, Einstein S, Bankon J , Cressman E.. Linearity of R1 with temperature in trifluoroacetate: development of fluorine-19 MRI thermometry for thermochemical ablation. Proc AAPM 61st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2019.
- Michel K, Munoz N, Maldonado K, Bankson J, Sun J, Qayyum A, Avritscher R.. Blood oxygen level dependent MRI detects changes in hepatocellular carcinoma induced by sorafenib treatment. Proc. ISMRM 27th Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2019.
- Ragavan M, Carter A, Downes G, Giacalone A, Michel K, Bankson J, Merritt M.. Binomial Excitation for Detection of Hyperpolarized [2-13C]Dihydroxyacetone Metabolism. Proc. ISMRM 27th Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2019.
- Einstein S, Thompson E, Guo C, Whitley E, Cressman E, Bankson J .. Evaluation of trifluoroacetic acid as a theranostic fluorine-19 MRI agent for chemical ablation of solid tissue. Proc. ISMRM 27th Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2019.
- Ragavan M, Carter A, Downes G, Giacalone A, Michel K, Bankson J , Merritt M. Hyperpolarized Dihydroxyacetone Metabolism in the Mouse Liver Under Physiological Perfusion Conditions. Proc. ISMRM 27th Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2019.
- Mitchell D, Fuentes D, Stafford J, Bankson J , Hwang K-P. Information Quantification of Subsequent Acquisitions for Minimizing Synthetic MRI Reconstruction Uncertainty. Proc. ISMRM 27th Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2019.
- Walker C, Bankson J .. Multi-Slice Correction for Metabolic Rate Quantification of Hyperpolarized Pyruvate. ISMRM 27th Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2019.
- Xu Z, Niedzielski J, Michel K, Walker C, Einstein S, Bankson J .. Symmetry Preserved Rectilinear Transform(SPRT): Optimized Reconstruction of Echo Planar Spectroscopic Image for Hyperpolarized [1-13C]-Pyruvate. Proc. ISMRM 27th Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2019.
- Walker CM, Bankson J. Effects of non-ideal spectral-spatial excitation slice profile on quantitative analysis of metabolism using hyperpolarized pyruvate. Proc. AAPM 60th Annual Meeting, Nashville TN, 2018.
- Michel K, Walker C, Niedzielski, Chen Y, Lai S, Ravoori M, Kundra V, Merritt M, Bankson J. Design and implementation of a flexible imaging sequence for pre-clinical hyperpolarized 13C MRI. Proc. AAPM 60th Annual Meeting, Nashville TN, 2018.
- Niedzielski J, Bankson JA, Michel K, Walker C, Chen Y, Lai S. Analysis of pharmacokinetic modeling and doxyxycline to quantify tumor metabolism variations using hyperpolarized [1-13C]-pyruvate MRI. Proc. AAPM 60th Annual Meeting, Nashville TN, 2018.
- Thompson E, Einstein S, Bankson J, Cressman E. Chemoablation agent imaging with background-free 19F-MRI. Proc. AAPM 60th Annual Meeting, Nashville TN, 2018.
- Niedzielski J, Xu Z, Sun CY, Michel KA, Walker CM, Einstein S, Bankson JA. Optimization of radial echo planar spectroscopic image reconstruction for hyperpolarized [1-13C]-pyruvate imaging. Proc. ISMRM 26th Scientific Meeting, Paris, France, 2018.
- Walker CM, Bankson JA. Slice profile induced errors in metabolic quantification of hyperpolarized pyruvate. Proc. ISMRM 26th Scientific Meeting, Paris, France, 2018.
- Aburto RR, Sokolov K, Kulp AM, Vreeland EC, Lu Z, Bast RC, Hazle JD, Mathieu KB.. Magnetic relaxometry detection of stealth, antibody-targeted micellar iron oxide nanoparticles in-vivo. Cancer Research 77(1), 2017.
Book Chapters
- Somanchi SS, Kennis BA, Gopalakrishnan V, Lee DA, Bankson JA. In vivo 19F-Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Adoptively Transferred NK Cells. In: Methods Mol Biol. Somanchi SS, ed. Springer Science + Business Media: New York, NY, 317-32, 2016.
Grant & Contract Support
| Title: | Multi-Site Development & Evaluation of a Quantitative 3D Hyperpolarized C-13 MRI Clinical Prostate Cancer Exam |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Principal Investigator |
| Title: | Using Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) to Establish Objective Clinical Outcome Measures for Mandibular Osteoradionecrosis |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NIDCR |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Imaging hepatic gluconeogenesis with hyperpolarized dihydroxyacetone |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NIDDK |
| Role: | Subcontract PI |
| Title: | Pilot Study of Metabolic Guidance for Radiation Therapy in Patients with Head & Neck Cancer |
| Funding Source: | UTMDACC - CABI |
| Role: | MPI |
| Title: | Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG): Small Animal Imaging Facility |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-Director |