Nghi Nguyen, MD
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Division of Diagnostic Imaging
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2000 | University of Tübingen, DE, Medical Faculty, MD, PhD |
Postgraduate Training
| 2006-2008 | Positron-Emission-Tomography (PET), Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| 2004-2006 | Nuclear Medicine Resident, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO |
| 2001-2004 | Nuclear Medicine Resident, University of Tübingen |
| 2000-2001 | Intern, Medical Clinic, University of Tübingen |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Associate Program Director, Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern), Dallas, Texas, 2022 - 2024
Nuclear Medicine Ambassador, Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern), Dallas, Texas, 2022 - 2024
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern), Dallas, Texas, 2021 - 2024
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 2019 - 2021
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 2014 - 2019
Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, Case Western Reserve School of University, Cleveland, OH, 2013 - 2014
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, 2008 - 2013
Other Appointments/Responsibilities
Director of Pediatric Nuclear Medicine & PET, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018 - 2021
Civilian Service (Alternative Military Service) - Intership/Residency, University of Tübingen, 2000 - 2002
Honors & Awards
| 2024 - Present | PACT card recipient, UT Southwestern |
| 2023 - Present | Best Poster. 67th Annual Meeting, Southwestern Chapter, SNMMI |
| 2020 - Present | 2020 SNMMI Highlights Lecture, 2020 SNMMI Highlights |
| 2016 - Present | Marquis Who’s Who Recognition for Excellence |
| 2012 - Present | Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in America |
| 2007 - Present | First Annual Resident Research Poster Competition |
| 2005 - Present | Horizons Near and Far, Molecular Focus, Global Involvement |
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Girod BJ, Nguyen NC. Prostatic Utricle Cysts as a Potential Pitfall in PSMA PET/CT Interpretation. Clin Nucl Med 49(9):e470-e472, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38914051.
- Anigati EM, Nguyen NC. Incidental Finding of Spindle Cell Sarcoma on 68 Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT. Clin Nucl Med 49(8):e423-e424, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38620001.
- Sweet C, Shmuel N, Shoaf JN, Stoecklein M, Muthukrishnan A, Stern E, Nguyen NC. A Pictorial Review of I-123 MIBG Imaging of Neuroblastoma Utilizing a State-of-the-Art CZT SPECT/CT System. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 58(1):1-8, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38250182.
- Qi J, Nguyen NC. Potential Pitfall of Fluciclovine PET/CT in Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer With Adrenal Metastasis. Clin Nucl Med 47(12):1061-1062, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36026595.
- Vasireddi A, Nguyen NC. Sincalide-Stimulated Cholescintigraphy: A Retrospective Study and Proposal of a Modified Workflow. Clin Nucl Med 47(1):1-6, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34874343.
- Nguyen NC, Beriwal S, Moon CH, Furlan A, Mountz JM, Rangaswamy B. (18)F-FDG PET/MRI Primary Staging of Cervical Cancer: A Pilot Study with PET/CT Comparison. J Nucl Med Technol 48(4):331-335, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32709671.
- Nguyen NC, Moon CH, Mettenburg JM. Incidental Diagnosis of an Arachnoid Granulation on Ga-68 DOTATATE PET/MRI. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 54(5):264-266, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33088358.
- Nguyen NC, Moon CH, Beriwal S. 18F-Fluciclovine PET/MRI in a Patient With Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Uterine Cervix Correlated With 18F-FDG PET/CT. Clin Nucl Med 45(10):802-804, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32558719.
- Nguyen NC, Moon CH, Muthukrishnan A, Furlan A. 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/MRI for Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Pictorial Review. Clin Nucl Med 45(9):e406-e410, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32520493.
- Nguyen NC, Molnar TT, Cummin LG, Kanal E. Dentate Nucleus Signal Intensity Increases Following Repeated Gadobenate Dimeglumine Administrations: A Retrospective Analysis. Radiology 296(1):122-130, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32343210.
- Nguyen NC, Muthukrishnan A, Mountz JM. Differential 18F-FDG and 18F-Fluciclovine Uptake Pattern in a Patient With Poorly Differentiated Adenocarcinoma of the Lung and Prostate Cancer Biochemical Recurrence. Clin Nucl Med 45(1):e63-e64, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31652158.
- Nguyen NC, Vercher-Conejero J, Faulhaber P. Tumor volume delineation: A pilot study comparing a digital positron-emission tomography prototype with an analog positron-emission tomography system. World J Nucl Med 18(1):45-51, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30774546.
- Nguyen NC, Vejdani K. Multipurpose computed tomography window for fusion display with functional imaging. World J Nucl Med 17(3):145-150, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30034277.
- Nguyen NC, Yee MK, Tuchayi AM, Kirkwood JM, Tawbi H, Mountz JM. Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy Response Assessment with F-18 Fluorothymidine Positron-Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Melanoma Brain Metastasis: A Pilot Study. Front Oncol 8:18, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29520339.
- Nguyen NC, Osman MM. Normalized Subtraction of Serial Brain Magnetic Resonance Images and Fludeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography Images for Tumor Treatment Monitoring: Case Report and Method Description. J Clin Imaging Sci 8:25, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30034929.
- Nguyen N, Khan M, Shah M. Primary B-cell lymphoma of the pelvic bone in a young patient: Imaging features of a rare case. Cancer Research Frontiers 3(1):51-55, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Nguyen NC, Abhishek K, Nyon S, Farghaly HR, Osman MM, Reimers HJ. Are there radiographic, metabolic, and prognostic differences between cavitary and noncavitary nonsmall cell lung carcinoma? A retrospective fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography study. Ann Thorac Med 11(1):49-54, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26933457.
- Nguyen NC, Vercher-Conejero JL, Sattar A, Miller MA, Maniawski PJ, Jordan DW, Muzic RF Jr, Su KH, O'Donnell JK, Faulhaber PF. Image Quality and Diagnostic Performance of a Digital PET Prototype in Patients with Oncologic Diseases: Initial Experience and Comparison with Analog PET. J Nucl Med 56(9):1378-85, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26159588.
- Paspulati RM, Partovi S, Herrmann KA, Krishnamurthi S, Delaney CP, Nguyen NC. Comparison of hybrid FDG PET/MRI compared with PET/CT in colorectal cancer staging and restaging: a pilot study. Abdom Imaging 40(6):1415-25, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26112492.
- Vejdani K, Geller T, Nguyen N. Cerebral FDG metabolic pattern in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1: A retrospective study. Society of Nuclear Medicine:154, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Allam T, Muzaffar R, Nguyen NC, Osman MM. Peritoneal Mouse as Detected on (18)F-FDG PET-CT. Front Oncol 3:83, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23596568.
- Mansouri AM, Vejdani K, Bastani B, Nguyen NC. Calculation of renal differential function following renal transplant: retrospective validation of a simplified method. Clin Nucl Med 37(10):931-8, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22955066.
- Aygen M, Amirmokri P, Berk F, Nguyen N, Bastani B, Civelek AC. A preliminary report on (99m)Tc-fanolesomab imaging of renal allograft. Nucl Med Commun 32(10):925-8, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21862945.
- Muzaffar R, Kudva G, Nguyen NC, Osman MM. Incidental diagnosis of thrombus within an aneurysm on 18F-FDG PET/CT: frequency in 926 patients. J Nucl Med 52(9):1408-11, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21816969.
- Nguyen NC, Kaushik A, Wolverson MK, Osman MM. Is there a common SUV threshold in oncological FDG PET/CT, at least for some common indications? A retrospective study. Acta Oncol 50(5):670-7, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21247262.
- Osman MM, Altinyay ME, Abdelmalik AG, Brickman TM, Varvares MA, Nguyen NC. FDG PET/CT incidental diagnosis of a synchronous bladder cancer as a fourth malignancy in a patient with head and neck cancer. Clin Nucl Med 36(6):496-7, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21552038.
- Osman MM, Chaar BT, Muzaffar R, Oliver D, Reimers HJ, Walz B, Nguyen NC. 18F-FDG PET/CT of patients with cancer: comparison of whole-body and limited whole-body technique. AJR Am J Roentgenol 195(6):1397-403, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 21098201.
- Abdelmalik AG, Fajnwaks P, Osman MM, Nguyen NC. Squamous cell carcinoma of the bulbar conjunctiva seen on F-18 FDG PET/CT. Clin Nucl Med 35(12):962-4, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 21206233.
- Huston SF, Abdelmalik AG, Nguyen NC, Farghaly HR, Osman MM. Whole-body 18F-FDG PET/CT: the need for a standardized field of view--a referring-physician aid. J Nucl Med Technol 38(3):123-7, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20724533.
- Moinuddin A, Nguyen NC, Osman MM. Careful evaluation of CT findings of a cardiac viability F-18 FDG PET/CT study leading to detection of esophageal cancer. Clin Nucl Med 35(5):335-7, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20395707.
- Sayed MH, Farghaly HR, Nguyen N, Mostafa MS, Mekkawy MA, Osman MM. Extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma in prostate: Detection with 18F-FDG PET/CT. Clin Nucl Med, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20026974.
- Nguyen N, Hueser C, Kaushik A, Farghaly HR, Osman MM. F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and/or computed tomography findings of an unusual breast lymphoma case and concurrent cervical cancer: a case report, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- Nguyen N, Tran I, Hueser CN, Oliver D, Farghaly HR, Osman M. F-18 FDG PET/CT characterization of talc pleurodesis-induced pleural changes over time: A retrospective study. Clin Nucl Med, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 20139823.
- Nguyen N, Akduman E, Sayed M, Oliver D, Osman M. Increased F-18 FDG uptake in the posterior ocular bulb is associated with brain metastasis: A retrospective study. AJR Am J Roentgenol, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 19020214.
- Hueser C, Nguyen N, Osman M, Havlioglu N, Patel AJ. Extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans. World J Surg Oncol, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18817561.
- Nguyen N, Sayed MM, Taalab K, Osman MM. Spinal cord metastases from lung cancer: Detection with F-18 FDG PET/CT. Clin Nucl Med, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18431157.
- Nguyen N, Chaar BT, Osman M. Prevalence and patterns of soft tissue metastasis: detection with true whole-body F-18 FDG PET/CT. BMC Med Imaging, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 18076764.
- Fenchel M, Helber U, Simonetti O, Stauder N, Kramer U, Nguyen N, Finn JP, Claussen C, Miller S. Multislice first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging: Comparison of saturation recovery (SR)-TrueFISP-two-dimensional (2D) and SR-TurboFLASH-2D pulse sequences. J Magn Reson Imaging, 2004. e-Pub 2004. PMID: 15112304.
Abstracts
- Farghaly HR, Muzaffar R, Bohle RJ, Nguyen N, Osman MM. Patterns and prevalence of misregistration in F-18 FDG PET/CT. Egyptian J. Nucl Med 2(2):55, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
Book Chapters
- Nguyen N, Shah M, Appleman L, Parikh R, Mountz JM. Radium-223 therapy for patients with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer: An update on literature with case presentation. Int J. Mol Imaging.
- Nguyen N, Chekuri S, Öz OK.. Nuclear Medicine Imaging and Therapy of Thyroid Nodules and Cancer. In: Thyroid Radiofrequency Ablation. Springer.
- Nguyen N, Montagnese J, Rogers LR, Sher A, Wolansky L. Positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) in the evaluation of brain tumors: Current status and future prospects. In: Seminars in Roentgenology. Elsevier.
- Osman MM, Wall A, Miller MD, Nguyen N, Oliver DA, Bucholz RD, Walz BJ. 18 FDG-PET/CT for Treatment Planning and Follow-Up. In: Treatment Tumors That Move with Respiration. Springer, 55-61.
- Nguyen N, Beriwal S, Moon CH, D'Ardenne N, Mountz JM, Furlan A, Muthukrishnan A, Rangaswamy B. Diagnostic value of FDG PET/MRI in females with pelvic malignancy – a systematic review of the literature.
- Osman MM, Varvares MA, Nguyen N. Pictorial essay: Nonmalignant FDG uptake in the head and neck regions. In: PET Clinics. 4. Elsevier, 445 - 468.
- Nguyen N, Akduman I, Osman MM. F-18 FDG PET and PET/CT imaging of cancer patients. In: Journal Of Radiology Nursing. Elsevier, 61 - 69.
- Nguyen N, Vasireddi A. PET/CT Limitations and Pitfalls in Urogenital Cancers. Elsevier.
Letters to the Editor
- Fesler MJ, Nguyen NC, Petruska PJ. Modified escalated BEACOPP as salvage chemotherapy in classic Hodgkin lymphoma. Int J Hematol 92: 211-3, 2010.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified June 10, 2025