Vikas Kundra, M.D., Ph.D.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Valenzuela RF, Madewell JE, Kundra V, Costelloe CM. Advanced Imaging in Musculoskeletal Oncology: Moving Away From RECIST and Embracing Advanced Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor Imaging (ABASTI)—Part II—Novel Functional Imaging Techniques. Science Direct 42(2):215-227, 2021. PMID: 33814107.
2. Valenzuela RF, Kundra V, Madewell JE, Costelloe CM. Advanced Imaging in Musculoskeletal Oncology: Moving Away From RECIST and Embracing Advanced Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor Imaging (ABASTI) - Part I - Tumor Response Criteria and Established Functional Imaging Techniques. Science Direct 42(2):201-214, 2021. PMID: 33814106.
3. Venkatesan AM, Mudairu-Dawodu E, Duran C, Stafford RJ, Yan Y, Wei W, Kundra V. Detecting recurrent prostate cancer using multiparametric MRI, influence of PSA and gleason grade. Cancer Imaging 21(1):3, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33407861.
4. Shaik S, Maegawa S, Haltom AR, Wang F, Xiao X, Dobson T, Sharma A, Yang Y, Swaminathan J, Kundra V, Li XN, Schadler K, Harmanci A, Xu L, Gopalakrishnan V. REST promotes ETS1-dependent vascular growth in medulloblastoma. Mol Oncol 15(5):1486-1506, 2021. PMID: 33469989.
5. 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.
6. Bhargava P, Ravizzini G, Chapin BF, Kundra V. Imaging Biochemical Recurrence Post Prostatectomy: Where are we headed?. AJR Am J Roentgenol 214(6):1248-1258, 2020. PMID: 32130049.
7. 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.
8. Ravoori MK, Margalit O, Singh S, Kim SH, Wei W, Menter DG, DuBois RN, Kundra V. Magnetic resonance imaging and bioluminescence imaging for evaluating tumor burden in orthotopic colon cancer. Sci Rep 9(1):6100, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30988343.
9. Xiong C, Yin D, Li J, Huang Q, Ravoori MK, Kundra V, Zhu H, Yang Z, Lu Y, Li C. Metformin Reduces Renal Uptake of Radiotracers and Protects Kidneys from Radiation-Induced Damage. Mol Pharm 16(2):808-815, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30608713.
10. 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.
11. Ohanian M, Pemmaraju N, Rozovski U, Alattar ML, Estrov Z, Kundra V, Tung C, Ravandi F, Manning J, Abruzzo LV. Ocular extramedullary myeloid leukemia. Br J Haematol 180(5):738-740, 2018. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27879987.
12. 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. Highlighted in RSNA News http://www.rsna.org/news.aspx?id=22766. Radiology 285(3):161772, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28707963.
13. Gupta S, Kang HC, Ganeshan D, Morani A, Gautam R, Choyke PL, Kundra V. The ABCs of BHD: An In-Depth Review of Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome. AJR Am J Roentgenol 209(6):1-6, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28981362.
14. Ganeshan D, Aparicio AM, Morani A, Kundra V. Pattern and Distribution of Distant Metastases in Anaplastic Prostate Carcinoma: A Single-Institute Experience With 101 Patients. AJR Am J Roentgenol 209(2):327-332, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28590819.
15. Lee CH, Tan CH, Faria SC, Kundra V. Role of Imaging in the Local Staging of Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder. AJR Am J Roentgenol 208(6):1193-1205, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28225635.
16. Guerrero Y, Singh SP, Mai T, Murali RK, Tanikella L, Zahedi A, Kundra V, Anvari B. Optical Characteristics and Tumor Imaging Capabilities of Near Infrared Dyes in Free and Nano-Encapsulated Formulations Comprised of Viral Capsids. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 9(23):19601-19611, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28524652.
17. Bhosale P, Ramalingam P, Ma J, Iyer R, Soliman P, Frumovitz M, Kundra V. Can reduced field-of-view diffusion sequence help assess microsatellite in FIGO stage 1 endometrial cancer?. J Magn Reson Imaging 45(4):1216-1224, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27532860.
18. Chen X, Zhu Q, Li B, Cui W, Zhou H, Duan N, Liu Y, Kundra V, Wang Z. Renal cell carcinoma associated with Xp11.2 translocation/TFE gene fusion: imaging finding in 21 patients. Eur Radiol 27(2):543-552, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27255396.
19. Guimarães MD, Noschang J, Teixeira SR, Santos MK, Lederman HM, Tostes V, Kundra V, Oliveira AD, Hochhegger B, Marchiori E. Whole-body MRI in pediatric patients with cancer. Cancer Imaging 17(1):6, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28187778.
20. Singh SP, Ravoori MK, Dixon KA, Han L, Gupta S, Uthamanthil R, Wright KC, Kundra V. Angiotensin II increases gene expression after selective intra-arterial adenovirus delivery in a rabbit model assessed using In vivo SSTR2-based reporter imaging. EJNMMI Res 6(1):25, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26983635.
21. 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.
22. Page L, Wei W, Kundra V, Rong XJ. Dose reduction in CT urography and vasculature phantom studies using model-based iterative reconstruction. J Appl Clin Med Phys 17(6):334-342, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27929506.
23. Dodge CT, Tamm EP, Cody DD, Liu X, Jensen CT, Wei W, Kundra V. Performance evaluation of iterative reconstruction algorithms for achieving CT radiation dose reduction – a phantom study. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 17(2):5709, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27074454.
24. Bhosale P, Ma J, Iyer R, Ramalingam P, Wei W, Soliman P, Frumovitz M, Kundra V. Feasibility of a reduced field-of-view diffusion-weighted (rFOV) sequence in assessment of myometrial invasion in patients with clinical FIGO stage I endometrial cancer. J Magn Reson Imaging 43(2):316-24, 2016. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26185031.
25. Pan Y, Jiang Y, Tan L, Ravoori MK, Gagea M, Kundra V, Fischer SM, Yang P. Deletion of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibits K-ras-induced lung carcinogenesis. Oncotarget 6(36):38816-26, 2015. PMID: 26452035.
26. Gupta S, Kang HC, Ganeshan DM, Bathala TK, Kundra V.. Diagnostic approach to hereditary renal cell carcinoma. AJR Am J Roentgenol 204(5):1031-41, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25905938.
27. Pan Y, Rhea P, Tan L, Cartwright C, Lee HJ, Ravoori MK, Addington C, Gagea M, Kundra V, Kim SJ, Newman RA, Yang P. PBI-05204, a supercritical CO2 extract of Nerium oleander, inhibits growth of human pancreatic cancer via targeting the PI3K/mTOR pathway. Invest New Drugs 33(2):271-9, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25476893.
28. Tan CH, Paul Hobbs B, Wei W, Kundra V. Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI for the detection of prostate cancer: meta-analysis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 204(4):W439-48, 2015. PMID: 25794093.
29. Bahmani B, Guerrero Y, Bacon D, Kundra V, Vullev VI, Anvari B. Functionalized polymeric nanoparticles loaded with indocyanine green as theranostic materials for targeted molecular near infrared fluorescence imaging and photothermal destruction of ovarian cancer cells. Lasers Surg Med 46(7):582-92, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24961210.
30. Wan X, Corn PG, Yang J, Palanisamy N, Starbuck MW, Efstathiou E, Tapia EM, Zurita AJ, Aparicio A, Ravoori MK, Vazquez ES, Robinson DR, Wu YM, Cao X, Iyer MK, McKeehan W, Kundra V, Wang F, Troncoso P, Chinnaiyan AM, Logothetis CJ, Navone NM. Prostate cancer cell-stromal cell crosstalk via FGFR1 mediates antitumor activity of dovitinib in bone metastases. Sci Transl Med 6(252):252ra122, 2014. PMID: 25186177.
31. Guimaraes M, Bitencourt A, Marchiori E, Chojniak R, Gross JL, Kundra V. Imaging acute complications in cancer patients: what should be evaluated in the emergency setting?. Cancer Imaging 14(18), 2014. PMID: 25609051.
32. Ganeshan D, Szklaruk J, Kundra V, Kaseb A, Rashid A, Elsayes KM, Elsayes K. Imaging features of fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma. AJR Am J Roentgenol 202(3):544-552, 2014. PMID: 24555590.
33. Ganeshan D, Morani A, Ladha H, Bathala T, Kang H, Gupta S, Lalwani N, Kundra V. Staging, surveillance, and evaluation of response to therapy in renal cell carcinoma: role of MDCT. Abdom Imaging 39(1):66-85, 2014. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24077815.
34. Han L, Ravoori M, Wu G, Sakai R, Yan S, Singh S, Xu K, Roth JA, Ji L, Kundra V. Somatostatin receptor type 2-based reporter expression after plasmid-based in vivo gene delivery to non-small cell lung cancer. Mol Imaging 12(0):1-10, 2013. PMID: 23962694.
35. Ganeshan D, Bhosale P, Yang T, Kundra V. Imaging features of carcinoid tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. AJR Am J Roentgenol 201(4):773-786, 2013. PMID: 24059366.
36. Costelloe CM, Madewell JE, Kundra V, Harrell RK, Bassett RL, Ma J. Conspicuity of bone metastases on fast Dixon-based multisequence whole-body MRI: Clinical utility per sequence. Magn Reson Imaging 31(5):669-675, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23290478.
37. Bhosale P, Shah A, Wei W, Varadhachary G, Johnson V, Shah V, Kundra V. Carcinoid tumours: predicting the location of the primary neoplasm based on the sites of metastases. Eur Radiol 23(2):400-407, 2013. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22932740.
38. Ravoori M, Duggal J, Gagea M, Han L, Singh S, Liu P, Wei W, Ragan DK, Bankson JA, Ma J, Kundra V. Visualizing the prostate gland by MR imaging in young and old mice. PLoS One 8(3):e55746, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23469167.
39. Ravoori MK, Han L, Singh SP, Dixon K, Duggal J, Liu P, Uthamanthil R, Gupta S, Wright KC, Kundra V. Noninvasive assessment of gene transfer and expression by in vivo functional and morphologic imaging in a rabbit tumor model. PLoS One 8(6):e62371, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23762226.
40. Pecot CV, Rupaimoole R, Yang D, Akbani R, Ivan C, Lu C, Wu S, Han HD, Shah MY, Rodriguez-Aguayo C, Bottsford-Miller J, Liu Y, Kim SB, Unruh A, Gonzalez-Villasana V, Huang L, Zand B, Moreno-Smith M, Mangala LS, Taylor M, Dalton HJ, Sehgal V, Wen Y, Kang Y, Baggerly KA, Lee JS, Ram PT, Ravoori MK, Kundra V, Zhang X, Ali-Fehmi R, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Massion PP, Calin GA, Lopez-Berestein G, Zhang W, Sood AK. Tumour angiogenesis regulation by the miR-200 family. Nat Commun 4:2427, 2013. PMID: 24018975.
41. Ravoori MK, Han L, Singh SP, Dixon K, Duggal J, Liu P, Uthamanthil R, Gupta S, Wright KC, Kundra V. Correction: Noninvasive Assessment of Gene Transfer and Expression by In Vivo Functional and Morphologic Imaging in a Rabbit Tumor Model. PLoS One 8(10), 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24124443.
42. Ganeshan D, Bhosale P, Kundra V. Current update on cytogenetics, taxonomy, diagnosis, and management of adrenocortical carcinoma: what radiologists should know. AJR Am J Roentgenol 199(6):1283-1293, 2012. PMID: 23169720.
43. Tan CH, Wei W, Johnson V, Kundra V. Diffusion-weighted MRI in the detection of prostate cancer: meta-analysis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 199(4):822-829, 2012. PMID: 22997374.
44. Fu S, Hennessy BT, Ng CS, Ju Z, Coombes KR, Wolf JK, Sood AK, Levenback CF, Coleman RL, Kavanagh JJ, Gershenson DM, Markman M, Dice K, Howard A, Li J, Li Y, Stemke-Hale K, Dyer M, Atkinson E, Jackson E, Kundra V, Kurzrock R, Bast RC, Mills GB. Perifosine plus docetaxel in patients with platinum and taxane resistant or refractory high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer. Gynecol Oncol 126(1):47-53, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22487539.
45. Ng CS, Waterton JC, Kundra V, Brammer D, Ravoori M, Han L, Wei W, Klumpp S, Johnson VE, Jackson EF. Reproducibility and comparison of DCE-MRI and DCE-CT perfusion parameters in a rat tumor model. Technol Cancer Res Treat 11(3):279-288, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22417064.
46. Roy A, Le O, Silverman PM, Kundra V. Common and uncommon bilateral adult renal masses. Cancer Imaging 12(1):205-211, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22750134.
47. Le O, Roy A, Silverman PM, Kundra V. Common and uncommon adult unilateral renal masses other than renal cell carcinoma. Cancer Imaging 12(1):194-204, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22752221.
48. Wan X, Li ZG, Yingling JM, Yang J, Starbuck MW, Ravoori MK, Kundra V, Vazquez E, Navone NM. Effect of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-ß) receptor I kinase inhibitor on prostate cancer bone growth. Bone 50(3):695-703, 2012. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22173053.
49. Costelloe CM, Kundra V, Ma J, Chasen BA, Rohren EM, Bassett RL, Madewell JE. Fast dixon whole-body MRI for detecting distant cancer metastasis: a preliminary clinical study. J Magn Reson Imaging 35(2):399-408, 2012. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21990095.
50. Cheong JH, Park ES, Liang J, Dennison JB, Tsavachidou D, Nguyen-Charles C, Wa Cheng K, Hall H, Zhang D, Lu Y, Ravoori M, Kundra V, Ajani J, Lee JS, Ki Hong W, Mills GB. Dual inhibition of tumor energy pathway by 2-deoxy glucose and metformin is effective against a broad spectrum of preclinical cancer models. Mol Cancer Ther 10(12):2350-2362, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21992792.
51. Coleman RL, Duska LR, Ramirez PT, Heymach JV, Kamat AA, Modesitt SC, Schmeler KM, Iyer RB, Garcia ME, Miller DL, Jackson EF, Ng CS, Kundra V, Jaffe R, Sood AK. Phase 1-2 study of docetaxel plus aflibercept in patients with recurrent ovarian, primary peritoneal, or fallopian tube cancer. Lancet Oncol 12(12):1109-1117, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21992853.
52. Tamm EP, Rong XJ, Cody DD, Ernst RD, Fitzgerald NE, Kundra V. Quality initiatives: CT radiation dose reduction: how to implement change without sacrificing diagnostic quality. Radiographics 31(7):1823-32, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21969662.
53. Gupta S, Wright KC, Ensor J, Van Pelt CS, Dixon KA, Kundra V. Hepatic arterial embolization with doxorubicin-loaded superabsorbent polymer microspheres in a rabbit liver tumor model. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 34(5):1021-1030, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21479746.
54. Wright KC, Ravoori MK, Dixon KA, Han L, Singh SP, Liu P, Gupta S, Johnson VE, Kan Z, Kundra V. Perfusion CT assessment of tissue hemodynamics following hepatic arterial infusion of increasing doses of angiotensin II in a rabbit liver tumor model. Radiology 260(3):718-726, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21633050.
55. Tan CH, Wang J, Kundra V. Diffusion weighted imaging in prostate cancer. Eur Radiol 21(3):593-603, 2011. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20936413.
56. Singh SP, Han L, Murali R, Solis L, Roth J, Ji L, Wistuba I, Kundra V. SSTR2-based reporters for assessing gene transfer into non-small cell lung cancer: evaluation using an intrathoracic mouse model. Hum Gene Ther 22(1):55-64, 2011. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20653396.
57. Bhosale P, Kwek JW, Iyer R, Wei W, Bassett R, Kundra V. Follow-up of known carcinoid liver metastases: Is respiratory-gated T2 fast spin-echo enough?. Neuroendocrinology 93(4):241-248, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21474918.
58. Perin EC, Tian M, Marini FC, Silva GV, Zheng Y, Baimbridge F, Quan X, Fernandes MR, Gahremanpour A, Young D, Paolillo V, Mukhopadhyay U, Borne AT, Uthamanthil R, Brammer D, Jackson J, Decker WK, Najjar AM, Thomas MW, Volgin A, Rabinovich B, Soghomonyan S, Jeong HJ, Rios JM, Steiner D, Robinson S, Mawlawi O, Pan T, Stafford J, Kundra V, Li C, Alauddin MM, Willerson JT, Shpall E, Gelovani JG. Imaging long-term fate of intramyocardially implanted mesenchymal stem cells in a porcine myocardial infarction model. PLoS One 6(9):e22949, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21912635.
59. Harris DM, Hazan-Haley I, Coombes K, Bueso-Ramos C, Liu J, Liu Z, Li P, Ravoori M, Abruzzo L, Han L, Singh S, Sun M, Kundra V, Kurzrock R, Estrov Z. Transformation of human mesenchymal cells and skin fibroblasts into hematopoietic cells. PLoS One 6(6):e21250, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21731684.
60. Kundra V. Digitizer in chief. Interview by Michael Moyer. Sci Am 303(4):90-92, 94, 2010. PMID: 20923136.
61. Lu C, Han HD, Mangala LS, Ali-Fehmi R, Newton CS, Ozbun L, Armaiz-Pena GN, Hu W, Stone RL, Munkarah A, Ravoori MK, Shahzad MM, Lee JW, Mora E, Langley RR, Carroll AR, Matsuo K, Spannuth WA, Schmandt R, Jennings NB, Goodman BW, Jaffe RB, Nick AM, Kim HS, Guven EO, Chen YH, Li LY, Hsu MC, Coleman RL, Calin GA, Denkbas EB, Lim JY, Lee JS, Kundra V, Birrer MJ, Hung MC, Lopez-Berestein G, Sood AK. Regulation of tumor angiogenesis by EZH2. Cancer Cell 18(2):185-197, 2010. PMID: 20708159.
62. Le-Petross H, Kundra V, Szklaruk J, Wei W, Hortobagyi GN, Ma J. Fast three-dimensional dual echo dixon technique improves fat suppression in breast MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 31(4):889-894, 2010. PMID: 20373433.
63. Ravoori M, Czaplinska AJ, Sikes C, Han L, Johnson EM, Qiao W, Ng C, Cody DD, Murphy WA, Do KA, Navone NM, Kundra V. Quantification of mineralized bone response to prostate cancer by noninvasive in vivo microCT and non-destructive ex vivo microCT and DXA in a mouse model. PLoS One 5(3):e9854, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20360964.
64. Singh SP, Yang D, Ravoori M, Han L, Kundra V. In vivo functional and anatomic imaging for assessment of in vivo gene transfer. Radiology 252(3):763-771, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19587310.
65. Ma J, Costelloe CM, Madewell JE, Hortobagyi GN, Green MC, Cao G, Sun F, Kundra V. Fast Dixon-based multi-sequence and multi-planar MRI for whole body detection of cancer metastases. J Magn Reson Imaging 29(5):1154-1162, 2009. PMID: 19388121.
66. Rampurwala M, Ravoori MK, Wei W, Johnson VE, Vikram R, Kundra V. Visualization and quantification of intraperitoneal tumors by in vivo computed tomography using negative contrast enhancement strategy in a mouse model of ovarian cancer. Transl Oncol 2(2):96-106, 2009. PMID: 19412425.
67. Gnjatic S, Altorki NK, Tang DN, Tu SM, Kundra V, Ritter G, Old LJ, Logothetis CJ, Sharma P. NY-ESO-1 DNA vaccine induces T-cell responses that are suppressed by regulatory T cells. Clin Cancer Res 15(6):2130-2139, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19276258.
68. Ghaghada KB, Ravoori M, Sabapathy D, Bankson J, Kundra V, Annapragada A. New dual mode gadolinium nanoparticle contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging. PLoS One 4(10):e7628, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19893616.
69. Li ZG, Mathew P, Yang J, Starbuck MW, Zurita AJ, Liu J, Sikes C, Multani AS, Efstathiou E, Lopez A, Wang J, Fanning TV, Prieto VG, Kundra V, Vazquez ES, Troncoso P, Raymond AK, Logothetis CJ, Lin SH, Maity S, Navone NM. Androgen receptor-negative human prostate cancer cells induce osteogenesis in mice through FGF9-mediated mechanisms. J Clin Invest 118(8):2697-2710, 2008. PMID: 18618013.
70. Garlich JR, De P, Dey N, Su JD, Peng X, Miller A, Murali R, Lu Y, Mills GB, Kundra V, Shu HK, Peng Q, Durden DL. A vascular targeted pan phosphoinositide 3-kinase inhibitor prodrug, SF1126, with antitumor and antiangiogenic activity (Kundra lab images on the journal cover page). Cancer Res 68(1):206-215, 2008. PMID: 18172313.
71. Bankson JA, Ji L, Ravoori M, Han L, Kundra V. Echo-planar imaging for MRI evaluation of intrathoracic tumors in murine models of lung cancer. J Magn Reson Imaging 27(1):57-62, 2008. PMID: 18058933.
72. Hennessy BT, Lu Y, Poradosu E, Yu Q, Yu S, Hall H, Carey MS, Ravoori M, Gonzalez-Angulo AM, Birch R, Henderson IC, Kundra V, Mills GB. Pharmacodynamic markers of perifosine efficacy. Clin Cancer Res 13(24):7421-7431, 2007. PMID: 18094426.
73. Han L, Yang D, Kundra V. Signaling can be uncoupled from imaging of the somatostatin receptor type 2. Mol Imaging 6(6):427-437, 2007. PMID: 18053413.
74. Kundra V, Silverman PM, Matin SF, Choi H. Imaging in oncology from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center: diagnosis, staging, and surveillance of prostate cancer. AJR Am J Roentgenol 189(4):830-844, 2007. PMID: 17885053.
75. Kim TJ, Ravoori M, Landen CN, Kamat AA, Han LY, Lu C, Lin YG, Merritt WM, Jennings N, Spannuth WA, Langley R, Gershenson DM, Coleman RL, Kundra V, Sood AK. Antitumor and antivascular effects of AVE8062 in ovarian carcinoma. Cancer Res 67(19):9337-9345, 2007. PMID: 17909042.
76. Ramirez MS, Ragan DK, Kundra V, Bankson JA. Feasibility of multiple-mouse dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI. Magn Reson Med 58(3):610-615, 2007. PMID: 17763350.
77. Auzenne E, Ghosh SC, Khodadadian M, Rivera B, Farquhar D, Price RE, Ravoori M, Kundra V, Freedman RS, Klostergaard J. Hyaluronic acid-paclitaxel: antitumor efficacy against CD44(+) human ovarian carcinoma xenografts. Neoplasia 9(6):479-486, 2007. PMID: 17603630.
78. Kundra V, Ng CS, Ma J, Bankson JA, Price RE, Cody DD, Do KA, Han L, Navone NM. In vivo imaging of prostate cancer involving bone in a mouse model. Prostate 67(1):50-60, 2007. PMID: 17031813.
79. Ueda K, Kawashima H, Ohtani S, Deng WG, Ravoori M, Bankson J, Gao B, Girard L, Minna JD, Roth JA, Kundra V, Ji L. The 3p21.3 tumor suppressor NPRL2 plays an important role in cisplatin-induced resistance in human non-small-cell lung cancer cells (Kundra lab images on the journal cover page). Cancer Res 66(19):9682-9690, 2006. PMID: 17018626.
80. Thaker PH, Han LY, Kamat AA, Arevalo JM, Takahashi R, Lu C, Jennings NB, Armaiz-Pena G, Bankson JA, Ravoori M, Merritt WM, Lin YG, Mangala LS, Kim TJ, Coleman RL, Landen CN, Li Y, Felix E, Sanguino AM, Newman RA, Lloyd M, Gershenson DM, Kundra V, Lopez-Berestein G, Lutgendorf SK, Cole SW, Sood AK. Chronic stress promotes tumor growth and angiogenesis in a mouse model of ovarian carcinoma. Nat Med 12(8):939-944, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 16862152.
81. Visentin B, Vekich JA, Sibbald BJ, Cavalli AL, Moreno KM, Matteo RG, Garland WA, Lu Y, Yu S, Hall HS, Kundra V, Mills GB, Sabbadini RA. Validation of an anti-sphingosine-1-phosphate antibody as a potential therapeutic in reducing growth, invasion, and angiogenesis in multiple tumor lineages. Cancer Cell 9(3):225-238, 2006. PMID: 16530706.
82. Sood A, Lu C, Jennings N, Armaiz-Pena G, Bankson J, Ravoori M, Merritt W, Lin Y, Mangala S, Tae JK, Coleman R, Landen C, Li Y, Felix E, Newman R, Lloyd M, Gershenson D, Kundra V, Lopez-Bernstein G, Cole S, Arevalo J, Takahashi R, Lutgendorf S. Stress and the spread of ovarian cancer in mice. Cancer Biol Ther 5(8):893-896, 2006.
83. Yang D, Han L, Kundra V. Exogenous gene expression in tumors: noninvasive quantification with functional and anatomic imaging in a mouse model. Radiology 235(3):950-958, 2005. PMID: 15914480.
84. Kundra V, Krane JF, Nikolaidis P, Green DS, Zou KH, Tuncali K, Vansonnenberg E, Silverman SG. Telomerase activity predicts malignancy in percutaneous image-guided needle biopsy specimens of the abdomen and pelvis. Radiology 234(3):941-947, 2005. PMID: 15734943.
85. Kundra V, Silverman PM. Impact of multislice CT on imaging of acute abdominal disease. Radiol Clin North Am 41(6):1083-1093, 2003. PMID: 14661659.
86. Kundra V, Silverman PM. Imaging in the diagnosis, staging, and follow-up of cancer of the urinary bladder. AJR Am J Roentgenol 180(4):1045-1054, 2003. PMID: 12646453.
87. Kundra V, Mannting F, Jones AG, Kassis AI. Noninvasive monitoring of somatostatin receptor type 2 chimeric gene transfer. J Nucl Med 43(3):406-412, 2002. PMID: 11884502.
88. Blatch GL, Lässle M, Zetter BR, Kundra V. Isolation of a mouse cDNA encoding mSTI1, a stress-inducible protein containing the TPR motif. Gene 194(2):277-282, 1997. PMID: 9272871.
89. Lässle M, Blatch GL, Kundra V, Takatori T, Zetter BR. Stress-inducible, murine protein mSTI1. Characterization of binding domains for heat shock proteins and in vitro phosphorylation by different kinases. J Biol Chem 272(3):1876-1884, 1997. PMID: 8999875.
90. Kundra V, Anand-Apte B, Feig LA, Zetter BR. The chemotactic response to PDGF-BB: evidence of a role for Ras. J Cell Biol 130(3):725-731, 1995. PMID: 7622571.
91. Kundra V, Soker S, Zetter BR. Excess early signaling activity inhibits cellular chemotaxis toward PDGF-BB. Oncogene 9(5):1429-1435, 1994. PMID: 8152804.
92. Kundra V, Escobedo JA, Kazlauskas A, Kim HK, Rhee SG, Williams LT, Zetter BR. Regulation of chemotaxis by the platelet-derived growth factor receptor-beta. Nature 367(6462):474-476, 1994. PMID: 8107807.
93. Kundra V, Zetter BR. Molecular mechanisms of metastasis. Intern and Staff Physician, 1994.
94. Yenush L, Kundra V, White MF, Zetter BR. Functional domains of the insulin receptor responsible for chemotactic signaling. J Biol Chem 269(1):100-104, 1994. PMID: 8276780.
95. Kundra V, Dean MF. Transformed SV3T3 cells have a reduced lysosomal compartment and lower levels of enzyme activity than 3T3 cells. Exp Cell Res 189(1):93-99, 1990. PMID: 1693341.
96. Ravoori MK, Nishimura M, Singh S, Lu C, Hobbs B, Pradeep S, Choi HJ, Bankson J, 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. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26098849.
97. Guerrero YA, Bahmani B, Singh SP, Vullev VI, Kundra V, Anvari B. Virus-resembling nano-structures for near infrared fluorescence imaging of ovarian cancer HER2 receptors. Nanotechnology 26(43):435102. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26443474.
98. Gupta S, Kang HC, Faria SC, Choyke PL, Kundra V. Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC): Renal and Extrarenal Imaging. Acad Radiol. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33487538.
99. Hennessy M, Wahba A, Felix K, Cabrera M, Segura MG, Kundra V, Ravoori MK, Stewart J, Kleinerman ES, Jensen VB, Gopalakrishnan V, Pena R, Quach P, Kim G, Kivimäe S, Madakamutil L, Overwijk WW, Zalevsky J, Gordon N. Bempegaldesleukin (BEMPEG; NKTR-214) efficacy as a single agent and in combination with checkpoint-inhibitor therapy in mouse models of osteosarcoma. Int J Cancer 148(8):1928-1937. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33152115.
100. Vankayala R, Bahena E, Guerrero Y, Singh SP, Ravoori MK, Kundra V, Anvari B. Virus-Mimicking Nanoparticles for Targeted Near Infrared Fluorescence Imaging of Intraperitoneal Ovarian Tumors in Mice. Ann Biomed Eng 49(2):548-559. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32761557.
101. Palanisamy N, Yang J, Shepherd PDA, Li-Ning-Tapia EM, Labanca E, Manyam G, Ravoori M, Kundra V, Araujo JC, Efstathiou E, Pisters LL, Wan X, Wang X, Vazquez ES, Aparicio AM, Carskadon S, Tomlins SA, Kunju LP, Chinnaiyan AM, Broom BM, Logothetis C, Troncoso P, Navone NM. The MD Anderson prostate cancer patient-derived xenograft series (MDA PCa PDX) captures the molecular landscape of prostate cancer and facilitates marker-driven therapy development. Clin Cancer Res 26(18):4933-4946. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32576626.

Invited Articles

1. Kundra V. Prostate cancer imaging. Semin Roentgenol 41(2):139-149, 2006. PMID: 16697892.
2. Kundra V. Testicular cancer. Semin Roentgenol 39(3):437-450, 2004. PMID: 15372756.

Editorials

1. Anvari B, Del Pino P, Kundra V, Parak WJ. Biomimetic and bioinspired materials for applications in biophotonics. J Biomed Opt 19(10):101501, 2014. PMID: 25122592.

Abstracts

1. Kundra V. Imaging Biochemical Recurrence Post Prostatectomy. 2019 American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), Honolulu, HI, 2019.
2. Faria S, Elsherif SB, Sagebiel T, Kundra V, Bhosale P. Multimodality Imaging of Common and Uncommon Retroperitoneal Masses. 2019 Society of Abdominal Radiologists Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2019.
3. Faria S, Elsherif SB, Sagebiel T, Cox V, Kundra V, Bhosale P. Post Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant: Imaging of Abdominal and Pelvic Complications. 2019 Society of Abdominal Radiologists Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2019.
4. Qin H, Singh S, Han L, Ravoori M, Kwak L, Kundra V. Human Somatostatin Receptor type-2 (hSSTR2) Mutant Muted in Altering T-Cell Signaling and Function Enables Visualization of T-cell Trafficking. Proceedings of the 104th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, 2018.
5. Morani A, Khalaf A, Gupta S, Elsayes K, Mubarak A, Kundra V. MDCT for Bowel Carcinoids: Positive or Negative Enteric Contrast?. 2018 American Roentgen Ray Society, Washington, DC, 2018.
6. Vu L, Kundra V, Truong N, Le O. The Nebulous Medical Renal Disease Radiology Report: What It All Means. 2018 American Roentgen Ray Society, Washington, DC, 2018.
7. Gupta S, Kang H, Faria S, Choyke P, Kundra V. Tsk-Tsk! Do Not Forget TSC! A Review of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex Renal and Extrarenal Imaging Certificate of Merit. 2018 American Roentgen Ray Society, Washington, DC, 2018.
8. Faria S, Sagebiel T, Devine C, Elsherif SB, Kundra V, Bhosale P. Multimodality Imaging Spectrum of Desmoid-Type Fibromatosis Tumors and Associated Syndromes and Genetics, 2018.
9. Faria S, Cox V, Patnana M, Elsherif SB, Bhosale P, Kundra V. Extraosseosus Multiple Myeloma: Spectrum of Multimodality Imaging Findings and Genomics, 2018.
10. Koneru B, Singh S, Ravoori M, Kundra V. A triple imaging modality reporter for delivered gene and cellular imaging – in vitro analysis. 2018 Cancer Systems Imaging Retreat, Montgomery, TX, 2018.
11. Gupta S, Kundra V. Diagnostic approach to hereditary renal cell carcinoma. 2016 Society of Abdominal Radiologists Annual Meeting, Waikoloa, HI, 2016.
12. Kundra V. Multimodal magnetic resonance and near-infrared-fluorescent imaging of intraperitoneal ovarian cancer using a dual-mode-dual-gadolinium liposomal contrast agent. 2016 International Cancer Study & Therapy Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2016.
13. Ravoori M, Singh S, Lee J, Bankson J, Kundra V. In vivo assessment of ovarian tumor response to tyrosine kinase inhibitor pazopanib using hyperpolarized 13-C–Pyruvate MRS and 18F-FDG/CT imaging in a mouse model. Proceedings of the 101st Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, 2015.
14. Gupta S, Kang HC, Ganeshan DM, Morani AC, Kundra V. The ABCs of BHD: an in-depth review of Birt-Hogg-Dube Syndrome. Proceedings of the 101st Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, 2015.
15. Balachandran A, Bhosale P, Devine C, Morani A, Sagebiel T, Devine C, O Menias c, Kundra V. BRCA Associated Tumors-Not Just Breast and Ovarian Cancer. 100th Asientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, 2014.
16. Singh SP, Han L, Ravoori M, Harris D, Estrov Z, Kundra V. In vivo imaging of long term stem cell trafficking/engraftment is enabled by a human somatostatin receptor type-2 (hSSTR2) mutant that has the desirable features of being muted in altering stem cell signaling and function. J Nucl Med 50(Suppl 2), 2009.
17. Kundra, V. Real time ultrasound – computed tomography fusion technique with volume navigation to assess cystic pancreatic lesions. Society of Abdominal Radioloy.
18. Sanaz J, Faria SC, Anderson MD, Kundra V, Bhosale P. Role of PET/MRI in staging of cervical cancer under the newly updated FIGO staging system. 2019 Proceedings of the 105th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL.

Book Chapters

1. Duarte-Guimaraes M, Kundra, V. Imagem Biomolecular: Presente e Futuro Proximo. In: Duarte Guimaraes and Chojniak R. Elsevier: Rio De Janiero, 2015.
2. Kundra V. Introduction to Molecular Imaging. In: In Drug Delivery Applications of Noninvasive Imaging. Wiley, 2013.
3. Kundra V, Matin SF, Kuban DA. Prostate cancer. In: Oncologic Imaging, A Multidisciplinary Approach. Elsevier Saunders, 2012.
4. Kundra V, Schellingerhout D, Jackson EF. Targeted and functional imaging. In: Targeted Cancer Therapy. Humana Press: Totowa, 335-360, 2008.
5. Kundra V. Clinical potential of gene expression imaging. In: Molecular Imaging in Oncology. Informa Press: New York, 429-442, 2008.
6. Kundra V, Mawlawi O. PET imaging in genomic medicine. In: Genomic and Personalized Medicine. Elsevier: Amsterdam; Boston, 461-469, 2008.
7. Channock SJ, Kundra V, Johnson FL, Singer MD. The other side of the bed: what caregivers can learn from listening to patients and their families. In: Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology. 5th. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: Philadelphia, 1446-1465, 2006.
8. Channock SJ, Kundra V, Johnson FL, Singer MD. The other side of the bed: what caregivers can learn from listening to patients and their families. In: Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology. 4th. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: Philadelphia, 1393-1410, 2002.
9. Channock SJ, Kundra V, Johnson FL, Singer MD. The other side of the bed: what caregivers can learn from listening to patients and their families. In: Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology. 3rd. Lippincott-Raven: Philadelphia, 1157-1169, 1997.
10. Channock SJ, Kundra V, Johnson FL, Singer MD. The other side of the bed: what caregivers can learn from listening to patients and their families. In: Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology. 2nd. J.B. Lippincott: Philadelphia, 1157-1169, 1993.
11. Ibarra Rovira JJ, Siefker-Radtke AO, Kamat A, Kundra V. Urothelial Carcinoma. Oncologic Imaging A Multidisciplinary Approach. In: Silverman PM ed.
12. Kundra V, Chery LJ, Hoffman KA. Prostate Cancer. Oncologic Imaging A Multidisciplinary Approach. In: Prostate Cancer. Silverman PM ed.
13. Ludwinski D, Kundra, V, Goodman N, Knox, L, Gerasimov E. The Other Side of the Bed: What Caregivers Can Learn from Listening to Patients and Their Families. In: Principles and Practice of Pediatric Oncology. 8th.