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Recent publications

1.  Pomper MG, Musachio JL, Zhang J, Zhou Y, Scheffel U, Hilton J, Maini A, Dannals RF, Wong DF, Kozikowski AP.  11C-MCG: Synthesis, uptake selectivity and primate PET of a probe for glutamate carboxypeptidase II (NAALADase.)   Mol Imaging 2002; 1:96-101.

2.  Bettegowda C, Dang LH, Abrams R, Huso DL, Dillehay L, Cheong I, Agrawal N, Borzillary S, McCaffery JM, Watson EL, Lin K-S, Bunz F, Baidoo K, Pomper MG, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B, Zhou S.  Overcoming the hypoxic barrier to radiation therapy with anaerobic bacteria.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2004; 100:15083-8.

3.  Agrawal N, Bettegowda C, Cheong I, Geschwind J-F, Drake CG, Hipkiss EL, Tatsumi M, Dang LH, Diaz L, Pomper M, Abusedera M, Wahl RL, Kinzler KW, Zhou S, Huso DL, Vogelstein B.  Bacteriolytic therapy can generate a potent immune response against experimental tumors.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2004, 101:15171-15177.

4.  Ko YH, Smith BL, Wang Y, Pomper MG, Rini DA, Torbenson MS, Hullihen J, Pederson PL.  Advanced cancers:  eradication in all cases using 3-bromopyruvate therapy to deplete ATP.  Biochem Biophys Res Comm 2004, 324:269-275.

5.  Lin K-S, Luu A, Baidoo KE, Hashemzadeh-Gargari H, Chen M-K, Pili R, Pomper MG, Carducci M, Wagner HN. A new high affinity technetium analogue of bombesin containing DTPA as a pharmacokinetic modifier.  Bioconj Chem 2004, 15:1416-1423.

6.  Bettegowda C, Foss CA, Wang Y, Fox J, Zhou S, Kinzler K, Vogelstein B, Pomper MG.  Imaging bacterial infection in live animals with radiolabeled FIAU. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2005; 102:1145-51150.  [featured on the cover of this issue and in an article in Biophotonics International 2005; 12:48]

7.  Pomper MG, Phillips E, Fan H, McCarthy DJ, Keith RA, Gordon JC, Dannals RF, Musachio JL.  Synthesis and biodistribution of radiolabeled a7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ligands.  J Nucl Med, 2005; 46:326-334.

8.  Lin K-S, Luu A, Baidoo KE, Hashemzadeh-Gargari H, Chen M-K, Pili R, Pomper MG, Carducci M, Wagner HN. A new high affinity technetium-bombesin analogue with low abdominal accumulation.  Bioconj Chem 2005; 16:43-50.

9.  Foss CA, Mease RC, Fan H, Wang Y, Ravert HT, Dannals RF, Olszewski RT, Heston WD, Kozikowski AP, Pomper MG.  Radiolabeled small molecule ligands for prostate-specific membrane antigen:  in vivo imaging in experimental models of prostate cancer.  Clin Cancer Res 2005; 11:4022-4028.  [featured on the cover of this issue]

10.  Guilarte TR, McGlothan JL, Foss CA, Zhou Z, Heston WD, Kozikowski AP, Pomper MG.  Glutamate Carboxypeptidase II Levels in Rodent Brain using [125I]DCIT Quantitative Autoradiography.  Neurosci Lett, 2005; 387:141-144.

11.  Weisenberger AG, Gleason SS, Goddard J, Kross B, Majewski S, Meikle SR, Paulus MJ, Pomper M, Popov V, Smith MF, Welch BL, Wojcik R.  A restraint free small animal SPECT imaging system with motion tracking.  IEEE Trans Nucl Sci 2005; 52:638-644.

12.  Mathews WB, Foss CA, Stoermer D, Ravert HT, Dannals RF, Henke BR, Pomper MG.  Synthesis and biodistribution of [11C]GW7845, a positron-emitting agonist for PPARg.  J Nucl Med, 2005; 46:1719-1726.

13.  Diaz LA, Cheong I, Foss CA, Zhang X, Peters BA, Agrawal N, Bettegowda C, Karim B, Liu G, Khan K, Huang X, Kohli M, Dang LH, Hwang P, Vogelstein A, Garrett-Mayer E, Kobrin B, Pomper M, Zhou S, Kinzler KW, Vogelstein B, Huso D.  Pharmacologic and toxicologic evaluation of C. novyi-NT spores.  Toxicol Sci. 2005; 88:562-75.

14.  Hardwick MJ, Chen M-K, Baidoo K, Pomper MG, Guilarte TR.  In vivo imaging of benzodiazepine receptors in mouse lungs:  a biomarker of inflammation.  Mol Imaging  2005; 4:432-8.

15.  Glunde K, Foss CA, Takagi T, Wildes F, Bhujwalla ZM. Synthesis of 6'-O-lissamine-rhodamine B-glucosamine as a novel probe for fluorescence imaging of lysosomes in breast tumors. Bioconjug Chem.2005;16:843-51.

16.  Kundu BK, Stolin AV, Pole J, Baumgart L, Fontaine M, Wojcik R, Kross B, Zorn C, Majewski S, Williams MB.  Tri-modality small animal imaging system.  IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 2006; 53:66-69.

17.  Wang Y, Seidel J, Tsui BMW, Vaquero JJ, Pomper MG.  Performance evaluation of the GE eXplore VISTA DR small animal PET scanner.  J Nucl Med 2006, in press.

Review articles

1.  Pomper MG.  Can small animal imaging accelerate drug development?  J Cell Biochem Suppl. 2002; 39:211-20.  [overlaps with Current Pharmaceutical Design article, below]

2.  Pomper MG, Lee JS.  Small animal imaging in drug development.  Current Pharmaceutical Design 2005; 3247-2372.  [featured on cover of this issue]

3.  Pomper MG.  Translational Molecular Imaging for Cancer.  Cancer Imaging 2005; 5:S16-S26.

Conference proceedings

1.  Qi YJ, Tsui BMW, Frey E. and Yoder B., Characteristics of compact detectors based on pixellated NaI(Tl) crystal arrays, Conference Record: M10-164, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2002.

2.  Qi YJ, Tsui BMW, Wang Y, Yoder B, Wojcik R, Majewski S, Performance characteristics of a new modular camera based on pixellated crystal for high-resolution pinhole SPECT with comparison to a standard camera with continous crystal, Conference Record: M7-60, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2003.

3.  Wojcik R, Goode AR, Smith M Beller, GA, Ellman P, Glover DK, Majewski S, Qi YJ, Tsui BMW, Wang Y, Weisenberger AG, Dedicated small field of view SPECT camera based on a 5" PSPMT and crystal scintillator array for high resolution small animal cardiac imaging, Conference Record: M3-43, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2003.

4.  Pellegrini R, Pani R, Cinti MN, Trotta C, Iurlaro G, Betti M, Bennati P, Cusanno F, Garibaldi F, Ridolfi S, Mattioli M, Majewski S and Tsui BMW.  Design of Compact Pinhole SPECT System based on Flat Panel PMT.  Conference Record: page 1173, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 2003.

5.  Weisenberger AG, Majewski S, Popov V, Welch BL, Wojcik R, Goddard JS, Gleason SS, Paulus MJ, Pomper M.  Development and Testing of a Restraint Free Small Animal SPECT Imaging System with Infrared Based Motion Tracking.  Conference Record of the 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Portland, 2003.

6.  Weisenberger AG, Kross B, Majewski S, Popov V, Smith MF, Tran VH, Welch B, Wojcik R, Gleason S, Paulus M, Meikle SR, Pomper M.  Two 10 x 10 cm detector heads for a restraint free small animal SPECT imaging system.  Conference Record of the 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, Italy, October, 2004.

7.  Weisenberger AG, Baba JS, Kross B, Gleason SS, Goddard J, Majewski S, Meikle SR, Paulus MJ, Pomper MG, Popov V, Smith BL, Welch B, Wojcik.  Dual Low Profile Detector Heads for a Restraint Free Small Animal SPECT Imaging System.  Conference Record of the 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Rome, 2004.

Book chapters

1.  Tsui BMW, Wang Y, Qi Y, Sawyer S, Frey EC, Majewski S, and Pomper MG. Feasibility of microSPECT/CT imaging of plaques in a transgenic mouse model. (In) Small Animal SPECT Imaging, Kupinski MA and Barrett HH, editors, (Springer), pp 215-224, 2005.

2.  Qi Y, Tsui BMW, Wang Y, Yoder B, Wojcik R, Majewski S and Weisenberger AG. Development and characterization of a high-resolution microSPECT system for small animal imaging. (In) Small Animal SPECT Imaging, Kupinski MA and Barrett HH, editors, (Springer), pp 259-266, 2005.