Current trends in the characterization and monitoring of vascular response to cancer therapy

B Shrestha, NB Stern, A Zhou, A Dunn, T Porter - Cancer Imaging, 2024 - Springer
Tumor vascular physiology is an important determinant of disease progression as well as
the therapeutic outcome of cancer treatment. Angiogenesis or the lack of it provides crucial …

Characterizing EPR-mediated passive drug targeting using contrast-enhanced functional ultrasound imaging

B Theek, F Gremse, S Kunjachan, S Fokong… - Journal of controlled …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Enhanced Permeability and Retention (EPR) effect is extensively used in drug
delivery research. Taking into account that EPR is a highly variable phenomenon, we have …

Preclinical molecular imaging for precision medicine in breast cancer mouse models

MF Fiordelisi, L Auletta, L Meomartino… - Contrast media & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Precision and personalized medicine is gaining importance in modern clinical medicine, as
it aims to improve diagnostic precision and to reduce consequent therapeutic failures. In this …

Non-invasive imaging for studying anti-angiogenic therapy effects

J Ehling, T Lammers, F Kiessling - Thrombosis and …, 2013 - thieme-connect.com
Noninvasive imaging plays an emerging role in preclinical and clinical cancer research and
has high potential to improve clinical translation of new drugs. This article summarises and …

Radiomic analysis of contrast-enhanced ultrasound data

B Theek, T Opacic, Z Magnuska, T Lammers… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Radiomics describes the use radiological data in a quantitative manner to establish
correlations in between imaging biomarkers and clinical outcomes to improve disease …

[HTML][HTML] Erythropoietin improves the accumulation and therapeutic effects of carboplatin by enhancing tumor vascularization and perfusion

D Doleschel, A Rix, S Arns, K Palmowski, F Gremse… - Theranostics, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recombinant human erythropoietin (rhuEpo) is currently under debate for the treatment of
chemotherapy-induced anemia due to clinical trials showing adverse effects in Epo-treated …

Failure of annexin-based apoptosis imaging in the assessment of antiangiogenic therapy effects

W Lederle, S Arns, A Rix, F Gremse, D Doleschel… - EJNMMI research, 2011 - Springer
Background Molecular apoptosis imaging is frequently discussed to be useful for monitoring
cancer therapy. We demonstrate that the sole assessment of therapy effects by apoptosis …

Low-dose molecular ultrasound imaging with E-selectin-targeted PBCA microbubbles

I Spivak, A Rix, G Schmitz, S Fokong, O Iranzo… - Molecular imaging and …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Our objective was to determine the lowest diagnostically effective dose for E-
selectin-targeted poly n-butyl cyanoacrylate (PBCA)-shelled microbubbles and to apply it to …

Rhodamine-loaded intercellular adhesion molecule–1-targeted microbubbles for dual-modality imaging under controlled shear stresses

Z Wu, A Curaj, S Fokong, EA Liehn… - Circulation …, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—The ability to image incipient atherosclerosis is based on the early events
taking place at the endothelial level. We hypothesized that the expression of intercellular …

Characterizing breast masses using an integrative framework of machine learning and CEUS-based radiomics

BA Varghese, S Lee, S Cen, A Talebi, P Mohd… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Aims We evaluated the performance of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) based on
radiomics analysis to distinguish benign from malignant breast masses. Methods 131 …