FOUNDATION LEADERSHIP

President
Mahesh K. Shetty MD;FRCR;FACR;FAIUM
Clinical Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Medical Director
Woman's Clinic for Breast
and Gynecological Imaging & Pink Door Imaging Center

Patron
Dr Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Chairman & Managing Director
Biocon Limited
Bangalore, India

Board of Trustees
Ron Somers
President
US-India Business Council
Washington D.C.

Jennifer Garza
CEO Edinburg Regional Medical Center/Edinburg Children's Hospital
Edinburg, Texas

Mrs. Mona Parikh PHR, MBA
Sr. Human Resources Business
Partner

Mr Andrew Novarini
CEO, Cypress Station Branch
Bank of Houston

Kelli Cohen MD
General and Pediatric Radiologist

Eric S. Greisel J.D.
General Legal Counsel


PROGRAM ADVISOR

Loretta A. Hanser
Director of Imaging Services
Mammography, CHP Radiology
Harris County Hospital District

Regional Directors
Mrs. Trishna Dey [Asia]
Ms. Esther Biira [Africa]
Dr Adhmer Longatto [S.America]
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MEDICAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

Chair
Mahesh Shetty MD;FRCR;FACR;FAIUM
Clinical Professor of Radiology
Baylor College of Medicine

Members
Dr. Steve Sener
Former President
American Cancer Society

R. Sankaranarayanan
Chief of Cancer Screening Group
International Agency for Research on Cancer,
WHO
Lyon, France

Saraswati Sukumar MD
Barbara B.Rubenstein Professor of Oncology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Britt-Marie Ljung, MD
Professor of Clinical Pathology,
Director of Cytopathology
UCSF, California

Dr Usha Menon MD; FRCOG
Professor and Director
Gynecological Cancer Research Center
UCL Elizabeth Garrett Institute of Women's Health
University College London

Dr Edmundo Mauad
Director
Barretos Cancer Hospital,
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Peter Dempsey MD; FACR
Professor of Radiology
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Terri Pustilnik MD
Gynecology Oncology of Houston

Dr Diljeet K. Singh, MD, DrPH
Co Chair of MAC

Dr Wei Yang, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.R.
Professor
Deputy Chairman, Department of Diagnostic Radiology
The University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Co-Chair and Director of Clinical Research

Dr Neerja Bhatla MD, FICOG
A/Professor, Dept of Ob-Gyn, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India,
Vice President, AOGIN,
Inaugural President, AOGIN-India,
Organising Chairperson, AOGIN 2010

Dr Jill Donnelly
Consultant Breast Surgeon
Herford Hospital, UK

Dr Martin M. Matzuk M.D., Ph.D.
Stuart A. Wallace Chair
Professor of Pathology and Immunology

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PUBLIC AWARENESS COUNCIL

Mrs. Susan Rafte
Chair of the PAC

Mrs. Sathya Saran
Co-chair,
Editor DNA,
Former Editor, Femina,
Mumbai, India

Ms. Lucy Noland
Co-chair,
News Anchor,
KNBC,
Los Angeles

Sharda Cherwoo
Partner
Ernst & Young

  



Sanaz (Sunny) A. Jansen

Contact Information:
Mouse Cancer Genetics Program
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute
Frederick, Maryland
Voice: (301) 846-1085
E-mail:jansensa@mail.nih.edu
Research Interests:

Imaging of ductal carcinoma in situ in women and mouse models of breast cancer; improving detection and characterization of early breast cancer; understanding factors that influence progression of preinvasive breast cancer.

Education:

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois USA
Ph.D. Medical Physics, 2008
• Thesis: Magnetic resonance imaging of ductal carcinoma in situ and early breast cancer
• Advisors: Gregory Karczmar and Gillian NewsteadM.S., Physics, 2003

M.S., Physics, 2003

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
B.Sc., Mathematics and Physics, 2001
Academic Experience:
 

National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland USA
Postdoctoral Fellow (Mouse Cancer Genetics Program) 2009-
Mentor: Terry Van Dyke

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois USA
Graduate Student and Research Assistant (Medical Physics) 2004 - 2008
Includes Ph.D. research and graduate course work in medical physics.

Research Associate (Radiology) 2004
Includes research under the supervision of Dr. Gillian Newstead and work on developing a clinical database of breast MRI examinations since 2002.

Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant (Physics) 2001 - 2003
Includes graduate course work and research in the department of Physics. Teaching assistant for five physics courses, duties included discussion section/lab leading, assignment preparation, grading, and tutoring.

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Research Assistant 1999 - 2001 Summer research in the departments of mathematics and physics, using statistical methods to model mixing
boundries of ozone in the stratosphere.
Honors and Awards:
 

Sallie Rosen Kaplan Fellow, National Cancer Institute 2009

Trainee Research Prize:
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2006 and 2007

Department of Defense Breast Cancer Predoctoral Award:
Detection and Evaluation of Early Breast Cancer via Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Studies of Mouse Models and Clinical Implementation 2005-2008

Student Travel Award:
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2005, 2007 and 2008

University of Chicago:
Deans Fellowship Biological Sciences Division 2004
Carl J. Vyborny Award 2007

National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC):
Postgraduate Scholarship 2001
Undergraduate Student Research Award 1999, 2000 and 2001

University of Toronto:
Prince of Wales Award
3T0 M&P Associates Scholarship 1998 and 1999
University of Toronto Scholar 1998
Trinity College Chancellor Scholarship 1998-2001
Research Skills:
 

Computer Languages: C, IDL, Matlab
Computer Applications: MS Office, Filemaker Pro
Animal work: Physiological monitoring set up, tail vein catheter, dissections
Pathology techniques: Microscopy, cryosectioning, IHC, IF
Biology techniques: Cell culture, Western blot, RT-PCR, PCR, transfection, transformation
Courses and Workshops:
 

Teaching Course in Mammography
Finding Cancer in its Early Stages , Faculty: Laszlo Tabar, Ward Parsons, Ed Hendrick 2007

Translational Research in Clinical Oncology
Center for Cancer Research, NCI 2009

Cancer Biotechnology
Center for Cancer Research, NCI 2010

Statistical Analysis of Research Data
Center for Cancer Research, NCI 2010
Publications:
 
  1. Sanaz A. Jansen, Xiaobing Fan, Milica Medved, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi, Cheng Yang, Marta Zamora, Sean Foxley, Olufunmilayo Olopade, Gregory Karczmar and Gillian Newstead. ”Characterizing
    early contrast uptake of ductal carcinoma in situ with high temporal resoltuion dynamic contrast enhanced MRI.”(submitted )
  2. Sanaz A. Jansen, Akiko Shimauchi, Lindsay Zak, Xiaobing Fan, Gregory Karczmar and Gillian Newstead. ”Kinetic and pathologic findings of 457 breast lesions presenting as focus, mass and nonmass-like enhancement at MR imaging.”(submitted )
  3. Akiko Shimauchi, Sanaz A. Jansen, Hiroyuki Abe, Nora Jaskowiak, Robert A. Schmidt and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Breast cancers not detected at MRI: Review of False-Negative Lesions.” American Journal of Roentgenology. in press.
  4. Neha Bhooshan, Maryellen L Giger, Sanaz A. Jansen, Hui Li, Li Lan and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Cancerous breast lesions on dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging: computerized characterization for imagebased prognostic markers.” Radiology. 2010 Mar; 254(3):
    680-90.
  5. Sanaz A. Jansen, Cheng Yang, Akiko Shimauchi, Lindsay Zak, Gregory Karczmar and Gillian Newstead. ”Relating dose of contrast media administered to uptake and washout of malignant lesions on DCEMRI of the breast”. Academic Radiology. 2010 Jan; 17(1): 24-30.
  6. Sanaz A. Jansen, Tatjana Paunesku, Xiaobing Fan, Gayle E Woloschak, Stefan Vogt, Suzanne D Conzen, Thomas Karausz, Gillian M Newstead and Gregory S Karczmar. ”Ductal carcinoma in situ: X-Ray fluorescence microscopy and dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging reveals gadolininum uptake within neoplastic mammary ducts in a murine model.” Radiology. 2009 Nov;253(2):399-406.
  7. Aytekin Oto, Xiaobing Fan, Devkumar Mustafi, Sanaz A. Jansen, Gregory S. Karczmar, David T Rubin Arda Kayhan. ”Quantitative analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI for assessment of bowel
    inflammation in Crohn’s disease pilot study” Academic Radiology. 2009 October; 16(10): 123-30.
  8. Sanaz A. Jansen, Suzanne Conzen, Xiaobing Fan, Erica Markiewicz, Gillian Newstead and Gregory Karczmar. ”Magnetic resonance imaging reveals the progression, regression and indolence of ductal carcinoma in situ in transgenic mice.” Breast Cancer Research. 2009 Sept; 11(5).
  9. Sanaz A. Jansen, Akiko Shimacuhi, Lindsay Zak, Xiaobing Fan, Abbie M. Wood, Gregory Karczmar and Gillian M Newstead. ”Kinetic curves of malignant lesions are not consistent across MR systems: The need for improved standardization of DCEMRI acquisitions of the breast”. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2009 Sept; 193(3):
    832-9.
  10. Hui Li, Maryellen Giger, Yading Yuan,Weijie Chen, Li Lan, Anrew R. Jamieson, Charlene Sennett, Sanaz A. Jansen. ”Evaluation of Coupter-aided Diagnosis on a Large Clinical Full-Field Digital Mammographic Dataset.” Academic Radiology. 2008 Nov; 15(11): 1437-45.
  11. Sanaz A. Jansen, Suzanne Conzen, Xiaobing Fan, Thomas Krausz, Marta Zamora, Sean Foxley, Jonathan River, Gillian Newstead and Gregory Karczmar. ”Detection of in situ mammary cancer in a transgenic mouse model:in vitro and in vivo MRI studies demonstrate histopathologic correlation.” Physics in Medicine and Biology. 2008 Oct 7; 53(19): 5481-93.
  12. Sean Foxley, Xiaobing Fan, Sanaz A. Jansen, Marta Zamora, Erica Markiewicz, Hikmat Al-Ahmadie and Gregory S. Karczmar. ”High spectral and spatial resolution MRI of age related changes in murine
    prostate.” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2008 Sep; 60(3):575-81.
  13. Sanaz A. Jansen, Xiaobing Fan, Gregory S. Karczmar, Hiroyuki Abe, Robert A. Schmidt, Maryellen Giger and Gillian M. ewstead.”DCEMRI of breast lesions: Is kinetic analysis equally effective for both mass
    and non-mass-like enhancement?” Medical Physics. 2008 July;35(7):3102-3109.
  14. Sanaz A. Jansen, Xiaobing Fan, Gregory S. Karczmar, Hiroyuki Abe, Robert A. Schmidt, and Gillian M.
    Newstead. ”Differentiation between benign and malignant breast lesions detected by bilateral dynamic contrast enhanced MRI: A sensitivity and specificity study.” Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2008 Apr; 59(4):747-54.
  15. Sanaz A. Jansen, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi, Gregory Karczmar, Robert Schmidt, Gillian Newsteadi.
    “Pure ductal carcinoma in situ: kinetic and morphologic MR characteristics compared with mammographic
    appearance and nuclear grade.” Radiology. 2007 Dec;245(3):684-91.
  16. Xiaobing Fan, Milica Medved, Gregory S. Karczmar Cheng Yang, Sean Foxley, Sanaz Arkani, Wendy Recant, Marta A. Zamora, Hiroyuki Abe, Gillian M. Newstead. ”Diagnosis of suspicious breast lesions using an empirical mathematical model for dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI.” J Magn Reson Imaging. 2007 25:593-603.
  17. Xiaobing Fan, Hiroyuki Abe, Milica Medved, Sean Foxley, Sanaz Arkani, Marta Zamora, Olopade OI, Gillian M Newstead, Gregory Karczmar. ”Fat suppression with spectrally selective inversion vs. high spectral and spatial resolution MRI of breast lesions: qualitative and quantitative comparisons.” J Magn Reson Imaging. 2006 Dec;24(6):1311-5.
First Author Abtracts:
 
  1. Sanaz A. Jansen, Suzanne D. Conzen, Xiaobing Fan, Erica Markiewicz, Gillian Newstead and Gregory S. Karczmar. ”Insights into early breast cancer detection and progression using magnetic resonance imaging of transgenic mice.” in 95th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, December 2009.
  2. Sanaz A. Jansen, Suzanne D. Conzen, Xiaobing Fan, Erica Markiewicz, Thomas Krausz, Gillian Newstead and Gregory S. Karczmar. ”Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of transgenic mice to gain insights into the detection and natural history of early breast cancer.” Imaging 2020 Workshop, August 2009.
  3. Sanaz A. Jansen, Vicky Chen, Maryellen Giger, Hui Li and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Characterizing the normal breast on dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging”. 4th International Workshop
    on Breast Densitometry and Breast Cancer Risk Assessment, May 2009.
  4. Sanaz A. Jansen, Xiaobing Fan, Erica Markiewicz, Gillian Newstead and Gregory S. Karczmar. ”Short T2* components in the normal murine mammary gland and pre-invasive carcinoma may aid in detection of early breast cancer.” in 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, April 2009.
  5. Sanaz A. Jansen, Suzanne D. Conzen, Xiaobing Fan, Erica Markiewicz, Gillian Newstead and Gregory S. Karczmar. ”Magnetic resonance imaging reveals the progression, regression and indolence of in situ carcinoma in transgenic mice.” in 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, April 2009.
  6. Sanaz A. Jansen, Akiko Shimauchi, Lindsay Zak, Xiaobing Fan, Abbie M. Wood, Gregory S. Karczmar and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Kinetic curves of malignant lesions are not consistent across MR systems: The need for improved standardization of breast DCEMRI acquisitions.” in 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, April 2009.
  7. Sanaz A. Jansen, Akiko Shimauchi, Lindsay Zak, Xiaobing Fan, Gregory S. Karczmar and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Different MR systems yield variable kinetic characteristics of breast lesions.” in 31st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2008.
  8. Sanaz A. Jansen, Suzanne Conzen, Xiaobing Fan, Gillian M. Newstead, Erica J Markiewicz and Gregory S. Karczmar. ”In vivo magnetic resonance imaging of the progression of murine ductal carcinoma in situ: finding timescales and predictors of future invasion.” in 31st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2008.
  9. Sanaz A. Jansen, Tatjana Paunesku, Xiaobing Fan, Gayle Woloschak, Stefan Vogt, Erica J Markiewicz, Suzanne Conzen, Gillian M. Newstead and Gregory S. Karczmar. ”Why does Ductal Carcinoma in situ Enhance on Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MR Imaging of the Breast?” in 94th Annual Meeting of the Radiologic Society of North America, November 2008.
  10. Sanaz A. Jansen, Tatjana Paunesku, Xiaobing Fan, Gayle Woloschak, Stefan Vogt, Erica J Marikiewicz, Suzanne Conzen, Gillian M. Newstead and Gregory S. Karczmar. ”Tracking the distribution of gadolinium in early murine breast cancer with x-ray fluorescence microscopy and dynamic contrast enhanced MRI”
    in Frontiers of Molecular Imaging, Meeting of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, October 2008.
  11. Sanaz A. Jansen. ”Detection and Evaluation of Early Breast Cancer via Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Studies of Mouse Models and Clinical Implementation.” in DOD BCRP Era of Hope Meeting, June 2008.
  12. Sanaz A. Jansen, Tatjana Paunesku, Xiaobing Fan, Gayle Woloschak, Stefan Vogt, Erica J Markiewicz, Suzanne Conzen, Gillian M. Newstead and Gregory S. Karczmar. ”Why do Ductal Carcinoma in situ Lesions Enhance on Dynamic Contrast Enhance MRI of the Breast? Using X-Ray Fluorescence and MRI
    to Track the Spatial Distribution of Gd-DTPA in Murine DCIS.” in 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2008.
  13. Sanaz A. Jansen, Suzanne D. Conzen, Xiaobing Fan, Erica J Markiewicz, Thomas Krausz, Gillian Newstead and Gregory Karczmar. ”Do all in situ cancers progress to invasive disease? A first look at progression of mammary cancer from in situ to invasive carcinoma in vivo.” in 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2008.
  14. Sanaz A. Jansen, Xiaobing Fan, Gregory Karczmar, Maryellen Giger, Hiroyuki Abe and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Are Kinetic Parameters Diagnostically Useful for Breast Lesions Exhibiting Nonmass-like-
    Enhancement?” in 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2008.
  15. Sanaz A. Jansen, Gregory Karczmar, Akiko Shimauchi, Hiroyuki Abe and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Are Kinetic Parameters Related to Prognostic Indicators in ¡2.0 cm Invasive Ductal Carcinomas?” in 16th
    Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2008.
  16. Sanaz A. Jansen, Xiaobing Fan, Gregory S. Karczmar, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi and Gillian M Newstead. ”Non-mass vs. mass-like enhancement: Which kinetic parameters distinguish benign and
    malignant breast lesions?” in108th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, April 2008.
  17. Sanaz A. Jansen, Akiko Shimauchi, Hiroyuki Abe, Gregory S. Karczmar and Gillian M Newstead. ”The kinetic and morphologic characteristics of mammographically occult, MR visible breast cancers: How different are the extra cancers found at MR imaging?” in 108th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, April 2008.
  18. Sanaz A Jansen, Suzanne Conzen, Marta Zamora, Thomas Krausz, Gillian M Newstead and Gregory S Karczmar. ”A new approach to studying the progression of breast cancer in mice: High resolution MRI of early cancer and DCIS.” in 30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2007.
  19. Sanaz A Jansen, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi, Gregory S Karczmar and Gillian M Newstead. ”How does ER/PR and Her2/Neu status affect the MR characteristics of invasive ductal carcinoma?” in 30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2007.
  20. Sanaz A Jansen, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi, Gregory S Karczmar, Olufunmilayo Olopade, Lindsay Zak and Gillian M Newstead. ”Are the MRI characteristics of malignant breast lesions different for African American women?” in 30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2007.
  21. Sanaz A. Jansen, Xiaobing Fan, Gregory Karczmar, Hiroyuki Abe, Robert A. Schmidt and Gillian M. Newstead. ”DCEMRI of Breast Lesions: Is Kinetic Analysis Equally Effective for Both Mass and Nonmass- like Enhancement?” in 93rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2007.
  22. Sanaz A. Jansen, Cheng Yang, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi, Gregory Karczmar and Gillian M. Newstead. ”DCEMRI of Malignant Breast Lesions: Should a Fixed Volume of Contrast be Injected, or a Fixed Dose” in 93rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2007.
  23. Sanaz Arkani, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi, Robert A. Schmidt, Gregory Karczmar, and Gillian M.
    Newstead. ”Dynamic MR Imaging of Invasive Ductal Carcinoma: Studying Kinetics by Estrogen Receptor, Progesterone Receptor and Her2/Neu Amplification Status Molecular Markers” in 107th Annual
    Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, May 2007.
  24. Sanaz Arkani, Xiaobing Fan, Hiroyuki Abe, Gregory Karczmar, Robert A. Schmidt, and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Improving the Diagnostic Accuracy of 3D Breast DCEMRI Data Using an Empirical Mathematical Model” in 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2007.
  25. Sanaz Arkani, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi, Gregory Karczmar, and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Molecular Markers and DCEMRI of Breast Cancer: Relationship with Kinetics in Invasive Ductal Carcinoma” in
    15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2007.
  26. Sanaz Arkani, Suzanne Conzen, Thomas Krausz, Marta Zamora, Gillian M. Newstead, and Gregory Karczmar.”MRI of Ductal Carcinoma in situ and Other Early Mammary Cancers in Transgenic Mice” in 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2007.
  27. Sanaz Arkani, Vicky Chen, Caroline Cranford, Lindsay Zak, Hiroyuki Abe, Gregory Karczmar, Robert A. Schmidt, Funmi Olopade and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Parenchymal enhancement on breast MRI may be a marker for cancer risk: correlation of parenchymal enhancement with breast density” in 29th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2006.
  28. Sanaz Arkani, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi, Gregory Karczmar, Robert A. Schmidt and Gillian M. Newstead. ”MR Imaging of Pure Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: Kinetics, Morphology, and Correlation with
    Mammographic Presentation and Nuclear Grade” in 92nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2006.
  29. Sanaz Arkani, Vicky Chen, Caroline Cranford, Lindsay Zak, Hiroyuki Abe, Gregory Karczmar, Robert A. Schmidt, Funmi Olopade and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Women at High Risk for Breast Cancer: Classification of Parenchymal Enhancement on Breast MR Imaging and Correlation with Mammographic Density” in 106th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, May 2006.
  30. Sanaz Arkani, Hiroyuki Abe, Gregory Karczmar, Robert A. Schmidt and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS): Kinetic and Morphologic Characteristics on Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCEMRI)” in 105th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, May 2005.
  31. Sanaz Arkani, Hiroyuki Abe, Gregory Karczmar, Robert A. Schmidt and Gillian M. Newstead. ”Characteristics of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ on Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging” in 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2005.
Other Abtracts:
 
  1. Jeremy Bancroft Brown, Maryellen L. Giger, Neha Bhooshan, Gillian Newstead, Sanaz A. Jansen. Optimization of a fuzzy c-means approach to determining probability of lesion malignant and quantifying lesion enhancement heterogeneity in breast DCE-MRI, in SPIE Medical Imaging, February 2010.
  2. Akiko Shimauchi, Sanaz A. Jansen, Lidsay Zak, Hiroyuki Abe, Maryellen Giger, Gillian M. Newstead, Li Lan, Kirti M Kulkarni. Does the assessment of kinetic heterogeneity in additino to the kinetic time course curve improve the specificity of diagnosis of breast masses at DCE-MRI?, in 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2009.
  3. Ayetin Oto, Arda Kayhan, Xiaobing Fan, Laura Yun, Sanaz A. Jansen, David T. Rubin, Josh Williams. Quantitative Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MRI of the Small Bowel in Crohn’s Disease: Correlation with Endoscopic and Histologic Findings, in 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological
    Society of North America, November 2009.
  4. Neha Bhooshan, Maryellen L. Giger, Darrin C. Edwards, Sanaz A. Jansen, Hui Li, Li Lan and Gillian M. Newstead. Using three-class BANN classifier in the automated analysis of breast cancer lesions in
    DCE-MRI, in SPIE Medical Imaging, February 2009.
  5. Hui Li, Maryellen L. Giger, Sanaz A. Jansen, Li Lan, Neha Bhooshan, Yading Yuan and Gillian M. Newstead. Computerized breast parenchymal analysis on DCE-MRI, in SPIE Medical Imaging, February 2009.
  6. Devkumar Mustafi, Jonathan River, Sean Foxley, Sanaz Jansen, Gillian Newstead and Gregory Karczmar. In Vitro MRI Identification and Characterization of Small Calcium Crystals for Probing Microcalcifications in Breast Cancer, in 94th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2008.
  7. Akiko Shimauchi, Sanaz Jansen, Lindsay Zak, Hiroyuki Abe, and Gillian Newstead. Can Assessment of Kinetic Heterogeneity of Breast Mass Lesion Enhancement Seen on MR Imaging Predict Malignancy?, in 94th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2008.
  8. Neha Bhooshan, Maryellen Giger,Weijie Chen, Sanaz Jansen, Hui Li, and Gillian Newstead. Prognosis of Breast Carcinoma Using Computer-extracted Morphological and Kinetic Features in DCE-MRI, in 94th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2008.
  9. Neha Bhooshan, Maryellen Giger,Weijie Chen, Sanaz Jansen, Hui Li, Li Lan and Gillian Newstead. Classification of Breast Carcinoma Subtypes Using Cmputer-Extracted Morphological and Kinetic Features in DCE-MRI, in 50th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, July 2008.
  10. Elizabeth Hipp, Neha Bhooshan, Maryellen Giger, Sanaz Jansen, Hui Liand Gillian Newstead. Preliminary Analysis of Morphological Features From T1 and T2 MR Images in the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer, in 50th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, July 2008.
  11. Xiaobing Fan, Sanaz Arkani, Gregory S Karczmar, Hiroyuki Abe, Robert A Schmidt, GillianMNewstead. Using three-parameter empirical mathematical model to analyze breast DCEMRI data; comparison with conventional BI-RADS classification, in 30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2007.
  12. Kirti Kulkarni, GillianMNewstead, Sanaz A Jansen, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi, Robert A Schmidt, Nora Jaskowiak. Does MRI improve chances of obtaining negative surgical margins after localized excision? A retrospective study. in 30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2007.
  13. Gillian M Newstead, Hiroyuki Abe, Sanaz A Jansen, Akiko Shimauchi, Charlene A Sennett,, Robert A
    Schmidt, Lindsay Zak, Olufunmilayo Olopade, Nora Jaskowiak. Effect of magnetic resonance imaging on the clinical management of women with newly diagnosed breast cancer, in 30th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2007.
  14. Weijie Chen, Maryellen Giger, Gillian M. Newstead, Sanaz A. Jansen, Ken Chiang, Li Lan et al. Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using DCE-MRI: Role of Computer in Interpretation of 4D Data, in 93rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2007.
  15. Steven Thiel, Rajshri Shah, Sanaz A. Jansen, Hiroyuki Abe, Akiko Shimauchi, Gillian M. Newstead. Evaluating the Extent of Disease with MRI in the Setting of Breast Calcifications Suggestive of DCIS, in 93rd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2007.
  16. Akiko Shimauchi, Sanaz A. Jansen, Hiroyuki Abe, Kirti Kulkarni, Robert A. Schmidt, Gillian M. Newstead et al. Cancers Not Detected at MR Imaging: Review of False-Negative Lesions, in 93rd Scientific
    Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2007.
  17. Sean Foxley Sanaz Arkani, Xiaobing Fan, Marta Zamora, Erica Markiewicz, Gregory Karczmar. Serial Imaging of Transgenic Mice Prostate Tumors Using High-Resolution EPSI, in 92nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2006.
  18. Hui Li, Maryellen Giger, Yading Yuan, Charlene Sennett, Li Lan , Andrew Jamieson et al. Conversion of Screen Film Mammographic CADx for FFDM, in 92nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2006.
  19. Gillian M. Newstead, Hiroyuki Abe, Sanaz Arkani, Akiko Shimauchi, Charlene Sennett, Robert A. Schmidt. Magnetic Resonance-guided Vacuum-assisted Breast Biopsy: Diagnostic Utility in a Clinical Breast MR Program, in 92nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2006.
  20. Weijie Chen, Maryellen Giger, Gillian M. Newstead, Ulrich Bick, Li Lan, Sanaz Arkani et al. Multicategory Feature Extraction in Computer-aided Diagnosis of Breast MRI, in 92nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2006.
  21. Akiko Shimauchi, Hiroyuki Abe, Sanaz Arkani, Charlene Sennett, Robert A. Schmidt, Gillian M. Newstead. A Practical Approach to the Differential Diagnosis of Benign Lesions Detected at Breast MR
    Imaging, in 92nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2006.
  22. Gillian M. Newstead, Sanaz Arkani, Hiroyuki Abe, Robert A. Schmidt, Charlene Sennett, Cheng Yang. Dynamic Breast MR Imaging: Comparison of Kinetic and Morphologic Characteristics of Malignant Lesions by Tumor Type and Grade. in 91st Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2005.
  23. Hiroyuki Abe , Gillian M. Newstead, Sanaz Arkani , Charlene Sennett, Robert A. Schmidt, Gregory Karczmar et al . Effect of Magnetic Resonance Imaging on the Clinical Management of Women with Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer, in 90th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, November 2004.
  24. Bradbury AR, Newstead G, Li LS, Arkani S, Abe H, Cummings S, Olopade OI. Breast MRI surveillance in women at high risk for breast cancer, in 27th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 2004.
   
 
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