Petrus H Pretorius PHD
Title Associate Professor
Institution University of Massachusetts Medical School
Department Radiology
Division Nuclear Medicine
Address University of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester MA 01655
Telephone 508-856-6706
Publications
1. Cheng D, Rusckowski M, Pretorius PH, Chen L, Xiao N, Liu Y, Liu G, Liang M, Liu X, Dou S, Hnatowich DJ. Improving the quantitation accuracy in noninvasive small animal single photon emission computed tomography imaging. Nucl Med Biol. 2011 Aug; 38(6):843-8.
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2. Dey J, Segars WP, Pretorius PH, Walvick RP, Bruyant PP, Dahlberg S, King MA. Estimation and correction of cardiac respiratory motion in SPECT in the presence of limited-angle effects due to irregular respiration. Med Phys. 2010 Dec; 37(12):6453-65.
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3. Cheng D, Wang Y, Liu X, Pretorius PH, Liang M, Rusckowski M, Hnatowich DJ. Comparison of 18F PET and 99mTc SPECT imaging in phantoms and in tumored mice. Bioconjug Chem. 2010 Aug 18; 21(8):1565-70.
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4. Liu G, Dou S, Pretorius PH, Liu X, Chen L, Rusckowski M, Hnatowich DJ. Tumor pretargeting in mice using MORF conjugated CC49 antibody and radiolabeled complimentary cMORF effector. Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2010 Jun; 54(3):333-40.
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5. McNamara JE, Pretorius PH, Johnson K, Mukherjee JM, Dey J, Gennert MA, King MA. A flexible multicamera visual-tracking system for detecting and correcting motion-induced artifacts in cardiac SPECT slices. Med Phys. 2009 May; 36(5):1913-23.
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6. Liu G, Cheng D, Dou S, Chen X, Liang M, Pretorius PH, Rusckowski M, Hnatowich DJ. Replacing 99mTc with 111In improves MORF/cMORF pretargeting by reducing intestinal accumulation. Mol Imaging Biol. 2009 Sep-Oct; 11(5):303-7.
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7. Pretorius PH, King MA. Diminishing the impact of the partial volume effect in cardiac SPECT perfusion imaging. Med Phys. 2009 Jan; 36(1):105-15.
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8. Pereira NF, Gifford HC, Pretorius PH, Smyczynski M, Licho R, Schneider P, Farncombe T, King MA. An evaluation of iterative reconstruction strategies based on mediastinal lesion detection using hybrid Ga-67 SPECT images. Med Phys. 2008 Nov; 35(11):4808-15.
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9. Liu G, Dou S, Pretorius PH, Liu X, Rusckowski M, Hnatowich DJ. Pretargeting CWR22 prostate tumor in mice with MORF-B72.3 antibody and radiolabeled cMORF. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2008 Feb; 35(2):272-80.
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10. Bogdanov A, Kang HW, Querol M, Pretorius PH, Yudina A. Synthesis and testing of a binary catalytic system for imaging of signal amplification in vivo. Bioconjug Chem. 2007 Jul-Aug; 18(4):1123-30.
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11. Feng B, Pretorius PH, Farncombe TH, Dahlberg ST, Narayanan MV, Wernick MN, Celler AM, Leppo JA, King MA. Simultaneous assessment of cardiac perfusion and function using 5-dimensional imaging with Tc-99m teboroxime. J Nucl Cardiol. 2006 May-Jun; 13(3):354-61.
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12. Pretorius PH, King MA, Gifford HC, Dahlberg ST, Spencer F, Simon E, Rashkin J, Botkin N, Berndt W, Narayanan MV, Leppo JA. Myocardial perfusion SPECT reconstruction: receiver operating characteristic comparison of CAD detection accuracy of filtered backprojection reconstruction with all of the clinical imaging information available to readers and solely stress slices iteratively reconstructed with combined compensation. J Nucl Cardiol. 2005 May-Jun; 12(3):284-93.
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13. Gifford HC, King MA, Pretorius PH, Wells RG. A comparison of human and model observers in multislice LROC studies. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2005 Feb; 24(2):160-9.
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14. Narayanan MV, King MA, Pretorius PH, Dahlberg ST, Spencer F, Simon E, Ewald E, Healy E, MacNaught K, Leppo JA. Human-observer receiver-operating-characteristic evaluation of attenuation, scatter, and resolution compensation strategies for (99m)Tc myocardial perfusion imaging. J Nucl Med. 2003 Nov; 44(11):1725-34.
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15. King MA, Pretorius PH, Farncombe T, Beekman FJ. Introduction to the physics of molecular imaging with radioactive tracers in small animals. J Cell Biochem Suppl. 2002; 39:221-30.
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16. Pretorius PH, Narayanan MV, Dahlberg ST, Leppo JA, King MA. The influence of attenuation and scatter compensation on the apparent distribution of Tc-99m sestamibi in cardiac slices. J Nucl Cardiol. 2001 May-Jun; 8(3):356-64.
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17. Wells RG, King MA, Simkin PH, Judy PF, Brill AB, Gifford HC, Licho R, Pretorius PH, Schneider PB, Seldin DW. Comparing filtered backprojection and ordered-subsets expectation maximization for small-lesion detection and localization in 67Ga SPECT. J Nucl Med. 2000 Aug; 41(8):1391-9.
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18. Narayanan MV, King MA, Wernick MN, Byrne CL, Soares EJ, Pretorius PH. Improved image quality and computation reduction in 4-D reconstruction of cardiac-gated SPECT images. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2000 May; 19(5):423-33.
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19. Gifford HC, King MA, Wells RG, Hawkins WG, Narayanan MV, Pretorius PH. LROC analysis of detector-response compensation in SPECT. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2000 May; 19(5):463-73.
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20. Pretorius PH, King MA, Tsui BM, LaCroix KJ, Xia W. A mathematical model of motion of the heart for use in generating source and attenuation maps for simulating emission imaging. Med Phys. 1999 Nov; 26(11):2323-32.
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21. Achtert AD, King MA, Dahlberg ST, Pretorius PH, LaCroix KJ, Tsui BM. An investigation of the estimation of ejection fractions and cardiac volumes by a quantitative gated SPECT software package in simulated gated SPECT images. J Nucl Cardiol. 1998 Mar-Apr; 5(2):144-52.
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22. Pretorius PH, King MA, Pan TS, de Vries DJ, Glick SJ, Byrne CL. Reducing the influence of the partial volume effect on SPECT activity quantitation with 3D modelling of spatial resolution in iterative reconstruction. Phys Med Biol. 1998 Feb; 43(2):407-20.
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23. Pretorius PH, Xia W, King MA, Tsui BM, Pan TS, Villegas BJ. Evaluation of right and left ventricular volume and ejection fraction using a mathematical cardiac torso phantom. J Nucl Med. 1997 Oct; 38(10):1528-35.
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Dahlberg, Seth
King, Michael
Leppo, Jeffrey
Liu, Guozheng
Rusckowski, Mary
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Liu, Guozheng
Rusckowski, Mary
King, Michael
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