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Thomas Ptak MD, PhD, MPH

TitleProfessor
InstitutionUMass Chan Medical School
DepartmentRadiology
AddressUMass Chan Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester MA 01655
Phone508-334-1000
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    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
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    Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, United StatesMD

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    1. Lee JT, Sobieh A, Bonne S, Camacho MA, Glanc P, Holmes JF, Kalva SP, Khosa F, Perry K, Promes SB, Ptak T, Roberge EA, Shannon L, Donnelly EF. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Penetrating Torso Trauma. J Am Coll Radiol. 2024 Nov; 21(11S):S448-S463. PMID: 39488354.
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    2. Malla A, Hassan B, Er S, Liang F, Ptak T, Manson PN, Grant MP. Traumatic Brain Injury and Its Association With Orbital Fracture Characteristics and Repair. J Craniofac Surg. 2024 Jun 28. PMID: 38940595.
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    3. Er S, Hassan B, Yoon J, Resnick E, Yusuf C, Lagziel T, Liang F, Ptak T, Redett R, Yang R, Grant M. Orbital Fracture Characteristics and Outcomes in Baltimore. J Craniofac Surg. 2024 Mar 27. PMID: 38534184.
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    4. Treffalls RN, Poe K, Abdou H, Stonko DP, Edwards J, DeMartino RR, Ptak T, Morrison JJ. Exploring Intra-arterial Contrast Administration for Intraoperative Imaging Using a Swine Model. Angiology. 2023 Feb 08; 33197231155225. PMID: 36753679.
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    5. Patel N, Edwards J, Abdou H, Stonko DP, Treffalls RN, Elansary NN, Ptak T, Morrison JJ. Characterization of cerebral blood flow during open cardiac massage in swine: Effect of volume status. Front Physiol. 2022; 13:988833. PMID: 36267585.
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    6. Abdou H, Edwards J, Patel N, Stonko DP, Elansary N, Lang E, Richmond MJ, Ptak T, White JM, Scalea TM, Morrison JJ. Characterizing Brain Perfusion in a Swine Model of Raised Intracranial Pressure. J Surg Res. 2022 10; 278:64-69. PMID: 35594616.
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    7. Abdou H, Elansary N, Poliner D, Patel N, Edwards J, Richmond M, Rasmussen T, Ptak T, Scalea TM, Morrison JJ. Development of a computed tomography perfusion protocol to support large animal resuscitation research. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2021 11 01; 91(5):879-885. PMID: 33797493.
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    8. Shih RY, Burns J, Ajam AA, Broder JS, Chakraborty S, Kendi AT, Lacy ME, Ledbetter LN, Lee RK, Liebeskind DS, Pollock JM, Prall JA, Ptak T, Raksin PB, Shaines MD, Tsiouris AJ, Utukuri PS, Wang LL, Corey AS. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Head?Trauma: 2021 Update. J Am Coll Radiol. 2021 May; 18(5S):S13-S36. PMID: 33958108.
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    9. Shyu JY, Khurana B, Soto JA, Biffl WL, Camacho MA, Diercks DB, Glanc P, Kalva SP, Khosa F, Meyer BJ, Ptak T, Raja AS, Salim A, West OC, Lockhart ME. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Major Blunt Trauma. J Am Coll Radiol. 2020 May; 17(5S):S160-S174. PMID: 32370960.
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    10. Desjardins B, Hanley M, Steigner ML, Aghayev A, Azene EM, Bennett SJ, Chandra A, Hedgire SS, Lo BM, Mauro DM, Ptak T, Singh-Bhinder N, Suranyi PS, Verma N, Dill KE. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Suspected Upper Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis. J Am Coll Radiol. 2020 May; 17(5S):S315-S322. PMID: 32370975.
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    11. Bodanapally UK, Shanmuganathan K, Ramaswamy M, Tsymbalyuk S, Aarabi B, Parikh GY, Schwartzbauer G, Dreizin D, Simard JM, Ptak T, Li G, Liang Y, Fleiter TR. Iodine-based Dual-Energy CT of Traumatic Hemorrhagic Contusions: Relationship to In-Hospital Mortality and Short-term Outcome. Radiology. 2019 09; 292(3):730-738. PMID: 31361206.
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    12. Francois CJ, Skulborstad EP, Kalva SP, Majdalany BS, Collins JD, Eldrup-Jorgensen J, Ferencik M, Ganguli S, Kendi AT, Khaja MS, Obara P, Ptak T, Reis SP, Sutphin PD, Dill KE. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Nonatherosclerotic Peripheral Arterial Disease. J Am Coll Radiol. 2019 May; 16(5S):S174-S183. PMID: 31054743.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    13. Ginsburg M, Obara P, Lambert DL, Hanley M, Steigner ML, Camacho MA, Chandra A, Chang KJ, Gage KL, Peterson CM, Ptak T, Verma N, Kim DH, Carucci LR, Dill KE. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Imaging of Mesenteric Ischemia. J Am Coll Radiol. 2018 Nov; 15(11S):S332-S340. PMID: 30392602.
      Citations: 20     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    14. Hanley M, Steigner ML, Ahmed O, Azene EM, Bennett SJ, Chandra A, Desjardins B, Gage KL, Ginsburg M, Mauro DM, Oliva IB, Ptak T, Strax R, Verma N, Dill KE. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Suspected Lower Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis. J Am Coll Radiol. 2018 Nov; 15(11S):S413-S417. PMID: 30392609.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    15. Wang LT, Cleveland RH, Binder W, Zwerdling RG, Stamoulis C, Ptak T, Sherman M, Haver K, Sagar P, Hibberd P. Similarity of chest X-ray and thermal imaging of focal pneumonia: a randomised proof of concept study at a large urban teaching hospital. BMJ Open. 2018 01 05; 8(1):e017964. PMID: 29306882.
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    16. Schroeder JW, Ptak T, Corey AS, Ahmed O, Biffl WL, Brennan JA, Chandra A, Ginsburg M, Hanley M, Hunt CH, Johnson MM, Kennedy TA, Patel ND, Policeni B, Reitman C, Steigner ML, Stiver SI, Strax R, Whitehead MT, Dill KE. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Penetrating Neck?Injury. J Am Coll Radiol. 2017 Nov; 14(11S):S500-S505. PMID: 29101988.
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    17. Weiss CR, Azene EM, Majdalany BS, AbuRahma AF, Collins JD, Francois CJ, Gerhard-Herman MD, Gornik HL, Moriarty JM, Norton PT, Ptak T, Reis SP, Rybicki FJ, Kalva SP. ACR Appropriateness Criteria? Sudden Onset?of?Cold, Painful Leg. J Am Coll Radiol. 2017 May; 14(5S):S307-S313. PMID: 28473087.
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    18. Hanley M, Ahmed O, Chandra A, Gage KL, Gerhard-Herman MD, Ginsburg M, Gornik HL, Johnson PT, Oliva IB, Ptak T, Steigner ML, Strax R, Rybicki FJ, Dill KE. ACR Appropriateness Criteria Clinically Suspected Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation. J Am Coll Radiol. 2016 Jul; 13(7):796-800. PMID: 27209598.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    19. Rao S, Rao S, Rincon S, Caruso P, Ptak T, Raja AS, Prabhakar AM, Harvey HB. Assessment of Pediatric Neurotrauma Imaging Appropriateness at a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center. J Am Coll Radiol. 2016 Jul; 13(7):788-93. PMID: 27084071.
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    20. Sonis J, Borczuk P, Ptak T, Miller ES. Seizure and Fever. J Emerg Med. 2016 May; 50(5):773-7. PMID: 26899515.
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    21. Rincon S, Gupta R, Ptak T. Imaging of head trauma. Handb Clin Neurol. 2016; 135:447-477. PMID: 27432678.
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    22. Yang J, Graf T, Ptak T. Impact of climate change on freshwater resources in a heterogeneous coastal aquifer of Bremerhaven, Germany: A three-dimensional modeling study. J Contam Hydrol. 2015 Jun-Jul; 177-178:107-21. PMID: 25889797.
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    23. Yang J, Graf T, Herold M, Ptak T. Modelling the effects of tides and storm surges on coastal aquifers using a coupled surface-subsurface approach. J Contam Hydrol. 2013 Jun; 149:61-75. PMID: 23603354.
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    24. B?land-Pelletier C, Fraser M, Barker J, Ptak T. Estimating contaminant mass discharge: a field comparison of the multilevel point measurement and the integral pumping investigation approaches and their uncertainties. J Contam Hydrol. 2011 Mar 25; 122(1-4):63-75. PMID: 21146251.
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    25. Herold M, Greskowiak J, Ptak T, Prommer H. Modelling of an enhanced PAH attenuation experiment and associated biogeochemical changes at a former gasworks site in southern Germany. J Contam Hydrol. 2011 Jan 25; 119(1-4):99-112. PMID: 20947201.
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    26. Herold M, Ptak T, Bayer-Raich M, Wendel T, Grathwohl P. Integral quantification of contaminant mass flow rates in a contaminated aquifer: conditioning of the numerical inversion of concentration-time series. J Contam Hydrol. 2009 Apr 15; 106(1-2):29-38. PMID: 19167131.
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    27. Riva M, Guadagnini A, Fernandez-Garcia D, Sanchez-Vila X, Ptak T. Relative importance of geostatistical and transport models in describing heavily tailed breakthrough curves at the Lauswiesen site. J Contam Hydrol. 2008 Oct 23; 101(1-4):1-13. PMID: 18799231.
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    28. Akpinar E, Koroglu M, Ptak T. Diffusion tensor MR imaging in pediatric head trauma. J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2007 Sep-Oct; 31(5):657-61. PMID: 17895772.
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    29. Ptak T. CT pitfalls in emergency radiology: a chronically ruptured intra-cranial dermoid tumor mimicking pneumocephalus in an acute multi-trauma evaluation. Emerg Radiol. 2007 Nov; 14(6):453-6. PMID: 17450388.
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    30. Kabrhel C, Matts C, McNamara M, Katz J, Ptak T. A highly sensitive ELISA D-dimer increases testing but not diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. Acad Emerg Med. 2006 May; 13(5):519-24. PMID: 16551779.
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    31. Jarsj? J, Bayer-Raich M, Ptak T. Monitoring groundwater contamination and delineating source zones at industrial sites: uncertainty analyses using integral pumping tests. J Contam Hydrol. 2005 Oct; 79(3-4):107-34. PMID: 16085336.
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    32. Rhea JT, Halpern EF, Ptak T, Lawrason JN, Sacknoff R, Novelline RA. The status of appendiceal CT in an urban medical center 5 years after its introduction: experience with 753 patients. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2005 Jun; 184(6):1802-8. PMID: 15908534.
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    33. Nelson BP, Senecal EL, Hong C, Ptak T, Thomas SH. Opioid analgesia and assessment of the sonographic Murphy sign. J Emerg Med. 2005 May; 28(4):409-13. PMID: 15837021.
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    34. Ptak T, Rhea JT, Novelline RA. Radiation dose is reduced with a single-pass whole-body multi-detector row CT trauma protocol compared with a conventional segmented method: initial experience. Radiology. 2003 Dec; 229(3):902-5. PMID: 14657320.
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    35. Liedl R, Ptak T. Modelling of diffusion-limited retardation of contaminants in hydraulically and lithologically nonuniform media. J Contam Hydrol. 2003 Nov; 66(3-4):239-59. PMID: 14568401.
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    36. Ptak T, Sheridan RL, Rhea JT, Gervasini AA, Yun JH, Curran MA, Borszuk P, Petrovick L, Novelline RA. Cerebral fractional anisotropy score in trauma patients: a new indicator of white matter injury after trauma. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2003 Nov; 181(5):1401-7. PMID: 14573445.
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    37. Sheridan R, Peralta R, Rhea J, Ptak T, Novelline R. Reformatted visceral protocol helical computed tomographic scanning allows conventional radiographs of the thoracic and lumbar spine to be eliminated in the evaluation of blunt trauma patients. J Trauma. 2003 Oct; 55(4):665-9. PMID: 14566120.
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    38. Ptak T, Hunter GH, Avakian R, Novelline RA. Clinical significance of cavernous carotid calcifications encountered on head computed tomography scans performed on patients seen in the emergency department. J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2003 Jul-Aug; 27(4):505-9. PMID: 12886133.
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    39. Ptak T, Novelline RA. Amiodarone administered for cardiac resuscitation does not alter the integrity of noncontrast cerebral computed tomography performed on neurologically symptomatic patients before therapeutic cardiac catheterization. J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2003 Mar-Apr; 27(2):226-30. PMID: 12703016.
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    40. Bockelmann A, Zamfirescu D, Ptak T, Grathwohl P, Teutsch G. Quantification of mass fluxes and natural attenuation rates at an industrial site with a limited monitoring network: a case study. J Contam Hydrol. 2003 Jan; 60(1-2):97-121. PMID: 12498576.
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    41. Roth C, Tello R, Sutherland K, Ptak T. Prediction rule for etiology of vague abdominal pain in the emergency room: utility for imaging triage. Invest Radiol. 2002 Oct; 37(10):552-6. PMID: 12352163.
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