DarkoPucarMDPhD

PubMed

• Population-based deep image prior for dynamic PET denoising: A data-driven approach to improve parametric quantification.
  Qiong Liu, Yu-Jung Tsai, Jean-Dominique Gallezot, Xueqi Guo, Vladimir Panin, Michael Casey, Tianshun Miao, Huidong Xie, Xiongchao Chen, Bo Zhou, Richard Carson, Chi Li...> ;Medical Image Analysis. 2024 Apr 17
• Reactive axillary lymph nodes after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination: comparison of mRNA vs. attenuated whole-virus vaccines.
  Mehmet Emin Adin, Edvin Isufi, Jennifer Wu, Yulei Pang, Daniel Nguyen, Duygu Simsek Has, Civan Caner, Noha Aboueldaha, Mahmud Mossa-Basha, Darko Pucar> ;Nuclear Medicine Communications. 2024 Jun 1
• 3 citations
  Inter-pass motion correction for whole-body dynamic PET and parametric imaging.
  Xueqi Guo, Jing Wu, Ming-Kai Chen, Qiong Liu, John A Onofrey, Darko Pucar, Yulei Pang, David Pigg, Michael E Casey, Nicha C Dvornek, Chi Liu> ;IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. 2023 Apr 1
• 1 citations
  The role of imaging and sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with T3b-T4b melanoma with clinically negative disease.
  Marianna V Papageorge, Renee M Maina, Amber Loren O King, Victor Lee, Raymond Baumann, Darko Pucar, Stephan Ariyan, Sajid A Khan, Sarah A Weiss, James Clune, Kelly Olino> ;Frontiers in Oncology. 2023 Jan 1
• 3 citations
  PET Image Denoising using a Deep-Learning Method for Extremely Obese Patients.
  Hui Liu, Hamed Yousefi, Niloufar Mirian, MingDe Lin, David Menard, Matthew Gregory, Mariam Aboian, Annemarie Boustani, Ming-Kai Chen, Lawrence Saperstein, Darko Pucar,...> ;IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. 2022 Sep 1
• 3 citations
  Virtual high-count PET image generation using a deep learning method.
  Juan Liu, Sijin Ren, Rui Wang, Niloufarsadat Mirian, Yu-Jung Tsai, Michal Kulon, Darko Pucar, Ming-Kai Chen, Chi Liu> ;Medical Physics. 2022 Sep 1
• 10 citations
  Radiotracers to Address Unmet Clinical Needs in Cardiovascular Imaging, Part 2: Inflammation, Fibrosis, Thrombosis, Calcification, and Amyloidosis Imaging.
  John C Stendahl, Jennifer M Kwan, Darko Pucar, Mehran M Sadeghi> ;Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2022 Jul 1
• 30 citations
  Inhibition of type 1 immunity with tofacitinib is associated with marked improvement in longstanding sarcoidosis.
  William Damsky, Alice Wang, Daniel J Kim, Bryan D Young, Katelyn Singh, Michael J Murphy, Joseph Daccache, Abigale Clark, Ruveyda Ayasun, Changwan Ryu, Meaghan K McGea...> ;Nature Communications. 2022 Jun 6
• 2 citations
  Radiotracers to Address Unmet Clinical Needs in Cardiovascular Imaging, Part 1: Technical Considerations and Perfusion and Neuronal Imaging.
  John C Stendahl, Jennifer M Kwan, Darko Pucar, Mehran M Sadeghi> ;Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2022 May 1
• 4 citations
  Ipsilateral Malignant Axillary Lymphadenopathy and Contralateral Reactive Lymph Nodes in a COVID-19 Vaccine Recipient With Breast Cancer.
  Mehmet Emin Adin, Jennifer Wu, Edvin Isufi, Edison Tsui, Darko Pucar> ;Journal of Breast Cancer. 2022 Apr 1
• 2 citations
  FDG PET vascular imaging in IgG4-RD: Potential and challenges.
  Darko Pucar, Monique Hinchcliff> ;Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 2022 Dec 1
• 2 citations
  Methods of Sentinel Lymph Node Identification in Auricular Melanoma.
  Seth Noorbakhsh, Marianna Papageorge, Renee M Maina, Raymond Baumann, Craig Moores, Sarah A Weiss, Darko Pucar, Stephan Ariyan, Kelly Olino, James Clune> ;Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Global Open. 2021 Dec 1
• Clinical PET/CT utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic: initial experience at Yale University
  Mehmet Emin Adin, Haruka Uezono, Edvin Isufi, Yulei Pang, William Zucconi, Lawrence Saperstein, Darko Pucar> ;Nuclear Medicine Communications. 2021 Nov 1
• 5 citations
  Molecular testing of isolated myeloid sarcoma allows successful FLT3-targeted therapy.
  Rory M. Shallis, Darko Pucar, Sudhir Perincheri, Steven D. Gore, Stuart Seropian, Nikolai A. Podoltsev, Amer M. Zeidan> ;Annals of Hematology. 2021 Oct 22
• 39 citations
  Association of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine With Ipsilateral Axillary Lymph Node Reactivity on Imaging.
  Mehmet Emin Adin, Edvin Isufi, Michal Kulon, Darko Pucar> ;JAMA Oncology. 2021 Aug 1
• 2 citations
  Infective Endocarditis White Blood Cell Imaging: Is There an Added Value to the First-Line Imaging?
  Darko Pucar, H William Strauss> ;Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 2021 Jul 6
• Cocaine-induced pulmonary complications: A diagnosis of waiting and watching.
  Rohit Munagala, Varsha Chiruvella, Darko Pucar, Jayanth Keshavamurthy> ;Lung India. 2021 Jul 1
• 1 citations
  Gallbladder Perforation Into the Peritoneal Cavity.
  Bing F. Wang, Steven Yi, Jayanth Keshavamurthy, Hadyn T. Williams, Darko Pucar> ;Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2021 Feb 1
• 3 citations
  Intracystic Papillary Neoplasm of Gallbladder Mimicking Metastatic Malignancy on PET/CT.
  Rasha Ismail, Anas Saeed Bamashmos, Paul J Cohen, Darko Pucar> ;Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2021 Jul 1
• 9 citations
  Changes in Population-Level and Institutional-Level Prescribing Habits of Radioiodine Therapy for Papillary Thyroid Cancer
  Daniel I. Jacobs, Christopher T Breen, Darko Pucar, Elizabeth H. Holt, Benjamin L. Judson, Saral Mehra> ;Thyroid. 2021 Feb 12
• Rapidly lethal secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis predicted by fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography
  Lovemore Peter Makusha, Darko Pucar, Colin R Young> ;World Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2020 Jul 1
• Inferior vena cava syndrome on skeletal scintigraphy secondary to metastatic prostate cancer.
  Lovemore Peter Makusha, Michal Kulon, Darko Pucar, Colin R Young> ;World Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2020 Jul 1
• 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET imaging in aortic graft infection: many more questions than answers
  Darko Pucar, Mehran M. Sadeghi> ;Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 2020 Jun 30
• 3 citations
  Nomogram Identifies Age as the Most Important Predictor of Overall Survival in Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Cancer After Primary Surgery
  Supriya Gupta, Jennifer L. Waller, Jimmy J. Brown, Yolanda Elam, James V. Rawson, Darko Pucar> ;Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery. 2020 Jun 1
• 2 citations
  Nuclear Medicine Advanced Associates: Physician Extenders in Nuclear Medicine-Now Is the Time.
  Mary Anne Owen, Katie Neal Sinotte, Norman E. Bolus, Richard Siska, Justin T. Jacob, Vicki LaRue, Blaine Norton, Darko Pucar> ;Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology. 2020 Apr 20
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Journal Articles

• “Reverse Redistribution” Pattern on SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging at Rest and from Subendocardial Ischemia  
  Pucar D, Munroe J, Holliday L, Williams H, J Nucl Cardiol, 1/15/2015
• BK Nephritis and Venous Thrombosis in Renal Transplant Recipient Detected by Indium-111 Leukocyte Imaging  
  Pucar D, Klein K, Corley J, Williams HT, Clin Nucl Med, 1/1/2015
• Paucity of biliary ducts: A rare etiology of neonatal cholestasis  
  Figiel SC, Franco A, Pucar D, Lewis KN, Lee JR, Radiology Case, 1/1/2012
• Predicting Post-external-beam Radiation Therapy PSA relapse of prostate cancer using pre-treatment MRI  
  Fuchsjäger M, Pucar D, Zelefsky MJ, Zhang Z, Mo Q, Ben-Porat LS, Shukla-Dave A, Wang L, Reuter VE, Hricak HH, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 1/1/2010
• The role of MR imaging and MR spectroscopic imaging in diagnosis, treatment selection and post-treatment follow-up for prostate cancer  
  Fuchsjager M, Akin O,Shukla-Dave A, Pucar D,Hricak H, Clinical Advances in Hematology & Oncology, 1/1/2009
• Clinically significant prostate cancer local recurrence following radiation therapy occurs at the site of primary tumor – magnetic resonance imaging and step-section p...  
  Pucar D, Hricak H, Shukla-Dave A, Kuroiwa K, Drobnjak M, Eastham J, Scardino PT, Zelefsky MJ, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 1/1/2007
• Defective metabolic signaling in adenylate kinase AK1 gene knockout hearts compromises post-ischemic coronary reflow  
  Dzeja PP, Bast P, Pucar D, Wieringa B, Terzic A, J Biol Chem, 1/1/2007
• Correlation of MR imaging and spectroscopy with step section pathology in prostate cancer after external beam radiation therapy: initial experience  
  Pucar D, Shukla-Dave A, Hricak H, Moskowitz C,Kuroiwa K, Olgac S, Ebora L, Scardino PT,Koutcher JA, Zakian KL, Radiology, 1/1/2005
• Indolent Prostate Cancer – Prediction by Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy  
  Shukla-Dave A, Hricak H, Pucar D, Kattan MW, Kuroiwa K, Chen H, Donohue J, Koutcher JA, Zakian KL, Scardino PT, Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, 1/1/2005
• Mapping hypoxia-induced bioenergetic rearrangements and metabolic signaling with 18O-assisted 31P NMR and 1H NMR spectroscopy  
  Pucar D, Dzeja PP, Bast P, Gumina RJ, Drahl C, Lim L, Juranic N, Macura S, Terzic A, Mol Cell Biochem, 1/1/2004
• Preliminary assessment of magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging in predicting treatment outcome in patients with prostate cancer at high risk of relapse  
  Pucar D, Koutcher JA, Shah A, Dyke JP, Schwartz L, Thaler H, Kurhanewicz J, Scardino PT, Kelly WK, Hricak H, Zakian KL, Clin Prostate Cancer, 1/1/2004
• Knockout of the KATP channel subunit Kir62 negates ischemic preconditioning-induced protection of myocardial energetics  
  Gumina RJ, Pucar D, Bast PH, Hodgson DM; Dzeja, PP; Miki T, Seino S, Terzic A, Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 1/1/2003
• Cellular remodeling in heart failure disrupts KATP channel-dependent stress tolerance  
  Hodgson DM, Zingman LV, Kane GC, Perez-Terzic C, Bienengraeber M, Ozcan C, Gumina RJ, Pucar D, O'Coclain F, Mann DL, Alekseev AE, and Terzic A, EMBO J, 1/1/2003
• The utility of proton MRSI in predicting biochemical outcome in prostate cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy  
  Pucar D, KoutcherJA, Shah, DykeJP, ChenH, SchwartzL, KellyWK, HricakH, ZakianKL, Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, 1/1/2003
• Creatine kinase phosphotransfer synchronizes cellular energetic with K-ATP channel gating  
  Selivanov VA, Abraham MR, Hodgson D, Pucar D, Zingman LV, Wieringa B, Dzeja PP, Alekseev AE, Terzic A, Biophys. J, 1/1/2002
• Hypoxia-induced bioenergetic rearrangements in the heart detected by 18O-assisted 31P MRS and 1H MRS  
  Pucar D, Dzeja PP, Bast P, Juranic N, Macura S, Terzic A, Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, 1/1/2002
• Adenylate kinase phosphotransfer communicates cellular energetic signals to ATP-sensitive potassium channels  
  Carrasco AJ, Dzeja PP, Alekseev AE, Pucar D, Zingman LV, Abraham MR, Hodgson D, Bienengraeber M, Puceat M, Janssen E, Wieringa B, Terzic A, Proc Natl Acad Sci, 1/1/2001
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Books/Book Chapters

• Contemporary issues in cancer imaging 
  Chapter: Imaging recurrent prostate cancer 
  Sella T, Pucar DCambridge University Press2008
• Complete Guide to Prostate Cancer 
  Chapter: Staging 
  Carroll PR, Hricak H, Meng, MV, Park, S, Pucar DEditors: Bostwick DG, Higano CS, Roach M, Crawford DE.American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA2005
• Biological Motility: New Trends in Research 
  Chapter: Creatine kinase phosphotransfer and KATP channel gating: A new paradigm in metabolic sensing 
  Selivanov VA, Abraham MR, Hodgson D, Pucar D, Zingman LV, Wieringa B, Dzeja PP, Alekseev AE, A. TerzicRussian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia2001

Abstracts/Posters

• Afferent Signal and Intrinsic Structural Striatal Deficits Causing Abnormal Dopamine-Transporter SPECT Brain Images
  Pucar D, Annual Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Baltimore, MD, 1/6/2015
• BK Nephritis and Venous Thrombosis in Renal Transplant Recipient Detected by Indium – 111 Leukocyte Imaging
  Patel S, Pucar D, Klein K, Corley J, Williams HT, SEC Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Orlando, FL, 1/12/2014
• Novel Approach in Assessing the Accuracy of FDG PET/CT in Nodal Staging of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer in Sequential Surgical Algorithm
  Elam Y, Patel V, Williams HT, Hall P, Pucar D, SEC Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Orlando, FL, 1/12/2014
• Reverse Redistribution from Endothelial Dysfunction at Rest
  Pucar D, Munroe J, Greenspan B, Holliday L, Williams H, ACNM Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, 1/1/2014
• Metabolic signature of prostate cancer as detected with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging and 18F-fluorodeoxygluose-positron emission tomography
  Shukla-Dave A, Wassberg C, Pucar D, Schoder H, Goldman D, Reuter VE, Eastham J, Larson SM, Hricak H, Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med, 1/1/2013
• PET/CT in Evaluation of Unusual Cutaneous Manifestations of Breast Cancer
  Graves, Kelly, Samuel TA, Pucar D, Munroe JA, Williams HT, SECSNM Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, 1/21/2012
• Added Value of Including Entire Brain in Routine PET study: Potential Reward with Negligible Risk. Abstract Publication Number PSN-SNM12PS1-2608
  Gibbs D, Pucar D, Brown Y, Williams HT, SNM Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, 1/11/2012
• In Vivo Myocardial Calcium Mishandling in Kir6.2-Knockout Mice Captured by Manganese-Enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Mechanism for Development of Diasto...
  Gumina RJ, O'Cochlain F, Kurtz CE, Bast P, Pucar D, Mishra PK, Miki T, Seino S, Macura S, Terzic A, Circulation, 1/1/2004
• Knockout of the Katp Channel Pore-Forming Subunit Kir6.2 Aggravates Myocardial Stunning
  Gumina RJ, Bast PH, Pucar D, Valverde A, Hodgson D, Dzeja PP, Miki T, Seino S, Terzic A, Circulation, 1/1/2002
• Knockout of Cardiac Sarcolemmal Katp Channels Negates Bioenergetic Protection of Ischemic Preconditioning
  Gumina RJ, Pucar D, Bast PH, Hodgson D, Dzeja PP, Miki T, Seino S, Terzic A, Circulation, 1/1/2002
• Adenylate kinase AK1 gene knockout heart: compromised energetics under metabolic stress
  Dzeja PP,Pucar D, Janssen E, Bast P, Juranic N, Macura S, Wieringa B, Terzic A, J.Mol.Cell Cardiol, 1/1/2001
• Adenylate kinase phosphotransfer communicates cellular energetic signals to K-ATP channels
  Carrasco AJ, Dzeja PP, Alekseev AE, Pucar D, Zingman LV, Abraham MR, Hodgson D, Bienengraeber M, Puceat M, Janssen E, Wieringa B, Terzic A, J.Mol.Cell Cardiol, 1/1/2001
• 18O/31P NMR analysis of cellular energetics in the preconditioned state: protective role for phosphotransfer reactions
  Pucar D,Dzeja PP, Bast P, Juranic N, Macura S, Terzic A, The Fifth International Muscle Energetics Conference, Burlington, VT, 1/1/2001
• Coupling between ATP-generating and ATP-consuming processes in the failing myocardium
  Dzeja PP, Pucar D, Redfield MM, Burnett JC, Terzic A, Abstracts book for the Scientific Conference on Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Physiological Approaches to the Failing Heart, American Heart Association, 1/1/1999
• Adenylate kinase-like activity intrinsic and associated with cardiac ATP-sensitive K+ channels
  Carrasco AJ, Dzeja PP, Pucar D, Alekseev AE, A. Terzic, The Physiologist, 1/1/1999
• Creatine kinase catalyzed phosphoryl flux is an essential regulator of cardiac KATP channels
  M.R. Abraham, A.E. Alekseev, P.P. Dzeja, D. Pucar and A, The Physiologist, 1/1/1999
• Altered coupling between ATP-generating and ATP-consuming processes in the failing myocardium
  Dzeja PP, Pucar D, Redfield MM, Burnett JC, Terzic A, FASEB J, 1/1/1999
• Efficacy of magnetotherapy in treatment of myofascial pain syndromes
  Djordjevic D, Lekic D, Pucar D, Pathophysiology, 1/1/1998
• A view of different learning regimes in PDP neuronal networks
  Pucar D, Djordjevic D, Nikolic R, Pathophysiology, 1/1/1998
• Lidocaine-kindled seizures – a new model of limbic epilepsy
  Djordjevic D, Pucar D. Lekic D, VI Yugoslav Congress of Neurophysiology, 1/1/1997
• The mistakes in statistical interpretations of clinical results and possibilities for their correction
  Pucar D, Lekic D, Djordjevic D, XIII Congress of Physicians of Serbia, 1/1/1996
• Lidocaine kindling and reflexotherapy
  Lekic D, Djordjevic D, Pucar D, XV Yugoslav Symposium of Epileptology, 1/1/1996
• Importance of auditory evoked potentials (AEP) in assessment of brain stem function in patients with axial tumors of posterior fossa
  Bojovic V, Caran AM, Berisavac I, Pucar D, Nagulic M, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1/1/1996
• Somato-sensory evoked potentials in hypertensive and normotensive hydrocephalus
  Caran AM, Bojovic V, Berisavac I, Pucar D, Nagulic M, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1/1/1996
• Low frequency magnetotherapy in treatment of pain
  Djordjevic D, Lekic D, Pucar D, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1/1/1996
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Lectures

• CT and MRI for assessment of treatment response: practical aspects 
  San Antonio, TX - 1/23/2015
• PET/CT in Lymphoma 
  Augusta, GA - 1/8/2015
• PET/CT in Head and Neck Cancer 
  Augusta, GA - 1/8/2015
• Renal Scintigraphy 
  Augusta, GA - 1/26/2014
• Thyroid and Parathyroid Scintigraphy 
  Augusta, GA - 1/26/2014
• PET/CT of Lung and Head and Neck Cancer 
  Augusta, GA - 1/26/2014
• Prostate Cancer Imaging 
  1/22/2013
• Clinical Applicability of Quantitative Imaging: Present and Future 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/17/2013
• The Essentials of Tumor Response Assessment by Imaging 
  1/1/2013
• SPECT/CT and Tumor Imaging 
  Augusta, GA - 1/29/2010
• Prostate Metabolic Imaging from Bench to Bedside 
  New York, NY - 1/1/2008
• Predicting post-radiation therapy biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer by MRI 
  New York, NY - 1/1/2008
• Clinically significant prostate cancer local recurrence following radiation therapy occurs at the site of primary tumor – magnetic resonance imaging and step-section p... 
  New York, NY - 1/1/2007
• Clinical MRI imaging 
  New York, NY - 1/1/2007
• Evaluation of Endorectal MRI/MRSI in Detecting and Predicting Recurrent Prostate Cancer 
  New York, NY - 1/1/2006
• Phosphotransfer enzymes in heart disease: emerging role for adenylate kinase 
  Scotland, UK - 1/1/2000
• Response of mesencephalic nociceptive neurons to peripheral stimulation of reflexogenic points 
  Belgrade, Yugoslavia - 1/1/1995
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Other

• Radium Ra-223 dichloride in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer 
  Pucar D, Nuclear Oncology Council (NOC) of Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Newsletter
  1/1/2014
• Early PET/CT Crucial in Ablated Colorectal Liver Metastases 
  Pucar D, Medscape
  1/1/2013