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December
Marquez BV, Lapi SE. Pretargeted immunoPET: Overcoming limitations of space and time. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2015;December 10;115.168096.

Robbin ML, Greene T, Cheung AK, Allon M, Berceli SA, Kaufman JS, Allen M, Imrey PB, Radeva MK, Shiu YT, Umphrey HR, Young CJ, Group FT. Arteriovenous fistula development in the first 6 weeks after creation. Radiology. 2015 Dec 22. PMID: 26694050 [Epub ahead of print].

Sardari A, Thomas JV, Nix J, Pietryga JA, Sanyal R, Gordetsky J, Rais‐Bahrami S. Incidental bladder cancer detected on multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging of the prostate gland. Case Reports in Urology, Vol. 2015, Article ID 503154, 4 pages.

Grant EG, Tessler FN, Hoang JK, Langer JE, Beland MD, Berland LL, et al. Thyroid ultrasound reporting lexicon: White paper of the ACR thyroid imaging, reporting and data system (TIRADS) committee. J Am Coll Radiol. 2015 Dec;12(12 Pt A):1272‐9. Epub 2015 Sep 26. PMID: 26419308.

Ghani M, Yan A, Wong M, Li Y, Fajardo L, Ren L, Wu X, Liu H. Low dose high energyx‐ray in‐line phase sensitive imaging prototype: Investigation of optimal geometric conditions and design parameters. Journal of X‐Ray Science and Technology. December 2015;23(6): 667‐682.

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Lockhart for his Certificate of Achievement from the Academy of Radiology Leadership and Management.

November
Liu L, Collier AC, Link JM, Domino KB, Mankoff DA, Eary JF, et al. Modulation of P‐gylcoprotein at the human blood‐brain barrier by quinidine of rifampin treatment: A positron emission tomography imaging study. Drug Metab Dispos. 2015 Nov;43(11):1795‐804. Epub 2015 Sep 9. PMID: 26354948.

Kim H, Buchsbaum DJ, Zinn KR. A novel imaging biomarker extracted from fluorescence microscopic imaging of TRA‐8/DR5 oligomers predicts TRA‐8 therapeutic efficacy in breast and pancreatic cancer mouse models. Mol Imaging Biol. 2015 Nov 9. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 26552657.

Singh SP, Alli O, Melby S. Lessar M, Sasse M, Booker J, Davies J. TAVR: Imaging spectrum of complications. J Thorac Imaging. 2015 Nov;30(6):359‐77. PMID: 26488207.

Sonovane SK, Milner DM, Singh SP, Abdel Aal AK, Shahir KS, Chaturvedi A. Comprehensive imaging review of the superior vena cava. Radiographics 2015; Nov‐Dec;35(7):1873‐1892. PMID: 26452112.

Wu X, Liu HQ, Xiao TQ. A novel phase retrieval method for x‐ray phase tomography. Symposium onmulti‐scale and multi‐dimensional synchrotron radiation imaging. Shanghai, China. November 3‐6, 2015.

October

Liu HQ, Wu X, Xiao TQ. Technical Note: synchrotron‐based high‐energy x‐ray phase sensitive microtomography for biomedical research. Med Phys. 2015 Oct;42 (10): 5595‐5603. PMID: 26429234.

Special Acknowledgements
Dr. Georg Deutsch has been appointed to the External Experts Panel (EEP ‐ concentration in neuroimaging) for the NIH‐NIDDK Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction Research Network (LURN).

September
Little MD, Allon M, McNamara MM, Ong S, Lockhart ME, Young CJ, Robbin ML. Risk evaluation of immediate surgical failure during thigh hemodialysis graft placement by sonographic screening. J Ultrasound Med 2015 Sept; 34(9):16139. Epub 2015 Aug 12. PMID: 26269300.

Soulez G, Bloomgarden DC, Rofsky NM, Smith M, Abujudeh HH, Morgan DE, et al. Prospective cohort study of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis in patients with stages 3 to 5 chronic kidney disease undergoing MRI with the injection of gadobenate dimeglumine or gadoteridol. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2015 Sep;205(3):46978. PMID: 26295633.

Maldonado F, Duan F, Raghunath SM, Rajagopalan S, Karwoski RA, Garg K, Greco E, Nath H, et al. Noninvasive computed tomographybased risk stratification of lung adenocarcinomas in the National Lung Screening Trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2015 Sept;192(6):73744. PMID: 26052977.

RaisBahrami S, Pietryga JA, Nix JW. Contemporary role of advanced imaging for bladder cancer staging. Urol Oncol. 2015 Sep 28 [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 26427696.

Hoyt K, Umphrey H, Lockhart ME, Robbin ML, Forero A. Ultrasound imaging of breast tumor perfusion and neovascular morphology. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2015 Sep;41(9):22922302. Epub 2015 Jun 24. PMID: 26116159.

August
Baldwin JA, Bag AK, White SL, Palot-Manzil FF, O'Malley JP. All you need to know as an authorized user. AJR AM J Roentgenol 2015 Aug;205(2): 251-258. PMID: 26204272.

McArthur TA, Planz VB, Fineberg NS, Berland LL, Lockhart ME. CT evaluation of common duct dilation after cholecystectomy and with advancing age. Abdom Imaging 2015 Aug;40(6):1581-1586. PMID: 25421790.

Soulez G, Bloomgarden DC, Rofsky NM, Smith M, Abujudeh HH, Morgan DE, et al. Prospective cohort study of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis in patients with stages 3-5 chronic kidney disease undergoing MRI with injected gadobenate dimeglumine or gadoteridol. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2015 Sep;205(3):469-78. PMID: 26295633.

Bhatt SP, Wells JM, Kinney G, Washko GR, Budoff M, Kim YI, Bailey WC, Nath H, et al. ?-blockers are associated with a reduction in COPD exacerbations. Thorax 2015 Aug.17. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26283710.

Pietryga JA, Morgan DE. Imaging preoperatively for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. J Gastrointest Oncol 2015 Aug;6(4):343-57. PMID: 26261722.

Special Acknowledgements
Dr. Mark Lockhart received the Abdominal Imaging Editor’s Recognition Award, Distinguished Reviewer, August 2015.

Dr. Janis O’Malley was interviewed and featured in the August 2015 AJR InBrief where she reviewed the key concepts and outlined the requirements for becoming an authorized user of radiopharmaceuticals.

July
Allon M, Robbin ML, Umphrey HR, Young CJ, Deierhoi MH, Goodman J, Hanaway M, Lockhart ME, Barker-Finkel J, Litovsky S. Pre-operative arterial microcalcification and clinical outcomes of arteriovenous fistulas for hemodialysis. Am J Kidney Dis 2015 Jul;66(1):84-90.Epub 2015 Feb 18. PMID: 25700554.
June

Morgan AE, Berland LL, Ananyev SS, Lockhart ME, Kolettis PN. Extraurinary incidental findings on CT for hematuria: the radiologist's role and downstream cost analysis. AJR AM J Roentgenol. 2015 Jun;204(6):1160-7. PMID: 26001224.

Hoyt K, Umphrey H, Lockhart M, Robbin M, Forero-Torres A. Ultrasound imaging of breast tumor perfusion and neovascular morphology. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2015 Jun 23 [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 26116159.

Surolia R, Karki S, Kim H, et al. Heme oxygenase-1 mediated autophagy protects against pulmonary endothelial cell death and development of emphysema in cadmium treated mice. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2015 Jun 12 [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 26071551.

McNamara MM, Little MD, Alexander LF, Van Carroll L, Beasley TM, Morgan DE. Multireader evaluation of lesion conspicuity in small pancreatic adenocarcinomas: complimentary value of iodine material density and low keV simulated monoenergetic images using multiphasic rapid kVp-switching dual energy CT. Abdom Imaging. 2015 Jun;40(5):1230-40. PMID: 25331567.

Liu HQ, Wu X, Xiao TQ. Optimization of reconstructed quality of hard x-ray phase microtomography. Applied Optics. 54:18;5610-5618, 2015.

Special Acknowledgements
Dr. Almodovar
has been appointed to the PET Center of Excellence Board of Directors for the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
May
Ward MK, Bolding MS, Schultz KP, Gamlin PD. Mapping the macaque superior temporal sulcus: functional delineation of vergence and version eye movement related activity. J Neurosci 2015 May 13;35(19):7428-42. PMID: 25972171.

Cunningham JR III, O’Malley JP, Bhambhvani P. Ovarian hyperstimulation and breast cancer on PET imaging with sonographic correlation. Clin Nucl Med 2015. May;40(5):430-2. PMID 25742224.

Yan A, Wu X, Liu H. A general theory of interference fringes in x-ray phase grating imaging. Medical Physics 42: 3036-3047, May 2015.

Special Acknowledgements
Dr. Samuel Almodovar began his term in May 2015 as the new President of the Alabama Society of Nuclear Medicine for 2015-2016 . He was also invited to be a member of the Committee for General Diversity of the American College of Radiology and member of the ACR Economics Committee for Nuclear Medicine.
Dr. Glenn Roberson has been appointed to two ACR committees for 2015-2016; Committee on Economics – Neuro, and Committee on Practice Parameters – Neuro.
Dr. Sushilkumar Sonavane was a contributing author to the ACR-Lung Cancer Screening eLearning Program. Editor-in-Chief Jeffery Kanne. Released May 2015.  15 CME credits offered.
April
Michael S, Vaphiades DO, Visscher K, Rucker JD, Vattoth S,
Roberson G. Functional MRI and MRI tractography in progressive supranuclear palsy-like syndrome. Neuro-Ophthalmology. April 2015;39(2):64-68.

Conry RM, Sullivan JC, Nabors LB. Ipilimumab-induced encephalopathy with a reversible splenial lesion. Cancer Immunol Res. 2015 Apr 28. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 25922203

Wu D, Yan A, Li Y, Wong M, Zheng B, Wu X and Liu H. Characterization of a high-energy in-line phase contrast tomosynthesis prototype. Medical Physics 42: 2404-2420, April 2015 (Epub ahead of print).

Special Acknowledgements
Dr. Lockhart and Dr. Tessler both received the 2014 Editor’s Recognition Award for Reviewing with Special Distinction in Radiology.
Dr. Robbin received two Editor’s Recognition Awards; one in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine and the other in American Institute of Ultrasound Medicine.
March
Watts JR Jr, Sonavane SK, Snell-Bergeron J, Nath H. Visual scoring of coronary artery calcification in lung cancer screening computed tomography: association with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality risk. Coron Artery Dis. 2015 Mar;26(2):157-62. PMID: 25370000

Wu D, Wong M, Li Y, Chen W, Wu X, Liu H. DQE characterization of a high energy inline phase contrast prototype under different kVp and beam filtration. SPIE Proceedings, 2015 March 9, Vol. 9324, 932418.
February
Bag AK, Kim H, Gao Y, Bolding M, Warren PP, Chapman PR, et al. Prolonged treatment with bevacizumab is associated with brain atrophy: a pilot study in patients with high-grade gliomas. J Neurooncol. 2015. Feb. 25 [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 25711673

Kim H, Cam B, Zhai G, Hubbard WJ, Zinn K, Chaudry IH. Salutary effects of estrogen sulfate for traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma, 2015 Feb. 3 [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 25646701

Kim H, Hartman YE, Zhai G, Chung TK, et al. Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI evaluates the early response of human head and neck tumor xenografts following anti-EMMPRIN therapy with cisplatin or irradiation. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2015 Feb 20 [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 25704985

Jacob R, Turley F, Redden DT, Saddekni S, Abdel Aal AK, Zarzour J, Bolus D, Smith JK, et al. Adjuvant stereotactic body radiotherapy following transarterial chemo-embolization in patients with non-resectable hepatocellular carcinoma tumours over 3 centimeters. HPB (Oxford). 2015 Feb;17(2): 140–149 PMID: 25186290

Surasi DS, O'Malley JP, Bhambhvani P, 18F-FDG PET/CT findings in portal vein thrombosis and liver metastases. J Nucl Med Technol. 2015 Feb; 5. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 25655342

Hoang J, Langer JE, Middleton WD, Tessler FN, Berland LL, et al. Managing incidental thyroid nodules detected on imaging: white paper of the ACR Incidental Thyroid Findings Committee.  J Am Coll Radiol 2015 Feb;12(2):143-50 PMID: 25456025

Zinn KR, Korb M, Samuel S, Warram JM, et al. IND-Directed safety and biodistribution study of intravenously injected cetuximab-IRDye800 in cynomolgus macaques. Mol Imaging Biol 2015 Feb;17(1):49-57 PMID: 25080323

Special Acknowledgements
Dr. Desiree Morgan has been awarded an ABR Lifetime Service Award (2015) in acknowledgement and appreciation of her ongoing exceptional service in fulfilling the ABR mission.
Dr. Michelle Robbin has received an Editor’s Recognition Award from Radiology.
January
Kazerooni EA, Armstrong MR, Amorosa JK, Hernandez D, Liebscher LA, Nath H, McNitt-Gray MF, Stern EJ, Wilcox PA. ACR CT Accreditation Program and the Lung Cancer Screening Program Designation. J Am Coll Radiol 2015 Jan;12:38-42. PMID: 25455196

Itri J, Ballard DH, Kantartzis S, Sullivan JC 3, Weisman JA, Durand DJ, Sayed A, Kansagra A. Entrepreneurship in the Academic Radiology Environment. Acad Radiol 2015 Jan;22(1):14-24. PMID: 25442799