Email: s.nekolla AT lrz.tu-muenchen.de
Dr. Stephan Nekolla is the Head of Multimodal Cardiac Imaging at Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technische Universität München
(Germany), in whose nuclear medicine division he has been working since 1993 (Director: Markus Schwaiger).
His research fields are acquisition and analysis of PET, SPECT, MRI and CT cardiac studies, workflow considerations and
quantification methods both in clinical and pre-clinical studies. Dr. Nekolla is author and co-author of over 100 peer
reviewed publications with accumulated impact factors of over 600 and creator of the analysis tool "MunichHeart" which
is used in several international cardiac research centers. After studying physics at the Univ. Würzburg, Germany (1983-1989)
and his diploma thesis at the Institute of Biotechnology on "Fourieranalysis Based Signal analysis with Membranproteins",
he received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Physics, Univ. Würzburg, Axel Haase, Department of Biophysics on
"Postprocessing in Quantitative Nuclear Magnetic Resonance" (1989-1993).
Most recent, relevant papers:
1. Combined Reporter Gene PET and Iron Oxide MRI for Monitoring Survival and Localization of Transplanted Cells in the Rat Heart. Higuchi et al. J Nucl Med. 2009
2. Evaluation of the novel myocardial perfusion positron-emission tomography tracer 18F-BMS-747158-02: comparison to 13N-ammonia and validation with microspheres in a pig model. Nekolla et al. Circulation. 2009
3. Tissue Classification as a Potential Approach for Attenuation Correction in Whole-Body PET/MRI: Evaluation with PET/CT Data. Martinez-Moeller-A et al. J Nucl Med. 2009
4. Rubidium-82 PET-CT for quantitative assessment of myocardial blood flow: validation in a canine model of coronary artery stenosis. Lautamäki-R et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2009
5. Diagnostic Value of Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography for Detection of Myocardial Necrosis Early After Acute Myocardial Infarction. Ibrahim-T et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007
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