Spencer Behr, MD

Associate Professor
Director, Fellowship Programs
Associate Director, Precision Imaging of Cancer and Therapy
Assoc Prof of Clin Radiology

Biography

Spencer Behr, MD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology and the Director of the Fellowship for both the Abdominal Imaging subspecialty and for the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco. He obtained his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston in 2005. In 2010, he completed a four-year Diagnostic Radiology residency at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts, followed by a fellowship in Abdominal Imaging and Nuclear Medicine at UCSF.

Dr. Behr has subspecialty training in abdominal imaging and nuclear medicine, and his research interests are focused on molecular and hybrid imaging translational research. He has selectively pursued interdepartmental projects to foster cross-disciplinary discussions and optimize the clinical impact of these projects.

Projects include: FDG PET in breast cancer, comparing breast cancer molecular subtypes with their respective FDG PET and breast MRI findings, CT findings in Celiac Disease, fluoro-18-fluorothymidine (FLT) PET as a potential marker of early response in patients with metastatic melanoma, CT appearance of malabsorption, and clinical applications of iodine-124 PET/CT in thyroid cancer.

Expertise:
Abdominal Imaging and Nuclear Medicine

Specialty:
Molecular and hybrid imaging translational research

Professional Interests:
Translational research in the fields of prostate and the development of novel imaging techniques using PET/CT and PET/MR

Education and Training:
• Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston - Medicine
• Internship: Saint Vincent Hospital, Worchester - Medicine
• Residency: Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington - Diagnostic Radiology
• Residency: Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington - Chief Resident, Diagnostic Radiology
• Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco - Abdominal Imaging
• Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco - Nuclear Medicine
• American Board of Nuclear Medicine
• American Board of Radiology with Authorized User - Board Certified 2010
• Full Medical License: California
• ACLS, BLS Certification
• Fluoroscopy License

Education

2010 - Board Certified, American Board of Radiology with Authorized User
M.D., 2005 - School of Medicine, Tufts University
- , ACLS, BLS Certification
- , American Board of Nuclear Medicine
- , Fluoroscopy License
- , Full Medical License
Residency, - Chief Resident, Diagnostic Radiology, Lahey Clinic Medical Center
Residency, - Diagnostic Radiology, Lahey Clinic Medical Center
Internship, - Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital
Fellowship, - Abdominal Imaging, University of California, San Francisco
Fellowship, - Nuclear Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Publications

Hassan OT, Behr SC, Ohliger MA, Fowler KJ, Gill RM, Fidelman N, Mehta N, Choi HH. Per-patient Negative Predictive Value of the CT and MRI Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System Version 2018 Treatment Response Algorithm for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Radiology. 2023 Dec; 309(3):e222776.
Houshmand S, Lawhn-Heath C, Behr S. PSMA PET imaging in the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2023 12; 48(12):3610-3623.
Wang SJ, Whitman J, Paciorek A, Le BK, Nakakura EK, Behr SC, Joseph N, Zhang L, Hope TA, Bergsland EK. Baseline tumor growth rate highlights the heterogeneity of well differentiated gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and predicts for increases in Ki67 index over time. J Neuroendocrinol. 2023 04; 35(4):e13260.
Li Y, Flavell RR, Juarez R, Chow M, Wu C, Tsai K, Daud A, Behr SC. Retrospective study of the incidence of sarcoidosis-like reaction in patients treated with immunotherapy. Clin Radiol. 2023 02; 78(2):e131-e136.
Huppert LA, Walker Z, Li M, Kim MO, Callan J, Brandman D, Majure M, Melisko ME, Rugo HS, Behr S, Chien AJ. Clinical characteristics and outcomes in patients with metastatic breast cancer and pseudocirrhosis: a single center retrospective cohort study. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2022 Nov 02.
Katz MHG, Shi Q, Meyers J, Herman JM, Chuong M, Wolpin BM, Ahmad S, Marsh R, Schwartz L, Behr S, Frankel WL, Collisson E, Leenstra J, Williams TM, Vaccaro G, Venook A, Meyerhardt JA, O'Reilly EM. Efficacy of Preoperative mFOLFIRINOX vs mFOLFIRINOX Plus Hypofractionated Radiotherapy for Borderline Resectable Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas: The A021501 Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2022 09 01; 8(9):1263-1270.
Gumusay O, Huppert LA, Behr SC, Rugo HS. The role of percutaneous vertebral augmentation in patients with metastatic breast cancer: Literature review including report of two cases. Breast. 2022 Jun; 63:149-156.
An C, Obmann MM, Sun Y, Wang ZJ, Sugi MD, Behr SC, Zagoria RJ, Woolen SA, Yeh BM. Positive Versus Neutral Oral Contrast Material for Detection of Malignant Deposits in Intraabdominal Nonsolid Organs on CT. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2022 08; 219(2):233-243.
Jiang H, Muir RK, Gonciarz RL, Olshen AB, Yeh I, Hann BC, Zhao N, Wang YH, Behr SC, Korkola JE, Evans MJ, Collisson EA, Renslo AR. Ferrous iron-activatable drug conjugate achieves potent MAPK blockade in KRAS-driven tumors. J Exp Med. 2022 04 04; 219(4).
Thiruvengadam NR, Forde KA, Miranda J, Kim C, Behr S, Masharani U, Arain MA. Disconnected Pancreatic Duct Syndrome: Pancreatitis of the Disconnected Pancreas and Its Role in the Development of Diabetes Mellitus. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2022 02 01; 13(2):e00457.
Hope TA, Eiber M, Armstrong WR, Juarez R, Murthy V, Lawhn-Heath C, Behr SC, Zhang L, Barbato F, Ceci F, Farolfi A, Schwarzenböck SM, Unterrainer M, Zacho HD, Nguyen HG, Cooperberg MR, Carroll PR, Reiter RE, Holden S, Herrmann K, Zhu S, Fendler WP, Czernin J, Calais J. Diagnostic Accuracy of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET for Pelvic Nodal Metastasis Detection Prior to Radical Prostatectomy and Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection: A Multicenter Prospective Phase 3 Imaging Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2021 Nov 01; 7(11):1635-1642.
Sugi MD, Penna R, Jha P, Poder L, Behr SC, Courtier J, Mok-Lin E, Rabban JT, Choi HH. Müllerian Duct Anomalies: Role in Fertility and Pregnancy. Radiographics. 2021 Oct; 41(6):1857-1875.
Kelley RK, Joseph NM, Nimeiri HS, Hwang J, Kulik LM, Ngo Z, Behr SC, Onodera C, Zhang K, Bocobo AG, Benson AB, Venook AP, Gordan JD. Phase II Trial of the Combination of Temsirolimus and Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Tumor Mutation Profiling. Liver Cancer. 2021 Nov; 10(6):561-571.
Thiruvengadam NR, Miranda J, Kim C, Behr S, Arain MA. The Pancreatitis Activity Scoring System Predicts Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Infected Pancreatic Necrosis. Pancreas. 2021 07 01; 50(6):859-866.
House AE, Zebolsky AL, Jacobs J, Likhterov I, Behr S, Glastonbury C, Seth R, Heaton C, Knott PD. Surveillance Imaging Following Head and Neck Cancer Treatment and Microvascular Reconstruction. Laryngoscope. 2021 12; 131(12):2713-2718.
Chen KS, Lawhn-Heath C, Behr S, Juarez R, Whitman J, Paciorek A, Nakakura EK, Fidelman N, Feng MU, Bergsland EK, Anwar M. Outcomes after high-dose radiation in the management of neuroendocrine neoplasms. PLoS One. 2021; 16(6):e0252574.
Keenan BP, VAN Loon K, Khilnani AD, Fidelman N, Behr SC, Atreya CE, Oh DY. Molecular and Radiological Features of Microsatellite Stable Colorectal Cancer Cases With Dramatic Responses to Immunotherapy. Anticancer Res. 2021 Jun; 41(6):2985-2992.
Thiruvengadam NR, Miranda J, Kim C, Behr S, Corvera C, Dai SC, Kirkwood K, Harris HW, Hirose K, Nakakura E, Ostroff JW, Kochman ML, Arain MA. Burden of Ionizing Radiation in the Diagnosis and Management of Necrotizing Pancreatitis. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2021 04 27; 12(5):e00347.
Liu G, Mitra D, Jones EF, Franc BL, Behr SC, Nguyen A, Bolouri MS, Wisner DJ, Joe BN, Esserman LJ, Hylton NM, Seo Y. Mask-Guided Convolutional Neural Network for Breast Tumor Prognostic Outcome Prediction on 3D DCE-MR Images. J Digit Imaging. 2021 06; 34(3):630-636.
Raghavan K, Flavell RR, Westphalen AC, Behr SC. Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Incidentally Detected on 18F-Fluciclovine PET/CT. Clin Nucl Med. 2021 Apr 01; 46(4):345-347.
Lawhn-Heath C, Salavati A, Behr SC, Rowe SP, Calais J, Fendler WP, Eiber M, Emmett L, Hofman MS, Hope TA. Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen PET in Prostate Cancer. Radiology. 2021 05; 299(2):248-260.
Susko MS, Lazar AA, Wang CJ, Van Loon K, Feng M, Hope TA, Behr S, Anwar M. Use of advanced PET-volume metrics predicts risk of local recurrence and overall survival in anal cancer. PLoS One. 2021; 16(2):e0246535.
Sohn JH, Behr SC, Hernandez Pampaloni M, Seo Y. Quantitative Assessment of Myocardial Ischemia With Positron Emission Tomography. J Thorac Imaging. 2023 Jul 01; 38(4):247-259.
Temple WC, Vo KT, Matthay KK, Balliu B, Coleman C, Michlitsch J, Phelps A, Behr S, Zapala MA. Association of image-defined risk factors with clinical features, histopathology, and outcomes in neuroblastoma. Cancer Med. 2021 04; 10(7):2232-2241.
Yang J, Sohn JH, Behr SC, Gullberg GT, Seo Y. CT-less Direct Correction of Attenuation and Scatter in the Image Space Using Deep Learning for Whole-Body FDG PET: Potential Benefits and Pitfalls. Radiol Artif Intell. 2021 Mar; 3(2):e200137.
Lee AY, Lam A, Hicks RM, Isikbay M, Heller MB, Sugi MD, Behr S, Kohi MP. Visceral Aneurysm Formation and Intraabdominal Hemorrhage Associated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2021 01; 32(1):151-152.
Merritt BA, Behr SC. Education of prostate MR imaging: commentary. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2020 12; 45(12):4112-4113.
Rowe SP, Johnson GB, Pomper MG, Gorin MA, Behr SC. Recent updates and developments in PET imaging of prostate cancer. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2020 12; 45(12):4063-4072.
Atreya CE, Collisson EA, Park M, Grenert JP, Behr SC, Gonzalez A, Chou J, Maisel S, Friedlander TW, Freise CE, Shoji J, Semrad TJ, Van Ziffle J, Chin-Hong P. Molecular Insights in Transmission of Cancer From an Organ Donor to Four Transplant Recipients. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2020 11; 18(11):1446-1452.
Lawhn-Heath C, Yom SS, Liu C, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Aslam M, Smith R, Narwal M, Juarez R, Behr SC, Pampaloni MH, Chan JW, Glastonbury CM, Hope TA, Flavell RR. Gallium-68 prostate-specific membrane antigen ([68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11) PET for imaging of thyroid cancer: a feasibility study. EJNMMI Res. 2020 Oct 22; 10(1):128.
Li Y, Behr S. Acute Findings on FDG PET/CT: Key Imaging Features and How to Differentiate Them from Malignancy. Curr Radiol Rep. 2020; 8(11):22.
Huang Y, Zhao N, Wang YH, Truillet C, Wei J, Parker MFL, Blecha JE, Drake CR, VanBrocklin HF, Garrido-Ruiz D, Jacobson MP, Aggarwal R, Behr SC, Flavell RR, Wilson DM, Seo Y, Evans MJ. The Synthesis and Structural Requirements for Measuring Glucocorticoid Receptor Expression In Vivo with (±)-11C-YJH08 PET. J Nucl Med. 2021 05 10; 62(5):723-731.
Kramer SP, Bowman CJ, Wang ZJ, Sheahon KM, Nakakura EK, Cho SJ, Umetsu SE, Behr SC. Hybrid Low-Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma and Sclerosing Epithelioid Fibrosarcoma of the Pancreas. J Gastrointest Cancer. 2020 Sep; 51(3):1025-1029.
Gong K, Yang J, Larson PEZ, Behr SC, Hope TA, Seo Y, Li Q. MR-based Attenuation Correction for Brain PET Using 3D Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Network. IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci. 2021 Mar; 5(2):185-192.
Fendler WP, Ferdinandus J, Czernin J, Eiber M, Flavell RR, Behr SC, Wu IK, Lawhn-Heath C, Pampaloni MH, Reiter RE, Rettig MB, Gartmann J, Murthy V, Slavik R, Carroll PR, Herrmann K, Calais J, Hope TA. Impact of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET on the Management of Recurrent Prostate Cancer in a Prospective Single-Arm Clinical Trial. J Nucl Med. 2020 12; 61(12):1793-1799.
Chiu LW, Lawhn-Heath C, Behr SC, Juarez R, Perez PM, Lobach I, Bucknor MD, Hope TA, Flavell RR. Factors Predicting Metastatic Disease in 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET-Positive Osseous Lesions in Prostate Cancer. J Nucl Med. 2020 12; 61(12):1779-1785.
Huang Y, Zhao N, Wang YH, Truillet C, Wei J, Blecha JE, VanBrocklin HF, Seo Y, Sayeed M, Feldman BJ, Aggarwal R, Behr SC, Shao H, Wilson DM, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Gestwicki JE, Evans MJ. A Novel Radioligand Reveals Tissue Specific Pharmacological Modulation of Glucocorticoid Receptor Expression with Positron Emission Tomography. ACS Chem Biol. 2020 06 19; 15(6):1381-1391.
Seo Y, Khalighi MM, Wangerin KA, Deller TW, Wang YH, Jivan S, Kohi MP, Aggarwal R, Flavell RR, Behr SC, Evans MJ. Quantitative and Qualitative Improvement of Low-Count [68Ga]Citrate and [90Y]Microspheres PET Image Reconstructions Using Block Sequential Regularized Expectation Maximization Algorithm. Mol Imaging Biol. 2020 02; 22(1):208-216.
Werner RA, Derlin T, Lapa C, Sheikbahaei S, Higuchi T, Giesel FL, Behr S, Drzezga A, Kimura H, Buck AK, Bengel FM, Pomper MG, Gorin MA, Rowe SP. 18F-Labeled, PSMA-Targeted Radiotracers: Leveraging the Advantages of Radiofluorination for Prostate Cancer Molecular Imaging. Theranostics. 2020; 10(1):1-16.
Merritt BA, Behr SC, Khati NJ. Imaging of Infertility, Part 2: Hysterosalpingograms to Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Radiol Clin North Am. 2020 Mar; 58(2):227-238.
Merritt BA, Behr SC, Khati NJ. Imaging of Infertility, Part 1: Hysterosalpingograms to Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Radiol Clin North Am. 2020 Mar; 58(2):215-225.
Merritt B, Behr S, Umetsu SE, Roberts J, Kolli KP. Anastomosing hemangioma of liver. J Radiol Case Rep. 2019 Jun; 13(6):32-39.
Kambhampati S, Bauer KE, Bracci PM, Keenan BP, Behr SC, Gordan JD, Kelley RK. Nivolumab in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma and Child-Pugh class B cirrhosis: Safety and clinical outcomes in a retrospective case series. Cancer. 2019 09 15; 125(18):3234-3241.
Lawhn-Heath C, Flavell RR, Behr SC, Yohannan T, Greene KL, Feng F, Carroll PR, Hope TA. Single-Center Prospective Evaluation of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET in Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2019 08; 213(2):266-274.
Winklhofer S, Lin WC, Wang ZJ, Behr SC, Westphalen AC, Yeh BM. Comparison of Positive Oral Contrast Agents for Abdominopelvic CT. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2019 May; 212(5):1037-1043.
Perez PM, Flavell RR, Kelley RK, Umetsu S, Behr SC. Heterogeneous Uptake of 18F-FDG and 68Ga-PSMA-11 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Clin Nucl Med. 2019 Mar; 44(3):e133-e135.
Sherman CB, Behr S, Dodge JL, Roberts JP, Yao FY, Mehta N. Distinguishing Tumor From Bland Portal Vein Thrombus in Liver Transplant Candidates With Hepatocellular Carcinoma: the A-VENA Criteria. Liver Transpl. 2019 02; 25(2):207-216.
Xu MJ, Kornberg Z, Gadzinski AJ, Diao D, Cowan JE, Wu SY, Boreta L, Spratt DE, Behr SC, Nguyen HG, Cooperberg MR, Davicioni E, Roach M, Hope TA, Carroll PR, Feng FY. Genomic Risk Predicts Molecular Imaging-detected Metastatic Nodal Disease in Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol Oncol. 2019 11; 2(6):685-690.
Perez PM, Hope TA, Behr SC, van Zante A, Small EJ, Flavell RR. Intertumoral Heterogeneity of 18F-FDG and 68Ga-PSMA Uptake in Prostate Cancer Pulmonary Metastases. Clin Nucl Med. 2019 Jan; 44(1):e28-e32.
Behr SC, Aggarwal R, VanBrocklin HF, Flavell RR, Gao K, Small EJ, Blecha J, Jivan S, Hope TA, Simko JP, Kurhanewicz J, Noworolski SM, Korn NJ, De Los Santos R, Cooperberg MR, Carroll PR, Nguyen HG, Greene KL, Langton-Webster B, Berkman CE, Seo Y. Phase I Study of CTT1057, an 18F-Labeled Imaging Agent with Phosphoramidate Core Targeting Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen in Prostate Cancer. J Nucl Med. 2019 07; 60(7):910-916.
Ding Y, Sohn JH, Kawczynski MG, Trivedi H, Harnish R, Jenkins NW, Lituiev D, Copeland TP, Aboian MS, Mari Aparici C, Behr SC, Flavell RR, Huang SY, Zalocusky KA, Nardo L, Seo Y, Hawkins RA, Hernandez Pampaloni M, Hadley D, Franc BL. A Deep Learning Model to Predict a Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease by Using 18F-FDG PET of the Brain. Radiology. 2019 02; 290(2):456-464.
Behr SC, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Li Y, Wang YH, Wei J, Moroz A, Lee JK, Hsiao JC, Gao KT, Ma W, Cha S, Wilson DM, Seo Y, Nelson SJ, Chang SM, Evans MJ. Targeting iron metabolism in high-grade glioma with 68Ga-citrate PET/MR. JCI Insight. 2018 11 02; 3(21).
Huang SY, Franc BL, Harnish RJ, Liu G, Mitra D, Copeland TP, Arasu VA, Kornak J, Jones EF, Behr SC, Hylton NM, Price ER, Esserman L, Seo Y. Exploration of PET and MRI radiomic features for decoding breast cancer phenotypes and prognosis. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2018; 4:24.
Wang ZJ, Behr S, Consunji MV, Yeh BM, Ohliger MA, Gao K, Ko AH, Cinar P, Tempero MA, Collisson EA. Early Response Assessment in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Through Integrated PET/MRI. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2018 11; 211(5):1010-1019.
Jha P, Behr S, Morgan T, Washburn E, Lucero J, Chen LM, Poder L. Imaging findings of concealed intra-amniotic hemorrhage in the setting of placenta previa and placenta accreta spectrum disorder. Emerg Radiol. 2018 Oct; 25(5):553-556.
Behr SC, Bahroos E, Hawkins RA, Nardo L, Ravanfar V, Capbarat EV, Seo Y. Quantitative and Visual Assessments toward Potential Sub-mSv or Ultrafast FDG PET Using High-Sensitivity TOF PET in PET/MRI. Mol Imaging Biol. 2018 06; 20(3):492-500.
Jordan CD, Han M, Kondapavulur S, Vera DB, Neumann KD, Moore T, Stillson C, Krug R, Behr S, Seo Y, VanBrocklin HF, Larson PEZ, Wilson M, Martin AJ, Hetts SW. Quantification of 89 Zr-Iron oxide nanoparticle biodistribution using PET-MR and ultrashort TE sequences. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 12; 48(6):1717-1720.
Calabrese E, Baghdanian AH, Zagoria RJ, Behr SC. Arteriovenous malformation of the ureter diagnosed by CT urogram. Urol Case Rep. 2018 Jul; 19:20-22.
Lim HC, Montesion M, Botton T, Collisson EA, Umetsu SE, Behr SC, Gordan JD, Stephens PJ, Kelley RK. Hybrid Capture-Based Tumor Sequencing and Copy Number Analysis to Confirm Origin of Metachronous Metastases in BRCA1-Mutant Cholangiocarcinoma Harboring a Novel YWHAZ-BRAF Fusion. Oncologist. 2018 09; 23(9):998-1003.
Marcus SG, Candia S, Kohli MD, Mongan J, Zagoria RJ, Behr SC, Sun D, Westphalen AC. Association between misty mesentery with baseline or new diagnosis of cancer: a matched cohort study. Clin Imaging. 2018 Jul - Aug; 50:57-61.
Yu EY, Chandrasekharan P, Berzon R, Tay ZW, Zhou XY, Khandhar AP, Ferguson RM, Kemp SJ, Zheng B, Goodwill PW, Wendland MF, Krishnan KM, Behr S, Carter J, Conolly SM. Magnetic Particle Imaging for Highly Sensitive, Quantitative, and Safe in Vivo Gut Bleed Detection in a Murine Model. ACS Nano. 2017 12 26; 11(12):12067-12076.
Cabarrus MC, Yeh BM, Phelps AS, Ou JJ, Behr SC. From Inguinal Hernias to Spermatic Cord Lipomas: Pearls, Pitfalls, and Mimics of Abdominal and Pelvic Hernias. Radiographics. 2017 Nov-Dec; 37(7):2063-2082.
Fernandez A, Conrad M, Gill RM, Choi WT, Kumar V, Behr S. Solitary fibrous tumor in the abdomen and pelvis: A case series with radiological findings and treatment recommendations. Clin Imaging. 2018 Mar - Apr; 48:48-54.
Garcia-Reyes K, Nguyen HG, Zagoria RJ, Shinohara K, Carroll PR, Behr SC, Westphalen AC. Impact of Lesion Visibility on Transrectal Ultrasound on the Prediction of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer (Gleason Score 3 + 4 or Greater) with Transrectal Ultrasound-Magnetic Resonance Imaging Fusion Biopsy. J Urol. 2018 03; 199(3):699-705.
Lake ST, Greene KL, Westphalen AC, Behr SC, Zagoria R, Small EJ, Carroll PR, Hope TA. Optimal MRI sequences for 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET/MRI in evaluation of biochemically recurrent prostate cancer. EJNMMI Res. 2017 Sep 19; 7(1):77.
Leapman MS, Wang ZJ, Behr SC, Kurhanewicz J, Zagoria RJ, Carroll PR, Westphalen AC. Impact of the integration of proton magnetic resonance imaging spectroscopy to PI-RADS 2 for prediction of high grade and high stage prostate cancer. Radiol Bras. 2017 Sep-Oct; 50(5):299-307.
Katz MHG, Ou FS, Herman JM, Ahmad SA, Wolpin B, Marsh R, Behr S, Shi Q, Chuong M, Schwartz LH, Frankel W, Collisson E, Koay EJ, Hubbard JM, Leenstra JL, Meyerhardt J, O'Reilly E, Alliance for Clinical Trials on Oncology. Alliance for clinical trials in oncology (ALLIANCE) trial A021501: preoperative extended chemotherapy vs. chemotherapy plus hypofractionated radiation therapy for borderline resectable adenocarcinoma of the head of the pancreas. BMC Cancer. 2017 Jul 27; 17(1):505.
Aggarwal R, Behr SC, Paris PL, Truillet C, Parker MFL, Huynh LT, Wei J, Hann B, Youngren J, Huang J, Premasekharan G, Ranatunga N, Chang E, Gao KT, Ryan CJ, Small EJ, Evans MJ. Real-Time Transferrin-Based PET Detects MYC-Positive Prostate Cancer. Mol Cancer Res. 2017 09; 15(9):1221-1229.
Meier JM, Behr SC, Jordan E, Pallav Kolli K, Yeh BM. Intraperitoneal metastases after transarterial embolization of hepatocellular carcinoma: An observational study. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2017 06; 42(6):1794-1798.
Ohliger MA, Hope TA, Chapman JS, Chen LM, Behr SC, Poder L. PET/MR Imaging in Gynecologic Oncology. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2017 Aug; 25(3):667-684.
Lawhn-Heath C, Flavell RR, Glastonbury C, Hope TA, Behr SC. Incidental Detection of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma on 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT. Clin Nucl Med. 2017 Apr; 42(4):e218-e220.
Yang J, Jian Y, Jenkins N, Behr SC, Hope TA, Larson PEZ, Vigneron D, Seo Y. Quantitative Evaluation of Atlas-based Attenuation Correction for Brain PET in an Integrated Time-of-Flight PET/MR Imaging System. Radiology. 2017 07; 284(1):169-179.
Behr SC, Mollard BJ, Yang J, Flavell RR, Hawkins RA, Seo Y. Effect of Time-of-Flight and Regularized Reconstructions on Quantitative Measurements and Qualitative Assessments in Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer With 18F-Fluorocholine Dual Time Point PET/MRI. Mol Imaging. 2017 Jan-Dec; 16:1536012117736703.
Mari Aparici C, Behr SC, Seo Y, Kelley RK, Corvera C, Gao KT, Aggarwal R, Evans MJ. Imaging Hepatocellular Carcinoma With 68Ga-Citrate PET: First Clinical Experience. Mol Imaging. 2017 Jan-Dec; 16:1536012117723256.
Yeh MJ, Kim SY, Jhaveri KS, Behr SC, Seo N, Yeh BM. Imaging of autoimmune biliary disease. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2017 01; 42(1):3-18.
Behr SC, Aggarwal R, Seo Y, Aparici CM, Chang E, Gao KT, Tao DH, Small EJ, Evans MJ. A Feasibility Study Showing [68Ga]Citrate PET Detects Prostate Cancer. Mol Imaging Biol. 2016 12; 18(6):946-951.
Cope FO, Abbruzzese B, Sanders J, Metz W, Sturms K, Ralph D, Blue M, Zhang J, Bracci P, Bshara W, Behr S, Maurer T, Williams K, Walker J, Beverly A, Blay B, Damughatla A, Larsen M, Mountain C, Neylon E, Parcel K, Raghuraman K, Ricks K, Rose L, Sivakumar A, Streck N, Wang B, Wasco C, Williams A, Schlesinger LS, Azad A, Rajaram MVS, Jarjour W, Young N, Rosol T, McGrath M. Corrigendum to the inextricable axis of targeted diagnostic imaging and therapy: An immunological natural history approach [Nucl Med Biol 43 (2016) 215-225]. Nucl Med Biol. 2016 12; 43(12):837.
Atreya CE, Greene C, McWhirter RM, Ikram NS, Allen IE, Van Loon K, Venook AP, Yeh BM, Behr SC. Differential Radiographic Appearance of BRAF V600E-Mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer in Patients Matched by Primary Tumor Location. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2016 12; 14(12):1536-1543.
Jha P, Bentley B, Behr S, Yee J, Zagoria R. Imaging of flank pain: readdressing state-of-the-art. Emerg Radiol. 2017 Feb; 24(1):81-86.
Choi JY, Yang J, Noworolski SM, Behr S, Chang AJ, Simko JP, Nguyen HG, Carroll PR, Kurhanewicz J, Seo Y. 18F Fluorocholine Dynamic Time-of-Flight PET/MR Imaging in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Intermediate- to High-Risk Prostate Cancer: Initial Clinical-Pathologic Comparisons. Radiology. 2017 Feb; 282(2):429-436.
Li Y, Mongan J, Behr SC, Sud S, Coakley FV, Simko J, Westphalen AC. Beyond Prostate Adenocarcinoma: Expanding the Differential Diagnosis in Prostate Pathologic Conditions. Radiographics. 2016 Jul-Aug; 36(4):1055-75.
Flavell RR, Behr SC, Mabray MC, Hernandez-Pampaloni M, Naeger DM. Detecting Pulmonary Nodules in Lung Cancer Patients Using Whole Body FDG PET/CT, High-resolution Lung Reformat of FDG PET/CT, or Diagnostic Breath Hold Chest CT. Acad Radiol. 2016 09; 23(9):1123-9.
Mabray MC, Brus-Ramer M, Behr SC, Pampaloni MH, Majumdar S, Dillon WP, Talbott JF. (18)F-Sodium Fluoride PET-CT Hybrid Imaging of the Lumbar Facet Joints: Tracer Uptake and Degree of Correlation to CT-graded Arthropathy. World J Nucl Med. 2016 May-Aug; 15(2):85-90.
Ehman EC, Behr SC, Umetsu SE, Fidelman N, Yeh BM, Ferrell LD, Hope TA. Rate of observation and inter-observer agreement for LI-RADS major features at CT and MRI in 184 pathology proven hepatocellular carcinomas. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2016 05; 41(5):963-9.
Flavell RR, Naeger DM, Aparici CM, Hawkins RA, Pampaloni MH, Behr SC. Malignancies with Low Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake at PET/CT: Pitfalls and Prognostic Importance: Resident and Fellow Education Feature. Radiographics. 2016 Jan-Feb; 36(1):293-4.
Cope FO, Abbruzzese B, Sanders J, Metz W, Sturms K, Ralph D, Blue M, Zhang J, Bracci P, Bshara W, Behr S, Maurer T, Williams K, Walker J, Beverly A, Blay B, Damughatla A, Larsen M, Mountain C, Neylon E, Parcel K, Raghuraman K, Ricks K, Rose L, Sivakumar A, Streck N, Wang B, Wasco C, Schlesinger LS, Azad A, Rajaram MVS, Jarjour W, Young N, Rosol T, Williams A, McGrath M. The inextricable axis of targeted diagnostic imaging and therapy: An immunological natural history approach. Nucl Med Biol. 2016 03; 43(3):215-25.
Yang J, Jian Y, Tohme M, Behr S, Vigneron D, Majumdar S, Seo Y. Impact of atlas-CT-based bone anatomy compensation on MR-based attenuation correction for brain PET imaging in a time-of-flight PET/MRI system: A direct comparison to a patient-CT-based approach. EJNMMI Phys. 2015 Dec; 2(Suppl 1):A68.
Dhatt HS, Behr SC, Miracle A, Wang ZJ, Yeh BM. Radiological Evaluation of Bowel Ischemia. Radiol Clin North Am. 2015 Nov; 53(6):1241-54.
Kollhorst B, Behr S, Enders D, Dippel FW, Theobald K, Garbe E. Comparison of basal insulin therapies with regard to the risk of acute myocardial infarction in patients with type 2 diabetes: an observational cohort study. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2015 Dec; 17(12):1158-65.
Kohi MP, Fidelman N, Behr S, Taylor AG, Kolli K, Conrad M, Hwang G, Weinstein S. Periprocedural Patient Care. Radiographics. 2015 Oct; 35(6):1766-78.
Olorunsola OG, Kohi MP, Behr SC, Kolli PK, Taylor AG, Tong RT, LaBerge JM, Kerlan RK, Fidelman N. Imaging Predictors of Elevated Lung Shunt Fraction in Patients Being Considered for Yttrium-90 Radioembolization. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2015 Oct; 26(10):1472-8.
Mabray MC, Behr SC, Naeger DM, Flavell RR, Glastonbury CM. Predictors of pathologic outcome of focal FDG uptake in the parotid gland identified on whole-body FDG PET imaging. Clin Imaging. 2015 Nov-Dec; 39(6):1073-9.
Burris NS, Johnson KM, Larson PE, Hope MD, Nagle SK, Behr SC, Hope TA. Detection of Small Pulmonary Nodules with Ultrashort Echo Time Sequences in Oncology Patients by Using a PET/MR System. Radiology. 2016 Jan; 278(1):239-46.
Algazi AP, Cha E, Ortiz-Urda SM, McCalmont T, Bastian BC, Hwang J, Pampaloni MH, Behr S, Chong K, Cortez B, Quiroz A, Coakley F, Liu S, Daud AI. The combination of axitinib followed by paclitaxel/carboplatin yields extended survival in advanced BRAF wild-type melanoma: results of a clinical/correlative prospective phase II clinical trial. Br J Cancer. 2015 Apr 14; 112(8):1326-31.
Barajas RF, Pampaloni MH, Clarke JL, Seo Y, Savic D, Hawkins RA, Behr SC, Chang SM, Berger M, Dillon WP, Cha S. Assessing Biological Response to Bevacizumab Using 18F-Fluoromisonidazole PET/MR Imaging in a Patient with Recurrent Anaplastic Astrocytoma. Case Rep Radiol. 2015; 2015:731361.
Naeger DM, Behr SC. PET/MR imaging: current and future applications for cardiovascular disease. Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2015 Feb; 23(1):95-103.
Liu T, Behr S, Khan S, Osterhoff R, Aparici CM. Focal Colonic FDG Activity with PET/CT: Guidelines for Recommendation of Colonoscopy. World J Nucl Med. 2015 Jan-Apr; 14(1):25-30.
Valenzuela DM, Behr SC, Coakley FV, Wang ZJ, Webb EM, Yeh BM. Computed tomography of iatrogenic complications of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, stenting, and intubation. Radiol Clin North Am. 2014 Sep; 52(5):1055-70.
Flavell RR, Behr SC, Brunsing RL, Naeger DM, Pampaloni MH. The incidence of pulmonary embolism and associated FDG-PET findings in IV contrast-enhanced PET/CT. Acad Radiol. 2014 Jun; 21(6):718-25.
Liu T, Khan S, Behr S, Aparici CM. Diagnosis of Cardiac Metastasis from Endometrial Cancer by F-18 FDG-PET/CT. Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2014 Sep; 48(3):237-40.
Coakley FV, Grant MJ, Behr S, Foster BR, Korngold EK, Didier RA. Imaging of invasive thymoma in the costophrenic recess presenting as thickening of arcuate ligaments of the diaphragm. Clin Imaging. 2014 Jul-Aug; 38(4):529-531.
Miracle AC, Behr SC, Benhamida J, Gill RM, Yeh BC. Mesenteric inflammatory veno-occlusive disease: radiographic and histopathologic evaluation of 2 cases. Abdom Imaging. 2014 Feb; 39(1):18-24.
Bolouri MS, Elias SG, Wisner DJ, Behr SC, Hawkins RA, Suzuki SA, Banfield KS, Joe BN, Hylton NM. Triple-negative and non-triple-negative invasive breast cancer: association between MR and fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET imaging. Radiology. 2013 Nov; 269(2):354-61.
Behr SC, Courtier JL, Qayyum A. Imaging of müllerian duct anomalies. Radiographics. 2012 Oct; 32(6):E233-50.
Roynard P, Behr S, Barone G, Llabrés-Diaz F, Cherubini GB. Idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis in six dogs: MRI, CSF and histological findings, treatment and outcome. J Small Anim Pract. 2012 Sep; 53(9):543-8.
Scholz FJ, Afnan J, Behr SC. CT findings in adult celiac disease. Radiographics. 2011 Jul-Aug; 31(4):977-92.
Amaravadi RR, Behr SC, Kousoubris PD, Raja S. [18F] Fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography-CT imaging of carotidynia. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2008 Jun; 29(6):1197-9.
Scholz FJ, Behr SC, Scheirey CD. Intramural fat in the duodenum and proximal small intestine in patients with celiac disease. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2007 Oct; 189(4):786-90.
Behr S, Schriever F. Engaging CD19 or target of an antiproliferative antibody 1 on human B lymphocytes induces binding of B cells to the interfollicular stroma of human tonsils via integrin alpha 4/beta 1 and fibronectin. J Exp Med. 1995 Nov 01; 182(5):1191-9.