Uttam Shrestha, PhD

Shrestha UM, Chae HD, Fang Q, Lee RJ, Packiasamy J, Huynh L, Blecha J, Huynh TL, VanBrocklin HF, Levi J, Seo Y. A Feasibility Study of [18F]F-AraG Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for Cardiac Imaging-Myocardial Viability in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Model. Mol Imaging Biol. 2024 Oct; 26(5):869-878.

Peluso MJ, Ryder D, Flavell RR, Wang Y, Levi J, LaFranchi BH, Deveau TM, Buck AM, Munter SE, Asare KA, Aslam M, Koch W, Szabo G, Hoh R, Deswal M, Rodriguez AE, Buitrago M, Tai V, Shrestha U, Lu S, Goldberg SA, Dalhuisen T, Vasquez JJ, Durstenfeld MS, Hsue PY, Kelly JD, Kumar N, Martin JN, Gambhir A, Somsouk M, Seo Y, Deeks SG, Laszik ZG, VanBrocklin HF, Henrich TJ. Tissue-based T cell activation and viral RNA persist for up to 2 years after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Sci Transl Med. 2024 Jul 03; 16(754):eadk3295.

Shrestha U, Chae HD, Fang Q, Lee RJ, Packiasamy J, Huynh L, Blecha J, Huynh TL, VanBrocklin HF, Levi J, Seo Y. A feasibility study of [18F]F-AraG positron emission tomography (PET) for cardiac imaging - myocardial viability in ischemia-reperfusion injury model. Res Sq. 2024 Apr 30.

Peluso MJ, Ryder D, Flavell R, Wang Y, Levi J, LaFranchi BH, Deveau TM, Buck AM, Munter SE, Asare KA, Aslam M, Koch W, Szabo G, Hoh R, Deswal M, Rodriguez A, Buitrago M, Tai V, Shrestha U, Lu S, Goldberg SA, Dalhuisen T, Durstenfeld MS, Hsue PY, Kelly JD, Kumar N, Martin JN, Gambir A, Somsouk M, Seo Y, Deeks SG, Laszik ZG, VanBrocklin HF, Henrich TJ. Multimodal Molecular Imaging Reveals Tissue-Based T Cell Activation and Viral RNA Persistence for Up to 2 Years Following COVID-19. medRxiv. 2023 Jul 31.

Huh Y, Shrestha UM, Gullberg GT, Seo Y. Monte Carlo Simulation and Reconstruction: Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion Imaging of Tracer Dynamics With Cardiac Motion Due to Deformation and Respiration Using Gamma Camera With Continuous Acquisition. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022; 9:871967.

Gullberg GT, Shrestha U, Kim SJW, Seo Y, Fuller M. X-ray bi-prism interferometry-A design study of proposed novel hardware. Med Phys. 2021 Oct; 48(10):6508-6523.

Gullberg GT, Shrestha UM, Veress AI, Segars WP, Liu J, Ordovas K, Seo Y. Novel Methodology for Measuring Regional Myocardial Efficiency. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2021 06; 40(6):1711-1725.

Shrestha UM, Sciammarella M, Pampaloni MH, Botvinick EH, Gullberg GT, DeMarco T, Seo Y. Assessment of late-term progression of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in patients with orthotopic heart transplantation using quantitative cardiac 82Rb PET. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Apr; 37(4):1461-1472.

Gullberg GT, Veress AI, Shrestha UM, Liu J, Ordovas K, Segars WP, Seo Y. Multiresolution spatiotemporal mechanical model of the heart as a prior to constrain the solution for 4D models of the heart. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2019 Jun; 11072.

Gullberg GT, Shrestha UM, Seo Y. PET imaging of glucose and fatty acid metabolism for NAFLD patients. J Nucl Cardiol. 2020 10; 27(5):1689-1697.

Gullberg GT, Fuller M, Shrestha U, Seo Y. Tensor Tomography of Dark Field Scatter using X-ray Interferometry with Bi-prisms. IEEE Nucl Sci Symp Conf Rec (1997). 2017 Oct; 2017.

Mitra D, Abdalah M, Boutchko R, Chang H, Shrestha U, Botvinick E, Seo Y, Gullberg GT. Comparison of sparse domain approaches for 4D SPECT dynamic image reconstruction. Med Phys. 2018 Oct; 45(10):4493-4509.

Gullberg GT, Shrestha UM, Seo Y. Dynamic cardiac PET imaging: Technological improvements advancing future cardiac health. J Nucl Cardiol. 2019 08; 26(4):1292-1297.

Grant T. Gullberg, Michael Fuller, Uttam Shrestha, Youngho Seo. Tensor Tomography of Dark Field Scatter using X-ray Interferometry with Bi-prisms. Proceedings IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging. 2017.

Sciammarella M, Shrestha UM, Seo Y, Gullberg GT, Botvinick EH. A combined static-dynamic single-dose imaging protocol to compare quantitative dynamic SPECT with static conventional SPECT. J Nucl Cardiol. 2019 06; 26(3):763-771.

Pampaloni MH, Shrestha UM, Sciammarella M, Seo Y, Gullberg GT, Botvinick EH. Noninvasive PET quantitative myocardial blood flow with regadenoson for assessing cardiac allograft vasculopathy in orthotopic heart transplantation patients. J Nucl Cardiol. 2017 08; 24(4):1134-1144.

Uttam Shrestha, Youngho Seo. Myocardial Blood Flow as a Biomarker. Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Disease. 2016 Jan 1; 1057-1076.

Shrestha U, Sciammarella M, Alhassen F, Yeghiazarians Y, Ellin J, Verdin E, Boyle A, Seo Y, Botvinick EH, Gullberg GT. Measurement of absolute myocardial blood flow in humans using dynamic cardiac SPECT and 99mTc-tetrofosmin: Method and validation. J Nucl Cardiol. 2017 02; 24(1):268-277.

Shrestha UM, Seo Y, Botvinick EH, Gullberg GT. Image reconstruction in higher dimensions: myocardial perfusion imaging of tracer dynamics with cardiac motion due to deformation and respiration. Phys Med Biol. 2015 Nov 07; 60(21):8275-301.

Uttam Shrestha, Youngho Seo. Myocardial Blood Flow as a Biomarker. Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Disease. 2015 Jan 1; 1-20.

Lee JH, Yao Y, Shrestha U, Gullberg GT, Seo Y. Handling Big Data in Medical Imaging: Iterative Reconstruction with Large-Scale Automated Parallel Computation. IEEE Nucl Sci Symp Conf Rec (1997). 2014 Nov; 2014.

Lee TC, Ellin JR, Huang Q, Shrestha U, Gullberg GT, Seo Y. Multipinhole collimator with 20 apertures for a brain SPECT application. Med Phys. 2014 Nov; 41(11):112501.

Shrestha U, Botvinick EH, Yeghiazarians Y, Seo Y, Gullberg GT. Quantitative Signature of Coronary Steal in a Patient with Occluded Coronary Arteries Supported by Collateral Circulation Using Dynamic SPECT. IEEE Nucl Sci Symp Conf Rec (1997). 2014 Nov; 2014.

Huang SY, Savic D, Yang J, Shrestha U, Seo Y. The Effect of Magnetic Field on Positron Range and Spatial Resolution in an Integrated Whole-Body Time-Of-Flight PET/MRI System. IEEE Nucl Sci Symp Conf Rec (1997). 2014 Nov; 2014.

M Abdalah, R Boutchko, D Mitra, U Shrestha, Y Seo, E Botvinick, G Gullberg. Liver and Background Removal in Dynamic Cardiac SPECT. J. Nuc. Med. 2014; 56(supl. 3):1527.

Wortman JC, Shrestha UM, Barry DM, Garcia ML, Gross SP, Yu CC. Axonal transport: how high microtubule density can compensate for boundary effects in small-caliber axons. Biophys J. 2014 Feb 18; 106(4):813-23.

Bowen JD, Huang Q, Ellin JR, Lee TC, Shrestha U, Gullberg GT, Seo Y. Design and performance evaluation of a 20-aperture multipinhole collimator for myocardial perfusion imaging applications. Phys Med Biol. 2013 Oct 21; 58(20):7209-26.

Anand Mishra, Shamsher Shrestha, Mandavi Singh, Uttam Shrestha. A RARE CASE OF HYPOGASTRIC OMPHALOCOELE WITH SACRAL MENINGOCOELE. Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences. 2013 Aug 30; 2(35):6762-6765.

Uttam Shrestha, Janne Ruostekoski. Fragmentation, domain formation and atom number fluctuations of a two-species Bose–Einstein condensate in an optical lattice. New J. Phys. 2012; 14(4):043037.

Uttam Shrestha. Antiferromagnetism in a bosonic mixture of rubidium (Rb87) and potassium (K41). Phys. Rev. A. 2010; 82(4):041603 (R).

Uttam Shrestha, Michele Modugno. Correlated bosons in a one-dimensional optical lattice: Effects of the trapping potential and of quasiperiodic disorder. Phys. Rev. A. 2010; 82(3):033604.

Shrestha U, Javanainen J, Ruostekoski J. Pulsating and persistent vector solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate in a lattice upon phase separation instability. Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Nov 06; 103(19):190401.

Uttam Shrestha, Juha Javanainen, Janne Ruostekoski. Quantum dynamics of instability-induced pulsations of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice. Phys. Rev. A. 2009; 79(4):043617.

Javanainen J, Shrestha U. Nonlinear phenomenology from quantum mechanics: soliton in a lattice. Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Oct 24; 101(17):170405.

Shrestha U, Kostrun M, Javanainen J. Pulsating instability of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice. Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Aug 15; 101(7):070406.

Javanainen J, Kostrun M, Zheng Y, Carmichael A, Shrestha U, Meinel PJ, Mackie M, Dannenberg O, Suominen KA. Collective molecule formation in a degenerate Fermi gas via a Feshbach resonance. Phys Rev Lett. 2004 May 21; 92(20):200402.