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John Kurhanewicz is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research is primarily focused on advanced nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, particularly in the context of medical imaging and cancer diagnosis.

The scientist has published extensively in fields such as Medicine and Chemistry, with 66 publications in Medicine and 36 in Chemistry. Their work is further specialized within the subfields of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Spectroscopy, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics.

Their research topics include:

  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Electron Spin Resonance Studies
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Some of John Kurhanewicz's recent publications are:

  • Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of acute stroke: correlation with T2-weighted and magnetic susceptibility-enhanced MR imaging in cats, 2024, American Journal of Neuroradiology
  • False positive PSMA PET for tumor remnants in the irradiated prostate and other interpretation pitfalls in a prospective multi-center trial, 2020, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • Clinical translation of hyperpolarized13C pyruvate and urea MRI for simultaneous metabolic and perfusion imaging, 2021, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Hyperpolarized 13C MRI data acquisition and analysis in prostate and brain at University of California, San Francisco, 2020, NMR in Biomedicine
  • Tensor image enhancement and optimal multichannel receiver combination analyses for human hyperpolarized 13C MRSI, 2020, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Frequently publishing venues for their research include:

  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • Cancers
  • Tomography
  • UNC Libraries

John Kurhanewicz collaborates regularly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Robert Bok
  • Daniel B. Vigneron
  • Peder E. Z. Larson
  • Jeremy W. Gordon
  • Renuka Sriram

Best Publications

  • Metabolic Imaging of Patients with Prostate Cancer Using Hyperpolarized [1-13C]Pyruvate

    Sarah J. Nelson;John Kurhanewicz;Daniel B. Vigneron;Peder E. Z. Larson

  • Diffusion-weighted MR imaging of acute stroke: correlation with T2-weighted and magnetic susceptibility-enhanced MR imaging in cats.

    M E Moseley;J Kucharczyk;J Mintorovitch;Y Cohen

  • Three-dimensional H-1 MR spectroscopic imaging of the in situ human prostate with high (0.24-0.7-cm3) spatial resolution.

    J Kurhanewicz;D B Vigneron;H Hricak;P Narayan

  • Prostate cancer: localization with three-dimensional proton MR spectroscopic imaging--clinicopathologic study.

    J Scheidler;H Hricak;D B Vigneron;K K Yu

  • Analysis of Cancer Metabolism by Imaging Hyperpolarized Nuclei: Prospects for Translation to Clinical Research

    John Kurhanewicz;Daniel B. Vigneron;Kevin Brindle;Eduard Y. Chekmenev

  • Hyperpolarized 13C Lactate, Pyruvate, and Alanine: Noninvasive Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer Detection and Grading

    Mark J. Albers;Robert Bok;Albert P. Chen;Charles H. Cunningham

  • Combined magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopic imaging approach to molecular imaging of prostate cancer.

    John Kurhanewicz;Mark G. Swanson;Sarah J. Nelson;Daniel B. Vigneron

  • Carcinoma of the prostate gland: MR imaging with pelvic phased-array coils versus integrated endorectal--pelvic phased-array coils.

    Hedvig Hricak;Scott White;Daniel Vigneron;John Kurhanewicz

  • SEXTANT LOCALIZATION OF PROSTATE CANCER: COMPARISON OF SEXTANT BIOPSY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING WITH STEP SECTION HISTOLOGY

    A.E. Wefer;H. Hricak;D.B. Vigneron;F.V. Coakley

  • Hyperpolarized 13C MRI: Path to Clinical Translation in Oncology

    John Kurhanewicz;Daniel B Vigneron;Jan Henrik Ardenkjaer-Larsen;James A Bankson

  • Prostate Cancer: Prediction of Extracapsular Extension with Endorectal MR Imaging and Three-dimensional Proton MR Spectroscopic Imaging

    Kyle K. Yu;Juergen Scheidler;Hedvig Hricak;Daniel B. Vigneron

  • Prostate cancer: effect of postbiopsy hemorrhage on interpretation of MR images.

    S White;H Hricak;R Forstner;J Kurhanewicz

  • Prostate Cancer Tumor Volume: Measurement with Endorectal MR and MR Spectroscopic Imaging

    Fergus V. Coakley;John Kurhanewicz;Ying Lu;Kirk D. Jones

  • Very selective suppression pulses for clinical MRSI studies of brain and prostate cancer.

    Tuan-Khanh C. Tran;Daniel B. Vigneron;Napapon Sailasuta;James Tropp

  • Quantitative analysis of prostate metabolites using 1H HR‐MAS spectroscopy

    Mark G. Swanson;Andrew S. Zektzer;Z. Laura Tabatabai;Jeffry Simko

  • Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging in prostate cancer: present and future.

    John Kurhanewicz;Daniel Vigneron;Peter Carroll;Fergus Coakley

  • Proton HR-MAS spectroscopy and quantitative pathologic analysis of MRI/3D-MRSI-targeted postsurgical prostate tissues.

    Mark G. Swanson;Daniel B. Vigneron;Z. Laura Tabatabai;Ryan G. Males

  • Citrate as an in vivo marker to discriminate prostate cancer from benign prostatic hyperplasia and normal prostate peripheral zone: Detection via localized proton spectroscopy

    John Kurhanewicz;Daniel B. Vigneron;Sarah J. Nelson;Hedvig Hricak

  • Prostate depiction at endorectal MR spectroscopic imaging: investigation of a standardized evaluation system.

    Juyoung A. Jung;Fergus V. Coakley;Daniel B. Vigneron;Mark G. Swanson

  • Prostate Cancer: Sextant Localization at MR Imaging and MR Spectroscopic Imaging before Prostatectomy—Results of ACRIN Prospective Multi-institutional Clinicopathologic Study

    Jeffrey C. Weinreb;Jeffrey D. Blume;Fergus V. Coakley;Thomas M. Wheeler

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel B. Vigneron
Daniel B. Vigneron University of California, San Francisco
Sarah J. Nelson
Sarah J. Nelson University of California, San Francisco
Peter R. Carroll
Peter R. Carroll University of California, San Francisco
Katsuto Shinohara
Katsuto Shinohara University of California, San Francisco
Hedvig Hricak
Hedvig Hricak Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mack Roach
Mack Roach University of California, San Francisco
John M. Pauly
John M. Pauly Stanford University
Thomas L. James
Thomas L. James University of California, San Francisco
Ying Lu
Ying Lu Stanford University
Anant Madabhushi
Anant Madabhushi Emory University

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