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John L. Humm is affiliated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Significant subsets of their work extend into pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cancer research, radiation, and oncology.

Their recent publications include studies on advanced radiotherapy and radiopharmaceutical therapies. Key papers include:

  • Precision Radiotherapy: Reduction in Radiation for Oropharyngeal Cancer in the 30 ROC Trial, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Targeted Brain Tumor Radiotherapy Using an Auger Emitter, 2020, Clinical Cancer Research
  • Hypoxia-Directed Treatment of Human Papillomavirus-Related Oropharyngeal Carcinoma, 2024, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Phase 1 study of intraventricular 131I-omburtamab targeting B7H3 (CD276)-expressing CNS malignancies, 2022, Journal of Hematology & Oncology
  • Dosimetry in Radiopharmaceutical Therapy, 2022, Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with John L. Humm include:

  • Heiko Schöder
  • Milan Grkovski
  • Pat Zanzonico
  • Joseph O. Deasy
  • Nancy Y. Lee

Their work is regularly published in several prominent journals, such as:

  • Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • EJNMMI Research

John L. Humm's research covers topics including:

  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

This scientist's work spans multiple interconnected areas that combine imaging technology and therapeutic radiology to address cancer and respiratory diseases. Their contributions involve both clinical applications and experimental approaches, reflecting ongoing efforts in precision radiotherapy and radiopharmaceutical dosimetry.

Best Publications

  • Towards multidimensional radiotherapy (MD-CRT): biological imaging and biological conformality.

    C.Clifton Ling;John Humm;Steven Larson;Howard Amols

  • Antitumour activity of MDV3100 in castration-resistant prostate cancer: a phase 1-2 study.

    Howard I Scher;Tomasz M Beer;Celestia S Higano;Aseem Anand

  • Tumor Treatment Response Based on Visual and Quantitative Changes in Global Tumor Glycolysis Using PET-FDG Imaging. The Visual Response Score and the Change in Total Lesion Glycolysis.

    Steven M. Larson;Yusuf Erdi;Timothy Akhurst;Madhu Mazumdar

  • Clinical translation of an ultrasmall inorganic optical-PET imaging nanoparticle probe

    Evan Phillips;Oula Penate-Medina;Pat B. Zanzonico;Richard D. Carvajal

  • Segmentation of lung lesion volume by adaptive positron emission tomography image thresholding.

    Yusuf E. Erdi;O. Mawlawi;Steven M. Larson;M. Imbriaco

  • Targeted α particle immunotherapy for myeloid leukemia

    Joseph G. Jurcic;Steven M. Larson;Steven M. Larson;George Sgouros;George Sgouros;Michael R. McDevitt;Michael R. McDevitt

  • Radioimmunotherapy with alpha-emitting nuclides

    Michael R. McDevitt;George Sgouros;Ronald D. Finn;John L. Humm

  • Effect of Respiratory Gating on Quantifying PET Images of Lung Cancer

    Sadek A. Nehmeh;Yusuf E. Erdi;Clifton C. Ling;Kenneth E. Rosenzweig

  • Four-dimensional (4D) PET/CT imaging of the thorax.

    S. A. Nehmeh;Y. E. Erdi;T. Pan;A. Pevsner

  • Imaging herpes virus thymidine kinase gene transfer and expression by positron emission tomography.

    Juri G. Tjuvajev;Norbert Avril;Takamitsu Oku;Toshio Sasajima

  • Radiotherapy treatment planning for patients with non-small cell lung cancer using positron emission tomography (PET).

    Yusuf E. Erdi;Kenneth Rosenzweig;Alev K. Erdi;Homer A. Macapinlac

  • Preoperative characterisation of clear-cell renal carcinoma using iodine-124-labelled antibody chimeric G250 (124I-cG250) and PET in patients with renal masses: a phase I trial

    Chaitanya R Divgi;Neeta Pandit-Taskar;Achim A Jungbluth;Victor E Reuter

  • Tumor Localization of 16β-18F-Fluoro-5α-Dihydrotestosterone Versus 18F-FDG in Patients with Progressive, Metastatic Prostate Cancer

    Steven M Larson;Michael Morris;Ilonka Gunther;Brad Beattie

  • The CT motion quantitation of lung lesions and its impact on PET-measured SUVs

    Yusuf E. Erdi;Sadek A. Nehmeh;Tinsu Pan;Alexander Pevsner

  • From PET detectors to PET scanners

    John L. Humm;Anatoly Rosenfeld;Alberto Del Guerra

  • Effect of respiratory gating on reducing lung motion artifacts in PET imaging of lung cancer

    S. A. Nehmeh;Y. E. Erdi;C. C. Ling;K. E. Rosenzweig

  • Dosimetric aspects of radiolabeled antibodies for tumor therapy

    John Laurence Humm

  • Measurement of lung tumor motion using respiration-correlated CT

    Gig S. Mageras;Alex Pevsner;Ellen D. Yorke;Kenneth E. Rosenzweig

  • Quantitation of respiratory motion during 4D-PET/CT acquisition

    S. A. Nehmeh;Y. E. Erdi;Tinsu Pan;E. Yorke

  • Fluorine-18-labeled fluoromisonidazole positron emission and computed tomography-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy for head and neck cancer: a feasibility study.

    Nancy Y. Lee;James G. Mechalakos;Sadek Nehmeh;Zhixiong Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven M. Larson
Steven M. Larson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Heiko Schöder
Heiko Schöder Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
C. Clifton Ling
C. Clifton Ling Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Nancy Y. Lee
Nancy Y. Lee Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Michael J. Morris
Michael J. Morris Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jason S. Lewis
Jason S. Lewis Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mithat Gonen
Mithat Gonen Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Nai-Kong V. Cheung
Nai-Kong V. Cheung Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Wolfgang A. Weber
Wolfgang A. Weber Technical University of Munich
Jorge A. Carrasquillo
Jorge A. Carrasquillo Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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