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Overview

Kirk A. Frey is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine with specific expertise in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Surgery, and Epidemiology.

Their work encompasses several main topics including Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances, Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neurological disorders and treatments, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments.

Frequent publication venues for Kirk A. Frey include the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Brain Communications, Clinical Nuclear Medicine, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and the Journal of Neuropsychiatry.

They have collaborated extensively with a number of co-authors, notably Ka Kit Wong, Yuni K. Dewaraja, Robert A. Koeppe, Peter J. H. Scott, and David M. Raffel.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Kirk A. Frey include:

  • A Novel Time-Activity Information-Sharing Approach Using Nonlinear Mixed Models for Patient-Specific Dosimetry with Reduced Imaging Time Points: Application in SPECT/CT After 177Lu-DOTATATE, 2020, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • Regional cerebral cholinergic nerve terminal integrity and cardinal motor features in Parkinson's disease, 2021, Brain Communications
  • A pipeline for automated voxel dosimetry: application in patients with multi-SPECT/CT imaging following 177Lu peptide receptor radionuclide therapy, 2022, Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  • Topography of Cholinergic Changes in Dementia With Lewy Bodies and Key Neural Network Hubs, 2020, Journal of Neuropsychiatry
  • Use of 55 PET radiotracers under approval of a Radioactive Drug Research Committee (RDRC), 2020, EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Metabolic Reduction in the Posterior Cingulate Cortex in Very Early Alzheimer's Disease

    Saroshi Minoshima;Bruno Giordani;Stanley Berent;Kirk A. Frey

  • A Diagnostic Approach in Alzheimer's Disease Using Three-Dimensional Stereotactic Surface Projections of Fluorine-18-FDG PET

    Satoshi Minoshima;Kirk A. Frey;Kirk A. Frey;Robert A. Koeppe;Norman L. Foster

  • Positron emission tomographic analysis of cerebral structures activated specifically by repetitive noxious heat stimuli

    Kenneth L. Casey;Satoshi Minoshima;Kevin L. Berger;Robert A. Koeppe

  • Demonstration of accuracy and clinical versatility of mutual information for automatic multimodality image fusion using affine and thin-plate spline warped geometric deformations.

    Charles R. Meyer;Jennifer L. Boes;Boklye Kim;Peyton H. Bland

  • Alzheimer's disease versus Dementia with Lewy bodies : Cerebral metabolic distinction with autopsy confirmation

    Satoshi Minoshima;Norman L. Foster;Anders A. F. Sima;Kirk A. Frey

  • Anatomic Standardization: Linear Scaling and Nonlinear Warping of Functional Brain Images

    Satoshi Minoshima;Robert A. Koeppe;Kirk A. Frey;Kirk A. Frey;David E. Kuhl

  • In vivo mapping of cholinergic terminals in normal aging, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease

    D. E. Kuhl;S. Minoshima;J. A. Fessler;K. A. Frey;K. A. Frey

  • Hippocampal Inactivation Disrupts the Acquisition and Contextual Encoding of Fear Extinction

    Kevin A. Corcoran;Kevin A. Corcoran;Timothy J. Desmond;Kirk A. Frey;Stephen Maren

  • In vivo mapping of cerebral acetylcholinesterase activity in aging and Alzheimer’s disease

    D.E. Kuhl;R.A. Koeppe;S. Minoshima;S.E. Snyder

  • History of falls in Parkinson disease is associated with reduced cholinergic activity

    N. I. Bohnen;M. L.T.M. Müller;R. A. Koeppe;S. A. Studenski

  • Compartmental Analysis of [11C]Flumazenil Kinetics for the Estimation of Ligand Transport Rate and Receptor Distribution Using Positron Emission Tomography

    R. A. Koeppe;V. A. Holthoff;K. A. Frey;K. A. Frey;M. R. Kilbourn

  • Olfactory dysfunction, central cholinergic integrity and cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease.

    Nicolaas I. Bohnen;Martijn L. T. M. Müller;Vikas Kotagal;Robert A. Koeppe

  • Presynaptic monoaminergic vesicles in Parkinson's disease and normal aging

    Kirk A. Frey;Robert A. Koeppe;Michael R. Kilbourn;Thierry M. Vander Borght

  • Decreased striatal dopaminergic innervation in REM sleep behavior disorder

    Roger L. Albin;R. A. Koeppe;R. D. Chervin;F. B. Consens

  • Phase 3 Trial of Flutemetamol Labeled With Radioactive Fluorine 18 Imaging and Neuritic Plaque Density

    Craig Curtis;Jose E. Gamez;Upinder Singh;Carl H. Sadowsky

  • Automated Detection of the Intercommissural Line for Stereotactic Localization of Functional Brain Images

    Satoshi Minoshima;Robert A. Koeppe;Mark A. Mintun;Keven L. Berger

  • Positron emission tomography of monoaminergic vesicular binding in aging and Parkinson disease

    Nicolaas I Bohnen;Roger L Albin;Roger L Albin;Robert A Koeppe;Kristine A Wernette

  • Fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography in diffuse Lewy body disease

    R. L. Albin;S. Minoshima;C. J. D'Amato;K. A. Frey;K. A. Frey

  • Preserved pontine glucose metabolism in Alzheimer disease: a reference region for functional brain image (PET) analysis.

    Satoshi Minoshima;Kirk A. Frey;Kirk A. Frey;Norman L. Foster;David E. Kuhl

  • Brain PET in Suspected Dementia: Patterns of Altered FDG Metabolism

    Richard K J Brown;Nicolaas I. Bohnen;Ka Kit Wong;Satoshi Minoshima

  • Cognitive function and nigrostriatal markers in abstinent methamphetamine abusers

    Chris Ellyn Johanson;Kirk A. Frey;Leslie H. Lundahl;Pamela Keenan

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Koeppe
Robert A. Koeppe University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Roger L. Albin
Roger L. Albin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nicolaas I. Bohnen
Nicolaas I. Bohnen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael R. Kilbourn
Michael R. Kilbourn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martijn L.T.M. Müller
Martijn L.T.M. Müller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David E. Kuhl
David E. Kuhl University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Satoshi Minoshima
Satoshi Minoshima University of Utah
Sid Gilman
Sid Gilman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bruno Giordani
Bruno Giordani University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bernard W. Agranoff
Bernard W. Agranoff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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