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  • 2012 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Radiology

Overview

Michael Forsting is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a total of 519 publications. Within this broader discipline, their work focuses specifically on subfields such as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Neurology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics addressed by Forsting's research include Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications, Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging, Acute Ischemic Stroke Management, Radiation Dose and Imaging, Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases, and Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include:

  • Johannes Haubold
  • Lale Umutlu
  • Cornelius Deuschl
  • Felix Nensa
  • Marcel Opitz

Michael Forsting has contributed extensively to several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Neuroradiologie Scan
  • RöFo - Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Röntgenstrahlen und der bildgebenden Verfahren
  • Scientific Reports
  • Diagnostics
  • Investigative Radiology

Among recent notable papers are:

  • Nusinersen in adults with 5q spinal muscular atrophy: a non-interventional, multicentre, observational cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • Joint Imaging Platform for Federated Clinical Data Analytics, 2020, JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics
  • Detection of Significant Prostate Cancer Using Target Saturation in Transperineal Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Transrectal Ultrasonography-fusion Biopsy, 2020, European Urology Focus
  • Is Histologic Thrombus Composition in Acute Stroke Linked to Stroke Etiology or to Interventional Parameters?, 2020, American Journal of Neuroradiology
  • A rapid volume of interest-based approach of radiomics analysis of breast MRI for tumor decoding and phenotyping of breast cancer, 2020, PLoS ONE

Michael Forsting was awarded membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2012 for Radiology.

Best Publications

  • European Stroke Organization Guidelines for the Management of Intracranial Aneurysms and Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

    Thorsten Steiner;Seppo Juvela;Andreas Unterberg;Carla Jung

  • European Stroke Organisation (ESO) guidelines for the management of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage

    Thorsten Steiner;Rustam Al-Shahi Salman;Ronnie Beer;Hanne Christensen

  • Silent and Apparent Cerebral Ischemia After Percutaneous Transfemoral Aortic Valve Implantation A Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Philipp Kahlert;Stephan C. Knipp;Marc Schlamann;Matthias Thielmann

  • A novel, self-expanding, nitinol stent in medically refractory intracranial atherosclerotic stenoses: the Wingspan study.

    Arani Bose;Marius Hartmann;Hans Henkes;Hon Man Liu

  • Nusinersen in adults with 5q spinal muscular atrophy: a non-interventional, multicentre, observational cohort study

    Tim Hagenacker;Claudia D Wurster;René Günther;René Günther;Olivia Schreiber-Katz

  • Affective disturbances modulate the neural processing of visceral pain stimuli in irritable bowel syndrome: an fMRI study

    Sigrid Elsenbruch;Christina Rosenberger;Paul Enck;Michael Forsting

  • Cohort study of multiple brain lesions in sport divers: role of a patent foramen ovale

    Michael Knauth;Stefan Ries;Stefan Pohimann;Tina Kerby

  • Structural brain abnormalities in the frontostriatal system and cerebellum in pedophilia.

    Boris Schiffer;Thomas Peschel;Thomas Paul;Elke Gizewski

  • First Clinical Study on Ultra-High-Field MR Imaging in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: Comparison of 1.5T and 7T

    K Kollia;Stefan Maderwald;N Putzki;M Schlamann

  • Embolization of Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations with Ethylene-Vinyl Alcohol Copolymer (Onyx)

    V. Panagiotopoulos;E. Gizewski;S. Asgari;J. Regel

  • Decompressive craniectomy in a rat model of "malignant" cerebral hemispheric stroke: experimental support for an aggressive therapeutic approach.

    Doerfler A;Forsting M;Reith W;Staff C

  • Treatment of wide-necked intracranial aneurysms with a self-expanding stent system: initial clinical experience.

    Isabel Wanke;Arnd Doerfler;Beate Schoch;Dietmar Stolke

  • Decompressive Craniectomy for Cerebral Infarction An Experimental Study in Rats

    Michael Forsting;Wolfgang Reith;Wolf-Rüdiger Schäbitz;Sabine Heiland

  • High-Profile Flow Diverter (Silk) Implantation in the Basilar Artery Efficacy in the Treatment of Aneurysms and the Role of the Perforators

    Zsolt Kulcsár;Ulrike Ernemann;Stephan G. Wetzel;Alexander Bock

  • Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome Have Altered Emotional Modulation of Neural Responses to Visceral Stimuli

    Sigrid Elsenbruch;Christina Rosenberger;Ulrike Bingel;Michael Forsting

  • Whole-Body MR Imaging in the German National Cohort: Rationale, Design, and Technical Background.

    Fabian Bamberg;Hans-Ulrich Kauczor;Sabine Weckbach;Christopher L. Schlett

  • Evaluation of brain injury after coronary artery bypass grafting. A prospective study using neuropsychological assessment and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging.

    Stephan C. Knipp;Nadine Matatko;Hans Wilhelm;Marc Schlamann

  • Stents for intracranial wide-necked aneurysms: more than mechanical protection

    Isabel Wanke;Michael Forsting

  • Cross-modal plasticity for sensory and motor activation patterns in blind subjects.

    E.R Gizewski;T Gasser;A de Greiff;A Boehm

  • Comparison of eyeblink conditioning in patients with superior and posterior inferior cerebellar lesions

    M Gerwig;A Dimitrova;F P Kolb;M Maschke

  • Affective Disturbances Modulate the Neural Processing of Visceral Pain Stimuli in Irritable Bowel Syndrome: An fMRI Study

    S. Elsenbruch;C. Rosenberger;M. Schedlowski;M. Forsting

  • Decompressive craniectomy in a rat model of “malignant” cerebral hemispheric stroke: experimental support for an aggressive therapeutic approach

    Arnd Doerfler;Michael Forsting;Wolfgang Reith;Christian Staff

Frequent Co-Authors

Elke R. Gizewski
Elke R. Gizewski Innsbruck Medical University
Dagmar Timmann
Dagmar Timmann University of Duisburg-Essen
Sabine Heiland
Sabine Heiland University Hospital Heidelberg
Manfred Schedlowski
Manfred Schedlowski University of Duisburg-Essen
Matthias Maschke
Matthias Maschke University of Duisburg-Essen
Ulrike Bingel
Ulrike Bingel University of Duisburg-Essen
Sheilagh Hodgins
Sheilagh Hodgins University of Montreal

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