Negar Omidvari

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Title(s)	Assistant Professor in Residence, MED: Radiology
School	School of Medicine
Phone	626-616-8255
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Mitochondrial Imaging Detects Early Cardiac Changes Following Cancer Immunotherapy. Clin Cancer Res. 2026 May 13. Chae HD, Shrestha U, Das M, Vasanawala MS, Behl D, Davar D, Srinivas S, Colevas AD, Sunwoo JB, Del Mar N, Pierini M, Guillen M, Garcia J, Omidvari N, Gupta N, Cabrera H, Blecha J, Cherry SR, VanBrocklin H, Flavell RR, Moslehi J, Seo Y, Levi J. PMID: 42126592; PMCID: PMC13188887.

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Neo Neoplasms
Mitochondrial Imaging Detects Early Cardiac Responses to Cancer Immunotherapy. medRxiv. 2025 Oct 17. Chae HD, Shrestha U, Das M, Vasanawala MS, Behl D, Davar D, Srinivas S, Colevas AD, Sunwoo J, Del Mar N, Pierini M, Guillen M, Garcia J, Omidvari N, Gupta N, Cabrera H, Blecha J, Cherry SR, VanBrocklin H, Moslehi J, Seo Y, Levi J. PMID: 41282814; PMCID: PMC12633126.

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Long Axial Field of View PET: A New Era of Quantitative PET Imaging for Prospective Applications Beyond Classical Theranostics. PET Clin. 2025 Oct; 20(4):499-510. Mehadji B, Abdelhafez YG, Alavi A, Chung KJ, Karakatsanis NA, Omidvari N, Nardo L. PMID: 40796415; PMCID: PMC12890563.

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Dia Diagnostic Imaging
Translation:Humans
Correction to: Feasibility of PET‑enabled dual‑energy CT imaging: First physical phantom and initial patient study results. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2025 May; 52(6):2239-2243. Zhu Y, Li S, Xie Z, Leung EK, Bayerlein R, Omidvari N, Abdelhafez YG, Cherry SR, Qi J, Badawi RD, Spencer BA, Wang G. PMID: 39774906; PMCID: PMC12077486.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine Phy Physics
Quantitative Accuracy Assessment of the NeuroEXPLORER for Diverse Imaging Applications: Moving Beyond Standard Evaluations. J Nucl Med. 2025 01 03; 66(1):150-157. Omidvari N, Shanina E, Leung EK, Sun X, Li Y, Mulnix T, Gravel P, Henry S, Matuskey D, Volpi T, Jones T, Badawi RD, Li H, Carson RE, Qi J, Cherry SR. PMID: 39638433; PMCID: PMC11705792.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Humans
Feasibility of PET-enabled dual-energy CT imaging: First physical phantom and initial patient results. ArXiv. 2024 Nov 19. Zhu Y, Li S, Xie Z, Leung EK, Bayerlein R, Omidvari N, Abdelhafez YG, Cherry SR, Qi J, Badawi RD, Spencer BA, Wang G. PMID: 38351944; PMCID: PMC10862937.

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Feasibility of PET-enabled dual-energy CT imaging: First physical phantom and initial patient study results. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2025 Apr; 52(5):1912-1923. Zhu Y, Li S, Xie Z, Leung EK, Bayerlein R, Omidvari N, Abdelhafez YG, Cherry SR, Qi J, Badawi RD, Spencer BA, Wang G. PMID: 39549045; PMCID: PMC11928277.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine Phy Physics
Translation:Humans
Total-Body Dynamic Imaging and Kinetic Modeling of [18F]F-AraG in Healthy Individuals and a Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patient Undergoing Anti-PD-1 Immunotherapy. J Nucl Med. 2024 09 03; 65(9):1481-1488. Omidvari N, Levi J, Abdelhafez YG, Wang Y, Nardo L, Daly ME, Wang G, Cherry SR. PMID: 39089813; PMCID: PMC11372257.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Humans
Performance Characteristics of the NeuroEXPLORER, a Next-Generation Human Brain PET/CT Imager. J Nucl Med. 2024 08 01; 65(8):1320-1326. Li H, Badawi RD, Cherry SR, Fontaine K, He L, Henry S, Hillmer AT, Hu L, Khattar N, Leung EK, Li T, Li Y, Liu C, Liu P, Lu Z, Majewski S, Matuskey D, Morris ED, Mulnix T, Omidvari N, Samanta S, Selfridge A, Sun X, Toyonaga T, Volpi T, Zeng T, Jones T, Qi J, Carson RE. PMID: 38871391; PMCID: PMC11294061.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Humans
Dose Reduction in Pediatric Oncology Patients with Delayed Total-Body [18F]FDG PET/CT. J Nucl Med. 2024 07 01; 65(7):1101-1106. Mingels C, Spencer BA, Nalbant H, Omidvari N, Rokni M, Rominger A, Sen F, Cherry SR, Badawi RD, Abdelhafez YG, Nardo L. PMID: 38664017; PMCID: PMC11218730.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Humans
Development of a Monte Carlo-based scatter correction method for total-body PET using the uEXPLORER PET/CT scanner. Phys Med Biol. 2024 Feb 16; 69(4). Bayerlein R, Spencer BA, Leung EK, Omidvari N, Abdelhafez YG, Wang Q, Nardo L, Cherry SR, Badawi RD. PMID: 38266297.

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Bio Biophysics Dia Diagnostic Imaging Nuc Nuclear Medicine Phy Physics
Translation:Humans
Total-body Dynamic Imaging and Kinetic Modeling of 18F-AraG in Healthy Individuals and a Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patient Undergoing Anti-PD-1 Immunotherapy. medRxiv. 2023 Nov 01. Omidvari N, Levi J, Abdelhafez YG, Wang Y, Nardo L, Daly ME, Wang G, Cherry SR. PMID: 37790461; PMCID: PMC10543042.

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Numerical investigation reveals challenges in measuring the contrast recovery coefficients in PET. Phys Med Biol. 2023 10 26; 68(21). Bayerlein R, Spencer BA, Abdelhafez YG, Cherry SR, Badawi RD, Omidvari N. PMID: 37802064; PMCID: PMC10798005.

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Bio Biophysics Dia Diagnostic Imaging Nuc Nuclear Medicine Phy Physics
First-in-human immunoPET imaging of COVID-19 convalescent patients using dynamic total-body PET and a CD8-targeted minibody. Sci Adv. 2023 10 13; 9(41):eadh7968. Omidvari N, Jones T, Price PM, Ferre AL, Lu J, Abdelhafez YG, Sen F, Cohen SH, Schmiedehausen K, Badawi RD, Shacklett BL, Wilson I, Cherry SR. PMID: 37824612; PMCID: PMC10569706.

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Sci Science
Translation:Humans Cells
Total-Body Multiparametric PET Quantification of 18F-FDG Delivery and Metabolism in the Study of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Recovery. J Nucl Med. 2023 11; 64(11):1821-1830. Wang Y, Nardo L, Spencer BA, Abdelhafez YG, Li EJ, Omidvari N, Chaudhari AJ, Badawi RD, Jones T, Cherry SR, Wang G. PMID: 37591539; PMCID: PMC10626370.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Humans
Super-resolution reconstruction of γ-ray CT images for PET-enabled dual-energy CT imaging. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2024 Feb; 12463. Zhu Y, Spencer BA, Xie Z, Leung EK, Bayerlein R, Omidvari N, Cherry SR, Qi J, Badawi RD, Wang G. PMID: 38500666; PMCID: PMC10947795.

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Total-Body Multiparametric PET Quantification of 18 F-FDG Delivery and Metabolism in the Study of COVID-19 Recovery. medRxiv. 2023 Mar 30. Wang Y, Nardo L, Spencer BA, Abdelhafez YG, Li EJ, Omidvari N, Chaudhari AJ, Badawi RD, Jones T, Cherry SR, Wang G. PMID: 37034643; PMCID: PMC10081414.

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First-in-human immunoPET imaging of COVID-19 convalescent patients using dynamic total-body PET and a CD8-targeted minibody. medRxiv. 2023 Mar 20. Omidvari N, Jones T, Price PM, Ferre AL, Lu J, Abdelhafez YG, Sen F, Cohen SH, Schmiedehausen K, Badawi RD, Shacklett BL, Wilson I, Cherry SR. PMID: 36993568; PMCID: PMC10055575.

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Lutetium background radiation in total-body PET-A simulation study on opportunities and challenges in PET attenuation correction. Front Nucl Med. 2022; 2. Omidvari N, Cheng L, Leung EK, Abdelhafez YG, Badawi RD, Ma T, Qi J, Cherry SR. PMID: 36172601; PMCID: PMC9513593.

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Relating18F-FDG image signal-to-noise ratio to time-of-flight noise-equivalent count rate in total-body PET using the uEXPLORER scanner. Phys Med Biol. 2022 06 10; 67(12). Leung EK, Abdelhafez YG, Berg E, Xie Z, Zhang X, Bayerlein R, Spencer B, Li E, Omidvari N, Selfridge A, Cherry SR, Qi J, Badawi RD. PMID: 35609588; PMCID: PMC9275089.

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Bio Biophysics Dia Diagnostic Imaging Nuc Nuclear Medicine Phy Physics
Translation:Humans
Total-Body 18F-FDG PET/CT in Autoimmune Inflammatory Arthritis at Ultra-Low Dose: Initial Observations. J Nucl Med. 2022 10; 63(10):1579-1585. Abdelhafez Y, Raychaudhuri SP, Mazza D, Sarkar S, Hunt HL, McBride K, Nguyen M, Caudle DT, Spencer BA, Omidvari N, Bang H, Cherry SR, Nardo L, Badawi RD, Chaudhari AJ. PMID: 35589405; PMCID: PMC9536697.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Humans
In vivo Visualization of M2 Macrophages in the Myocardium After Myocardial Infarction (MI) Using 68 Ga-NOTA-Anti-MMR Nb: Targeting Mannose Receptor (MR, CD206) on M2 Macrophages. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022; 9:889963. Varasteh Z, Braeuer M, Mohanta S, Steinsiek AL, Habenicht A, Omidvari N, Topping GJ, Rischpler C, Weber WA, Sager HB, Raes G, Hernot S, Schwaiger M. PMID: 35548425; PMCID: PMC9081970.

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Total-body PET/CT - First Clinical Experiences and Future Perspectives. Semin Nucl Med. 2022 05; 52(3):330-339. Ng QK, Triumbari EKA, Omidvari N, Cherry SR, Badawi RD, Nardo L. PMID: 35272853; PMCID: PMC9439875.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Humans
Radioembolization Dosimetry with Total-Body 90Y PET. J Nucl Med. 2022 07; 63(7):1101-1107. Costa G, Spencer B, Omidvari N, Foster C, Rusnak M, Hunt H, Caudle DT, Pillai RT, Vu CT, Roncali E. PMID: 34795015; PMCID: PMC9258581.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Humans
Quantitative accuracy in total-body imaging using the uEXPLORER PET/CT scanner. Phys Med Biol. 2021 10 11; 66(20). Leung EK, Berg E, Omidvari N, Spencer BA, Li E, Abdelhafez YG, Schmall JP, Liu W, He L, Tang S, Liu Y, Dong Y, Jones T, Cherry SR, Badawi RD. PMID: 34544074; PMCID: PMC8585520.

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Bio Biophysics Dia Diagnostic Imaging Nuc Nuclear Medicine Phy Physics
Translation:Humans
Performance Evaluation of the uEXPLORER Total-Body PET/CT Scanner Based on NEMA NU 2-2018 with Additional Tests to Characterize PET Scanners with a Long Axial Field of View. J Nucl Med. 2021 06 01; 62(6):861-870. Spencer BA, Berg E, Schmall JP, Omidvari N, Leung EK, Abdelhafez YG, Tang S, Deng Z, Dong Y, Lv Y, Bao J, Liu W, Li H, Jones T, Badawi RD, Cherry SR. PMID: 33008932; PMCID: PMC8729871.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Humans
Improving depth-of-interaction resolution in pixellated PET detectors using neural networks. Phys Med Biol. 2020 08 27; 65(17):175017. Zatcepin A, Pizzichemi M, Polesel A, Paganoni M, Auffray E, Ziegler SI, Omidvari N. PMID: 32570223.

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Bio Biophysics Dia Diagnostic Imaging Nuc Nuclear Medicine Phy Physics
Translation:Humans
Molecular Imaging of Fibroblast Activity After Myocardial Infarction Using a 68Ga-Labeled Fibroblast Activation Protein Inhibitor, FAPI-04. J Nucl Med. 2019 12; 60(12):1743-1749. Varasteh Z, Mohanta S, Robu S, Braeuer M, Li Y, Omidvari N, Topping G, Sun T, Nekolla SG, Richter A, Weber C, Habenicht A, Haberkorn UA, Weber WA. PMID: 31405922; PMCID: PMC6894377.

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Nuc Nuclear Medicine
Translation:Animals Cells
MR-compatibility assessment of MADPET4: a study of interferences between an SiPM-based PET insert and a 7 T MRI system. Phys Med Biol. 2018 05 01; 63(9):095002. Omidvari N, Topping G, Cabello J, Paul S, Schwaiger M, Ziegler SI. PMID: 29582780.

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Bio Biophysics Dia Diagnostic Imaging Nuc Nuclear Medicine Phy Physics
Translation:Animals
PET performance evaluation of MADPET4: a small animal PET insert for a 7 T MRI scanner. Phys Med Biol. 2017 Nov 01; 62(22):8671-8692. Omidvari N, Cabello J, Topping G, Schneider FR, Paul S, Schwaiger M, Ziegler SI. PMID: 28976912.

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Bio Biophysics Dia Diagnostic Imaging Nuc Nuclear Medicine Phy Physics
Translation:Animals
Monte Carlo study of scattered and random coincidences for MADPET-4. EJNMMI Phys. 2015 Dec; 2(Suppl 1):A57. Omidvari N, Cabello J, Schneider F, Paul S, Ziegler SI. PMID: 26956316; PMCID: PMC4798606.

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Characterization of sensitivity encoded silicon photomultiplier (SeSP) with 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional encoding for high resolution PET/MR. EJNMMI Phys. 2014 Jul; 1(Suppl 1):A83. Omidvari N, Schulz V. PMID: 26501675; PMCID: PMC4545219.

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Sensitivity encoded silicon photomultiplier--a new sensor for high-resolution PET-MRI. Phys Med Biol. 2013 Jul 21; 58(14):4733-48. Schulz V, Berker Y, Berneking A, Omidvari N, Kiessling F, Gola A, Piemonte C. PMID: 23782507.

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Bio Biophysics Dia Diagnostic Imaging Nuc Nuclear Medicine Phy Physics