Kenneth Niermann

Kenneth Niermann is a scientist and a physician in the Department of Radiation Oncology in Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

He has contributed greatly to the discovery and understanding of radiation-induced vascular injury and participated in the development of automatic segmentation for radiation therapy planning.

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1. Niermann KJ, Fleischer AC, Huamani J, Yankeelov TE, Kim DW, Wilson WD, Hallahan DE.Measuring tumor perfusion in control and treated murine tumors: correlation of microbubble contrast-enhanced sonography to dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography.J Ultrasound Med. 2007 Jun;26(6):749-56.

2. Moretti L, Cha YI, Niermann KJ, Lu B.Switch between apoptosis and autophagy: radiation-induced endoplasmic reticulum stress?Cell Cycle. 2007 Apr 1;6(7):793-8.

3. Yankeelov TE, Niermann KJ, Huamani J, Kim DW, Quarles CC, Fleischer AC, Hallahan DE, Price RR, Gore JC.Correlation between estimates of tumor perfusion from microbubble contrast-enhanced sonography and dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.J Ultrasound Med. 2006 Apr;25(4):487-97.

4. Niermann KJ, Fleischer AC, Donnelly EF, Schueneman AJ, Geng L, Hallahan DE.Sonographic depiction of changes of tumor vascularity in response to various therapies.Ultrasound Q. 2005 Jun;21(2):61-7.

5. Fleischer AC, Niermann KJ, Donnelly EF, Yankeelov TE, Canniff KM, Hallahan DE, Rothenberg ME.Sonographic depiction of microvessel perfusion: principles and potential.J Ultrasound Med. 2004 Nov;23(11):1499-506.

6. Geng L, Tan J, Himmelfarb E, Schueneman A, Niermann K, Fu A, Cuneo K, Hayflick JS,
Hallahan DE. A specific antagonist of the p110d catalytic component of PI3 kinase,
IC486068, enhances radiation-induced tumor vascular destruction. Cancer Research, 64(14):
4893-9, 2004.

7. D'Haese PF, Duay V, Li R, du Bois d'Aische A, Merchant TE, Cmelak AJ, Donnelly EF,
Niermann KJ, Macq B, Dawant BM. Automatic segmentation of brain structures for
radiation therapy planning. Proceedings of SPIE: Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing,
5032, 517-526, 2003.

8. Niermann KJ, Olsen NJ, Park JH. Magnesium abnormalities in muscle disease:
dermatomyositis and juvenile dermatomyositis. Arthritis Rheum, 46(2): 475-88, 2002.

9. Park JH, Niermann KJ, Ryder NM, Nelson AE, Das A, Lawton AR, Hernanz-Schulman M,
Olsen NJ. Muscle abnormalities in juvenile dermatomyositis patients: P-31 magnetic
resonance spectroscopy studies. Arthritis Rheum, 43: 2359-67, 2000.

10. Park JH, Niermann KJ, Olsen NJ. Evidence for metabolic abnormalities in muscles of patients
with fibromyalgia. Current Rheumatology Reports, 2: 131-40, 2000.

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