Publications

  • Ismail MK, Araki T, Gefter WB, Suzuki Y, Raevsky A, Saleh A, Yusuf S, Marquis A, Alcudia A, Duncan I, Schaubel DE, Cantu E, Rizi RR. Artificial intelligence–driven automated lung sizing from chest radiographs. Am J Transplant. 2025 Jan;25(1):198–203. doi:10.1016/j.ajt.2024.08.015. Epub 2024 Aug 23. PMID: 39182615
  • Ruppert K, Loza L, Hamedani H, Ismail MK, Chen J, Duncan IF, Profka H, Kadlecek S, Rizi RR. Regional variations in hyperpolarized xenon-129 lung MRI: Insights from CSI-CSSR and CSSR in healthy and irradiated rat models. Magn Reson Med. 2025 Mar;93(3):902–915. doi:10.1002/mrm.30313. Epub 2024 Nov 6. PMID: 39503293
  • Amzajerdian F, Hamedani H, Baron R, Loza L, Duncan I, Ruppert K, Kadlecek S, Rizi RR. Simultaneous quantification of hyperpolarized xenon-129 ventilation and gas exchange with multi-breath xenon-polarization transfer contrast (XTC) MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2023 Dec;90(6):2334–2347. doi:10.1002/mrm.29804. Epub 2023 Aug 3. PMID: 37533368
  • Ruppert K, Loza L, Amzajerdian F, Hamedani H, Baron R, Kadlecek S, Rizi RR. Quantitative measure of lung structure and function obtained from hyperpolarized xenon spectroscopy. J Vis Exp. 2023 Nov;(201). doi:10.3791/66038. PMID: 38009715
  • Achekzai T, Ruppert K, Loza L, Amzajerdian F, Profka H, Duncan IF, Kadlecek SJ, Rizi RR. Investigating the impact of RF saturation-pulse parameters on compartment-selective gas-phase depolarization with xenon polarization transfer contrast MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2022 Dec;88(6):2447–2460. doi:10.1002/mrm.29405. Epub 2022 Aug 31. PMID: 36046917
  • Xin Y, Cereda M, Yehya N, Humayun S, Delvecchio P, Thompson JM, Martin K, Hamedani H, Martorano P, Duncan I, Kadlecek S, Makvandi M, Brenner JS, Rizi RR. Imatinib alleviates lung injury and prolongs survival in ventilated rats. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2022 Jun 1;322(6):L866–L872. doi:10.1152/ajplung.00006.2022. Epub 2022 Apr 19. PMID: 35438574
  • Habertheuer A, Ram C, Schmierer M, Chatterjee S, Hu R, Freas A, Zielinski P, Rogers W, Silvestro EM, McGrane M, Moore JS, Korutla L, Siddiqui S, Xin Y, Rizi RR, Tao JQ, Kreisel D, Naji A, Ochiya T, Vallabhajosyula P. Circulating donor lung–specific exosome profiles enable noninvasive monitoring of acute rejection in a rodent orthotopic lung transplantation model. Transplantation. 2022 May;106(4):754–766. doi:10.1097/TP.0000000000003820. PMID: 33993180
  • Nomani A, Li G, Yousefi S, Wu S, Malekshah OM, Nikkhoi SK, Pourfathi M, Rizi RR, Hatefi A. Gadolinium-labeled affibody-XTEN recombinant vector for detection of HER2+ lesions of ovarian cancer lung metastasis using quantitative MRI. J Control Release. 2021 Sep;337:132–143. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2021.07.022. PMID: 34284047
  • Hamedani H, Kadlecek S, Ruppert K, Xin Y, Duncan I, Rizi RR. Ventilation heterogeneity imaged by multibreath wash-ins of hyperpolarized 3He and 129Xe in healthy rabbits. J Physiol. 2021 Sep;599(17):4197–4223. doi:10.1113/JP281584. Epub 2021 Aug 10. PMID: 34256417
  • Ball L, Robba C, Herrmann J, Gerard SE, Xin Y, Mandelli M, Battaglini D, Brunetti I, Minetti G, Seitun S, Bovio G, Vena A, Giacobbe DR, Bassetti M, Rocco PRM, Cereda M, Rizi RR, Castellan L, Patroniti N, Pelosi P; GECOVID Collaborators. Lung distribution of gas and blood volume in critically ill COVID-19 patients: a quantitative dual-energy computed tomography study. Crit Care. 2021 Jun;25(1):214. doi:10.1186/s13054-021-03610-9. PMID: 34154635
  • Xin Y, Martin K, Morais CCA, Delvecchio P, Gerard SE, Hamedani H, Herrmann J, Abate N, Lenart A, Humayun S, Sidhu U, Petrov M, Reutlinger K, Mandelbaum T, Duncan I, Tustison N, Kadlecek S, Chatterjee S, Gee JC, Rizi RR, Berra L, Cereda M. Diminishing efficacy of prone positioning with late application in evolving lung injury. Crit Care Med. 2021 Oct;49(10):e1015–e1024. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005071. Epub 2021 May 6. PMID: 33938714
  • Baron R, Kadlecek S, Loza L, Xin Y, Amzajerdian F, Duncan I, Hamedani H, Rizi RR. Deriving regionally specific biomarkers of emphysema and small airways disease using variable threshold parametric response mapping on volumetric lung CT images. Acad Radiol. 2021 Jul;29(Suppl 2):S127–S136. doi:10.1016/j.acra.2021.05.021. PMID: 34272162
  • Amzajerdian F, Ruppert K, Hamedani H, Baron R, Xin Y, Loza L, Achekzai T, Duncan IF, Qian Y, Pourfathi M, Kadlecek S, Rizi RR. Measuring pulmonary gas exchange using compartment-selective xenon-polarization transfer contrast (XTC) MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2021 May;85(5):2709–2722. doi:10.1002/mrm.28626. PMID: 33283943
  • Rizi RR, Hamedani H, Cereda M. In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease progression, is it airway narrowing or airway loss? Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 Jan;203(2):154–155. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202008-3158ED. PMID: 32910677
  • Xin Y, Cereda M, Hamedani H, Martin KT, Tustison NJ, Pourfathi M, Kadlecek S, Siddiqui S, Amzajerdian F, Connell M, Abate N, Kajanaku A, Duncan I, Gee JC, Rizi RR. Positional therapy and regional pulmonary ventilation. Anesthesiology. 2020 Nov;133(5):1093–1105. doi:10.1097/ALN.0000000000003509. PMID: 32773690
  • Ruppert K, Amzajerdian F, Xin Y, Hamedani H, Loza L, Achekzai T, Duncan IF, Profka H, Qian Y, Pourfathi M, Kadlecek S, Rizi RR. Investigating biases in the measurement of apparent alveolar septal wall thickness with hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI. Magn Reson Med. 2020 Dec;84(6):3027–3039. doi:10.1002/mrm.28329. Epub 2020 Jun 18. PMID: 32557808
  • Pourfathi M, Xin Y, Rosalino M, Cereda M, Kadlecek S, Duncan I, Profka H, Hamedani H, Siddiqui S, Ruppert K, Chatterjee S, Rizi RR. Pulmonary pyruvate metabolism as an index of inflammation and injury in a rat model of acute respiratory distress syndrome. NMR Biomed. 2020 Nov;33(11):e4380. doi:10.1002/nbm.4380. Epub 2020 Jul 18. PMID: 32681670

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