Vahid Ravanfar
Chief Research Tech Supervisor
Radiology
School of Medicine

Publications (18)

Top publication keywords:
Fluorine RadioisotopesRadiometryMethionineMagnetic Resonance ImagingViremiaLow Back PainHIV InfectionsAntibodies, NeutralizingPositron-Emission TomographyHIV-1Fluorodeoxyglucose F18Tissue DistributionCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesViral LoadBone Remodeling

• Comparing Feet First vs. Head First Positioning Coverage for a Whole Body PET/MR Study
  Comparing Feet First vs. Head First Positioning Coverage for a Whole Body PET/MR Study 2023 1 Vahid Ravanfar1, Mehdi Khalighi2, Dora H. Tao1, Thomas A. Hope.2017.Abstract
• ISMRM, 2018
  Pelvic Imaging Optimization on a Simultaneous PET/MR Scanner 2023 Vahid Ravanfar, Mohammad Mehdi Khalighi, Dora H. Tao, Spencer Behr, and Thomas A. Hope
• Comparing Dual Shimming with Average Single Shimming on Fat Suppression Techniques. ISMRM. 2023
  Comparing Dual Shimming with Average Single Shimming on Fat Suppression Techniques. 2023 Vahid Ravanfar1, Heather Daniel1, Emma Bahrros1, Rupsa Bhattacharjee1, Maya Aslam1, Patrick D. Koon2, Mehdi Khalighi3, and Dr. Matthew Bucknor1…
• Positioning Focus Shim In Phase Direction Impacts Image Quality In DWI Sequences. ISMRM. 2019
  Positioning Focus Shim In Phase Direction Impacts Image Quality In DWI Sequences 2023 Vahid Ravanfar1, Mohammad Mehdi Khalighi2, Chad Bobb3, Emma Bahroos1, Namasvi Jariwala1, Edgar Castellanos1, Michael Ohliger1, Spencer Behr11Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, CA, …
• Reducing motion artifacts on abdominal PET/MR images. ISMRM 2022
  Reducing motion artifacts on abdominal PET/MR images 2023 Vahid Ravanfar1, Mohammad Mehdi Khalighi2, Chad Bobb3, Emma Bahroos1, Youngho Seo1, Namasvi Jariwala1, and Spencer Behr11Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United …

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• Imaging joint infections using D-methyl-11C-methionine PET/MRI: initial experience in humans.
  European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 2022 Polvoy I, Seo Y, Parker M, Stewart M, Siddiqua K, Manacsa HS, Ravanfar V, Blecha J, Hope TA, Vanbrocklin H, Flavell RR, Barry J, Hansen E, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Engel J, Rosenberg OS, Wilson DM, …
• First-in-human immunoPET imaging of HIV-1 infection using 89Zr-labeled VRC01 broadly neutralizing antibody.
  Nature communications 2022 Beckford-Vera DR, Flavell RR, Seo Y, Martinez-Ortiz E, Aslam M, Thanh C, Fehrman E, Pardons M, Kumar S, Deitchman AN, Ravanfar V, Schulte B, Wu IK, Pan T, Reeves JD, Nixon CC, Iyer NS, Torres L, …
• Maximizing the use of batch production of 18F-FDOPA for imaging of brain tumors to increase availability of hybrid PET/MR imaging in clinical setting.
  Neuro-oncology practice 2020 Aboian M, Barajas R, Shatalov J, Ravanfar V, Bahroos E, Tong E, Taylor JW, Bush NO, Sneed P, Seo Y, Cha S, Hernandez-Pampaloni M
• Neuro-oncology practice, 8(1), 91–97
  Maximizing the use of batch production of 18F-FDOPA for imaging of brain tumors to increase availability of hybrid PET/MR imaging in clinical setting. 2020 Aboian, M., Barajas, R., Shatalov, J., Ravanfar, V., Bahroos, E., Tong, E., Taylor, J. W., Bush, N. O., Sneed, P., Seo, Y., Cha, S., & Hernandez-Pampaloni, M. (2020).
• Neurooncol Adv
  MLTI-18. PRECISION IMAGING OF METASTATIC AND PRIMARY BRAIN TUMORS AFTER RADIATION WITH 18F-FDOPA PET-MRI IS FEASIBLE AND COST EFFECT. 2019 Aboian M, Ravanfar V, Bahroos E, Tong E, Taylor J, Oberheim Bush NA, Seo Y, Cha S, Pampaloni MH
• Quantitative [18F]-Naf-PET-MRI Analysis for the Evaluation of Dynamic Bone Turnover in a Patient with Facetogenic Low Back Pain.
  Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE 2019 Jenkins NW, Iriondo C, Shah V, Bahroos E, Ravanfar V, Regan M, Seo Y, Dillon WP, Majumdar S, Talbott JF
• Impact of Reformatting Brain PET Images to the AC-PC line of MR images. ISMRM. 2019
  Impact of Reformatting Brain PET Images to the AC-PC line of MR images 2019 Ravanfar, V., Khalighi, M. M., Bobb, C., Jariwala, N., Diaz, E. C., Bahroos, E., & Villanueva-Meyer, J. Impact of Reformatting Brain PET Images to the AC-PC line of MR images.
• Quantitative and Visual Assessments toward Potential Sub-mSv or Ultrafast FDG PET Using High-Sensitivity TOF PET in PET/MRI.
  Molecular imaging and biology 2018 Behr SC, Bahroos E, Hawkins RA, Nardo L, Ravanfar V, Capbarat EV, Seo Y
• Journal of Nuclear Medicine May 2018, 59 (supplement 1) 236;
  18-F-Fluorocholine PETMR: Optimizing Injection Delay for Parathyroid Adenoma Localization 2018 Grace Jun, Miguel Hernandez Pampaloni, Javier Villanueva-Meyer, Vahid Ravanfar, Insoo Suh, Thomas Hope
• Journal of Nuclear Medicine May 2018, 59 (supplement 1) 579;
  Improving accuracy and quality of low count PET imaging of 90Y-microspheres and 68Ga-citrate using block sequential regularized expectation maximization algorithm 2018 Mohammad Mehdi Khalighi, Vahid Ravanfar, Kristen Wangerin, Timothy Deller, Yung-Hua Wang, Salma Jivan, Maureen Kohi, Michael Evans, Robert Flavell, Spencer Behr, Youngho Seo
• Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 59 (supplement 1) 1692;
  Correlating kinetic 18F-FDOPA uptake to quantitative MRI markers in primary and metastatic brain tumors to predict patient outcomes with hybrid PET/MRI 2018 Mariam Aboian, Ramon Barajas, VAHID RAVANFAR, Emma Bahroos, Elizabeth Tong, Steven Braunstein, Soonmee Cha, Miguel Hernandez-Pampaloni
• Journal of Nuclear Medicine May 2017, 58 (supplement 1) 733;
  Comparison of a novel fluorine-18 labeled PSMA-targeting agent, CTT1057, to gallium-68 PSMA-11 in patients with prostate cancer 2017 Spencer Behr, Rahul Aggarwal, Robert Flavell, Thomas Hope, Kenneth Gao, Vahid Ravanfar, Youngho Seo, Beatrice Langton-Webster, Clifford Berkman, Henry VanBrocklin
• Journal of Nuclear Medicine
  Respiratory compensated PET with DOTA-TOC PET/MRI using motion registered and gated reconstruction 2016 Dora Tao2, Miguel Hernandez Pampaloni2, Vahid Ravanfar2, Eric Nakakura1, Emily Bergsland1 and Thomas Hope2