Assistant Professor of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Radiology
Michael A. Blake, MB BCH
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Michael Blake practices Radiology. Michael A. Blake, MB BCH is also published. He has 100 publications published. The lastest publication: "Improving Concordance of MRI and PET/CT Interpretations With Retrospectively Coregistered MRI and PET/CT Data Sets.' Michael Blake is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Assessment of Filtered Back Projection, Adaptive Statistical, and Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction for Reduced Dose Abdominal Computed Tomography.
- Ultra-low dose abdominal MDCT: Using a knowledge-based Iterative Model Reconstruction technique for substantial dose reduction in a prospective clinical study.
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Acute Pancreatitis.
- Improving Concordance of MRI and PET/CT Interpretations With Retrospectively Coregistered MRI and PET/CT Data Sets.
- Size-specific dose estimates: Localizer or transverse abdominal computed tomography images?
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria Right Upper Quadrant Pain.
- MDCT imaging of Alloderm biologic mesh spacers in the abdomen and pelvis - preliminary experience.
- PET and PET-CT imaging findings of peritoneal and omental involvement in patients with lymphoma.
- Imaging-Guided Biopsy of (18)F-FDG-Avid Extrapulmonary Lesions: Do Lesion Location and Morphologic Features on CT Affect the Positive Predictive Value for Malignancy?
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria Jaundice.
- PET/CT in the imaging of ovarian Cancer.
- Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: role of imaging in diagnosis and management.
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria(®) Pretreatment Staging of Colorectal Cancer.
- Utility of positron emission tomography/CT in the evaluation of small bowel pathology.
- State-of-the-Art PET/CT of the Pancreas: Current Role and Emerging Indications.
- Brown fat at PET/CT: correlation with patient characteristics.
- Radiation dose reduction with sinogram affirmed iterative reconstruction technique for abdominal computed tomography.
- Comparison of hybrid and pure iterative reconstruction techniques with conventional filtered back projection: dose reduction potential in the abdomen.
- Abundant macroscopic fat in intra-abdominal lymph nodes involved in the course of a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: presentation of imaging findings with b...
- Applications of PET-CT in patients with esophageal cancer.
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria® right lower quadrant pain--suspected appendicitis.
- Prospective Evaluation of Reader Performance on MDCT in Characterization of Cystic Pancreatic Lesions and Prediction of Cyst Biologic Aggressiveness.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 13-2011. A 49-year-old man with adenocarcinoma of the rectum.
- Update on imaging of the adrenal cortex.
- Characterization of adrenal masses by using FDG PET: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test performance.
- Neural network evaluation of PET scans of the liver: a potentially useful adjunct in clinical interpretation.
- Abdominal CT: comparison of adaptive statistical iterative and filtered back projection reconstruction techniques.
- Multitechnique imaging findings of Prolene plug hernia repair.
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria on colorectal cancer screening.
- PET/CT for adrenal assessment.
- Incidental adrenal lesions: accuracy of characterization with contrast-enhanced washout multidetector CT--10-minute delayed imaging protocol revisited in a large patie...
- Oral and IV contrast agents for the CT portion of PET/CT.
- Adrenal imaging.
- Role of PET/CT in ovarian cancer.
- Reducing abdominal CT radiation dose with adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction technique.
- Postoperative imaging in liver transplantation: what radiologists should know.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 1-2010. A 75-year-old man with hypertension, hyperglycemia, and edema.
- Use of Radcube for extraction of finding trends in a large radiology practice.
- Lymph node staging in esophageal adenocarcinoma with PET-CT based on a visual analysis and based on metabolic parameters.
- Errare humanum est: frequency of laterality errors in radiology reports.
- PET/CT for the characterization of adrenal masses in patients with cancer: qualitative versus quantitative accuracy in 150 consecutive patients.
- Adrenal masses.
- Prediction of metastatic disease and survival in patients with gastric and gastroesophageal junction tumors: the incremental value of PET-CT over PET and the clinical ...
- Metabolic tumor width parameters as determined on PET/CT predict disease-free survival and treatment response in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
- Positron emission tomography/computerized tomography for the gastroenterologist and hepatologist.
- Incidental adrenal lesions: principles, techniques, and algorithms for imaging characterization.
- Adult intestinal intussusception: can abdominal MDCT distinguish an intussusception caused by a lead point?
- Liver lesion detection and characterization in patients with colorectal cancer: a comparison of low radiation dose non-enhanced PET/CT, contrast-enhanced PET/CT, and l...
- Extraction of recommendation features in radiology with natural language processing: exploratory study.
- Visual PET/CT scoring for nonspecific 18F-FDG uptake in the differentiation of early malignant and benign esophageal lesions.
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis: a review of clinical features and imaging findings.
- Assessment of pancreatic tumor resectability with multidetector computed tomography: semiautomated console-generated images versus dedicated workstation-generated images.
- Visual vignette. Adrenal gland ganglioneuroma.
- Natural language processing using online analytic processing for assessing recommendations in radiology reports.
- Imaging techniques for adrenal lesion characterization.
- CT of the urinary tract: turning attention to radiation dose.
- Genitourinary tract imaging. Preface.
- Current status of imaging for adrenal malignant involvement.
- Imaging of urinary tract tumors.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 35-2007. A 30-year-old man with inflammatory bowel disease and recent onset of fever and bloody diarrhea.
- MR imaging of the acute abdomen and pelvis: acute appendicitis and beyond.
- Improved detection and characterization of adrenal disease with PET-CT.
- Evaluation of renal transplant donors with 16-section multidetector CT angiography: comparison of contrast media with low and high iodine concentrations.
- CT-guided intervention with low radiation dose: feasibility and experience.
- FDG-PET CT for tumor imaging.
- State-of-the-art cross-sectional imaging in bladder cancer.
- Bowel hot spots at PET-CT.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 36-2006. A 35-year-old pregnant woman with new hypertension.
- Pearls and pitfalls in interpretation of abdominal and pelvic PET-CT.
- Adrenal lesions: attenuation measurement differences between CT scanners.
- Adrenocortical carcinoma: contrast washout characteristics on CT.
- Characterization of small liver lesions: Added role of MR after MDCT.
- Evaluation of living renal donors: accuracy of three-dimensional 16-section CT.
- Adult intestinal intussusception: CT appearances and identification of a causative lead point.
- Adrenal lesions: characterization with fused PET/CT image in patients with proved or suspected malignancy--initial experience.
- "Hot" spots in hybrid positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanning of the abdomen: protocols, indications, interpretation, responsibilities, and...
- Distinguishing benign from malignant adrenal masses: multi-detector row CT protocol with 10-minute delay.
- Renal oncocytoma displaying intense activity on 18F-FDG PET.
- CT images of abdomen and pelvis: effect of nonlinear three-dimensional optimized reconstruction algorithm on image quality and lesion characteristics.
- Distinguishing hepatic metastases from hemangiomas: qualitative and quantitative diagnostic performance through dual echo respiratory-triggered fast spin echo magnetic...
- CT features of adrenal pheochromocytomas: attenuation value and loss of contrast enhancement.
- Computed tomography radiation dose optimization: scanning protocols and clinical applications of automatic exposure control.
- Metallic prosthesis: technique to avoid increase in CT radiation dose with automatic tube current modulation in a phantom and patients.
- Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 23-2005. A 57-year-old man with a mass in the liver.
- Detection of urinary tract stones at low-radiation-dose CT with z-axis automatic tube current modulation: phantom and clinical studies.
- Do metallic endoprostheses increase radiation dose associated with automatic tube-current modulation in abdominal-pelvic MDCT? A phantom and patient study.
- Pheochromocytoma: an imaging chameleon.
- Collision adrenal tumors on PET/CT.
- Detection and characterization of lesions on low-radiation-dose abdominal CT images postprocessed with noise reduction filters.
- Importance and effects of altered workplace ergonomics in modern radiology suites.
- Pituitary apoplexy precipitating diabetes insipidus.
- Strategies for CT radiation dose optimization.
- Low-density pheochromocytoma on CT: a mimicker of adrenal adenoma.
- Low-dose CT of the abdomen: evaluation of image improvement with use of noise reduction filters pilot study.
- Soluble CD40 ligand levels indicate lipid accumulation in carotid atheroma: an in vivo study with high-resolution MRI.
- Clinical comparison of standard-dose and 50% reduced-dose abdominal CT: effect on image quality.
- A malignant aldosteronoma.
- State of the art in adrenal imaging.
- Bone mineral density assessment: comparison of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measurements at the calcaneus, spine, and hip.
Schools
Royal College Of Surgeons In Ireland
St Vincents Hospital
Beth Israel Deaconess
Boston Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Radiology
Accepted Insurances
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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