DF/HCC Program Affiliation

Cancer Imaging
Neuro-Oncology

Research Abstract

1. Neuroimaging of pediatric brain and spine tumors including CT, MR, MR diffusion, MR perfusion and MR spectroscopy with attention to diagnosis, treatment, treatment effects, and followup. 2. Co-investigator: Natural history of plexiform neurofibromas using neuroimaging; U.S.Army grant. 3. PI, Neuroimaging Center, Children's Hospital Boston, Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium

Publications

• Poussaint TY, Phillips PC, Vajapeyam S, Fahey FH, Robertson RL, Osganian S, Ramamurthy U, Mulkern RV, Treves ST, Boyett JM, Kun LE.The Neuroimaging Center of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium-collaborative neuroimaging in pediatric brain tumor research
  17416804
• Pollack IF, Jakacki RI, Blaney SM, Hancock ML, Kieran MW, Phillips P, Kun LE, Friedman H, Packer R, Banerjee A, Geyer JR, Goldman S, Poussaint TY, Krasin MJ, Wang Y, Hayes M, Murgo A, Weiner S, Boyett JM.Phase I trial of imatinib in children with newly di
  17293590
• Marcus KJ, Astrakas LG, Zurakowski D, Zarifi MK, Mintzopoulos D, Poussaint TY, Anthony DC, De Girolami U, Black PM, Tarbell NJ, Tzika AA.Predicting survival of children with CNS tumors using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging biomarkers.Int J
  17273766
• Turner CD, Chi S, Marcus KJ, MacDonald T, Packer RJ, Poussaint TY, Vajapeyam S, Ullrich N, Goumnerova LC, Scott RM, Briody C, Chordas C, Zimmerman MA, Kieran MW.Phase II study of thalidomide and radiation in children with newly diagnosed brain stem glioma
  17031553
• Fouladi M, Blaney SM, Poussaint TY, Freeman BB, McLendon R, Fuller C, Adesina AM, Hancock ML, Danks MK, Stewart C, Boyett JM, Gajjar A.Phase II study of oxaliplatin in children with recurrent or refractory medulloblastoma, supratentorial primitive neuroec
  17019740
• Anselm IM, Alkuraya FS, Salomons GS, Jakobs C, Fulton AB, Mazumdar M, Rivkin M, Frye R, Poussaint TY, Marsden D.X-linked creatine transporter defect: a report on two unrelated boys with a severe clinical phenotype.J Inherit Metab Dis 2006 Feb;29(1):214-9.
  16601897
• Poussaint TY, Rodriguez D.Advanced neuroimaging of pediatric brain tumors: MR diffusion, MR perfusion, and MR spectroscopy.Neuroimaging Clin N Am 2006 Feb;16(1):169-92, ix.
  16543091
• Gururangan S, Petros WP, Poussaint TY, Hancock ML, Phillips PC, Friedman HS, Bomgaars L, Blaney SM, Kun LE, Boyett JM.Phase I trial of intrathecal spartaject busulfan in children with neoplastic meningitis: a Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium Study (PBTC-0
  16533779
• Baser ME, Poussaint TY.Age associated increase in the prevalence of chromosome 22q loss of heterozygosity in histological subsets of benign meningioma.J Med Genet 2006 Mar;43(3):285-7.
  15980114
• Poussaint TY, Barnes PD, Anthony DC, Spack N, Scott RM, Tarbell NJ.Hemorrhagic pituitary adenomas of adolescence.AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 1996 Nov-Dec;17(10):1907-12.
  8933876