DarkoPucarMDPhD

PubMed

• Sacral tumors: a comprehensive review of imaging, diagnostic challenges, and tumor mimics.
  Mehmet Emin Adin, Graham Woolf, Rahul Hegde, Aladine A Elsamadicy, Ehud Mendel
  Skeletal Radiology. 2025-01-16
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  Population-based deep image prior for dynamic PET denoising: A data-driven approach to improve parametric quantification.
  Qiong Liu, Yu-Jung Tsai, Jean-Dominique Gallezot, Xueqi Guo, Ming-Kai Chen
  Medical Image Analysis. 2024-07-01
• A "fishy" situation, rare pathogen and presentation in prosthetic valve infective endocarditis.
  Nicole Schtupak, Patrick Kenney, Darko Pucar, Linda Godinez, Jodi-Ann Chin
  Heliyon. 2024-06-15

Journal Articles

• “Reverse Redistribution” Pattern on SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging at Rest and from Subendocardial Ischemia  
  Pucar D, Munroe J, Holliday L, Williams H, J Nucl Cardiol, 1/15/2015
• BK Nephritis and Venous Thrombosis in Renal Transplant Recipient Detected by Indium-111 Leukocyte Imaging  
  Pucar D, Klein K, Corley J, Williams HT, Clin Nucl Med, 1/1/2015
• Paucity of biliary ducts: A rare etiology of neonatal cholestasis  
  Figiel SC, Franco A, Pucar D, Lewis KN, Lee JR, Radiology Case, 1/1/2012
• Predicting Post-external-beam Radiation Therapy PSA relapse of prostate cancer using pre-treatment MRI  
  Fuchsjäger M, Pucar D, Zelefsky MJ, Zhang Z, Mo Q, Ben-Porat LS, Shukla-Dave A, Wang L, Reuter VE, Hricak HH, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 1/1/2010
• The role of MR imaging and MR spectroscopic imaging in diagnosis, treatment selection and post-treatment follow-up for prostate cancer  
  Fuchsjager M, Akin O,Shukla-Dave A, Pucar D,Hricak H, Clinical Advances in Hematology & Oncology, 1/1/2009
• Clinically significant prostate cancer local recurrence following radiation therapy occurs at the site of primary tumor – magnetic resonance imaging and step-section p...  
  Pucar D, Hricak H, Shukla-Dave A, Kuroiwa K, Drobnjak M, Eastham J, Scardino PT, Zelefsky MJ, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 1/1/2007
• Defective metabolic signaling in adenylate kinase AK1 gene knockout hearts compromises post-ischemic coronary reflow  
  Dzeja PP, Bast P, Pucar D, Wieringa B, Terzic A, J Biol Chem, 1/1/2007
• Indolent Prostate Cancer – Prediction by Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy  
  Shukla-Dave A, Hricak H, Pucar D, Kattan MW, Kuroiwa K, Chen H, Donohue J, Koutcher JA, Zakian KL, Scardino PT, Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, 1/1/2005
• Correlation of MR imaging and spectroscopy with step section pathology in prostate cancer after external beam radiation therapy: initial experience  
  Pucar D, Shukla-Dave A, Hricak H, Moskowitz C,Kuroiwa K, Olgac S, Ebora L, Scardino PT,Koutcher JA, Zakian KL, Radiology, 1/1/2005
• Preliminary assessment of magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging in predicting treatment outcome in patients with prostate cancer at high risk of relapse  
  Pucar D, Koutcher JA, Shah A, Dyke JP, Schwartz L, Thaler H, Kurhanewicz J, Scardino PT, Kelly WK, Hricak H, Zakian KL, Clin Prostate Cancer, 1/1/2004
• Mapping hypoxia-induced bioenergetic rearrangements and metabolic signaling with 18O-assisted 31P NMR and 1H NMR spectroscopy  
  Pucar D, Dzeja PP, Bast P, Gumina RJ, Drahl C, Lim L, Juranic N, Macura S, Terzic A, Mol Cell Biochem, 1/1/2004
• Cellular remodeling in heart failure disrupts KATP channel-dependent stress tolerance  
  Hodgson DM, Zingman LV, Kane GC, Perez-Terzic C, Bienengraeber M, Ozcan C, Gumina RJ, Pucar D, O'Coclain F, Mann DL, Alekseev AE, and Terzic A, EMBO J, 1/1/2003
• Knockout of the KATP channel subunit Kir62 negates ischemic preconditioning-induced protection of myocardial energetics  
  Gumina RJ, Pucar D, Bast PH, Hodgson DM; Dzeja, PP; Miki T, Seino S, Terzic A, Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 1/1/2003
• The utility of proton MRSI in predicting biochemical outcome in prostate cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy  
  Pucar D, KoutcherJA, Shah, DykeJP, ChenH, SchwartzL, KellyWK, HricakH, ZakianKL, Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, 1/1/2003
• Creatine kinase phosphotransfer synchronizes cellular energetic with K-ATP channel gating  
  Selivanov VA, Abraham MR, Hodgson D, Pucar D, Zingman LV, Wieringa B, Dzeja PP, Alekseev AE, Terzic A, Biophys. J, 1/1/2002
• Hypoxia-induced bioenergetic rearrangements in the heart detected by 18O-assisted 31P MRS and 1H MRS  
  Pucar D, Dzeja PP, Bast P, Juranic N, Macura S, Terzic A, Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, 1/1/2002
• Adenylate kinase phosphotransfer communicates cellular energetic signals to ATP-sensitive potassium channels  
  Carrasco AJ, Dzeja PP, Alekseev AE, Pucar D, Zingman LV, Abraham MR, Hodgson D, Bienengraeber M, Puceat M, Janssen E, Wieringa B, Terzic A, Proc Natl Acad Sci, 1/1/2001
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Books/Book Chapters

• Contemporary issues in cancer imaging 
  Chapter: Imaging recurrent prostate cancer 
  Sella T, Pucar DCambridge University Press2008
• Complete Guide to Prostate Cancer 
  Chapter: Staging 
  Carroll PR, Hricak H, Meng, MV, Park, S, Pucar DEditors: Bostwick DG, Higano CS, Roach M, Crawford DE.American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA2005
• Biological Motility: New Trends in Research 
  Chapter: Creatine kinase phosphotransfer and KATP channel gating: A new paradigm in metabolic sensing 
  Selivanov VA, Abraham MR, Hodgson D, Pucar D, Zingman LV, Wieringa B, Dzeja PP, Alekseev AE, A. TerzicRussian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia2001

Abstracts/Posters

• Afferent Signal and Intrinsic Structural Striatal Deficits Causing Abnormal Dopamine-Transporter SPECT Brain Images
  Pucar D, Annual Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Baltimore, MD, 1/6/2015
• Novel Approach in Assessing the Accuracy of FDG PET/CT in Nodal Staging of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer in Sequential Surgical Algorithm
  Elam Y, Patel V, Williams HT, Hall P, Pucar D, SEC Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Orlando, FL, 1/12/2014
• BK Nephritis and Venous Thrombosis in Renal Transplant Recipient Detected by Indium – 111 Leukocyte Imaging
  Patel S, Pucar D, Klein K, Corley J, Williams HT, SEC Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Orlando, FL, 1/12/2014
• Reverse Redistribution from Endothelial Dysfunction at Rest
  Pucar D, Munroe J, Greenspan B, Holliday L, Williams H, ACNM Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, 1/1/2014
• Metabolic signature of prostate cancer as detected with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging and 18F-fluorodeoxygluose-positron emission tomography
  Shukla-Dave A, Wassberg C, Pucar D, Schoder H, Goldman D, Reuter VE, Eastham J, Larson SM, Hricak H, Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med, 1/1/2013
• PET/CT in Evaluation of Unusual Cutaneous Manifestations of Breast Cancer
  Graves, Kelly, Samuel TA, Pucar D, Munroe JA, Williams HT, SECSNM Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, 1/21/2012
• Added Value of Including Entire Brain in Routine PET study: Potential Reward with Negligible Risk. Abstract Publication Number PSN-SNM12PS1-2608
  Gibbs D, Pucar D, Brown Y, Williams HT, SNM Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, 1/11/2012
• In Vivo Myocardial Calcium Mishandling in Kir6.2-Knockout Mice Captured by Manganese-Enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Mechanism for Development of Diasto...
  Gumina RJ, O'Cochlain F, Kurtz CE, Bast P, Pucar D, Mishra PK, Miki T, Seino S, Macura S, Terzic A, Circulation, 1/1/2004
• Knockout of Cardiac Sarcolemmal Katp Channels Negates Bioenergetic Protection of Ischemic Preconditioning
  Gumina RJ, Pucar D, Bast PH, Hodgson D, Dzeja PP, Miki T, Seino S, Terzic A, Circulation, 1/1/2002
• Knockout of the Katp Channel Pore-Forming Subunit Kir6.2 Aggravates Myocardial Stunning
  Gumina RJ, Bast PH, Pucar D, Valverde A, Hodgson D, Dzeja PP, Miki T, Seino S, Terzic A, Circulation, 1/1/2002
• 18O/31P NMR analysis of cellular energetics in the preconditioned state: protective role for phosphotransfer reactions
  Pucar D,Dzeja PP, Bast P, Juranic N, Macura S, Terzic A, The Fifth International Muscle Energetics Conference, Burlington, VT, 1/1/2001
• Adenylate kinase phosphotransfer communicates cellular energetic signals to K-ATP channels
  Carrasco AJ, Dzeja PP, Alekseev AE, Pucar D, Zingman LV, Abraham MR, Hodgson D, Bienengraeber M, Puceat M, Janssen E, Wieringa B, Terzic A, J.Mol.Cell Cardiol, 1/1/2001
• Adenylate kinase AK1 gene knockout heart: compromised energetics under metabolic stress
  Dzeja PP,Pucar D, Janssen E, Bast P, Juranic N, Macura S, Wieringa B, Terzic A, J.Mol.Cell Cardiol, 1/1/2001
• Creatine kinase catalyzed phosphoryl flux is an essential regulator of cardiac KATP channels
  M.R. Abraham, A.E. Alekseev, P.P. Dzeja, D. Pucar and A, The Physiologist, 1/1/1999
• Altered coupling between ATP-generating and ATP-consuming processes in the failing myocardium
  Dzeja PP, Pucar D, Redfield MM, Burnett JC, Terzic A, FASEB J, 1/1/1999
• Adenylate kinase-like activity intrinsic and associated with cardiac ATP-sensitive K+ channels
  Carrasco AJ, Dzeja PP, Pucar D, Alekseev AE, A. Terzic, The Physiologist, 1/1/1999
• Coupling between ATP-generating and ATP-consuming processes in the failing myocardium
  Dzeja PP, Pucar D, Redfield MM, Burnett JC, Terzic A, Abstracts book for the Scientific Conference on Molecular, Cellular and Integrated Physiological Approaches to the Failing Heart, American Heart Association, 1/1/1999
• A view of different learning regimes in PDP neuronal networks
  Pucar D, Djordjevic D, Nikolic R, Pathophysiology, 1/1/1998
• Efficacy of magnetotherapy in treatment of myofascial pain syndromes
  Djordjevic D, Lekic D, Pucar D, Pathophysiology, 1/1/1998
• Lidocaine-kindled seizures – a new model of limbic epilepsy
  Djordjevic D, Pucar D. Lekic D, VI Yugoslav Congress of Neurophysiology, 1/1/1997
• Reflexotherapy in treatment of neuralgic pain
  Pucar D, Djordjevic D, Lekic D, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1/1/1996
• Low frequency magnetotherapy in treatment of pain
  Djordjevic D, Lekic D, Pucar D, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1/1/1996
• Somato-sensory evoked potentials in hypertensive and normotensive hydrocephalus
  Caran AM, Bojovic V, Berisavac I, Pucar D, Nagulic M, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1/1/1996
• Importance of auditory evoked potentials (AEP) in assessment of brain stem function in patients with axial tumors of posterior fossa
  Bojovic V, Caran AM, Berisavac I, Pucar D, Nagulic M, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 1/1/1996
• Lidocaine kindling and reflexotherapy
  Lekic D, Djordjevic D, Pucar D, XV Yugoslav Symposium of Epileptology, 1/1/1996
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Lectures

• CT and MRI for assessment of treatment response: practical aspects 
  San Antonio, TX - 1/23/2015
• PET/CT in Head and Neck Cancer 
  Augusta, GA - 1/8/2015
• PET/CT in Lymphoma 
  Augusta, GA - 1/8/2015
• PET/CT of Lung and Head and Neck Cancer 
  Augusta, GA - 1/26/2014
• Thyroid and Parathyroid Scintigraphy 
  Augusta, GA - 1/26/2014
• Renal Scintigraphy 
  Augusta, GA - 1/26/2014
• Prostate Cancer Imaging 
  1/22/2013
• Clinical Applicability of Quantitative Imaging: Present and Future 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/17/2013
• The Essentials of Tumor Response Assessment by Imaging 
  1/1/2013
• SPECT/CT and Tumor Imaging 
  Augusta, GA - 1/29/2010
• Predicting post-radiation therapy biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer by MRI 
  New York, NY - 1/1/2008
• Prostate Metabolic Imaging from Bench to Bedside 
  New York, NY - 1/1/2008
• Clinical MRI imaging 
  New York, NY - 1/1/2007
• Clinically significant prostate cancer local recurrence following radiation therapy occurs at the site of primary tumor – magnetic resonance imaging and step-section p... 
  New York, NY - 1/1/2007
• Evaluation of Endorectal MRI/MRSI in Detecting and Predicting Recurrent Prostate Cancer 
  New York, NY - 1/1/2006
• Phosphotransfer enzymes in heart disease: emerging role for adenylate kinase 
  Scotland, UK - 1/1/2000
• Response of mesencephalic nociceptive neurons to peripheral stimulation of reflexogenic points 
  Belgrade, Yugoslavia - 1/1/1995
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Other

• Radium Ra-223 dichloride in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer 
  Pucar D, Nuclear Oncology Council (NOC) of Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Newsletter
  1/1/2014
• Early PET/CT Crucial in Ablated Colorectal Liver Metastases 
  Pucar D, Medscape
  1/1/2013