B. Nicolas Bloch's Page

Current Organization

Harvard Medical School - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Profession

Radiologist

Title

Instructor in Radiology

Subspecialty and Expertise in Radiology

Breast Imaging
Prostate Imaging

Radiology Residency and Fellowship

Sackler Faculty of Medicine - Tel Aviv Medical Center: Internship
Vienna Medical University - General Hospital Vienna: Residency
Harvard Medical School - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Fellowships in MR Research and Breast Imaging

Undergraduate, Medical School, and Graduate School (Degrees, Major, and Institution)

Vienna Medical University - General Hospital Vienna

Clinical, Academic, or Industry Experience

Consultant: 3TP, Cadsciences, Confirma, Medrad.

Clinical, academic, research, or business interests within radiology

Clinical: Breast Imaging, Prostate Imaging, Image-guided Interventions.
Research: Image Analysis and Multimodality Co-registration, DCE-MRI, Imaging of Angiogenesis and Cancer Biomarkers, 3 Tesla MR.

Publications, Honors, and Awards

AWARDS AND HONORS:

2001 Austrian National Bank Research Award
“Non-invasive prostate cancer staging: A new approach of combined high resolution T2-weighted and parametrically analyzed dynamic T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging.”

2004 and 2005 Editor's Recognition Award
European Journal of Radiology

2008 Cum Laude Research Award, SCBT/MR
“MR Prompted Prostate Biopsies: Increased Positive Yield in Men with Prior Negative Biopsy History”

2009 Faculty of 1000 Medicine
“An illustration of the potential for mapping MRI/MRS parameters with genetic over-expression profiles in human prostate cancer.”



INVITED LECTURES IN PLENARY SESSIONS:
Prostate MR -- SMRT, Boston, 2004

MRI perfusion and high resolution imaging - Special Focus Session: Prostate cancer -- European Congress of Radiology, ECR, Vienna, 2009

Professional and Society Memberships

2001 Austrian Radiological Society, 2002 European Society of Uroradiology, 2002 International Cancer Imaging Society, 2003 Radiological Society of North America - RSNA, 2005 SCBT/MR, 2008 ISMRM, 2008 ESR/ECR European Society of Radiology

Additional description or bio about me:

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

Bloch BN, Rofsky NM, Baroni RH, Marquis RP, Pedrosa I, Lenkinski RE. 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging of the prostate with combined pelvic phased-array and endorectal coils; Initial experience. Acad Radiol 2004;11 (8):863-7.

Gaston SM, Soares MA, Siddiqui MM, Vu D, Lee JM, Goldner DL, Brice MJ, Shih JC, Upton MP, Perides G, Baptista J, Lavin PT, Bloch BN, Genega EM, Rubin MA, Lenkinski RE. Tissue-print and print-phoresis as platform technologies for the molecular analysis of human surgical specimens: mapping tumor invasion of the prostate capsule. Nature Medicine 2005;11 (1):95-101.

Rosen Y, Bloch BN, Lenkinski RE, Greenman RL, Marquis RP, Rofsky NM. 3T MR of the prostate: reducing susceptibility gradients by inflating the endorectal coil with a barium sulfate suspension. Magn Reson Med 2007;57 (5):898-904.

Bloch BN, Furman-Haran E, Helbich TH, Lenkinski RE, Degani H, Kratzik C, Susani M, Haitel A, Jaromi S, Ngo L, Rofsky NM. Prostate cancer: accurate determination of extracapsular extension with high-spatial-resolution dynamic contrast-enhanced and T2-weighted MR imaging--initial results. Radiology 2007;245 (1):176-85.

Bloch BN, Lenkinski RE, Helbich TH, Ngo L, Oismueller R, Jaromi S, Kubin K, Hawliczek R, Kaplan ID, Rofsky NM. Prostate postbrachytherapy seed distribution: comparison of high-resolution, contrast-enhanced, T1- and T2-weighted endorectal magnetic resonance imaging versus computed tomography: initial experience.
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007;69 (1):70-8.

Rosen Y, Bloch BN, Lenkinski RE, Greenman RL, Marquis RP, Rofsky NM. 3T MR of the prostate: reducing susceptibility gradients by inflating the endorectal coil with a barium sulfate suspension. Magn Reson Med 2007;57 (5):898-904.

Lenkinski RE, Bloch BN, Liu F, Frangioni JV, Perner S, Rubin MA, Genega EM, Rofsky NM, Gaston SM. An illustration of the potential for mapping MRI/MRS parameters with genetic over-expression profiles in human prostate cancer. MAGMA. 2008 Nov; 21(6): 411-21. Epub 2008 Aug 28.

Morrin MM, Pedrosa I, McKenzie CA, Farrell RJ, Bloch N, Solazzo S, Ngo L, Goldberg SN, Rofsky NM. Parallel imaging enhanced MR colonography using a phantom model. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2008 Sep;28(3):664-72.

Bloch BN, Lenkinski RE, and Rofsky NM. The Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in Prostate Cancer Imaging and Staging at 1.5 and 3 Tesla: The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Approach. Cancer Biomarker. 2008;4(4-5):251 62.

Viswanath S, Bloch BN, Genega E, Rofsky N, Lenkinski R, Chappelow J,Toth R, Madabhushi, A. A Comprehensive Segmentation, Registration, and Cancer Detection Scheme on 3 Tesla in vivo Prostate DCE-MRI. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2008;11(Pt1):662-9.

Viswanath S, Bloch BN, Rosen M, Chappelow J, Rofsky N, Lenkinski R, Genega E, Kalyanpur A, Madabhushi, A. Integrating Structural and Functional Imaging for Computer Assisted Detection of Prostate Cancer on Multi-Protocol in vivo 3 Tesla MRI. SPIE Medical Imaging, 2009, [in press].

Chappelow J, Bloch BN, Rofsky N, Genega E, Lenkinski R, DeWolf W, Vishwanath S, Madabhushi, A. Automatic Feature-driven Non-rigid Registration using Hierarchical Free Form Deformations: Application to Multimodal, Structural, and Functional Registration of 3 Tesla in vivo Prostate MRI. SPIE Medical Imaging, 2009, [in press].

McMahon CJ, Bloch BN, Lenkinski RE, Rofsky NM. Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI in the Evaluation of Patients with Prostate Cancer. Magnetic Resonance Clinics of North America, 2009 [in press].

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