Selected Publications:
Barak ER, Pandey S, Otero HJ, Huang,TL, Roth CG, Ward RW: MRI Database Protocoling System Improves Technologist Compliance Radiological Society of North America Conference : 2011.
Otero HJ, Pandey S, Barak ER, Bankoff M, Hoon J: CT-guided Percutaneous Abscess Drainage: A When, Where, and How-to Guide for the Practicing Radiologist Radiological Society of North America Conference : 2011.
Schaefer PW, Yoo AJ, Barak ER, Copen WA, Kamalian S, Rezai Gharai L, Pervez MA, Schwamm LH, Gonzalez RG: Combining Acute DWI and MTT Lesion Volumes with NIHSS Score Improves the Prediction of Acute Stroke Outcome Stroke 41:1728-1735 : 2010.
Copen WA, Rezai Gharai L, Barak ER, Schwamm LH, Wu 0, Kamalian S, Gonzalez RG, Schaefer PW: Existence of the diffusion-perfusion mismatch within 24 hours after onset of acute stroke: dependence on proximal arterial occlusion Radiology 250(3):878-86 : 2009.
Schaefer PW, Yoo AJ, Bell D, Barak ER, Romero JM, Nogueira RG, Lev MH, Schwamm LH, Gonzalez RG, Hirsch JA.: CT angiography-source image hypoattenuation predicts clinical outcome in posterior circulation strokes treated with intra-arterial therapy Stroke 39(11):3107-9 : 2008.
Schaefer PW, Barak ER, Kamalian S, Gharai LR, Schwamm L, Gonzalez RG, Lev MH: Quantitative assessment of core/penumbra mismatch in acute stroke: CT and MR perfusion imaging are strongly correlated when sufficient brain volume is imaged Stroke 390 (1):2986-92 : 2008.
Yoo AJ, Barak ER, Rezai Gharai L, Nogueira AG, Rabinov JD, Pryor JC, Schaefer PW, Gonzalez AG, Hirsch JA: Association of Pretreatment Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Abnormality with Outcome for Intraarterial Stroke Therapy American Society of Neuroradiology Conference : 2007.
Yoo AJ, Barak ER, Schaefer PW, Nogueira RG, Rabinov JD, Pryor JC, Gonzalez AG, Hirsch JA: Effect of Multi Technique Intrarterial Therapy on Clinical Outcomes in Acute Anterior Circulation Ischemic Stroke: Experience at a Large Academic Hospital American Society of Neuroradiology Conference : 2007.
Schaefer PW, Barak ER, Romero JM, Kamalian S, Rezai Gharai L, Gonzalez AG, Lev MH: Visual Estimation of MR Imaging Core/Penumbra Mismatch- Versus Quantitative Measurement Unnecessarily Excludes Patients from Thrombolytic Clinical Trials American Society of Neuroradiology Conference : 2007.
Schaefer PW, Barak ER, Kamalian S, Romero JM, Koroshetz WJ, Gonzalez AG, Lev MH: Visual Estimation of MRI Core/Penumbra Mismatch - Versus Quantitative Measurement - Unnecessarily Excludes Patients from Thrombolytic Clinical Trials International Stroke Conference : 2007.