Selected Publications:
Derakhshan JJ, McDonald ES, Siegelman ES, Schnall MD, Wehrli FW: Characterizing and Eliminating Errors in Enhancement and Subtraction Artifacts in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI: Chemical Shift Artifact of the Third Kind
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine : 2017.
McDonald ES, McCarthy AM, Weinstein SP, Schnall MD, Conant EF: BI-RADS category 3 comparison: probably benign category after recall from screening before and after implementation of digital breast tomosynthesis Radiology 162837 : 2017.
McDonald ES, Mankoff D, Makvandi M, Chu W, Chu Y, Mach RH, Zeng C: Sigma-2 ligands and PARP inhibitors synergistically trigger cell death cancer cells Biochem Biophys Res Commun 486 (3): 788-795,2017.
Conant EF, Keller BM, Pantalone L, Gastounioti A, McDonald ES, Kontos D: Agreement between breast percentage density estimations from standard-dose versus synthetic digital mammograms: Results from a large screening cohort using automated measures Radiology Jun;283(3):673-680 : 2017.
Cruz, L, McDonald, ES, Mick, R, Czerneicki, B: Anti-HER2 Th1 Response is Superior to Breast MRI in Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients with HER2 Positive Breast Cancer Ann Surg Oncol 24 (4): 1057-1063,2017.
Lowenfeld, L., Zaheer, S., Oechsle, C, Fracol, M., Datta, J, Xu, S, Fitzpatrick, E, Roses, RE, Fisher, CS, McDonald, ES, Zhang, PJ, DeMichele,A, Mick, R., Koski, GK, Czerniecki, BJ.: Addition of anti-estrogen therapy to anti-HER2 dendritic cell vaccination improves regional nodal immune response and pathologic complete
response rate in patients with ERpos/HER2pos early breast cancer OncoImmunology : 2017.
Zuckerman SP, Maidment ADA, Weinstein SP, McDonald ES, Conant EF: Imaging With Synthesized 2D Mammography: Differences, Advantages, and Pitfalls Compared With Digital Mammography AJR Am J Roentgenol. 209 : 222-229,2017.
Chudgar, AV, Conant, EF, Weinstein, SP, Keller, BM, Synnestvedt, M, Yamartino, P, McDonald, ES: Digital Breast Tomosynthesis versus Digital Mammography alone Screen Detected Breast Cancers: Assessment of Disease Extent on Contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Clinical Radiology S0009-9260 (17): 30078-8,2017.
Zuckerman S,Conant EF,Keller B,Weinstein S,McDonald ES.: Implementation of synthesized 2D mammography in a population-based digital breast tomosynthesis screening program Radiology 28 (1): 730-736,2016.
McDonald ES, Mankoff DA, Mach RH: Novel strategies for breast cancer imaging: new imaging agents to guide treatment J Nuc Med 57 : 69S-74S,2016.
McDonald ES, Oustimov A, Weinstein SP, Synnestvedt M, Schnall MD, Conant EF: Effectiveness of digital breast tomosynthesis compared with digital mammography: Outcomes analysis from 3 years of breast cancer screening JAMA Oncology 2 (6): 737-743,2016.
Lowenfeld, L, Zaheer, S, Oechsle, C, Fracol, M, Datta, J, Xu, S, Fitzpatrick, E, Roses, RE, Fisher, CS, McDonald, ES, Zhang, PJ, DeMichele, A, Mick, R, Koski, GK, Czerniecki, BJ.: Addition of Anti-Estrogen Therapy to Anti-HER2 Dendritic Cell Vaccination Improves Regional Nodal Immune Response and Pathologic Complete Response Rate in Patients with ERpos/HER2pos Early Breast Cancer. Oncoimmunology : 2016.
Naha PC, Lau KC, Hsu JC, Hajfathalian M, Mian S, Chhour P, Uppuluri L, McDonald ES, Maidment AD, Cormode DP: Gold silver alloy nanoparticles (GSAN): an imaging probe for breast cancer screening with dual-energy mammography or computed tomography. Nanoscale 8 (28): 13740-54,2016.
Makvandi, M, Xu, K, Lieberman, BP, Anderson, R, Effron, SS, Winters, H, Zeng, C, McDonald, ES, Pryma, DA, Greenberg, RA, Mach, RH.: A radiotracer strategy to quantify PARP-1 expression in vivo provides a biomarker that can enable patient selection for PARP inhibitor therapy. Cancer Research 76 (15): 4516-24,2016.
Pertuz S, McDonald ES, Weinstein SP, Conant EC, Kontos D: Fully-automated quantitative estimation of volumetric breast density from digital breast tomosynthesis images: Preliminary results and comparison with digital mammography and magnetic resonance imaging Radiology 279 (1): 65-74,2016.
Mitsumori LM, McDonald ES, Neligan PC, Maki JH: Peripheral Magnetic Resonance Lymphangiography: Techniques and Applications Tech Vasc Inter Radiol 19 (4): 262-272,2016.
Korhonen KE, Weinstein SP, McDonald ES, Conant EF: Strategies to increase cancer detection: Review of true-positive and false-negative results at digital breast tomosynthesis screening Radiographics 36 (7): 1954-1965,2016.
McDonald ES, Hammersley JA, Chou SS, Rahbar H, Scheel JR, Lee CI, Liu CL, Lehman CD, Partridge SC.: Performance of DWI as a Rapid Unenhanced Technique for Detecting Mammographically Occult Breast Cancer in Elevated-Risk Women with Dense Breasts. AJR Am Journal of Roentgenol 207 (1): 205-16,2016.
Chen L, Ray S, Keller BM, Pertuz S, McDonald ES, Conant EF, Kontos D: The Impact of acquisition dose on quantitative breast density estimation with digital mammography: Results from ACRIN PA 4006 Radiology 280 (3): 693-700,2016.
McDonald ES, Clark A, Tchou J, Zhang, P, Freedman, G.: Clinical diagnosis and management of breast cancer J Nuc Med 57 : 9S-16S,2016.
Rahbar, H, McDonald, ES, Lee, JM, Partridge, SC, Lee, CI.: How Can Advanced Imaging Be Used to Mitigate Potential Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis? Academic Radiology 23 (6): 768-73,2016.
McDonald ES, McCarthy AM, Akhtar A, Synnestvedt A, Schnall M, Conant EF: Baseline screening mammography: Performance of full field digital versus digital breast tomosynthesis American Journal of Roentgenology 205 (5): 1143-8,2015.
Makvandi M, Tilahun ED, Lieberman BP, Anderson RC, Zeng C, Xu K, Hou C, McDonald ES, Pryma DA,Mach RH: The sigma-2 receptor as a therapeutic target for drug delivery in triple negative breast cancer Biochem Biophys Res Commun (BBRC) 467 (4): 1070-1075.,2015.
Mitsumori LM, McDonald ES, Wilson GJ, Neligan PC, Minoshima S, Maki JH: MR Lymphangiography: How I do it J Magn Reson Imaging 42 (6): 1465-77,2015.
Clark AS, McDonald E, Lynch MC, Mankoff D: Using nuclear medicine imaging in clinical practice: update on PET to guide treatment of patients with metastatic breast cancer Oncology 28 (5): 424-30,2014.
Doot RK, McDonald ES, Mankoff DA: Role of PET quantitation in the monitoring of cancer response to treatment: review of approaches and human clinical trials Clin Transl Imaging 2 (4): 295-303,2014.
McDonald ES, Schopp JG, Peacock S, DeMartini WB, Rahbar H, Lehman CD, Partridge SC: Diffusion-weighted MRI: association between patient characteristics and apparent diffusion coefficients of normal breast fibroglandular tissue at 3 T AJR Am J Roentgenol 202 (5): W496-502,2014.
Mirzabeigi MN, McDonald ES, Chu MW, Fischer JP, Basta M, Kovach S, Wu LC, Serletti J, Kanchwala S: Operative management of locoregional cancer recurrence following post-mastectomy breast reconstruction-indications and outcomes American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery : 2016.
Partridge SC, McDonald ES: Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of the breast: protocol optimization, interpretation, and clinical applications Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am 21 (3): 601-624,2013.