Esser, Peter, Ph.D.

 

Name, Title
Contact Information
Peter D. Esser, Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Radiology

177 Fort Washington Avenue
MHB 3-202
New York, NY 10032
Tel: +1 212 305 6465
Email: pde2@columbia.edu

 
Biography                                 Specialty                             Publications
 

Biography

Peter D. Esser, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Radiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Chief Clinical Physicist for the Columbia Kreitchman PET Center and Nuclear Medicine. He is a past president of the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine and Physics Chairman of the Nuclear and PET Accreditation Committee of the American College of Radiology. Dr. Esser is a board certified medical physicist with extensive experience in Nuclear Medicine and PET. With research interests that emphasize image enhancement techniques, he has edited four books and coauthored numerous papers.

Specialty

Physics

Publications

  1. Matter PL, Legweiler K, Levy PW and Esser PD:  Thermoluminescence of KCl: Tl between 30 and 400°C determined by simultaneous intensity and spectral distribution measurements. Phys Rev Letters 24:1287,1970.
  2. Esser PD, Atkins HL and Robertson JS:  Rate of accumulation of technetium-99m by the thyroid. Am J Roentgenology 118:827-830, 1973.
  3. Wang TST, Fawwaz RA, Esser PD and Johnson PW:  Altered body distribution of Tc-99m pertechnetate in iatrogenic hyperaluminemia. J Nucl Med 19:381-383, 1978.
  4. Johnson PM, Esser PD and Lister DB; Fluorescent thyroid imaging: Clinical evaluation of an alternative instrument. Radiology 130:219-222, 1979.
  5. Esser PD and Fawwaz RA:  A spatially calibrated computer display and associated quality assurance.  Medical Physics 7:168, 1980.
  6. Esser PD, Lister DB and Johnson PM:  Fluorescent thyroid imaging--physical evaluation of an alternative instrument.  Radiology 138:491-499 1981.
  7. Esser PD, Seldin DW, Nichols AB and Alderson PO:  Spatial callibration of digital scintigraphic images.  Radiology 144:901-904, 1982.
  8. Seldin DW, Esser PD, Nichols AB, Ratner S, Alderson PO:  Semi-automated geometric determination of left ventricular volume from gated blood pool scintigraphy and digital subtraction angiography.  Radiology 149:809-813, 1983.
  9. Nickoloff EL, Perman WH, Esser PD, Bashist B, Alderson PO:  Left ventricular volume:  Physical basis for attenuation corrections in radionuclide determinations.  Radiology 152:511-515. 1984.
  10. Nichols AB, Gabrieli CFO, Fenoglio JJ Jr , Esser PD: Quantification of relative coronary arterial stenosis by cinevideodensitometric analysis of coronary arteriograms.  Circulation 69:512-522, 1984.
  11. Esser PD, Alderson PO, Mitnick RJ, Arliss JJ:  Angled-Collimator SPECT (A-SPECT):  An improved approach to cranial single photon emission tomography. J Nucl Med 25:805-809, 1984.
  12. Nichols AB, Esser PD:  Reducing the guesswork in arteriogram  analysis. Diagnostic Imaging 6:86-89, 1984.
  13. Nichols AB, Esser PD:  Computer analysis of coronary arteriogrms. Cardio 46-49, 1984.
  14. Bugaj JE, Esser PD,Tofe AS et al: The effect of DMSO treatment on the performance of Tc-99m HEDP.  Int J of Nucl Med Biol 1:109-111 1984.
  15. Esser PD:  Improvements in SPECT technology for cerebral imaging.Seminars in Nucl Med Biol.  11:109-111, 1984.
  16. Gordon SL, Binkert BL,  Rashoff ES,  Britt AR,  Esser PD, Stinchfield FE: Assessment of bone grafts used for acetubular augmentation in total hip arthroplasty.  Clinical Orthopedics 201: 18-25, 1985.
  17. Romney BM, Nickoloff EL, Esser PD, Alderson PO:  Radionuclide Administration to Nursing Mothers:  Mathematically Derived Guidelines.  Radiology 160:549-554, 1986
  18. Nichols AB, Brown C, Han J, Nickoloff EL, Esser PD:  Effect of coronary stenotic lesions on regional myocardial blood flow at rest.. Circulation 74:746-757, 1986.
  19. Shea S, Sciacca RR, Esser PD, Han J, Nichols AB:  Progression of  coronary artherosclerotic disease accessed by cinevideodensitometry: Relationship to clinical risk factors. J Am Coll Cardiol 8:1325-31,1986.
  20. Addonizio LJ, Michler RE, Marboe C, Esser PD, Johnson LL, Seldin DW, Gersony WM, Alderson PO, Rose EA, Cannon PJ:  Imaging of cardiac  allograft rejection in dogs using Indium-111 monoclonal antimyosin FAB. J Am Coll Cardiol 9:555-564, 1987
  21. Johnson LL, Lerrick KS, Coromilas J, Seldin DW, Esser PD, Zimmerman JM, Keller AM, Alderson PO, Bigger JT, Cannon PJ:  Measurement of  infarct size and percentage myocardium infarcted in a dog model using single photon emmission computed tomography, Thallium-201 and Indium-111 monoclonal antimyosin FAB. Circulation 76:181-190, 1987.
  22. Nickoloff EL, Han J, Esser PD, Nichols AB: Evaluation of a cinevideo- densitometric method for measuring vessel dimensions from angiograms. Investigative Radiology 22:875-882, 1987.
  23. Silver KH, Buczek JA, Esser PD, Nichols AB: Quantitative analysis of  coronary arteriograms by microprocessor cinevideodensitometry. Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn 13:291-300, 1987.
  24. Seldin DW, Esser PD, Alderson PO: Comparison of bone mineral density measurements from different skeletal sites. J Nucl Med 29:168-173, 1988.
  25. Jaffe RM, Alderson PO, Seldin DW, Esser PD, Bartholomew RM, Hyman GA: Evaluation of metastatic melanoma with planar and SPECT scintigraphy using ZME 018 and 96.5 radiolabeled antibodies. Cancer Detection and Prevention 12:303 - 312,1988.
  26. Graham MM, Links JM, Lewellen TK, King MA, Croft BY, Wong DF, Esser PD, MM Goris: Considerations in the Purchase of a Nuclear Medicine Computer System. J Nucl Med 29:717-724, 1988.
  27. Nichols AB, Buczek JA, Schwann TA, Esser PD, Blood DK: Effect of  Isolated Proximal Coronary Stenotic Lesions on Distal Myocardial Perfusion During Exercise. J Am Coll Cardiol 12:106-113, l988.
  28. Esser PD, Jakimcius A, Foley L: The peanut orbit: a modified elliptical orbit for single-photon emission computed tomography imaging. Med Phys 16:114-8, 1989
  29. Romney B, Nikoloff EL, Esser PD: Excretion of radioiodine in breast milk. J Nucl Med 30:124-6, l989.
  30. Halpern EJ, Esser PD, Nikoloff EL, Alderson PO: A quality-control phantom for digitization of radiographs. J Digital Imaging 3, 42 - 8, 1990.
  31. Esser PD and Halpern EJ: Quality assessment for laser film digitizers. J. Digital Imaging 4, 248-250, 1991.
  32. Halpern EJ and Esser PD: An improved phantom for quality control of laser scanner digitizers in PACS. J. Digital Imaging 4, 241-247, 1991.
  33. Halpern EJ, Newhouse JH, Amis ES, Lubetsky HW, Jaffe RM, Esser PE, Alderson PO: Evaluation of Teleradiology for Interpretation of Intravenous Urograms. J. Digital Imaging 5, 101-106, 1992.
  34. Johnson LL, Rodney RA, Vaccarino RA, Egbe P, Wasserman L, Esser PE, Posiakoff TA, Seldin DW: Left ventricular perfusion and performance from a single radiopharmaceutical and one camera. J Nucl Med 33, 1411-6, 1992.
  35. Yemul S, Leon JA, Pozniakoff T, Esser PE, Estabrook A: Radioimmuno- imaging of the human breast carcinoma xenografts in nude mouse model with 111In-Labeled new monoclonal antibody EBA-1 and F(ab’)2 fragments. Nucl Med Biol 20(3) 325-35, 1993.
  36. Staron RB, Feldman F, Haramati N, Singson RD, Rosenwasser M, Esser PD: Abnormal geometry of the distal radioulnar joint: MR findings. Skeletal Radiology 23, 369-72, 1994.
  37. Boxt LM, Katz J, Liebovitch LS, Czegledy F, Jones R, Esser PD, Reid L: Fractal analysis of pulmonary arteries: the fractal dimension is lower in pulmonary hypertension. J Thoracic Imaging 9 8-13, 1994.
  38. Erlandsson, Esser PD, Strand S-E, van Heertum RL: 3D reconstruction for a multi-ring scanner by single-slice rebinning and axial deconvolution. Phys. Med . Biol. 39, 1 -11, 1994
  39. Hacein-Bey L, Nour R, Pile-Spellman J, Van Heertum R, Esser PD, Young WL: Adaptive Changes in Autoregulation to Chronic Cerebral Hypotension in AVM Patients: An Acetazolimde-Enhanced SPECT Study. Am J Neuroradiol 16, 1 - 10, 1995
  40. Pickar RD, Esser PD, Pozniakoff TA, Van Heertum RL: Quantitative Validation of a New Coregistration Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 42, 1377 - 1382,1995.
  41. Marshall RS, Lazar RM, van Heertum RL, Esser PD, Perera GM, Mohn JP: Changes in Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Related to Line Bisection Discrimination and Visual Attenuation using HMPAO-SPECT. Neuroimage 6(2), 139 –144, 1997.
  42. Malaspina D, Perera GM, Lignelli A, Marshall RS, Esser PD, Storer S,  Furman V, Wray AD, Coleman E, Gorman JM, Van Heertum RL: SPECT Imaging of Odor Identification in Schizophrenia. Psychiatric Research: Neuroimaging Section 82, 53 – 61, 1998.
  43. Malaspina D, Storer S, Furman V, Esser P, Printz D, Berman A, Lignelli A,  Gorman J, Van Heertum R: SPECT study of visual fixation in schizophrenia and comparison subjects. Biol Psychiatry 46(1), 89-93, 1999.
  44. Kalifa J, Laine AF, Esser PD: Regularization in Tomographic Reconstruction Using Thresholding Estimators. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 22(3), 351-359, 2003
  45. Angelini E, Jin Y, Esser P, Van Heertum R, Laine AF: Fusion Of Brushlet And Wavelet Denoising Methods For Nuclear Images. 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 1187-1191, 2004.
  46. Miles KA, Young H, Chica SL, Esser PD: Quantitative Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography: The Need For System Calibration. Accepted: being revised for European Radiology
  47. Jin Y, Wong AT, Esser PD, Laine AF, Ogden RT, Van Heertum R, Mann JJ, Parse RV: Quantitative Wavelet Domain Image Processing of Dynamic PET Data. Submitted