Nandkumar Rawool, MD, RDMS

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Philadelphia, PA 19107

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University Appointment
Associate Professor
Program Director, Diagnostic Medical Sonography &
Cardiovascular Sonography

Research and Clinical Interests

Before accepting his current position as Program Director of Diagnostic Medical Sonography and Cardiovascular Sonography, Dr Rawool spent over a decade in the Department of Ultrasound/Radiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital . The TJUH Division of Ultrasound is considered to be one of the largest in the United States and probably the entire world. Dr Rawool's work involved both clinical work with patients and performing ultrasound research.

Dr. Rawool has more than 100 publications and scientific presentations - in ultrasound and radiology journals and international medical meetings. Topics of research include:

• Musculoskeletal ultrasound (use of ultrasound in shoulder, ankle and other joints. Diagnosis of tendons tears, tendinitis and other joint pathology. Use of ultrasound in sports medicine)
• Use of ultrasound in fracture healing - use of therapeutic ultrasound in fracture healing and use of gray-scale and Doppler ultrasound in assessing vascularity in fracture healing.
• Skin ultrasound - in Melanoma
• Three-dimensional ultrasound - principles and applications of 3D ultrasound imaging in various modalities - Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Musculoskeletal imaging.
• Contrast agents - use of ultrasound contrast agents to assess vascularity in organs and in tumor diagnosis - liver tumors, kidney tumors, Breast tumors, malignant melanoma.

Publications

Most recent Peer-reviewed Publications

1. Evaluation of posterior tibial pathology: Comparison of sonography and MR imaging
2. Accuracy of office-based ultrasonography of the shoulder for the diagnosis of rotator cuff tears
3. Power doppler assessment of vascular changes during fracture treatment with low-intensity ultrasound
4. Comparing contrast-enhanced ultrasound to immunohistochemical markers of angiogenesis in a human melanoma xenograft model: Preliminary results
5. Contrast enhanced vascular three-dimensional ultrasound imaging
6. Hepatic tumor detection: MR imaging and conventional US versus pulse-inversion harmonic US of NC100100 during its reticuloendothelial system-specific phase
7. Contrast-enhanced two- and three-dimensional sonography for evaluation of intra-abdominal hemorrhage
8. Blood flow estimation with harmonic Flash Echo Imaging
9. Indirect MR arthrography of the knee: Effects of low-intensity ultrasound on the diffusion rate of intravenously administered Gd-DTPA in healthy volunteers
10. The role of contrast-enhanced sonography for radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors
11. Ultrasound of the ankle and foot
12. Comparison of fundamental and wideband harmonic contrast imaging of liver tumors
13. Contrast-enhanced 2D and 3D ultrasound for detection of intra-abdominal organ bleeding
14. Contrast enhanced ultrasound is comparable to MRI for hepatic tumor detection
15. Gray scale second harmonic imaging of acoustic emission signals improves detection of liver tumors in rabbits
16. Shear rate estimation using a clinical ultrasound scanner
17. Blood flow estimation with harmonic flash echo imaging
18. Effect of filling gases on the backscatter from contrast microbubbles: Theory and in vivo measurements
19. Tissue-specific US contrast agent for evaluation of hepatic and splenic parenchyma
20. Increased soft-tissue blood flow in patients with reflex sympathetic dystrophy of the lower extremity revealed by power Doppler sonography

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