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Alan H. Maurer, MD

Professor, Radiology and Medicine

Director, Nuclear Medicine

Telephone:  215-707-8269

Fax:  215-707-2059

Email: amaurer@temple.edu

Department of Radiology

BA and BS, Electrical Engineering and Human Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI

 

MS, Biomedical Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

 

MD, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

 

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• Cardiology
• GI motility
• PET/CT molecular imaging

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• Cardiac venticular function and myocardial perfusion studies
• Gastrointestinal motility
• PET/CT imaging

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Recent Medically Related Publications, Obtained from PubMed (Click on PubMed ID to view abstract)

19033686. Cassilly DW, Wang YR, Friedenberg FK, Nelson DB, Maurer AH, Parkman HP, Symptoms of gastroparesis: use of the gastroparesis cardinal symptom index in symptomatic patients referred for gastric emptying scintigraphy. Digestion 78:2-3(144-51)2008

18849691. Maurer AH, Combined imaging modalities: PET/CT and SPECT/CT. Health Phys 95:5(571-6)2008 Nov

18413394. Knight LC, Parkman HP, Maurer AH, Egg Labeling for Gastric-Emptying Studies. J Nucl Med :()2008 Apr 15

18413381. Mathews JJ, Maurer AH, Steiner RM, Marchetti N, Criner G, Gaughan JP, Coxson HO, New 133Xe gas trapping index for quantifying severe emphysema before partial lung volume reduction. J Nucl Med 49:5(771-5)2008 May

18378499. Mekapati J, Knight LC, Maurer AH, Fisher RS, Parkman HP, Transsphincteric pH profile at the gastroesophageal junction. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 6:6(630-4)2008 Jun

18194154. Cassilly D, Kantor S, Knight LC, Maurer AH, Fisher RS, Semler J, Parkman HP, Gastric emptying of a non-digestible solid: assessment with simultaneous SmartPill pH and pressure capsule, antroduodenal manometry, gastric emptying scintigraphy. Neurogastroenterol Motil 20:4(311-9)2008 Apr

17942806. Knight LC, Kantor S, Doma S, Parkman HP, Maurer AH, Egg labeling methods for gastric emptying scintigraphy are not equivalent in producing a stable solid meal. J Nucl Med 48:11(1897-900)2007 Nov

17921036. Knight LC, Romano JE, Bright LT, Agelan A, Kantor S, Maurer AH, Platelet binding and biodistribution of [99mTc]rBitistatin in animal species and humans. Nucl Med Biol 34:7(855-63)2007 Oct

16517233. Maurer AH, Parkman HP, Update on gastrointestinal scintigraphy. Semin Nucl Med 36:2(110-8)2006 Apr

15299059. Bagheri B, Maurer AH, Cone L, Doss M, Adler L, Characterization of the normal adrenal gland with 18F-FDG PET/CT. J Nucl Med 45:8(1340-3)2004 Aug

15235061. Simonian HP, Maurer AH, Knight LC, Kantor S, Kontos D, Megalooikonomou V, Fisher RS, Parkman HP, Simultaneous assessment of gastric accommodation and emptying: studies with liquid and solid meals. J Nucl Med 45:7(1155-60)2004 Jul

12757160. Gonlachanvit S, Hsu CW, Boden GH, Knight LC, Maurer AH, Fisher RS, Parkman HP, Effect of altering gastric emptying on postprandial plasma glucose concentrations following a physiologic meal in type-II diabetic patients. Dig Dis Sci 48:3(488-97)2003 Mar

12141833. Bromer MQ, Kantor SB, Wagner DA, Knight LC, Maurer AH, Parkman HP, Simultaneous measurement of gastric emptying with a simple muffin meal using [13C]octanoate breath test and scintigraphy in normal subjects and patients with dyspeptic symptoms. Dig Dis Sci 47:7(1657-63)2002 Jul

12135014. Miller LS, Szych GA, Kantor SB, Bromer MQ, Knight LC, Maurer AH, Fisher RS, Parkman HP, Treatment of idiopathic gastroparesis with injection of botulinum toxin into the pyloric sphincter muscle. Am J Gastroenterol 97:7(1653-60)2002 Jul

11743243. Sodhi SS, Guo JP, Maurer AH, O'Brien G, Srinivasan R, Parkman HP, Gastroparesis after combined heart and lung transplantation. J Clin Gastroenterol 34:1(34-9)2002 Jan

11270790. Guo JP, Maurer AH, Fisher RS, Parkman HP, Extending gastric emptying scintigraphy from two to four hours detects more patients with gastroparesis. Dig Dis Sci 46:1(24-9)2001 Jan

11051357. Bonapace ES, Maurer AH, Davidoff S, Krevsky B, Fisher RS, Parkman HP, Whole gut transit scintigraphy in the clinical evaluation of patients with upper and lower gastrointestinal symptoms. Am J Gastroenterol 95:10(2838-47)2000 Oct

10988194. Travaline JM, Maurer AH, Charkes ND, Urbain JL, Furukawa S, Criner GJ, Quantitation of regional ventilation during the washout phase of lung scintigraphy: measurement in patients with severe COPD before and after bilateral lung volume reduction surgery. Chest 118:3(721-7)2000 Sep

10855635. Knight LC, Baidoo KE, Romano JE, Gabriel JL, Maurer AH, Imaging pulmonary emboli and deep venous thrombi with 99mTc-bitistatin, a platelet-binding polypeptide from viper venom. J Nucl Med 41:6(1056-64)2000 Jun

10450683. Maurer AH, Charkes ND, Radioiodine treatment for nontoxic multinodular goiter. J Nucl Med 40:8(1313-6)1999 Aug

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