Michael M. Graham, PhD, MD

Professor of Radiology-Division of Nuclear Medicine

Current Positions

Professor of Radiology - Division of Nuclear Medicine
Professor of Radiation Oncology

Education

BSEE in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
MSEE in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
MS in Bioradiology, University of California, Berkeley, United States
PhD in Biophysics, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States
MD in Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States
Resident in Nuclear Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Resident in Internal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Graduate Program Affiliations

Research Interests

Quantitative PET imaging in oncology

Licenses & Certifications

Nuclear Medicine, American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM)
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Iowa Medical License (Permanent), Iowa Board of Medical Examiners

Selected Publications

Xiong X, Smith BJ, Graves SA, Graham MM, Buatti JM, Beichel RR. Head and Neck Cancer Segmentation in FDG PET Images: Performance Comparison of Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Transformers. Tomography. 2023 Oct 18;9(5):1933-1948. doi: 10.3390/tomography9050151. PMID: 37888743; PMCID: PMC10611182.
Akay S, Pollard JH, Saad Eddin A, Alatoum A, Kandemirli S, Gholamrezanezhad A, Menda Y, Graham MM, Shariftabrizi A. PET/CT Imaging in Treatment Planning and Surveillance of Sinonasal Neoplasms. Cancers (Basel). 2023 Jul 25;15(15):3759. doi: 10.3390/cancers15153759. PMID: 37568575; PMCID: PMC10417627.
Graham MM. The Future of Nuclear Medicine in the United States. J Nucl Med. 2023 Sep;64(9):1352-1353. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.122.265314. Epub 2023 Aug 10. PMID: 37562804.
Ora M, Soni N, Nazar AH, Dixit M, Singh R, Puri S, Graham MM, Gambhir S. Fibroblast Activation Protein Inhibitor-Based Radionuclide Therapies: Current Status and Future Directions. J Nucl Med. 2023 Jul;64(7):1001-1008. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.123.265594. Epub 2023 Jun 2. PMID: 37268422.
Hope TA, Allen-Auerbach M, Bodei L, Calais J, Dahlbom M, Dunnwald LK, Graham MM, Jacene HA, Heath CL, Mittra ES, Wright CL, Fendler WP, Herrmann K, Taïeb D, Kjaer A. SNMMI Procedure Standard/EANM Practice Guideline for SSTR PET: Imaging Neuroendocrine Tumors. J Nucl Med. 2023 Feb;64(2):204-210. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.122.264860. PMID: 36725249.
Xiong X, Smith BJ, Graves SA, Sunderland JJ, Graham MM, Gross BA, Buatti JM, Beichel RR. Quantification of uptake in pelvis F-18 FLT PET-CT images using a 3D localization and segmentation CNN. Med Phys. 2022 Mar;49(3):1585-1598. doi:10.1002/mp.15440. Epub 2022 Jan 19. PMID: 34982836; PMCID: PMC9447843.
Soni N, Ora M, Aher PY, Mishra P, Maheshwarappa RP, Priya S, Graham MM. Role of FDG PET/CT for detection of primary tumor in patients with extracervical metastases from carcinoma of unknown primary. Clin Imaging. 2021 Oct;78:262-270. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2021.06.022. Epub 2021 Jun 19. PMID: 34174653.
Soni, N., Ora, M., Bathla, G., Nagaraj, C., Boles, L. L., Graham, M. M., Saini, J. & Menda, Y. (2021). Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography findings in neurodegenerative diseases: Current status and future directions. The neuroradiology journal 1971400921998968. DOI: 10.1177/1971400921998968. PMID: 33666110.
Könik, A., O'Donoghue, J. A., Wahl, R. L., Graham, M. M. & Van den Abbeele, A. D. (2021). Theranostics: The Role of Quantitative Nuclear Medicine Imaging. Seminars in radiation oncology 31 (1) 28-36. DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2020.07.003. PMID: 33246633.
Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa, R. & Graham, M. M. (2021). Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infection Detected on 18F-FDG PET/CT Scan Done for Multiple Myeloma. Clinical nuclear medicine 46 (1) e57-e58. DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003314. PMID: 32956130. PMCID: PMC7740275.