Radiology / Diagnostic - Pediatric

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Robert C. McKinstry, III, MD, PhD

Specialty Areas
Pediatric Neuroradiology
Neuroradiology
Radiology
Neuro Oncology

Areas of Clinical Interest
Magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, MR imaging of brain development, diffusion tensor imaging, perfusion MR imaging and functional MR imaging, functional neuroimaging with magnetic resonance

Major or Recent Publications/Awards

Honors and Awards

Listed in: Best Doctors in America, 2008, 2009 (Best Doctors, Inc)

RSNA Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, 1997

Distinguish Teacher Award, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, 2002-2005

Journal Articles

King A, Herron S, McKinstry RC, Bacak S, Armstrong M, White D, DeBaun M. “A Multidisciplinary Health Care Team’s Efforts to Improve Educational Attainment in Children With Sickle-Cell Anemia and Cerebral Infarcts” Journal of School Health, 2006, 76(1):33-37

Ashley WW, McKinstry RC, Leonard JR, Smyth MD, Lee BCP, Park TS. “Utility of Rapid Sequence MRI for Evaluation of Hydrocephalus in Children”.Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 2005 Aug;103(2 Suppl):124-30

Ojemann JG, McKinstry RC, Mukherjee P, Park TS, Burton H. “Hand somatosensory cortex activity following selective dorsal rhizotomy: report”. of three cases with fMRI.” Childs Nerv Syst. 2005 Feb;21(2):115-121

Yerys BE, White DA, Salorio CF, McKinstry R, Moinuddin A, DeBaun M. Memory strategy training in children with cerebral infarcts related to sickle cell disease. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 2003 25(6):495-8

Mazumdar A, Mukherjee P, Miller JH, Malde H, McKinstry RC “Diffusion-weighted imaging of acute corticospinal tract injury preceding wallerian degeneration in the maturing human brain” AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2003 24: 1057-1066

Mukherjee P, Kang HC, Videen TO, McKinstry RC, Powers WJ, Derdeyn C. “Measurement of cerebral blood flow in chronic carotid occlusive disease: comparison of dynamic susceptibility contrast perfusion MR imaging with positron emission tomography.” AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2003 24: 862-871

Miller JH, McKinstry RC, Philip JV, Mukherjee P, Neil JJ. “Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Normal Brain Maturation: A Guide to Structural Development and Myelination” AJR 2003 180(3):851-859

Henderson JN, Noetzel MJ, McKinstry RC, White Da, Armstrong M and DeBaun MR. Reversible posterior leukoncephalopathy snydrome and silent cerebral infarcts are allociated with severe acute chest syndrome in children with sickle cell disease. Blood 2003; 101:415-419

Mukherjee P, Miller JH, Shimony JS, Nehra D, Snyder AZ, Conturo TE, Neil JJ, McKinstry RC. “Diffusion-Tensor MR Imaging of Gray Matter and White Matter Development during Normal Human Brain Maturation.” AJNR 2002 23(9):1445-1456

McKinstry RC, Miller JH, Snyder AZ, Mathur A, Schefft GL, Almli CR, Shimony JS, Shiran SI and Neil JJ. A prospective longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging study of brain injury in newborns. Neurology 2002; 59:825-827

Lin SP, Schmidt RE, McKinstry RC, Ackerman, JJH, Neil JJ. Investigation of mechanisms underlying the MR fogging effect. JMRI 2002 15(2):130-136

Mukherjee P, Miller JH, Shimony JS, Conturo TE, Lee BCP, Almli CR, McKinstry RC. Normal brain maturation during childhood: developmental trends Characterized with diffusion-tensor MR imaging. Radiology 2001 221(2):349-358

Gauvain KM, McKinstry RM, Mukherjee P, Perry A, Neil JJ, Kaufman BA, Hayashi RJ. Evaluating pediatric brain tumor cellularity with diffusion-tensor imaging. AJR 2001; 177:449-454

Mukherjee P, McKinstry RC. Reversible Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome: Evaluation with Diffusion-Tensor MR Imaging. Radiology,2001 219(3):756-765

Conturo TE, Lori NF, Cull TS, Akbukak E, Snyder AZ, Shimony JS, McKinstry RC, Burton H, Raichle ME. Tracking neuroal fiber pathways in the living human brain. PNAS 1999; 96:10422-10427

Shimony JS, McKinstry RC, Akbudak E, Aronovitz JA, Snyder AZ, Lori N, Cull TS, Conturo TE. Quantitative diffusion tensor anisotropy imaging: normative human cerebral data. Radiology 1999; 212:770-784

Neil JJ, Shiran SI, McKinstry RC, Schefft G, Snyder AZ, Almli CR, Akbudak E, Aronovits JA, Miller JP, Lee BCP, Conturo TE. Normal Brain in Human Newborns: Apparent Diffusion Coefficient and Diffusion Anisotropy Measured by Using Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging. Radiology 1998; 209:57-66

Ojemann JG, Buckner RL, Akbudak E, Snyder AZ, Ollinger JM, McKinstry RC, Rosen BR, Petersen SE, Raichle ME, Conturo TE. Functional MRI Studies of Word Stem Completion: Reliability Across Laboratories and Comparison to Blood Flow Imaging with PET. Human Brain Mapping 1998; 6:203-215

Ojemann JG, Akbudak E, Snyder AZ, McKinstry RC, Raichle ME, Conturo TE. Anatomic Localization and Quantitative Analysis of Gradient Refocussed fMRI Susceptibility Artifacts. Neuroimage 1997; 6(3):156-167

Conturo TE, McKinstry RC, Akbudak E, Robinson BH. Encoding of Anisotropic Diffusion with Tetrahedral Gradients: A General Methematical Diffusion Formalism and Experimental Results. Magn Res Med 1996; 35(3):399-412

Robert C. McKinstry, III, MD, PhD