Nirmala Ramanujam

11.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
215 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Nirmala Ramanujam is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Nirmala Ramanujam has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 108 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 43 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Nirmala Ramanujam's work include Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (104 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (79 papers) and Cervical Cancer and HPV Research (29 papers). Nirmala Ramanujam is often cited by papers focused on Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (104 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (79 papers) and Cervical Cancer and HPV Research (29 papers). Nirmala Ramanujam collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Tanzania. Nirmala Ramanujam's co-authors include Gregory M. Palmer, Rebecca Richards‐Kortum, Melissa C. Skala, Kevin W. Eliceiri, Mote Mitchell, Annette Gendron‐Fitzpatrick, Jens C. Eickhoff, Quan Liu, Changfang Zhu and Kristin M. Riching and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nirmala Ramanujam

207 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

In vivo multiphoton microscopy of NADH and FAD redox stat... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 250 500 750
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. In vivo multiphoton microscopy of NADH and FAD redox states, fluorescence lifetimes, and cellular morphology in precancerous epithelia
    2007 768 citations Nirmala Ramanujam et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nirmala Ramanujam United States 49 4.0k 3.6k 3.0k 1.5k 1.5k 215 8.2k
Henricus J. C. M. Sterenborg Netherlands 49 5.0k 1.3× 4.2k 1.2× 1.8k 0.6× 2.8k 1.8× 696 0.5× 260 9.0k
Bruce J. Tromberg United States 56 6.7k 1.7× 4.6k 1.3× 3.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 216 10.9k
Bruce J. Tromberg United States 50 5.9k 1.5× 5.0k 1.4× 1.4k 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 816 0.6× 196 9.1k
Stefan Andersson‐Engels Sweden 52 5.5k 1.4× 3.8k 1.0× 1.4k 0.5× 2.5k 1.6× 479 0.3× 375 9.0k
Eva M. Sevick‐Muraca United States 55 6.5k 1.6× 4.7k 1.3× 1.2k 0.4× 1.7k 1.1× 2.1k 1.4× 292 12.2k
Haishan Zeng Canada 47 2.7k 0.7× 1.2k 0.3× 5.4k 1.8× 845 0.6× 2.0k 1.4× 274 8.9k
Calum MacAulay Canada 50 2.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 951 0.3× 2.7k 1.8× 3.1k 2.1× 315 9.6k
Thomas H. Foster United States 48 6.8k 1.7× 2.3k 0.6× 673 0.2× 6.1k 4.0× 1.9k 1.3× 163 11.7k
Frédéric Leblond Canada 32 2.4k 0.6× 1.5k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 665 0.4× 530 0.4× 141 4.1k
James P. Freyer United States 37 2.2k 0.5× 1.3k 0.4× 1.2k 0.4× 368 0.2× 1.4k 1.0× 82 5.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nirmala Ramanujam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nirmala Ramanujam

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All Works

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Huchko, Megan J., et al.. (2024). Automated image clarity detection for the improvement of colposcopy imaging with multiple devices. Biomedical Signal Processing and Control. 100(Pt B). 106948–106948.
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Ilkayeva, Olga, Jeffrey I. Everitt, James V. Alvarez, et al.. (2024). Optical imaging reveals chemotherapy-induced metabolic reprogramming of residual disease and recurrence. Science Advances. 10(14). eadj7540–eadj7540. 5 indexed citations
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Ramanujam, Nirmala, et al.. (2023). Community-Centered Design Thinking as a Scalable STEM Learning Intervention. 11(2). 1 indexed citations
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Jardim‐Perassi, Bruna V., et al.. (2023). Metabolic Imaging as a Tool to Characterize Chemoresistance and Guide Therapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC). Molecular Cancer Research. 21(10). 995–1009. 6 indexed citations
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Yang, Jeffrey, et al.. (2023). Impact of Injection-Based Delivery Parameters on Local Distribution Volume of Ethyl-Cellulose Ethanol Gel in Tissue and Tissue Mimicking Phantoms. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 71(5). 1488–1498. 3 indexed citations
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Sai, Kiran Kumar Solingapuram, Xiaofei Chen, Zhe Li, et al.. (2021). [18F]Fluoro-DCP, a first generation PET radiotracer for monitoring protein sulfenylation in vivo. Redox Biology. 49. 102218–102218. 5 indexed citations
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Bowden, Audrey K., et al.. (2020). Optical Technologies for Improving Healthcare in Low-Resource Settings: introduction to the feature issue. Biomedical Optics Express. 11(6). 3091–3091. 3 indexed citations
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Fox, Douglas B., et al.. (2019). Optical Imaging of Glucose Uptake and Mitochondrial Membrane Potential to Characterize Her2 Breast Tumor Metabolic Phenotypes. Molecular Cancer Research. 17(7). 1545–1555. 19 indexed citations
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Mueller, Jenna L., Christopher T. Lam, Daniel Álvarez, et al.. (2019). Understanding Factors Governing Distribution Volume of Ethyl Cellulose-Ethanol to Optimize Ablative Therapy in the Liver. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 67(8). 2337–2348. 25 indexed citations
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Zhu, Caigang, et al.. (2018). Simultaneous in vivo optical quantification of key metabolic and vascular endpoints reveals tumor metabolic diversity in murine breast tumor models. Journal of Biophotonics. 12(4). e201800372–e201800372. 14 indexed citations
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Everitt, Jeffrey I., et al.. (2017). Distinct Angiogenic Changes during Carcinogenesis Defined by Novel Label-Free Dark-Field Imaging in a Hamster Cheek Pouch Model. Cancer Research. 77(24). 7109–7119. 6 indexed citations
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Vishwanath, Karthik, Joseph K. Salama, Alaattin Erkanli, et al.. (2016). Oxygen and Perfusion Kinetics in Response to Fractionated Radiation Therapy in FaDu Head and Neck Cancer Xenografts Are Related to Treatment Outcome. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 96(2). 462–469. 26 indexed citations
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Vishwanath, Karthik, et al.. (2010). Rapid ratiometric determination of hemoglobin concentration using UV-VIS diffuse reflectance at isosbestic wavelengths. Optics Express. 18(18). 18779–18779. 19 indexed citations
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Palmer, Gregory M., et al.. (2009). Quantitative diffuse reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy: tool to monitor tumor physiology in vivo. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 14(2). 24010–24010. 38 indexed citations
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Brown, J. Quincy, Lee G. Wilke, Joseph Geradts, et al.. (2009). Quantitative Optical Spectroscopy: A Robust Tool for Direct Measurement of Breast Cancer Vascular Oxygenation and Total Hemoglobin Content In vivo. Cancer Research. 69(7). 2919–2926. 91 indexed citations
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Tumer, Kagan, Nirmala Ramanujam, Rebecca Richards‐Kortum, & Joydeep Ghosh. (1996). Spectroscopic Detection of Cervical Pre-Cancer through Radial Basis Function Networks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 981–987. 5 indexed citations

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