Tim Akhurst

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

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Tim Akhurst is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Akhurst has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 31 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 21 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Tim Akhurst's work include Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (17 papers), Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (14 papers) and Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (13 papers). Tim Akhurst is often cited by papers focused on Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (17 papers), Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (14 papers) and Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (13 papers). Tim Akhurst collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. Tim Akhurst's co-authors include Rodney J. Hicks, Michael S. Hofman, Grace Kong, Amir Iravani, Shahneen Sandhu, Aravind Ravi Kumar, Declan G. Murphy, Scott Williams, John Violet and Sue Ping Thang 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

Tim Akhurst

65 papers receiving 4.1k citations

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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.

[177Lu]-PSMA-617 radionuclide treatment in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (LuPSMA trial): a single-centre, single-arm, phase 2 study

2018 815 citations Michael S. Hofman, John Violet et al. profile →
Dosimetry of ¹⁷⁷Lu-PSMA-617 in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer: Correlations Between Pretherapeutic Imaging and Whole-Body Tumor Dosimetry with Treatment Outcomes

2018 339 citations John Violet, Justin Ferdinandus et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim Akhurst Australia	29	2.4k	2.1k	1.3k	858	754	67	4.1k
Andrei Iagaru United States	41	2.1k 0.9×	2.9k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	495 0.6×	402 0.5×	253	5.0k
Martin Allen-Auerbach United States	31	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	898 0.7×	568 0.7×	259 0.3×	78	3.5k
Paolo Castellucci Italy	45	3.6k 1.5×	3.0k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	648 0.8×	599 0.8×	194	6.0k
Jun Itami Japan	32	3.1k 1.3×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	259 0.3×	258	5.9k
Kathryn Beal United States	34	2.5k 1.1×	943 0.4×	1.7k 1.3×	504 0.6×	614 0.8×	128	4.7k
Maria Picchio Italy	46	4.4k 1.9×	4.0k 1.9×	890 0.7×	846 1.0×	991 1.3×	202	7.5k
Ghassan El‐Haddad United States	24	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	642 0.7×	387 0.5×	97	3.3k
Michelle DeSilvio United States	28	3.8k 1.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.3×	853 1.0×	492 0.7×	64	5.4k
Christina Messiou United Kingdom	36	2.5k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	2.1k 1.7×	597 0.7×	503 0.7×	180	5.8k
Neeta Pandit‐Taskar United States	44	1.7k 0.7×	2.8k 1.4×	2.2k 1.7×	850 1.0×	712 0.9×	215	6.0k

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Kashyap, Raghava, Ramin Alipour, Emma Boehm, et al.. (2025). Safety and efficacy of re-treatment with [177Lu]Lu-DOTA-Octreotate radionuclide therapy in progressive gastro-entero-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours – a single centre experience. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 52(10). 3672–3681. 1 indexed citations

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MacManus, Michael, Tim Akhurst, Sharon R. Lewin, & Fiona Hegi‐Johnson. (2024). Response to COVID-19 vaccination imaged by PD-L1 PET scanning. PubMed. 8(1). 16–16. 1 indexed citations

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Hegi‐Johnson, Fiona, Stacey E. Rudd, Christian Wichmann, et al.. (2022). ImmunoPET: IMaging of cancer imMUNOtherapy targets with positron Emission Tomography: a phase 0/1 study characterising PD-L1 with ⁸⁹ Zr-durvalumab (MEDI4736) PET/CT in stage III NSCLC patients receiving chemoradiation study protocol. BMJ Open. 12(11). e056708–e056708. 15 indexed citations

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Iravani, Amir, Catherine Mitchell, Tim Akhurst, et al.. (2021). Molecular Imaging of Neuroendocrine Differentiation of Prostate Cancer: A Case Series. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 19(4). e200–e205. 17 indexed citations

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Alipour, Ramin, Mathias Bressel, Sarah Everitt, et al.. (2021). Nodal metabolic tumour volume on baseline ¹⁸F‐FDG PET/CT and overall survival in stage II and III NSCLC patients undergoing curative‐intent chemoradiotherapy/radiotherapy. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology. 65(6). 748–754. 2 indexed citations

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Ferdinandus, Justin, John Violet, Shahneen Sandhu, et al.. (2020). Prognostic biomarkers in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer receiving [177Lu]-PSMA-617. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 47(10). 2322–2327. 115 indexed citations

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Iravani, Amir, et al.. (2020). Theranostic implications of molecular imaging phenotype of well-differentiated pulmonary carcinoid based on 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT and 18F-FDG PET/CT. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 48(1). 204–216. 26 indexed citations

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Narasimhan, Vignesh, Satish K. Warrier, A. Craig Lynch, et al.. (2019). Outcomes Following Cytoreduction and HIPEC for Pseudomyxoma Peritonei: 10-Year Experience. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. 24(4). 899–906. 33 indexed citations

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Iravani, Amir, Tim Akhurst, Jason Callahan, et al.. (2019). PET-detected pneumonitis following curative-intent chemoradiation in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): recognizing patterns and assessing the impact on the predictive ability of FDG-PET/CT response assessment. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 46(9). 1869–1877. 15 indexed citations

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Thang, Sue Ping, John Violet, Shahneen Sandhu, et al.. (2018). Poor Outcomes for Patients with Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer with Low Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) Expression Deemed Ineligible for 177Lu-labelled PSMA Radioligand Therapy. European Urology Oncology. 2(6). 670–676. 129 indexed citations

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Akhurst, Tim. (2017). Future Directions in PET Imaging of Lung Cancer. PET Clinics. 13(1). 83–88. 1 indexed citations

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Lasocki, Arian, Tim Akhurst, Katharine J. Drummond, & Frank Gaillard. (2016). Cerebellar haemangioblastoma discovered incidentally on 68Ga-DOTA-octreotate examination. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 144. 20–22. 4 indexed citations

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Gollub, Marc J., Lawrence H. Schwartz, & Tim Akhurst. (2007). Update on Colorectal Cancer Imaging. Radiologic Clinics of North America. 45(1). 85–118. 42 indexed citations

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Riely, Gregory J., Mark G. Kris, Binsheng Zhao, et al.. (2007). Prospective Assessment of Discontinuation and Reinitiation of Erlotinib or Gefitinib in Patients with Acquired Resistance to Erlotinib or Gefitinib Followed by the Addition of Everolimus. Clinical Cancer Research. 13(17). 5150–5155. 237 indexed citations

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Flores, Raja M., Lee M. Krug, Kenneth E. Rosenzweig, et al.. (2006). Induction Chemotherapy, Extrapleural Pneumonectomy, and Postoperative High-Dose Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: A Phase II Trial. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 1(4). 289–295. 115 indexed citations

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Flores, Raja M., Lee M. Krug, Kenneth E. Rosenzweig, et al.. (2006). Induction Chemotherapy, Extrapleural Pneumonectomy, and Postoperative High-Dose Radiotherapy for Locally Advanced Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: A Phase II Trial. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 1(4). 289–295. 74 indexed citations

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Doubrovin, Mikhail, Niraj J. Gusani, T. Gade, et al.. (2003). Imaging of dihydrofolate reductase fusion gene expression in xenografts of human liver metastases of colorectal cancer in living rats. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 30(9). 1281–1291. 9 indexed citations

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Mayer‐Kuckuk, Philipp, Debabrata Banerjee, Mikhail Doubrovin, et al.. (2002). Cells exposed to antifolates show increased cellular levels of proteins fused to dihydrofolate reductase: A method to modulate gene expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(6). 3400–3405. 47 indexed citations

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Turlakow, A., Steven M. Larson, Fergus V. Coakley, et al.. (2001). Local detection of prostate cancer by positron emission tomography with 2-fluorodeoxyglucose: comparison of filtered back projection and iterative reconstruction with segmented attenuation correction.. PubMed. 45(3). 235–44. 16 indexed citations

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Martin, Robert C.G., Anna M. Derossis, Jane V. Fey, et al.. (2001). Intradermal isotope injection is superior to intramammary in sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer. Surgery. 130(3). 432–438. 76 indexed citations

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