Vasilis Ntziachristos

49.4k total citations · 14 hit papers
693 papers, 37.8k citations indexed

About

Vasilis Ntziachristos is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Vasilis Ntziachristos has authored 693 papers receiving a total of 37.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 586 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 437 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 92 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Vasilis Ntziachristos's work include Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (545 papers), Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (417 papers) and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (168 papers). Vasilis Ntziachristos is often cited by papers focused on Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (545 papers), Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques (417 papers) and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (168 papers). Vasilis Ntziachristos collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Greece. Vasilis Ntziachristos's co-authors include Ralph Weissleder, Daniel Razansky, Jorge Ripoll, Christoph Bremer, Amir Rosenthal, Adrian Taruttis, Britton Chance, Andreas Buehler, Gooitzen M. van Dam and Lihong V. Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Vasilis Ntziachristos

673 papers receiving 36.9k citations

Hit Papers

Shedding light onto live molecular targets 2000 2026 2008 2017 2003 2010 2011 2005 2003 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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. Shedding light onto live molecular targets
    2003 1.6k citations Ralph Weissleder, Vasilis Ntziachristos profile →
  2. Going deeper than microscopy: the optical imaging frontier in biology
    2010 1.4k citations Vasilis Ntziachristos profile →
  3. Intraoperative tumor-specific fluorescence imaging in ovarian cancer by folate receptor-α targeting: first in-human results
    2011 1.3k citations Gooitzen M. van Dam, George Themelis et al. profile →
  4. Looking and listening to light: the evolution of whole-body photonic imaging
    2005 1.2k citations Vasilis Ntziachristos, Jorge Ripoll et al. profile →
  5. Fluorescence imaging with near-infrared light: new technological advances that enable in vivo molecular imaging
    2003 754 citations Vasilis Ntziachristos, Ralph Weissleder et al. profile →
  6. Concurrent MRI and diffuse optical tomography of breast after indocyanine green enhancement
    2000 644 citations Vasilis Ntziachristos et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Fluorescence molecular tomography resolves protease activity in vivo
    2002 642 citations Vasilis Ntziachristos, Ralph Weissleder et al. profile →
  8. Molecular Imaging by Means of Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT)
    2010 633 citations Vasilis Ntziachristos, Daniel Razansky profile →
  9. A review of clinical photoacoustic imaging: Current and future trends
    2019 614 citations Amalina Binte Ebrahim Attia, Ghayathri Balasundaram et al. Photoacoustics profile →
  10. FLUORESCENCE MOLECULAR IMAGING
    2006 557 citations Vasilis Ntziachristos profile →
  11. Multispectral opto-acoustic tomography of deep-seated fluorescent proteins in vivo
    2009 506 citations Daniel Razansky, Claudio Vinegoni et al. profile →
  12. Advances in real-time multispectral optoacoustic imaging and its applications
    2015 475 citations Vasilis Ntziachristos et al. profile →
  13. Shortwave infrared polymethine fluorophores matched to excitation lasers enable non-invasive, multicolour in vivo imaging in real time
    2020 265 citations Mara Saccomano, Sarah Glasl et al. profile →
  14. Looking at sound: optoacoustics with all-optical ultrasound detection
    2018 253 citations Georg Wissmeyer, Vasilis Ntziachristos et al. Light Science & Applications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vasilis Ntziachristos Germany 98 28.3k 17.8k 5.1k 5.1k 4.2k 693 37.8k
Kullervo Hynynen United States 104 29.8k 1.1× 18.9k 1.1× 1.6k 0.3× 2.1k 0.4× 1.1k 0.3× 616 36.3k
Sanjiv S. Gambhir United States 123 25.0k 0.9× 14.3k 0.8× 880 0.2× 24.2k 4.8× 6.1k 1.5× 713 65.7k
Brian C. Wilson Canada 89 24.3k 0.9× 10.5k 0.6× 436 0.1× 4.0k 0.8× 14.1k 3.4× 656 35.3k
Arjun G. Yodh United States 92 15.2k 0.5× 11.2k 0.6× 538 0.1× 1.7k 0.3× 2.0k 0.5× 469 30.0k
James G. Fujimoto United States 115 31.2k 1.1× 25.1k 1.4× 1.1k 0.2× 3.9k 0.8× 1.7k 0.4× 758 59.1k
Valery V. Tuchin Russia 62 12.1k 0.4× 6.2k 0.3× 572 0.1× 1.6k 0.3× 1.5k 0.4× 972 19.3k
Mark W. Dewhirst United States 105 14.3k 0.5× 8.9k 0.5× 437 0.1× 18.2k 3.6× 6.0k 1.4× 627 48.6k
Brian W. Pogue United States 78 17.1k 0.6× 12.7k 0.7× 317 0.1× 1.7k 0.3× 7.5k 1.8× 764 24.1k
Michael S. Feld United States 92 15.0k 0.5× 5.2k 0.3× 632 0.1× 5.5k 1.1× 2.4k 0.6× 436 36.8k
Steven L. Jacques United States 64 13.0k 0.5× 11.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.2× 1.0k 0.2× 1.8k 0.4× 407 20.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gujrati, Vipul, Uwe Klemm, Mohammed Arshad, et al.. (2025). Photoswitching protein-XTEN fusions as injectable optoacoustic probes. Acta Biomaterialia. 195. 536–546.
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Gouveri, Evanthia, et al.. (2025). Raster Scan Optoacoustic Mesoscopy for detecting microvascular complications in diabetes mellitus: A narrative brief review. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 222. 112095–112095.
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Liu, Nian, Vipul Gujrati, Xiaopeng Ma, et al.. (2024). Tuning the photophysical properties of cyanine by barbiturate functionalization and nanoformulation for efficient optoacoustics- guided phototherapy. Journal of Controlled Release. 372. 522–530. 2 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Nghia, Julia Slotta‐Huspenina, Markus Tschurtschenthaler, et al.. (2024). PARP1-targeted fluorescence molecular endoscopy as novel tool for early detection of esophageal dysplasia and adenocarcinoma. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. 43(1). 53–53. 6 indexed citations
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Fang, Hsin‐Yu, Stefan Stangl, Theresa Baumeister, et al.. (2021). Targeted Hsp70 fluorescence molecular endoscopy detects dysplasia in Barrett’s esophagus. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 49(6). 2049–2063. 13 indexed citations
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Kellnberger, Stephan, Georg Wissmeyer, Mazen Albaghdadi, et al.. (2021). Intravascular molecular‐structural imaging with a miniaturized integrated near‐infrared fluorescence and ultrasound catheter. Journal of Biophotonics. 14(10). e202100048–e202100048. 7 indexed citations
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Liapis, Evangelos, Uwe Klemm, Angelos Karlas, Josefine Reber, & Vasilis Ntziachristos. (2020). Resolution of Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in Bevacizumab-Treated Breast Tumors by Eigenspectra Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography. Cancer Research. 80(23). 5291–5304. 17 indexed citations
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Li, Jiao, Andrei Chekkoury, Jaya Prakash, et al.. (2020). Spatial heterogeneity of oxygenation and haemodynamics in breast cancer resolved in vivo by conical multispectral optoacoustic mesoscopy. Light Science & Applications. 9(1). 57–57. 50 indexed citations
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Werner, J., Yuanhui Huang, Sarah Glasl, et al.. (2019). Structure-Based Mutagenesis of Phycobiliprotein smURFP for Optoacoustic Imaging. ACS Chemical Biology. 14(9). 1896–1903. 16 indexed citations
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Attia, Amalina Binte Ebrahim, Ghayathri Balasundaram, Mohesh Moothanchery, et al.. (2019). A review of clinical photoacoustic imaging: Current and future trends. Photoacoustics. 16. 100144–100144. 614 indexed citations breakdown →
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He, Hailong, Tobias Wiedemann, Katja Steiger, et al.. (2019). Capsule optoacoustic endoscopy for esophageal imaging. Journal of Biophotonics. 12(10). e201800439–e201800439. 31 indexed citations
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Prakash, Jaya, Subhamoy Mandal, Daniel Razansky, & Vasilis Ntziachristos. (2019). Maximum Entropy Based Non-Negative Optoacoustic Tomographic Image Reconstruction. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 66(9). 2604–2616. 28 indexed citations
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Omar, Murad, Johannes Rebling, Kai Wicker, et al.. (2016). Optical imaging of post-embryonic zebrafish using multi orientation raster scan optoacoustic mesoscopy. Light Science & Applications. 6(1). e16186–e16186. 22 indexed citations
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Stangl, Stefan, Júlia Varga, Marija Trajkovic‐Arsic, et al.. (2014). Selective In Vivo Imaging of Syngeneic, Spontaneous, and Xenograft Tumors Using a Novel Tumor Cell–Specific Hsp70 Peptide-Based Probe. Cancer Research. 74(23). 6903–6912. 26 indexed citations
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Kijanka, Marta M., Mohamed El Khattabi, Marjolijn N. Lub‐de Hooge, et al.. (2013). Rapid optical imaging of human breast tumour xenografts using anti-HER2 VHHs site-directly conjugated to IRDye 800CW for image-guided surgery. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 40(11). 1718–1729. 123 indexed citations
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Vinegoni, Claudio, Paolo Fumene Feruglio, Daniel Razansky, et al.. (2012). Mapping Molecular Agents Distributions in Whole Mice Hearts Using Born-Normalized Optical Projection Tomography. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34427–e34427. 6 indexed citations
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Scheltinga, Anton G.T. Terwisscha van, Gooitzen M. van Dam, Wouter B. Nagengast, et al.. (2011). Intraoperative Near-Infrared Fluorescence Tumor Imaging with Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 Targeting Antibodies. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 52(11). 1778–1785. 162 indexed citations
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Themelis, George, Jung Sun Yoo, Kwang‐Sup Soh, Ralf B. Schulz, & Vasilis Ntziachristos. (2009). Real-time intraoperative fluorescence imaging system using light-absorption correction. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 14(6). 64012–64012. 136 indexed citations
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Montet, Xavier, Vasilis Ntziachristos, Jan Grimm, & Ralph Weissleder. (2005). Tomographic Fluorescence Mapping of Tumor Targets. Cancer Research. 65(14). 6330–6336. 141 indexed citations
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Ntziachristos, Vasilis, Eyk Schellenberger, Jorge Ripoll, et al.. (2004). Visualization of antitumor treatment by means of fluorescence molecular tomography with an annexin V–Cy5.5 conjugate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(33). 12294–12299. 262 indexed citations

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