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Patrick Veit-Haibach

Patrick Veit-Haibach, MD

  • Deputy Chief / PMD (UHN sites)
  • Division Head, Abdominal

Patrick Veit-Haibach is a dual-certified Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine Physician currently serving as the Director of the PET/MR program and Division Head Abdominal Imaging at the Joint Department Medical Imaging (JDMI), Toronto, Canada. He is Associate Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Department Medical Imaging at UoT. He completed his training in radiology and nuclear medicine in Germany and in Switzerland. Before joining the JDMI in 2017, he served as the head of the PET/CT-MRI section at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.

His research interests focus on multi-modality molecular imaging strategies, particularly combined PET/MRI and PET/CT, perfusion- and hypoxia-imaging. Current projects involve clinical and preclinical molecular imaging research in esophago-gastric cancer, breast cancer, HCC, sarcoma, ENT cancer and lymphoma as well as technical evaluations in hybrid imaging.

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Recent Publications

  • Impact of 18F-DCFPyL PET/MRI in Selecting Men With Low-/Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer for Focal Ablative Therapies

    CONCLUSIONS: 18F-DCFPyL PET/MRI excluded nearly 30% of patients with low-/intermediate-risk PCa from FT, with a potential role in decreasing […]

  • Combination of clinical, radiomic, and "delta" radiomic features in survival prediction of metastatic gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma

    CONCLUSIONS: A combination of clinical, radiomics, and delta-radiomic features may predict PFS and OS in GEAs with reasonable accuracy.

  • International EANM-SNMMI-ISMRM consensus recommendation for PET/MRI in oncology

    The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is an international scientific and professional organization founded in 1954 to promote […]

  • Evaluation of MR anatomically-guided PET reconstruction using a convolutional neural network in PSMA patients

    Background. Recently, approaches have utilized the superior anatomical information provided by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to guide the […]

  • [18F]-FDG PET in anal canal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    CONCLUSION: PET may be a useful tool for anal canal cancer therapy planning and provides valuable prognostic information.

  • Diagnostic performance of whole-body [18F]FDG PET/MR in cancer M staging: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    CONCLUSION: [^(18)F]FDG PET/MR was a highly accurate modality in M staging in the reported [^(18)F]FDG-avid malignancies. The results showed high […]

  • Respiratory and cardiac motion correction in positron emission tomography using elastic motion approach for simultaneous abdomen and thorax positron emission tomography-magnetic resonance imaging

    CONCLUSIONS: The eMOCO technique was successfully implemented in PET-MRI in a clinical setting and produced the lowest SD compared to gated and […]

  • Combination of FDG PET/CT Radiomics and Clinical Parameters for Outcome Prediction in Patients with Hodgkin's Lymphoma

    CONCLUSION: We evaluated the value of baseline clinical parameters as well as combined PET and CT radiomics in HL patients for survival and the […]

  • Disparity and Diversity in NSCLC Imaging and Genomics: Evaluation of a Mature, Multicenter Database

    Lung cancer remains the leading cancer-related death across North America. Imaging is fundamental. Recently, healthcare disparities came into […]

  • Significant heterogeneity of published literature comparing radiofrequency ablation versus stereotactic body radiation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma

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  • Radiofrequency ablation versus stereotactic body radiation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: a meta-regression

    Aim: The aim of this meta-regression was to assess the impact of mean/median age, mean/median tumor size, percentage of males in total sample, and […]

  • Prognostic Value of Sarcopenia and Metabolic Parameters of 18F-FDG-PET/CT in Patients with Advanced Gastroesophageal Cancer

    We investigated the prognostic value of sarcopenia measurements and metabolic parameters of primary tumors derived from ^(18)F-FDG-PET/CT among […]

  • The role of [18F]-DCFPyL PET/MRI radiomics for pathological grade group prediction in prostate cancer

    CONCLUSION: The combined [^(18)F]-DCFPyL PET/MRI radiomic model was the best-performing model and outperformed the clinical model for pathological […]

  • Standardized classification schemes in reporting oncologic PET/CT

    The imaging report is essential for the communication between physicians in patient care. The information it contains must be clear, concise with […]

  • 18F-FDG PET/MRI in Detection of Pulmonary Malignancies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Background There have been conflicting results regarding fluorine 18-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose (^(18)F-FDG) PET/MRI diagnostic performance in lung […]

  • CT Radiomics and Whole Genome Sequencing in Patients with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: Predictive Radiogenomics Modeling

    We investigate whether computed tomography (CT) derived radiomics may correlate with driver gene mutations in patients with pancreatic ductal […]

  • Comparison of Four Clinical Prognostic Scores in Patients with Advanced Gastric and Esophageal Cancer

    CONCLUSIONS: The GRIm-Score had the highest accuracy in predicting early death and OS. Clinicians may use this score to identify patients at higher […]

  • Prognostic Value of [18F]-FDG PET/CT Radiomics Combined with Sarcopenia Status among Patients with Advanced Gastroesophageal Cancer

    We investigated, whether 18[18F]-FDG PET/CT-derived radiomics combined with sarcopenia measurements improves survival prognostication among patients […]

  • Prognostic value of PET/CT and MR-based baseline radiomics among patients with non-metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma

    CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrated that PET/CT-based radiomic features may improve survival prognostication among NPC patients when combined with […]

  • 18F-DCFPyL PET/CT in advanced high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer: A prospective pilot study

    CONCLUSION: Although ^(18)F-DCFPyL has higher specificity than CT in detecting advanced HGSOC tumor sites, it detects less disease sites than CT, […]

  • Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Radiomic Evaluation with Serial PET/CT: Exploring Features Predictive of Survival in Patients with Long-Term Follow-Up

    CONCLUSIONS: This study with long-term follow up data on NPC suggests that mainly PET-derived radiomic features are predictive for OS but not PFS in […]

  • Impact of Sites of Metastatic Dissemination on Survival in Advanced Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma

    INTRODUCTION: Metastatic gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (GEA) is a heterogeneous disease with an overall poor prognosis. The impact of sites of […]

  • Diagnostic performance of [18F]-FDG PET/MR in evaluating colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    CONCLUSION: This meta-analysis showed an overall high diagnostic performance for [^(18)F]-FDG PET/MR in detecting CRC lesions/metastases. Thus, this […]

  • Impact of 18F-DCFPyL PET on Staging and Treatment of Unfavorable Intermediate or High-Risk Prostate Cancer

    Background Data regarding 2-(3-{1-carboxy-5-[(6-[^(18)F]fluoro-pyridine 3-carbonyl)-amino]-pentyl}-ureido)-pentanedioic acid (^(18)F-DCFPyL) PET in […]

  • Diagnostic Accuracy of Cardiac MRI versus FDG PET for Cardiac Sarcoidosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Background There is limited consensus regarding the relative diagnostic performance of cardiac MRI and fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET for cardiac […]

  • Combined 18 F-FDG PET/CT Radiomics and Sarcopenia Score in Predicting Relapse-Free Survival and Overall Survival in Patients With Esophagogastric Cancer

    CONCLUSIONS: PET and CT radiomics derived from combined PET/CT integrated with clinicopathological parameters and sarcopenia measurement might […]

  • The impact of PSMA PET on the treatment and outcomes of men with biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    CONCLUSION: In conclusion, PSMA PET is positive in more than 2/3 of men with BCR and impacts patient management in more than half of the men. BRFS […]

  • Reproducibility of Standardized Uptake Values Including Volume Metrics Between TOF-PET-MR and TOF-PET-CT

    CONCLUSION: PET metrics on TOF-PET-MR showed a good correlation with that of TOF-PET-CT. SUVmax and SUVpeak of tumor lesions were underestimated by […]

  • Preoperative and Postoperative Approaches to Gastroesophageal Cancer: What is All the Fuss About

    Gastroesophageal cancers carry poor prognoses, and are a leading cause of cancer-related morbidity and mortality worldwide. Even in those with […]

  • The clinical consequences of functional adrenal uptake in the absence of cross-sectional mass on FDG-PET/CT in oncology patients

    CONCLUSIONS: Thresholds of SUVmax and SUVratio identified a significant proportion of patients who did not develop adrenal metastasis. In oncology […]

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