Clinical Professor Robert Howman-Giles

Clinical Professor
Medical Imaging, Children's Hospital, Westmead

C29 - Children's Hospital Westmead
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

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Curriculum vitae

Publications

2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

2011

  
  • Uren, R., Howman-Giles, R., Chung, D., Thompson, J. (2011), Guidelines for lymphoscintigraphy and F18 FDG PET scans in Melanoma. Journal of Surgical Oncology. 104(4), 405-419. [Abstract]
  • Kumar, V., Boddeti, D., Evans, S., Roesch, F., Howman-Giles, R. (2011), Potential use of (68)Ga-apo-transferrin as a PET imaging agent for detecting Staphylococcus aureus infection. Nuclear Medicine and Biology. 38(3), 393-398. [Abstract]
  • London, K., Cross, S., Onikul, E., Dalla-Pozza, L., Howman-Giles, R. (2011), (18)F-FDG PET/CT in paediatric lymphoma: comparison with conventional imaging. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. 38, 274-84. [Abstract]

2010

  
  • London, K., Howman-Giles, R. (2010), Methodological issues in the evaluation of FDG PET/CT accuracy in pediatric lymphoma. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. 37(11), 2200-1. [Abstract]
  • Snyman, N., Egan, J., London, K., Howman-Giles, R., Gill, D., Gillis, J., Scheinberg, A. (2010), Zolpidem for persistent vegetative state - a placebo-controlled trial in pediatrics. Neuropediatrics. 41(5), 223-227. [Abstract]
  • Alsaywid, B., Saleh, H., Deshpande, A., Howman-Giles, R., Smith, G. (2010), High Grade Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux in Boys: Long-Term Results of a Prospective Cohort Study. The Journal of urology. 184(Suppl 4), 1598-603. [Abstract]
  • Pillai, S., Gill, D., Webster, R., Howman-Giles, R., Dale, R. (2010), Cortical Hypometabolism Demonstrated by PET in Relapsing NMDA Receptor Encephalitis. Pediatric Neurology. 43(3), 217-220. [Abstract]
  • Schmidt, M., Baum, R., Simon, T., Howman-Giles, R. (2010), Therapeutic nuclear medicine in pediatric malignancy. The Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imagingg. 54(4), 411-428. [Abstract]
  • Moharir, M., London, K., Howman-Giles, R., North, K. (2010), Utility of positron emission tomography for tumour surveillance in children with neurofibromatosis type 1. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 37(7), 1309-1317. [Abstract]
  • Howman-Giles, R., Shaw, H., Scolyer, R., Murali, R., Wilmott, J., McCarthy, S., Uren, R., Thompson, J. (2010), Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Pediatric and Adolescent Cutaneous Melanoma Patients. Annals of surgical oncology. 17(0), 138-43. [Abstract]

2009

  
  • Concannon, R., Howman-Giles, R., Shun, A., Stormon, M. (2009), Hepatobiliary scintigraphy for the assessment of biliary strictures after pediatric liver transplantation. Pediatric transplantation. 13(0), 977-83. [Abstract]

2008

  
  • Wong, E., Kumar, V., Howman-Giles, R., Vanderheyden, J. (2008), Imaging of Therapy-Induced Apoptosis Using (99m)Tc-HYNIC-Annexin V in Thymoma Tumor-Bearing Mice. Cancer biotherapy & radiopharmaceuticals. 23(6), 715-26. [Abstract]
  • Howman-Giles, R., London, K., McCowage, G., Graf, N., Harvey, J. (2008), Pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor after Hodgkin's lymphoma and application of PET imaging. Pediatric surgery international. 24, 947-51. [Abstract]
  • Cho, Y., Taplin, C., Mansour, A., Howman-Giles, R., Hardwick, R., Lord, D., Howard, N. (2008), Case report: consumptive hypothyroidism consequent to multiple infantile hepatic haemangiomas. Current Opinion in Pediatrics. 20(2), 213-215. [Abstract]
  • Howman-Giles, R., Holland, A., Mihm, D., Montfort, J., Arbuckle, S., Kellie, S. (2008), Somatic malignant transformation in a sacrococcygeal teratoma in a child and the use of F(18)FDG PET imaging. Pediatric surgery international. 24(0), 475-8. [Abstract]
  • London, K., Howman-Giles, R. (2008), Ga-67 and CT fusion imaging of an infected aortic graft. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 33(1), 41-43. [Abstract]

2007

  
  • Howman-Giles, R., Shaw, P., Uren, R., Chung, D. (2007), Neuroblastoma and Other Neuroendocrine Tumors. Seminars in nuclear medicine. 37(4), 286-302. [Abstract]
  • Uren, R., Howman-Giles, R., Chung, D., Thompson, J. (2007), Metastatic occlusion of a lymphatic collecting vessel in a patient with cutaneous melanoma and clinically normal lymph nodes. Clinical nuclear medicine. 32(4), 312-313. [Abstract]
  • Uren, R., Howman-Giles, R., Chung, D., Morton, R., Thompson, J. (2007), The Reproducibility in Routine Clinical Practice of Sentinel Lymph Node Identification by Pre-operative Lymphoscintigraphy in Patients with Cutaneous Melanoma. Annals of surgical oncology. 14, 899-905. [Abstract]
  • Kumar, V., Kumar, D., Howman-Giles, R., Little, D. (2007), Is (99m)Tc-labelled pamidronate a better agent than (99m)Tc-medronate for bone imaging?. Nuclear medicine communications. 28(2), 101-107. [Abstract]
  • Sevilla, A., Howman-Giles, R., Saleh, H., Trpezanovski, J., Concannon, R., Williams, K., Chung, D., Uren, R. (2007), Hepatobiliary scintigraphy with SPECT in infancy. Clinical nuclear medicine. 32(1), 16-23. [Abstract]

2006

  
  • Kumar, D., Kumar, V., Little, D., Howman-Giles, R., Wong, E., Ali, S. (2006), Evaluation of biodistribution by local versus systemic administration of (99m)Tc-labeled pamidronate. Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association. 11(5), 512-20. [Abstract]
  • Uren, R., Thompson, J., Howman-Giles, R., Chung, D. (2006), Lymphatic drainage-in patients with primary cutaneous melanoma - the role of lymphoscintigraphy in sentinel lymph node biopsy. Current Medical Imaging Reviews. 2(2), 261-270. [Abstract]
  • Uren, R., Thompson, J., Howman-Giles, R., Chung, D. (2006), The role of lymphoscintigraphy in the detection of lymph node drainage in melanoma. Surgical oncology clinics of North America. 15(2), 285-300. [Abstract]
  • Arrowsmith, F., Allen, J., Gaskin, K., Gruca, M., Clarke, S., Briody, J., Howman-Giles, R., Somerville, H., O'Loughlin, E. (2006), Reduced body protein in children with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy. The American journal of clinical nutrition. 83(3), 613-8. [Abstract]
  • Uren, R., Howman-Giles, R., Chung, D., Thompson, J. (2006), The clinical importance of lymphoscintigraphy for sentinel lymph node biopsy in melanoma and breast cancer. World Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 5, S379-S382.

Current national competitive grants*

2010

The Clinical Impact of Event-based Motion Correction in Paediatric PET/CT Brain Imaging
Fulton R, Howman-Giles R
NHMRC Project Grant ($267,250 over 3 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney