Dinko Franceschi, MD

Dr. Franceschi is a highly experienced nuclear medicine and molecular imaging specialist in the Department of Radiology. He completed his residency in Nuclear Medicine at Harvard Medical School, followed by a fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. With over 30 years of dedicated medical practice, Dr. Franceschi is committed to advancing the field through both patient care and medical innovation.

• 18F-FDG PET-CT: predicting recurrence in patients following percutaneous cryoablation treatment for stage I primary non-small-cell lung cancer.
  
  LoGiurato B | Matthews R | Safaie E | Moore W | Bilfinger T | Relan N | Franceschi D
  Nuclear medicine communications
  2015 Sep
  
  
• Staging studies for evaluation of squamous cell carcinoma. Staging of left temporal squamous cell carcinoma with PET-CT.
  
  Gould ES | Baker KS | Chaudhry AA | Franceschi D | Hoda S
  Skeletal radiology
  2015 Oct
  
  
• Tc-99m mebrofenin hepatobiliary scan in obstructive hepatobiliary disease: determining causes with early and late delayed imaging.
  
  Matthews R | Goodman M | Relan P | Safaie E | Franceschi D
  World journal of nuclear medicine
  2013 May
  
  
• Prognostic value of metabolic tumor volume and total lesion glycolysis from (1)(8)F-FDG PET/CT in patients undergoing stereotactic body radiation therapy for stage I non-small-cell lung cancer.
  
  Vu CC | Matthews R | Kim B | Franceschi D | Bilfinger TV | Moore WH
  Nuclear medicine communications
  2013 Oct
  
  
• Diagnosis and monitoring of cardiac sarcoidosis with delayed-enhanced MRI and 18F-FDG PET-CT.
  
  Matthews R | Bench T | Meng H | Franceschi D | Relan N | Brown DL
  Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
  2012 Aug
  
  
• Four chamber FDG uptake in the heart: an indirect sign of pulmonary embolism.
  
  Franceschi AM | Matthews R | Mankes S | Safaie E | Franceschi D
  Clinical nuclear medicine
  2012 Jul
  
  
• Fluorodeoxyglucose PET-CT Findings Following Bone Marrow Harvesting.
  
  Matthews R | Schuster M | Safaie E | Relan N | Franceschi D
  World journal of nuclear medicine
  2012 Jan
  
  
• Head and neck cancers: post-therapy changes in muscles with FDG PET-CT.
  
  Matthews R | Shrestha P | Franceschi D | Relan N | Kaloudis E
  Clinical nuclear medicine
  2010 Jul
  
  
• Parietal lobe epileptic focus identified on SPECT-MRI fusion imaging in a case of epilepsia partialis continua.
  
  Matthews R | Franceschi D | Xia W | Cabahug C | Schuman G | Bernstein R | Peyster R
  Clinical nuclear medicine
  2006 Dec
  
  
• Low doses of alcohol substantially decrease glucose metabolism in the human brain.
  
  Volkow ND | Wang GJ | Franceschi D | Fowler JS | Thanos PP | Maynard L | Gatley SJ | Wong C | Veech RL | Kunos G | Kai Li T
  NeuroImage
  2006 Jan 1
  
  
• Comparison of monoamine oxidase a in peripheral organs in nonsmokers and smokers.
  
  Fowler JS | Logan J | Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Telang F | Zhu W | Franceschi D | Shea C | Garza V | Xu Y | Ding YS | Alexoff D | Warner D | Netusil N | Carter P | Jayne M | King P | Vaska P
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
  2005 Sep
  
  
• Abdominal muscle uptake on FDG PET secondary to multiple rib fractures and use of accessory muscles of respiration.
  
  Matthews R | Franceschi D | Cabahug C
  Clinical nuclear medicine
  2005 May
  
  
• Increased standardized uptake value in the primary lesion predicts nodal or distant metastases at presentation in lung cancer.
  
  Sachs S | Bilfinger TV | Komaroff E | Franceschi D
  Clinical lung cancer
  2005 Mar
  
  
• PET findings in pulmonary dirofilariasis.
  
  Moore W | Franceschi D
  Journal of thoracic imaging
  2005 Nov
  
  
• Monoamine oxidase A imaging in peripheral organs in healthy human subjects.
  
  Fowler JS | Logan J | Wang GJ | Franceschi D | Volkow ND | Telang F | Pappas N | Ferrieri R | Shea C | Garza V | Xu Y | King P | Schlyer D | Gatley SJ | Ding YS | Warner D | Netusil N | Carter P | Jayne M | Alexoff D | Zhu W | Vaska P
  Synapse (New York, N.Y.)
  2003 Sep 1
  
  
• Low monoamine oxidase B in peripheral organs in smokers.
  
  Fowler JS | Logan J | Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Telang F | Zhu W | Franceschi D | Pappas N | Ferrieri R | Shea C | Garza V | Xu Y | Schlyer D | Gatley SJ | Ding YS | Alexoff D | Warner D | Netusil N | Carter P | Jayne M | King P | Vaska P
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  2003 Sep 30
  
  
• Alcohol intoxication induces greater reductions in brain metabolism in male than in female subjects.
  
  Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Fowler JS | Franceschi D | Wong CT | Pappas NR | Netusil N | Zhu W | Felder C | Ma Y
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research
  2003 Jun
  
  
• Nonhedonic food motivation in humans involves dopamine in the dorsal striatum and methylphenidate amplifies this effect.
  
  Volkow ND | Wang GJ | Fowler JS | Logan J | Jayne M | Franceschi D | Wong C | Gatley SJ | Gifford AN | Ding YS | Pappas N
  Synapse (New York, N.Y.)
  2002 Jun 1
  
  
• Relationship between blockade of dopamine transporters by oral methylphenidate and the increases in extracellular dopamine: therapeutic implications.
  
  Volkow ND | Wang GJ | Fowler JS | Logan J | Franceschi D | Maynard L | Ding YS | Gatley SJ | Gifford A | Zhu W | Swanson JM
  Synapse (New York, N.Y.)
  2002 Mar 1
  
  
• Strategy for the formation of parametric images under conditions of low injected radioactivity applied to PET studies with the irreversible monoamine oxidase A tracers [11C]clorgyline and deuterium-substituted [11C]clorgyline.
  
  Logan J | Fowler JS | Ding YS | Franceschi D | Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Felder C | Alexoff D
  Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
  2002 Nov
  
  
• PET imaging of monoamine oxidase B in peripheral organs in humans.
  
  Fowler JS | Logan J | Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Zhu W | Franceschi D | Pappas N | Ferrieri R | Shea C | Garza V | Xu Y | MacGregor RR | Schlyer D | Gatley SJ | Ding YS | Alexoff D
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
  2002 Oct
  
  
• Evidence that L-deprenyl treatment for one week does not inhibit MAO A or the dopamine transporter in the human brain.
  
  Fowler JS | Volkow ND | Logan J | Franceschi D | Wang GJ | MacGregor R | Shea C | Garza V | Pappas N | Carter P | Netusil N | Bridge P | Liederman D | Elkashef A | Rotrosen J | Hitzemann R
  Life sciences
  2001 May 4
  
  
• Higher cortical and lower subcortical metabolism in detoxified methamphetamine abusers.
  
  Volkow ND | Chang L | Wang GJ | Fowler JS | Franceschi D | Sedler MJ | Gatley SJ | Hitzemann R | Ding YS | Wong C | Logan J
  The American journal of psychiatry
  2001 Mar
  
  
• Association of dopamine transporter reduction with psychomotor impairment in methamphetamine abusers.
  
  Volkow ND | Chang L | Wang GJ | Fowler JS | Leonido-Yee M | Franceschi D | Sedler MJ | Gatley SJ | Hitzemann R | Ding YS | Logan J | Wong C | Miller EN
  The American journal of psychiatry
  2001 Mar
  
  
• Loss of dopamine transporters in methamphetamine abusers recovers with protracted abstinence.
  
  Volkow ND | Chang L | Wang GJ | Fowler JS | Franceschi D | Sedler M | Gatley SJ | Miller E | Hitzemann R | Ding YS | Logan J
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
  2001 Dec 1
  
  
• Low level of brain dopamine D2 receptors in methamphetamine abusers: association with metabolism in the orbitofrontal cortex.
  
  Volkow ND | Chang L | Wang GJ | Fowler JS | Ding YS | Sedler M | Logan J | Franceschi D | Gatley J | Hitzemann R | Gifford A | Wong C | Pappas N
  The American journal of psychiatry
  2001 Dec
  
  
• Non-MAO A binding of clorgyline in white matter in human brain.
  
  Fowler JS | Logan J | Ding YS | Franceschi D | Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Pappas N | Schlyer D | Gatley SJ | Alexoff D | Felder C | Biegon A | Zhu W
  Journal of neurochemistry
  2001 Dec
  
  
• Therapeutic doses of oral methylphenidate significantly increase extracellular dopamine in the human brain.
  
  Volkow ND | Wang G | Fowler JS | Logan J | Gerasimov M | Maynard L | Ding Y | Gatley SJ | Gifford A | Franceschi D
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
  2001 Jan 15
  
  
• Effects of route of administration on cocaine induced dopamine transporter blockade in the human brain.
  
  Volkow ND | Wang GJ | Fischman MW | Foltin R | Fowler JS | Franceschi D | Franceschi M | Logan J | Gatley SJ | Wong C | Ding YS | Hitzemann R | Pappas N
  Life sciences
  2000 Aug 11
  
  
• PET studies of the effects of aerobic exercise on human striatal dopamine release.
  
  Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Fowler JS | Franceschi D | Logan J | Pappas NR | Wong CT | Netusil N
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
  2000 Aug
  
  
• 4.0 T water proton T1 relaxation times in normal human brain and during acute ethanol intoxication.
  
  Rooney WD | Lee JH | Li X | Wang GJ | Franceschi D | Springer CS Jr | Volkow ND
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research
  2000 Jun
  
  
• Regional brain metabolism during alcohol intoxication.
  
  Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Franceschi D | Fowler JS | Thanos PK | Scherbaum N | Pappas N | Wong CT | Hitzemann RJ | Felder CA
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research
  2000 Jun
  
  
• Cocaine abusers show a blunted response to alcohol intoxication in limbic brain regions.
  
  Volkow ND | Wang GJ | Fowler JS | Franceschi D | Thanos PK | Wong C | Gatley SJ | Ding YS | Molina P | Schlyer D | Alexoff D | Hitzemann R | Pappas N
  Life sciences
  2000 Feb 11
  
  
• Resting brain metabolic activity in a 4 tesla magnetic field.
  
  Volkow ND | Wang GJ | Fowler JS | Rooney WD | Felder CA | Lee JH | Franceschi D | Maynard L | Schlyer DJ | Pan JW | Gatley SJ | Springer Jr CS
  Magnetic resonance in medicine : official journal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine / Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  2000 Nov
  
  
• Maintenance of brain monoamine oxidase B inhibition in smokers after overnight cigarette abstinence.
  
  Fowler JS | Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Franceschi D | Logan J | Pappas N | Shea C | MacGregor RR | Garza V
  The American journal of psychiatry
  2000 Nov
  
  
• Evidence that gingko biloba extract does not inhibit MAO A and B in living human brain.
  
  Fowler JS | Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Logan J | Franceschi D | Franceschi M | MacGregor R | Shea C | Garza V | Liu N | Ding YS
  Life sciences
  2000 Jan 21
  
  
• Ferritin concentrations in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.
  
  Lukinac L | Kalafatic D | Nothig-Hus D | Lechpammer S | Solter M | Franceschi D | Kusic Z
  Journal of endocrinological investigation
  2000 Jan
  
  
• Smoking a single cigarette does not produce a measurable reduction in brain MAO B in non-smokers.
  
  Fowler JS | Wang GJ | Volkow ND | Franceschi D | Logan J | Pappas N | Shea C | MacGregor RR | Garza V
  Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
  1999 Dec
  
  
• Comparable changes in synaptic dopamine induced by methylphenidate and by cocaine in the baboon brain.
  
  Volkow ND | Fowler JS | Gatley SJ | Dewey SL | Wang GJ | Logan J | Ding YS | Franceschi D | Gifford A | Morgan A | Pappas N | King P
  Synapse (New York, N.Y.)
  1999 Jan
  
  
• Impaired permeability in radiation-induced lung injury detected by technetium-99m-DTPA lung clearance.
  
  Susskind H | Weber DA | Lau YH | Park TL | Atkins HL | Franceschi D | Meek AG | Ivanovic M | Wielopolski L
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
  1997 Jun
  
  
• Commentary on article by Rudavsky and Freeman.
  
  Lukinac L | Franceschi D | Kusic Z
  The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
  1997 Dec
  
  
• Thyroglobulin determination, neck ultrasonography and iodine-131 whole-body scintigraphy in differentiated thyroid carcinoma.
  
  Franceschi M | Kusic Z | Franceschi D | Lukinac L | Roncevic S
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
  1996 Mar
  
  
• Does detoxification reverse the acute lung injury of crack smokers?
  
  Susskind H | Weber DA | Atkins HL | Franceschi D | Volkow ND
  Nuclear medicine communications
  1996 Nov
  
  
• Feasibility of dual radionuclide brain imaging with I-123 and Tc-99m.
  
  Ivanovic M | Weber DA | Loncaric S | Franceschi D
  Medical physics
  1994 May
  
  
• Small animal imaging with pinhole single-photon emission computed tomography.
  
  Strand SE | Ivanovic M | Erlandsson K | Franceschi D | Button T | Sjogren K | Weber DA
  Cancer
  1994 Feb 1
  
  
• Pinhole SPECT: an approach to in vivo high resolution SPECT imaging in small laboratory animals.
  
  Weber DA | Ivanovic M | Franceschi D | Strand SE | Erlandsson K | Franceschi M | Atkins HL | Coderre JA | Susskind H | Button T | et al.
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
  1994 Feb
  
  
• SPECT and planar brain imaging in crack abuse: iodine-123-iodoamphetamine uptake and localization.
  
  Weber DA | Franceschi D | Ivanovic M | Atkins HL | Cabahug C | Wong CT | Susskind H
  Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine
  1993 Jun
  
  
• High resolution pinhole SPECT for tumor imaging.
  
  Strand SE | Ivanovic M | Erlandsson K | Weber DA | Franceschi D | Button T | Sjogreen K
  Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)
  1993