Academic Qualifications:

Degree	Subjects	Institution/Awarding Body	Year
Ph.D.	Medical Physics	University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia	1990
M.S.	Medical Physics	UCLA, California	1982
M.Sc.	Nuclear Physics	University of Karachi, Pakistan	1973

Ph.D. Thesis:
N/A

Research Supervised:

Designation (if any):
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology.

Organization / Institution Name:
Radiation Therapy Physics, 444 Westminster Ave #23, Elizabeth, NJ 07208, USA.

Complete web address of your CV/Resume, if it is on the web:
N/A

Research Publications:
1. Rahimian J, Bennett LR, Touya J, Akber SF. Metabolic lung scanning: Demonstration of amine receptors with N-isopropyl-I-123-p-iodoamphetamine. Clin Nucl Med 6:453, 1981.

2. Bennett LR, Akber SF, Touya J, Rahimian J and Graham LS. The feasibility of metabolic lung scanning. J Nucl Med 23:49, 1982.

3. Rahimian J, Bennett LR, Glass EC, Graham LS, Akber SF, Tonya J and Doria DM. Noninvasive determination by dual tracer deconvolution analysis. Med Phys 9:714, 1982.

4. Rahimian J, Glass EC, Touya J, Akber SF, Graham LS, and Bennett LR. Extraction fraction: Noninvasive determination by dual tracer deconvolution analysis. Clin Nucl Med 7(9s):1, 1982.

5. Akber SF and Bennett LR. Influence of propranolol on the first pass pulmonary extraction of N-isopropyl-I-123-piodoamphetamine. JIMA 16:19, 1984.

6. Akber SF, Bennett LR, Glass EC, Montgomery R and Rahimian J: Effects of propranolol on the kinetics of N-isopropyl-I-123-piodoamphetamine. Med Phys 13:742, 1984.

7. Akber SF, Glass EC, and Bennett LR. Scintigraphic demonstration and quantitation iodoamphetamine of pharmacological inhibition of pulmonary uptake of N-isopropyl-I-123p-by propranolol. J Nucl Med 26:14, 1985.

8. Akber SF. Noninvasive measurement of first pass pulmonary extraction of N- Lakes Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 13-14, 1986. iosoporopyl-I-123-piodoamphetamine in the presence of Ketamine by dual tracer deconvolution analysis. Paper presented at the 7th annual meeting of the Eastern Great

9. Akber SF. The enigma of relaxometry in biological systems. Proceedings of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Aug 6-12, 1988, San Antonio, Texas. Phys Med Biol 33:suppl 1, 63, 1988.

10. Karellas A, Akber SF, D'Orsi CJ, Kleinman PK and Davis MA. Novel imaging technique to determine x-ray focal spot size of mammographic systems with microchannel plate. Radiology 169(P):278, 1988.

11. Akber SF. A new index to assess water proton spin-lattice relaxation times in normal rat tissue. Presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the AAPM held at the Cervantes Convention Center, St. Louis, Missouri, July 22-26, 1990.

12. Akber SF, Knesaurek K. Pulmonary biogenic amine uptake mechanism: Is it dependent on pH, Lipophilicity or pka? Presented at the 5th Congress World Federation of Nuclear Medicine & Biology, held at Palais des Congress, Montreal, Canada on August 26-31, 1990.

13. Akber SF. An association between spin-lattice relaxation time and organ mass. Med Phys 18:N9, 1991.

14. Akber SF, Wagner LK, Fang B. Screen sensitivity in mammography. Paper presented at the SWAAPM Chapter Meeting, New Orleans, October 11-12, 1991.

15. Akber SF. Phototimer response in mammography. Paper presented at the SWAAPM Chapter Meeting, Houston, Texas. April 2-3, 1992.

16. Akber SF. Screen sensitivity in mammography. Paper presented at the 34th Annual meeting of the AAPM held in Calgary, Canada. July 1992.

17. Akber SF. Is water proton spin-lattice relaxation time independent of species? Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the AAPM held in Calgary, Canada. July 1992.

18. Akber SF. Automatic exposure control response in mammography. Paper presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the AAPM held in Calgary, Canada. July 1992.

19. Akber SF. Is there a correlation between spin lattice relaxation time and radiation sensitivity of human organs. Paper presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the AAPM held in Washington, D.C. August 1993.

20. Das IJ, Harrington JC, Akber SF, Tomer AF. Dosimetric problems at low monitor unit settings for scanned and scattering foil electron beams. Paper presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the AAPM held in Washington, D.C., August 1993.

21. Akber SF. Organ weight: A new perspective to assess spin lattice relaxation time. Paper presented at the World Congress on Medical Physics. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. August 1994.

22. Akber SF. Screen sensitivity in mammography. Paper presented at the World Congress on Medical Physics. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. August 1994.

23. Akber SF. A novel approach to assess spin lattice relaxation time in normal rat tissues. (Paper presented at the 36th Annual meeting of the AAPM. Anahiem. July 1994.) Medical Physics. 21, 956, 1994.

24. Akber SF. Screen Sensitivity in Mammography Paper presented at North Central Chapter American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Fall meeting. Marshfield, Wisconsin Friday, September 23, 1994.

25. Akber SF. A new index to assess spin lattice relaxation time. AAPM. 1994

26. Akber SF. The effects of screen and cassette variations on automatic exposure control performance in mammography. Paper presented at 7th Asian and Oceanic Congress of Radiology. P. 188, June 1995.

27. Akber SF. The efficacy of paramagnetic ions on spin lattice relaxation time in Biological systems. Paper presented at the 37th Annual meeting of the American Association of physicists in Medicine. July 1995.

28. Akber SF and Das IJ. Ion recombination and polarity effects of ionization chambers in x-ray exposure measurements. Paper presented at the 38th Annual meeting of the American Association of physicists in Medicine, Philadelphia. July 1996.

29. Akber SF. Tolerance dose assessment of normal human organs against blood content. Paper to be presented at the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Nice, France. September 14- 19, 1997

30. Akber SF. Is TD50 correlated with organ weight? Paper presented at North Central Chapter meeting of AAPM, University of Minnesota. Nov. 3, 1997

31. Akber SF. A novel approach to assess tolerance dose of normal human organs with organ weight, blood content and water proton spin lattice relaxation time. Paper presented at RSNA, Chicago. Nov-Dec, 1997

32. Akber SF. A new perspective to assess mean lethal dose with organ weight and water proton spin lattice relaxation time in human organs. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the AAPM, San Antonio, 1998

33. Akber SF. A common tissue parameter to assess water proton spin lattice relaxation time in different species. Paper presented the 40th Annual Meeting of the AAPM, San Antonio, 1998.

34. Akber SF. Problems in Mammography. Presented at World congress of Radiology, New Delhi, India, Sept. 1998.

35. Das IJ and Akber SF. Broad Beam attenuation of x-rays. Paper presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the AAPM, Nashville, Tennessee, 1999.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

1. Touya J, Akber SF, Rahimian J, and Bennett LR. Metaboliclung scanning with N-isopropyl-I-123-p-idoamphetamine. In: Nuclear Medicine and Biology Proceedings of the Third World Congress of Nuclear Medicine and Biology. Raynaud C, ed. Paris, Pergamon Press III, 1982, pp 2554-2557.

2. Rahimian J, Glass EC, Touya JJ, Akber SF, Graham LS, and Bennett LR. Measurement of Metabolic extraction of tracers in the lung using a multiple indicator dilution technique. J Nucl Med 25:31-37, 1984.

3. Akber SF. Nuclear magnetic resonance medical imaging. JPMA 34:64-71, 1984.

4. Akber SF. Ketamine influence on the first pass pulmonaryextraction of N-isopropyl-I-123-p-iodoamphetamine using indicator dilution technique. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Medical Physics. Espoo, Finland, August 11-16, 1985. Med Biol Engin Comput 23 (Suppl. Part 2): 1377-1378, 1985.

5. Akber SF. Radionuclide imaging. JPMA 36:151-153, 1986.

6. Akber SF. The Lung as a metabolic organ. JPMA 36:132-134, 1986.

7. Akber SF. The Physics of NMR Tomography. Nuklearmedizin 25:33-37, 1986.

8. Akber SF. Pulmonary extraction of N-isopropyl-123-piodoampetamine in the presence of propranolol using dual indicator dilution technique. JIMA 18:34-37, 1986.

9. Akber SF. Clinical ramifications of iodine. Compr Ther 13:19-25, 1987.

10. Akber SF. On the theroy of the first pass pulmonary extraction using indicator dilution technique. Nuklearmedizin 26:21-27, 1987.

11. Akber SF. Clinical ramifications of NMR imaging, Compr Ther 13:41-45, 1987.

12. Akber SF. A noninvasive assessment of pharmacological interaction of amines in the lung. Nucl Med Commun 8:889893, 1987.

13. Akber SF. A comment on "A review of H-1 nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation in pathology: Are T1 and T2 diagnostic?" Med Phys 14:1090-1091, 1987.

14. Akber SF. The quagmire of relaxation times. Med Hypotheses 26:187-191, 1988.

15. Akber SF. The conumdrum of relaxation times. Nuklearmedizin 27:43-45, 1988.

16. Akber SF. Neutron Therapy: Of what clinical relevance? Compr Ther 14:3-7, 1988.

17. Akber SF. Influence of anesthetics on relaxation times. Anesthesiology 69:290-291, 1988.

18. Akber SF. Correlation between oxygen tension and spinlattice relaxation rate in tumors. Europ J Radiol 9:56-59, 1989.

19. Akber SF. Demonstration and quantitation of pharmacological inhibition of pulmonary uptake of I-123IMP by propranolol. Nuklearmedizin 28:100-104, 1989.

20. Akber SF. A correlation between spin-lattice relaxtion time and tumor growth. Europ J Radiol 9:198-199, 1989.

21. Akber SF. Physiological basis of spin-lattice relaxation time in normal rat tissues. Proceeding 11th Annual Int'l Meeting IEEE in Medicine and Biology. vol. II:Part 2/6:582583, 1989.

22. Akber SF. A pharmacokinetic approach to the determination of pulmonary permeability. Proceeding 11th Annual Int'l Meeting IEEE in Medicine and Biology. vol. II:Part 1/6:286-287, 1989.

23. Akber SF. Is there a correlation between spin-lattice relaxation time and radiation sensitivity? Acta Radiologica 31:541-542, 1990.

24. Akber SF. Application of physics in medicine. JIMA 22:7279, 1990.

25. Akber SF. Scintigraphic demonstration and quantitation of pharmacological assessment of I-123 IMP receptors in the lung. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1990.

26. Akber SF. Pulmonary biogenic amines uptake mechanism: Is it dependent on pH, lipophilicity or pka? Nuclear Medicine 30:294-296, 1991.

27. Akber SF. A new perspective to assess relaxation time of tumor. Med, Hypoth 37:24-26, 1992.

28. Akber SF. Paramagnetic ions influence on water proton spin lattice relaxation times. PCP & Med NMR, 24:71-76, 1992.

29. Akber SF. Tumor-induced changes in the water proton spinlattice relaxation times of brain tissues. PCP & Med NMR, 24:329-332, 1992.

30. Akber SF. Role of paramagnetic ions and water proton spin lattice relaxation time in the biological systems. Nuclear Medicine 32:52-56, 1993.

31. Akber SF. A note on the influence of anesthetics on relaxation times in biological system. PCP & Med NMR. 25:299-307, 1993.

32. Akber SF. Comment on "Contribution of paramagnetic trace elements of biological tissues to spin-lattice relaxation times." PCP & Med NMR -1994.

33. Akber SF. The relaxation efficacy of paramegnetic ions. PCP & Med NMR - 1994.

34. Das IJ, Harrington JC, Akber SF, Tomer AF, Murray JC, Cheng CW. Dosimetric Problems at low monitor unit-settings for scanned and scaltering foil electron beams. Med Phys 21:821826 1994.

35. Akber SF. Is spin - lattice relaxation time independent of species. Med Hypotheses 1995.

36. Akber SF. Is there a correlation between spin - lattice relaxation time and radiation sensitivity of human organs. Med Hypotheses 1995. 44:469-470, 1995.

37. Akber SF. Centenary of Radiology. JPMA 1995

38. Akber SF. Automatic exposure control response in mammography. Physica Medica 11:111-113, 1995

39. Akber SF. Screen sensitivity in mammography. Radiol Bras 29:65-68, 1996

40. Akber SF. Organ weight -- A new tissue parameter to assess water proton spin - lattice relaxation time. Med Hypotheses 48:71-75, 1997

41. Akber SF. NMR relaxation data of water proton of normal tissues. PCP and Med NMR 28: 205-238, 1996

42. Akber SF. Pulmonary metabolism of biogenic amines. Compr Therapy 23:254-258, 1997

43. Akber SF. NMR relaxation data of water proton of normal tissues. PCP and Med NMR 28: 205-238, 1996

44. Akber SF. Pulmonary metabolism of biogenic amines. Compr Therapy 23:254- 258, 1997

45. Das IJ and Akber SF. Ion recombination and polarity effect of ionization chambers inkilovoltage x-ray exposure measurements. Med Phys 25:1751-1757, 1998

46. Akber SF. The clinical efficacy of paramagnetic ion in the biological systems. PCP and Medical NMR. 30: 175-184, 1998

47. Akber SF. Is TD50 correlated with organ weight? American J Clinical Oncology 22: 534-535, 1999.

48. Das IJ. Cheng CW. Akber SF. Low monitor units: significance in special therapy. Physics in Medicine & Biology. 44(2):LI-2, 1999.

49. Akber SF. X-rays in the service of humanity. JIMA 1999.

50. Akber SF. Breast cancer imaging modality. JIMA 31; 281-285, 1999

51. Akber SF. Correlation between Radiation tolerance dose of normal human organ with organ weight, blood and water content. Am J Clinical Oncology. 23:104-105, 2000

52. Akber SF. Correlation between water proton spin lattice relaxation time and radiation tolerance dose in normal human tissues. Am J Clin Oncology. 23:345-349, 2000.