Nima Kasraie, Ph.D., M.S. Titles and Appointments Lead Diagnostic Physicist, Children's Health Associate Professor School Medical School Department Radiology Biography Nima Kasraie, Ph.D., M.S., is an Associate Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and a member of its Medical Physics division. Dr. Kasraie earned a bachelor's degree in Physics first from University of Tehran, then Arkansas State University, and received a Master's degree in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He then obtained a doctoral degree in Radiological Sciences from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio with specialty in Diagnostic Imaging Physics, before going on to a postdcotral stint in Biomedical Physics at California State University in Fresno. He holds certificates in Nuclear and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging from the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) at The Royal Marsden Hospital in the United Kingdom, and in Advanced magnetic resonance spectroscopy from the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Kasraie is double board certified in Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation by the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine (ABSNM), as well as in diagostic radiology physics by the American Board of Radiology (ABR), and has double license in the State of Texas. Prior to joining the UT Southwestern faculty in 2019, Dr. Kasraie served as Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Missouri in Kansas City Department of Radiology, where he also served for six years as the first full-time imaging medical physicist at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, actively involved with training Radiology residents. Dr. Kasraie is an active (committee) member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNMMI), Society of Pediatric Radiology (SPR), and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). Education Undergraduate Arkansas State University (1999), Physics Graduate School University of Tennessee-Knoxvi (2005), Nuclear Engineering Graduate School Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr (2012), Medical Physics Research Interest Nuclear Medicine and PET imaging physics, pediatric imaging Publications Featured Publications Use of diagnostic vs low-dose computed tomography in positron emission tomography-CT examinations. Malekhedayat M, Stewart C, Chu PW, Wang Y, Kasraie N, Franc B, Smith-Bindman R, Eur Radiol 2025 Mar PET Images Enhancement Using Deep Training of Reconstructed Images with Bayesian Penalized Likelihood Algorithm Ghafari A, Shahrbabaki Mofrad M, Kasraie N, Ay MR, Seyyedi N, Sheikhzadeh P J. Med. Biol. Eng. 2024 July Large variation in radiation dose for routine abdomen CT: reasons for excess and easy tips for reduction. Smith-Bindman R, Kang T, Chu PW, Wang Y, Stewart C, Das M, Duong PA, Cervantes L, Lamba R, Lee RK, MacLeod F, Kasraie N, Neill R, Pike P, Roehm J, Schindera S, Chung R, Delman BN, Jeukens CRLPN, Starkey LJ, Szczykutowicz TP, Eur Radiol 2023 Sep Phantom and clinical evaluation of Block Sequential Regularized Expectation Maximization (BSREM) reconstruction algorithm in 68Ga-PSMA PET-CT studies. Sadeghi F, Sheikhzadeh P, Kasraie N, Farzanehfar S, Abbasi M, Salehi Y, Ay M, Phys Eng Sci Med 2023 Jul Impact of Region-of-Interest Delineation on Stability and Reproducibility of Liver SNR Measurements in 68 Ga-PSMA PET/CT. Fooladi M, Rezaei S, Aghahosseini F, Salehi Y, Kasraie N, Sheikhzadeh P, World J Nucl Med 2023 Jun 22 2 124-129 Organ doses, effective dose, and cancer risk estimation from head and neck CT scans Samira Kamrani, Nima Kasraie, Fatemeh Jahangiri, Davood Khezerloo, Peyman Sheikhzadeh Radiation Physics and Chemistry 2023 212 November Reference phantom selection in pediatric computed tomography using data from a large, multicenter registry. Chu PW, Yu S, Wang Y, Seibert JA, Cervantes LF, Kasraie N, Chu CA, Smith-Bindman R, Pediatr Radiol 2021 Dec Diagnostic reference levels and median doses for common clinical indications of CT: findings from an international registry. Bos D, Yu S, Luong J, Chu P, Wang Y, Einstein AJ, Starkey J, Delman BN, Duong PT, Das M, Schindera S, Goode AR, MacLeod F, Wetter A, Neill R, Lee RK, Roehm J, Seibert JA, Cervantes LF, Kasraie N, Pike P, Pahwa A, Jeukens CRLPN, Smith-Bindman R, Eur Radiol 2021 Oct Pre-procedural CT imaging aids neonatal PDA stenting for ductal-dependent pulmonary blood flow with reduction in overall procedural morbidity. Arar Y, Dimas VV, Nugent AW, Hussain T, Kasraie N, Reddy SRV, Zellers TM, Herbert C, Cardiol Young 2021 Oct 1-6 Comparison of the Effectiveness of Single-Component and Multicomponent Interventions for Reducing Radiation Doses in Patients Undergoing Computed Tomography: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Smith-Bindman R, Chu P, Wang Y, Chung R, Lopez-Solano N, Einstein AJ, Solberg L, Cervantes LF, Yellen-Nelson T, Boswell W, Delman BN, Duong PA, Goode AR, Kasraie N, Lee RK, Neill R, Pahwa A, Pike P, Roehm J, Schindera S, Starkey J, Suntharalingam S, Jeukens CRLPN, Miglioretti DL, JAMA Intern Med 2020 Mar Results 1-10 of 19 1 2 Next Last Honors & Awards Fulbright Specialist FacultyU.S. State Department (2020-2025) Professional Associations/Affiliations American Association of Physicists in Medicine Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (2017) Society of Pediatric Radiology
