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Milica Medved, PhD
Research Associate (Assistant Professor)
Physicist

Lynn S. Florsheim MRIS Lab

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773-702-4711
 Email:  mmedved@uchicago.edu

Dr. Medved is a highly valued contributor to clinical research in our laboratory and is extremely productive.  She has extensive experience in breast MR data acquisition and analysis and IDL software program development.  She also has extensive experience with dynamic breast MRI data acquisition and analysis.

Updated (September 2010) Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

EDUCATION
1995 B.S. Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1997 M.S. Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2000 Ph.D. Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

 Fellowships and Awards
1987 – 1990 City Merit Fellowship, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1990 – 1995 State Merit Fellowship, Serbia, Yugoslavia
1995 Best Bachelor’s Thesis Award, Faculty of Physics, The University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
2002 Paul C. Hodges Society Award, Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Selected peer-reviewed publications

  1.  “Convection in horizontally vibrated granular material”, Milica Medved, Damien Dawson, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel, Chaos, 9, 1054-1500, 1999.

  2.  “Modes of response in horizontally vibrated granular matter”, Milica Medved, Heinrich M. Jaeger and Sidney R. Nagel, Europhysics Letters, 52 (1), 66-72, 2000.

  3.  “Convection in a fully immersed granular slurry”, Milica Medved, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Sidney R. Nagel, Physical Review E, 63 (6), 061302, 2001.

  4. “Connections between response modes in a horizontally driven granular material”, Milica Medved, Physical Review E, 65 (2), 021305, 2002.

  5. “Breast MR Imaging with High Spectral and Spatial Resolutions: Preliminary Experience”, Weillang Du, Yiping Du, Ulrich Bick, Xiaobing Fan, Peter MacEneany, Marta Zamora, Milica Medved and Greg Karczmar, Radiology, 224 (2), 2002.

  6. “Spectrally Inhomogeneous Effects of Contrast Agents in Breast Lesion Detected by high Spectral and Spatial Resolution MRI”, G. S. Karczmar, W. Du, M. Medved, U. Bick, P. MacEneany, Y. P. Du, X. Fan, M. Zamora, M. Lipton; Academic Radiology, 9 (Suppl 2):S352-S354, July 2002.

  7. “The effect of varying spectral resolution on the quality of HiSS MR images of the breast”, M. Medved, W. Du, M. A. Zamora, X. Fan, O. I. Olopade, P. MacEneaney, G. Newstead and G. S. Karczmar, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 18(4):442-448, 2003.

  8. “New model for analysis of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI data distinguishes metastatic from non-metastatic rodent prostate tumors”, Xiaobing Fan, Milica Medved, Jonathan N. River, Marta A. Zamora, Claire Corot, Philippe Robert, Philippe Bourinet, Martin Lipton and Gregory S. Karczmar, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 51:487-494, 2004.

  9. “Phase II study of the Flk-1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor SU5416 in advanced melanoma”, Amy C. Peterson, Susan Swiger, Walter M. Stadler, Milica Medved, Gregory Karczmar, and Thomas F. Gajewski, Clinical Cancer Research, 10:4048-4054, 2004.

  10. “Semi-quantitative analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI in cancer patients: variability and changes in tumor tissue over time”, Milica Medved, Greg Karczmar, Cheng Yang, James Dignam, Thomas Gajewski, Hedy Kindler, Everett Vokes, Peter MacEneaney and Walter Stadler, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 20:122-128, 2004.

  11. “Fourier components of inhomogeneously broadened water resonances in breast – a new source of MRI contrast”, Milica Medved, Gillian Newstead, Xiaobing Fan, Weiliang Du, Yiping Du, Peter MacEneaney, Rita Culp, Frederick Kelcz, Olufunmilayo Olopade, Marta Zamora, and Gregory Karczmar, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 52:193-196, 2004.

  12. “Estimating the Arterial Input Function Using Two Reference Tissues in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Studies. 1. Fundamental Concepts and Simulations”, C. Yang, G. Karczmar, M. Medved and W. Stadler, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 52:1110-1117, 2004.

  13. “High spectral and spatial resolution MR imaging of breast lesions: preliminary clinical experience”, M. Medved, G. Newstead, H. Abe, M. A. Zamora, O. I. Olopade, G. S. Karczmar, American Journal of Roentgenology, 186(1):30-37, 2006.

  14. “Multi-slice DCE-MRI data using P760 distinguishes between metastatic and non-metastatic rodent prostate tumors”, X. Fan, M. Medved, S. Foxley, J. N. River, M. A. Zamora G. S. Karczmar, C. Corot, P. Robert, and P. Bourrinet, Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 19(1):15-21, 2006.

  15. “Fat suppression with spectrally selective inversion vs. high spectral and spatial resolution MRI of breast lesions: Qualitative and quantitative comparisons”, X. Fan, H. Abe, M. Medved, S. Foxley, S. Arkani, M. A. Zamora, O. I. Olopade, G. M. Newstead, G. S. Karczmar, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 24(6):1311-15, 2006.

  16. “Diagnosis of suspicious breast lesions using an empirical mathematical model for dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI”, X. Fan, M. Medved, G. S. Karczmar, C. Yang, S. Foxley, S. Arkani, W. Recant, M. A. Zamora, H. Abe, G. M. Newstead, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 25(5):593-603, 2007.

  17. “Multiple reference tissue method for contrast agent arterial input function estimation”, C. Yang, Karczmar G. S., M. Medved, W. M. Stadler, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 58(6):1266-75, 2007.

  18. “Quantitative analysis of water proton spectral lineshape: a novel source of contrast in MRI”, ”, S. Foxley, X. Fan, D. Mustafi, C. Yang, M. A. Zamora, M. Medved and G. S. Karczmar, Physics in Medicine and Biology, 53(7):4509-4522, 2008.

  19. “Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI pharmacodynamic biomarker study of sorafenib in metastatic renal cell carcinoma”, O. M. Hahn, C. Yang, M. Medved, G. S. Karczmar, E. Kistner, T. Karrison, E. Manchen, M. Mitchell, M. J. Ratain, Walter M. Stadler, Journal of Clinical Oncology 26:4572-4578, 2008.

  20. “Sensitivity to tumor micro-vasculature without contrast agents in high spectral and spatial resolution MR images”, S. Foxley, X. Fan, D. Mustafi, C. Haney, M. Medved, A. M. Wood, M. Zamora, E. Markiewicz, and G. S. Karczmar, accepted in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (in press)

  21. “Reproducibility Assessment of a Multiple Reference Tissue Method for Quantitative DCE-MRI Analysis”, C. Yang, G. Karczmar, M. Medved, A. Oto, M. Zamora, W. Stadler, accepted in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (in press)