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Martin Biermann

Professor, Senior consultant physician, Excellent teaching practitioner
Department of Clinical Medicine
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  • E-mailMartin.Biermann@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 97 76 43
  • Visitor Address
    Nuclear Medicine/PET-centre
    Parkbygget, Haukeland University Hospital
    5021 Bergen
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7804
    5020 Bergen

Research groups:

Neck endocrine disease (leader)

Abdominal Imaging (member)

Translation research in nevrodegeneration and aging (member)

Paediatric Imaging group (member)

Medviz (member)

 

Associate editor of Clinical Thyroidology
Editorial Board Thyroid

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2023). A phase I prospective, non-randomized trial of autologous dendritic cell-based cryoimmunotherapy in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Enhancing PSMA-PET/CT with intravenous contrast: Improved tracer clearance in the prostate bed. Nuklearmedizin. 394-401.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Gastroparesis symptoms associated with intestinal hypomotility: An explorative study using wireless motility capsule. Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology. 133-144.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Gastric function in diabetic gastroparesis assessed by ultrasound and scintigraphy. Neurogastroenterology and Motility. 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Assessing extraprostatic extension by mpMRI of the prostate: Mehralivand’s EPE grade or EPE Likert score? Radiology: Imaging Cancer. 1-10.
  • Show author(s) (2020). An Open Source Solution for “Hands-on” teaching of PET/CT to Medical Students under the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nuklearmedizin. 10-15.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Wireless motility capsule compared with scintigraphy in the assessment of diabetic gastroparesis. Neurogastroenterology and Motility. 1-11.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Evaluation of a new e-learning framework for teaching nuclear medicine and radiology to undergraduate medical students. Acta Radiologica Open. 1-6.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Building an inclusive classroom – a blended course in Nuclear Medicine. UPED-skrift. 1-8.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Adrenal Venous Sampling for Assessment of Autonomous Cortisol Secretion. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). 4553-4560.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Added value of 18F-FDG PET-CT in staging of Ewing sarcoma in children and young adults. European Journal of Hybrid Imaging.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Optimising preoperative risk stratification tools for prostate cancer using mpMRI. European Radiology. 1016-1026.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Injury mechanisms and electromyographic changes after injury of the recurrent laryngeal nerve: Experiments in a porcine model. Head and Neck. 274-282.
  • Show author(s) (2017). E-learning for medical imaging specialists: introducing blended learning in a nuclear medicine specialist course. Acta Radiologica Open. 1-5.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Mitochondrial DNA homeostasis is essential for nigrostriatal integrity. Mitochondrion (Amsterdam. Print). 33-37.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Impact of EMG changes in continuous vagal nerve monitoring in high-risk endocrine neck surgery. World Journal of Surgery. 672-680.
  • Show author(s) (2016). F-18-FDG PET-CT in children and young adults with Ewing sarcoma diagnosed in Norway during 2005-2012: a national population-based study. Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging. 441-446.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Estimated cumulative radiation dose received by diagnostic imaging during staging and treatment of operable Ewing sarcoma 2005–2012. Pediatric Radiology. 82-88.
  • Show author(s) (2016). EMG changes during continuous intraoperative neuromonitoring with sustained recurrent laryngeal nerve traction in a porcine model. Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery.
  • Show author(s) (2016). A national e-learning platform for training specialists in Nuclear Medicine in Norway. UPED-skrift.
  • Show author(s) (2016). A human clinical trial using ultrasound and microbubbles to enhance gemcitabine treatment of inoperable pancreatic cancer. Journal of Controlled Release. 172-181.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Post-PET ultrasound improves specificity of 18F-FDG-PET for recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer while maintaining sensitivity. Acta Radiologica. 1350-1360.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Metabolic tumor volume on 18F-FDG PET/CT improves preoperative identification of high-risk endometrial carcinoma patients. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 1191-1198.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Introduction of positron emission tomography into the Western Norwegian Health Region: Regional balance in resource utilization from 2009 to 2014. Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging. 512-517.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Impact of EMG Changes in Continuous Vagal Nerve Monitoring in High-Risk Endocrine Neck Surgery. World Journal of Surgery.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Excellent response of intramedullary Erdheim-Chester disease to vemurafenib: a case report. BMC Research Notes. 1-5.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Default-mode network functional connectivity is closely related to metabolic activity. Human Brain Mapping. 2027-2038.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Comparison of Slope and Area algorithms for quantifying split renal function in dynamic renography. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 1772.
  • Show author(s) (2015). 1.5-T multiparametric MRI using PI-RADS: a region by region analysis to localize the index-tumor of prostate cancer in patients undergoing prostatectomy. Acta Radiologica. 500-511.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Latencies longer than 3.5 ms after vagus nerve stimulation does not exclude a nonrecurrent inferior laryngeal nerve. BMC Surgery.
  • Show author(s) (2014). High cardiac background activity limits <sup>99m</sup>Tc-MIBI radioguided surgery in aortopulmonary window parathyroid adenomas. BMC Surgery.
  • Show author(s) (2014). A simple versatile solution for collecting multidimensional clinical data based on the CakePHP web application framework. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 70-79.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Severe nigrostriatal degeneration without clinical parkinsonism in patients with polymerase gamma mutations. Brain. 2393-2404.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Progressive striatal necrosis associated with anti-NMDA receptor antibodies. BMC Neurology. 4 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Thyroid cancer surgery in Germany : An analysis of the nationwide DRG statistics 2005-2006. Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery. 421-428.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Quantitative comparison of myocardial perfusion defects using different reconstruction algorithms. Journal of Clinical & Experimental Cardiology. 6 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). SPECT/CT hybrid imaging; with which CT? Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging. 208-212.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Clinical outcomes of adjuvant external-beam radiotherapy for differentiated thyroid cancer Results after 874 patient-years of follow-up in the MSDS-trial. Nuklearmedizin. 89-98.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Procedure guideline for radioiodine therapy and (131)iodine whole-body scintigraphy in paediatric patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. Nuklearmedizin. 224-231.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Strahlentherapie des Schilddrüsenkarzinoms. Der Onkologe. 87-92.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Radiojodtherapie des Schilddrüsenkarzinoms. Der Onkologe. 70-77.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Guidelines on radioiodine therapy for differentiated thyroid carcinoma: impact on clinical practice. Nuklearmedizin. 229-237.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Should high hTG levels in absence of iodine uptake be treated? European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 160-163.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Multicenter Study Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma (MSDS): Diminished acceptance of adjuvant external beam radiotherapy for differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Nuklearmedizin. 244-250.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Functional and morphological evidence for a ventricular conduction system in zebrafish and Xenopus hearts. American Journal of Physiology. H1152-H1160.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Acute toxicity of adjuvant radiotherapy in locally advanced differentiated thyroid cancer: First results of the Multicenter Study Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (MSDS). Strahlentherapie und Onkologie (Print). 821-827.
  • Show author(s) (2002). How many high-risk patients with differentiated thyroid cancer need a “Tumor Center” per year? Nuklearmedizin.
  • Show author(s) (2002). GCP-compliant management of the Multicentric Study Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma (MSDS) with a relational database under Oracle 8i. Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie in Medizin und Biologie. 441-459.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Therapy monitoring in aspergillosis using F-18 FDG positron emission tomography. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 232-233.
  • Show author(s) (1998). Differential effects of cytochalasin D and 2,3 butanedione monoxime on isometric twitch force and transmembrane action potential in isolated ventricular muscle: implications for optical measurements of cardiac repolarization. Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 1348-1357.
  • Show author(s) (1998). Cytochalasin D as an excitation-contraction uncoupler for optically mapping action potentials in wedges of ventricular myocardium. Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 1336-1347.
  • Show author(s) (1997). Transmembrane voltage changes produced by real and virtual electrodes during monophasic defibrillation shock delivered by an implantable electrode. Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. 1031-1045.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2012). Multimodal imaging for suspected recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC): FDG-PET-CT, I-131-SPECT-CT, ultrasound (US) and US-guided fine needle biopsy (FNB).
  • Show author(s) (2011). Multimodal imaging for diagnosis and treatment of recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC)FDG-PET-CT, contrast-enhanced CT (CE-CT), I-131-SPECT-CT, ultrasound (US) and US-guided fine needle biopsy (FNB).
  • Show author(s) (2011). FDG-PET-CT, I-131-SPECT-CT, ultrasound (US) and US-guided fine needle biopsy (FNB) for recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).
  • Show author(s) (2010). Multimodal imaging of differentiated thyroid cancer: FDG-PET-CT, I-131-SPECT-CT and ultrasound.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Effects of CT attenuation correction and reconstruction method on myocardial SPECT perfusion imaging.
  • Show author(s) (2009). PET-imaging in gastrointestinal oncology.
  • Show author(s) (2009). PET-CT ved cancer i oesofagus og ventrikkel.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Adjuvant external beam radiotherapy for diffentiated thyroid cancer.
Reader opinion piece
  • Show author(s) (2012). Erdheim-Chester disease presenting with an intramedullary spinal cord lesion. Journal of Neurology. 2240-2242.
Short communication
  • Show author(s) (2012). Insidentell thyreoideacancer ved F-18-FDG-PET. Noraforum : tidsskrift for radiologi. 14-16.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (1994). Reproducibility of cardial electrophysiological mapping.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2013). Ultrasound-assisted treatment of an inoperable pancreatic cancer. 4 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Thyroid cancer. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Multimodal Visualization with Interactive Closeups. 8 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2005). External beam radiotherapy. 23 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Precision and reproducibility of cardiac mapping. 30 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Fast fluorescent mapping of electrical activity in the heart: Practical guide to experimental design and applications. 26 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1993). The interpretation of cardiac electrograms. 24 pages.
  • Show author(s) (1993). Precision and reproducibility of isochronal cardiac mapping. 28 pages.
Abstract
  • Show author(s) (2016). Ultrasound and microbubble enhanced treatment of inoperable pancreatic adeonocarcinoma. Journal of Clinical Oncology.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Value of preoperative 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoroglucose positron emission tomography/computer tomography (FDG-PET/CT) in endometrial carcinomas. Acta Radiologica. 13-13.
  • Show author(s) (2013). The use of F18 FDG PET-CT in children and young adults with Ewing Sarcoma diagnosed in Norway 2005-2012. A national, population based study. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. S204-S204.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Multimodal imaging of differentiated thyroid cancer: FDG-PET-CT, I-131-SPECT-CT and ultrasound [Abstract]. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. S291-S291.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Effects of CT attenuation correction and reconstruction method on myocardial SPECT perfusion imaging. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. S285-S286.
Poster
  • Show author(s) (2014). Metabolic tumor volume on FDG-PET/CT predicts deep myometrial invasion, lymph node metastases and survival in patients with endometrial carcinoma .
  • Show author(s) (2012). False positive FDG-uptake in neck and mediastinum in recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).
  • Show author(s) (2010). Multimodal imaging for recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer: Ultrasound, I-131-SPECT-CT, FDG-PET-CT and fine-needle biopsy.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2021). Diagnostic Hybrid PET/CT and PET/MR with 18 F-FDG Perform Similarly in Recurrent Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Clinical Thyroidology. 32-37.
  • Show author(s) (2020). [18F]tetrafluoroborate-PET Outperforms 131I-SPECT/CT in a Series of 25 Patients with Suspected Recurrent Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Clinical Thyroidology. 394-384.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Ultrasound Classification Systems Estimating Thyroid Malignancy Fail to Recognize Hyperfunctional Nodules. Clinical Thyroidology. 225-228.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Radiofrequency Ablation and Laser Ablation of Benign Thyroid Nodules Are Similarly Effective at 6 Months in a Prospective, Randomized Trial. Clinical Thyroidology.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Multimodal imaging of thyroid cancer. Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity. 335-344.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Multimodal imaging of thyroid cancer. Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity. 335-344.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Lesional Uptake of the Hypoxia Imaging Agent [18F] FAZA on PET/CT Predicts Progression in Metastatic Differentiated Thyroid Cancer. Clinical Thyroidology.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Most “Recurrences” of Thyroid Cancer Represent Persistent Rather Than Recurrent Disease. Clinical Thyroidology. 108-111.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Automated analysis of gray-scale ultrasound images of thyroid nodules (“radiomics”) may outperform image interpretation by less experienced thyroid radiologists. Clinical Thyroidology. 332-336.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Does Core Needle Biopsy Have A Role in the Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules with Indeterminate Cytology? Clinical Thyroidology. 232-234.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Gastroparese - årsaker, diagnostikk og behandling. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 822-826.
  • Show author(s) (2016). F18-FDG-PET for recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer: a systematic meta-analysis. Acta Radiologica. 1193-1200.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Is there a role for PET-CT and SPECT-CT in pediatric oncology? Acta Radiologica. 1037-1045.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Nuclear Medicine in Europe: Education. Nuklearmedizin. 35-46.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Positronemisjonstomografi ved nevroendokrine svulster. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 1474-1477.
  • Show author(s) (1994). Die Autoophthalmoskopie. Eine historische Rückschau. Zeitschrift für praktische Augenheilkunde. 191-195.
Chapter
  • Show author(s) (2019). Nukleærmedisinsk bildediagnostikk. 113-123. In:
    • Show author(s) (2019). Nevrologi og nevrokirurgi ; fra barn til voksen. Fagbokforlaget.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Nukleærmedisinsk bildediagnostikk. 127-139. In:
    • Show author(s) (2014). Nevrologi og nevrokirurgi fra barn til voksen, 6.utgave. Forlaget Vett & Viten AS.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Maligne Schilddrüsentumoren. 734-737. In:
    • Show author(s) (2003). Therapie der Krankheiten im Kindes- und Jugendalter. Springer-Verlag.

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Hand roll

Rolling my sea kayak

Out in the sea with Endre, Odd-Rune (who took the video), and Margareth (I am the guy with the white helmet in the yellow kayak)

Kayak polo at AdO-arena in Bergen

I have taken up triathlon. Strilaman 2022 was my first.

Fields of competence 
CakePHP
Medical Informatics
Multimodal Imaging
Nuclear Medicine
Thyroid cancer
Ultrasound