Dr Shelvin Kumar Vadi

• MBBS – Madras Medical College, Chennai
• MD (Nuclear Medicine) – Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER)
• FANMB – Fellow, Asian Nuclear Medicine Board
• Radiation Safety Officer (Level II) – RPAD, BARC
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• Consultant – Nuclear Medicine, Baby Memorial Hospital, Kozhikode

• Consultant – Nuclear Medicine, Spiral Diagnostics (KK Medicare), Chandigarh

• Senior Resident – Department of Nuclear Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh

• Junior Resident – Department of Nuclear Medicine, PGIMER, Chandigarh

• PET/CT imaging for oncology and non-oncology applications
• Radionuclide therapy for cancer and benign conditions
• Gamma camera imaging for diagnostic nuclear medicine
• Radiation safety and clinical implementation of nuclear techniques

• Member, Indian College of Nuclear Medicine (ICNM) (Since 2023)

Reviewer in Scientific Journals  

• MICNM- Member Indian College of Nuclear Medicine since October 2023. 
• Reviewer of the Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine (Official journal of the society of Nuclear Medicine, India)

Publications in Indexed Peer Reviewed National and International Journals (Total 54 Articles (First author: 25; International indexed journals: 46; National: 8) and two book chapter. 

• Book Chapter: Nuclear Medicine Brain Imaging and Therapy under Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), London. Book titled “Targeted radiopharmaceuticals and imaging: challenges and opportunities” 
•  Book Chapter: Atlas of Clinical PET-CT in Treatment Response Evaluation in Oncology, 978-3-030-68857-8, 478078_1_En, (Chapter 19); Stefano Fanti et al. (Eds). 

Research Articles

• Chopra S, Singh SS, Sood A, Parmar M, Parihar AS, Vadi SK, Mittal BR. Comparison of positional artifacts in myocardial perfusion imaging in supine and semi-reclining position using dedicated D-SPECT cardiac camera: validation using CT based attenuation correction. J Nucl Cardiol. 2023 Feb 27. doi: 10.1007/s12350-023-03210-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36849635. 
• Kumar R, Singh SK, Mittal BR, Vadi SK, Kakkar N, Singh H, Krishnaraju VS, Kumar S, Bhattacharya A. Safety and Diagnostic Yield of 68Ga Prostate-specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT-guided Robotic-assisted Transgluteal Prostatic Biopsy. Radiology. 2022 May;303(2):392-398. doi: 10.1148/radiol.204066. Epub 2022 Feb 22. PMID: 35191735.  

• Vadi SK, Sood A, Khadwal A, Parmar M, Bhatia A, Kashyap S, Bahl A, Mittal BR. Exploring the potential utilities of 99mTc-labeled RBC-equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography in transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia major patients. Nucl Med Commun. 2021 Dec 1;42(12):1313-1321. doi: 10.1097/MNM.0000000000001467. PMID: 34392295. 
• Vadi SK, Sood A, Panda P, Debi U, Arafath MY, Parmar M, Bahl A, Mittal BR. Reversible perfusion pattern in hypertrophied papillary muscles evident on myocardial perfusion imaging with CZT-based cardiac-specific camera. J Nucl Cardiol. 2021 Feb;28(1):320-327. doi: 10.1007/s12350-020-02333-8. Epub 2020 Sep 7. PMID: 32895858. 
• Vatsa R, Kumar R, Shukla J, Rana N, Vadi SK, Lal A, Singh SK, Mittal BR. F-18 fluorocholine positron emission tomography–computed tomography in initial staging and recurrence evaluation of prostate carcinoma: A prospective comparative study with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and whole-body skeletal scintigraphy. World J Nucl Med [serial online] 2021 [cited 2022 Jan 6]; 20:156-63. 

• Vatsa, R., Sood, A., Vadi, S. K., Das, C. K., Kaur, K., Parmar, M., & Mittal, B. R. (2020). 225Ac-PSMA-617 Radioligand Posttherapy Imaging in Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer Patient Using 3 Photopeaks. Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 45(6), 437–438. doi:10.1097/rlu.0000000000003031 
• Vadi SK, Bhattacharya A, Sood A, Mittal BR. Acute urinary obstruction during 99mTc-ethylenedicysteine diuretic renal scintigraphy acquisition: Is furosemide the culprit? World J Nucl Med. 2020 Jan 14;19(1):82-84. doi: 10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_30_19. PMID: 32190031; PMCID: PMC7067123. 

• Sood, A., Vadi, S. K., Kumar, R., Singh, H., & Mittal, B. R. (2020). Incidental Detection of Hypothyroidism on 68Ga-PSMA-HBED-CC PET/CT Imaging. Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 45(4), e217–e218. doi:10.1097/rlu.0000000000002965  

• Vadi SK, Panda P, Sood A, Bahl A, Debi U, Parmar M, Yaser M, Mittal BR. Reversible perfusion defect of the hypertrophied papillary muscle on myocardial perfusion imaging: the ‘filled doughnut sign’. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 2019 Aug 9. doi: 10.1007/s12350-019-01848-z.  
• Vadi SK, Mittal BR, Parihar AS, Kumar R, Singh H, Singh G.68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT in an Atypical Extraskeletal Paravertebral Hemangioma Mimicking as Neurogenic Tumor in a Known Case of Breast Cancer. ClinNucl Med. 2019; 44: e364-e366.  
• Kumar R, Mittal BR, Bhattacharya A, Vadi SK, Singh H, Bal A, Shukla J, Singh H, Sharma V, Sood A, Singh SK. Positron emission tomography/computed tomography guided percutaneous biopsies of 68Ga-avid lesions using an automated robotic arm. Diagnostic and interventional imaging. 2019; S2211-5684(19)30235-9. [Epub ahead of print] 
• Vadi, S. K., Mehta, S., Kumar, R., Tandyala, N., Singh, H., & Mittal, B. R. (2019). Severe Contralateral Striatal Hypometabolism in a Case of Diabetic Nonketotic Hyperglycemic Hemichorea on 18F-FDG PET/CT Brain. Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 1. doi:10.1097/rlu.0000000000002844 
• Parihar AS, Singh H, Bhansali A, Karthikeyan, Vadi SK, Parmar M. Hepato-cardiac juxtaposition secondary to right hemi-diaphragmatic eventration on 99mTc-Sestamibi myocardial perfusion scintigraphy.J NuclCardiol. 2020 Jan 22. doi: 10.1007/s12350-020-02033-3. [Epub ahead of print] 

• Singh P, Kumar Vadi S, Nahar Saikia U, Sood A, Dahiya D, Arya AK, Behera A, Mukherjee S, Arvindkumar SM, Bhadada SK. Minimally invasive parathyroid carcinoma-a missing entity between parathyroid adenoma and carcinoma: Scintigraphic and histological features. Clinical Endocrinology (Oxf). 2019 Sep 3. doi: 10.1111/cen.14088. [Epub ahead of print] 

• Vadi SK, Mittal BR, Singh H, Kumar R, Dhiman RK. Incidental Detection of Urinary Bladder herniation in 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Mimicking as Metastatic Deposit in the Inguinal Canal.Indian J Nucl Med. 2019 Jul-Sep;34(3):247-248. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_38_19. 
• Parihar AS, Vadi SK, Kumar R, Singh H, Takkar A, Mittal BR, Lal V. Unilateral Lateral Rectus Paralysis Showing Incomplete "V" Sign' on 18F-FDG PET/CT.ClinNucl Med. 2020 Jan;45(1):e53-e54. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002775. 
• Parihar AS, Vadi SK, Mittal BR, Singh H, Kumar R, Behera A.18F- luorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in childhood metastatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the liver: Altering the management plan.World J Nucl Med. 2019; 18: 183-184.  
• Sharma A, Vadi SK, Sood A, Mete UK, Kakkar N, Vashishta RK, Mittal BR Rare Presentation of Metastatic Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma of Uterus Mimicking as Second Primary in Urinary Bladder on 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron-Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography.Indian J Nucl Med. 2019; 34:169-170.  

• Tyagi S, Singh SK, Narain TA, Singh H, Kumar R, Vadi SK. Synchronous Paraganglioma Masquerading as 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT-Avid Metastasis in Carcinoma Prostate-How Specific Is 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT?ClinNucl Med. 2019; 44: e420-e422.  

• Parihar AS, Vadi SK, Mittal BR, Kumar R, Sood A, Singh H, Bahl A. Adenoid cystic carcinoma of buccal mucosa: role 18F Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/ Computed Tomography in the detection and biopsy of pulmonary metastases and assessment of treatment response. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2019; 34: 71-73. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_80_18. 
• Parihar, A. S., Vadi, S. K., Kumar, R., Mittal, B. R., Singh, H., & Kapoor, R. (2019). Adenocarcinoma of the Stomach Leading to Recurrent Regurgitation and Muscular Hypermetabolism on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 44(11), 901–902. doi:10.1097/rlu.0000000000002681 
• Kavanal AJ, Bharati J, Vadi SK, Gupta KL, Kumar R, Mittal BR. 18F-FDG PET/CT demonstrates renal cell cancer in a transplant with synchronous intestinal infection. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2019; Feb 8. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002482. [Epub ahead of print] 
• Vadi SK, Rajan P, Sood A, Rohit MK, Parmar M, Kaur K, Mittal BR. ‘'Stress-induced ischemia in the right ventricular myocardium on 99mTc-MIBI myocardial perfusion scintigraphy in a rare case of double-chambered right ventricle’. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 2018 Nov 26. doi: 10.1007/s12350-018-01528-4 (E pub ahead of print).  
• Vadi SK, Parihar AS, Mittal BR, Kumar R, Singh H, Malhotra P. ‘18F-FDG PET/CT in a case of extensive multi-organal extranodal lymphoma with cardiac involvement mimicking apical hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: staging and response evaluation’. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 33: 370-373. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_67_18. 
• Vadi SK, Mittal BR, Sood A, Singh G, Bal A, Parihar AS, Bhattacharya A, Basher RK, Kapoor R. Diagnostic and predictive value of 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging in clinically suspected recurrence of male breast cancer. Nuclear Medicine Communications. 2018 Oct 11. doi: 10.1097/MNM.0000000000000928 
• Parihar AS, Mittal BR, Vadi SK, Sood A, Kumar R, Goni V. 18F-FDG PET/CT in isolated primary extra-skeletal osteosarcoma. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 43: e463-e464. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002293. 
• Kumar R, Mittal BR, Bhattacharya A, Singh H, Bal A, Vadi SK, Sood A, Prakash G, Singh H, Sharma A. Diagnostic performance of real-time robotic arm-assisted 18F-FDG PET/CT-guided percutaneous biopsy in metabolically active abdominal and pelvic lesions. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1007/s00259-018-4133-x. 
• Vadi SK, Mittal BR, Parihar AS, Kumar R, Sharma V, Mandavdhare HS. Demonstration of tubercular ''abdominal cocoon'' (sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis) in 18F-FDG PET/CT. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 43: 771-772. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002238. 
• Vadi SK, Kashyap S, Sood A, Khadwal A, Parmar M, Parihar AS, Mittal BR. Can 99mTc-labeled RBC-equilibrium radionuclide angiocardiography be an adjunct imaging biomarker for marrow hyperplasia in beta-thalassemia major patients? Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 2018 Jul 23. doi: 10.1007/s12350-018-1380-y 
• Vadi, S. K., Mehrotra, S., Sood, A., Parmar, M., Dasagrandhi, V., Kaur, K., & Mittal, B. R. (2018). Flip-flop right ventricle myocardial perfusion on stress-rest 99mTc-MIBI myocardial perfusion scintigraphy: An indirect evidence for severe left ventricular coronary arterial disease? Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. doi:10.1007/s12350-018-01565-z  
• Parihar, A. S., Mittal, B. R., Vadi, S. K., Kumar, R., Nambiyar, K., Radotra, B., & Kaman, L. (2018). 18F-FDG PET/CT detects Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Masquerading as Primary Breast Malignancy. Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. doi:10.1007/s13139-018-0553-6  
• Vadi SK, Kumar R, Mittal BR, Parihar AS, Singh H, Singh S, Rana S. 18F-FDG PET/CT in an atypical case of relapsed IgG4-related disease presenting as inflammatory pseudotumor in gall bladder fossa with extensive disease involvement. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 43: e357-e359. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002214. 
• Parihar AS, Mittal BR, Vadi SK, Basher RK, Bhansali A. Ectopic Cushing syndrome (ECS): 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT localizes the site of ectopic adrenocorticotropic hormone production. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 43: 769-770. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002217. 
• Sharma A, Vadi SK, Sood A, Kumar S, Mete UK, Parkhi M, Mittal BR. Bladder leiomyoma: a rare differential and a potential pitfall in the evaluation for a bladder mass in 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 33: 264-265. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_40_18. 
• Parihar, A. S., Mittal, B. R., Vadi, S. K., Sood, A., Kumar, R., & Dutta, U. (2018). Groove Pancreatitis Masquerading as Pancreatic Carcinoma—Detected on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 52(6), 473–474. doi:10.1007/s13139-018-0552-7  
• Vadi SK, Mittal BR, Kumar R, Parihar AS, Shukla J, Kalra N. Demostartion of treatment response to trans-arterial radio-embolization on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT in a patient with metastatic neuroendocrine tumor. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 43: e312-e313. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002177. 
• Parihar AS, Vadi SK, Mittal BR, Kumar R, Bal A, Singh SK. 68Ga-PSMA HBED-CC avid synchronous urinary bladder paraganglioma in a patient with metastatic prostate carcinoma. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 43: e329-e330. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002172. 
• Parihar AS, Vadi SK, Kumar R, Mittal BR, Singh H, Bal A, Walia R, Shukla J, Sinha SK. 68Ga DOTA-Exendin PET/CT for detection of insulinoma in patient with persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 3: e285-e286. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002155. 
• Vadi SK, Parihar AS, Kumar R, Singh H, Mittal BR, Bal A, Sinha SK. IgG4 related disease simulating carcinoma colon with diffuse peritoneal carcinomatosis on 18F-FDG PET/CT.Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018 Jul;43 :e247-e249. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002140. 
• Vadi SK, Kumar R, Mittal BR, Singh H, Bal A, Prakash G, Bhattacharya A. Incidental detection of an unusual case of B-cell lymphoma of the urachal remnant on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 43: e206-e208. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002105. 
• Kulkarni, A., Yadav, T. D., Santosh, I., Kumar S, P., Kumar, R., Bansal, V., & Vadi, S. K. (2018). Gemcitabine-oxaliplatin first-line chemotherapy in locally advanced and metastatic gallbladder cancer - results from a tertiary centre in North India. HPB, 20, S211–S212. doi:10.1016/j.hpb.2018.06.089  
• Vadi SK, Kumar R, Singh H, Singh SK, Mittal BR. 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT revealing unusual inguinal canal metastasis in a case of castration resistant prostate cancer". Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018;43:279-281. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002002. 
• Vadi SK, Parihar AS, Kumar R, Singh H, Singh SK, Mittal BR. Unusual case of diffuse penile metastasis of prostate cancer on 68Ga PSMA PET/CT imaging and 177Lu PSMA post-therapy scintigraphy. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 43: 276-278. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002001. 
• Vadi SK, Kumar R, Singh H, Singh SK, Mittal BR. 68Ga–Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen Expression in Neurocysticercosis Lesions in a Patient With Prostate Carcinoma. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 43: e122-e124. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001990. 
• Vadi SK, Dasagrandhi V, Bhattacharya A, Singh SK, Mittal BR. Incidental detection of perinephric urinary leak on bone scintigraphy in a patient with urinary bladder carcinoma. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 33: 68-70. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_116_17. 
• Parihar AS, Vadi SK, Menon P, Mittal BR, Bhattacharya A. Incidental detection of bilateral large urinary bladder diverticulae on Tc99m ethylene dicysteine renography with single-photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography. Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2018; 33: 79-81. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_115_17. 
• Vadi SK, Singh D, Sood A, Bahl A, Parmar M, Mittal BR. Role of Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT/CT myocardial perfusion imaging in management of spontaneous coronary artery dissection: A case report. Indian Heart Journal cardiovascular case reports. 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.ihjccr.2018.01.001 
• Vadi SK, Mittal BR, Gorla AKR, Sood A, Basher RK, Sood A, Kakkar N, Sen RK. 18F-FDG PET/CT in Diagnostic and Prognostic Evaluation of Patients with Suspected Recurrence of Chondrosarcoma. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2017. 43: 1  DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001947. 
• Vadi SK, Singh B, Basher RK, et al. 18F-Fluorocholine PET/CT Complementing the Role of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI for Providing Comprehensive Diagnostic Workup in Prostate Cancer Patients With Suspected Relapse Following Radical Prostatectomy. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2017; 42: e355-e361. DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001689 
• Singh D,Vadi SK, MadanParmar et al.Role of 99mTc-sestamibi gated SPECT/CT myocardial perfusion imaging in the management of patients with myocardial bridging and its correlation with coronary angiography.Journal of Cardiology Cases.2017; 15: 136 - 140.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jccase.2016.12.006 
• Vadi SK, Chouhan, D.K., Gorla, A.K.R. et al. Potential Adjunctive Role of Radiosynovectomy in Primary Synovial Osteochondromatosis of the Knee: A Case Report.Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2016. 1-4. doi:10.1007/s13139-016-0466-1 
• Malik D, Basher R, Vadi SK, Mittal B, Bhattacharya A. Cardiac metastasis from lung cancer mimicking as perfusion defect on N-13 ammonia and FDG myocardial viability PET/CT scan. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 2016; DOI: 10.1007/s12350-016-0609-x 

• Bhattacharya A, Kumar R, Vadi SK, Gorla AKR, Sood A, Mittal BR. High incidence of metastases detected on 18F-FDG PET-CT in patients with gall bladder cancer incidentally discovered after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Annals of Oncology. 2016. 27 (6). 
• Jain TK, Jois AG, Vadi SK, Singh SK, Kumar R, Mittal BR. Incidental detection of tracer avidity in meningioma in (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT during initial staging for prostate cancer. Revista Espanola de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular. 2017; 36: 133-134. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.remn.2016.10.005