Physician Profile

Jens O. Heidenreich, M.D. 
Assistant Professor 
Department of Radiology
University of Louisville Hospital
530 South Jackson Street
Louisville  KY  40202

jens.heidenreich@louisville.edu

Academic Office (502) 852-5875
Fax                    (502) 852-1754

Education:

Postgraduate Training:

• Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, AG NMR, Munich, Germany - Neuroradiology Residency

• Charite Campus Virchow Klinikum, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany - Radiology Residency

• Charite Campus Benjamin Franklin, Free University Berlin, Germany - Radiology Residency

• Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio - MRI research fellow

1. Auer DP, Schirmer T, Heidenreich JO, Herzog J, Pütz B, Dichgans M: Altered white matter metabolism in CADASIL: a proton MR spectroscopy and 1H – MRSI study. Neurology
2001;56(5):635-642.

2. Auer DP, Wilke M, Grabner A, Heidenreich JO, Bronisch T, Wetter TC: Reduced NAA in the thalamus and altered membrane and glial metabolism in schizophrenic patients detected by 1H-MRS and tissue segmentation. Schizophr Res 2001;52(1-2):87-99.

3. Heidenreich JO, Oldenburg A, Pietilä T: A rare manifestation of schwannoma in the main
nasal cavity. RoFo Fortschr Geb Röntgenstr Neuen Bildgeb Verfahr 2002; 174:1579-1581

4.  Schilling AM, Blankenburg FB, Bernading J, Heidenreich JO, Wolf KJ. Intracerebral pH
affects the T2 relaxation time of brain tissue. Neuroradiology 2002;44:968-972

5. Stendel R, Heidenreich J, Schilling A, Akhavan-Sigari R, Kurth R, Picht T, Pietilä T, Suess O, Kern C, Meisel J, Brock M. Clinical evaluation of a new intracranial pressure monitoring device. Acta
Neurochir 2003; 145:185-193

6. K.-J. Wolf, Th. Albrecht, J.O. Heidenreich. Tissue-specific imaging and cancer treatment. Nova Acta
Leopoldina 2004; NF 89, Nr.337, 95-105

7. A.M. Schilling, J.O. Heidenreich, T. Schulte, A. Gräßmann, R. Stendel, M. Brock, K.-J. Wolf. Changes of the fat/water-ratio in the Musculus erector trunci in patients with lumbar disc herniation: a controlled 1H-MRS study. RoFo Fortschr Geb Röntgenstr Neuen Bildgeb Verfahr 2004; 176:229-233

8. Andreas M. Schilling, Jens O. Heidenreich, Anja C. Oldenburg, Terttu Pietilä, Rüdiger
Stendel, Karl-Jürgen Wolf. Multiple cerebral aneurysms in factor VII
deficiency. AJNR American Journal of Neuroradiology 2004; 25(5):784-6

9. T.L. Schulte, J.O. Heidenreich, A.M. Schilling, R. Stendel, T.A. Pietilä, W.
Hopfenmüller, M. Brock, K.-J. Wolf. Comparison of metric analysis of spinal
structures, exemplarily of the ligamentum flavum, obtained with CT and MRI. Eur J
Radiol 2004; 52:224-8

10. Stendel R, Picht T, Schilling A, Heidenreich J, Loddenkemper C, Jänisch W, Brock M. Treatment of glioblastoma with intravenous taurolidine. First clinical results. Anti Cancer Research 2004;
24:1143-1147

11. Jens O. Heidenreich, Andreas M. Schilling, Rüdiger Stendel, Mario Brock, Karl-Jürgen Wolf. Evaluation of MRI compatibility of a new intracranial pressure monitoring device. AJNR  American Journal of Neuroradiology 2005; 26:360-2

12. Stendel R, Picht T, Schilling A, Heidenreich J, Loddenkemper C, Jänisch W, Brock M. Treatment of glioblastoma with intravenous taurolidine. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 2005 (in Press)

13. K. Jahnke, A. Korfel, J. Heidenreich, E. Thiel, A. Schilling. Radiological morphology of low-grade primary central nervous system lymphoma in immunocompetent patients. AJNR Am J Neurorad 2005;26(10):2446-54

14. Schulte TL, Hammersen S, Heidenreich JO, Pietila TA. Transient tetraplegia and vegetative dysfunction depending on cervical positioning caused by a cervical spinal chordoma. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2005;148(1):89-91.

15. Schilling AM, Heidenreich JO, Wolf KJ. Pitfalls and special features of modern imaging
diagnostics of the upper cervical spine. Orthopade
2006;35(3):237-243

16. J.O. Heidenreich, S. Hartlieb, R. Stendel, P. Schlattmann, T.A. Pietilä, K.-J. Wolf, A.M. Schilling. Bleeding complications after neurointerventional therapy of intracerebral arteriovenous malformations. AJNR American Journal of Neuroradiology 2006;27(2):313-316

17. Schilling A., Heidenreich J.O., Pietilä T., da Silva C., Brock M. Endovascular treatment of intracranial arteriovenous malformation (AVM). (article in Portugese).

18. J.O. Heidenreich, T. Klopstock, T. Schirmer, P. Sämann, W. Müller-Felber, D.P. Auer. Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia (CPEO): ¹H-MRSI and MR diffusion studies in the brain. AJR
American Journal of Roentgenology 2006;187(3):820-4

19. J.O. Heidenreich, R. Stendel, J. Lippmann, T.A. Pietilä, J. Bernarding, C.D. Spies, K.-J. Wolf, A.M. Schilling. Dynamic proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy for assessing the effect of mannitol on brain metabolites in contusions due to severe head trauma. European J Radiology 2006 (accepted)

20. Schulte TL, Pietila TA, Heidenreich J, Brock M, Stendel R. Injection therapy of lumbar
facet syndrome: a prospective study. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2006 ;148(11):1165-72

21. Schmitz SA, Platzek I, Kunz D, Mahlberg R, Wolf KJ, Heidenreich JO. Computed Tomography of the Human Pineal Gland for Study of the Sleep-Wake Rhythm: Reproducibility of a Semi-Quantitative Approach. Acta Radiol 2006;47:865-871

22. R Stendel, B Irnich, A Abo al Hassan, J Heidenreich, T Pietilä. The influence of ethanol on blood flow velocity in major cerebral vessels. A prospective and controlled study. Alcohol 2006;38(3):139-46.

23. Deffke I, Sander T, Heidenreich J, Sommer W, Curio G, Trahms L, Lueschow A. MEG/EEG sources
of the 170-ms response to faces are co-localized in the fusiform gyrus. Neuroimage 2007;35(4):1495-501.

24. J.O. Heidenreich, A.M. Schilling, F. Unterharnscheidt, R. Stendel, S. Hartlieb, F.K. Wacker, P. Schlattmann, K.-J. Wolf, H. Bruhn. Improved characterization of the angio-architecture of cerebral
arteriovenous malformations with 3D-TOF-MRA at 3.0 Tesla. Acta Radiologica 2007;48(6):678-686.

25. M Colla, F Schubert, M Bubner, J Heidenreich, G Kronenberg, M Bajbouj, F Seifert, JA
King, I Heuser. Lithium control stress effects through modifications of glutamatergic
neurotransmission. Neuropsychopharmacology 2008 (accepted)

26. Richard Mahlberg, Sven Hädel, Jens O. Heidenreich, Stephan A. Schmitz, Dieter Kunz. The Degree of Pineal Calcification (DOC) is associated with Polysomnographical Sleep Measures. Journal
of Sleep Research 2007 (in Review)

27. Heidenreich, JO and Sunshine, JL.  “Stroke Imaging (MR, CT, SPECT, PET),” in
Thrombus and Stroke Volume 1, Section 3 Clinical Implications/Applications, in
press.

28. Jens O. Heidenreich, Daniel Hsu, Guanbing Wang, John A. Jesberger, Robert W. Tarr, Osama O. Zaidat, Jeffrey L. Sunshine. MRI Changes Therapy Decisions in hyper acute stroke care: toward
managing risk and benefit of thrombolytic therapy. Acta Radiologica 2008 (accepted)

29. Jens O. Heidenreich, Simi Paul, Jamal J. Derakhshan, Serif G. Nour, John
A. Jesberger, Ingmar Viohl, Jeffrey L. Duerk, Jeffrey L. Sunshine. High Resolution Endovascular
MR Imaging using a Novel 5 French Imaging Catheter for Interventional MRI. JMRI 2008 (accepted)

30. Jens O. Heidenreich, Simi Paul, Matthew E. Joseph, Jamal J. Derakhshan, Olivier
Salvado, Sherif G. Nour, Mark A. Griswold, Jeffrey L. Duerk, Jeffrey L.
Sunshine. Endovascular High Resolution Coronary MR Imaging using an MR Imaging Catheter: Preliminary Results in a Porcine Model. Circulation 2008 (in Review)

31. J.O. Heidenreich: Dynamische 1H- Magnetresonanzspektroskopie zur
Untersuchung der Veränderungen des cerebralen Metabolitenprofils nach
Applikation von Nikotin. (Doctoral thesis)