Susan L. Kraft
Associate Professor

Phone: (970) 297-0350 or (970) 297-1293
Fax: (970) 297-1254
Email: Susan.Kraft@colostate.edu
Office: 154 Animal Cancer Center
James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital

 

Degrees

• Ph.D., Washington State University
• D.V.M., Washington State University
• B.S., Biology, University of Alaska

Research Interests

Dr. Kraft serves as Director of Imaging Research and as Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging service in the Animal Cancer Center.   In addition to board certification in diagnostic imaging through the American College of Veterinary Radiology (ACVR), she is also boarded in veterinary radiation oncology (ACVR-RO).

Her primary research interest is cancer imaging, particularly using with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and positron emission tomography (PET-CT) in translational animal models (pets with spontaneous cancer). Her focus is imaging of cancer physiology, radiation effects and assessing functional response to treatment. This particularly involves imaging of parameters important to treatment effects and response such as tumor vascularity, hypoxia, perfusion, and tumor metabolism. She also has an interest in imaging infectious disease models using advanced imaging modalities such as MRI and PET-CT, particularly retroviral and mycobacterial diseases.

Selected Publications

(Publications selected from a total of 52 peer reviewed publications, 1989 - 2007) Available here in PDF format

Sharpley J, Thode H, Sestina L, Park R, Monnet E, Kraft S. Distal abdominal aortic thrombosis in 4 dogs diagnosed by three dimensional contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography. Accepted and in press, Vet Radiol and Ultrasound, Dec. 2008.

Ehrhart N, Kraft SL, Conover D, Rosier R, Schwarz E. Quantification of massive allograft healing with dynamic contrast enhanced-MRI and cone beam CT. Clin Orthop Relat Res 466: 1897-1904, 2008.

Kraft SL, Ehrhart EJ, Gall D, Klopp L, Gavin P, Tucker R, Bagley R, Kippenes H, DeHaan C, Pedroia V, Partington B, Olby N. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Characteristics of 18 Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors of the Canine Brachial Plexus. Vet Radiol and Ultrasound 48(1):1-7, 2007.

Kraft SL, Randall E., Wilhelm M, Lana S. Development of a whole body MR imaging protocol in normal dogs and canine cancer patients. Vet Radiol and Ultrasound. 48(3): 212-220, 2007.

Brennan G, Podell M, Wack R, Kraft S, Bielefeldt Ohmann H, VandeWoude S. Neurologic disease in Panthera leo with low titer lion lentivirus infection. J Clin Microbiology; Oct 11, 2006 (epub ahead of print).

Huang Z, Haider MA, Kraft S, Chen Q, Blanc D, Wilson B, Hetzel F. Response of prostate gland to Pd-Bacteriopheophorbide (Tookad) photodynamic therapy monitored with magnetic resonance imaging. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine: 38:672-681, 2006.

Garcia GE, Wisniewski H, Lucia S, Arevalo N, Kraft SL, Strange R, Kumar AP. 2-Methoxyestradiol inhibits prostate tumor development in transgenic adenocarcinoma of mouse prostate: Role of tumor necrosis factor-alpha-stimulated gene 6. Clinical Cancer Research 12:980-988, 2006.

Young B, Kraft SL. MRI diagnosis of a cervical wooden foreign body in a dog. Vet Radiol and Ultrasound. 45(6): 538-541, 2004.

Fish PH, Carpenter JW, Kraft SL. Diagnosis and treatment of a cerebral ischemic attack in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), J Zoo Wildlife Med, 35:203-207, 2004.

Kippenes H., Gavin P., Kraft SL, Sande R., Tucker R. Mensuration of the normal pituitary gland from magnetic resonance images in 96 dogs. Vet Radiol and Ultrasound 42:130-133, 2001.

Kraft SL and Gavin PR. Physical principles and technical considerations for equine computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. In Advances in Equine Imaging Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice (SL Kraft and GRoberts, eds.), W.B. Saunders, April 2001.

Kraft SL and Gavin PR. Physical principles and technical considerations for equine computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. In Advances in Equine Imaging Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice (SL Kraft and GRoberts, eds.), W.B. Saunders, April 2001.

Tucker DW, Olsen D, Kraft SL, Andrews GA, Gray AP. Primary hemangiosarcoma of the iliopsoas muscle eliciting a peripheral neuropathy. JAAHA 36(2):163-167, 2000.

Kraft SL and Gavin PR. MRI of Intracranial neoplasia. Clinical Technique and Small Animal Practice, 14(2):112-123, 1999.

Harkin K, Goggin JM, DeBey BM, Kraft SL, deLaHunta A. MRI of hereditary polioencephalomyelopathy in an Australian cattle dog. JAVMA 214(9):1342-1344, 1999.

Perchellet EM, Ladesich JB, Chen Y, Sin HS, Dua DM, Kraft SL, Perchellet JP. Antitumor activity of tricyclic pyrone analogs, a new synthetic class of microtubule de-stabilizing agents, in the murine EMT6 mammary tumor cell line in vitro. Anticancer drugs 9:565-576,1998.

Kraft SL, Mussman J, Smith T, Biller DS. Magnetic resonance imaging of lumbosacral discospondylitis. Vet Radiol, 39(1):9-13, 1998.

Newell SW, Perchellet EM, Ladesich JB, Freeman JA, Chen Y, Sin HS, Hua DH, Kraft SL, Basaraba RJ, Perchellet JP. Tricyclic pyrone analogs: A new class of microtubule-disrupting anticancer drugs effective against murine leukemia cells in vitro. International Journal of Oncology 12: 433-442, 1998.

Perchellet JP, Newell SW, Ladesich JB, Perchellet EM, Chen Y, Hua DH, Kraft SL, Basaraba RJ. Antitumor activity of novel tricyclic pyrone analogs in murine leukemia cells in vitro. Anticancer Research 17:2427-2434, 1997.

Gavin PR, Kraft SL, Huiskamp R, Coderre JA. A review: CNS effects and normal tissue tolerance in dogs. J Neurooncol 33(1-2):71-80, 1997.

Kraft SL, Gavin PR, DeHaan CE, Moore M, Wendling LR, Leathers CW. Retrospective evaluation of magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of 50 intracranial tumors. J Vet Intern Med 11:218-225, 1997.

Kraft SL, Gavin PR, Leathers CW, DeHaan CE, Bauer WF, Dorn RV, Griebenow ML. Biodistribution of boron in dogs with spontaneous intracranial tumors following borocaptate sodium administration. Cancer Research 54:1259-1263, 1994.

DeHaan CE, Kraft SL, Gavin PR, Wendling LR, Griebenow ML. Normal variation in the lateral ventricles of the canine brain. Vet Radiol 35(2):83-87, 1994.

Davidson H, Kraft SL. Imaging Diagnosis (MRI of a Canine Retrobulbar Lymphosarcoma). Vet Radiol 35(30), 1994.

Gavin PR, DeHaan CE, Kraft SL, Swartz CD, Griebenow ML. Large animal tissue tolerance with boron neutron capture. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, biology and physics 28(5):1099-1106, 1993.

Gavin PR, Huiskamp R, Wheeler FJ, Kraft SL, DeHaan CE. Large animal normal tissue tolerance using an epithermal neutron beam and borocaptate sodium. Strahlentherapie und Onkologie 1:48-56, 1993.

Kraft SL, Gavin PR, Leathers CW, DeHaan CE, Bauer WB, Miller DL, Dorn RV. Borocaptate sodium: A potential boron-carrying compound for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy. Proceedings National Academy of Science, USA 89:11973-11977, 1992.>

Moore MP, Gavin PR, Kraft SL, De Haan CE, Leathers CW, Dorn RV. MR, CT and clinical features from dogs with nasal tumors involving the rostral cerebrum and nasal passages. Vet Radiol 32 (1): 19-25, 1991.

Kraft SL, Gavin PR, Leathers CW, Wendling LR, Frenier SL, Dorn RV. Diffuse cerebral and leptomeningeal astrocytoma in dogs: MR features. JCAT 14(4):555-560,1990.

Frenier SL, Kraft SL, Moore MP, Gavin PR: A review of canine intracranial astrocytomas and comparison with the human counterpart. Compend Cont Educ 12(10): 1422-1436, 1990.

Kraft SL, Gavin PR, Moore MP, Leathers CW, Richardson TE: Imaging Diagnosis, Canine Meningioma Vet Radiol 31(2): 65-67, 1990.

Gavin PR, Kraft SL, Wendling LR, D. Miller: Canine Spontaneous Brain Tumors - A Large Animal Model for BNCT, Strahlentherapie und Onkologie 165(2/3): 225-229, 1989.

Kraft SL, Gavin PR, Wendling LR, Reddy VK: Canine Brain Anatomy on Magnetic Resonance Images. Vet Radiol 30 (4):147-158, 1989.