Ruud Pijnappel

Full Professor

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Biography

Ruud Pijnappel studied Medicine at the University of Amsterdam. He did his residency in Radiology with the OLVG, Amsterdam. After finalizing his PhD thesis on the diagnosis of nonpalpable breast lesions (2002, Utrecht), he held several positions with the Breast Radiology department of the Martini hospital (Groningen) and the Dutch Reference Centre for Screening (LCRB, Nijmegen). From 2011 to 2015 he was president of the Dutch College of Breast Imaging (DCBI). In 2012 he joined the Radiology staff of the UMC Utrecht; in 2015 he was appointed both Professor of Breast Radiology at the UMC Utrecht, and CEO of the Dutch Expert Centre for Screening.

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rpijnap2@umcutrecht.nl

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Automated rating of background parenchymal enhancement in MRI of extremely dense breasts without compromising the association with breast cancer in the DENSE trial Hui Wang, Bas H.M.van der Velden, Erik Verburg, Marije F. Bakker, Ruud M. Pijnappel, Wouter B. Veldhuis, Carla H. van Gils, Kenneth G.A. Gilhuijs
European Journal of Radiology, 2024, vol. 175

Pain Experience and Image Quality with Curved versus Standard Compression for Breast Cancer Screening Mammography Daniëlle van der Waal, Cary van Landsveld-Verhoeven, Eric Tetteroo, Ruben E. van Engen, Ioannis Sechopoulos, Ruud M. Pijnappel, Mireille J.M. Broeders
Radiology, 2024, vol. 312

Current use and future perspectives of contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) Simone Schiaffino, Andrea Cozzi, Paola Clauser, Elisabetta Giannotti, Maria Adele Marino, Thiemo J.A. van Nijnatten, Pascal A.T. Baltzer, Marc B.I. Lobbes, Ritse M. Mann, Katja Pinker, Michael H. Fuchsjäger, Ruud M. Pijnappel
European Radiology, 2024, vol. 34, p.5439-5450

Diagnostic accuracy of supplemental three-dimensional breast ultrasound in the work-up of BI-RADS 0 screening recalls Bianca M den Dekker, Mireille J M Broeders, Carla Meeuwis, Wikke Setz-Pels, Alexander Venmans, Carla H van Gils, Ruud M Pijnappel
Insights into Imaging, 2024, vol. 15

EUSOMA quality indicators for non-metastatic breast cancer Isabel T Rubio, Lorenza Marotti, Laura Biganzoli, Cynthia Aristei, Alexandra Athanasiou, Christine Campbell, Fatima Cardoso, Maria Joao Cardoso, Charlotte E Coles, Manuela Eicher, Nadia Harbeck, Andreas Karakatsanis, Birgitte V Offersen, Ruud Pijnappel, Antonio Ponti, Peter Regitnig, Donatella Santini, Francesco Sardanelli, Tanja Spanic, Zsuzsanna Varga, Marie Jeanne T F D Vrancken Peeters, Yvonne Wengström, Lynda Wyld, Giuseppe Curigliano
European Journal of Cancer, 2024, vol. 198

Image quality of DWI at breast MRI depends on the amount of fibroglandular tissue Mirjam Wielema, Paul E Sijens, Ruud M Pijnappel, Geertruida H De Bock, Marcel Zorgdrager, Marius G J Kok, Eva Rainer, Raoul Varga, Paola Clauser, Matthijs Oudkerk, University Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Pascal A T Baltzer
European Radiology, 2023, vol. 34, p.4730-4737