Steven M. Boker MD
Radiologist | Body Imaging
401 Matthew Street Marietta Ohio, 45750Rating
3/5
About
FUll service general dignostic radiology including minor invasive procedures. CT, MRI, US, Mammo, PET/CT, Bonde Densitometry, Nucs, Fluoro, Conventional Xray. Myelography, arthrography, abcess/cyst drainage, biopsy, needle localization.
Education and Training
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Georgetown Univ Sch of Med, Washington Dc 1986
Georgetown University School of Medicine 1986
Board Certification
Radiology
RadiologyAmerican Board of RadiologyABR
Provider Details
Steven M. Boker MD's Expert Contributions
What do you mean by nuclear medicine?
Nuclear medicine is a subspecialty of radiology involving the administration of small amounts of radioactive materials for diagnostic scanning. Examples would be bone scans looking for cancer and other bone disease, cardiac studies to evaluate the heart's function and to look for areas not getting enough blood (which could lead to a heart attack), lung scans looking for blood clots to the lungs, HIDA scans, which evaluate the function of the gallbladder, and other exams. READ MORE
Is Radiation therapy safe for kids?
Sorry, I'm not a Radiation Oncologist, a physician specializing in radiation therapy. I am a Diagnostic Radiologist; we interpret X-rays, CT scans, MRI, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, and other modalities to diagnose disease. READ MORE
Can X-ray radiations be harmful for pregnant women?
Your hand would be imaged and the radiation beam will be narrowed to reduce outside radiation. In addition, since you are out of your first trimester, any minimal exposure would be safe. Inform the X-ray technologist that you are pregnant. They will take any necessary precautions. That's part of their training and job! READ MORE
I accompanied my mother for her X-ray and I didn’t know I was pregnant then. What should I do?
Did they not shield you during the X-ray? Did they give you an apron to wear? Were you actually in the room at the time of exposure? Even if you were, you would not have been within the primary X-ray beam and would have received only scatter radiation. The risk of any problem would be extremely small. We do not allow anyone in the room during exposure without wearing a protective apron. That's pretty standard in the US. Not sure about outside the US. READ MORE
Mammogram with breast implants
In my 35 years experience, I have never seen an implant rupture from a mammogram. Mammography technologists are trained to deal with patients with implants and do special implant displaced views in addition to the routine images. READ MORE
MRI vs CT contrast
CT contrast is iodine based so it shows up in CT scans which use X-rays. MRI contrast has to cause an effect that shows up on MRI scans, which do not use X-rays. Therefore, MRI contrast is not iodine based. READ MORE
Airport security and being pregnant
Yes, typical low dose x-ray scanners at airports will only give you 1/500000 of the dose it would take to harm your baby. Also, many other scanners don't use x-rays but use radio waves or magnetic waves. These are also low power and have not been associated with any fetal abnormalities. READ MORE
Is pregnancy possible after chemotherapy?
First of all, I am a diagnostic radiologist and as such, I do not do radiation treatment. That being said, the younger you are, the better chance of being able to conceive after chemotherapy. So, at 32 years old, I would say that she has an excellent chance. READ MORE
Is radiology equipment really safe?
Radiology equipment is very safe and independent of patient condition, other than obesity. Larger patients require greater exposure to be able to penetrate the body. All equipment is inspected regularly and there have been advances in the technology that have resulted in reduced radiation exposure to patients, particularly in CT scanning. READ MORE
Using radiation with prostate cancer
I am a radiologist, not a radiation Oncologist, but I can answer your question. The seeds are themselves radioactive and are implanted directly into the prostate gland. That way, the tumor in the gland receives the therapy and radiation exposure to the rest of the pelvis( which can lead to problems later) is reduced. READ MORE
Does CT definitley confirm parotid mass?
CT would be more accurate in localizing the mass to determine whether it is in the parotid or right next to it. Ultrasound could be less specific. If it is in the parotid, the majority of parotid tumors are benign. If it's outside of the parotid, it could be a lymph node. Bottom line is the FNA biopsy you had. That will give the definitive answer. Neck masses can be tricky to figure out where they originate from on CT or ultrasound. They are mainly used as tools to initially see if the mass is solid or a cyst, and also to look for other possible masses or other abnormalities that might help figure out what it could be and to decide if biopsy is required. Hope this helps! Dr. Boker READ MORE
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Windowed cross-correlation and peak picking for the analysis of variability in the association between behavioral time series.
- Emotional well-being in recently bereaved widows: a dynamical systems approach.
- Proposal for the creation of a Web-based heterogeneous distributed archive for psychological data.
- Emotion as a thermostat: representing emotion regulation using a damped oscillator model.
- Social support as a predictor of variability: an examination of the adjustment trajectories of recent widows.
- Representing time-varying cyclic dynamics using multiple-subject state-space models.
- Mapping and manipulating facial expression.
- Spatiotemporal symmetry and multifractal structure of head movements during dyadic conversation.
- Resilience comes of age: defining features in later adulthood.
- Modeling Individual Damped Linear Oscillator Processes with Differential Equations: Using Surrogate Data Analysis to Estimate the Smoothing Parameter.
- Effects of damping head movement and facial expression in dyadic conversation using real-time facial expression tracking and synthesized avatars.
- Using derivative estimates to describe intraindividual variability at multiple time scales.
- Issues in intraindividual variability: individual differences in equilibria and dynamics over multiple time scales.
- Resilience-as-process: negative affect, stress, and coupled dynamical systems.
- Something in the way we move: Motion dynamics, not perceived sex, influence head movements in conversation.
Internships
- St. Joseph's Hospital
Professional Society Memberships
- Radiological Society of North America, American College of Radiology, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography , International Society for Clinical Densitometry
What do you attribute your success to?
- Keeping Current, Dedication to his Work, Working Hard
Hobbies / Sports
- Playing Music, Computers
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