Publications

2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998

2009

• Bovell, E.J., Buckley, C.E., Chua-anusorn, W., Cookson, D., Kirby, N., Saunders, M., and St Pierre, T.G. (2009) Dietary iron loaded rat liver haemosiderin and ferritin: in situ measurement of iron core nanoparticle size and cluster structure using anomalous small angle x-ray scattering. Phys. Med. Biol. 54, 1209-1221.

• Chin, S.-F., Swaminathan Iyer, K., Saunders, M., St. Pierre, T.G., Buckley, C., and Raston, C.L. (2009) Encapsulation and sustained release of curcumin using superparamagnetic silica reservoirs. Chem.-Eur. J. (accepted 26th Feb 2009)

• Hackett, S., Hamzah, J., Davis, T.M.E., and St Pierre, T.G. (2009) Magnetic susceptibility of iron in malaria-infected red blood cells. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1792, 93-99.

• Karl, S., Davis, T.M.E., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2009) A comparison of the sensitivities of detection of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes by magnetic fractionation, thick blood film microscopy, and RT-PCR.  Malaria J. (accepted 28th March 2009)
  

2008

• Afkhami, S., Renardy, Y., Renardy, M., Riffle, J.S. & St. Pierre, T. (2008) Field-induced motion of ferrofluid droplets through immiscible viscous media.  J. Fluid Mech., 610, 363-380

• Gorham, N.T., St. Pierre, T.G., Chua-anusorn, W., and Parkinson, G.M. (2008) Magnetic energy-barrier distributions for ferrihydrite nanoparticles formed by reconstituting ferritin. J. Appl. Phys. 103, 054302

• House, M.J., St. Pierre, T.G., and McLean, C. (2008) A 1.4T study of proton magnetic relaxation rates, iron concentrations and plaque burden in Alzheimer's disease and control post-mortem brain tissue. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 60, 41-52

• Mefford, O.T., Carroll, M.R.J., Vadala, M.L., Goff, J.D., Mejia-Ariza, R., Saunders, M., Woodward, R.C., St. Pierre, T.G., Davis, R.M., Riffle, J.S. (2008) Size analysis of PDMS-magnetite nanoparticle complexes: experiment and theory. Chem. Mater., 20, 2184-2191

• Mefford, O.T., Vadala, M. L., Goff, J.D., Carroll, M. R. J., Mejia-Ariza, R., Caba, B. L., St. Pierre, T. G., Woodward, R. C., Davis, R. M. and Riffle, J. S., (2008) Stability of polydimethylsiloxane-magnetite nanoparticle dispersions against flocculation: interparticle interactions of polydisperse materials, Langmuir 24, 5060 –5069.

2007

• Hackett, S., Chua-anusorn, W., Pootrakul, P., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2007) The magnetic susceptibilities of iron deposits in thalassaemic spleen tissue. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1772, 330-337.

• House, M.J., St. Pierre, T.G., Kowdley, K., Montine, T., Connor, J., Beard, J., Siddaiah, N., Berger, J., Shankland, E., Jin, L.-W. (2007) Correlation of proton transverse relaxation rates (R2) with iron concentrations in post-mortem brain tissue from Alzheimer's disease patients. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 57, 172-180.

• Kirby, N., Cookson, D., Buckley, C., Bovell, E., St. Pierre, T.G. (2007) Iron K-edge anomalous small-angle X-ray scattering at 15-ID-D at the Advanced Photon Source. J. Appl. Cryst. 40, S402-S407.

• Mefford, O.T., Woodward, R.C., Goff, J.D., Vadala, T.P., St. Pierre, T.G., Dailey, J.P., and Riffle, J.S. (2007) Field-induced motion of ferrofluids through immiscible viscous media: Testbed for restorative treatment of retinal detachment, J. Magn. Mag. Mat., 311, 347-353.
  

• Woodward, R.C., Heeris, J., St. Pierre, T.G., Saunders, M., Gilbert, E.P., Rutnakornpituk, M., Zhang, Q., Riffle, J.S. (2007) A comparison of methods for the measurement of particle size distribution of magnetic nanoparticles, J. Appl. Crystallography, 40, S495-S500

• Zalich, M.A., Vadala, M.L., Riffle, J.S., Saunders, M., St. Pierre, T.G. (2007) Structural and magnetic properties of cobalt nanoparticles encased in siliceous shells. Chem. Mater 19, 6597–6604.

2006

• Chua-anusorn, W. and St. Pierre, T.G. (2006) Pathological biomineralization of iron. In: Biomineralization – Medical Aspects of Solubility. (Eds: Königsberger, E. and Königsberger, L-C.) Wiley and Sons Ltd, pp 219-276.

• House, M.J., St Pierre, T.G., Foster, J.K., Martins, R.N. and Clarnette, R. (2006) Quantitative MRI R2 relaxometry in elderly participants reporting memory loss. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 27, 430-439.

• Rossi, E., Wallace, D.F., Subramaniam, V.N., St. Pierre, T.G., Mews, C., Jeffrey, G.P. (2006) Clinical expression of C282Y homozygous HFE haemochromatosis at 14 years of age. Ann. Clin. Biochem. 43, 233-236.

• Zalich, M.A., Baranauskas, V.V., Riffle, J.S., Saunders, M., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2006) Structural and Magnetic Properties of Oxidatively-Stable Cobalt Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Graphitic Shells. Chem. Mater., 18, 2648-2655

2005:

• Baranauskas, V.V., Zalich M.A., Saunders M., St. Pierre T.G., and Riffle J.S. (2005) Poly(styrene-b-4-vinylphenoxyphthalonitrile)-cobalt complexes and their conversion to oxidatively-stable cobalt nanoparticles, Chem. Mater., 17, 5246-5254.

• Carneiro, A.A.O., Fernandes, J.P., de Araujo, D.B., Elias, J., Martinelli, A.L.C., Covas, D.T., Zago, M.A., Angulo, I.L., St. Pierre, T.G., Baffa, O. (2005) Liver iron concentration evaluated by two magnetic methods: magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic susceptometry, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 54, 122-128.

• Connolly, J., St. Pierre, T.G., and Dobson, J (2005) Experimental evaluation of the magnetic properties of commercially available magnetic microspheres. Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, 15, 421-431.

• Gorham, N.T., Woodward, R.C., St. Pierre, T.G., Terris, B.D., and Sun, S. (2005) Apparent magnetic energy-barrier distribution in FePt nanoparticles. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 295, 174 - 176.

• Harris, L.A., Riffle, J.S., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2005) Principles of design and synthesis of iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications. J. Aust. Ceramic Soc., 41, 23-42.

• Hackett, S.L. and St Pierre, T.G. (2005) Thales: an instrument to measure the low field magnetophoretic mobility of microscopic objects. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 17, 181-184.

• Kim, B.J., Lee, H.I., Cho, S.-B., Yoon, S., Suh, B.J., Jang, Z.H., St. Pierre, T.G., Kim, S.-W., Kim, K.-S. (2005) Magnetic properties of artificially synthesized ferritins. J. Appl. Phys. 97, 10M524.

• Olynyk, J.K, St. Pierre, T.G., Britton, R.S., Brunt, E.M., and Bacon, B.R. (2005) Duration of hepatic iron exposure increases the risk of significant fibrosis in hereditary hemochromatosis: a new role for magnetic resonance imaging. Am. J. Gastro., 100, 837-841.

• St Pierre, T.G., Clark, P.R., Chua-anusorn, W., Fleming, A., Pardoe, H., Jeffrey, G.P., Olynyk, J.K., Pootrakul, P., Jones, S., Moroz, P. (2005) Non-invasive measurement and imaging of tissue iron oxide nanoparticle concentrations in vivo using proton relaxometry. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 17, 122-126.

• St. Pierre, T.G., Clark, P.R., and Chua-anusorn, W. (2005) Measurement and mapping of liver iron concentrations using magnetic resonance imaging. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1054, 379-385.

• St. Pierre, T.G., Clark, P.R., Chua-anusorn, W., Fleming, A.J., Jeffrey, G.P., Olynyk, J.K., Pootrakul, P., Robins, E., and Lindeman, R. (2005) Non-invasive measurement and imaging of liver iron concentrations using proton magnetic resonance. Blood, 105, 855-861.

• Wilson, K.S., Goff, J.D., Riffle, J.S., Harris, L.A., St. Pierre, T.G. (2005) Polydimethylsiloxane-magnetite nanoparticle complexes and dispersions in polysiloxane carrier fluids. Polym. Adv. Technol., 16, 200-211.

• Vadala, M.L., Zalich, M.A., Fulks, D.B., St. Pierre, T.G., Dailey, J.P., Riffle, J.S. (2005) Cobalt-silica magnetic nanoparticles with functional surfaces. J. Magn. Magn. Mat. , 293, 162-170.

2004

• Carneiro, A.A., Vilela, G.R., Fernandes, J.B., Araujo, D., Baffa, O., Elias, J., St. Pierre, T.G., Angulo, I.L., Covas, D.T. (2004) In vivo tissue characterization using magnetic techniques. Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, 85, 1-7.

• Connolly, J., St. Pierre, T.G., Rutnakornpituk, M., Riffle, J.S. (2004) Cobalt nanoparticles formed in polysiloxane copolymer micelles: effect of production methods on magnetic properties. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 37, 2475-2482.

• St. Pierre, T.G., Clark, P.R., and Chua-anusorn, W. (2004) Single spin-echo proton transverse relaxometry of iron loaded liver. NMR in Biomedicine, 17, 446-458.

• Vadala, M.L., Rutnakornpituk, M., Zalich, M.A., St. Pierre, T.G., and Riffle, J.S. (2004) Block copolysiloxanes and their complexation with cobalt nanoparticles. Polymer, 45, 7449-7461.

• Gorham, N.T., Woodward, R.C., St. Pierre, T.G., Stamps, R.L., Walker, M.J., Greig, D., and Matthew, J.A.D., (2004) Apparent magnetic energy barrier distributions in spin glasses, J. Appl. Phys., 95, 6983-6985.

• Clark, P.R., Chua-anusorn, W., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2004) Reduction of respiratory motion artifacts in transverse relaxation rate (R2) images of the liver. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 28, 69-76

2003

• Chua-anusorn, W., Mun, H.-R., Webb, J., Gorham, N.T., St. Pierre, T.G. (2002) Effect of precipitation temperature and number of iron atoms per molecule on structure of hydrated iron(III) oxyhydroxide ferritin cores synthesised in vitro. Hyperfine Interactions 144/145, 279-288.

• Pardoe, H., Clark, P., St. Pierre, T.G., Moroz, P., and Jones, S.K. (2003) A magnetic resonance imaging based method for measurement of tissue iron concentration in liver arterially embolized with ferrimagnetic particles designed for magnetic hyperthermia treatment of tumours. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 21, 483-488.

• Clark, P.R., Chua-anusorn, W., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2003) Bi-exponential proton transverse relaxation rate (R2) image analysis using RF field intensity-weighted spin density projection: potential for R2 measurement of iron-loaded liver. Mag. Reson. Imaging 21, 519-530

• Pardoe, H., Chua-anusorn, W., St. Pierre, T.G., Dobson, J. (2003) Detection limits for ferrimagnetic particle concentrations using magnetic resonance imaging based proton transverse relaxation rate measurements. Phys. Med. Biol. 48, N89-N95.

• Clark, P.R., Chua-anusorn, W., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2003) Proton transverse relaxation rate (R2) images of liver tissue: mapping local tissue iron concentrations with MRI. Mag. Reson. Med. 49, 572-575.

• Harris, L.A., Goff, J. D., Carmichael, A. Y., Riffle, J. S., Harburn, J. J., St. Pierre, T.G., and Saunders, M. (2003) Magnetite nanoparticle dispersions stabilized with triblock copolymers. Chem. Mater. 15, 1367-1377

• Sipos, P., Berkesi, O., Tombacz, E., St. Pierre, T.G., and Webb, J. (2003) Formation of spherical iron(III) oxyhydroxide nanoparticles sterically stabilized by chitosan in aqueous solutions. J. Inorg. Biochem., 95, 55-63

• St. Pierre, T.G. (2003) Deferiprone versus desferrioxamine in thalassaemia, and T2* validation and utility. The Lancet, 361, 182.

2002

• St. Pierre, T.G., Gorham, N.T., Allen, P.D., Costa-Krämer, J.L., and Rao, K.V. (2002) Apparent magnetic energy-barrier distribution in horse-spleen ferritin: evidence for multiple interacting magnetic entities per ferrihydrite nanoparticle. Phys. Rev. B 65, 024436.

• Rutnakornpituk, M., Thompson, M.S., Harris, L.A., Farmer, K.E., Esker, A. R., Riffle, J.S., Connolly, J., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2002) Formation of cobalt nanoparticle dispersions in the presence of polysiloxane block copolymers. Polymer 43, 2337-2348.

• Brooks, D.G., Lobmayr, L., St. Pierre, T.G., Manova-Todorova, K., Eagle, R., Wilson, R., and Stambolian, D.S. (2002) In vivo ferritin crystallization in hereditary hyperferritinemia cataract syndrome. Invest. Opthal. Visual Sci. 43: 1121-1126.

• Hart, R.D., St. Pierre, T.G., Gilkes, R.J., McKinley, A.J., Siradz, S., Singh, B. (2002) Iron in soil kaolins from Indonesia and Western Australia. Clay Minerals 37, 671-685.

• Moroz, P., Pardoe, H., Jones, S.K., St. Pierre, T.G., Song, S., Gray, B.N. (2002) Arterial embolization hyperthermia: hepatic iron particle distribution and its potential determination by magnetic resonance imaging. J. Phys. Med. Biol., 47, 1591-1602.

• Connolly, J., St. Pierre, T.G., Rutnakornpituk, M., and Riffle, J.S. (2002): Silica coating of cobalt nanoparticles increases their magnetic and chemical stability for biomedical applications. Eur. Cells Mat., 3, Suppl. 2, 106-109.

• Rutnakornpituk, M., Baranauskas, V.V., Riffle, J.S., Connolly, J., St. Pierre, T.G., Dailey, J.P. (2002): Polysiloxane fluid dispersions of cobalt nanoparticles in silica spheres for use in ophthalmic applications. Eur. Cells Mat., 3, Suppl. 2, 102-105.

• M. Loan, T.G. St. Pierre, G.M. Parkinson, O.G.M. Newman, and J.B. Farrow (2002) Identifying nanoscale ferrihydrite in hydrometallurgical residues, JOM - J. Miner. Met. Mater. Soc., 54 (12), 40-43

2001

• Connolly, J. and St. Pierre, T.G. (2001) Proposed biosensors based on the time dependent properties of magnetic fluids. J. Magn. Magn. Mat., 225, 156-160.

• Pardoe, H., Chua-anusorn, W., St. Pierre, T.G., and Dobson, J. (2001) Structural and magnetic properties of nanoscale iron oxide particles synthesized in the presence of dextran and polyvinyl alcohol. J. Magn. Magn. Mat., 225, 41-46.

2000

• St Pierre, T.G., Chua-anusorn, W., Webb, J., and Macey, D.J. (2000) Iron overload diseases: the chemical speciation of non-heme iron deposits in iron loaded mammalian tissues. Hyperfine Interactions, 126, 75-81.

• Clark, P.R. and St. Pierre, T.G. (2000) Quantitative 1/T2 mapping of hepatic iron overload: a single spin echo imaging methodology. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 18, 431-438.

• Chua-anusorn, W., Tran, K.C., Webb, J., Macey, D.J., and St. Pierre, T.G. (2000) Chemical speciation of iron deposits in thalassemic heart tissue. Inorg. Chim. Acta, 300-302, 932-936

• St. Pierre, T.G. and Dobson J (2000) Theoretical evaluation of cell membrane ion channel activation by applied magnetic fields. European Biophysics Journal, 29, 455-456.

• Dobson, J, St Pierre, T.G., Schultheiss-Grassi, P.P., Wieser, H.G., and Kuster, N. (2000) Analysis of EEG data from weak-field magnetic stimulation of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Brain Research, 868, 386-391.

• Dobson, J, St. Pierre, T.G., Wieser, H.G., and Fuller, M. (2000) Changes in paroxysmal brainwave patterns of epileptics by application of DC magnetic fields. Bioelectromagnetics, 21, 94-99

• Allen, P.D., St Pierre, T.G., Chua-anusorn, W., Ström, V., and Rao, K.V. (2000) Low-frequency low-field magnetic susceptibility of ferritin and hemosiderin. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1500, 186-196.

1999

• St. Pierre, T.G., Carson, K.C., J. Webb, Glenn, A.R., and Dilworth, M.J. (1999) Evidence for polynuclear iron(III) clusters in the root nodule bacterium, Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae WSM710. Biometals 12, 73-76

• Dobson, J., St. Pierre, T.G., Pardoe, H., and Schultheiss-Grassi, P.P. (1999) Experimental and theoretical evaluation of the interactions of biogenic magnetite with electromagnetic fields. In: Electricity and Magnetism in Biology and Medicine, ed. S. Bersani., Plenum, New York, pp401-404.

• Chua-anusorn, W., Macey, D.J., Webb, J., Hall, P de la M., and St Pierre, T.G. (1999) Effects of prolonged iron loading in the rat using both parenteral and dietary routes. Biometals, 12, 103-113.

• Chua-anusorn, W., Webb, J., Macey, D.J., Hall, P. de la M., St. Pierre, T.G. (1999) The effect of prolonged iron loading on the chemical form of iron oxide deposits in rat liver and spleen. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1454, 191-200.

• Rahman, I.H.A., Chua-anusorn, W., Webb, J., Macey D.J., and St. Pierre T.G. (1999) Characterization of dugong liver ferritin. Analytica Chimica Acta., 393, 235-243.

• Webb, J, Macey, DJ, Chua-anusorn W, St. Pierre, TG, Brooker, LR, Rahman, I, Noller, B (1999) Iron biominerals in medicine and the environment. Coord. Chem. Rev. 192 1199-1215.

1998

• Li, Z.X., Dobson, J., Chen, Z., Chang, W.J., and St. Pierre, T.G. (1998) Multimodal investigation of thermally induced changes in magnetic fabric and magnetic mineralogy. Geophys. J. Int. 135, 988-998

• Chua-anusorn, W., St. Pierre, T.G., Macey, D.J., Webb, J. (1998) Reductive changes to polynuclear iron(III) clusters in iron-loaded human spleen tissue. Inorg. Chim. Acta, 267, 7-10.

• Allen, P., St. Pierre, T.G., and Street, R. (1998) Magnetic interactions in native horse spleen ferritin below the superparamagnetic blocking temperature. J. Mag. Magn. Mat., 177-181, 1459-1460.

• St. Pierre, T.G., Chua-anusorn, W., Webb, J., Macey, D.J., and Pootrakul, P. (1998) The form of iron oxide deposits in thalassemic tissues varies between different groups of patients: a comparison between Thai B-thalassemia/hemoglobin E patients and Australian B-thalassemia patients. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1407, 51-60.

• Dobson, J and TG St. Pierre (1998) Microwave radiation effects on biogenic magnetite particles and circuits in the human brain: Theoretical evaluation of cellular phone safety aspects. Electro & Magneto Biol., 17: 351-359.