User profiles for Ciprian Catana

Ciprian Catana

Professor of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Verified email at mgh.harvard.edu
Cited by 11123

Simultaneous PET-MRI: a new approach for functional and morphological imaging

MS Judenhofer, HF Wehrl, DF Newport, C Catana… - Nature medicine, 2008 - nature.com
Noninvasive imaging at the molecular level is an emerging field in biomedical research.
This paper introduces a new technology synergizing two leading imaging methodologies: …

Performance test of an LSO-APD detector in a 7-T MRI scanner for simultaneous PET/MRI

BJ Pichler, MS Judenhofer, C Catana… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2006 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET combined with CT has proven to be a valuable multimodality imaging device revealing
both functional and anatomic information. Although PET/CT has become completely …

Evidence for brain glial activation in chronic pain patients

ML Loggia, DB Chonde, O Akeju, G Arabasz, C Catana… - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Although substantial evidence has established that microglia and astrocytes play a key role
in the establishment and maintenance of persistent pain in animal models, the role of glial …

Simultaneous acquisition of multislice PET and MR images: initial results with a MR-compatible PET scanner

C Catana, Y Wu, MS Judenhofer, J Qi… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2006 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET and MRI are powerful imaging techniques that are largely complementary in the
information they provide. We have designed and built a MR-compatible PET scanner based on …

Toward implementing an MRI-based PET attenuation-correction method for neurologic studies on the MR-PET brain prototype

C Catana, A van der Kouwe, T Benner… - Journal of nuclear …, 2010 - Soc Nuclear Med
Several factors have to be considered for implementing an accurate attenuation-correction (AC)
method in a combined MR-PET scanner. In this work, some of these challenges were …

Simultaneous in vivo positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging

C Catana, D Procissi, Y Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are widely used
in vivo imaging technologies with both clinical and biomedical research applications. The …

PET/MRI for neurologic applications

C Catana, A Drzezga, WD Heiss… - Journal of nuclear …, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
PET and MRI provide complementary information in the study of the human brain. Simultaneous
PET/MRI data acquisition allows the spatial and temporal correlation of the measured …

[HTML][HTML] Brain glial activation in fibromyalgia–A multi-site positron emission tomography investigation

…, J Lampa, YC Lee, CO Höglund, C Catana… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a poorly understood chronic condition characterized by widespread
musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and cognitive difficulties. While mounting evidence suggests a …

Different partial volume correction methods lead to different conclusions: an 18F-FDG-PET study of aging

…, SL Bowen, D Izquierdo-Garcia, AP Schultz, C Catana… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
A cross-sectional group study of the effects of aging on brain metabolism as measured with
18 F-FDG-PET was performed using several different partial volume correction (PVC) …

PET image reconstruction using deep image prior

K Gong, C Catana, J Qi, Q Li - IEEE transactions on medical …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, deep neural networks have been widely and successfully applied in computer
vision tasks and have attracted growing interest in medical imaging. One barrier for the …