Associate Professor of Radiology

Email: ocatalano@mgh.harvard.edu

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Recent Publications

• Blandino AA, Caravan P, Ricciardi R, Bordeianou LG, Kunitake H, Goldstone RN, Drage MG, Zhang ML, Ananthakrishnan AN, Catalano OA. Collagen-binding probe PET/MR for distinguishing fibrotic from inflammatory strictures in Crohn's disease. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2026 Feb 17.
• Bezzi C, Ironi G, Russo T, Candotti G, Fallanca F, Sabini C, Samanes Gajate AM, Ghezzo S, Bergamini A, Sant'Angelo M, Bocciolone L, Brembilla G, Scifo P, Taccagni G, Catalano OA, Mangili G, Candiani M, De Cobelli F, Chiti A, Mapelli P, Picchio M. [18F]FDG PET/MRI in Endometrial Cancer: Prospective Evaluation of Preoperative Staging, Molecular Characterization and Prognostic Assessment. Cancers (Basel). 2026 Jan 16. 18(2)
• Asmundo L, Mercaldo N, Furtado F, Herold A, Mojtahed A, Anderson M, Bradley W, Hesami M, Peña-Trujillo V, Blandino AA, Cannella R, Vernuccio F, Srivastava S, Dighe M, Dhyani M, Sahani D, Sgrazzutti C, Brandi N, Renzulli M, Fanti S, Irun B, Brancatelli G, Vanzulli A, Sirlin C, Kambadakone AR, Catalano OA. A multicenter multinational retrospective study of the 1-year natural history of LI-RADS 3 observations in patients with cirrhosis. Eur Radiol. 2026 Jan 06.
• Zampieri PF, Hernandes DBG, Albenda DAG, Horvat N, Catalano OA, Buchpiguel CA, Queiroz MA. State of the art of PET/MRI for rectal cancer: the added value to conventional imaging. Radiol Bras. 2025 Jan-Dec. 58:e20250060
• Herold A, Hajati A, Cao Y, Fialkowski KP, Ghosh S, Delaney F, Heidari P, Picchio M, Mapelli P, Chiti A, Anderson MA, Peña-Trujillo V, Kambadakone A, Blake MA, Shufflebeam S, Catana C, Caravan P, Weber M, Huang SY, Catalano OA. Per-Lesion Assessment of Individual MRI Sequences and 68Ga-DOTATATE PET in Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases. Invest Radiol. 2025 Oct 27.