Associate Professor of Radiology

Email: ocatalano@mgh.harvard.edu

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Recent Publications

• 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.
• Herold A, Pohl M, Korn SM, Weber M, Efstathiou JA, Saylor PJ, Huang SY, Harisinghani MG, Catalano OA. Prognostic value of MRI-derived features for biochemical recurrence after curative radiotherapy in prostate cancer. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2025 Sep 20.
• Herold A, Mercaldo ND, Anderson MA, Mojtahed A, Kilcoyne A, Lo WC, Sellers RM, Clifford B, Nickel MD, Nakrour N, Huang SY, Tsai LL, Catalano OA, Harisinghani MG. Optimizing contrast-enhanced abdominal MRI: A comparative study of deep learning and standard VIBE techniques. Clin Imaging. 2025 Aug 07. 126:110581
• Herold A, Lo WC, Sharp A, Wichtmann BD, Hartmann SP, Gupta-Rastogi A, Melski LM, Conklin J, Lang M, Clifford B, Giri S, Weber M, Brink JA, Pianykh O, Catalano OA, Huang SY, Husseini JS. Enhancing MRI efficiency in musculoskeletal examinations: Impact of optimized facility design and workflow optimization efforts. Eur J Radiol. 2025 Sep. 190:112263
• Asmundo L, Furtado F, Delaney F, Amirkasra M, Hajati A, Shadi AE, Kambadakone A, Blaszkowsky L, Clark J, Ryan D, Catalano OA. To contrast or not to contrast? Evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of hepatobiliary contrast agents in liver FDG-PET/MR: a prospective study. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2025 May 09.