Professor of Radiology

Email: ccatana@nmr.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.
• Efthimiou N, Fu JF, Mohammadian M, Tseng CJ, Scipioni M, Zhou IY, Zürcher NR, Mandeville JB, Price JC, Loggia ML, Catana C. Tangible advantages of multi-stage brain motion compensation for PET imaging demonstrated in multiple studies. medRxiv. 2025 Sep 19.
• Alshelh Z, Brusaferri L, Morrissey EJ, Torrado-Carvajal A, Kim M, Akeju O, Grmek G, Chane C, Murphy J, Schrepf A, Harris RE, Kwon YM, Bedair H, Siliski J, Chen AF, Melnic C, Jarraya M, Napadow V, Veronese M, Maccioni L, Edwards RR, Efthimiou N, Mohammadian M, Luo E, Pollak LE, Catana C, Toschi N, Loggia ML. Brain inflammation and its predictive value for post-operative pain in total knee arthroplasty patients. Brain Behav Immun. 2025 May 10. 128:703-712
• Mohammadian M, Morrissey EJ, Knight PC, Brusaferri L, Kim M, Efthimiou N, Murphy JP, Alshelh Z, Grmek G, Schnieders JH, Chane CA, Sandström A, Catana C, Gilman JM, Locascio JJ, Edwards RR, Zhang Y, Napadow V, Loggia ML. Investigating the potential of minocycline in reducing brain inflammation in chronic low back pain: a randomized, placebo-controlled mechanistic clinical trial. Pain. 2025 Apr 09.
• Allison MB, Catana C, Zhou IY, Caravan P, Montesi SB. Molecular Imaging of Pulmonary Fibrosis. J Nucl Med. 2025 Apr 01. 66(4):502-505