Professor of Radiology

Email: ccatana@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

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Recent Publications

• Tu RK, Esposito G, Agarwal A, Akin EA, Catana C, Chiang GC, Colletti PM, Dhingra J, Kuo PH, Franceschi AM, Peacock JG, Thaker A, Shah LM, Bartel T. ACR-ACNM-ASNR-SNMMI Practice Parameter for the Performance of Brain PET/CT Imaging in Dementia. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2026 Feb 03. 47(2):269-280
• Loggia ML, Brugarolas P, Catana C, Hooker JM. How the next 50 years of positron emission tomography can transform our understanding of chronic pain. Pain. 2025 Nov 01. 166(11S):S71-S74
• 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.
• Farag A, Mirshahvalad SA, Catana C, Veit-Haibach P. Simultaneous Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Challenges and Opportunities in Clinical PET Image Quantification. PET Clin. 2025 Oct. 20(4):439-451