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 68 Ga-DOTATATE PET in Neuroendocrine Liver Metastases. Invest Radiol. 2026 Jul 01. 61(7):458-466
• 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
• Rauscher LU, Allen MS, Judenhofer MS, Byars L, Scipioni M, Udias JM, Catana C, Pichler BJ, Schmidt FP. Impact of DOI Capability on Detector Performance: A Comparative Study of DOI and Non-DOI Detectors for High-Resolution and Sensitivity Organ-Specific PET Inserts. IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci. 2026 May. 10(5):753-763
• Chen JE, Lewis LD, Coursey SE, Catana C, Polimeni JR, Fan J, Droppa KS, Patel R, Wey HY, Chang C, Manoach DS, Price JC, Sander CY, Rosen BR. Simultaneous EEG-PET-MRI identifies temporally coupled and spatially structured brain dynamics across wakefulness and NREM sleep. Nat Commun. 2025 Oct 24. 16(1):8887