Professor of Radiology

Email: ccatana@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

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Recent Publications

• Mohammadian M, Efthimiou N, Gabriel K, Brusaferri L, Cooper-Hohn J, Kim M, Murphy JP, Alshelh Z, Grmek G, Schnieders JH, Chane CA, Carmichael TG, Yang D, Schubert JJ, Turkheimer FE, Cazuza RA, Grace PM, Catana C, Stufflebeam SM, Edwards RR, Napadow V, Sullivan K, Nahrendorf M, Price TJ, Gilman JM, Loggia ML. Elevated translocator protein in skull bone marrow is linked to human chronic pain. Sci Transl Med. 2026 Sep 02. 18(865):eaed8729
• Allen MS, Byars L, Rauscher L, Scipioni M, Puryear M, Judenhofer M, Hen O, Schmidt FP, Catana C. Performance of detector modules designed for the NeuroSphere brain PET system. Med Phys. 2026 Aug. 53(8):e70582
• 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
• Allison MB, Efthimiou N, Zhou IY, Digumarthy S, Izquierdo-Garcia D, Catana C, Caravan P, Montesi SB. Novel biomarker of fibrosis in SSc-ILD. RMD Open. 2026 Jun 23. 12(2)
• 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 02 03. 47(2):269-280