Instructor in Radiology

Email: xzhou27@mgh.harvard.edu

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Recent Publications

• Yu X, Liu X, Yu G, Jiang Y, Pasupathy N, Hike D, Zhou XA. Neuronal-Activity-Related Sodium (NARS) fMRI Reveals Millisecond Neuronal Dynamics Beyond Hemodynamic Readouts. bioRxiv. 2026 Feb 16.
• Imai T, Krishnan V, Lai JH, Alber E, Hawley L, Gandhi A, Kalailingam P, Yang J, Tambala D, Hike DC, Zhou XA, Fong C, Ondeck B, Cruz ETD, Liu X, Siv AK, Öncel M, Das S, Sakadžic S, Ayata C, Yu X, Lindsay ME, Musolino PL, Chung DY. Smooth Muscle Dysfunction Drives Cerebrovascular Reserve Failure and End-Organ Brain Injury. bioRxiv. 2026 Jan 26.
• Chuang KH, Zhou XA, Xia Y, Li Z, Qian L, Eeles E, Ngiam G, Fripp J, Coulson EJ. Cholinergic basal forebrain neurons regulate vascular dynamics and cerebrospinal fluid flux. Nat Commun. 2025 Jun 23. 16(1):5343
• Zhou XA, Jiang Y, Gomez-Cid L, Yu X. Elucidating hemodynamics and neuro-glio-vascular signaling using rodent fMRI. Trends Neurosci. 2025 03. 48(3):227-241
• Hike D, Liu X, Xie Z, Zhang B, Choi S, Zhou XA, Liu A, Murstein A, Jiang Y, Devor A, Yu X. High-resolution awake mouse fMRI at 14 tesla. Elife. 2025 Jan 09. 13