Michael A. Levine, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Bio
Michael is a PhD student in the Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program. His dissertation research focuses on characterizing dopamine response to behavioral challenge using PET tracer kinetic modeling and improving head PET motion correction by unifying MR- and PET-based motion estimates.
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dissertation
“A generalized approach to parametric mapping of transient reward-induced neurotransmitter release using optimized PET and simultaneous fMRI”
PROJECT #1
Unified Multimodal Motion Estimation for Head PET Motion Correction
PROJECT #2
Assessment of Model Bias Upon Detection of Dopamine Response to Challenge
Education
B.Sc. in Bioengineering
Clemson University, USA
PhD, Biophysics
Harvard University, USA
Publications
2020
2018
2016
2015
2020
2018
- Chen, KT, Salcedo, S, Chonde, DB, Izquierdo-Garcia, D, Levine, MA, Price, JC, Dickerson, BC, Catana, C (2018).MR-assisted PET motion correction in simultaneous PET/MRI studies of dementia subjects. J Magn Reson Imaging48,1288-1296.
2016
- Bowen, SL, Fuin, N, Levine, MA, Catana, C (2016).Transmission imaging for integrated PET-MR systems. Phys Med Biol61,5547-68.
- Prentice-Mott, HV, Meroz, Y, Carlson, A, Levine, MA, Davidson, MW, Irimia, D, Charras, GT, Mahadevan, L, Shah, JV (2016).Directional memory arises from long-lived cytoskeletal asymmetries in polarized chemotactic cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A113,1267-72.
2015
- Gerstner, ER, Ye, X, Duda, DG, Levine, MA, Mikkelsen, T, Kaley, TJ, Olson, JJ, Nabors, BL, Ahluwalia, MS, Wen, PY, Jain, RK, Batchelor, TT, Grossman, S (2015).A phase I study of cediranib in combination with cilengitide in patients with recurrent glioblastoma. Neuro Oncol17,1386-92.