Catana Lab

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.

Projects

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