Michael Levine
2020 PhD Graduate of Biophysics
Michael A. Levine is a Predoctoral Research Fellow from Boston, MA researching medical imaging with Ciprian Catana at Massachusetts General Hospital's Martinos Center.
Michael received his undergraduate training at Clemson University (Clemson, SC) in Biomedical Engineering. He worked as a Research Technician in the Quantitative Tumor Imaging at Martinos (QTIM) laboratory for a year before enrolling in the Harvard Biophysics Program and returning to the Martinos Center in the Integrated MR-PET Imaging Laboratory.
Michael is currently engaged in his dissertation work, developing a novel model of dopamine kinetics for use in the study of transient changes in dopamine binding under behavioral challenge. He is also working on unifying PET- and MR-based head motion estimates for the purpose of motion correcting PET reconstruction..
Project title: "A generalized approach to parametric mapping of transient reward-induced neurotransmitter release using optimized Positron Emission Tomography and simultaneous functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging".
Publications:
Abstracts:
Levine, M.A., Mandeville, J.B., Price, J.C., Catana, C. (2019). Assessment of Model Bias Upon Detection of Dopamine Response to Challenge. Paper presented at Paper presented at ISMRM-SNMMI co-provided workshop on PET/MRI. New York.
Levine, M.A., Chonde, D.B., Chen, K.T., Izquierdo-Garcia, D., Catana, C. (2017). Unification of PET and MR-based Head Motion Estimates for PET Motion Correction. Paper presented at ISMRM-SNMMI co-provided workshop on PET/MRI. Chicago.
Levine, M. A., Polaskova, P., Sprinkhuizen, S. M., Stufflebeam, S. M., Rosen, B. R., Kalpathy-Cramer, J., & Gerstner, E. R. (2013). Inter-Vendor Variability in Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Values. Paper presented at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Salt Lake City.
Bowen, S. L., Fuin, N., Levine, M. A., Wey, H., & Catana, C. (2015). Implementation of a Fixed Torus Transmission Scheme for a Simultaneous MR-PET System Paper presented at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging, San Diego.
Gerstner, E. R., Levine, M. A., Ye, X., Mikkelsen, T., Nabors, L. B., Olson, J. J., . . . Grossman, S. A. (2013). A Phase I Study of Cediranib in Combination with Cilengitide in Patients with Recurrent Glioblastoma. Paper presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Journal Articles:
Chen KT, Salcedo S, Chonde DB, Izquierdo-Garcia, D., Levine, M. A., Price, J. C., Dickerson, B. C., Catana, C. (2018) MR-assisted PET motion correction in simultaneous PET/MRI studies of dementia subjects. J Magn Reson Imaging.
Prentice-Mott, H. V., Meroz, Y., Carlson, A., Levine, M. A., Davidson, M. W., Irimia, D., . . . Shah, J. V. (2016). Directional memory arises from long-lived cytoskeletal asymmetries in polarized chemotactic cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201513289. doi:10.1073/pnas.1513289113
Bowen, S. L., Fuin, N., Levine, M. A., & Catana, C. (2016). Transmission imaging for integrated PET-MR systems. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 16, 5547. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/15/5547
Gerstner, E. R., Ye, X., Duda, D. G., Levine, M. A., Mikkelsen, T., Kaley, T. J., . . . Grossman, S. (2015). A phase I study of cediranib in combination with cilengitide in patients with recurrent glioblastoma. Neuro Oncol, 17(10), 1386-1392. doi:10.1093/neuonc/nov085
Contact Information
Laboratory of Professor Ciprian Catana
Massachsuetts general Hospital, Charlestown Navy Yard, Martinos Center.
149 13th St. Charlestown, MA 02129
Massachsuetts general Hospital, Charlestown Navy Yard, Martinos Center.
149 13th St. Charlestown, MA 02129