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Alan Connelly is affiliated with the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and neuroscience, with a focused interest in radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, developmental and educational psychology, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's main areas of study include advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced MRI techniques and applications, fetal and pediatric neurological disorders, epilepsy research and treatment, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and language development and disorders.

Among the frequent venues for their publications are:

  • NeuroImage
  • Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Neurology
  • Aperture Neuro
  • NeuroImage Clinical

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Alan Connelly include:

  • Mapping Structural Connectivity Using Diffusion MRI: Challenges and Opportunities, 2020, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Severe childhood speech disorder, 2020, Neurology
  • Early childhood development of white matter fiber density and morphology, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Quantitative streamlines tractography: methods and inter-subject normalisation, 2022, Aperture Neuro
  • Characterisation of white matter asymmetries in the healthy human brain using diffusion MRI fixel-based analysis, 2020, NeuroImage

Their collaborative work features frequent co-authors such as Robert E. Smith, Thijs Dhollander, Graeme D. Jackson, Chun-Hung Yeh, and Xiaoyun Liang. These collaborations have contributed to multiple publications within their fields of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Differential effects of early hippocampal pathology on episodic and semantic memory.

    F. Vargha-Khadem;D. G. Gadian;K. E. Watkins;A. Connelly

  • Robust determination of the fibre orientation distribution in diffusion MRI: non-negativity constrained super-resolved spherical deconvolution.

    Jacques-Donald Tournier;Fernando Calamante;Alan Connelly

  • MRtrix3: A fast, flexible and open software framework for medical image processing and visualisation

    Jacques-Donald Tournier;Robert E. Smith;Robert E. Smith;David Raffelt;Rami Tabbara

  • Direct estimation of the fiber orientation density function from diffusion-weighted MRI data using spherical deconvolution.

    Jacques-Donald Tournier;Fernando Calamante;David G. Gadian;Alan Connelly

  • Multi-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution for improved analysis of multi-shell diffusion MRI data

    Ben Jeurissen;Jacques-Donald Tournier;Thijs Dhollander;Alan Connelly

  • Anatomically-constrained tractography: Improved diffusion MRI streamlines tractography through effective use of anatomical information

    Robert E. Smith;Jacques-Donald Tournier;Fernando Calamante;Alan Connelly

  • Image-selected in Vivo spectroscopy (ISIS). A new technique for spatially selective nmr spectroscopy

    R.J Ordidge;A Connelly;J.A.B Lohman

  • SIFT: Spherical-deconvolution informed filtering of tractograms

    Robert E. Smith;Jacques-Donald Tournier;Jacques-Donald Tournier;Fernando Calamante;Fernando Calamante;Alan Connelly;Alan Connelly

  • Resolving crossing fibres using constrained spherical deconvolution: Validation using diffusion-weighted imaging phantom data

    Jacques-Donald Tournier;Chun-Hung Yeh;Fernando Calamante;Fernando Calamante;Kuan-Hung Cho

  • Apparent Fibre Density: a novel measure for the analysis of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images.

    David Raffelt;Jacques-Donald Tournier;Stephen E. Rose;Gerard R. Ridgway

  • Investigating white matter fibre density and morphology using fixel-based analysis.

    David A Raffelt;Jacques-Donald Tournier;Robert E Smith;David N Vaughan

  • SIFT2: Enabling dense quantitative assessment of brain white matter connectivity using streamlines tractography

    Robert E. Smith;Jacques-Donald Tournier;Fernando Calamante;Alan Connelly

  • Neural basis of an inherited speech and language disorder

    F. Vargha-Khadem;K. E. Watkins;C. J. Price;J. Ashburner

  • Delay and dispersion effects in dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI: simulations using singular value decomposition.

    Fernando Calamante;David G. Gadian;David G. Gadian;Alan Connelly;Alan Connelly

  • White matter fiber tractography: why we need to move beyond DTI.

    Shawna Farquharson;Jacques-Donald Tournier;Fernando Calamante;Gavin C Fabinyi

  • MRI analysis of an inherited speech and language disorder: structural brain abnormalities

    Kate E. Watkins;F. Vargha-Khadem;J. Ashburner;R. E. Passingham

  • Language fMRI abnormalities associated with FOXP2 gene mutation

    Frédérique Liégeois;Frédérique Liégeois;Torsten Baldeweg;Torsten Baldeweg;Alan Connelly;Alan Connelly;David G Gadian;David G Gadian

  • Magnetic resonance spectroscopy in temporal lobe epilepsy

    A. Connelly;G. D. Jackson;J. S. Duncan;M. D. King

  • Track-density imaging (TDI): Super-resolution white matter imaging using whole-brain track-density mapping

    Fernando Calamante;Jacques-Donald Tournier;Graeme D. Jackson;Alan Connelly

  • Detection of hippocampal pathology in intractable partial epilepsy: increased sensitivity with quantitative magnetic resonance T2 relaxometry.

    G. D. Jackson;A. Connelly;J. S. Duncan;R. A. Grünewald

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme D. Jackson
Graeme D. Jackson Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem University College London
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan University College London
Olivier Salvado
Olivier Salvado Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Fenella J. Kirkham
Fenella J. Kirkham University College London
David Atkinson
David Atkinson University of Liverpool
Torsten Baldeweg
Torsten Baldeweg University College London
Amy Brodtmann
Amy Brodtmann Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Victor L. Villemagne
Victor L. Villemagne University of Pittsburgh
Christopher C. Rowe
Christopher C. Rowe University of Melbourne

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