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Alexander Hammers is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom, specializing in the field of Medicine with a research focus spanning multiple subfields including Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their contributions include research on various topics such as Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences
  • EJNMMI Research
  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Alexander Hammers are:

  • Vaccine side-effects and SARS-CoV-2 infection after vaccination in users of the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK: a prospective observational study, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Mapping neurotransmitter systems to the structural and functional organization of the human neocortex, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Illness duration and symptom profile in symptomatic UK school-aged children tested for SARS-CoV-2, 2021, The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Changes in symptomatology, reinfection, and transmissibility associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7: an ecological study, 2021, The Lancet Public Health
  • Diet quality and risk and severity of COVID-19: a prospective cohort study, 2021, Gut

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexander Hammers include:

  • Sébastien Ourselin
  • Claire J. Steves
  • Carole H. Sudre
  • Liane S. Canas
  • Michela Antonelli

Alexander Hammers has also published a book titled Insular Epilepsies in 2022, released by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • In vivo imaging of microglial activation with [11C](R)-PK11195 PET in idiopathic Parkinson's disease

    Alexander Gerhard;Nicola Pavese;Gary Hotton;Federico Turkheimer

  • Three-dimensional maximum probability atlas of the human brain, with particular reference to the temporal lobe

    Alexander Hammers;Richard Allom;Matthias J. Koepp;Samantha L. Free

  • Multi-atlas based segmentation of brain images: Atlas selection and its effect on accuracy

    Paul Aljabar;Rolf A. Heckemann;Alexander Hammers;Joseph V. Hajnal

  • Automatic anatomical brain MRI segmentation combining label propagation and decision fusion.

    Rolf A. Heckemann;Joseph V. Hajnal;Paul Aljabar;Daniel Rueckert

  • Microglia, amyloid, and cognition in Alzheimer's disease: An [11C](R)PK11195-PET and [11C]PIB-PET study.

    Paul Edison;Hilary A. Archer;Alexander Gerhard;Alexander Gerhard;Rainer Hinz;Rainer Hinz

  • Amyloid, hypometabolism, and cognition in Alzheimer disease An [11C]PIB and [18F]FDG PET study

    P. Edison;H. A. Archer;R. Hinz;Alexander Hammers

  • Random forest-based similarity measures for multi-modal classification of Alzheimer’s disease

    Katherine R. Gray;Paul Aljabar;Rolf A. Heckemann;Alexander Hammers

  • Automatic segmentation of brain MRIs of 2-year-olds into 83 regions of interest.

    Ioannis S Gousias;Daniel Rueckert;Rolf A Heckemann;Leigh E Dyet

  • GAN Augmentation: Augmenting Training Data using Generative Adversarial Networks

    Christopher Bowles;Liang Chen;Ricardo Guerrero;Paul Bentley

  • Reference and target region modeling of [11C]-(R)-PK11195 brain studies

    Federico E. Turkheimer;Paul Edison;Nicola Pavese;Federico Roncaroli

  • LEAP: Learning embeddings for atlas propagation

    Robin Wolz;Paul Aljabar;Joseph V. Hajnal;Alexander Hammers

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of the newborn brain: Manual segmentation of labelled atlases in term-born and preterm infants

    Ioannis S. Gousias;A. David Edwards;Mary A. Rutherford;Serena J. Counsell

  • Cortical dysfunction in non-demented Parkinson's disease patients: a combined (31)P-MRS and (18)FDG-PET study.

    M. T. M. Hu;S. D. Taylor-Robinson;K. R. Chaudhuri;J. D. Bell

  • Diagnostic accuracy of (18)F amyloid PET tracers for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Elizabeth Morris;Anastasia Chalkidou;Alexander Hammers;Janet Peacock;Janet Peacock

  • Stroke following chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine.

    Andreas Hufnagel;Alexander Hammers;Paul-Walter Schönle;Klaus-Dieter Böhm

  • Automatic segmentation of the hippocampus and the amygdala driven by hybrid constraints: Method and validation

    Marie Chupin;Alexander Hammers;Rebecca S. N. Liu;Olivier Colliot

  • Glutamate NMDA receptor dysregulation in Parkinson’s disease with dyskinesias

    Imtiaz Ahmed;Subrata K. Bose;Nicola Pavese;Anil Ramlackhansingh

  • A multi-centre evaluation of eleven clinically feasible brain PET/MRI attenuation correction techniques using a large cohort of patients

    Claes N. Ladefoged;Ian Law;Udunna Anazodo;Keith St. Lawrence

  • Improving intersubject image registration using tissue-class information benefits robustness and accuracy of multi-atlas based anatomical segmentation.

    Rolf A. Heckemann;Shiva Keihaninejad;Paul Aljabar;Daniel Rueckert

  • Progressive neocortical damage in epilepsy.

    Rebecca S. N. Liu;Louis Lemieux;Gail S. Bell;Alexander Hammers;Alexander Hammers

  • A robust method to estimate the intracranial volume across MRI field strengths (1.5T and 3T)

    Shiva Keihaninejad;Rolf A. Heckemann;Gianlorenzo Fagiolo;Mark R. Symms

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Brooks
David J. Brooks Newcastle University
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan University College London
Matthias J. Koepp
Matthias J. Koepp University College London
Federico E. Turkheimer
Federico E. Turkheimer King's College London
Nicolas Costes
Nicolas Costes Grenoble Alpes University
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Alexander Gerhard
Alexander Gerhard University of Manchester
Anne Lingford-Hughes
Anne Lingford-Hughes Imperial College London
David J. Nutt
David J. Nutt Imperial College London
Philippe Ryvlin
Philippe Ryvlin University Hospital of Lausanne

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