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Overview

Junqian Xu is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research activity spans several domains within medicine and neuroscience, specializing notably in neuroimaging techniques and brain connectivity studies.

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

The subfields of study where Junqian Xu has contributed include:

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine

Xu's research topics reflect a focus on brain imaging and neural dynamics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Their recent scholarly output includes publications across notable scientific venues with diverse thematic focuses. Recent papers are:

  • "Generic acquisition protocol for quantitative MRI of the spinal cord," 2021, Nature Protocols
  • "Long-term ecological assessment of intracranial electrophysiology synchronized to behavioral markers in obsessive-compulsive disorder," 2021, Nature Medicine
  • "Open-access quantitative MRI data of the spinal cord and reproducibility across participants, sites and manufacturers," 2021, Scientific Data
  • "Empirical transmit field bias correction of T1w/T2w myelin maps," 2022, NeuroImage
  • "Angiogenic gene networks are dysregulated in opioid use disorder: evidence from multi-omics and imaging of postmortem human brain," 2021, Molecular Psychiatry

Xu frequently collaborates with other researchers. The most common co-authors include:

  • Joo-won Kim (17 collaborations)
  • Alan C. Seifert (12 collaborations)
  • Joo-Won Kim (9 collaborations)
  • Falk Eippert (8 collaborations)
  • Yazhuo Kong (8 collaborations)

The venues where Xu has published multiple works include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (10 publications)
  • Biological Psychiatry (5 publications)
  • Scientific Data (3 publications)
  • Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface (3 publications)
  • Brain Stimulation (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • The minimal preprocessing pipelines for the Human Connectome Project.

    Matthew F. Glasser;Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos;J. Anthony Wilson;Timothy S. Coalson

  • The Human Connectome Project: A data acquisition perspective

    D. C. Van Essen;Kamil Ugurbil;Edward J Auerbach

  • Multimodal population brain imaging in the UK Biobank prospective epidemiological study

    Karla L Miller;Fidel Alfaro-Almagro;Neal K Bangerter;David L Thomas

  • Resting-state fMRI in the Human Connectome Project

    S M Smith;C F Beckmann;J Andersson;E J Auerbach

  • ICA-based artefact removal and accelerated fMRI acquisition for improved resting state network imaging

    Ludovica Griffanti;Ludovica Griffanti;Gholamreza Salimi-Khorshidi;Christian F. Beckmann;Edward J. Auerbach

  • The Human Connectome Project's neuroimaging approach

    Matthew F Glasser;Stephen M Smith;Daniel S Marcus;Jesper L R Andersson

  • Advances in diffusion MRI acquisition and processing in the Human Connectome Project.

    Stamatios N. Sotiropoulos;Saâd Jbabdi;Junqian Xu;Jesper L. R. Andersson

  • Pushing spatial and temporal resolution for functional and diffusion MRI in the Human Connectome Project

    Kamil Ugurbil;Junqian Xu;Edward J. Auerbach;Steen Moeller

  • Temporally-independent functional modes of spontaneous brain activity

    Stephen M. Smith;Karla L. Miller;Steen Moeller;Junqian Xu

  • Evaluation of slice accelerations using multiband echo planar imaging at 3 T.

    Junqian Xu;Steen Moeller;Edward J. Auerbach;John P. Strupp

  • Optical coherence tomography differs in neuromyelitis optica compared with multiple sclerosis

    R. T. Naismith;N. T. Tutlam;J. Xu;E. C. Klawiter

  • Effects of image reconstruction on fiber orientation mapping from multichannel diffusion MRI: reducing the noise floor using SENSE.

    S. N. Sotiropoulos;Steen Moeller;S. Jbabdi;J. Xu

  • Optical coherence tomography is less sensitive than visual evoked potentials in optic neuritis

    R. T. Naismith;N. T. Tutlam;J. Xu;J. B. Shepherd

  • Multiband accelerated spin-echo echo planar imaging with reduced peak RF power using time-shifted RF pulses.

    Edward J. Auerbach;Junqian Xu;Essa Yacoub;Steen Moeller

  • Spinal cord involvement in multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders

    Olga Ciccarelli;Olga Ciccarelli;Jeffrey A Cohen;Stephen C Reingold;Brian G Weinshenker

  • Evaluation of highly accelerated simultaneous multi-slice EPI for fMRI.

    Liyong Chen;Liyong Chen;An T. Vu;An T. Vu;Junqian Xu;Junqian Xu;Steen Moeller;Steen Moeller

  • Magnetic resonance diffusion characteristics of histologically defined prostate cancer in humans.

    Junqian Xu;Peter A. Humphrey;Adam S. Kibel;Abraham Z. Snyder

  • Disability in optic neuritis correlates with diffusion tensor-derived directional diffusivities.

    Naismith Rt;Xu J;Tutlam Nt;Snyder A

  • Generic acquisition protocol for quantitative MRI of the spinal cord.

    Julien Cohen-Adad;Julien Cohen-Adad;Eva Alonso-Ortiz;Mihael Abramovic;Carina Arneitz

  • High-Resolution Mapping of Myeloarchitecture In Vivo: Localization of Auditory Areas in the Human Brain

    Federico De Martino;Federico De Martino;Michelle Moerel;Junqian Xu;Junqian Xu;Pierre Francois Van De Moortele

  • Assessing optic nerve pathology with diffusion MRI: from mouse to human.

    Junqian Xu;Shu-Wei Sun;Robert T. Naismith;Abraham Z. Snyder

Frequent Co-Authors

Essa Yacoub
Essa Yacoub University of Minnesota
Kamil Ugurbil
Kamil Ugurbil University of Minnesota
Matthew F. Glasser
Matthew F. Glasser Washington University in St. Louis
David A. Feinberg
David A. Feinberg University of California, Berkeley
Jesper L. R. Andersson
Jesper L. R. Andersson University of Oxford
Stephen M. Smith
Stephen M. Smith University of Oxford
Timothy E.J. Behrens
Timothy E.J. Behrens University of Oxford
Abraham Z. Snyder
Abraham Z. Snyder Washington University in St. Louis
Ashesh D. Mehta
Ashesh D. Mehta Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Karla L. Miller
Karla L. Miller University of Oxford

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