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Leigh A. Johnston is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a research focus primarily in the field of Medicine, with a significant emphasis on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiation, Psychiatry and Mental Health, as well as Biomedical Engineering.

The research contributions of this scientist include studies on advanced imaging techniques and their applications. The main topics covered in their publications include:

  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • MRI in cancer diagnosis

Leigh A. Johnston has published numerous papers in various scholarly outlets. Notable recent works include:

  • "Predicting individual improvement in schizophrenia symptom severity at 1-year follow-up: Comparison of connectomic, structural, and clinical predictors" (2020), published in Human Brain Mapping
  • "QSMART: Quantitative susceptibility mapping artifact reduction technique" (2021), published in NeuroImage
  • "Continuous monitoring of plant sodium transport dynamics using clinical PET" (2021), published in Plant Methods
  • "Cortico-cognition coupling in treatment resistant schizophrenia" (2022), published in NeuroImage Clinical
  • "Longitudinal hippocampal volumetric changes in mice following brain infarction" (2021), published in Scientific Reports

The venues where this scientist frequently publishes demonstrate a pattern of engagement with specialized imaging and medical research communities. These include:

  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • NeuroImage
  • Scientific Reports
  • Medical Physics

Collaboration is also a significant component of Leigh A. Johnston's research activities. Frequent co-authors have been:

  • Rebecca Glarin
  • Catherine E. Davey
  • Yasmin Blunck
  • Warda Syeda
  • Bradford A. Moffat

Best Publications

  • Performance analysis of a dynamic programming track before detect algorithm

    L.A. Johnston;V. Krishnamurthy

  • An improvement to the interacting multiple model (IMM) algorithm

    L.A. Johnston;V. Krishnamurthy

  • Characterization of the corpus callosum in very preterm and full-term infants utilizing MRI

    Deanne K. Thompson;Deanne K. Thompson;Terrie E. Inder;Nathan Faggian;Leigh A. Johnston

  • Sodium selenate reduces hyperphosphorylated tau and improves outcomes after traumatic brain injury

    Sandy R Shultz;David K Wright;Ping Zheng;Ryan Stuchbery

  • The power of spectral density analysis for mapping endogenous BOLD signal fluctuations

    Eugene P. Duff;Leigh A. Johnston;Jinhu Xiong;Peter T. Fox

  • Contour grouping with prior models

    J.H. Elder;A. Krupnik;L.A. Johnston

  • Sodium selenate retards epileptogenesis in acquired epilepsy models reversing changes in protein phosphatase 2A and hyperphosphorylated tau.

    Shi Jie Liu;Ping Zheng;David K. Wright;David K. Wright;Gabi Dezsi

  • A review of β-amyloid neuroimaging in Alzheimer's disease.

    Paul A Adlard;Bob A Tran;David Isaac Finkelstein;Patricia M Desmond;Patricia M Desmond

  • Optic nerve diffusion changes and atrophy jointly predict visual dysfunction after optic neuritis.

    Scott C. Kolbe;Caron Chapman;Caron Chapman;Thanh Nguyen;Clare Bajraszewski

  • Brain network dynamics in schizophrenia: Reduced dynamism of the default mode network.

    Akhil Kottaram;Leigh A Johnston;Luca Cocchi;Eleni P Ganella;Eleni P Ganella

  • Preservation of vision by the pulvinar following early-life primary visual cortex lesions.

    Claire E Warner;William C Kwan;David Wright;Leigh A Johnston

  • Filtering induces correlation in fMRI resting state data

    Catherine E Davey;David B Grayden;David B Grayden;Gary Francis Egan;Gary Francis Egan;Leigh Andrea Johnston;Leigh Andrea Johnston

  • Automated differentiation of pre-diagnosis Huntington's disease from healthy control individuals based on quadratic discriminant analysis of the basal ganglia: the IMAGE-HD study

    N. Georgiou-Karistianis;M.A. Gray;A.R. Dymowski

  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Huntington’s disease reveals distinct patterns of white matter degeneration associated with motor and cognitive deficits

    India Bohanna;India Bohanna;Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis;Anusha Sritharan;Hamed Asadi;Hamed Asadi

  • Anti-lysophosphatidic acid antibodies improve traumatic brain injury outcomes

    Peter J Crack;Moses Zhang;Maria Cristina Morganti-Kossmann;Maria Cristina Morganti-Kossmann;Andrew Morris

  • A software tool to generate simulated white matter structures for the assessment of fibre-tracking algorithms

    Thomas G. Close;Jacques-Donald Tournier;Fernando Calamante;Leigh A. Johnston;Leigh A. Johnston

  • Opportunistic file transfer over a fading channel: A POMDP search theory formulation with optimal threshold policies

    L.A. Johnston;V. Krishnamurthy

  • The impact of Alzheimer's disease on the functional connectivity between brain regions underlying pain perception.

    Leonie J Cole;Maria Gavrilescu;Leigh A Johnston;Leigh A Johnston;Stephen J Gibson

  • Behavioral, blood, and magnetic resonance imaging biomarkers of experimental mild traumatic brain injury

    David K. Wright;David K. Wright;Jack Trezise;Alaa Kamnaksh;Ramsey Bekdash

  • A longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging study in symptomatic Huntington’s disease

    A Sritharan;Gary Francis Egan;Leigh A Johnston;Malcolm Kenneth Horne

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary F. Egan
Gary F. Egan Monash University
Iven Mareels
Iven Mareels IBM (United States)
Vikram Krishnamurthy
Vikram Krishnamurthy Cornell University
Sandy R. Shultz
Sandy R. Shultz Monash University
Bridgette D. Semple
Bridgette D. Semple Monash University
David B. Grayden
David B. Grayden University of Melbourne
Amy Brodtmann
Amy Brodtmann Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Andrew Zalesky
Andrew Zalesky University of Melbourne
Arthur W. Toga
Arthur W. Toga University of Southern California

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