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Ann Ragin, PhD

Research Associate Professor

ann-ragin@northwestern.edu



Details
1. Address:Northwestern University Medical School
   Department of Radiology
   737 North Michigan Ave Ste 1600
   Chicago, Illinois 60611


2. Research Interests:MRI, Quantitative Neuroimaging, Measurement in Clinical Neuroscience




Publications
1. Ann B. Ragin, Ying Wu, Renee Ochs, Rachel Scheidegger, Bruce A. Cohen, Justin C. McArthur, Leon G. Epstein, Katherine Conant: Matrix Metalloproteinase levels correlate with brain injury in HIV infection. In Press. Journal of Neurovirology


2. Edelman RR, Dunkle E, Koktzoglou I, Griffin A, Russell EJ, Ankenbrandt W, Ragin A, Carrillo A.: Rapid whole-brain magnetic resonance imaging with isotropic resolution at 3 Tesla. Invest Radiol. 2009 Jan;44(1):54-9.


3. Caserta MT, Ragin A, Hermida AP, Ahrens RJ, Wise L.: Single voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 3 Tesla in a memory disorders clinic: early right hippocampal NAA/Cr loss in mildly impaired subjects. Psychiatry Res. 2008 Nov 30;164(2):154-9. Epub 2008 Oct 19.


4. Shin W, Horowitz S, Ragin A, Chen Y, Walker M, Carroll TJ.: Quantitative cerebral perfusion using dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI: evaluation of reproducibility and age- and gender-dependence with fully automatic image postprocessing algorithm. Magn Reson Med. 2007 Dec;58(6):1232-41.


5. Wu Y, Storey P, Carrillo A, Saglamer C, Cohen BA, Epstein LG, Edelman RR, Ragin AB.: Whole brain and localized magnetization transfer measurements are associated with cognitive impairment in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2008 Jan;29(1):140-5. Epub 2007 Oct 10.


6. Ragin AB, Wu Y, Storey P, Cohen BA, Edelman RR, Epstein LG.: Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 correlates with subcortical brain injury in HIV infection. Neurology. 2006 Apr 25;66(8):1255-7.


7. Wu Y, Storey P, Cohen BA, Epstein LG, Edelman RR, Ragin AB.: Diffusion alterations in corpus callosum of patients with HIV. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2006 Mar;27(3):656-60.


8. Ragin AB, Wu Y, Storey P, Cohen BA, Edelman RR, Epstein LG, Gartner S.: Bone marrow diffusion measures correlate with dementia severity in HIV patients. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2006 Mar;27(3):589-92.


9. Edelman RR, Salanitri G, Brand R, Dunkle E, Ragin A, Li W, Mehta U, Berlin J, Newmark G, Gore R, Patel B, Carillo A, Vu A.: Magnetic resonance imaging of the pancreas at 3.0 tesla: qualitative and quantitative comparison with 1.5 tesla. Invest Radiol. 2006 Feb;41(2):175-80.


10. Ragin AB, Wu Y, Storey P, Cohen BA, Edelman RR, Epstein LG.: Diffusion tensor imaging of subcortical brain injury in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus. J Neurovirol. 2005 Jul;11(3):292-8.


11. Ragin, A.B., Storey, E., Chavez, A., Cohen, B., Epstein, L.G. & Edelman, R.R.: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study of HIV-Dementia. Proceedings, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: 2190.


12. Storey, E., Chavez, A., Cohen, B., Epstein, L.G., Edelman, R.R. & Ragin, A.B.: Quantification of Brain Atrophy in HIV Patients. Proceedings, International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: 2424.


13. Ragin, A.B., Storey, E., Chavez, A., Cohen, B., Epstein, L.G. & Edelman, R.R.: Reduced whole brain fractional anistropy in HIV-Dementia. Proceedings, Organization for Human Brain Mapping: 620.


14. Ragin, A.B., Storey, E., Cohen, B., Edelman, R.R. & Epstein, L.G.: Disease Burden in HIV-Associated Cognitive Impairment: A Study of Whole Brain Imaging Measures. Neurology, 63:2293-2297.