Alexander Leemans

25.6k citations

260 papers · 16.0k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 62

Impact in

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging top 0.02%
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- MRI in cancer diagnosis
Computational Mathematics top 0.5%

Papers in

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 222
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications 216
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications 97
- MRI in cancer diagnosis 34
Computational Mathematics 4

Co-authors: Derek K. Jones Ben Jeurissen Jan Sijbers Jacques‐Donald Tournier Susumu Mori Stefan Sunaert Karen Caeyenberghs Max A. Viergever
Journals: NeuroImage (37 papers)Human Brain Mapping (20 papers)NeuroImage Clinical (13 papers)PLoS ONE (10 papers)Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (9 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands Belgium United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Alexander Leemans

257 papers receiving 15.9k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

Diffusion MRI fiber tractography of the brain 2017 · 341 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 NMR in Biomedicine
2014 NeuroImage
2013 NeuroImage
2013 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2012 Human Brain Mapping
2011 Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
2009 ExploreDTI: a graphical toolbox for processing, analyzing, and visualizing diffusion MR data
2009 Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
2008 NeuroImage

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1	Dominance of Tau Burden in Cortical Over Subcortical Regions Mediates Glymphatic Activity and Clinical Severity in PSP Clinical Nuclear Medicine ·Jung‐Lung Hsu, Yi‐Chia Wei, Ing‐Tsung Hsiao, Kun‐Ju Lin, Tzu‐Chen Yen, Chin‐Song Lu, Hancheng Wang, Alexander Leemans, Yi-Hsin Weng, Kuo‐Lun Huang	2024	3
2	Reconstruction of the Corticospinal Tract in Patients with Motor-Eloquent High-Grade Gliomas Using Multilevel Fiber Tractography Combined with Functional Motor Cortex Mapping American Journal of Neuroradiology ·Andrey Zhylka, Nico Sollmann, Florian Kofler, Ahmed Radwan, Alberto De Luca, Jens Gempt, Benedikt Wiestler, Bjoern Menze, A. Schroeder, Claus Zimmer, Jan S. Kirschke, Stefan Sunaert, Alexander Leemans, Sandro M. Krieg, Josien P. W. Pluim	2023	3
3	White matter microstructure of the neural emotion regulation circuitry in mild traumatic brain injury European Journal of Neuroscience ·Harm J. van der Horn, Namrata R. Mangina, Sandra E. Rakers, Jelmer G. Kok, Marieke E. Timmerman, Alexander Leemans, Jacoba M. Spikman, Joukje van der Naalt	2021	8
4	Fiber orientation distribution from diffusion MRI: Effects of inaccurate response function calibration Journal of Neuroimaging ·Fenghua Guo, Chantal M. W. Tax, Alberto De Luca, Max A. Viergever, Anneriet M. Heemskerk, Alexander Leemans	2021	5
5	COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Vaccines ·Piotr Rzymski, Carlos A. Camargo, Andrzej Fal, Robert Flisiak, Willis Gwenzi, Roya Kelishadi, Alexander Leemans, Juan J. Nieto, Ahmet Özen, Matjaž Perc, Barbara Poniedziałek, Constantine Sedikides, Frank W. Sellke, Emilia C. Skirmuntt, Anzhela Stashchak, Nima Rezaei	2021	54
6	Iranian Brain Imaging Database: A Neuropsychiatric Database of Healthy Brain Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Journal ·Seyed Amir Hossein Batouli, Minoo Sisakhti, Shirin Haghshenas, Hamed Dehghani, Perminder S. Sachdev, Hamed Ekhtiari, Nicole A. Kochan, Wei Wen, Alexander Leemans, Mohsen Kohanpour, Mohammad Ali Oghabian	2021	12
7	The YOUth cohort study: MRI protocol and test-retest reliability in adults Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience ·Elizabeth E.L. Buimer, Pascal Pas, Rachel M. Brouwer, Martijn Froeling, Hans Hoogduin, Alexander Leemans, Peter R. Luijten, Bastiaan J. van Nierop, Mathijs Raemaekers, Hugo G. Schnack, Jalmar Teeuw, Matthijs Vink, Fredy Visser, Hilleke E. Hulshoff Pol, René C.W. Mandl	2020	26
8	Effect of radiation therapy on cerebral cortical thickness in glioma patients: Treatment-induced thinning of the healthy cortex Neuro-Oncology Advances ·Steven Nagtegaal, Szabolcs Dávid, Tom J. Snijders, M.E.P. Philippens, Alexander Leemans, Joost J.C. Verhoeff	2020	19
9	Histopathology of diffusion imaging abnormalities in cerebral amyloid angiopathy Neurology ·Susanne J. van Veluw, Yaël D. Reijmer, Andre J. van der Kouwe, Andreas Charidimou, Grace Riley, Alexander Leemans, Brian J. Bacskai, Matthew P. Frosch, Anand Viswanathan, Steven M. Greenberg	2019	41
10	The importance of correcting for signal drift in diffusion MRI Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ·Sjoerd B. Vos, Chantal M. W. Tax, Peter R. Luijten, Sébastien Ourselin, Alexander Leemans, Martijn Froeling	2016	145
11	MRI shows thickening and altered diffusion in the median and ulnar nerves in multifocal motor neuropathy European Radiology ·Wieke Haakma, Bas A. Jongbloed, Martijn Froeling, H. Stephan Goedee, Clemens Bos, Alexander Leemans, Leonard H. van den Berg, Jeroen Hendrikse, W. Ludo van der Pol	2016	34
12	PCA-based groupwise image registration for quantitative MRI Medical Image Analysis ·Wyke Huizinga, Dirk H. J. Poot, Jean-Marie Guyader, Remy Klaassen, Bram F. Coolen, Matthijs van Kranenburg, Robert‐Jan van Geuns, André Uitterdijk, Mathias Polfliet, Jef Vandemeulebroucke, Alexander Leemans, Wiro J. Niessen, Stefan Klein	2015	119
13	Acquisition Guidelines and Quality Assessment Tools for Analyzing Neonatal Diffusion Tensor MRI Data American Journal of Neuroradiology ·Anneriet M. Heemskerk, Alexander Leemans, Annemarie Plaisier, Kay Pieterman, Maarten H. Lequin, Jeroen Dudink	2013	22
14	Abnormal functional connectivity during visuospatial processing is associated with disrupted organisation of white matter in autism Frontiers in Human Neuroscience ·Jane McGrath, Katherine A. Johnson, Erik O’Hanlon, Hugh Garavan, Alexander Leemans, Louise Gallagher	2013	25
15	Reduced fractional anisotropy in the uncinate fasciculus in patients with major depression carrying the met‐allele of the Val66Met brain‐derived neurotrophic factor genotype American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics ·Angela Carballedo, Francesco Amico, I. Ugwu, Andrew Fagan, Ciara Fahey, Derek W. Morris, James F. Meaney, Alexander Leemans, Thomas Frodl	2012	75
16	Longitudinal Assessment of Chemotherapy-Induced Structural Changes in Cerebral White Matter and Its Correlation With Impaired Cognitive Functioning Journal of Clinical Oncology ·Sabine Deprez, Frédéric Amant, Ann Smeets, Ronald Peeters, Alexander Leemans, Wim Van Hecke, Judith Verhoeven, Marie-Rose Christiaens, Joris Vandenberghe, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Stefan Sunaert	2011	298
17	Gibbs artifact suppression for DT-MRI data Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Daniele Perrone, Jan Aelterman, Maryna Kudzinava, Jan Sijbers, Aleksandra Pižurica, Wilfried Philips, Alexander Leemans	2011	1
18	Is There a Common Neuroanatomical Substrate of Language Deficit between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Specific Language Impairment? Cerebral Cortex ·Judith Verhoeven, Nathalie Rommel, Elena Prodi, Alexander Leemans, Inge Zink, Evelien Vandewalle, Ilse Noens, Johan Wagemans, Jean Steyaert, Bart Boets, Ann Van de Winckel, Paul De Cock, Lieven Lagae, Stefan Sunaert	2011	63
19	A DTI Tractography Study of the Cingulum Bundle in Euthymic Bipolar I Disorder Biological Psychiatry ·Louise Emsell, Alexander Leemans, Camilla Langan, Gareth J. Barker, Wil van der Putten, Rachel Skinner, Peter McCarthy, Colm McDonald, Dara M. Cannon	2009	3
20	The B‐matrix must be rotated when correcting for subject motion in DTI data Magnetic Resonance in Medicine ·Alexander Leemans, Derek K. Jones Hit paper breakdown →	2009	1082

About Alexander Leemans

Alexander Leemans is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Computational Mathematics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cognitive Neuroscience and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, having authored 260 papers that have together received 16.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (216 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (97 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (60 papers), Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders (56 papers), MRI in cancer diagnosis (34 papers), Neonatal and fetal brain pathology (24 papers), Bone and Joint Diseases (20 papers) and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (10.7k citations), Computational Mathematics (195 citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (5.5k citations), Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (3.3k citations) and Psychiatry and Mental health (2.3k citations). Alexander Leemans has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, Belgium and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Derek K. Jones, Ben Jeurissen, Jan Sijbers, Jacques‐Donald Tournier, Susumu Mori, Stefan Sunaert, Karen Caeyenberghs, Max A. Viergever, Catherine Lebel and Lindsay Walker. Their work appears in journals such as NeuroImage, Human Brain Mapping, NeuroImage Clinical, PLoS ONE and Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

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