Richard E. Carson

46.4k total citations · 9 hit papers
565 papers, 24.2k citations indexed

About

Richard E. Carson is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard E. Carson has authored 565 papers receiving a total of 24.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 279 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 177 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 109 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Richard E. Carson's work include Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (243 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (144 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (125 papers). Richard E. Carson is often cited by papers focused on Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (243 papers), Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications (144 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (125 papers). Richard E. Carson collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Richard E. Carson's co-authors include Kenneth Lange, Peter Herscovitch, Yiyun Huang, Nabeel Nabulsi, Jean‐Dominique Gallezot, William C. Eckelman, Shu-fei Lin, Yanjun Wu, Jim Ropchan and Mika Naganawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard E. Carson

548 papers receiving 23.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

EM reconstruction algorithms for emission and transmission tomography.

1984 1.3k citations Richard E. Carson et al. profile →
Schizophrenia is associated with elevated amphetamine-induced synaptic dopamine concentrations: Evidence from a novel positron emission tomography method

1997 910 citations Richard E. Carson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Dissociation of object and spatial visual processing pathways in human extrastriate cortex.

1991 733 citations Richard E. Carson, Peter Herscovitch et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Linearized Reference Tissue Parametric Imaging Methods: Application to [¹¹C]DASB Positron Emission Tomography Studies of the Serotonin Transporter in Human Brain

2003 516 citations Jeih‐San Liow, Richard E. Carson et al. profile →
Reduced prefrontal activity predicts exaggerated striatal dopaminergic function in schizophrenia

2002 515 citations Richard E. Carson et al. profile →
Imaging synaptic density in the living human brain

2016 361 citations Sjoerd J. Finnema, Nabeel Nabulsi et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →
Lower synaptic density is associated with depression severity and network alterations

2019 323 citations Sjoerd J. Finnema, Mika Naganawa et al. Nature Communications profile →
Assessing Synaptic Density in Alzheimer Disease With Synaptic Vesicle Glycoprotein 2A Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging

2018 298 citations Ming-Kai Chen, Adam P. Mecca et al. profile →
Synaptic density and cognitive performance in Alzheimer's disease: A PET imaging study with [¹¹C]UCB‐J

2022 117 citations Adam P. Mecca, Ryan S. O’Dell et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Richard E. Carson	8.1k	7.3k	5.6k	4.1k	3.2k	565	24.2k
Adriaan A. Lammertsma	17.2k 2.1×	3.5k 0.5×	3.3k 0.6×	3.7k 0.9×	3.6k 1.1×	692	32.8k
Douglas L. Rothman	11.2k 1.4×	9.3k 1.3×	5.8k 1.0×	11.2k 2.7×	2.4k 0.8×	408	38.9k
Dean F. Wong	3.5k 0.4×	5.9k 0.8×	3.9k 0.7×	3.5k 0.9×	4.3k 1.4×	421	17.2k
Roger N. Gunn	4.1k 0.5×	5.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.4×	4.2k 1.0×	2.0k 0.6×	285	16.4k
Federico Turkheimer	3.9k 0.5×	4.1k 0.6×	3.5k 0.6×	3.4k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	317	18.0k
Robert B. Innis	4.2k 0.5×	10.6k 1.5×	3.8k 0.7×	6.5k 1.6×	4.0k 1.2×	412	25.7k
Robert F. Dannals	4.5k 0.6×	6.8k 0.9×	3.0k 0.5×	4.9k 1.2×	2.5k 0.8×	360	17.9k
Albert Gjedde	5.2k 0.6×	6.0k 0.8×	7.1k 1.3×	3.8k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	470	22.7k
Peter Herscovitch	4.5k 0.6×	3.1k 0.4×	6.7k 1.2×	1.8k 0.4×	3.0k 0.9×	254	19.7k
Alan J. Fischman	5.7k 0.7×	2.9k 0.4×	4.0k 0.7×	2.6k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	410	20.3k

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Naganawa, Mika, Michael R. Weed, Michael Kapinos, et al.. (2025). Venous blood sampling for less invasive in vivo quantification of synaptic density with constant infusion of [18F]SynVesT-1 and PET. EJNMMI Research. 15(1). 8–8.

Bonomi, Robin, Mika Naganawa, Takuya Toyonaga, et al.. (2025). PET imaging evidence of HDAC6 suppression in the amygdala across species in PTSD. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(11). 5381–5388.

Young, Juan, Ryan S. O’Dell, Mika Naganawa, et al.. (2024). Validation of a Simplified Tissue-to-Reference Ratio Measurement Using SUVR to Assess Synaptic Density Alterations in Alzheimer Disease with [¹¹C]UCB-J PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 65(11). 1782–1785. 2 indexed citations

Bonomi, Robin, Ansel T. Hillmer, Eric A. Woodcock, et al.. (2024). Microglia-mediated neuroimmune suppression in PTSD is associated with anhedonia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(35). e2406005121–e2406005121. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Yazhe, Hee‐Won Suh, Krista Fowles, et al.. (2024). Pilot PET study of vaginally administered bioadhesive nanoparticles in cynomolgus monkeys: Kinetics and safety evaluation. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine. 9(5). e10661–e10661. 1 indexed citations

O’Dell, Ryan S., Ming-Kai Chen, Pradeep Varma, et al.. (2023). Assessment of Gray Matter Microstructure and Synaptic Density in Alzheimer's Disease: A Multimodal Imaging Study With DTI and SV2A PET. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 32(1). 17–28. 12 indexed citations

Yang, Bao, Mika Naganawa, Kathryn Fontaine, et al.. (2023). Dose reduction in dynamic synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A PET imaging using artificial neural networks. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 68(24). 245006–245006. 1 indexed citations

Lee, Ju-Hyun, Teresa Lee, Hee‐Won Suh, et al.. (2023). Intrathecal delivery of nanoparticle PARP inhibitor to the cerebrospinal fluid for the treatment of metastatic medulloblastoma. Science Translational Medicine. 15(720). eadi1617–eadi1617. 17 indexed citations

Lu, Yihuan, Jiazhen Zhang, Paul Gravel, et al.. (2023). Markerless head motion tracking and event-by-event correction in brain PET. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 68(24). 245019–245019. 8 indexed citations

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Radhakrishnan, Rajiv, Patrick D. Worhunsky, Ming‐Qiang Zheng, et al.. (2022). Age, gender and body-mass-index relationships with in vivo CB1 receptor availability in healthy humans measured with [11C]OMAR PET. NeuroImage. 264. 119674–119674. 6 indexed citations

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O’Dell, Ryan S., Adam P. Mecca, Ming-Kai Chen, et al.. (2021). Association of Aβ deposition and regional synaptic density in early Alzheimer’s disease: a PET imaging study with [11C]UCB-J. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 13(1). 11–11. 72 indexed citations

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Radhakrishnan, Rajiv, Patrick D. Skosnik, Mohini Ranganathan, et al.. (2021). In vivo evidence of lower synaptic vesicle density in schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(12). 7690–7698. 61 indexed citations

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Mecca, Adam P., Julia W. McDonald, Hannah R. Michalak, et al.. (2020). PET imaging of mGluR5 in Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 12(1). 15–15. 40 indexed citations

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Bhatt, Shivani, Ansel T. Hillmer, Matthew J. Girgenti, et al.. (2020). PTSD is associated with neuroimmune suppression: evidence from PET imaging and postmortem transcriptomic studies. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2360–2360. 67 indexed citations

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Lu, Yihuan, et al.. (2019). Event-by-event non-rigid data-driven PET respiratory motion correction methods: comparison of principal component analysis and centroid of distribution. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 64(16). 165014–165014. 12 indexed citations

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Wu, Jing, Yihuan Lu, Mika Naganawa, et al.. (2018). Improved discrimination between benign and malignant LDCT screening-detected lung nodules with dynamic over static ¹⁸F-FDG PET as a function of injected dose. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 63(17). 175015–175015. 21 indexed citations

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Cosgrove, Kelly, Irina Esterlis, Tracy Kloczynski, et al.. (2014). Tobacco smoking interferes with GABA _A receptor neuroadaptations during prolonged alcohol withdrawal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(50). 18031–18036. 17 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jiangbing, Toral Patel, Rachael W. Sirianni, et al.. (2013). Highly penetrative, drug-loaded nanocarriers improve treatment of glioblastoma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(29). 11751–11756. 225 indexed citations

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Esposito, Giuseppe, Giampiero Giovacchini, Jeih‐San Liow, et al.. (2008). Imaging Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease with Radiolabeled Arachidonic Acid and PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 49(9). 1414–1421. 129 indexed citations

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Braun, Allen R., Christopher Randolph, Erich Mohr, et al.. (1995). The Functional Neuroanatomy of Tourette's Syndrome: An FDG-PET Study. II: Relationships between Regional Cerebral Metabolism and Associated Behavioral and Cognitive Features of the Illness. Neuropsychopharmacology. 13(2). 151–168. 14 indexed citations

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