The Imaging of Musculoskeletal Function (IMF) Group works on the development and clinical translation of novel imaging technologies geared toward studying musculoskeletal function and detection of musculoskeletal disease at the earliest stage. Our group is developing novel PET and MRI methods to study early and reversible tissue changes at the cellular and molecular level, functional imaging of joint mechanics, physiology and tissue microstructure, and rapid and comprehensive MRI methods for early, low-cost, and precise detection of musculoskeletal disease.
Our group is part of the Musculoskeletal Division of the Department of Radiology, Radiological Sciences Lab, School of Medicine and Stanford University.
(Selected) Recent Publications
Goyal, A., McKay, J., Petterson, M., Van der Heijden, R., Stevens, K., Yoon, M., Fung, M., Liang, T., Chaudhari, A., Kogan, F. A Comparison of Accelerated MRI Protocol Approaches for Clinical Assessment of Internal Derangements of the knee. Skeletal Radiol. 2026 Jul 29. doi: 10.1007/s00256-026-05309-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42525074. [SKRA Link]
Goyal A, Barbieri M, Mazzoli V, Kogan F. Tension-Dependent Variability and Repeatability of Achilles Tendon UTE-T2* Mapping Using Mono- and Bi-Exponential Models. NMR Biomed. 2026 Jun;39(6):e70302. PMID: 42104751. [NMR Biomed Link]
Uhlrich SD*, Mazzoli V*, Silder A, Finlay AK, Kogan F, Gold GE, Delp SL, Beaupre GS, Kolesar JA. Personalised gait retraining for medial compartment knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet Rheumatol. 2025 Oct;7(10):e708-e718. PMID: 40816302; PMCID: PMC13034617
Khalighi MM, Young CB, Spangler-Bickell MG, Deller TW, Jansen F, Holley D, Vossler H, Zhao M, Kogan F, Steinberg G, Mormino E, Moseley M, Zaharchuk G. A Novel Method in PET Image Reconstruction Using MRI Anatomical Priors. IEEE Trans Radiat Plasma Med Sci. 2025 Nov;9(8):1074-1082. PMID: 41221102; PMCID: PMC12599855
Barbieri M, Gatti AA, Kogan F. Improving Accuracy and Reproducibility of Cartilage T2 Mapping in the OAI Dataset Through Extended Phase Graph Modeling. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2025 May;61(5):2116-2127. PMID: 39467097 PMCID: PMC13045094
Gatti AA, Blankemeier L, Van Veen D, Hargreaves B, Delp SL, Gold GE, Kogan F, Chaudhari AS. ShapeMed-Knee: A Dataset and Neural Shape Model Benchmark for Modeling 3D Femurs. IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2025 Mar;44(3):1140-1152. PMID: 39453794; PMCID: PMC11100941
Kogan F, Watkins LE, Goyal A. PET-MRI: The Promise of Multi-tissue Imaging of Early Disease Mechanisms in Osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 2025 Jan;33(1):5-8. PubMed PMID: 39489372. PMCID: PMC12582018
