AG Neuroimaging
We are interested in brain-tumor associated connectomic alterations and its relation to behavior and outcome, and investigate rs-fMRI and DTI based functional and structural connectivity in glioma patients.
Research projects
Contact
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Chuh-Hyoun Na, Oberärztin
Tel.: 0241 80-88483
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Group members
Dr. rer. med. Dipl. Psych. Kerstin Jütten, postdoctoral researcher
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Dentist Ms. Hanna Böttner, cand. med.
Mr. Tianhao Hu, MD (visiting PhD student from the University of Dalian)
Cooperations
PD Dr. rer. nat. Rea Rodriguez-Raecke, Dr. Rik Sijben, Dr. Oleg Posnansky
Brain-imaging-Facility, IZKF
RWTH Aachen
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. K. Radermacher, Dr.-Ing. Anne Benninghaus
Lehrstuhl für Medizintechnik der Fakultät für Maschinenwesen
Helmholtz-Institut für Biomedizinische Technik der RWTH Aachen
Prof. Fengyu Cong, PhD
Dalian University of Technology, China
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Mathiak
Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik
UK Aachen
Publications (examples)
Tumor resting-state fMRI connectivity to extralesional brain is associated with cognitive performance in glioma patients. Na CH, Clusmann H, Wiesmann M, Jütten K, Mainz V. Brain Spine. 2025 Feb 3;5:104202. doi: 10.1016/j.bas.2025.104202. eCollection 2025.
Kinematic movement and balance parameter analysis in neurological gait disorders. Na CH*, Siebers HL*, Reim J, Eschweiler J, Hildebrand F, Clusmann H, Betsch M. J Biol Eng. 2024 Jan 15; 18(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s13036-023-00398-w. *contributed equally
Controllability and Robustness of Functional and Structural Connectomic Networks in Glioma Patients. Meyer-Baese A, Jütten K, Meyer-Baese U, Amani AM, Malberg H, Stadlbauer A, Kinfe T, Na CH. Cancers 2023, 15(10), 2714; https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15102714.
- Weninger L, Ecke J, Jütten K, Clusmann H, Wiesmann M, Merhof D, Na CH. Diffusion MRI anomaly detection in glioma patients. Sci Rep. 2023 Nov 21;13(1):20366. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-47563-1.
Na CH, Jütten K, Forster SD, Clusmann H, Mainz V. Self-Referential Processing and Resting-State Functional MRI Connectivity of Cortical Midline Structures in Glioma Patients. Brain Sci. 2022 Oct 28;12(11):1463. doi: 10.3390/brainsci12111463.
- Dissociation of structural and functional connectomic coherence in glioma patients. Jütten K, Weninger L, Mainz V, Gauggel S, Binkofski F, Wiesmann M, Merhof D, Clusmann H, Na CH. Sci Rep. 2021 Aug 18;11(1):16790. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-95932-5.
- Autoencoder-based Quality Assessment for Synthetic Diffusion-MRI Data. Weninger L, Drobjazko M, Na CH, Juetten K, Merhof D. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-33198-6_83; In book: Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2021, Proceedings, German Workshop on Medical Image Computing, Regensburg, March 7-9, 2021 (pp.338-343)
- Analyzing the effects of free water modeling by deep learning on diffusion MRI structural connectivity estimates in glioma patients. Weninger L, Na CH, Jütten K, Merhof D.; PLoS One. 2020 Sep 25;15(9):e0239475. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239475. eCollection 2020.
- Asymmetric tumor-related alterations of network-specific intrinsic functional connectivity in glioma patients. Jütten K, Mainz V, Delev D, Gauggel S, Binkofski F, Wiesmann M, Clusmann H, Na CH. Hum Brain Mapp. 2020 Nov;41(16):4549-4561. doi: 10.1002/hbm.25140. Epub 2020 Jul 27.
- Free-Water Correction in Diffusion MRI: A Reliable and Robust Learning Approach. November 2020. Weninger L, Koppers S, Na CH, Jütten K, Merhof D. D01:10.1007/978-3-030-52893-5_8; In book: Computational Diffusion MRI (pp.91-99)
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Microstructural Heterogeneity of Normal-Appearing White Matter and Related Cognitive Dysfunction in Glioma Patients. Jütten K, Mainz V, Gauggel S, Patel HJ, Binkofski F, Wiesmann M, Clusmann H, Na CH. Front Oncol. 2019 Jun 26;9:536. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00536. eCollection 2019.