2026

Publications

Longitudinal [¹⁸F]LW223 PET imaging of macrophage-driven inflammation following myocardial infarction in a rat model: implications for left ventricular remodelling.MacAskill MG, Reid VJM, Alcaide-Corral CJ, Morgan TEF, Waddell L, Thomson AJW, Fujisawa T, Mills NL, Marti JA, Kurian D, Wishart TM, De Albuquerque ACJ, Chui E, Knyzeliene A, Balogh V, Wimberley C, Dweck MR, Newby DE, Lucatelli C, Pimlott SL, Sutherland A, Tavares AAS.Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2026 Apr;53(5):3340-3350. doi: 10.1007/s00259-025-07691-4. Epub 2025 Dec 12.PMID: 41381758
Acoustic and mechanical characterisation of a 3D-printable transparent vessel-mimicking material for pre-clinical imaging: comparison with ex-vivo vessels and established clinically-relevant materials.Zheng Y, Durcan CB, Thomson A, Gilmour L, Pratibha P, Mulvana H, Chen Y, Ingram M, D'hooge J, MacGillivray T, Moran CM.Ultrasonics. 2026 Nov;167:108144. doi: 10.1016/j.ultras.2026.108144. Epub 2026 Jun 2.PMID: 42284735
Contrast Agents in Diagnostic Ultrasound -Physics and Equipment (4^th Edition) Moran CM, Butler M. 2026. CRC press
Acoustic characterisation of a modified IEC agar-based tissue-mimicking material across the 3.5-50MHz frequency range.Bricout A, Inglis S, Pye S, Moran CM. Ultrasound Med Biol 2026:52;2126-2130.
Acoustic and mechanical characterisation of a 3D-printable transparent vessel mimicking material for pre-clinical imaging comparison with ex-vivo vessels and established clinically relevant materials. Zheng Y, Durcan CB, Thomson A, Gilmour L, Pratibha P, Mulvana H, Chen Y, MacGillivray T, Ingram M, D'hooge J, Moran CM.Ultrasonics 2026:108144.
Pericyte loss reprogrammed capillary endothelium and drives white matter injury in small vessel disease. Stefancova D, Chagnot A, Sewell M, Fialova N, McQuaid C, Ogochukwu Uweru J, Becker S, Romero-Bernal M, Mungall W, Walczak-Gillies, Farr TD, Lennen R, Jansen MA, Dando O, Cholewa-Waclaw J, Montagne A. bioRxiv. 2026
Systematic review and meta-analysis of cognitive assessments used to detect deficits in the bilateral carotid artery stenosis model for vascular cognitive impairment.Padgett MJ, Fucelova N, Boltze J, England TJ, Hietamies T, Horsburgh K, Quinn TJ, Sena ES, Work LM, Zille M, Trueman RC, Farr TD. JCBFM. 2026. 46(6): 1616-26
People-centred funding as a catalyst for sustainable imaging infrastructure.Reis Y, Bischof J, Brown CM, Itano MS, Jacobs CA, Malacrida L, Strambio-De-Castillia C, Tavares AAS, Keppler A.J Microsc. 2026 Jun;302(3):295-311. doi: 10.1111/jmi.70099. Epub 2026 May 19.PMID: 42153260
Age-dependent dysregulation of collagen metabolism in primary cardiac fibroblasts in vitro.Pandya K, Alcaide-Corral CJ, Morgan TEF, O'Rourke K, Riley LM, Cranston I, Sutherland A, MacAskill MG, Gray GA, Tavares AAS.Cardiovasc Res. 2026 Jun 26;122(9):1130-1132. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvag093.PMID: 42033761
Autoradiographic assessment of SynVesT-1 revealed changes in non-displaceable binding with demyelination and remyelination: implications for SV2A PET analysis.Panichnantakul P, Shaw RC, Burianova VK, McErlain H, Sutherland A, Williams AC, Waldman AD, Tavares AAS.EJNMMI Res. 2026 Apr 17;16(1):90. doi: 10.1186/s13550-026-01391-2.PMID: 41995918
Senescence-related myocardial dysfunction: keeping a young heart.Ajjan RA, Huckstepp RTR, Akbar N, Bauersachs J, Lok JCW, Choppy-Madeleine J, Christopher G, Dalakoti M, Dawson-Plincke E, Dodds J, Ellison-Hughes GM, Emanueli C, George CH, Goyal A, Higginbotham V, Holzner L, Kanamarlapudi V, Madeddu P, Mauro C, Lewis-McDougall F, Murray AJ, Damien Genetus RP, Short E, Sussman MA, Tavares AAS, Thompson S, Wadodkar M, Calimport SRG, Bentley BL.Eur Heart J. 2026 Mar 6:ehag095. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehag095. Online ahead of print.PMID: 41790041
Systems medicine: total body Positron Emission Tomography meets omics.Jacobs AK, Chan A, Tavares AAS.Br J Radiol. 2026 Feb 26:tqag050. doi: 10.1093/bjr/tqag050. Online ahead of print.PMID: 41746299
Molecular Calcification Imaging and Ascending Aortic Disease in Patients With a Bicuspid Aortic Valve.Nash J, Debono S, Loganath K, Whittington B, Tzolos E, Syed M, Clark L, Mitic T, Tavares AAS, Macaskill M, Sellers SL, Clark T, Semple S, MacNaught G, van Beek EJR, Dey D, Slomka P, Walker N, Madine J, Field M, Akhtar R, Forsythe RO, Williams MC, Dweck MR, Newby DE, Fletcher AJ.JAMA Netw Open. 2026 Feb 2;9(2):e2560385. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.60385.PMID: 41729522
Network-Based Analysis for the Quantification of Brain and Body Immune Axes with Total-Body PET Imaging.Maccioni L, Knyzeliene A, Alcaide-Corral CJ, Reid VJM, Morgan TEF, Henry MC, Sutherland A, Veronese M, Tavares AAS.J Nucl Med. 2026 May 1;67(5):817-825. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.125.271514.PMID: 41644293
First human whole-body biodistribution and dosimetry analysis of [¹⁸F]LW223, a novel TSPO PET radiotracer.Khaing PH, MacAskill MG, Xiao J, Liu S, Gu Z, Sun X, Xu T, Koglin N, Stephens AW, Newby DE, Guan Y, McErlain H, Sutherland A, Tamagnan GD, Xie F, Tavares AAS.Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2026 May;53(6):3951-3959. doi: 10.1007/s00259-025-07722-0. Epub 2026 Jan 10.PMID: 41518399
Synthesis and evaluation of enantiomeric quinoline-2-carboxamides: positron emission tomography imaging agents for the translocator protein.Waddell LJN, MacAskill MG, McErlain H, Morgan TEF, Williams L, Reid VJM, Beyger A, Pimlott SL, Tavares AAS, Sutherland A.RSC Med Chem. 2025 Dec 11;17(2):987-999. doi: 10.1039/d5md00930h. eCollection 2026 Feb 25.PMID: 41497765
Pineal gland senescence: an emerging ageing-related pathology?Short E, Ajjan R, Barber TM, Bhandari S, Chazot P, Garrison JL, Goyal A, Huckstepp R, Jamal N, Kanamarlapudi V, Lazar A, Lee T, Tavares AAS, Tree JJ, Wellington J, Calimport SR, Bentley B.Hormones (Athens). 2026 Mar;25(1):323-331. doi: 10.1007/s42000-025-00720-9. Epub 2025 Dec 16.PMID: 41400882 .

This article was published on Friday 14 August 2026