Ali Golestani

Medical Physicist (MRI), MCCPM

Division of Medical Physics

B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering)

University of Tehran, 1998

M.Sc. (Biomedical Engineering)

University of Tehran, 2001

PhD (Biomedical Engineering)

University of Calgary, 2011

Contact information

Phone

Office: (403)-521-3639

Research and teaching

Research areas

  • functional MRI
  • Medical Imaging
  • Medical Image/Signal Processing
  • Neuroimaging
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence

Publications

  1. NR Bouffard, AM Golestani, IK Brunec, B Bellana, MD Barense, M Moscovitch. Signal voxel autocorrelation uncovers gradients of temporal dynamics in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex during rest and navigation. Cerebral Cortex. (2022), bhac480.

  2. G Caughlan, N Bouffard, AM Golestani, P Thakral, D Schacter, CL Grady, M Moscovitch. Transcranial magnetic stimulation to the angular gyrus modulates the temporal organization of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex. Cerebral Cortex. (2022), bhac273

  3. AM Golestani, JJ Chen. Performance of temporal and spatial ICA in identifying and removing low-frequency physiological effects and motion in resting-state fMRI. Frontiers in Neuroscience 16:867243, 2022.

  4. AM Golestani, JJ Chen. Controlling for the effect of arterial-CO2 fluctuations in resting-state fMRI: Comparing end-tidal CO2 clamping and retroactive CO2 correction. Neuroimage 216. 116874, 2020.

  5. PPW Chu, AM Golestani, JB Kwinta, YB Khatamian, JJ Chen. Characterizing the modulation of resting-state fMRI metrics by baseline physiology. Neuroimage 173: 72 – 87, 2018.

  6. AM Golestani, Z Faraji-Dana, M Keyvanrad, K Setsompop, SJ Graham, JJ Chen. Simultaneous multislice resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging at 3 Tesla: Slice-acceleration-related biases in physiological effects. Brain Connectivity 8(2): 82 – 93, 2018.

  7. AM Golestani, JB Kwinta, YB Khatamian, JJ Chen. The effect of low-frequency physiological correction on the reproducibility and specificity of resting-State fMRI metrics: Functional connectivity, ALFF, and ReHo. Frontiers in Neuroscience 11: 546, 2017.

  8. AM Golestani, LL Wei, JJ Chen. Quantitative mapping of cerebrovascular reactivity using resting-state BOLD fMRI: Validation in healthy adults. Neuroimage 138: 147 – 163, 2016.

  9. AM Golestani, JB Kwinta, SC Strother, YB Khatamian, JJ Chen. The association between cerebrovascular reactivity and resting-state fMRI functional connectivity in healthy adults: The influence of basal carbon dioxide. Neuroimage 132: 301 – 313, 2016.

  10. Y Khatamian, AM Golestani, D Ragot, J Chen. Spin-echo resting-state functional connectivity in high-susceptibility regions: Accuracy, reliability and the impact of physiological noise. Brain Connectivity 6(4): 283 – 297, 2016.

  11. S Halani, JB Kwinta, AM Golestani, YB Khatamian, JJ Chen. Comparing cerebrovascular reactivity measured using BOLD and cerebral blood flow MRI: The effect of basal vascular tension on vasodilatory and vasoconstrictive reactivity. Neuroimage 110: 110 – 123, 2015

  12. AM Golestani, C Chang, J Kwinta, YB Khatamian, JJ Chen. Mapping the End-Tidal CO2 Response Function in the Resting-State BOLD fMRI Signal: Spatial Specificity, Test-retest Reliability and Effect of fMRI Sampling Rate. Neuroimage 104: 266 – 277, 2015.

  13. AM Golestani, L Miles, FX Castellanos, D Malaspina, M Lazar. Constrained by our connections: White matter's key role in inter-individual variability in visual working memory capacity. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(45): 14913 – 14918, 2014.

  14. J Jimenez, R Yang, N Nathoo, Vl Varshney, AM Golestani, B Goodyear, L Metz, J Dunn. Detection of reduced interhemispheric cortical communication during task execution in multiple sclerosis patients using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 19(7), 076008, 2014.

  15. AM Golestani, S Tymchuk, AM Demchuk, BG Goodyear. Longitudinal evaluation of resting-state fMRI after acute stroke with hemiparesis. NeuroRehabilitation & Neural Repair. 27(2): 153 – 163, 2013.

  16. VP Varshney, N Liapounova, AM Golestani, B Goodyear, JF Dunn. Detection of inter-hemispheric functional connectivity in motor cortex with coherence analysis. Journal of the European Optical Society 7. 12047, 2012.

  17. AM Golestani, BG Goodyear. A resting-state connectivity metric independent of temporal signal-to-noise ratio and signal amplitude. Brain Connectivity 1(2): 159 – 167, 2011.

  18. AM Golestani, BG Goodyear. Regions of interest for resting-state fMRI analysis determined by inter-voxel cross-correlation. Neuroimage 56(1): 246-51, 2011