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Zinia Mohanta

Kennedy Krieger InstituteORCID 0000-0001-8921-044XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Assay:multiome· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Assaf A. GiladiD· 2 shared Michael T. McMahoniD· 2 shared Aimen Al‐HilfiiD· 1 shared Connor J. GradyiD· 1 shared E. Alejandro Castellanos FrancoiD· 1 shared Julia StabinskaiD· 1 shared Kenneth M. MerziD· 1 shared Milana BazayevaiD· 1 shared

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BiochemistrybioRxivPreprintJun 25, 2025

Biocatalytic Construction of a CEST MRI Nucleoside Probe: Synthesis and Evaluation of 5-Methyl-5,6-dihydrothymidine

Aimen Al‐Hilfi, E. Alejandro Castellanos Franco, Connor J. Grady…·Assaf A. Gilad

This paper describes a biocatalytic method to synthesize 5-MDHT, a CEST MRI probe, and validates its effectiveness using CEST-MRI.

DOI 10.1101/2025.06.25.661137

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BioengineeringMagnetic Resonance in MedicinePeer-reviewedJan 20, 2025

The Proton Resonance Enhancement for CEST imaging and Shift Exchange (PRECISE) family of RF pulse shapes for Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer MRI

Zinia Mohanta, Julia Stabinska, Assaf A. Gilad…·Michael T. McMahon

The paper develops a new RF pulse shape for CEST MRI using gradient ascent optimization, showing improved contrast in phantoms and live mice compared to Gaussian and Fermi pulses.

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