Matt Barkovich, MD
Assistant Professor
Radiology
School of Medicine

He received his medical degree from UC San Diego School of Medicine (2013), and then completed a one-year internship at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA (2014). He completed his diagnostic radiology residency at UCSF in 2018. During his final year of residency, Dr. Barkovich was a Research Fellow in the 2017-2018 NIH T32 Biomedical Imaging Training Program where he focused his research on neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and how imaging abnormalities in NF1 patients correlate with clinical phenotype. In 2019, Dr. Barkovich completed a fellowship in Neuroradiology at UCSF. Dr. Barkovich was named the 2014 Intern of the Year at Highland Hospital, received the Resident Research grant from the Margulis Society in 2016, and was a recipient of the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology Derek Harwood Nash Award in 2018 for his work developing a pediatric hindbrain atlas. His research is focused on using advanced imaging to better understand the molecular pathways that drive neurodevelopmental disorders and normal brain development.

• Clinical Assessment of Deep Learning-based Super-Resolution for 3D Volumetric Brain MRI.
  Radiology. Artificial intelligence 2022 Rudie JD, Gleason T, Barkovich MJ, Wilson DM, Shankaranarayanan A, Zhang T, Wang L, Gong E, Zaharchuk G, Villanueva-Meyer JE
• Technical and practical tips for performing brain magnetic resonance imaging in premature neonates.
  Seminars in perinatology 2021 Barkovich MJ, Williams C, Barkovich AJ
• Effects of ventricular entry on patient outcome during glioblastoma resection.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2021 Young JS, Gogos AJ, Pereira MP, Morshed RA, Li J, Barkovich MJ, Hervey-Jumper SL, Berger MS
• Cerebrovascular complications of coccidioidomycosis meningitis: Case report and systematic review.
  Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2020 Phelps RRL, Lu AY, Lee AT, Yue JK, Winkler EA, Raygor KP, Oh T, Barkovich MJ, Hollander H
• Allogeneic HSCT for adult-onset leukoencephalopathy with spheroids and pigmented glia.
  Brain : a journal of neurology 2020 Gelfand JM, Greenfield AL, Barkovich M, Mendelsohn BA, Van Haren K, Hess CP, Mannis GN
• MR Imaging of Normal Brain Development.
  Neuroimaging clinics of North America 2019 Barkovich MJ, Barkovich AJ
• Regionally specific TSC1 and TSC2 gene expression in tuberous sclerosis complex.
  Scientific reports 2018 Li Y, Barkovich MJ, Karch CM, Nillo RM, Fan CC, Broce IJ, Tan CH, Cuneo D, Hess CP, Dillon WP, Glenn OA, Glastonbury CM, Olney N, Yokoyama JS, Bonham LW, Miller B, Kao A, Schmansky N, Fischl B, …
• Abnormal Morphology of Select Cortical and Subcortical Regions in Neurofibromatosis Type 1.
  Radiology 2018 Barkovich MJ, Tan CH, Nillo RM, Li Y, Xu D, Glastonbury CM, Glenn OA, Dillon WP, Hess CP, Mueller S, Kline C, Dale AM, Jernigan TL, Sugrue LP, Barkovich AJ, Desikan RS
• Challenges in pediatric neuroimaging.
  NeuroImage 2018 Barkovich MJ, Li Y, Desikan RS, Barkovich AJ, Xu D
• CXCR4 involvement in neurodegenerative diseases.
  Translational psychiatry 2018 Bonham LW, Karch CM, Fan CC, Tan C, Geier EG, Wang Y, Wen N, Broce IJ, Li Y, Barkovich MJ, Ferrari R, Hardy J, Momeni P, Höglinger G, Müller U, Hess CP, Sugrue LP, Dillon WP, Schellenberg GD, Miller …
• Pediatric neuro MRI: tricks to minimize sedation.
  Pediatric radiology 2017 Barkovich MJ, Xu D, Desikan RS, Williams C, Barkovich AJ
• Bevacizumab: radiation combination produces restricted diffusion on brain MRI.
  CNS oncology 2014 Hesselink JR, Barkovich MJ, Seibert TM, Farid N, Muller KA, Murphy KT, Kesari S
• Quantitative analysis of spatial distortions of diffusion techniques at 3T.
  Magnetic resonance imaging 2010 Xu D, Lee MC, Carballido-Gamio J, Barkovich M, Majumdar S, Vigneron DB, Nelson SJ