Peer-reviewed research & scholarship

Publications

Two connected bodies of research: current work on the imaging biomarkers of biological age and preventive whole-body MRI, and a sustained programme on the cardio-respiratory health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians — alongside earlier case reports from hospital and regional practice.

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Longevity imaging · 2025
9
Peer-reviewed papers
8
On Indigenous health
25
Years, 1999–2025

Longevity & preventive imaging — conference proceedings, 2025

A 2025 body of work developing imaging biomarkers of biological age from whole-body MRI — prostate, arterial, vertebral, renal–brain and neuroimaging markers — using AI segmentation and quantification. The research studies were presented at the RANZCR Annual Scientific Meeting 2025, Melbourne; the whole-body MRI overview was an invited presentation at the Japanese Anti-Aging Conference, Osaka.

Cardio-respiratory health of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Australians

A multi-year collaboration with the Darwin respiratory research group, building the radiological evidence base for chronic airway disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults — including work to correct the normative reference values that have systematically mis-classified Indigenous lung function.

Diagnostic radiology & case reports

Selected clinical and interventional case reports from hospital and regional practice.

Earlier presentations & work under review

Conference presentations and manuscripts currently in submission.

The story behind the Indigenous health work

Seven of these papers form a single, sustained programme of research on the respiratory health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Read the brief on what that work found, and why the reference standards themselves were part of the problem.

Read the brief →

About this list. Citations were compiled from Dr Sorger’s curriculum vitae; the peer-reviewed journal papers were independently verified against the PubMed bibliographic database, and the 2025 longevity conference proceedings were presented at the RANZCR Annual Scientific Meeting 2025. Bold indicates Dr Sorger (published under her married name, Sorger, and previously her maiden name, Ramakrishnan). DOIs link to the publisher of record.