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Onur Afacan

Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital
Verified email at childrens.harvard.edu
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[PDF][PDF] Fetal neuropathology in Zika virus-infected pregnant female rhesus monkeys

AJ Martinot, P Abbink, O Afacan, AK Prohl, R Bronson… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The development of interventions to prevent congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) has been
limited by the lack of an established nonhuman primate model. Here we show that infection of …

Regional brain growth trajectories in fetuses with congenital heart disease

…, B Gagoski, C Velasco‐Annis, O Afacan… - Annals of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Congenital heart disease (CHD) is associated with abnormal brain development
in utero. We applied innovative fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques to …

[HTML][HTML] Fetal brain growth portrayed by a spatiotemporal diffusion tensor MRI atlas computed from in utero images

S Khan, L Vasung, B Marami, CK Rollins, O Afacan… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
Altered structural fetal brain development has been linked to neuro-developmental disorders.
These structural alterations can be potentially detected in utero using diffusion tensor …

Temporal slice registration and robust diffusion-tensor reconstruction for improved fetal brain structural connectivity analysis

B Marami, SSM Salehi, O Afacan, B Scherrer… - NeuroImage, 2017 - Elsevier
Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging, or DWI, is one of the most promising tools
for the analysis of neural microstructure and the structural connectome of the human brain. …

Evaluation of motion and its effect on brain magnetic resonance image quality in children

O Afacan, B Erem, DP Roby, N Roth, A Roth… - Pediatric …, 2016 - Springer
Background Motion artifacts pose significant problems for the acquisition of MR images in
pediatric populations. Objective To evaluate temporal motion metrics in MRI scanners and …

MRI super-resolution through generative degradation learning

Y Sui, O Afacan, A Gholipour, SK Warfield - International Conference on …, 2021 - Springer
Spatial resolution plays a critically important role in MRI for the precise delineation of the
imaged tissues. Unfortunately, acquisitions with high spatial resolution require increased …

Fetal MRI at 3 T: principles to optimize success

F Machado-Rivas, MC Cortes-Albornoz, O Afacan… - Radiographics, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Fetal MRI has emerged as a cornerstone of prenatal imaging, helping to establish the
correct diagnosis in pregnancies affected by congenital anomalies. In the past decade, 3 T …

[HTML][HTML] A normative spatiotemporal MRI atlas of the fetal brain for automatic segmentation and analysis of early brain growth

…, A Ouaalam, A Akhondi-Asl, O Afacan… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Longitudinal characterization of early brain growth in-utero has been limited by a number of
challenges in fetal imaging, the rapid change in size, shape and volume of the developing …

Super‐resolution reconstruction in frequency, image, and wavelet domains to reduce through‐plane partial voluming in MRI

A Gholipour, O Afacan, I Aganj, B Scherrer… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To compare and evaluate the use of super‐resolution reconstruction (SRR), in
frequency, image, and wavelet domains, to reduce through‐plane partial voluming effects in …

Fetal MRI: a technical update with educational aspirations

…, B Gagoski, SK Warfield, O Afacan… - … Resonance Part A, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations have become well‐established
procedures at many institutions and can serve as useful adjuncts to ultrasound (US) exams when …