Fabrizio Fasano

Cardiac diffusion kurtosis imaging in the human heart in vivo using 300mT/m gradients

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of cardiac diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) in humans using high gradient strength MRI, showing non-Gaussian water diffusion behavior and significant radial kurtosis differences.

Multi-compartment analysis of the complex gradient-echo signal quantifies myelin breakdown in premanifest Huntington's disease

This study uses multi-compartment MRI signal analysis to quantify myelin breakdown in premanifest Huntington's disease, finding reduced myelin water fraction and age-related executive function decline.

Most small cerebral cortical veins demonstrate significant flow pulsatility: a human phase contrast MRI study at 7T

The paper uses phase contrast MRI at 7T to show that most small cerebral cortical veins have significant flow pulsatility, introducing an automated method to detect this.

A frequency-domain machine learning method for dual-calibrated fMRI mapping of oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption (CMRO2)

This paper introduces a machine learning method for dual-calibrated fMRI to estimate OEF and CMRO2, showing reduced computation time, error, and bias compared to existing methods.

Genetic risk of dementia modifies the impact of obesity on limbic white matter and spatial navigation behavior in cognitively healthy adults.

The causal structure of age-dependent limbic decline: fornix white matter glia damage causes hippocampal grey matter damage, not vice versa.

The paper investigates the causal relationship between white and gray matter damage in aging brains, finding that white matter damage causes gray matter decline, not the reverse.

Adipokines contribute to central-obesity related reductions in myelin-sensitive MRI indices in the fornix.

The paper examines how central obesity affects myelin-sensitive MRI metrics in the fornix and finds that visceral fat and adipokine ratios are linked to reduced myelin and increased inflammation.