Joana Pinto
Former Collaborator
Ph.D. Students
I am interested in developing non-invasive neuroimaging techniques for the identification of possible disease biomarkers. My research primarily consists on the assessment of cerebrovascular dynamics using functional MRI (fMRI), integrating multiple and complementary physiological parameters such as cerebral perfusion and cerebrovascular reactivity.
[1] Raquel Pestana Araújo, Patrícia Figueiredo, Joana Pinto, Pedro Vilela, Isabel Pavão Martins, Raquel Gil-Gouveia, "Altered functional connectivity in a sensorimotor-insular network during spontaneous migraine attacks: A resting-state FMRI study", Brain Research Volume 1818, 1 November 2023, 148513, 2023
[2] Amparo Ruiz-Tagle, Patrícia Figueiredo, Joana Pinto, Pedro Vilela, Isabel Pavão Martins, Raquel Gil-Gouveia, "Working memory during spontaneous migraine attacks: an fMRI study", Neurol Sci (2023), 2023
[3] Sara Monteiro, Joana Pinto, Michael Chappell , Ana Fouto, Miguel Batista, Pedro Vilela, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Brain perfusion imaging by multi-delay arterial spin labeling: Impact of modeling dispersion and interaction with denoising strategies and pathology", Magn Reson Med. 2023; 90(5): 1889-1904, 2023
[4] R Gil-Gouveia, Joana Pinto, Patrícia Figueiredo, P. Vilela, I. Martins, "An Arterial Spin Labeling MRI Perfusion Study of Migraine without Aura Attacks", Frontiers in Neurology, 8, 280, 2017
[5] Joana Pinto, Sandro Nunes, M. Bianciardi, A. Dias, L. M. Silveira, L. L. Wald, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Improved 7 Tesla resting-state fMRI connectivity measurements by cluster-based modeling of respiratory volume and heart rate effects", NeuroImage, Vol. 153, pp. 262-272, June, 2017
[6] Joana Pinto, J. Jorge, I. Sousa, P. Vilela, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Fourier modeling of the BOLD response to a breath-hold task: Optimization and reproducibility", Neuroimage, 135:223-31, July, 2016
[1] Ana Fouto, Joana Pinto, Rita Gouveia Nunes, Luísa Alves, Sofia Calado, Carina Gonçalves, Margarida Rebolo, M. Viana-Baptista, Pedro Vilela, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Impact of processing options on histogram metrics extraction from DWI in cerebral small vessel disease", Proc. of the ISMRM 27th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 2019
[2] Joana Moreira, Joana Pinto, Ana Fouto, Luísa Alves, Sofia Calado, Carina Gonçalves, Margarida Rebolo, Pedro Vilela, M. Viana-Baptista, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in resting-state BOLD-fMRI is associated with cognitive decline in cerebral small vessel disease", Proc. of the ISMRM 27th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 2019
[3] Joana Pinto, Tânia Charrua, Ana Fouto, Luísa Alves, Sofia Calado, Carina Gonçalves, Margarida Rebolo, M. Viana-Baptista, Pedro Vilela, Rita Gouveia Nunes, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Breath-hold BOLD-fMRI cerebrovascular reactivity metrics predict cognitive impairment in cerebral small vessel disease", Proc. of the ISMRM 27th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, 2019
[4] Ana Fouto, Rita Gouveia Nunes, Joana Pinto, Luísa Alves, Sofia Calado, Carina Gonçalves, P. Vilela, M. Viana-Baptista, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Systematic comparison of DTI metrics as potential biomarkers in cerebral small vessel disease", Proc. of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2018, Paris, France , 2018
[5] Joana Pinto, P. Vilela, M. Chappell, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Impact of calibration method on CBF quantification using multiple post-labeling-delay PASL", Proc. of the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2018, Paris, France, 2018
[6] Ana Fouto, Joana Pinto, Rita Gouveia Nunes, L. Alves, S. Calado, C. Gonçalves, P. Vilela, M. Viana-Baptista, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Diffusion weighted imaging biomarkers of cerebral small vessel disease: comparison of CADASIL with sporadic SVD", Proc. of ESMRMB 2017 - 34th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Barcelona, Spain [Oral and e-poster presentation], 2017
[7] Joana Pinto, Sandro Nunes, M. Bianciardi, A. Dias, L. M. Silveira, L. L. Wald, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Impact of physiological noise optimization on functional connectivity measures in rs-fMRI at 7T", Proc. of OHBM 2017 - 23rd Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Vancouver, Canada [Poster presentation], 2017
[8] Joana Pinto, Sandro Nunes, M. Bianciardi, A. Dias, L. M. Silveira, L. L. Wald, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Region-specific modeling of heart rate and respiratory volume signal contributions in whole-brain high-spatial resolution resting-state fMRI at 7 Tesla", Proc. of ISMRM 2017 - 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Honolulu, USA [E-Poster presentation], 2017
[9] Joana Pinto, M. Chappell, P. Vilela, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Impact of calibration method on CBF multi-session reproducibility using multiple post-labeling-delay pCASL", Proc. of ESMRMB 2016 - 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Vienna, Austria [Oral presentation], 2016
[10] Joana Pinto, P. Vilela, M. Chappell, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Impact of calibration method on the reproducibility of CBF mapping using multiple post-labeling-delay PASL", Proc. of ISMRM 2016 - 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Singapore [Oral Presentation and Award: Magma Cum Laude], 2016, 2016
[11] Joana Pinto, João Periquito, P. Vilela, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Characterization of the BOLD response across the brain to different breath-holding tasks", Proc. of OHBM 2015 - 21st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Honolulu, Hawaii [Poster presentation], 2015
[12] Joana Pinto, I. Sousa, P. Vilela, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Dynamics of the BOLD response to breath-holding and paced deep breathing", Proc. 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2014), June 2014, Hamburg, Germany. [Poster presentation], 2014
[13] Joana Pinto, Joao Jorge, P. Vilela, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Spatiotemporal dynamics of the ASL CBF and BOLD in response to breath-holding", Proc. of ESMRMB 2012 - 29th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Lisbon, Portugal [Oral presentation], 2012
[1] Joana Pinto, I. Sousa, P. Vilela, Patrícia Figueiredo, "Dynamics of the BOLD response to breath-holding and paced deep breathing", Proc. 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM 2014), June 2014, Hamburg, Germany. [Poster presentation], 2014
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