Francesco Padormo

Dr Francesco Padormo obtained an MSci in Physics (2008) and PhD in Magnetic Resonance Physics (2012) from Imperial College London. He then became Research Associate at King’s College London, working in collaboration with the University of Oxford on Ultra-High Field MRI, Parallel Transmission and RF Safety. In 2016 he moved to the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, continuing his research in the lab of Prof. Priti Balchandani, developing pulses sequences and methods for UHF imaging of skull-base tumors.

Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Ferrazzi G, Price AN, Teixeira RPAG, Cordero-Grande L, Hutter J, Gomes A, Padormo F, Hughes E, Schneider T, Rutherford M, Kuklisova Murgasova M, Hajnal JV. An efficient sequence for fetal brain imaging at 3T with enhanced T1 contrast and motion robustness. Magnetic Resonance In Medicine (2017) in press
  2. Arichi T, Whitehead K, Barone G, Pressler R, Padormo F, Edwards AD, Fabrizi L. Localization of spontaneous bursting neuronal activity in the preterm human brain with simultaneous EEG-fMRI. eLife (2017) 12;6. pii: e27814
  3. Barrett TF, Dyvorne HA, Padormo F, Pawha PS, Delman BN, Shrivastava RK, Balchandani P. First Application of 7-T Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery of Skull Base Tumors. World Neurosurgery (2017) 103:600-610
  4. Beqiri A, Price AN, Padormo F, Hajnal JV, Malik SJ. Extended RF shimming: Sequence-level parallel transmission optimization applied to steady-state free precession MRI of the heart. NMR in Biomedicine (2017) doi:10.1002/nbm.3701
  5. Hughes EJ, Winchman T, Padormo F, Teixeira RPAG, Wurie J, Sharma S, Fox M, Hutter J, Cordero-Grande L, Price AN, Allsop J, Bueno-Conde J, Tusor N, Arichi T, Edwards AD, Rutherford MA, Counsell SJ, Hajnal JV. A dedicated neonatal brain imaging system. Magnetic Resonance In Medicine (2017) 78(2):794-804
  6. Padormo F, Beqiri A, Malik SJ, Hajnal JV. RF system calibration for global Q matrix determination. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2016) 34(5):690-693
  7. Padormo F, Hess AT, Aljabar P, Malik SJ, Jezzard P, Robson MD, Hajnal JV, Koopmans PJ. Large Dynamic Range Relative B1+ Mapping. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2016) 76(2):490-9
  8. Padormo F, Beqiri A, Hajnal JV, Malik SJ. Parallel transmission for ultrahigh‐field imaging. NMR in Biomedicine (2016) 29(9):1145-61
  9. Padormo F, Beqiri A, Malik SJ, Hajnal JV. PRIMO: Precise radiofrequency inference from multiple observations. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2015) 74(2):372-383
  10. Malik SJ, Beqiri A, Padormo F, Hajnal JV. Direct signal control of the steady‐state response of 3D‐FSE sequences. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2015) 73(3):951-963
  11. Malik SJ, Padormo F, Price AN, Hajnal JV. Spatially resolved extended phase graphs: modeling and design of multipulse sequences with parallel transmission. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2012) 68(5):1481-1494
  12. Limbrick-Oldfield EH, Brooks JCW, Wise RJS, Padormo F, Hajnal JV, Beckmann CF, Ungless MA. Identification and characterisation of midbrain nuclei using optimised functional magnetic resonance imaging. NeuroImage (2012) 59(2):1230-1238

Conference Abstracts

  1. Padormo F, Feldman R, Balchandani P. Multiband Simultaneous Spin Echo Imaging – an alternative to Turbo Spin Echo. Minnesota Workshop on High and Ultra-high Field Imaging (2017)
  2. Ferrazzi G, Price A, Teixeira RPAG, Padormo F, Cordero-Grande L, Hughes E, McCabe L, Rutherford M, Kuklisova-Murgasova M, Hajnal JV. An optimised 2D MPRAGE sequence for T1 contrast in the fetal brain: application to slice to volume reconstruction and multiband acceleration. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2017) 1942
  3. Godinez F, Hajnal JV, Scott G, Mooiweer R, Padormo F, Malik SJ. Tissue and device visualization using parallel transmission for interventional MRI. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2017) 740
  4. Padormo F & Balchandani P. Improved signal uniformity for balanced steady-state free precession by employing Direct Signal Control parallel transmission. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2017) 385
  5. Arichi T, Barone G, Whitehead K, Lee A, Padormo F, Edwards AD, Fabrizi L. Identification of cortical generators of spontaneous activity in the preterm brain with EEG-fMRI. OHBM (2016) 1992
  6. Sinkus R, Lambert SA, Hadjilucas L, Malik SJ, Biswas A, Padormo F, Lee J, Hajnal JV. DWI^2: exploring the MRI-phase for imaging diffusion. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2016) 0001
  7. Padormo F, Beqiri A, Hajnal JV, Malik SJ. Interventional device visualisation using the coupling mode of a PTx transmit array. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2016) 3584
  8. Hughes E, Winchmann T, Mager L, Padormo F, Hutter J, Wurie J, Fox M, Sharma M, Edwards AD, Kapetanakis A, Allievi A, Hajnal JV. Tackling the Challenges of Imaging the Infant Brain in a Dedicated Neonatal Coil. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting ISMRM (2015) 3094
  9. Padormo F, Hess AT, Aljabar P, Jezzard P, Robson MD, Hajnal JV, Koopmans PJ. Large Dynamic Range Relative B1+ Mapping. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting ISMRM (2015) 490
  10. Beqiri A, Padormo F, Hand JW, Hajnal JV, Malik SJ. SAR optimised local B1+ shimming for cardiac imaging at 3T – a multi-model study. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting ISMRM (2014) 179
  11. Beqiri A, Hand JW, Padormo F, Hajnal JV, Malik SJ. SAR characterisation for parallel transmission MRI – comparison between modelling different decoupling regimes. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting ISMRM (2014) 4888
  12. Padormo F, Beqiri A, Malik SJ, Hajnal JV. On the correction of cable losses for in-situ subject-specific global Q matrix calibration. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting ISMRM (2014) 550
  13. Padormo F, Malik SJ, Hajnal JV. Relative B1+ mapping directly from k-space for rapid Multi-Transmit calibration. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2012) 604
  14. Malik SJ, Padormo F, Hajnal JV. Spatially resolved extended phase graph design for multi-pulse sequences using parallel transmit. Proceedings of the ESMRMB (2011) 62
  15. Wild JM, Deppe MH, Ajraoui S, Marshall H, Norquay G, Lanz T, Behr M, Padormo F, Parra-Robles J, Kozerke S. Sensitivity of transmit coil B1+ to lung inflation in hyperpolarised 3He MRI. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2011) 913
  16. Price AN, Malik SJ, Broadhouse KM, Padormo F, Durighel G, Cox DJ, Edwards AD, Groves AM, Hajnal JV. Improved Cardiac MRI of Preterm Infants using Retrospective Cardiac and Respiratory Gating. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2011) 1178
  17. Malik SJ, Padormo F, Hajnal JV. Steady-State B1 mapping of dynamically changing RF fields. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2011) 645
  18. Padormo F, Malik SJ, Mens G, Hajnal JV. A method for calibrating multi-channel RF systems. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2011) 3858
  19. Padormo F, Malik SJ, Hajnal JV. Direct Reconstruction of B1 Maps from Undersampled Acquisitions. British Chapter of the ISMRM (2010)
  20. Padormo F, Malik SJ, Hajnal JV. Direct Reconstruction of B1 Maps from Undersampled Acquisitions. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2010) 4860
  21. Padormo F, Malik SJ, Cooper M, Varghese G, Randall C, Larkman DJ, Hajnal JV. Individually tailored water selective imaging in the knee using a “bolt-on” parallel transmit system. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Parallel MRI (2009)
  22. Padormo F, Larkman DJ, Hajnal JV. Reducing artefacts in respiratory resolved MRI field measurements. Proceedings of the ESMRMB (2009) 529
  23. Padormo F, Larkman DJ, Hajnal JV. Reducing artefacts in respiratory resolved MRI field measurements. British Chapter of the ISMRM (2009)
  24. Padormo F, Malik SJ, Hajnal JV, Larkman DJ. Assessing and Correcting Respiration Induced Variation of B1 in the Liver. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2009) 753
  25. Padormo F, Nunes RG, Atkinson D, Batchelor PG, Hajnal JV, Larkman DJ. An Approach to Coil Calibration Based on Prior Training Data. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meeting ISMRM (2008) 1227.