PD Dr. phil. Francesco Santini

Santini, Francesco, Pansini, Michele, Deligianni, Xeni, Caligiuri, Maria Eugenia, & Oei, Edwin H. G. (2025). ESR Essentials: advanced MR safety in vulnerable patients—practice recommendations by the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology [Journal-article]. European Radiology, 35(4), 1785–1793. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-024-11055-1

Malik, S., Shimron, E., Schauman, S., Nayak, K., Kumar, P., Caligiuri, M. E., Santini, F., Stikov, N., Bell, L., Montalba, C., & Jezzard, P. (2025). Code review facility in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 93(2), 452–454. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.30348

Trattnig, S., Busoni, S., Blankholm, A. D., Neri, E., Bargalló, N., McFadden, M., Pichiecchio, A., & Santini, F. (2024). The European MR safety landscape. Insights into Imaging, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13244-024-01813-6

Barzaghi, Leonardo, Brero, Francesca, Cabini ,Raffaella Fiamma, Paoletti, Matteo, Monforte, Mauro, Lizzi, Francesca, Santini, Francesco, Deligianni, Xeni, Bergsland, Niels, Ravaglia, Sabrina, Cavagna, Lorenzo, Diamanti, Luca, Bonizzoni, Chiara, Lascialfari, Alessandro, Figini, Silvia, Ricci,Enzo, Postuma, Ian, & Pichiecchio, Anna. (2024). Myo-regressor Deep Informed Neural NetwOrk (Myo-DINO) for fast MR parameters mapping in neuromuscular disorders. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2024.108399

Santini, F., Croce, M. G., Deligianni, X., Paoletti, M., Barzaghi, L., Bergsland, N., Faggioli, A., Manco, G., Bonizzoni, C., Jin, N., Ravaglia, S., & Pichiecchio, A. (2024). Dynamic MR of muscle contraction during electrical muscle stimulation as a potential diagnostic tool for neuromuscular disease [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.17.24313673

Santini, F. (2024). The scientific system must bend to avoid breaking. European Radiology, 34(9), 5866–5867. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-024-10691-x

Barzaghi, Leonardo, Paoletti, Matteo, Monforte, Mauro, Bortolani, Sara, Bonizzoni, Chiara, Thorsten, Feiweier, Bergsland, Niels, Santini, Francesco, Deligianni, Xeni, Tasca, Giorgio, Ballante, Elena, Figini, Silvia, Ricci, Enzo, & Pichiecchio, Anna. (2024). Muscle diffusion tensor imaging in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy [Journal-article]. Muscle and Nerve, 70(2), 248–256. https://doi.org/10.1002/mus.28179

Segeroth, Martin, Winkel, David J., Vosshenrich, Jan, Breit, Hanns-Christian, Giese, Daniel, Haaf, Philip, Zellweger, Michael J., Bremerich, Jens, Santini, Francesco, & Pradella, Maurice. (2024). Cardiac Cine MRI Using a Commercially Available 0.55-T Scanner [Journal-article]. Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging, 6(4). https://doi.org/10.1148/ryct.230331

Hájek, M., Flögel, U., S. Tavares, A. A., Nichelli, L., Kennerley, A., Kahn, T., Futterer, J. J., Firsiori, A., Grüll, H., Saha, N., Couñago, F., Aydogan, D. B., Caligiuri, M. E., Faber, C., Bell, L. C., Figueiredo, P., Vilanova, J. C., Santini, F., Mekle, R., & Waiczies, S. (2024). MR beyond diagnostics at the ESMRMB annual meeting: MR theranostics and intervention. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 37(3), 323–328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-024-01176-5

Lin, Yu-Shiuan, Weibel, Janine, Landolt, Hans-Peter, Santini, Francesco, Slawik, Helen, Borgwardt, Stefan, Cajochen, Christian, & Reichert, Carolin Franziska. (2023). Brain activity during a working memory task after daily caffeine intake and caffeine withdrawal: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1002. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26808-5

Wang F, Fang S, Li J, Yuan L, Hou B, Zhu J, Jiao Y, Liu Z, Qian M, Santini F, Wang Q, Chen L, & Feng F. (2023). Correlation analysis of quantitative MRI measurements of thigh muscles with histopathology in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. European Radiology Experimental, 7(1), 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41747-023-00350-z

Koch, David, Nüesch, Corina, Ignasiak, Dominika, Aghlmandi, Soheila, Caimi, Alice, Perrot, Guido, Prüfer, Friederike, Harder, Dorothee, Santini, Francesco, Schären, Stefan, Ferguson, Stephen, Mündermann, Annegret, & Netzer, Cordula. (2023). The role of muscle degeneration and spinal balance in the pathophysiology of lumbar spinal stenosis: Study protocol of a translational approach combining in vivo biomechanical experiments with clinical and radiological parameters. PLoS ONE, 18(10 October). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293435

Weidensteiner, C., Deligianni, X., Haas, T., Madoerin, P., Bieri, O., Garcia, M., Romkes, J., Rutz, E., Santini, F., & Brunner, R. (2023). Cine phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging of calf muscle contraction in pediatric patients with cerebral palsy and healthy children: comparison of voluntary motion and electrically evoked motion [Posted-content]. In medRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.02.23293313

Kentgens, Anne-Christianne, Pusterla, Orso, Bauman, Grzegorz, Santini, Francesco, Wyler, Florian, Curdy, Marion S., Willers, C.Corin, Bieri, Oliver, Latzin, Philipp, & Ramsey, Kathryn A. (2023). Simultaneous multiple breath washout and oxygen-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in healthy adults. Respiratory Medicine and Research, 83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resmer.2023.100993

Wang F, Zhou S, Hou B, Santini F, Yuan L, Guo Y, Zhu J, Hilbert T, Kober T, Zhang Y, Wang Q, Zhao Y, & Jin Z. (2023). Assessment of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy using a deep learning method for muscle T2 mapping segmentation. European Radiology, 33(4), 2350–2357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-022-09254-9

Holman R, Lorton O, Guillemin PC, Desgranges S, Santini F, Preso DB, Farhat M, Contino-Pépin C, & Salomir R. (2023). Perfluorocarbon emulsion enhances MR-ARFI displacement and temperature in vitro: Evaluating the response with MRI, NMR, and hydrophone. Frontiers in Oncology, 12, 1025481. https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.1025481

Afshari, Roya, Santini, Francesco, Heule, Rahel, Meyer, Craig H., Pfeuffer, Josef, & Bieri, Oliver. (2023). Rapid whole-brain quantitative MT imaging. Zeitschrift Fur Medizinische Physik, null. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zemedi.2023.02.005

Colelli, Giulia, Barzaghi, Leonardo, Paoletti, Matteo, Monforte, Mauro, Bergsland, Niels, Manco, Giulia, Deligianni, Xeni, Santini, Francesco, Ricci, Enzo, Tasca, Giorgio, Mira, Antonietta, Figini, Silvia, & Pichiecchio, Anna. (2023). Radiomics and machine learning applied to STIR sequence for prediction of quantitative parameters in facioscapulohumeral disease. Frontiers in Neurology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.1105276

Francesco Santini, Jakob Wasserthal, Abramo Agosti, Xeni Deligianni, Kevin R. Keene, Hermien E. Kan, Stefan Sommer, Christoph Stuprich, Fengdan Wang, Claudia Weidensteiner, Giulia Manco, Matteo Paoletti, Valentina Mazzoli, Arjun Desai, & Anna Pichiecchio. (2023). Deep Anatomical Federated Network (Dafne): an open client/server framework for the continuous collaborative improvement of deep-learning-based medical image segmentation. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2302.06352

Vegezzi, Elisa, Cortese, Andrea, Bergsland, Niels, Mussinelli, Roberta, Paoletti, Matteo, Solazzo, Francesca, Currò, Riccardo, Ascagni, Lucia, Callegari, Ilaria, Quartesan, Ilaria, Lozza, Alessandro, Deligianni, Xeni, Santini, Francesco, Marchioni, Enrico, Cosentino, Giuseppe, Alfonsi, Enrico, Tassorelli, Cristina, Bastianello, Stefano, Merlini, Giampaolo, et al. (2023). Muscle quantitative MRI as a novel biomarker in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis with polyneuropathy: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Neurology, 270(1), 328–339. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-022-11336-z

Deligianni X, Santini F, Paoletti M, Solazzo F, Bergsland N, Savini G, Faggioli A, Germani G, Monforte M, Ricci E, Tasca G, & Pichiecchio A. (2022). Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of muscle contraction in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 7250. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11147-2

Pusterla O., Heule R., Santini F, Weikert T, Willers C., Andermatt S., Sandkuhler R., Nyilas S., Latzin P., Bieri O., & Bauman G. (2022). MRI lung lobe segmentation in pediatric cystic fibrosis patients using a recurrent neural network trained with publicly accessible CT datasets. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 88(1), 391–405. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.29184

Lin, Y.-S., Weibel, J., Landolt, H.-P., Santini, F., Slawik, H., Borgwardt, S., Cajochen, C., & Reichert, C. (2022). Brain Activity during Working Memory Tasks after Daily Caffeine Intake: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial [Posted-content]. Research Square Platform LLC. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1547322/v1

Agosti A, Shaqiri E, Paoletti M, Solazzo F, Bergsland N, Colelli G, Savini G, Muzic SI, Santini F, Deligianni X, Diamanti L, Monforte M, Tasca G, Ricci E, Bastianello S, & Pichiecchio A. (2022). Deep learning for automatic segmentation of thigh and leg muscles. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 35(3), 467–483. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-021-00967-4

Lin YS, Weibel J, Landolt HP, Santini F, Garbazza C, Kistler J, Rehm S, Rentsch K, Borgwardt S, Cajochen C, & Reichert CF. (2022). Time to Recover From Daily Caffeine Intake. Frontiers in Nutrition, 8, 787225. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.787225

Dornburg, A., Zapfe, K. L., Williams, R., Alfaro, M. E., Morris, R., Adachi, H., Flores, J., Santini, F., Near, T. J., & Frédérich, B. (2022). Considering decoupled phenotypic diversification between ontogenetic phases in macroevolution: An example using Triggerfishes (Balistidae) [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.11.475856

Diaz-Manera J, Pichiecchio A, Santini F, & Filosto M. (2021). Editorial: Imaging of Neuromuscular Diseases [Frontiers Media S.A.]. Frontiers in Neurology, 12, 814579. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.814579

Williams G, Thyagaraj S, Fu A, Oshinski J, Giese D, Bunck AC, Fornari E, Santini F, Luciano M, Loth F, & Martin BA. (2021). In vitro evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid velocity measurement in type I Chiari malformation: repeatability, reproducibility, and agreement using 2D phase contrast and 4D flow MRI. Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 18(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12987-021-00246-3

Paoletti M, Diamanti L, Muzic SI, Ballante E, Solazzo F, Foppoli L, Deligianni X, Santini F, Figini S, Bergsland N, & Pichiecchio A. (2021). Longitudinal Quantitative MRI Evaluation of Muscle Involvement in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Frontiers in Neurology, 12, 749736. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.749736

Lin, Yu-Shiuan, Weibel, Janine, Landolt, Hans-Peter, Santini, Francesco, Garbazza, Corrado, Kistler, Joshua, Rehm, Sophia, Rentsch, Katharina, Borgwardt, Stefan, Cajochen, Christian, & Reichert, Carolin. (2021). Time to recover from daily caffeine intake [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.01.450708

Felisaz PF, Belatti E, Deligianni X, Bergsland N, Santini F, Paoletti M, Solazzo F, Germani G, Cortese A, Vegezzi E, Bieri O, Bastianello S, & Pichiecchio A. (2021). Variable echo time imaging for detecting the short T2* components of the sciatic nerve: a validation study. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 34(3), 411–419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-020-00886-w

Deligianni, X., Santini, F., Paoletti, M., Solazzo, F., Bergsland, N., Savini, G., Faggioli, A., Germani, G., Monforte, M., Ricci, E., Tasca, G., & Pichiecchio, A. (2021). Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of muscle contraction in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.05.22.21257219

Weidensteiner, Claudia, Madoerin, Philipp, Deligianni, Xeni, Haas, Tanja, Bieri, Oliver, Akinci D’Antonoli, Tugba, Bracht-Schweizer, Katrin, Romkes, Jacqueline, De Pieri, Enrico, Santini, Francesco, Rutz, Erich, Brunner, Reinald, & Garcia, Meritxell. (2021). Quantification and Monitoring of the Effect of Botulinum Toxin A on Paretic Calf Muscles of Children With Cerebral Palsy With MRI: A Preliminary Study [Journal-article]. Frontiers in Neurology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.630435

Weidensteiner C, Madoerin P, Deligianni X, Haas T, Bieri O, Akinci D’Antonoli T, Bracht-Schweizer K, Romkes J, De Pieri E, Santini F, Rutz E, Brunner R, & Garcia M. (2021). Quantification and Monitoring of the Effect of Botulinum Toxin A on Paretic Calf Muscles of Children With Cerebral Palsy With MRI: A Preliminary Study. Frontiers in Neurology, 12, 630435. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.630435

Savini G, Asteggiano C, Paoletti M, Parravicini S, Pezzotti E, Solazzo F, Muzic SI, Santini F, Deligianni X, Gardani A, Germani G, Farina LM, Bergsland N, Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott CAM, Berardinelli A, Bastianello S, & Pichiecchio A. (2021). Pilot Study on Quantitative Cervical Cord and Muscular MRI in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Promising Biomarkers of Disease Evolution and Treatment? Frontiers in Neurology, 12, 613834. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.613834

Akinci D’Antonoli T, Santini F, Deligianni X, Garcia Alzamora M, Rutz E, Bieri O, Brunner R, & Weidensteiner C. (2021). Combination of Quantitative MRI Fat Fraction and Texture Analysis to Evaluate Spastic Muscles of Children With Cerebral Palsy. Frontiers in Neurology, 12, 633808. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.633808

Santini F, Deligianni X, Paoletti M., Solazzo F, Weigel M, de Sousa P.L., Bieri O., Monforte M, Ricci E., Tasca G., Pichiecchio A., & Bergsland N. (2021). Fast Open-Source Toolkit for Water T2 Mapping in the Presence of Fat From Multi-Echo Spin-Echo Acquisitions for Muscle MRI. Frontiers in Neurology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.630387

Willers C, Bauman G, Andermatt S, Santini F, Sandkühler R, Ramsey KA, Cattin PC, Bieri O, Pusterla O, & Latzin P. (2021). The impact of segmentation on whole-lung functional MRI quantification: Repeatability and reproducibility from multiple human observers and an artificial neural network. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 85(2), 1079–1092. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28476

Felisaz PF, Colelli G, Ballante E, Solazzo F, Paoletti M, Germani G, Santini F, Deligianni X, Bergsland N, Monforte M, Tasca G, Ricci E, Bastianello S, Figini S, & Pichiecchio A. (2021). Texture analysis and machine learning to predict water T2 and fat fraction from non-quantitative MRI of thigh muscles in Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. European Journal of Radiology, 134, 109460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2020.109460

Lin, Yu-Shiuan, Weibel, Janine, Landolt, Hans-Peter, Santini, Francesco, Meyer, Martin, Brunmair, Julia, Meier-Menches, Samuel M., Gerner, Christopher, Borgwardt, Stefan, Cajochen, Christian, & Reichert, Carolin. (2021). Daily Caffeine Intake Induces Concentration-Dependent Medial Temporal Plasticity in Humans: A Multimodal Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial. Cerebral Cortex, 31(6), 3096–3106. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab005

Lin, Yu-Shiuan, Weibel, Janine, Landolt, Hans-Peter, Santini, Francesco, Slawik, Helen, Borgwardt, Stefan, Cajochen, Christian, & Reichert, Carolin. (2021). Working Memory Performance after Daily Caffeine Intake: Compromised Performance and Reduced Hippocampal Activity. In bioRxiv. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.19.440520

Deligianni X, Hirschmann A, Place N, Bieri O, & Santini F. (2020). Dynamic MRI of plantar flexion: A comprehensive repeatability study of electrical stimulation-gated muscle contraction standardized on evoked force. PLoS ONE, 15(11 November), e0241832. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241832

Santini F, Pansini M, Hrabak-Paar M, Yates D, Langenickel TH, Bremerich J, Bieri O, & Schubert T. (2020). On the optimal temporal resolution for phase contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging: Establishment of baseline values. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 22(1), 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12968-020-00669-1

Deligianni, Xeni, Klenk, Christopher, Place, Nicolas, Garcia, Meritxell, Pansini, Michele, Hirschmann, Anna, Schmidt-Trucksäss, Arno, Bieri, Oliver, & Santini, Francesco. (2020). Dynamic MR imaging of the skeletal muscle in young and senior volunteers during synchronized minimal neuromuscular electrical stimulation. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 33(3), 393–400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-019-00787-7

Deligianni X, Klenk C, Place N, Garcia M, Pansini M, Hirschmann A, Schmidt-Trucksäss A, Bieri O, & Santini F. (2020). Dynamic MR imaging of the skeletal muscle in young and senior volunteers during synchronized minimal neuromuscular electrical stimulation. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine, 33(3), 393–400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-019-00787-7

Hrabak-Paar M, Kircher A, Al Sayari S, Kopp S, Santini F, Schmieder RE, Kachenoura N, Yates D, Langenickel T, Bremerich J, & Heye T. (2020). Variability of mri aortic stiffness measurements in a multicenter clinical trial setting: Intraobserver, interobserver, and intracenter variability of pulse wave velocity and aortic strain measurement. Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging, 2(2), e190090. https://doi.org/10.1148/ryct.2020190090

Santini F, Gui L, Lorton O, Guillemin PC, Manasseh G, Roth M, Bieri O, Vallée JP, Salomir R, & Crowe LA. (2020). Ultrasound-driven cardiac MRI. Physica Medica, 70, 161–168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2020.01.008

Afshari, Roya, Santini, Francesco, Heule, Rahel, Meyer, Craig H., Pfeuffer, Josef, & Bieri, Oliver. (2020). One-minute whole-brain magnetization transfer ratio imaging with intrinsic B1-correction. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 85(5), 2686–2695. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28618

Lin, Y.-S., Weibel, J., Landolt, H.-P., Santini, F., Meyer, M., Borgwardt, S., Cajochen, C., & Reichert, C. (2019, October 16). Caffeine-induced Plasticity of Grey Matter Volume in Healthy Brains: A placebo-controlled multimodal within-subject study [Posted-content]. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/804047

Altermatt A, Santini F, Deligianni X, Magon S, Sprenger T, Kappos L, Cattin P, Wuerfel J, & Gaetano L. (2019). Design and construction of an innovative brain phantom prototype for MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 81(2), 1165–1171. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.27464

Strijkers GJ, Araujo ECA, Azzabou N, Bendahan D, Blamire A, Burakiewicz J, Carlier PG, Damon B, Deligianni X, Froeling M, Heerschap A, Hollingsworth KG, Hooijmans MT, Karampinos DC, Loudos G, Madelin G, Marty B, Nagel AM, Nederveen AJ, et al. (2019). Exploration of new contrasts, targets, and MR imaging and spectroscopy techniques for neuromuscular disease-A workshop report of working group 3 of the biomedicine and molecular biosciences COST action BM1304 MYO-MRI. Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases, 6, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.3233/jnd-180333

Santini, Francesco, Bieri, Oliver, Bieri, Oliver, & Deligianni, Xeni. (2018). OpenForce MR: A low-cost open-source MR-compatible force sensor. Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering, 48B(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/cmr.b.21404

Celicanin Z, Manasseh G, Petrusca L, Scheffler K, Auboiroux V, Crowe LA, Hyacinthe JN, Natsuaki Y, Santini F, Becker CD, Terraz S, Bieri O, & Salomir R. (2018). Hybrid ultrasound-MR guided HIFU treatment method with 3D motion compensation. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 79(5), 2511–2523. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26897

Bauman G, Pusterla O, Santini F, & Bieri O. (2018). Dynamic and steady-state oxygen-dependent lung relaxometry using inversion recovery ultra-fast steady-state free precession imaging at 1.5 T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 79(2), 839–845. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26739

Pusterla, Orso, Sommer, Gregor, Santini, Francesco, Wiese, Mark, Lardinois, Didier, Tamm, Michael, Bremerich, Jens, Bauman, Grzegorz, & Bieri, Oliver. (2018). Signal enhancement ratio imaging of the lung parenchyma with ultra-fast steady-state free precession MRI at 1.5T. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (JMRI), 48(1), 48–57. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.25928

Altermatt, A., Santini, F., Deligianni, X., Magon, S., Sprenger, T., Kappos, L., Cattin, P., Wuerfel, J., & Gaetano, L. (2017). On the construction of a 3D-printed brain phantom as gold standard for the validation of brain segmentations. 23, 540–541. SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.

Deligianni X, Pansini M, Garcia M, Hirschmann A, Schmidt-Trucksäss A, Bieri O, & Santini F. (2017). Synchronous MRI of muscle motion induced by electrical stimulation. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 77(2), 664–672. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26154

Bauman G, Santini F, Pusterla O, & Bieri O. (2017). Pulmonary relaxometry with inversion recovery ultra-fast steady-state free precession at 1.5T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 77(1), 74–82. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26490

Sigg, Severin J., Santini, Francesco, Najer, Adrian, Richard, Pascal U., Meier, Wolfgang P., & Palivan, Cornelia G. (2016). Nanoparticle-based highly sensitive MRI contrast agents with enhanced relaxivity in reductive milieu. Chemical Communications, 52(64), 40–9937. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6cc03396b

Sinanaj I, Montandon ML, Rodriguez C, Herrmann F, Santini F, Haller S, & Giannakopoulos P. (2015). Neural underpinnings of background acoustic noise in normal aging and mild cognitive impairment. Neuroscience, 310, 410–421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.09.031

Santini F., Kawel-Boehm N., Greiser A., Bremerich J., & Bieri O. (2015). Simultaneous T1 and T2 quantification of the myocardium using cardiac balanced-SSFP inversion recovery with interleaved sampling acquisition (CABIRIA). Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 74(2), 365–371. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.25402

Yiallourou, T. I., Schmid Daners, M., Kurtcuoglu, V., Haba-Rubio, J., Heinzer, R., Fornani, E., Santini, F., Sheffer, D. B., Stergiopulos, N., & Martin, B. A. (2015). Continuous positive airway pressure alters cranial blood flow and cerebrospinal fluid dynamics at the craniovertebral junction. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management, 2(3), 152–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inat.2015.06.004

Schubert T, Pansini M, Bieri O, Stippich C, Wetzel S, Schaedelin S, von Hessling A, & Santini F. (2015). Attenuation of blood flow pulsatility along the Atlas slope: A physiologic property of the distal vertebral artery? American Journal of Neuroradiology, 36(3), 562–567. https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.a4148

Barandun, Marina, Iselin, Lukas Daniel, Santini, Francesco, Pansini, Michele, Scotti, Celeste, Baumhoer, Daniel, Bieri, Oliver, Studler, Ueli, Wirz, Dieter, Haug, Martin, Jakob, Marcel, Schaefer, Dirk Johannes, Martin, Ivan, & Barbero, Andrea. (2015). Generation and characterization of osteochondral grafts with human nasal chondrocytes. Journal of Orthopaedic Research : Official Publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society, 33(8), 9–1111. https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.22865

Celicanin, Zarko, Bieri, Oliver, Preiswerk, Frank, Cattin, Philippe, Scheffler, Klaus, & Santini, Francesco. (2015). Simultaneous acquisition of image and navigator slices using CAIPIRINHA for 4D MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 73(2), 669–676. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.25134

Celicanin Z, Auboiroux V, Bieri O, Petrusca L, Santini F, Viallon M, Scheffler K, & Salomir R. (2014). Real-time method for motion-compensated MR thermometry and MRgHIFU treatment in abdominal organs. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 72(4), 1087–1095. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.25017

Del Grande F, Santini F, Herzka DA, Aro MR, Dean CW, Gold GE, & Carrino JA. (2014). Fat-suppression techniques for 3-T MR imaging of the musculoskeletal system. Radiographics, 34(1), 217–233. https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.341135130

Kawel-Boehm N, Dellas Buser T, Greiser A, Bieri O, Bremerich J, & Santini F. (2014). In-vivo assessment of normal T1 values of the right-ventricular myocardium by cardiac MRI. International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, 30(2), 323–328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-013-0326-3

Schubert T, Bieri O, Pansini M, Stippich C, & Santini F. (2014). Peak velocity measurements in tortuous arteries with phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging: The effect of multidirectional velocity encoding. Investigative Radiology, 49(4), 189–194. https://doi.org/10.1097/rli.0000000000000013

Meckel, Stephan, Leitner, Lorenz, Bonati, Leo H., Santini, Francesco, Schubert, Tilman, Stalder, Aurelien F., Lyrer P., Markl, Michael, & Wetzel, Stephan G. (2013). Intracranial artery velocity measurement using 4D PC MRI at 3 T: Comparison with transcranial ultrasound techniques and 2D PC MRI. Neuroradiology, 55(4), 389–398. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-012-1103-z

Ganter C, Settles M, Dregely I, Santini F., Scheffler K., & Bieri O. (2013). B 1 + -mapping with the transient phase of unbalanced steady-state free precession. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 70(6), 1515–1523. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.24598

Petrusca, Lorena, Cattin, Philippe, De Luca, Valeria, Preiswerk, Frank, Celicanin, Zarko, Auboiroux, Vincent, Viallon, Magalie, Arnold, Patrik, Santini, Francesco, Terraz, Sylvain, Scheffler, Klaus, Becker, Christoph D., & Salomir, Rares. (2013). Hybrid ultrasound/magnetic resonance simultaneous acquisition and image fusion for motion monitoring in the upper abdomen. Investigative Radiology, 48(5), 333–340. https://doi.org/10.1097/rli.0b013e31828236c3

Anthikat-Albert, B. D., Yiallourou, T. I., Haba-Rubio, J., Heinzer, R., Fonari, E., Chevrey, N., Santini, F., Stergiopulos, N., & Martin, B. A. (2012). Continuous positive airway pressure impacts cerebral blood flow and cerebrospinal fluid motion: A phase contrast mri study. ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC 2012, 569–570. https://doi.org/10.1115/sbc2012-80683

Kawel,Nadine, Santini,Francesco, Haas,Tanja, Zellweger,Michael J, Streefkerk,Henk J, & Bremerich,Jens. (2012). Normal response of cardiac flow and function to adenosine stress as assessed by cardiac MR. Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, 13(11), 720–726. https://doi.org/10.2459/JCM.0b013e32835771c3

Kawel N, Santini F, Haas T, Froehlich, Johannes M., & Bremerich, Jens. (2012). The protein binding substance Ibuprofen does not affect the T1 time or partition coefficient in contrast-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 14(1), 71. https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-14-71

Kawel N, Nacif M, Santini F, Liu S, Bremerich J, Arai AE, & Bluemke DA. (2012). Partition coefficients for gadolinium chelates in the normal myocardium: Comparison of gadopentetate dimeglumine and gadobenate dimeglumine. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 36(3), 733–737. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.23651

Zecca, Chiara, Cereda, Carlo, Wetzel, Stephan, Tschuor, Silvia, Staedler, Claudio, Santini, Francesco, Nadarajah, Navarajah, Bassetti, Claudio L., & Gobbi, Claudio. (2012). Diffusion-weighted imaging in acute demyelinating myelopathy. Neuroradiology, 54(6), 573–578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-011-0907-6

Anders, Jens, Sangiorgio, Paul, Deligianni, Xeni, Santini, Francesco, Scheffler, Klaus, & Boero, Giovanni. (2012). Integrated active tracking detector for MRI-guided interventions. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 67(1), 290–296. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.23112

Cogbill, Thomas H., & Ziegelbein, Kurt J. (2011). Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, and Ultrasound Imaging: Basic Principles, Glossary of Terms, and Patient Safety. Surgical Clinics of North America, 91(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suc.2010.10.006

Santini, Francesco, Patil, Sunil, & Scheffler, Klaus. (2011). IceLuva: A scripting framework for MR image reconstruction based on free software. Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering, 39 B(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/cmr.b.20184

Papadimitropoulos A., Scherberich A., Scherberich A., Guven S., Theilgaard N., Crooijmans H.J.A., Santini F., Scheffler K., Zallone A., & Martin I. (2011). A 3D in vitro bone organ model using human progenitor cells. European Cells and Materials, 21, 445–458. https://doi.org/10.22203/eCM.v021a33

Schubert, T, Santini, F, Stalder, A F, Bock, J, Meckel, S, Bonati, L, Markl, M, & Wetzel, S. (2011). Dampening of blood-flow pulsatility along the carotid siphon : does form follow function? American Journal of Neuroradiology, 32(6), 12–1107. https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.a2426

Paysan, Pascal, Luethi, Marcel, Albrecht, Thomas, Lerch, Anita, Amberg, Brian, Santini, Francesco, & Vetter, Thomas. (2009). Face Reconstruction from Skull Shapes and Physical Attributes. In Denzler, J; Notni, G; Sube, H (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 5748). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03798-6_24

Santini, Francesco, Wetzel, Stephan G, Bock, Jelena, Markl, Michael, & Scheffler, Klaus. (2009). Time-resolved three-dimensional (3D) phase-contrast (PC) balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP). Magnetic Resonance in Medicine : MRM : An Official Journal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 62(4), 74–966. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.22087

Meckel, Stephan, Stalder, Aurelien F, Santini, Francesco, Radü, Ernst-Wilhelm, Rüfenacht, Daniel A, Markl, Michael, & Wetzel, Stephan G. (2008). In vivo visualization and analysis of 3-D hemodynamics in cerebral aneurysms with flow-sensitized 4-D MR imaging at 3 T. Neuroradiology, 50(6), 84–473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-008-0367-9

Santini, Francesco, Patil, Sunil, Meckel, Stephan, Scheffler, Klaus, & Wetzel, Stephan G. (2008). Double-reference cross-correlation algorithm for separation of the arteries and veins from 3D MRA time series. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 28(3), 54–646. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.21499