Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Rafael Neto Henriques
Citation names
- Henriques, Rafael
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 731E-D1D9-090B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3891-8189
Email addresses
- rafael.henriques@neuro.fchampalimaud.org (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Italian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2018/10/03
Concluded
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Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences (Doutoramento)
Major in Medical Science
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
"Advanced Methods for Diffusion MRI Data Analysis and their Application to the Healthy Ageing Brain" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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n/a |
2012
Concluded
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Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging of the Healthy Human Brain" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2018/10/03 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Centro Champalimaud, Portugal |
Centro Champalimaud, Portugal | ||
2017/10/01 - 2018/10/02 | Research Assistant (Research) | Centro Champalimaud, Portugal |
Centro Champalimaud, Portugal | ||
2013/10/01 - 2017/09/30 | Research Trainee (Research) | University of Cambridge - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, United Kingdom |
University of Cambridge - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, United Kingdom | ||
2012/11/17 - 2013/09/30 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Portugal | ||
2010/06/15 - 2010/09/15 | Research Trainee (Research) | University of Toronto Oral Dynamics Laboratory, Canada |
University of Toronto Oral Dynamics Laboratory, Canada |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2013/01/01 - 2017/09/30 | Advanced Methods for Diffusion MRI Data Analysis and their application to the Healthy Ageing Brain
SFRH/BD/89114/2012
PhD Student Fellow
University of Cambridge - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, United Kingdom
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2010/10/01 - 2016/03/31 | Systems Cognitive Neuroscience of Healthy Ageing: Population-Representative Studies of Functional Plasticity and Neural Change
Invited Scientist Fellow
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Concluded
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2012/01/01 - 2013/09/30 | Comprehensive multi-parametric analysis of the limbic system connectivity in post-traumatic epilepsy patients | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/06/01 - 2028/06/01 | Correlation Tensor MRI: a paradigm shift for stroke management
Post-doc
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
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FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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2017/10/01 - 2021/02/28 | Sensing activity-induced cell swellings and ensuing neurotransmitter releases for in-vivo functional imaging sans hemodynamics
Post-doc
Centro Champalimaud, Portugal
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European Research Council
Concluded
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2009/10/01 - 2010/07/31 | Neuroimaging with MATLAB: MRI Brain Segmentation
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Conference abstract |
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Conference paper |
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Journal article |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/11/07 | Diffusion Imaging in Python (DIPY) and its contributions to open and reproducible research | MRI together workshop
European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology
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2022/06/07 | Diffusion Artefacts and pre-processing | Joint Annual Meeting of the ISMRM-ESMRMB
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (London, United Kingdom)
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2022/01/30 | Correlation Tensor MRI - resolving kurtosis sources in health and disease. | Microstructural imageries series
New York University (NYU) school of medicine (New York, United States)
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2021/12/16 | Ressonância magnética por contraste de difusão. | Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics Seminars
Faculty of Science University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2021/06/10 | Diffusion MRI - free water imaging and beyond. | CES Weekly talk series.
Clinical & Experimental Sciences (CES) Division. Southampton General Hospital ( Southampton, United Kingdom)
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2021/04/04 | Correlation Tensor Imaging. | UCL Quantitative MRI interest group
University College London (London, United Kingdom)
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2021/03/15 | Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging & Microstructural Models | Annual Dipy workshop (Virtual edition).
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
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2020/11/24 | Diffusion MRI with Python | Pybrain workshop
Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK (Virtual)
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2020/08/08 | Correlation Tensor Imaging - resolving non-Gaussian diffusion sources of in vivo tissues | 28th Annual Meeting of the ISMRM
ISMRM (Paris, France)
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2020/08/08 | Measuring the full diffusional intra- and inter-compartmental kurtosis tensors using double diffusion encoding | 28th Annual Meeting of the ISMRM
ISMRM (Paris, France)
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2019/10/15 | Correlation Tensor Imaging | Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre (CISC) Seminar section
Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre (CISC) (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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2019/05/13 | Biophysical modeling of the white matter: from theory towards clinical practice | ISMRM 27th Annual Meeting & Exhibition
ISMRM (Montreal)
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2019/05/11 | The two-compartment diffusion "standard model" misestimates microscopic anisotropy in-vivo | ISMRM 27th Annual Meeting & Exhibition
ISMRM (Montreal, Canada)
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2019/03/16 | Diffusion Representation Techniques and Microstructural Models | Dipy workshop
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA (Bloomington, United States)
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2018/04/24 | Validity Regimes of the Spherical Mean Technique | Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2018
ISMRM-ESMRMB (Paris, France)
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2017/04/27 | Interpreting age-related changes based on the mean signal diffusion kurtosis | ISMRM 25th Annual Meeting & Exhibition
ISMRM (Honolulu, United States)
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2015/10/03 | Fiber direction estimates on diffusion MRI multi-shell protocols -comparison of the performances of DTI, DKI and Richardson-Lucy SD based tractography | ESMRMB 2015, 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting
ESMRMB (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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2015/06/05 | Resolving crossing fibers and generalizing biomarkers using the diffusion kurtosis tensor | ISMRM 23rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition
ISMRM (Toronto, Canada)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2020/01/26 - 2021/02/23 | Diffusion Microscopic Anisotropy Estimation in the Brain
Supervisor
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Biomedical Engineering (Master)
NOVA School of Science and Technology, Portugal
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2018/02/01 - 2018/11/27 | Implementation of an algorithm for estimating free-water fraction in Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Co-supervisor
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Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2020/06/12 | Combined brain language connectivity and intraoperativeneurophysiologic techniques in awake craniotomy for eloquent-area brain
tumor resection
(Thesis) Arguer
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João Carlos Leote Rebocho (PhD)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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2019/02/18 | Integration of Multi-shell Diffusion Imaging derived Metrics in Tractography Reconstructions of Clinical Data
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Joana Rita Simões Guido (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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2018/11/12 | Identification of brain connectivity disruptions due to thalamic lesions in early development using Diffusion-Weighted MRI
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Ana Rita Veiga de Oliveira (Master)
Instituto Superior Técnico Departamento de Física, Portugal
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Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2023/02/01 - 2024/12/31 | Official Google Summer of Code (GSoC) administration. Admin of the "Diffusion in Python" sub-organization of the "Python"
organization of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program which objective is to support new contributors (typically master
or PhD students) into open-source software development by financing 3-months projects.
Member
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Google Inc, United States |
2020/08/15 - 2022/05/15 | I was the elected trainee representative for the Diffusion Study Group (DSG) of the prestigious International Society for
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). The DSG has the mission to facilitate the technological development, evaluation, and
clinical application of diffusion MRI.
Member
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International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, United States |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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2021/07/31 | Interviewed for the Portuguese National Newspaper Público | Público |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2023/06/01 - 2023/09/30 | DIPY: Correlation Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Shilpi Prasad |
2023/06/01 - 2023/09/30 | Generative Synthetic MRI Data | Vara Lakshmi |
2022/06/01 - 2022/09/30 | Improving GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo simulations in Disimpy | Joel Hurtado Moreno |
2022/06/01 - 2022/09/30 | Implementation of White Matter Substrates in Disimpy | Renata Cruz |
2013/10/15 - 2015/06/15 | Mathematical biology - Natural Sciences Tripos - University of Cambridge, UK | 10 Students |
Distinctions
Award
2022 | Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (2021.01773.CEECIND)
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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2021 | Best pre-clinical oral presentation award
1st annual meeting of the ISMRM-IBERIAN chapter , United States
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2020 | Magna Cum Laude Award for the oral presentation: Measuring the full diffusional intra- and inter-compartmental kurtosis tensors
using double diffusion encoding.
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, United States
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2020 | Summa Cum Laude Merit Award for the oral presentation: Correlation Tensor Imaging - resolving non-Gaussian diffusion sources
of in vivo tissues.
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, United States
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2017 | Travel grant for a two weeks project at the University of Washington eScience Institute
International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility, Sweden
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2017 | Magna Cum Laude Award for the oral presentation: Interpreting age-related changes based on the mean signal diffusion kurtosis.
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, United States
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2016 | Travel Grant to present a poster at ISMRM Workshop on "Breaking the Barries of Diffusion MRI"
Guarantors Of Brain, United Kingdom
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2015 | Google Summer of Code 2015 participation award
Google Inc, United States
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2013 | PhD research grant (SFRH/BD/89114/2012)
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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2009 | Integration into Research Grant
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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Other distinction
2022 | Reproducibility Research Honourable mention
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, United States
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2022 | NeuroImage Cover featuring the original article "In vivo Correlation Tensor MRI reveals microscopic kurtosis in the human
brain on a clinical 3T scanner"
Elsevier BV, Netherlands
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2022 | Top 10% most downloaded paper during its first 12 months for the original article “Towards more robust and reproducible Diffusion
Kurtosis Imaging” submitted at the Journal “Magnetic Resonance in Medicine"
J B Wiley Co, United States
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2020 | Top 10% most downloaded paper during its first 12 months for the original article “Microscopic anisotropy misestimation in
spherical-mean Single Diffusion Encoding MRI.” submitted at the Journal “Magnetic Resonance in medicine”
J B Wiley Co, United States
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2017 | 25th ISMRM annual meeting Trainee Stipend Award
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, United States
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2017 | 1st Place for Best Research Project Presentation at the diffusion study group. Poster presentation: Exploring the potentials
and limitations of improved free-water elimination DTI techniques.
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, United States
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2017 | Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence for the Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal titled “NAPALM: Mapping specific
aspects of neuroplasticity using advanced MRI sequences and ultra-field MRI”
European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Belgium
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2016 | 24th ISMRM annual meeting Trainee Stipend Award
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, United States
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2015 | Certificate of Merit for presenting the poster "United Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging (UDKI) Toolbox"
European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Belgium
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2011 | Erasmus student mobility for placements scholarship
European Commission, Belgium
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2009 | One of the best 40 first year student (2007/2008) of the Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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