Papers


  • 2023 Ruiz-Tagle A., Figueiredo P., Pinto J., Vilela P., Martins I. P., Gil-Gouveia R. “Working memory during spontaneous migraine attacks: an fMRI study”, Neurological Sciences
  • 2023 Sparks S., Pinto J., Hayes G., Spitschan M., Bulte D. P.,“The impact of Alzheimer's disease risk factors on the pupillary light response”, Frontiers in Neuroscience 17, 1248640
  • 2023 Araújo R. P., Figueiredo P., Pinto J., Vilela P., Martins I. P., Gil-Gouveia R.“Altered Functional Connectivity in a Sensorimotor-Insular Network During Spontaneous Migraine Attacks: A Resting-State Fmri Study”, Brain Research, 148513
  • 2023 Pinto J, Blockley N, Harkin J, Bulte D. “Modelling spatiotemporal dynamics of cerebral blood flow using arterial spin labelling MRI”, Frontiers in Physiology 14, 692
  • 2023 Monteiro S, Pinto J, et al. “Brain perfusion imaging by multi-delay Arterial Spin Labeling: impact of modelling dispersion and interaction with denoising strategies and pathology”, MRM 90(5):1889-1904
  • 2023 Gilbert H, Schmitz-Abecassis B, Sollmann N., Pinto J, et al. Advanced MR Techniques for preoperative Glioma Characterization - Part 2, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 57 (6), 1676-1695
  • 2023 Hirschler L, Sollmann N., Schmitz-Abecassis B, Pinto J, et al. Advanced MR Techniques for preoperative Glioma Characterization - Part 1, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 57 (6), 1655-1675
  • 2022 Hayes G, Pinto J, Sparks S, Wang C, Suri S, Bulte D “Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Dysfunction in Neurodegeneration”, Frontiers in Neuroscience 16, 1010164
  • 2022 Fouto A, Nunes R, Pinto J, et al. “Impact of white-matter mask selection on DTI histogram-based metrics as potential biomarkers in cerebral small vessel disease”, Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine 35 (5), 779-790
  • 2021 Pinto J, Bright M, Bulte D, Figueiredo P, “Cerebrovascular Reactivity Mapping Without Gas Challenges: A Methodological Guide”, Frontiers in Physiology, Volume 11
  • 2021 Martin J, Pinto J, Bulte D, Spitschan M, “PyPlr: A versatile, integrated system of hardware and software for researching the human pupillary light reflex”, Behavior Research Methods, 1-20
  • 2021 Cotrim S, R Gil-Gouveia R, Pinto J, et al. “Increased cerebrovascular reactivity during spontaneous migraine attacks”, European Journal of Neurology 28, 216-216
  • 2021 Clement P, Booth T, et al. [including Pinto J] “GliMR: Cross-Border Collaborations to Promote Advanced MRI Biomarkers for Glioma”, Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering 41, 115-125
  • 2020 Pinto J, Chappell M. A. Okell T. W, Mezue M., et al. “Impact of the calibration strategy on the quantification of ASL perfusion imaging", Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 83(4): 1222–1234
  • 2017 Pinto J, Nunes S, Bianciardi M et al. “Improved 7 Tesla resting-state fMRI connectivity measurements by cluster-based modeling of respiratory volume and heart rate effects”, NeuroImage 153: 262-272
  • 2017 Gil-Gouveia R, Pinto J, Figueiredo P Vilela P, et al. “An Arterial Spin Labeling MRI perfusion study of Migraine without aura attacks”, Frontiers in Neurology 8: 280
  • 2016 Pinto J, Jorge J, Sousa I, Vilela P et al. “Fourier modelling of the BOLD response to a breath-hold task: optimization and reproducibility”, NeuroImage 135, 223-23

  • Invited Talks


  • 2023 “COST Action GliMR’s Dissemination Taskforces”, Annual Meeting of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2023 “The Maternal Brain Project”, Psychiatry Department Wednesday Seminars, University of Oxford
  • 2023 “The Maternal Brain Project”, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford
  • 2022 “Glioma MR Imaging 2.0: a European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST) Action”, Annual Meeting of the ISMRM Iberian Chapter, Lisbon
  • 2022 “Quantiphyse” presentation on “Physiologic fMRI signals: friend or foe? How and why to measure, model, and account for physiology” Educational Course, OHBM Annual Meeting (OHBM)
  • 2022 3 Secret Sessions “Juggling without struggling – can, and should, academics do it all?”, “Get Funded to Network: The European Experience with COST Actions”, “MRI Challenges: The impacts beyond the field’s development; 31st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
  • 2021 “CVR Tutorial”, Hands-on analysis of Physiological MRI, 30th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Member Initiated Symposium
  • 2021 “Perfusion Software Demo” - Arterial Spin Labeling (Quantiphyse Software) - Annual Meeting of the European COST ACTION CA18206 - Glioma MR Imaging 2.0 (co-presenter: Dr Paula Croal)
  • 2021 “Cerebrovascular reactivity: what, how and why?” - WIN Physics Group Meetings, University of Oxford
  • 2020 “Impact of calibration strategies on the quantification of ASL imaging data” – Neuroradiology Department, Hospital da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2017 “Introduction to Human fMRI” – BUFF, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany

  • Conference Abstracts


  • 2024 Hayes G, Sparks S, Pinto J, et al. “Evaluating the Nonlinear Dynamics of Cerebrovascular Reactivity with Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound”, OHBM 2024 - submitted
  • 2024 Bayrak R, et al. including [Pinto J], “Physiopy: a Python suite for handling physiological data recorded in MRI settings”, OHBM 2024 - submitted
  • 2024 Sparks S, Hayes G, Pinto J et al. “Comparing the pupillary light response to white, red, and blue stimuli with cerebrovascular reactivity”, ARVO 2024 – accepted
  • 2024 Oliveira, I, et al. including [Pinto J], “Open Science Initiative for Perfusion Imaging (OSIPI): The multi-delay Arterial Spin Labeling Challenge”, ISMRM 2024 -submitted
  • 2023 Pinto J, et al. “Investigating Alzheimer's disease in women: is pregnancy a risk factor?”, ISMRM 2023
  • 2023 Sparks S, et al, Pinto J [senior author]. “Comparing brain amyloid load using PET to grey matter perfusion using ASL on the OASIS-3 dataset”, ISMRM 2023
  • 2023 Hayes G, Pinto J, et al. “Bayesian and lagged general linear modelling strategies in breath-hold induced cerebrovascular reactivity mapping with muti-echo BOLD fMRI”, ISMRM 2023
  • 2022 Pinto J, et al. “Evaluating cerebrovascular reactivity dynamics through a Bayesian inference approach”, ISMRM-ESMRMB 2022
  • 2022 Allery F, et al, Pinto J [senior author] “A simplified method to estimate blood flow velocity and inversion efficiency in the major cerebral arteries using multi-PLD pCASL”, ISMRM-ESMRMB 2022
  • 2022 Pinto J, et al. “ASL modelling strategies on cerebral blood flow and reactivity assessment”, ISMRM Iberian Chapter 2022
  • 2022 Anazodo U, Pinto J, et al. “The Open Science Initiative for Perfusion Imaging (OSIPI): Results from the ASL MRI Challenge”, ISMRM-ESMRMB 2022
  • 2022 Monteiro S, Pinto J, et al “Multi-delay ASL perfusion imaging: impact of modeling dispersion and interaction with denoising strategies”, ISMRM 2022
  • 2021 Pinto J, et al. “Modelling temporal dynamics of cerebrovascular reactivity using BOLD and ASL imaging”, ESMRMB 2021
  • 2021 Ruiz-Tagle A, Figueiredo P, Pinto J, et al. “Altered brain activation associated with working memory during spontaneous migraine attacks”, ESMRMB 2021
  • 2021 Pinto J, et al. “Impact of ASL modelling strategies on cerebral blood flow and reactivity assessment”, ISMRM 2021
  • 2021 Monteiro S, Pinto J, et. al. “Impact of ICA denoising on ASL perfusion imaging across different groups of participants”, ESMRMB 2021
  • 2021 Anazodo U, Pinto J, et al. “The Open-Source Initiative for Perfusion Imaging (OSIPI) ASL MRI Challenge”, ISMRM 2021
  • 2020 Cotrim S, Gil-Gouveia R, Pinto J, et al. “Increased cerebrovascular reactivity during spontaneous migraine attacks compared to pain-free periods”, ESMRMB 2020
  • 2020 Palma M, Pinto J, “Abnormal dynamic functional connectivity state in cerebral small vessel disease” ESMRMB 2020
  • 2020 Pinto J, et al. “ASL perfusion imaging predicts cognitive impairment in cerebral small vessel disease”, ISMRM 2020
  • 2019 Pinto J, et al. “BOLD-fMRI cerebrovascular reactivity latency and resting-state fluctuations in Small Vessel Disease”, ESMRMB 2019
  • 2019 Pinto J, et al. “Breath-hold BOLD-fMRI cerebrovascular reactivity metrics predict cognitive impairment in cerebral small vessel disease", ISMRM 2019
  • 2019 Moreira J, Pinto J, et al. “Amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in resting-state BOLD-fMRI is associated with cognitive decline in cerebral small vessel disease”, ISMRM 2019
  • 2019 Pinto J, et al. “Relationship between breath-hold reactivity dynamics and the amplitude of resting-state fluctuations in bold fMRI”, BRAIN & BRAIN PET 2019
  • 2018 Pinto J, et al. “Impact of calibration method on CBF quantification using multiple post-labeling-delay PASL”, ISMRM-ESMRMB 2018
  • 2018 Fouto A, Nunes RG, Pinto J, et al. “Systematic comparison of DTI metrics as potential biomarkers in cerebral small vessel disease”, ISMRM-ESMRMB 2018
  • 2017 Fouto A, Nunes RG, Pinto J, et al. “Diffusion weighted imaging biomarkers of cerebral small vessel disease: comparison of CADASIL with sporadic SVD” ESMRMB 2017
  • 2017 Pinto J, et al. “Region-specific modeling of heart rate and respiratory volume signal contributions in whole-brain high-spatial resolution resting-state fMRI at 7 Tesla”, ISMRM 2017
  • 2017 Pinto J, et al. “Impact of physiological noise optimization on functional connectivity measures in rs-fMRI at 7T”, OHBM 2017
  • 2016 Pinto J, et al. “Impact of calibration method on the reproducibility of CBF mapping using multiple post-labeling-delay PASL”, ISMRM 2016