Publications by David Paul Roger Romascano

Successful MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy after Ipsilateral Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Essential Tremor: A Case Report with Video

Constantin Tuleasca, David Paul Roger Romascano, Damien Schneider

We report the case of a 67-year-old left-handed female patient with disabling medically refractory essential tremor who underwent successful right-sided magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) of the ventral intermediate nucleus after ipsilat ...

Karger2023

Bundle-Specific Axon Diameter Index as a New Contrast to Differentiate White Matter Tracts

Jean-Philippe Thiran, David Paul Roger Romascano, Gabriel Girard, Alessandro Daducci, Cristina Granziera, Muhamed Barakovic, Maxime Descoteaux, Giorgio Innocenti

In the central nervous system of primates, several pathways are characterized by different spectra of axon diameters. In vivo methods, based on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, can provide axon diameter index estimates non-invasively. However ...

2021

ActiveAx(ADD): Toward non-parametric and orientationally invariant axon diameter distribution mapping using PGSE

Jean-Philippe Thiran, David Paul Roger Romascano, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

Purpose Non-invasive axon diameter distribution (ADD) mapping using diffusion MRI is an ill-posed problem. Current ADD mapping methods require knowledge of axon orientation before performing the acquisition. Instead, ActiveAx uses a 3D sampling scheme to e ...

Wiley2020

Tractostorm: The what, why, and how of tractography dissection reproducibility

Gabriel Girard, David Paul Roger Romascano, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Maxime Descoteaux

Investigative studies of white matter (WM) brain structures using diffusion MRI (dMRI) tractography frequently require manual WM bundle segmentation, often called "virtual dissection." Human errors and personal decisions make these manual segmentations har ...

Wiley2020

Robust Monte-Carlo Simulations in Diffusion-MRI: Effect of the Substrate Complexity and Parameter Choice on the Reproducibility of Results

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Gabriel Girard, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, David Paul Roger Romascano, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Alonso Ramirez Manzanares

Monte-Carlo Diffusion Simulations (MCDS) have been used extensively as a ground truth tool for the validation of microstructure models for Diffusion-Weighted MRI. However, methodological pitfalls in the design of the biomimicking geometrical configurations ...

2020

Sparse wars: A survey and comparative study of spherical deconvolution algorithms for diffusion MRI

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Gabriel Girard, David Paul Roger Romascano, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Marco Pizzolato, Gaëtan Olivier D Rensonnet

Spherical deconvolution methods are widely used to estimate the brain's white-matter fiber orientations from diffusion MRI data. In this study, eight spherical deconvolution algorithms were implemented and evaluated. These included two model selection tech ...

2019

Towards non-parametric reconstruction of axon diameter distributions using diffusion MRI and regularized discrete linear modeling

David Paul Roger Romascano

The distribution of axon diameters (ADD) is an important white matter feature: it influences action potential speed, it has been shown to evolve during development, and also to be affected during pathological processes. Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging ...

EPFL2019

Assessing feasibility and reproducibility of a bundle-specific framework on in vivo axon diameter estimates at 300mT/m

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Gabriel Girard, David Paul Roger Romascano, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Giorgio Innocenti, Maxime Descoteaux

In vivo quantitative estimation of axon diameter in the white matter could bring new tools to study the structural and functional architecture of the brain. Recently, the feasibility of axon diameter estimation with diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) has been ...

2018

Voxel size matters: big voxels are required to generate realistic extra-axonal dMRI signals from Monte Carlo simulations

Jean-Philippe Thiran, David Paul Roger Romascano, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

2018

Non-parametric axon diameter distribution mapping with PGSE: reconstruction of uni- and multimodal distributions

Jean-Philippe Thiran, David Paul Roger Romascano, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

2018