Assessing the insufficiency of the placenta in late-stage pregnancy
Currently there is no optimal method to identify placental insufficiency that may put a fetus at risk and indicate the need for early delivery. Team Fetal aims to characterize the placental transport via magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for better detecting insufficient placenta.

Name & Contact
Team Fetal | fetals@mit.edu
Project status
M+Visión project Jan 2013 – Sep 2015
Sector
Diagnostic imaging. Fetal imaging. Placenta
Fellows
Collaborators
Elfar Adalsteinsson
MIT
Carolina Bibbo, Julian Robinson
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Borjan Gagoski, Ellen Grant
Children’s Hospital, Boston
Norberto Malpica, Juan Antonio Tamames,
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Maria Teulon Gonzalez, Carmen Carreira
Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada
Publications and presentations
“Automated ROI Extraction of Placental and Fetal Regions for 30 minutes of EPI BOLD Acquisition with Different Maternal Oxygenation Episodes.” Esra Abaci Turk, Jie Luo, Angel Torrado-Carvajal, Tobias Hahn, Maria Teulon Gonzalez, Borjan Gagoski, Carolina Bibbo, Julian N Robinson, Juan A Hernandez-Tamames, Patricia Ellen Grant, Elfar Adalsteinsson, Javier Pascau, and Norberto Malpica. ISMRM 2015
“Human placental and fetal response to maternal hyperoxygenation in IUGR pregnancy as measured by BOLD MRI.” Jie Luo, Esra Abaci Turk, Tobias Hahn, María Teulón González, Borjan Gagoski, Carolina Bibbo, Arvind Palanisamy, Clare M Tempany-Afdhal, Ángel Torrado-Carvajal, Norberto Malpica, Judith Martínez González, Julian N Robinson, Juan A Hernández-Tamames, Elfar Adelsteinsson, and Patricia Ellen Grant. ISMRM 2015
“Monitoring IUGR human placental and fetal response to maternal hyperoxygenation by OxyMRI.” Jie Luo, Esra Abaci Turk, Tobias Hahn, María Teulón González, Borjan Gagoski, Carolina Bibbo, Arvind Palanisamy, Clare M Tempany-Afdhal, Ángel Torrado-Carvajal, Norberto Malpica, Judith Martínez Gonzále, Julian N Robinson, Juan A Hernández-Tamames, Elfar Adelsteinsson, and Patricia Ellen Grant. The Human Placenta Project Workshop 2015
Intellectual Property Disclosures
MRI Characterization of Placental Oxygen Transport (MIT 17602J)