Archiepiskopou Makariou 56,
Iraklio 71202, Greece
Paediatric Heart
Paediatric and Fetal Cardiology
Congenital Heart Disease
Academic Work
Recent Publications
Catalán T, Courdurier M, Osses A, Fotaki A, Botnar R, Sahli-Costabal F, Prieto C. Unsupervised reconstruction of accelerated cardiac cine MRI using neural fields. Comput Biol Med. 2025 Feb;185:109467. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.109467. Epub 2024 Dec 12. PMID: 39672009.
Castillo-Passi C, Kunze KP, Crabb MG, Munoz C, Fotaki A, Neji R, Irarrazaval P, Prieto C, Botnar RM. Highly efficient image navigator based 3D whole-heart cardiac MRA at 0.55T. Magn Reson Med. 2025 Feb;93(2):689-698. doi: 10.1002/mrm.30316. Epub 2024 Oct 16. PMID: 39415543; PMCID: PMC11604836.
Paredes M, Castillo-Passi C, Kunze KP, Fotaki A, Littlewood S, Botnar RM, Prieto C. Simultaneous 3D aortic lumen and vessel wall imaging at 0.55 T at either systole or diastole. Magn Reson Med. 2025 Jun 23. doi: 10.1002/mrm.30611. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40548843.
Crabb MG, Kunze KP, Littlewood SJ, Tripp D, Fotaki A, Prieto C, Botnar RM. 3D joint T1/T1ρ/T2 mapping and water-fat imaging for contrast-agent free myocardial tissue characterization at 1.5T. Magn Reson Med. 2025 Jun;93(6):2297-2310. doi: 10.1002/mrm.30397.
Cesario M, Littlewood SJ, Nadel J, Fletcher TJ, Fotaki A, Castillo-Passi C, Hajhosseiny R, Pouliopoulos J, Jabbour A, Olivero R, Rodríguez-Palomares J, Kooi ME, Prieto C, Botnar RM. Automated segmentation of thoracic aortic lumen and vessel wall on three-dimensional bright- and black-blood magnetic resonance imaging using nnU-Net. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2025 Jun 11;27(2):101923. doi: 10.1016/j.jocmr.2025.101923.
Phair A, Fotaki A, Felsner L, Fletcher TJ, Qi H, Botnar RM, Prieto C.
A motion-corrected deep-learning reconstruction framework for accelerating whole-heart magnetic resonance imaging in patients with congenital heart disease. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2024;26(1):101039. doi:10.1016/j.jocmr.2024.101039.
Hua A, Velasco C, Munoz C, Milotta G, Fotaki A, Bosio F, Granlund I, Sularz A, Chiribiri A, Kunze KP, Botnar R, Prieto C, Ismail TF. Evaluation of Myocarditis with a Free-breathing 3D Isotropic Whole-Heart Joint T1 and T2 Mapping Sequence. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2024 Sep 19:101100. doi: 10.1016/j.jocmr.2024.101100.
Castillo-Passi C, Kunze KP, Crabb MG, Munoz C, Fotaki A, Neji R, Irarrazaval P, Prieto C, Botnar RM.
Highly efficient image navigator based 3D whole-heart cardiac MRA at 0.55T. Magn Reson Med. 2024 Oct 16. doi: 10.1002/mrm.30316.
Zhang Q, Fotaki A, Ghadimi S, Wang Y, Doneva M, Wetzl J, Delfino JG, O'Regan DP, Prieto C, Epstein FH.
Improving the efficiency and accuracy of cardiovascular magnetic resonance with artificial intelligence-review of evidence and proposition of a roadmap to clinical translation. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. Published online June 22, 2024.
Fotaki A, Pushparajah K, Rush C, Munoz C, Velasco C, Neji R, Kunze KP, Botnar RM, Prieto C. Highly efficient free-breathing 3D whole-heart imaging in 3-min: single center study in adults with congenital heart disease. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2023 Dec 22;26(1):100008. doi: 10.1016/j.jocmr.2023.100008. PMID: 38194762.
Coletti C, Fotaki A, Tourais J, Zhao Y, van de Steeg-Henzen C, Akçakaya M, Tao Q, Prieto C, Weingärtner S.
Robust cardiac T1ρ mapping at 3T using adiabatic spin-lock preparations. Magn Reson Med. 2023 May 28. doi: 10.1002/mrm.29713. PMID: 37246420.
​Thomas KE*, Fotaki A*, Botnar RM, Ferreira VM. Imaging Methods: Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023 Jan;16(1):e014068. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.122.014068. Epub 2023 Jan 17. PMID: 36649450; PMCID: PMC7614460. *shared first authorship.
Fotaki A, Velasco C, Prieto C, Botnar RM.
Quantitative MRI in cardiometabolic disease: From conventional cardiac and liver tissue mapping techniques to multi-parametric approaches. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2023 Jan 23;9:991383. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.991383. PMID: 36756640; PMCID: PMC9899858.
Munoz C*, Fotaki A*, Hua A, Hajhosseiny R, Kunze KP, Ismail TF, Neji R, Pushparajah K, Botnar RM, Prieto C. Simultaneous Highly Efficient Contrast-Free Lumen and Vessel Wall MR Imaging for Anatomical Assessment of Aortic Disease. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2023;10.1002/jmri.28613. doi:10.1002/jmri.28613. *shared first authorship.
Fotaki A, Pushparajah K, Hajhosseiny R, Schneider A, Alam H, Ferreira J, Neji R, Kunze KP, Frigiola A, Botnar RM, Prieto C. Free-breathing, Contrast Agent-free Whole-Heart MTC-BOOST Imaging: Single-Center Validation Study in Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging. 2023;5(1):e220146. Published 2023 Feb 16. doi:10.1148/ryct.220146
Neofytou AP, Neji R, Kowalik GT, Mooiweer R, Wong J, Fotaki A, Ferreira J, Evans C, Bosio F, Mughal N, Razavi R, Pushparajah K, Roujol S. Retrospective motion correction through multi-average k-space data elimination (REMAKE) for free-breathing cardiac cine imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2023 Jun;89(6):2242-2254. doi: 10.1002/mrm.29613. Epub 2023 Feb 10. PMID: 36763898.
Munoz C, Fotaki A, Botnar RM, Prieto C.
Latest Advances in Image Acceleration: All Dimensions are Fair Game. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2022 Oct 7. doi: 10.1002/jmri.28462. PMID: 36205716.
Fotaki A, Fuin N, Nordio G, Velasco Jimeno C, Qi H, Emmanuel Y, Pushparajah K, Botnar RM, Prieto C. Accelerating 3D MTC-BOOST in patients with congenital heart disease using a joint multi-scale variational neural network reconstruction. Magn Reson 2022 Jun 27. PMID: 35772584.
Rashid I, Ginami G, Nordio G, Fotaki A, Neji R, Alam H, Pushparajah K, Frigiola A, Valverde I, Botnar RM, Prieto C. Magnetization Transfer BOOST Noncontrast Angiography Improves Pulmonary Vein Imaging in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2022 Jun 1. doi: 10.1002/jmri.28280. PMID: 35642573.
Colford K, Price AN, Sigurdardottir J, Fotaki A, Steinweg J, Story L, Ho A, Chappell LC, Hajnal JV, Rutherford M, Pushparajah K, Lamata P, Hutter J. Cardiac and placental imaging (CARP) in pregnancy to assess aetiology of preeclampsia Placenta, 2022.
Fotaki A, Puyol-Antón E, Chiribiri A, Botnar RM, Pushparajah K, Prieto C.
Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac MRI: Is Clinical Adoption Forthcoming?
Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;8:818765. Published2022 Jan 10.
Fotaki A, Munoz C, Emanuel Y, Kunze KP, Neji R, Masci PG, Botnar RM, Prieto C.
Efficient non-contrast enhanced 3D Cartesian cardiovascular magnetic resonance
angiography of the thoracic aorta in 3 min. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2022;24(1):5.
Velasco Jimeno C, Lima da Cruz G, Lavin Plaza B, Hua A, Fotaki A, Botnar RM, Prieto C.Simultaneous T1, T2 and T1ρ Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting for ContrastAgent-free Myocardial Tissue Characterization. Magnetic resonance in medicine. Magn Reson Med. 2022; 87: 1992– 2002.
Fotaki A, Doughty VL, Banya W, Giuliani S, Bradley S, Carvalho JS.Impact of gastrointestinal comorbidities in patients with right & left atrial isomerism.Cardiol Young. 2021 Sep 2;1-8. doi: 10.1017/S1047951121003620.
Fotaki A, Sifakis S.Contribution of echocardiography in prenatal diagnosis of del 22q11.2 syndrome. Review of the literature.Hellenic Journal of Ultrasonography. 2017 January 1(45-47).
Fotaki A, Novaes H, Jicinska H, Carvalho JS.Fetal aorto-pulmonary window case series and review of the literature.Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol, 2017 Apr;49(4):533-539. doi: 10.1002/uog.15936.
Fotaki A, Novaes H, Jicinska H, Carvalho JS.Fetal aorto-pulmonary window case series and review of the literature.Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol, 2017 Apr;49(4):533-539. doi: 10.1002/uog.15936.
Journal Reviewer
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
International Journal of Congenital Heart Disease
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
European Heart Journal