Merve Kaptan

Palo Alto University — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications(15), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies(14), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications(12), Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation(10), Infrared Thermography in Medicine(7)

Publications40 total

Differential encoding of noxious heat and self-reported pain along corticospinal networks: a simultaneous spinal cord-brain fMRI study
2025Open Access
Automated MRI-Based Quantification of Forearm Muscle Health and Associations with Hand Function
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition·2025
Neural correlates of aberrant pain processing and modulation in fibromyalgia: a simultaneous spinal cord-brain fMRI study
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition·2025
Multiecho Cardiac-Gated fMRI Enhances Activation Detection in Simultaneous Brain-Spinal Cord Imaging
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition·2025
EPISeg: Automatic Segmentation of Spinal Cord fMRI Data
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition·2025Open Access
Mapping Hand Function in the Brain and Spinal Cord with Simultaneous Brain-Spinal Cord Functional MRI
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition·2025
Functional Connectivity Between Brain and Spinal Cord During Noxious Heat Stimulation
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition·2025
Brain Structural and Functional Alterations in Chronic Multisite Pain: A UK Biobank Study with a Focus on Sex Differences
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition·2025
Ultra-high-field fMRI reveals layer-specific responses in the human spinal cord
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Automated Segmentation of Forearm Muscles: Clinical Associations With Hand Function, Muscle Volume and Intramuscular Fat
JCSM Communications·2025Open Access
Brain and Spinal Cord Correlates of Deficient Endogenous Pain Modulation in Fibromyalgia Identified by Corticospinal Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Journal of Pain·2025
Assessing Functional Connectivity Between Brain and Spinal Cord During Thermal Pain
Journal of Pain·2025
Mapping Hand Function with Simultaneous Brain-Spinal Cord Functional MRI
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Innovations in acute and chronic pain biomarkers: enhancing diagnosis and personalized therapy
Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine·2025· 24 citedOpen Access
EPISeg: Automated segmentation of the spinal cord on echo planar images using open-access multi-center data
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
EPISeg: Automated segmentation of the spinal cord on echo planar images using open-access multi-center data
Imaging Neuroscience·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Mapping hand function with simultaneous brain–spinal cord functional MRI
Imaging Neuroscience·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
EPISeg: Automated segmentation of the spinal cord on echo planar images using open-access multi-center data
Universität Zürich, ZORA·2025Open Access
Impact of slice-specific z-shimming on T2*-weighted EPI for functional MRI of the human spinal cord at 7 Tesla
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition·2024· 1 cited
Automatic spinal cord segmentation: Generalization across MR parameters, sites, vendors and pathologies
Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition·2024Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Sean Mackey(25), Dario Pfyffer(23), Kenneth A. Weber(23), Gary H. Glover(21), Christine Law(19), Falk Eippert(17), Valeria Oliva(13), Jürgen Finsterbusch(12), Ulrike Horn(11), J.C. Brooks(9), Alice Dabbagh(9), Sandrine Bédard(9), Zachary A. Smith(8), Nikolaus Weiskopf(7), Toralf Mildner(6), S. Johanna Vannesjo(5), Nawal Kinany(5), Julien Cohen‐Adad(5), Tara Maronesy(5), Nazrawit Berhe(5)