Dr Redha Boubertakh

Dr Boubertakh graduated from the National Polytechnical School of Algiers in 1996 with a master's degree in electrical engineering, followed by a master's degree (DEA) in signal processing and control from SUPELEC, France, in 1998. Dr Boubertakh completed a PhD in signal processing and control from University Paris XI, where new reconstruction methods for sparsely acquired MRI data were investigated. Dr Boubertakh then joined the Division of Imaging Sciences, King's College London, in 2002 as a research fellow with an interest in fast cardiovascular MR imaging, pulse sequence development and image reconstruction techniques. From 2008 to 2019, Dr Boubertakh worked as a cardiac MRI Clinical Scientist at Barts Health NHS Trust, London, with interests in image acquisitions and reconstruction methods applied to cardiac applications. Dr Boubertakh also held an Honorary Lecturer position at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, where PhD and MSc students were co-supervised. Dr Boubertakh moved to A*STAR, Singapore, in October 2019 as an MRI scientist, working on preclinical neuroimaging image acquisition and analysis, before joining the National Heart Research Institute Singapore (NHRIS) in October 2022 as an MRI Senior Research Fellow with a focus on cardiac image acquisitions and clinical metabolic carbon-13 hyperpolarisation imaging.

PhD in Signal Processing and Control. University Paris XI, France. Feburary 2003.

Master’s degree (DEA, Diploma of Advanced Studies) in Automatic and Signal Processing. Signals and Systems Laboratory, SUPELEC, France. September 1998.

Master's of Engineering in Electrical Engineering. National Polytechnic School, Algiers, Algeria. Sep 1996.

Jan 2015-present: Secretary of the Singapore Chapter of the ISMRM (International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine).

1.      Adams DM, Boubertakh R, Miquel ME. Effects of spatial and temporal resolution on cardiovascular magnetic resonance feature tracking measurements using a simple realistic numerical phantom. The British Journal of Radiology. Published online 19 December 2022.

2.      Medina KM, Abdel-Gadir A, Ganga K, Ojha V, Pratap S, Boubertakh R, McGrath L, Augusto JB, Rikowski A, Mughal N, Khanna VK, Seth T, Sharma S, Mahajan A, Bansal RK, Srivastava P, Mahajan H, Mahajan V, Walker J, Seldon T, Ako E, Moon JC, Walker JM. Use of rapid cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to guide chelation therapy in patients with transfusion-dependent thalassaemia in India: UMIMI study. European Heart Journal-Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes. 2022, 8(3):289-297.

3.      Zhang Q, Werys K, Popescu IA, Biasiolli L, Ntusi NAB, Desai M, Zimmerman SL, Shah DJ, Autry K, Kim B, Kim HW, Jenista ER, Huber S, White JA, McCann GP, Mohiddin SA, Boubertakh R, Chiribiri A, Newby D, Prasad S, et al. Quality assurance of quantitative cardiac T1-mapping in multicenter clinical trials–A T1 phantom program from the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy registry (HCMR) study International Journal of Cardiology. 2021, 330:251-258.

4.      Ruthven M, Freitas AC, Boubertakh R, Miquel ME. Application of radial GRAPPA techniques to single‐and multislice dynamic speech MRI using a 16‐channel neurovascular coil. Magnetic Resonance in medicine. 2019, 82(3):948-958.

5.      Bhuva AN, Kellman P, Graham A, Ramlall M, Boubertakh R, Feuchter P, Hawkins A, Lowe M, Lambiase PD, Sekhri S, Schilling RJ, Moon JC, Manisty CH. Clinical impact of cardiovascular magnetic resonance with optimized myocardial scar detection in patients with cardiac implantable devices. International journal of cardiology. March 2019, 279:72:78.

6.      Captur G, Gatehous P, Keenan KE, Heslinga FG, Bruehl R, Prothmann M, Graves MJ, Eames RJ, Torlasco C, Benedetti G, Donovan J, Ittermann B, Boubertakh R, Bathgate A, Royet C, Pang W, Nezafat R, Salerno M, Kellman P, Moon JC. A medical device-grade T1 and ECV phantom for global T1 mapping quality assurance—the T1 Mapping and ECV Standardization in cardiovascular magnetic resonance (T1MES) program. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 2016, 18(1):1-20.

7.      Petersen SE, Matthews PM, Francis JM, Robson MD, Zemrak F, Boubertakh R, Young AA, Hudson S, Weale P, Garratt S, Collins R, Piechnik S, Neubauer S. UK Biobank's cardiovascular magnetic resonance protocol. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson, 2015, 18(1):1-7.

8.      Petersen SE, Almeida AG, Alpendurada F, Boubertakh R, Bucciarelli-Ducci C, Cosyns B, Greil, GF, Karamitsos TD, Lancellotti P, Stefanidis AS. Update of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) Core Syllabus for the European Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Certification Exam. European Heart Journal–Cardiovascular Imaging, 2014, 15:728-9

9.      Boubertakh R, C. Prieto, P. Batchelor, S. Uribe, D. Atkinson, H. Eggers, T. Sørensen, M.S. Hansen, R. Razavi, T. Schaeffter. Whole-heart imaging using undersampled radial phase encoding (RPE) and iterative sensitivity encoding (SENSE) reconstruction. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2009, 62(5):1331-1337.