Esra Abaci Turk

Esra Abaci Turk, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Associate Scientific Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital's Fetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center. Her research focuses on developing advanced MRI techniques for placental function assessment and fetal MRI safety protocols.

Research interests include motion mitigation in fetal imaging, placental BOLD MRI analysis, and developing computational methods for fetal organ assessment. Her work integrates physics-based MRI innovation with clinical applications in high-risk pregnancies.

Dr. Turk's publications demonstrate consistent focus on improving fetal and placental imaging through novel acquisition methods and computational approaches including AI-enhanced super-resolution, 3D motion tracking, and volumetric modeling techniques.