publications

    • A.C.K. Foong, C. Dempsey, B. Tornifoglio, Ex vivo mechanical and microstructural evaluation of a changing hepatic microstructure, Tissue and Cell  (2025).

    • B. Tornifoglio, C. Hughes, F. Digeronimo, Y. Guendouz, R.D. Johnston, C. Lally, Imaging the microstructure of the arterial wall - ex vivo to in vivo potential, Acta Biomater 199 (2025) 18-34.

    • B. Tornifoglio, S.T. Robinson, R.E. Levey, A.J. Stone, S. Campisi, C. Kerskens, G.P. Duffy, S. Avril, C. Lally, A preliminary ex vivo diffusion tensor imaging study of distinct aortic morphologies, J Anat  (2025).

    • A.J. Stone, B. Tornifoglio, F. Digeronimo, K. Shmueli, C. Lally, Quantitative susceptibility mapping of the human carotid artery: Assessing sensitivity to elastin and collagen ex vivo, Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2025 (2025) 1-14.

    • A.S. Federici, B. Tornifoglio, C. Lally, O. Garcia, D.J. Kelly, D.A. Hoey, Melt electrowritten scaffold architectures to mimic tissue mechanics and guide neo-tissue orientation, J Mech Behav Biomed Mater 150 (2024) 106292.

    • K.F. Eichholz, P. Pitacco, R. Burdis, F. Chariyev-Prinz, X. Barcelo, B. Tornifoglio, R. Paetzold, O. Garcia, D.J. Kelly, Integrating Melt Electrowriting and Fused Deposition Modeling to Fabricate Hybrid Scaffolds Supportive of Accelerated Bone Regeneration, Adv Healthc Mater 13(3) (2024) e2302057.

    • B. Tornifoglio, A.J. Stone, P. Mathieu, E. Fitzpatrick, C. Kerskens, C. Lally, Measuring Vascular Graft Cellularity Non‐Destructively: Merging Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Tissue Engineering, Advanced Materials Technologies 9(1) (2023).

    • B. Tornifoglio, R.D. Johnston, A.J. Stone, C. Kerskens, C. Lally, Microstructural and mechanical insight into atherosclerotic plaques: an ex vivo DTI study to better assess plaque vulnerability, Biomech Model Mechanobiol 22(5) (2023) 1515-1530.

    • M. Laffey, B. Tornifoglio, C. Lally, Development and Initial Characterisation of a Localised Elastin Degradation Ex Vivo Porcine Aortic Aneurysm Model, Applied Sciences 13(17) (2023).

    • A. Hanly, R.D. Johnston, C. Lemass, A. Jose, B. Tornifoglio, C. Lally, Phosphotungstic acid (PTA) preferentially binds to collagen- rich regions of porcine carotid arteries and human atherosclerotic plaques observed using contrast enhanced micro-computed tomography (CE-microCT), Front Physiol 14 (2023) 1057394.

    • R.E. Levey, B. Tornifoglio, A.J. Stone, C. Kerskens, S.T. Robinson, F.B. Coulter, R. Bagnall, R. O'Connor, E.B. Dolan, P. Dockery, G. Bellavia, S. Straino, F. Cianfarani, P. Johnson, E. O'Cearbhaill, C. Lally, G.P. Duffy, Towards a Whole Sample Imaging Approach Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging to Examine the Foreign Body Response to Explanted Medical Devices, Polymers (Basel) 14(22) (2022).

    • B. Tornifoglio, A.J. Stone, C. Kerskens, C. Lally, Ex Vivo Study Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging to Identify Biomarkers of Atherosclerotic Disease in Human Cadaveric Carotid Arteries, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology 42 (2022) 1398-1412.

    • E. Fitzpatrick, R. Gaul, C. Smekens, P. Mathieu, B. Meehan, B. Tornifoglio, P.A. Cahill, C. Lally, A short-term decellularisation technique for porcine carotid arteries that conveys a structural stimulus to cells, bioRxiv  (2022).

    • S.S. Shahid, R.D. Johnston, C. Smekens, C. Kerskens, R. Gaul, B. Tornifoglio, A.J. Stone, C. Lally, Exploring arterial tissue microstructural organization using non-Gaussian diffusion magnetic resonance schemes, Sci Rep 11(1) (2021) 22247.

    • A.J. Stone, B. Tornifoglio, R.D. Johnston, K. Shmueli, C. Kerskens, C. Lally, Quantitative susceptibility mapping of carotid arterial tissue ex vivo: Assessing sensitivity to vessel microstructural composition, Magn Reson Med 86(5) (2021) 2512-2527.

    • B. Tornifoglio, A.J. Stone, R.D. Johnston, S.S. Shahid, C. Kerskens, C. Lally, Diffusion tensor imaging and arterial tissue: establishing the influence of arterial tissue microstructure on fractional anisotropy, mean diffusivity and tractography, Sci Rep 10(1) (2020) 20718.

    • M.R. Squillante, T. Justel, R.R. Anderson, C. Brecher, D. Chartier, J.F. Christian, N. Cicchetti, S. Espinoza, D.R. McAdams, M. Muller, B. Tornifoglio, Y. Wang, M. Purschke, Fabrication and characterization of UV-emitting nanoparticles as novel radiation sensitizers targeting hypoxic tumor cells, Opt Mater (Amst) 80 (2018) 197-202.