Nafi Aygun
Associate Professor
Radiology
Johns Hopkins Medicine
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Nafi Aygun is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Radiology and Radiological Science. He specializes in neuroradiology, diagnostic radiology and head and neck imaging. Dr. Aygun received his M.D. from the Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. He performed residencies in radiology at Hacettepe University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed a fellowship in neuroradiology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he subsequently acted as staff neuroradiologist before joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2002.
Research Interest
Head and Neck Imaging
Publications
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Ozturk A, Aygun N, Smith SA, Caffo B, Calabresi PA, Reich DS. "Axial 3D gradient-echo imaging for improved multiple sclerosis lesion detection in the cervical spinal cord at 3T." Neuroradiology. 2013 Mar; 55(4):431-9.
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Gok B, Jallo G, Hayeri R, Wahl R, Aygun N. "The evaluation of FDG-PET imaging for epileptogenic focus localization in patients with MRI positive and MRI negative temporal lobe epilepsy." Neuroradiology. 2013 May; 55(5):541-50.
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Mossa-Basha M, Ilica AT, Maluf F, Karakoç Ö, Izbudak I, Aygün N. "The many faces of fungal disease of the paranasal sinuses: CT and MRI findings." Diagn Interv Radiol. 2013 May-Jun; 19(3):195-200.
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Blitz AM, Choudhri AF, Chonka ZD, Ilica AT, Macedo LL, Chhabra A, Gallia GL, Aygun N. "Anatomic considerations, nomenclature, and advanced cross-sectional imaging techniques for visualization of the cranial nerve segments by MR imaging." Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2014 Feb; 24(1):1-15.
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Blitz AM, Macedo LL, Chonka ZD, Ilica AT, Choudhri AF, Gallia GL, Aygun N. "High-resolution CISS MR imaging with and without contrast for evaluation of the upper cranial nerves: segmental anatomy and selected pathologic conditions of the cisternal through extraforaminal segments." Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2014 Feb; 24(1):17-34.
