Krishna S. Nayak, PhD

• April 2009, Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
• April 2009, GE Healthcare Magnetic Resonance Thought Leader Award
• May 2008, USC-Mellon Mentoring Award, Faculty Mentoring of Graduate Students
• May 2007, USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Junior Faculty Research Award

• Z Zun, EC Wong, KS Nayak. Assessment of myocardial blood flow in humans using arterial spin labeling: feasibility and SNR requirements. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. (in press)
• YC Kim, S Narayanan, KS Nayak. Accelerated 3D upper airway MRI using compressed sensing. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 61(6):1434-1440. June 2009. (journal)
• JF Nielsen and KS Nayak. Reference-less phase velocity mapping using balanced SSFP. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 61(5):1096-1102. May 2009. (journal)
• T Shin, HH Hu, GM Pohost, KS Nayak. Three dimensional first-pass myocardial perfusion imaging at 3T: feasibility study. Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 10:57. December 11th, 2008. (journal)
• HH Hu and KS Nayak. Quantification of Absolute Fat Mass using an Adipose Tissue Reference Signal Model. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 28(6):1483-1491. December 2008. (journal)
• HL Lee and KS Nayak. Stabilization of Alternating TR Steady State Free Precession Sequences. Journal of Magnetic Resonance 195:211-218. December 2008. (journal)
• K Sung and KS Nayak. Design and use of tailored hard-pulse trains for uniform saturation of myocardium at 3 Tesla. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 60(4):997-1002. October 2008. (journal)

• KS Nayak, HL Lee, BA Hargreaves, BS Hu. Wideband SSFP: alternating repetition time balanced steady state free precession imaging with increased band spacing. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 58(5):931-938. November 2007. (article) (journal)
  
• CH Cunningham, JM Pauly, KS Nayak. Saturated Double Angle Method for Rapid B1+ Mapping. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2006:55(6):1326-1333. June 2006. (article) (journal)
  
• KS Nayak, CH Cunningham, JM Santos, JM Pauly. Real-Time Cardiac Imaging at 3 Tesla. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2004:51(4):655-660. April 2004. (article) (journal)