Krishna S. Nayak, PhD
Associate Professor
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
Director,
Magnetic Resonance Engineering Laboratory
Director,
Body Engineering Los Angeles
Research Interests
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (acquisition and reconstruction);
Image artifact correction; Real-time imaging;
Application of MRI to the assessment of cardiovascular disease and obesity;
Signal and image processing
Selected Honors
- Oct 2010-Aug 2011, Sabbatical at NIH/NHLBI Laboratory for Cardiac Energetics
- Apr 2009, Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
- Apr 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
Selected Publications
- 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.
62(4):975-83. Oct 2009.
(LINK)
- YC Kim, S Narayanan, KS Nayak.
Accelerated 3D upper airway MRI using compressed sensing.
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
61(6):1434-1440. June 2009.
(LINK)
- 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.
(LINK)
- HL Lee and KS Nayak.
Stabilization of Alternating TR Steady State Free Precession
Sequences.
Journal of Magnetic Resonance
195:211-218. December 2008.
(LINK)
- 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.
(LINK)
- 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.
(LINK)
- 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.
(LINK)
Contact
3740 McClintock Ave, EEB 406
Los Angeles, CA 90089 - 2564
knayak AT usc DOT edu
Tel: 213-740-3494
Fax: 213-740-4651