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Keith D. Paulsen

Keith D. Paulsen

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Engineering and Technology
USA
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
107
Citations
36598
World Ranking
99
National Ranking
38

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2017 - OSA Fellows Keith D. Paulsen Dartmouth College, United States “for applications of diffuse optical tomography reconstruction methods and surgical guidance with stereovision and fluorescence” (Engineering, Application and Development)
  • 2016 - IEEE Fellow For leadership in biomedical technologies in medical imaging for diagnosis and intervention
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 2013 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Keith D. Paulsen is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Engineering. Their research spans primarily within Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Biomedical Engineering, with notable work also touching on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, and Cancer Research.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Elasticity and Material Modeling
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics

Paulsen has published in a variety of specialized journals and venues. Among the most frequent publication venues are:

  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • Sensors
  • Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • Medical Physics

Their collaboration network includes several frequent co-authors, notably:

  • Matthew McGarry
  • Brian W. Pogue
  • Curtis L. Johnson
  • Elijah Van Houten
  • Xiaoyao Fan

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Keith D. Paulsen include:

  • "Standard-space atlas of the viscoelastic properties of the human brain," 2020, published in Human Brain Mapping
  • "Anisotropic mechanical properties in the healthy human brain estimated with multi-excitation transversely isotropic MR elastography," 2022, published in Brain Multiphysics
  • "A heterogenous, time harmonic, nearly incompressible transverse isotropic finite element brain simulation platform for MR elastography," 2020, published in Physics in Medicine and Biology
  • "The shape of breast cancer," 2020, published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • "Mapping heterogenous anisotropic tissue mechanical properties with transverse isotropic nonlinear inversion MR elastography," 2022, published in Medical Image Analysis

Paulsen has been recognized with various professional honors, including:

  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2019)
  • OSA Fellow (2017) for applications of diffuse optical tomography reconstruction methods and surgical guidance with stereovision and fluorescence
  • IEEE Fellow (2016) for leadership in biomedical technologies in medical imaging for diagnosis and intervention
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2016)
  • SPIE Fellow (2013)

Best Publications

  • A clinical prototype for active microwave imaging of the breast

    P.M. Meaney;M.W. Fanning;Dun Li;S.P. Poplack

  • NEAR INFRARED OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY USING NIRFAST: ALGORITHM FOR NUMERICAL MODEL AND IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION

    Hamid Dehghani;Matthew E. Eames;Phaneendra K. Yalavarthy;Scott C. Davis

  • Intraoperative brain shift and deformation: a quantitative analysis of cortical displacement in 28 cases.

    David W. Roberts;Alexander Hartov;Francis E. Kennedy;Michael I. Miga

  • Quantitative hemoglobin tomography with diffuse near-infrared spectroscopy: pilot results in the breast.

    Brian W. Pogue;Steven P. Poplack;Troy O. McBride;Wendy A. Wells

  • Assessing the future of diffuse optical imaging technologies for breast cancer management.

    Bruce J. Tromberg;Brian W. Pogue;Keith D. Paulsen;Arjun G. Yodh

  • Spatially varying optical property reconstruction using a finite element diffusion equation approximation

    Keith D. Paulsen;Huabei Jiang

  • Fast 3-D Tomographic Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Detection

    T. M. Grzegorczyk;P. M. Meaney;P. A. Kaufman;Roberta M. di Florio-Alexander

  • Coregistered fluorescence-enhanced tumor resection of malignant glioma: relationships between δ-aminolevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX fluorescence, magnetic resonance imaging enhancement, and neuropathological parameters. Clinical article.

    David W. Roberts;Pablo A. Valdés;Brent T. Harris;Kathryn M. Fontaine

  • Interpreting hemoglobin and water concentration, oxygen saturation, and scattering measured in vivo by near-infrared breast tomography

    Subhadra Srinivasan;Brian W. Pogue;Shudong Jiang;Hamid Dehghani

  • Electromagnetic breast imaging: results of a pilot study in women with abnormal mammograms.

    Steven P. Poplack;Tor D. Tosteson;Wendy A. Wells;Brian W. W. Pogue

  • Initial Clinical Experience with Microwave Breast Imaging in Women with Normal Mammography

    Paul M. Meaney;Margaret W. Fanning;Timothy Raynolds;Colleen J. Fox

  • Optical image reconstruction using frequency-domain data: simulations and experiments

    Huabei Jiang;Keith D. Paulsen;Ulf L. Osterberg;Brian W. Pogue

  • Spatially variant regularization improves diffuse optical tomography

    Brian W. Pogue;Troy O. McBride;Judith Prewitt;Ulf L. Österberg

  • Multiwavelength three-dimensional near-infrared tomography of the breast: initial simulation, phantom, and clinical results

    Hamid Dehghani;Brian W. Pogue;Steven P. Poplack;Keith D. Paulsen

  • Nonlinear Microwave Imaging for Breast-Cancer Screening Using Gauss–Newton's Method and the CGLS Inversion Algorithm

    T. Rubk;P.M. Meaney;P.. Meincke;K.D. Paulsen

  • Initial in vivo experience with steady-state subzone-based MR elastography of the human breast

    Elijah E.W. Van Houten;Marvin M. Doyley;Francis E. Kennedy;John B. Weaver

  • Instrumentation and design of a frequency-domain diffuse optical tomography imager for breast cancer detection

    Brian W. Pogue;Markus Testorf;Troy McBride;Ulf Osterberg

  • Imaging breast adipose and fibroglandular tissue molecular signatures by using hybrid MRI-guided near-infrared spectral tomography

    Ben Brooksby;Brian W. Pogue;Shudong Jiang;Hamid Dehghani

  • Maximum Principal Strain and Strain Rate Associated with Concussion Diagnosis Correlates with Changes in Corpus Callosum White Matter Indices

    Thomas W. McAllister;James C. Ford;Songbai Ji;Jonathan G. Beckwith

  • A computational model for tracking subsurface tissue deformation during stereotactic neurosurgery

    K.D. Paulsen;M.I. Miga;F.E. Kennedy;P.J. Hoopens

  • An overlapping subzone technique for MR-based elastic property reconstruction.

    E.E.W. Van Houten;K.D. Paulsen;K.D. Paulsen;M.I. Miga;F.E. Kennedy

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Meaney
Paul M. Meaney Dartmouth College
Hamid Dehghani
Hamid Dehghani University of Birmingham
Francis E. Kennedy
Francis E. Kennedy Dartmouth College
Michael I. Miga
Michael I. Miga Vanderbilt University
Tor D. Tosteson
Tor D. Tosteson Dartmouth College
Arjun G. Yodh
Arjun G. Yodh University of Pennsylvania
Hany Farid
Hany Farid University of California, Berkeley
Bradley P. Sutton
Bradley P. Sutton University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David A. Boas
David A. Boas Boston University
David A. Mankoff
David A. Mankoff University of Pennsylvania

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