Nicholas Dwork, PhD

Professional Titles

• Assistant Professor

Research Interests

My research focuses on medical imaging and radiation therapy. I am interested in developing faster MRI for young pediatric subjects and fetuses. I am also interested in quantitative Optical Coherence Tomography and more effective radiation treatment planning.

Publications

• Sahin S, Garnæs MF, Bennett A, Dwork N, Tang S, Liu X, Vaidya M, Wang ZJ, Larson PEZ. A pharmacokinetic model for hyperpolarized (13)C-pyruvate MRI when using metabolite-specific bSSFP sequences. Magn Reson Med. 2024 Oct;92(4):1698-1713. PubMed PMID: 38775035
• Chen HY, Gordon JW, Dwork N, Chung BT, Riselli A, Sivalokanathan S, Bok RA, Slater JB, Vigneron DB, Abraham MR, Larson PEZ. Probing human heart TCA cycle metabolism and response to glucose load using hyperpolarized [2-(13) C]pyruvate MRS. NMR Biomed. 2024 Mar;37(3):e5074. PubMed PMID: 38054254
• Dwork N, Gordon JW, Englund EK. Accelerated parallel magnetic resonance imaging with compressed sensing using structured sparsity. J Med Imaging (Bellingham). 2024 May;11(3):033504. PubMed PMID: 38938501
• Dwork N, O'Connor D, Johnson EMI, Baron CA, Gordon JW, Pauly JM, Larson PEZ. Optimization in the space domain for density compensation with the nonuniform FFT. Magn Reson Imaging. 2023 Jul;100:102-111. PubMed PMID: 36934830
• Chen, Hsin-Yu, Jeremy W. Gordon, Nicholas Dwork, Brian T. Chung, Andrew Riselli, Sanjay Sivalokanathan, Robert A. Bok et al. "Probing human heart TCA cycle metabolism and response to glucose load using hyperpolarized [2-13C] pyruvate MRS." NMR in Biomedicine (2023): e5074.
• Dwork, Nicholas, and Erin K. Englund. "Accelerated Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Compressed Sensing using Structured Sparsity." arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.01610 (2023).
• McManus, Alex, Stephen Becker, and Nicholas Dwork. "The Dependence of Parallel Imaging with Linear Predictability on the Undersampling Direction." arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07256 (2023).
• Dwork, Nicholas, and Peder EZ Larson. "Utilizing the structure of a redundant dictionary comprised of wavelets and curvelets with compressed sensing." Journal of Electronic Imaging 31.6 (2022): 063043.
• Gearhart, Addison, Nicholas Dwork, and Pei-Ni Jone. "Artificial intelligence in echocardiography to diagnose congenital heart disease and fetal echocardiography." Intelligence-Based Medicine (2022): 100082.
• Smith, Gennifer and Dwork, Nicholas. "A Human Computer, Encoded Messages, A Locked Treasure Box: Engaging with Mathematics Through Adventure" 2022, Joint Mathematics Meeting
• Sahin, Sule and Dwork, Nicholas and Tang, Shuyu and ... Larson, Peder. "iMapping Pyruvate-to-Lactate Rate Constants in Hyperpolarized Data with bSSFP Acquisitions." 2022, Proceedings of the annual symposium of the ISMRM
• Liu, Xiaoxing and Tang, Shuyu and Cui, Di and Sahin, Sule and Dwork, Nicholas and ... Larson, Peder. "3D Golden Angle Stack-of-Spiral bSSFP Sequence for Undersampled Lactate Imaging in Hyperpolarized MRI" 2022, Proceedings of the annual Symposium of the ISMRM
• Dwork, Nicholas and Gordon, Jeremy and Tang, Shuyu and Larson, Peder. "A Least-squares Method for Improved Sensitivity Map Estimation when Imaging X-Nuclei" 2022, Proceedings of the annual Symposium of the ISMRM