Dushyant Kumar, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology

 

 

Contact Information

Tel:(215) 898-2045
Fax: (215) 573-2113
Email: dushyant@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Education

B.Sc. 2000, Patna University, Patna, India (Math, Chemistry and Physics)
M.Sc. 2002, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India (Physics, Condensed Matter)
Ph.D. 2009, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ (Physics, Diffraction and Scattering using X-ray and Optics)
 

Research Interests

  • Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer
  • Myelin Water Imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Selected Publications

Pasha S., Rajapaske C. R., Reddy R., Diebo B., Knott P., Jones B. C., Kumar D., Zhu W., Lou E., Shapira N., Noel P., Ho Fung V., Jaramillo D.Quantitative imaging of the spine in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: shifting the paradigm from diagnostic to comprehensive prognostic evaluation, European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology January 2021.

Cember A., Nanga R. P. R., Kumar D., Hariharan H., Reddy R.Improved method for post-processing correction of B1 inhomogeneity in glutamate weighted CEST images of the human brain. NMR in Biomedicine (Accepted) 2021.

Zamani P., Proto E. A., Wilson N., Fazelinia H., Hua Ding, Sprucec L. A.; Davila A.., Thomas C. Hanff T. C., Mazurek J. A., Prenner S. B, Desjardins B., Margulies K. B., Kelly D. P., Arany Z., Doulias P. T., Elrod J. W., Allen M. E., McCormack S. E, Schurj G. M.; Kevin D’Aquilla K., Kumar D., Thakuri D., Prabhakaran K., Langham M. C., Poole D. C., Seeholzer S. H, Reddy R., Ischiropoulos H., Chirinos J. A.Multimodality Assessment of HFpEF Skeletal Muscle Reveals Differences in the Machinery of Energy Fuel Metabolism ESC Heart Failure 2021.

Kumar D., Nanga R., Thakuri D., Cember A., Wilson N., Hariharan H., and Reddy R.Repeatability of Creatine Recovery Constants in Exercise Muscle Measured using 3D Creatine Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Imaging at 7T. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 85(2): 802-817, February 2020.

Ritobrato Datta, Micky K Bacchus, Dushyant Kumar, Mark A Elliott, Aditya Rao, Sudipto Dolui, Ravinder Reddy, Brenda L Banwell, Manojkumar SaranathanFast automatic segmentation of thalamic nuclei from MP2RAGE acquisition at 7 Tesla, - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2020.

Li Y., Xie D., Cember A., Nanga R. P. R., Yang H., Kumar D., Hariharan H., Bai L., Detre J. A., Reddy R., Wang Z.Accelerating GluCEST Imaging Using Deep Learning for B0 Correction. Magnetic Resonance Medicine 84(4): 1724-1733, 2020.

Kumar D., Nanga R., Thakuri D., Cember A., Wilson N., Hariharan H., and Reddy R.Intermuscular Variability of Phosphocreatine Recovery Constants in Exercised Muscle Measured using 31PMRS and CrCEST at 7.0T. In: Proceeding of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2020, Sydney, Australia Page: 4430, 2020.

Kumar D., Thakuri D., Blake B., Wilson N., Hariharan H., Nanga R., and Reddy R.Parametric Maps of Creatine Recovery Constants in Exercised Muscle In: Proceeding of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2020, Sydney, Australia Page: 5080, 2020.

Nanga R., Devlin E., Ianelli C., Thakuri D., Kumar D., Hariharan H., Loughead J., Epperson C., and Reddy R.Application of GluCEST imaging in mapping cingulate cortex of Nicotine dependence subjects at 7.0T. In: Proceeding of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2020, Sydney, Australia Page: 6803, 2020.

Kumar D., Nanga R., Thakuri D., Cember A., Wilson N., Hariharan H., and Reddy R.Repeatability of Creatine Recovery Constants in Exercise Muscle Measured using 3D Creatine Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer Imaging at 7T. In: Proceeding of International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2020, Sydney, Australia Page: 4464, 2020.