Research Fellow
Mentor: Reza Nezafat, Ph.D.
Dr. Kawaji was a research fellow in Dr. Nezafat's laboratory from 2013-2014. He subsequently joined the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago as a postdoctoral scholar, and is currently Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Kawaji's research interests include engineering development of novel MR-based biomarkers to study tissue disease and deaths, using dedicated tissue models in a carefully controlled experimental setting, and novel BME instrumentation and clinical translation of new techniques for the MRI system in the hospital setting. During his time at BIDMC, he first-authored multiple publications with Dr. Nezafat.
Selected Publications:
Kawaji K, Foppa M, Roujol S, Akçakaya M, Nezafat R. Whole heart coronary imaging with flexible acquisition window and trigger delay. PLoS One. 2015;10 (2) :e0112020.
Akçakaya M, Nam SH, Basha TA, Kawaji K, Tarokh V, Nezafat R. An augmented Lagrangian based compressed sensing reconstruction for non-Cartesian magnetic resonance imaging without gridding and regridding at every iteration. PLoS One. 2014; 9 (9):e107107.
Roujol S, Weingärtner S, Foppa M, Chow K, Kawaji K, Ngo LH, et al. Accuracy, precision, and reproducibility of four T1 mapping sequences: a head-to-head comparison of MOLLI, ShMOLLI, SASHA, and SAPPHIRE. Radiology. 2014;272 (3): 683-9.
Pflugi S, Roujol S, Akçakaya M, Kawaji K, Foppa M, Heydari B, et al. Accelerated cardiac MR stress perfusion with radial sampling after physical exercise with an MR-compatible supine bicycle ergometer. Magn Reson Med. 2015;74 (2): 384-95.
K, Kawaji, Roujol S, Manning WJ, Nezafat R. Interactive visualization of 4D coronary MRI with prolonged acquisition window GPU-accelerated flexible gridding reconstruction for lag-free performance . In Proceedings 22th Scientific Meeting International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine page 4296. 2014.