Kevin J. Johnson, BSc

Director, MRI Systems & Design

Select Publications

2025

Toner, B., S. Arberet, S. Zhang, F. Han, E. Ahanonu, U. Goerke, K. Johnson, Z. Abouelfetouh, I. Codreanu, S. Sridhar, et al., "Accelerated free-breathing abdominal T2 mapping with deep learning reconstruction of radial turbo spin-echo data.", Magn Reson Med, 2025 Aug 05. PMCID: PMC12396147  PMID: 40762149
Mushtaq, R., S. Zahra, S. French, J. C. Arias, R. Forney, L. Taylor, G. Culwell, K. Johnson, M. Altbach, and C. C. Weinkauf, "Duplex ultrasound may lead to misclassification of carotid artery stenosis.", J Vasc Surg, 2025 Jul 08.
Keerthivasan, M. B., B. Toner, J-P. Galons, K. Johnson, A. Bilgin, D. R. Martin, and M. I. Altbach, "Diagnosing abdominal neoplasms using a T2 mapping radial turbo spin-echo technique with partial volume correction.", Eur Radiol, 2025 Aug 30. PMCID: PMC12414507  PMID: 40884612

2022

Fu, Z., K. Johnson, M. I. Altbach, and A. Bilgin, "Cancellation of streak artifacts in radial abdominal imaging using interference null space projection.", Magn Reson Med, vol. 88, issue 3, pp. 1355-1369, 2022 Sep. PMCID: PMC9973517  PMID: 35608238

2021

Li, Z., Z. Fu, M. Keerthivasan, A. Bilgin, K. Johnson, J-P. Galons, S. Vedantham, D. R. Martin, and M. I. Altbach, "Rapid high-resolution volumetric T mapping using a highly accelerated stack-of-stars Look Locker technique.", Magn Reson Imaging, vol. 79, pp. 28-37, 2021 Mar 17. PMID: 33722634
Keerthivasan, M. B., J-P. Galons, K. Johnson, L. Umapathy, D. R. Martin, A. Bilgin, and M. I. Altbach, "Abdominal T2-Weighted Imaging and T2 Mapping Using a Variable Flip Angle Radial Turbo Spin-Echo Technique.", J Magn Reson Imaging, 2021 Jul 13. PMID: 34254382
Rogers, S., K. Johnson, and J. Becker, "Successful Use of Intracranial High-resolution Black Blood Imaging for Diagnostic Evaluation of Patients with Autoimmune Disease and Neurological Symptoms", Educational Exhibit ASNR: ASNR 59th Annual Meeting, 05/2021.

2020

Becker, J. L., V. Patel, K. J. Johnson, M. Guerrero, R. R. Klein, G. F. Ranvier, R. P. Owen, P. Pawha, and K. Nael, "4D-Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI for Preoperative Localization in Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism.", AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, vol. 41, issue 3, pp. 522-528, 2020 03. PMCID: PMC7077889 
Fu, Z., S. Mandava, M. B. Keerthivasan, Z. Li, K. Johnson, D. R. Martin, M. I. Altbach, and A. Bilgin, "A multi-scale residual network for accelerated radial MR parameter mapping.", Magn Reson Imaging, vol. 73, pp. 152-162, 2020 Nov. PMCID: PMC7580302  PMID: 32882339

2019

Keerthivasan, M. Bharath, M. Saranathan, K. Johnson, Z. Fu, C. C. Weinkauf, D. R. Martin, A. Bilgin, and M. I. Altbach, "An efficient 3D stack-of-stars turbo spin echo pulse sequence for simultaneous T2-weighted imaging and T2 mapping.", Magn Reson Med, vol. 82, issue 1, pp. 326-341, 2019 Jul. PMCID: PMC10191119  PMID: 30883879

2018

Bilgin, A., K. Johnson, D. Martin, and M. Altbach, High-resolution 3D T1 mapping of the prostate with an efficient inversion-recovery radial FLASH, 2018.
Altbach, M., K. Johnson, M. Keerthisavan, J. Becker, and A. Bilgin, Rapid Carotid Artery T2 and T1 Mapping Using a Radial TSE and IR-FLASH Approach, 2018.
Keerthivasan, MB., S. Mandava, K. Johnson, R. Avery, R. Janardhanan, DR. Martin, A. Bilgin, and MI. Altbach, A Multi-Band Double-Inversion Radial Fast Spin-Echo Technique for T2 Mapping of the Heart, 2018.

2017

Keerthivasan, MB., A. Bilgin, KJ. Johnson, and MI. Altbach, Flexible and Efficient 2D Radial TSE T2 Mapping with Tiered Echo Sharing and with “Pseudo” Golden Angle Ratio Reordering, 2017.