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CURRICULUM VITAE

Andrew S. Nencka PhD
Director, Associate Professor
Department of Radiology
Division of Research

OFFICE ADDRESS:
MRI Research Building
8701 Watertown Plank Rd
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone: 414-955-4766

EDUCATION:
08/2000 - 06/2004 BS, Mathematics and Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
07/2004 - 06/2009 PhD, Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
03/2007 General Electric EPIC MRI Pulse Programming Course, Waukesha, WI
11/2010 Bruker ParaVision MRI Pulse Programming Course, Bilerica, MA
09/2020 Siemens IDEA and ICE Programming

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
07/2009 - 04/2011 Research Scientist, Department of Biophysics and the Center for Imaging Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

MILITARY SERVICE:
NA

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
04/2011 - 06/2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226
09/01/2014 - 06/2018 Assistant Professor, Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226
07/2018 - Present Associate Professor, Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226
07/2018 - Present Associate Professor, Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53226
07/2018 - Present Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
NA

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
NA

HOSPITAL AND CLINICAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
NA

RESEARCH ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
10/18/2016 - 12/01/2021 Associate Director, Center for Imaging Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53226
12/01/2021 - Present Operations Director, Center for Imaging Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226

HOSPITAL STAFF PRIVILEGES:
NA

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Board Certified
Issue DateExpiration
NA
None
   
AWARDS AND HONORS:
08/2000 - 06/2004 Marquette University Ignatius Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Marquette University
06/2003 Karioris Award for the Outstanding Junior in Physics, Marquette University
01/2004 - 06/2004 John R. Wooden Award Scholarship, Marquette University
05/2005 - 05/2007 Student Travel Award, Medical College of Wisconsin
05/2008 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Student Stipend Award, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
07/2010 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/01/2016 Faculty Service Award, Medical College of Wisconsin
11/01/2017 Outstanding Graduate School Educator Award, Medical College of Wisconsin
11/01/2018 Outstanding Graduate School Educator Award, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/01/2023 Office of Research Outstanding Service Award, Medical College of Wisconsin

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
08/2002 - Present Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society (Member)
01/2005 - 07/2009 International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Student Member)
07/2009 - Present International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Member)
01/01/2017 - Present Radiological Society of North America (Member)

EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS:
Journal Review
2009 - Present Medical Physics
2009 Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
2010 Journal of Statistical Software
2011 - Present Brain Connectivity
2013 - Present Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2016 - Present PLoS One
2017 - Present Magnetic Resonance Imaging

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
NA

NATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
NA

INTERNATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
NA

RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS:
Active
Peer Review
Title:
ABCD-USA Consortium: UWM Site
Source:
NIH/CRAN (U01 DA041025)
Role & Effort:
Investigator
PI:
Krista Lisdahl
Dates:
07/15/2017 - 03/31/2027
Direct Funds:
$973,485
  
Title:
Emotion Regulation in Complicated Grief
Source:
NIH Mental Health (R01MH122490)
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Joseph Goveas
Dates:
02/15/2020 - 01/31/2025
Direct Funds:
$1,673,546
  
Title:
Prostate Cancer Radio-Pathomics for Differentiating Clinically Significant Disease
Source:
NIH NCI (R01CA249882)
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Peter LaViolette
Dates:
03/01/2021 - 02/28/2026
Direct Funds:
$1,947,523
  
Title:
Characterizing Potential Chronic Brain Health Effects of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impact Exposure: The CARE-SALTOS Integrated (CSI) Study
Source:
Indiana University/The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC), Advanced Technology International (ATI) and U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA)
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Thomas McAllister and Michael McCrea
Dates:
09/21/2021 - 11/21/2026
Direct Funds:
$2,595,092
  
Title:
CAREScan Mobile Cancer Screening Center of Excellence
Source:
United States Economic Development Administration
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Mara Lord
Dates:
10/01/2024 - 09/31/2027
Direct Funds:
$9,183,000
  
Title:
Image Guided Therapies for Personalized Medicine
Source:
United States Economic Development Administration
Role & Effort:
Site PI
PI:
Andrew Nencka
Dates:
10/01/2024 - 09/31/2029
Direct Funds:
$1,200,000
  
Non-Peer Review
Title:
Advances in MRI-Based Dynamic Visualization and Improved MAVRIC SL MRI of the Instrumented Spine
Source:
GE Healthcare
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Kevin Koch and Andrew Nencka
Dates:
12/08/2023 - 12/07/2025
Direct Funds:
$211,322
  
Title:
Contrast Enhanced Imaging Assessment on the Hyperfine Swoop
Source:
Hyperfine
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Andrew Nencka
Dates:
01/25/2024 - 11/30/2024
Direct Funds:
$8,476
  
Title:
Assessment of Contrast-Enhanced MRI Performance Using the Hyperfine Swoop Portable System
Source:
Soref Pilot Award
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Andrew Nencka
Dates:
02/23/2024 - 02/23/2025
Direct Funds:
$5,000
  
Title:
Applications of Deep Learning to Enhance SPACE MSI Metal Artifact Reduction
Source:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Kevin Koch and Andrew Nencka
Dates:
07/01/2024 - 06/30/2026
Direct Funds:
$160,000
  
Title:
Clinical Validation of Prototype Acquisitions
Source:
Hyperfine
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Andrew Nencka
Dates:
10/30/2024 - 10/29/2025
Direct Funds:
$22,600
  
Prior
Peer Review
Title:
The NCAA-DOD Grand Alliance: Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE)
Source:
Indiana University/The Department of Defense
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Thomas McAllister, Steven Broglio and Michael McCrea
Dates:
09/15/2014 - 09/04/2019
Direct Funds:
$4,990,526
  
Title:
Comprehensive Study of Acute Effects and Recovery After Concussion
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Michael McCrea
Dates:
09/30/2014 - 12/29/2019
Direct Funds:
$4,208,052
  
Title:
Project Head to Head 2
Source:
Department of Defense
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Michael McCrea
Dates:
04/01/2015 - 03/31/2018
Direct Funds:
$4,623,687
  
Title:
The Epilepsy Connectome Project
Source:
NIH/NINDS (U01 NS093650)
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Jeffrey Binder
Dates:
09/01/2015 - 06/30/2019
Direct Funds:
$4,115,741
  
Title:
The Alzheimers Disease Connectome Project
Source:
NIH/NIA (U01 AG051216)
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Shi-Jiang Li
Dates:
04/01/2016 - 09/30/2020
Direct Funds:
$4,906,569
  
Title:
Brain Cancer Radio-Pathomics for Predicting Heterogeneous Cytology
Source:
NIH/NIBIB (R01 CA218144)
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Peter LaViolette
Dates:
06/09/2017 - 05/31/2023
Direct Funds:
$1,250,000
  
Title:
The Role of Neuroactive Kynurenine Metabolites in the Chronic Sequelae of Concussion and Contact Sport Exposure
Source:
NIH Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS102225)
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Timothy Meier
Dates:
12/01/2017 - 11/30/2022
Direct Funds:
$1,159,382
  
Title:
Alzheimer’s Disease Radio-Pathomics
Source:
NIH NCI (R01 CA218144)
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Peter LaViolette
Dates:
06/01/2018 - 05/31/2019
Direct Funds:
$81,168
  
Title:
Service Academy Longitudinal TBI Outcomes Study (SALTOS)
Source:
Indiana University/DoD Army Medical Research Acquisition
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Paul Pasquina, Thomas McAllister, and Michael McCrea
Dates:
07/01/2018 - 06/30/2022
Direct Funds:
$565,933
  
Title:
Cumulative and Persistence Intermediate Effects of Concussion and Head Impact Exposure in CARE Consortium Military Service Academy Members and NCAA Athletes
Source:
Indiana University/DoD Army Medical Research Acquisition
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Steven Broglio, Thomas McAllister, Michael McCrea and Paul Pasquina
Dates:
09/15/2018 - 08/31/2020
Direct Funds:
$2,301,586
  
Title:
MRI Predication and Evaluation for Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Therapy in Rectal Cancer
Source:
Association of VA Surgeons
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Timothy Ridolfi
Dates:
07/01/2020 - 06/30/2022
Direct Funds:
$25,000
  
Title:
A Complete Metal Artifact Reduced MRI Exam for Neuroimaging
Source:
NIH NIBIB (1R21EB030123)
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Kevin Koch and Andrew Nencka
Dates:
02/01/2021 - 11/30/2023
Direct Funds:
$262,500
  
Title:
Fatigability of Limb Muscle in Older Adults: Protective Effects of Exercise
Source:
Marquette University/NIH Aging
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Christopher Sundberg
Dates:
09/01/2021 - 04/30/2023
Direct Funds:
$369,640
  
Title:
Advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Toward Precision Medicine in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Collaboration by DHA, DOE, TRACK-TBI, and the CARE Consortium
Source:
Department of Defense (USAMRAA)
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Michael McCrea
Dates:
09/30/2021 - 09/29/2023
Direct Funds:
$2,261,370
  
Non-Peer Review
Title:
Development of a Voxelwise Database of Physical Parameters for Neuroimaging
Source:
Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Andrew Nencka
Dates:
05/01/2011 - 04/30/2015
Direct Funds:
$300,000
  
Title:
CTSI KL2: Alternation of Degluition Connectome in Unilateral Hemispheric Stroke
Source:
Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Arash Babaei
Dates:
05/01/2013 - 04/30/2017
Direct Funds:
$495,000
  
Title:
A Prospective Study of MRI Biomarkers After SRC
Source:
GE Healthcare
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Michael McCrea
Dates:
04/07/2014 - 04/06/2015
Direct Funds:
$300,000
  
Title:
Motion Mitigation Strategies for 7T Neuroimaging
Source:
Daniel M Soref Charitable Trust
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Andrew Nencka
Dates:
01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015
Direct Funds:
$10,000
  
Title:
A Prospective Study of MRI Biomarkers After SRC: Phase 2
Source:
GE Healthcare
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Michael McCrea
Dates:
09/01/2015 - 08/31/2016
Direct Funds:
$500,000
  
Title:
Multi-Spectral EVI for Reduced Distortion Diffusion at 7T
Source:
Daniel M. Soref Charitable Trust
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Andrew Nencka
Dates:
12/01/2016 - 11/31/2017
Direct Funds:
$5,000
  
Title:
Enhancing MAVRIC Metal Artifact Reduction Technology Phase II: Advanced Quantification and Image Repair
Source:
GE Healthcare
Role & Effort:
Investigator
PI:
Kevin Koch and Andrew Nencka
Dates:
07/20/2017 - 07/19/2019
Direct Funds:
$147,726
  
Title:
Optimizing B1+ shimming on GE950 7T MRI
Source:
GE Healthcare
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Tugan Muftuler and Kevin Koch
Dates:
11/21/2017 - 11/20/2018
Direct Funds:
$52,476
  
Title:
Connectome Technology Maintenance and Development Hub
Source:
GE Healthcare
Role & Effort:
Co-Principal Investigator
PI:
Kevin Koch and Andrew Nencka
Dates:
11/21/2017 - 11/20/2019
Direct Funds:
$221,676
  
Title:
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Assessing Cancer Related Cardiotoxicity
Source:
GE Healthcare
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
El-Sayed Ibrahim
Dates:
08/07/2018 - 08/06/2021
  
Title:
Neurologic Function across the Lifespan: A Prospective, LONGitudinal, and Translational Study for Former National Football League (NFL-LONG)
Source:
National Football League
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Kevin Guskiewicz
Dates:
09/01/2018 - 08/31/2023
Direct Funds:
$4,700,000
  
Title:
The MCW Human Connectome Project Technology and Application Hub
Source:
GE Healthcare
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Kevin Koch and Andrew Nencka
Dates:
05/18/2020 - 05/17/2022
Direct Funds:
$192,000
  
Title:
Improving the Efficiency of Advanced WARP 3D-MSI Metal Artifact Reduction for MRI
Source:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
Kevin Koch and Andrew Nencka
Dates:
07/15/2020 - 07/14/2021
Direct Funds:
$49,500
  
Title:
Mechanisms of and Potential Treatments for Repetitive Concussions and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (NFL Long Prospective Study)
Source:
Children's Hospital of Boston/National Football League
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
William Meehan, Michael McCrea and Jason Mihalik
Dates:
10/31/2020 - 10/30/2023
Direct Funds:
$1,860,734
  
Title:
Neurovascular Uncoupling Correlates of Executive Functioning in Non-amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
Source:
Advancing a Healthy Wisconsin
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Laura Umfleet and Yang Wang
Dates:
12/01/2020 - 11/30/2022
Direct Funds:
$20,000
  
Title:
To Identify Ferromagnetic Components of Medical Implants in Patients by Dual Energy CT
Source:
Research Affairs Committee (MCW)
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Yong Gang Lu
Dates:
07/01/2022 - 07/31/2023
Direct Funds:
$34,836
  
Title:
Advanced 3D-MSI Metal Artifact Reduction Technology: SPACE Integration, Spectral Calibration and Spectral Domain Acceleration
Source:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Kevin Koch and Andrew Nencka
Dates:
08/15/2022 - 06/30/2024
Direct Funds:
$160,000
  
Title:
Development of Dark Blood Contrast on Hyperfine Swoop MRI Platform
Source:
Hyperfine
Role & Effort:
Co-Principal Investigator
PI:
Andrew Nencka and Kevin Koch
Dates:
08/17/2023 - 02/16/2024
Direct Funds:
$67,200
  

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
National
Andrew Nencka, Kevin Koch, Yu-Chien Wu, Andy Saykin, Mike McCrea, Stability of Advanced MR Metrics in the Advanced Research Core, CARE Consortium Investigator Meeting, Washington, D.C., 11/09/2016
 
Regional
Andrew Nencka, Towards physical modeling in fMRI, Center for MR Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 11/20/2008
Andrew S. Nencka, William Hogan, Artificial Intelligence at the Medical College of Wisconsin, 2024 Wisconsin Doctor Day, Madison, WI, 01/23/2024 - Present
 
Local
Andrew Nencka, Physics in Medical Imaging Research, Physics Colloquium, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 10/24/2006
Andrew Nencka, Physics 002 Guest Lecture, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI, 04/30/2008
Andrew Nencka, Parallel Imaging at MCW, Biophysics Seminar Series, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 03/30/2012
Andrew Nencka, Parallel Slice Acquisition for Enhanced Fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cancer Imaging Research Program, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 10/19/2012
Andrew Nencka, Maximizing Information in MRI Through Fast Time Series Imaging, MCW Cancer Center Cell Biology Research Forum, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 10/31/2013
Andrew Nencka, Physics 002 Guest Lecture, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI, 4/30/2008, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI, 04/2015
Andrew Nencka, Matt Budde, Kevin Koch, Tim Meier, Tugan Muftuler, Mike McCrea, Imaging protocool and informatics infrastructure for Project Head to Head Two, Project Head to Head Two Exteranl Advisory Board Meeting, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI, 06/16/2016
Andrew Nencka, Imaging Informatics Infrastructure, MCW Radiology Grand Rounds, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee W, 10/18/2016
Andrew Nencka, Matt Budde, Kevin Koch, Tim Meier, Tugan Muftuler, Mike McCrea, Stability and reproducibility of advanced MRI metrics in Project Head to Head Two, Project Head to Head Two External Advisory Board Meeting, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI, 05/11/2017
Andrew Nencka, Matt Budde, Andy Klein, Kevin Koch, Mike McCrea, Tim Meier, Tugan Muftuler, Yang Wang, Big and Bigger Data in Multi-Contrast Neuroimaging of Mild TBI, MCW Brain Injury Research Day, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI, 10/26/2017
Andrew Nencka, Using ChatGPT Data Analytics for Core Insights at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of Radiology Faculty Meeting, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI, 01/29/2024
Andrew Nencka, An Introduction to AI in Research, Basic to Clinical Translational Research Pathway, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 02/08/2024
Andrew Nencka, An Overview of AI in Healthcare, Department of Pathology/Residents Retreat, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 02/16/2024
 

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
International
Andrew Nencka, Daniel Rowe, Complex Constant Phase Activation Model Removes Venous BOLD Contribution in fMRI, Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Maimi, FL, 05/11/2005
Andrew Nencka, Tim Meier, Yang Wang, Yu-Chien Wu, Brad Swearingen, Robin Karr, Melissa Koschnitzke, Andy Saykin, Mike McCrea, Kevin Koch, Reproducibility of Advanced MR Metrics in a Multi-Site, Multi-Vendor Study of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Honolulu, HI, 04/24/2017
Andrew Nencka, Tim Meier, Yu-Chien Wu, Tugan Muftuler, Yang Wang, Brad Swearingen, Robin Karr, Andy Saykin, Mike McCrea, Kevin Koch, Reproducibility of Advanced Neuroimaging Metrics Across Sessions, Sites and Subjects, Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, 11/20/2017
 

COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2009 - Present Member, Research MRI Safety Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2012 - 07/2013 Member, Faculty IT Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2012 - Present Chair, Research MRI Safety Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2013 - 07/2014 Vice Chair, Faculty IT Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2013 - 07/2016 Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
07/2014 - 07/2016 Chair, Faculty IT Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2016 - Present Member, Research Computing Center Faculty Advisory Committee, Information Services, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2016 - 07/2017 Secretary, Faculty IT Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2017 - 07/2019 Chair, Research Computing Center Faculty Advisory Committee, Information Services, Medical College of Wisconsin
08/2023 - Present Member, Faculty AI Workgroup, Information Services, Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Hospital
02/01/2016 - Present Member, Froedtert Hospital System MRI Safety Committee, Imaging Services, Radiology, Froedtert Hospital
04/01/2017 - 07/01/2023 Chair, Froedtert Hospital System MRI Safety Committee, Imaging Services, Radiology, Froedtert Hospital
10/01/2021 - Present Member, IT Leadership Committee, Radiology, Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin
 

MCW TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Medical Student Education
2013 - Present M4 Integrative Selective: Introduction to Medical Imaging, Course Co-Director (led 6 lectures annually)
 
Graduate Student Education
2011 - 2019 Biophysics 3230, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Course Director (Offered odd numbered years, led all lectures)
2011 - 2015 Biophysics 3240 Fourier Transformation, Course Co-Director (Offered odd numbered years, led 1/3 of lectures)
01/01/2014 - 05/09/2014 Biophysics 3298, MRI Journal Club, Course Director (led all discussions)
 

EXTRAMURAL TEACHING:
Community/Lay Public
2002 - 2004 Marquette University, Introductory Physics Teaching Assistant
 

MCW STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED:
Undergraduate Students
06/2012 - 08/2012 Nikolai Mickevicius, Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) Advisor, Medical College of Wisconsin
06/2021 - 08/2021 Skylar Bogardus, Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR)Advisor, Medical College of Wisconsin
06/2024 - 08/2024 Hannah Hotchkiss, Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) Advisor, Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Graduate Students
PhD Committees
07/2008 - 12/2013 Guangyu Chen, Imaging Analysis of Brain Network and Its Application to Alzheimer’s Disease, Medical College of Wisconsin, Currently on staff for MRI research at MCW.
07/2008 - 08/2013 Danielle Reitsma, Investigating fMRI Visual Field Maps in Human Visual Cortex with Central Damage, Medical College of Wisconsin, Hired into fMRI lab upon graduation. Currently faculty at Azusa Pacific University.
07/2011 - 07/2014 Daniel Shefchik, Mapping relaxivity and B-field parameters in echo planar imaging (EPI) warped space to inform functional MRI studies, Medical College of Wisconsin, Currently Employed by Froedtert Hospital's Data Analytics Team
07/01/2013 - 07/2018 Daniel Olson, Advanced Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/01/2013 - 07/2018 Zhan Xu, Multi-Echo Echo Planar Imaging for Robust Resting State Imaging, Medical College of Wisconsin
12/15/2014 - 06/2016 Ali Eroz, Advanced Data Acquisition and Reconstruction Techniques for Fast Radial Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Medical College of Wisconsin, Currently Employed by GE Healthcare's MRI System Engineering Team
07/2015 - 07/2019 Nikolai Mickevicius, Imaging Framework to Support Real-Time Online Adaptive Replanning on the MR-Linac, Medical College of Wisconsin
10/2016 - 04/2017 Nathan Skinner, Assessment of Spinal Cord Injury in a Rat Model using an Orthogonal Filter-Probe Diffusion Encoding Scheme, Medical College of Wisconsin
02/2017 - 07/2021 Ethan Duwell, Albinism: A Window to Studying the Role of Retinotopic Organization in Visual Attention, Medical College of Wisconsin
02/2017 - 07/2020 Sean McGarry, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/01/2018 - 10/18/2024 Kyle A. Johnson, Advancing Pre-Clinical Multi-Echo fMRI with Inductively Coupled Surface Coils, Medical College of Wisconsin, Hired as postdoctoral fellow before graduation
- 07/2023 Seongtaek Lee, NONINVASIVE PERFUSION MRI AND ANGIOGRAPHY WITH ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING (ASL) IN THE RAT SPINAL CORD, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2023 Briana Meyer, Spinal Cord Perfusion MRI: Technical Advancements with Arterial Spin Labeling and Application to Preclinical Traumatic Injury, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 09/2022 Samuel Bobholz, Radio-Pathomic Mapping of Glioma Pathology Using Autopsy Tissue Samples as Ground Truth, Medical College of Wisconsin
PhD Students Advised
01/2013 - 08/2016 Andrew Huettner, Magnetic Resonance Imaging RF Pulse Design Techniques Applied to Neuroimaging and Musculoskeletal Imaging, Medical College of Wisconsin, Hired by GE Healthcare's MRI System Engineering Team Upon Graduation
MS Committees
07/2014 - 07/2016 Casey Anderson, Volume-Parcellated Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping, Medical College of Wisconsin
 

EXTRAMURAL STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS, AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED:
Undergraduate Students
01/2012 - 05/2012 Wei Wu, Readings and Research Advisor, Marquette University
 
Graduate Students
PhD Committees
07/2012 - 07/2014 Muge Karaman, Improving fMRI analysis and MR reconstruction with the incorporation of MR relaxivities and correlation effect examination, Marquette University, Currently postdoctoral fellow in an MRI lab at University of IL, Chicago
07/2013 - 07/2016 Mary Kociuba, A Fourier Description of Covariance, and Separation of Simultaneously Encoded Slices with in-Plane Acceleration in fMRI, Marquette University, Postdoctoral fellow at University of Washington, Department of Pediatrics Biomedical Image Computing Group
 

PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENTS:
Educational Programs
Student
08/2012 - 02/2013 Proposed and worked to organize the M4 integrative selective "Introduction to Medical Imaging" with Shi-Jiang Li, and numerous faculty from Biophysics, Radiology and Radiation Oncology.
 
Research Programs
03/2014 - 09/2014 Simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging development program. Led development of SMS technology at MCW, leading to over $10M in successful "connectome" NIH applications at MCW.
11/2014 - Present MCW Center for Imaging Research Imaging Informatics Services. Led the deployment of the MCW CIR XNAT image repository and integrated it with the MCW Research Computing Center. Serves over 97 studies.
 
 
 

COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
03/29/2016 St. Alphonsus Grade School STEM Career Fair Representative
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Reducing the unwanted draining vein BOLD contribution in fMRI with statistical postprocessing methods. Neuroimage 37(1): 177-188, 2007.
2. Rowe DB, Nencka AS, Hoffmann RG. Signal and noise of Fourier reconstructed fMRI data. J Neurosci Methods. 2007 Jan 30;159(2):361-9. PMCID: PMC4089039
3. Hahn AD, Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Improving robustness of phase sensitive fMRI using Temporal Off-resonance Alignment of Single-echo Timeseries (TOAST). NeuroImage 44(3): 742-752, 2009.
4. Rowe DB, Hahn AD, Nencka AS. Functional magnetic resonance imaging brain activation directly from k-space. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 27(10): 1370-1381, 2009.
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69. Panigrahy A, Schmithorst V, Ceschin R, Lee V, Beluk N, Wallace J, Wheaton O, Chenevert T, Qiu D, Lee JN, Nencka A, Gagoski B, Berman JI, Yuan W, Macgowan C, Coatsworth J, Fleysher L, Cannistraci C, Sleeper LA, Hoskoppal A, Silversides C, Radhakrishnan R, Markham L, Rhodes JF, Dugan LM, Brown N, Ermis P, Fuller S, Cotts TB, Rodriguez FH, Lindsay I, Beers S, Aizenstein H, Bellinger DC, Newburger JW, Umfleet LG, Cohen S, Zaidi A, Gurvitz M. Design and Harmonization Approach for the Multi-Institutional Neurocognitive Discovery Study (MINDS) of Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Neuroimaging Ancillary Study: A Technical Note Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease. September 2023;10(9).
70. Chu DY, Adluru N, Nair VA, Choi T, Adluru A, Garcia-Ramos C, Dabbs K, Mathis J, Nencka AS, Gundlach C, Conant L, Binder JR, Meyerand ME, Alexander AL, Struck AF, Hermann B, Prabhakaran V. Association of neighborhood deprivation with white matter connectome abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2023 Sep;64(9):2484-2498. PMCID: PMC10530287
71. Koch, K. M., Nencka, A. S., Kurpad, S., & Budde, M. D. (2024). Diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging of spinal cord injuries after instrumented fusion stabilization. Journal of Neurotrauma, 41(17-18). https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2023.0591
72. Sharafi, A., Arpinar, V. E., Nencka, A. S., & Koch, K. M. (2024). Development and stability analysis of carpal kinematic metrics from 4D magnetic resonance imaging. Skeletal Radiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00256-024-04687-3
73. Chu, D. Y., Imhoff-Smith, T. P., Nair, V. A., Choi, T., Adluru, A., Garcia-Ramos, C., Dabbs, K., Mathis, J., Nencka, A. S., Conant, L., Binder, J. R., Meyerand, M. E., Alexander, A. L., Struck, A. F., Hermann, B., Prabhakaran, V., & Adluru, N. (2024). Characterizing white matter connectome abnormalities in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy using threshold-free network-based statistics. Brain and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.3643
74. Pahapill, P. A., Arocho-Quiñones, E. V., Chen, G., Swearingen, B., Tomas, C. W., Koch, K. M., & Nencka, A. S. (2024). Distinct functional connectivity patterns for intermittent vs constant neuropathic pain phenotypes in persistent spinal pain syndrome type 2 patients. Journal of Pain Research, 24(1), 1453–1460. https://doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S434291
75. Chu DY, Imhoff-Smith TP, Nair VA, Choi T, Adluru A, Garcia-Ramos C, Dabbs K, Mathis J, Nencka AS, Conant L, Binder JR, Meyerand ME, Alexander AL, Struck AF, Hermann B, Prabhakaran V, Adluru N. Characterizing white matter connectome abnormalities in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy using threshold-free network-based statistics. Brain Behav. 2024 Aug;14(8):e3643. PMCID: PMC11298711
 
Books, Chapters, and Reviews
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Editorials, Letters To Editor, Other
1. Biswal B, Pawela C, Grist T, Meyerand ME, Nencka AS, DeYoe EA, Li SJ, Rowe DB, Kiviniemi V, Cox RW, Bodurka J, Ogawa S, Koretsky A, Hu X, Kim SG. Personal reflections on James S. Hyde. Brain Connect. 2014 Nov;4(9):631-5. PMCID: PMC4238237
2. Nencka AS. Editorial for "Top 10 Reviewer Critiques of Radiology Artificial Intelligence (AI) Articles: Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Reviewer Critiques of Machine Learning / Deep Learning Manuscripts Submitted to JMRI". J Magn Reson Imaging. 2020 Jul;52(1):255-256.
 
Non-Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Donald J Hagler Jr.,..., Andrew S. Nencka, et al. Image processing and analysis methods for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study biorxiv (preprint). https://doi.org/10.1101/457739.
2. Andrew S. Nencka, Andrew Klein, Kevin M. Koch, Sean D. McGarry, Peter S. LaViolette, Eric S. Paulson, Nikolai J. Mickevicius, L. Tugan Muftuler, Brad Swearingen, Michael A. McCrea. Build-A-FLAIR: Synthetic T2-FLAIR Contrast Generation through Physics Informed Deep Learning arxiv.org.
3. Juan Liu, Andrew S. Nencka, L. Tugan Muftuler, Brad Swearingen, Robin Karr, Kevin M. Koch. Quantitative Susceptibility Inversion Through Parcellated Multiresolution Neural Networks and K-Space Substitution arXiv.org. .
4. Mickevicius, N. J., Nencka, A. S., & Paulson, E. S. (2020). Reducing the dimensionality of optimal experiment design for magnetic resonance fingerprinting. arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.00674.
5. Nencka, A. S., Arpinar, V. E., Bhave, S., Yang, B., Banerjee, S., McCrea, M., Mickevicius, N. J., Muftuler, L. T., & Koch, K. M. (2020). Split slice training augmentation and hyperparameter tuning of RAKI networks for simultaneous multi-slice reconstruction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.01917.
6. Muftuler, L. T., Arpinar, V. E., Koch, K., Bhave, S., Yang, B., Kaushik, S., Banerjee, S., & Nencka, A. S. (2020). Optimization of hyperparameters for SMS reconstruction. arXiv e-prints. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2004.05211
7. Muftuler, L. T., Nencka, A. S., & Koch, K. M. (2021). Diffusion propagator metrics are biased when simultaneous multi-slice acceleration is used. arXiv e-prints. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2103.13340
8. Zarenia, M., Arpinar, V. E., Nencka, A. S., Muftuler, L. T., & Koch, K. M. (2021). Unconstrained kinematic MRI tracking of wrist carpal bones. arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04582.
9. Duenweg, S. R., Brehler, M., Bobholz, S. A., Lowman, A. K., Winiarz, A., Kyereme, F., Nencka, A., Iczkowski, K. A., & LaViolette, P. S. (2022). Comparison of machine learning to deep learning for automated annotation of Gleason patterns in whole mount prostate cancer histology. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.10.516007
10. Sharafi A, Nencka AS, Koch KM. Development and Stability Analysis of Carpal Kinematic Metrics from 4D Magnetic Resonance Imaging. ArXiv. 2023 May 25. PMCID: PMC10246087
11. Nencka, A. S., Muftuler, L. T., LaViolette, P., & Koch, K. M. (2023). On functional activations in deep neural networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.10898.
12. Mickevicius, N. J., Sharafi, A., Nencka, A. S., & Koch, K. M. (2023). Variable resolution sampling and deep learning-based image recovery for faster multi-spectral imaging near metal implants. arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01933.
 
Abstracts
1. Rowe, D. B., Nencka, A. S., & Hoffmann, R. G. (2005). Intrinsic voxel correlation in fMRI. ASA Biometrics Section. 338-345.
2. Rowe, D. B., & Nencka, A. S. (2005). Magnitude and phase modeling for fMRI brain activation. Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biometrics Section, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 10.
3. Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Complex constant phase activation model reduces venous BOLD contribution in fMRI. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 13: 495, 2005.
4. Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Theoretical results demonstrate fundamental differences in venous BOLD reducing activation methods. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 14: 3269, 2006.
5. Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Complex phase statistical method better localizes activations than phase regressor statistical method. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 15: 3198, 2007.
6. Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Image space correlations induced by k-space processes. Proceedings of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 13, 2007.
7. Nencka AS, Hahn AD, Rowe DB. Redundant spatial harmonic information in zeugmatography with linear encoding (R-SHIZLE) theoretically encodes intra-acquisition decay. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 16: 3157, 2008.
8. Nencka AS, Hahn AD, Rowe DB. The use of three navigator echoes in Cartesian EPI reduces Nyquist ghosting. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 16: 3032, 2008.
9. Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Apodization and smoothing alter voxel time series correlations. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 16: 2457, 2008.
10. Nencka AS, Paulson ES, Rowe DB. Complex constant phase statistical method reduces venous contributions to BOLD cortical activations in the visual cortex. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 16: 2338, 2008.
11. Hahn AD, Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Dynamic compensation of B0 inhomogeneities restores complex fMRI time series activation power. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 16: 1251, 2008.
12. Rowe DB, Nencka AS. Induced correlation in fMRI magnitude data from k-space preprocessing. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 17: 1721, 2009.
13. Nencka AS, Hahn AD, Rowe DB. Phase regression and dynamic B-field correction reduce global time series correlations and increase functional correlations. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 17: 1663, 2009.
14. Hahn AD, Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Dynamic magnetic field corrections improve phase-only fMRI activation statistics. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 17: 2789, 2009.
15. Shefchik DL, Nencka AS, Jesmanowicz A, Hyde JS. Making high resolution T2 and T2* maps through the use of accelerated gradient-echo asymmetric spin echo (GREASE) pulse sequences. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 18: 2961, 2010.
16. Nencka AS, Liu X, Joseph J, Li SJ, Kalyanaraman B. Nitroxide compound CTPO-EG as an MRI contrast agent. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 18: 1904, 2010.
17. Babaei, A., Ward, D., Li, W., Nencka, A., Ahmad, S., Kern, M., Li, S.-J., & Shaker, R. (2010). Comparison of resting and active functional connectivity of the swallowing network. Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 22, 73.
18. Nencka AS, Shefchik DL, Hyde JS, Jesmanowicz A, Rowe DB. A statistical method for computing BOLD activations in multi-echo time fMRI data sets and identifying likely non-BOLD task related signal change. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 18: 1154, 2010.
19. Nencka AS, Shefchik DL, Paulson ES, Jesmanowicz A, Hyde JS. Reducing the effective point spread function in echo planar imaging through the use of partial Fourier asymmetric spin echo pulse sequences. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 18: 3041, 2010.
20. Hahn AD, Nencka AS, Rowe DB. In fMRI a dual echo time EPI pulse sequence can induce sources of error in dynamic magnetic field maps. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 18: 5062, 2010.
21. Hahn AD, Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Iterative space transformation enables the use of optimal magnetic field correction algorithms using EPI-based field maps. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 18: 3092, 2010.
22. Jesmanowicz A, Nencka AS, Hyde JS. Two-fold phase encoded SENSE acceleration with a single-channel coil. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 19: 2797, 2011.
23. Li R, Bishop P, Jesmanowicz A, Nencka AS, Stephenson IV JB, Pawela C, Yan JG, Hudetz AG, Matloub H, Hyde JS. Improving whole brain coverage and signal-to-noise ratio using novel intra-oral and over head surface coil array in rate under 9.4T. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 19: 1822, 2011.
24. Li, R., Stephenson IV, J.B., Pawela, C., Yan, J.-G., Nencka, A.S., Hudetz, A.G., Matloub, H., Hyde, J.S. ICA analysis of brachial plexus injury in an animal model reveals rapid brain plasticity in 9.4T. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 19: 2580, 2011.
25. Shefchik DL, Nencka AS, Jesmanowicz A, Hyde JS. Accelerated gradient-recalled echo, asymmetric spin-echo (GREASE-II) for production of high-resolution human T1, T2, and T2* maps. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 19: 4510, 2011.
26. Rowe, D. B., & Nencka, A. S. (2011). Utilizing induced voxel correlation in fMRI analysis. Presented at the 2011 Joint Statistical Meeting, Miami Beach, Florida.
27. Babaei, A., Ahmad, S., Patel, A., Nencka, A. S., & Shaker, R. (2011). Participation of the default mode network in the cortical control of volitional swallowing. Gastroenterology, 5(140), S-367.
28. Patel, A., Babaei, A., Ahmad, S., Nencka, A. S., Siwiec, R. M., Samuel, E. A., & Shaker, R. (2011). Reliability and reproducibility of fMRI activity in the cortical swallowing network. Gastroenterology, 5(140), S-367.
29. Shefchik DL, Nencka AS, Jesmanowicz A, Hyde JS. Simultaneous EPI-Based T1, T1, and T2' Mapping. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 20: 2491, 2012.
30. Shefchik DL, Jesmanowicz A, Budde M, Nencka AS. Single-Coil Two-Fold Accelerated Spin-Echo Phase-SENSE Imaging of the Rodent Brain at 9.4T. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 20: 2229, 2012.
31. Shefchik DL, Nencka AS, Jesmanowicz A, DeYoe EA, Hyde JS. T1/T2 Ratio Maps for the Production of FcMRI Seed Region Based on Gray Matter Myeloarchitecture. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 20: 2096, 2012.
32. Shefchik DL, Nencka AS, Jesmanowicz A, Hyde JS. Voxel-Wise Tissue Segmentation and Partial Volume Quantification in Experimental EPI Space to Inform fMRI and FcMRI Analysis. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 20: 2074, 2012.
33. Babaei, A., Ward, B. D., Ahmad, S., Patel, A., Nencka, A., Li, S.-J., Hyde, J. S., & Shaker, R. (2012). Reproducibility of swallow induced cortical fMRI activity and role of negative BOLD signal. American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology. American Physiological Society.
34. Rowe, D. B., & Nencka, A. S. (2012). Statistical image reconstruction of two simultaneously excited fMRI slices. Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, 17, 201–216.
35. Nencka AS, Jesmanowicz A. Auto-Calibrated Multiband Imaging with Phase Tagging and Hadamard Encoding. ISMRM Workshop on Data Sampling and Image Reconstruction. Sedona, AZ, 2013. 16.
36. Nencka AS, Jesmanowicz A. Moving Window Auto-Calibrated Multiband Imaging for Minimized Residual Correlation. ISMRM Workshop on Data Sampling and Image Reconstruction. Sedona, AZ, 2013. 11.
37. Chen G, Nencka AS, Li SJ. The application of accelerated functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging to study the higher frequency band resting state functional connectivity (R-fcMRI) and the improvement for the individual R-fcMRI repeatability. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 21: 2228, 2013.
38. Pechman K, Lozen A, Al-Gizawiy M, Chitambar RR, Schmainda KM, Nencka AS. Evaluation of gallium maltolate as a treatment in brain tumor xenograft model. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 21: 1725, 2013.
39. Rowe DB, Nencka AS, Jesmanowicz A, Hyde JS. Separation of two simultaneously encoded slices with a single coil. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 21: 0123, 2013.
40. Xu Z, Chen G, Nencka AS, Li SJ. Stronger brain functional connectivity revealed by multi-band acquisition of fMRI. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 21: 3319, 2013.
41. Samuel, E. A., Babaei, A., Kern, M., Siwiec, R. M., Patel, A., Nencka, A. S., Hyde, J. S., Venkatesan, T., & Shaker, R. (2013). Su2093: Alterations in the periaqueductal gray matter resting state functional connectivity in cyclic vomiting syndrome. Gastroenterology, 5(144), S-555.
42. Karaman MM, Nencka AS, Rowe DB. Temporal processing of fMRI data induces functional correlations and potentially alters functional activations. Proceedings of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 21: 2232, 2013.
43. Samuel, E. A., Kern, M., Babaei, A., Patel, A., Siwiec, R. M., Nencka, A. S., Li, S. J., Venkatesan, T., & Shaker, R. (2013). The resting and guided thinking state functional connectivity of the nausea network in cyclic vomiting syndrome: The effect of emotional stress. Gastroenterology, 144(5), S-119.
44. Nencka AS, Shefchik DL, Huettner AM, Jesmanowicz A. Auto-Calibrated Multiband Imaging. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2014): 4398.
45. Karaman MM, Rowe DB, Nencka AS. Decreasing False Positives and Negatives from Spatiotemporal Processing of fMRI. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2014): 4144.
46. Shefchik DL, Nencka AS, Hyde JS. EPI Tissue Segmentation Maps Based on Multiple-Echo EPI with Parallel Imaging for the Reduction of Multicomparison Issues in fMRI. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2014): 4138.
47. Karamann, M., Nencka, A. S., & Rowe, D. B. (2014). Improving the accuracy of non-task fMRI analysis by quantifying spatiotemporal processing induced correlations. In Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings 2014 (Section on Statistics in Imaging).
48. Huettner AM, Nencka AS, Muftuler LT, Koch KM. Numerical RF Pulse Optimization to Reduce Peak B1 for Multi-Spectral Imaging Around Metal Implants. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2015): 2515
49. Nencka AS, Huettner AM, Muftuler LT, Koch KM, Birn R. Simultaneous Multislice Acquisition to Avoid Motion Artifacts in Challenging Patient Populations. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2015): 2054
50. Huettner AM, Mickevicius NJ, Ersoz A, Koch KM, Muftuler LT, Nencka AS. A Wavelet-Based Optimization for RF Pulse Design Applied to Multiband Imaging at 7T. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2015): 0914
51. Nencka AS, Kaushik S, Koch KM. Reduced Field of View Multi-Spectral Imaging through Coupled Coil and Frequency Bin Encoding. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2016): 2257
52. Cohen AD, Nencka AS, Wang Y. Multiband and Multishot EPI Using Hadamard Encoding for Functional MRI at 7T. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2016): 613.
53. Cohen AD, Nencka AS, Wang Y. A Multishot, Hadamard-Encoded Autocalibration Scan for Multiband EPI at 7T. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2016): 3181.
54. Koch KM, Kofff M, Shah P, Kaushik S, Nencka AS, Potter H. Quantitative Off-Resonance-Based Metallosis Assessment Near Total Hip Replacements: Correlating an Imaging Biomarker with Histology. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2016): 2285.
55. Anderson C, Nencka AS, Muftuler LT, Schmainda K, Koch KM. Volume-Parcellated Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meetingof the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2016): 1108
56. Wang, Y., Nelson, L., LaRoche, A., Pfaller, A., Nencka, A., Koch, K., & McCrea, M. (2016). Longitudinal changes in cerebral blood flow after sports-related concussion. Brain Injury, 30(5–6), 613. Taylor & Francis Inc.
57. Mitra Mustafi S, Harezlak J, Koch KM, Nencka AS, Meier T, Saykin A, McCrea M, McAllister T, Wu YC. Acute White Matter Abnormalities in Sport-Related Concussion: A DTI Study. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017): 50
58. Cohen AD, Nencka AS, Wang Y. The Effect of Post-Labeling Delay on Multiband PCASL Based Functional Connectivity. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017): 3635
59. Kaushik S, Huettner AD, LaViolette P, Nencka AS, Koch KM. Lipid Suppression Around Metal Implants Using a B1-Optimized Adiabatic Inversion Pulse. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017): 5028
60. Koch KM, Karr R, Swearingen B, LaRoche A, Anderson C, Meier T, McCrea M, Nencka AS. Longitudinal Quantitative Susceptibility Changes After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017): 4519
61. Cohen AD, Nencka AS, Wang Y. A Multiband Multi-Echo Simultaneous ASL/BOLD Acquisition for Resting State Functional Connectivity. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017): 244
62. Cohen AD, Nencka AS, Wang Y. A Novel Multiband Multi-Echo Simultaneous ASL/BOLD Sequence for Task-Based FMRI. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017): 5334
63. Olson D, Nencka AS, Arpinar VE, Muftuler LT. Randomizing Simultaneously Excited Slice Groups in SMS to Reduce Slice Leakage Artifacts in Diffusion MRI. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017): 3339
64. Nencka AS, Meier T, Wang Y, Wu YC, Swearingen B, Karr R, Koschnitzke M, Saykin A, McCrea M, Koch KM. Reproduciblity of Advanced MR Metrics in a Multi-Site, Multi-Vendor Study of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017): 253
65. Chen G, Nencka AS, Shu H, Kurpad S, Li SJ, Pahapill P. Structural and Functional MRI Characterization of Trial Spinal Cord Stimulation Responders in Failed Back Surgery Syndrome. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017): 4157
66. Wang, Y., Nelson, L., Nencka, A., Meier, T., & McCrea, M. (2017). Detecting effects of subconcussive impact on brain functioning using advanced perfusion MRI. Brain Injury, 31(6–7), 773.
67. Cohen AD, Nencka AS, Wang Y. Using a Novel Multiband Multi-Echo Simultaneous ASL/BOLD Sequence to Measure Cerebrovascular Reactivity. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2017): 3832
68. Binder J, Conant L, Anderson C, Birn R, Carlson C, DeYoe EA, Fernandino L, Gross W, Hermann B, Humphries C, Hwang G, Koch KM, Kraegel P, Maganti R, Mathis J, McMillan T, Meyerand M, Nair V, Nencka AS, Prabhakaran V, Raghavan M, Rozman M, Ustine C, Zhao G. Cortical Thickness Correlates of Social Cognition Abilities in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Neurology 88(16S): P2. 240 (2017)
69. Andrew S. Nencka, John D. Bukowy, Robin A. Karr, Andrew P. Klein, Kevin M. Koch, Peter LaViolette, Sean D. McGarry, Timothy B. Meier, Brad J. Swearingen, and Michael McCrea. Eye motion artifacts in T2-weighted images, identified by deep neural networks, correlate with concussion Proc. ISMRM. 4952.
70. McGarry, Sean Hurrell, Sarah Hohenwalter, Mark Duvnjak, Petar Griffin, Michael Iczkowski, Kenneth Jacobsohn, Kenneth Nencka, Andrew LaViolette, Peter . Gleason Probability Maps: A Radiomics Tool for Mapping Tumor Likelihood in MRI Space Proc. ISMRM. 0715.
71. Koch, Kevin Muftuler, Tugan Karr, Robin Nencka, Andrew . Machine Learning in QSM: Inversion Using Multi-Resolution Decomposition and Convolutional Neural Networks Proc. ISMRM. 2197.
72. McGarry, Sean Budde, Matthew Hurrell, Sarah Ickzowski, Kenneth Griffin, Michael Duvnjak, Petar Jacobsohn, Kenneth Hall, William Hohenwalter, Mark Nencka, Andrew LaViolette, Peter. The Medical College of Wisconsin 39 (MCW39): A Magnetic Resonance Image Template of the Prostate to Facilitate Group Analysis Proc. ISMRM. 4499.
73. McGarry, Sean Hurrell, Sarah Iczkowski, Kenneth Kaczmarowski, Amy Banerjee, Anjishnu Keuter, Tucker Jacobsohn, Kenneth Hall, William Nevalainen, Marja Hohenwalter, Mark See, William Nencka, Andrew LaViolette, Peter. Predictive Cytological Topography (PiCT): a Radio-Pathomics Approach to Mapping Prostate Cancer Proc. ISMRM. 0775.
74. McGarry, Sean Hurrell, Sarah Jacobsohn, Kenneth Iczkowski, Kenneth Griffin, Michael Duvnjak, Petar Nencka, Andrew Hohenwalter, Mark LaViolette, Peter. The RadPath Surfer: A Radiologic-Pathologic tool for visualizing prostate cancer histology Proc. ISMRM. 4387.
75. Olson, Daniel Arpinar, Volkan Emre Nencka, Andrew Muftuler, L. Tugan. Randomized-Slice Simultaneous Multi-Slice for Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging Proc. ISMRM. 5331.
76. Budde, Matthew Muftuler, L. Tugan Nencka, Andrew Koch, Kevin Wang, Yang Meier, Timothy McCrea, Michael. Within-Subject Characterization of Sports Concussion with Serial Diffusion MRI and Spherical Mean Technique Proc. ISMRM. 4940.
77. Mickevicius, Nikolai Paulson, Eric Nencka, Andrew. Application of a k-Space Interpolating Artificial Neural Network to In-Plane Accelerated Simultaneous Multislice Imaging for Motion Monitoring Proc. ISMRM. 0471.
78. Nencka, Andrew Swearingen, Brad Koch, Kevin McCrea, Michael. Build-a-FLAIR: The synthetic generation of T2-FLAIR contrast from T2-weighted and diffusion metric images through a deep neural network Proc. ISMRM. 4864.
79. Nowling, Ronald Bukowy, John McGarry, Sean Nencka, Andrew Urbain, Jay Lowman, Allison Barrington, Alexandar Hohenwalter, Mark Banerjee, Anjishnu Iczkowski, Kenneth LaViolette, Peter . Cascading Classifiers Improve Prostate Segmentation Proc. ISMRM. 4035.
80. Koch, Kevin Stern, Ruben Karr, Robin Nencka, Andrew Koff, Matthew Potter, Hollis. Computer Aided Detection of Synovial Abnormalities Near Total Hip Replacements on 3D-MSI MRI using Deep Neural Networks Proc. ISMRM. 1416.
81. Liu, Juan Nencka, Andrew Koch, Kevin. Deep Residual Neural Networks for QSM Background Removal Proc. ISMRM. 4852.
82. Arpinar, Volkan Emre Koch, Kevin Bhave, Sampada Muftuler, L Tugan Yang, Baolian Kaushik, S Sivaram Banerjee, Suchandrima Nencka, Andrew . Effect of Coil Compression on tSNR, DVARS and Computation Time on Simultaneous Multi Slice Imaging Proc. ISMRM. 3936.
83. Muftuler, L. Tugan Olson, Daniel Arpinar, Volkan Nencka, Andrew . Effects of imperfect slice separation in simultaneous multi-slice for diffusion kurtosis imaging Proc. ISMRM. 3512.
84. Wu, Yu-Chien Mustafi, Sourajit Harezlak, Jaroslaw Elsaid, Nahla Riggen, Larry Koch, Kevin Nencka, Andrew Meier, Timothy Wang, Yang Giza, Christopher DiFiori, John Guskiewicz, Kevin Mihalik, Jason LaConte, Stephen Duma, Stefan Broglio, Steven McCrea, Michael Saykin, Andrew McAllister, Thomas. Effects of Tract Length in White Matter Alterations After Sports-Related Concussion: A Diffusion MRI Study from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium Proc. ISMRM. 3017.
85. Mickevicius, Nikolai Muftuler, L. Tugan Nencka, Andrew Paulson, Eric. Highly Accelerated Simultaneous Multislice Projection Imaging Proc. ISMRM. 4755.
86. Wu, Yu-Chien Mustafi, Sourajit Harezlak, Jaroslaw Elsaid, Nahla Lin, Zikai Riggen, Larry Koch, Kevin Nencka, Andrew Meier, Timothy Wang, Yang Giza, Christopher DiFiori, John Guskiewicz, Kevin Mihalik, Jason LaConte, Stephen Duma, Stefan Broglio, Steven McCrea, Michael Saykin, Andrew McAllister, Thomas. Longitudinal White-Matter Abnormalities in Sports-Related Concussion: A Study of Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium Proc. ISMRM. 3016.
87. Ibrahim, El-Sayed Arpinar, V Emre Muftuler, L Tugan Nencka, Andrew Koch, Kevin. Optimization of cardiac functional magnetic resonance imaging at 7T Proc. ISMRM. 2119.
88. Arpinar, Volkan Emre Koch, Kevin Bhave, Sampada Muftuler, L Tugan Kaushik, S Sivaram Yang, Baolian Banerjee, Suchandrima Nencka, Andrew . Optimization of Simultaneous Multi-slice Imaging with Autocalibrating Reconstruction for Cartesian Imaging Parameters for Human Connectome Type Protocol Proc. ISMRM. 3949.
89. Koch, Kevin Karr, Robin Nencka, Andrew. Pileup Artifact Correction Near Metal Implants Using Deep Neural Networks and Spectral K-Space Modulation Proc. ISMRM. 4604.
90. Mickevicius, Nikolai Paulson, Eric Nencka, Andrew. Pseudo-Cartesian k-Space Interpolation Using Artificial Neural Networks Proc. ISMRM. 4657.
91. Koch, Kevin Swearingen, Brad Karr, Robin Nencka, Andrew Muftuler, L. Tugan Meier, Timothy McCrea, Michael. QSM Detects Post-Concussion Changes in Subcortical Gray Matter Susceptibility Proc. ISMRM. 3001.
92. Liu, Juan Karr, Robin Swearingen, Brad Nencka, Andrew Koch, Kevin. QSM Inversion Through Parcellated Deep Neural Networks Proc. ISMRM. 4926.
93. Muftuler, L. Tugan Mickevicius, Nikolai Nencka, Andrew Paulson, Eric. Rapid Abdominal Imaging Using Highly Accelerated Projection Imaging (HAPI) Proc. ISMRM. 2438.
94. Cook, Cole Hwang, Guyjoon Nair, Veena Mathis, Jedidiah Nencka, Andrew Binder, Jeffery Meyerand, Mary . Slice Timing Effects on Spectral Dynamic Causal Modeling Proc. ISMRM. 3873.
95. Andrew S. Nencka, John D. Bukowy, Robin A. Karr, Andrew P. Klein, Kevin M. Koch, Peter LaViolette, Sean D. McGarry, Timothy B. Meier, Brad J. Swearingen, Michael McCrea. Motion Artifacts in T2-Weighted Images, Localized to Eyes Identified by Deep Neural Networks, Correlate with Concussion Proc. ISMRM Machine Learning Workshop. 18.
96. Andrew S. Nencka, L. Tugan Muftuler. Deep Learning to Solve the Inverse Problem of Highly Accelerated Projection Imaging Proc. ISMRM Machine Learning Workshop. 54.
97. Hwang, G., Cook, C. J., Nair, V. A., Alexander, A. L., Antuono, P. G., Asthana, S., Birn, R., Carlsson, C. M., Chen, G., Farrar Edwards, D., Franczak, M., Goveas, J. S., Johnson, S. C., Kecskemeti, S., Kulkarni, A. P., Mohanty, R., Nencka, A. S., Okonkwo, O. C., Pasquesi, M. E., Rivera-Bonet, C. N., Taylor, I. K., Tellapragada, N., Williams, L. M., Li, S. J., Bendlin, B. B., & Prabhakaran, V. (2018). IC‐P‐161: Characterizing structural brain alterations in Alzheimer's disease patients with machine learning. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 14(7S Part 2), P135–P136.
98. Iyer, S., Mathis, J., Ustine, C., Nair, V., Rozman, M., McMillan, T., Kraegel, P., Almane, D., Forseth, C., Hwang, G., Nencka, A., Birn, R., Ward, D., Prabhakaran, V., Maganti, R., Conant, L., Hermann, B., Humphries, C., DeYoe, E., Raghavan, M., Meyerand, E., & Binder, J. (2018). Altered frontal lobe network function in temporal lobe epilepsy revealed by graph theory analysis. Neurology, 90(15 Supplement), P1.279.
99. Sinson, G., Budde, M. D., Nelson, L. D., Meier, T. B., Koch, K. M., Nencka, A. S., Shah, A. S., Stemper, B. D., Wang, Y., & McCrea, M. A. (2018). Within-subjects advanced magnetic resonance imaging findings in a sports concussion cohort with pre- and post-injury imaging. Journal of Neurotrauma, 35(16), A130–A131.
100. Xu, Z., Chen, G., Nencka, A. S., & Li, S.-J. (2018). Enhanced BOLD contrast-to-noise ratio and activation sensitivity with the intra-shot adapted keyhole (ISAK) method. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #5453). Paris, France.
101. Cook, C. J., Hwang, G., Nair, V. A., Alexander, A. L., Antuono, P. G., Asthana, S., Birn, R., Carlsson, C. M., Chen, G., Farrar Edwards, D., Franczak, M., Goveas, J. S., Johnson, S. C., Kecskemeti, S., Kulkarni, A. P., Meyerand, E. M., Mohanty, R., Nencka, A. S., Okonkwo, O. C., Pasquesi, M. E., Rivera-Bonet, C. N., Taylor, I. K., Tellapragada, N., Williams, L. M., Li, S. J., Bendlin, B. B., & Prabhakaran, V. (2018). IC‐P‐031: Effective connectivity within the default mode network in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 14(7S Part 1), P35–P36.
102. Lee, R. M., Espana, L., Prost, R., Nencka, A., Koch, K., & Meier, T. B. (2018). Quantitative analysis of neurometabolites in adolescents with persistent symptoms following concussion using magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Neurology, 91(23 Supplement 1), S13–S14.
103. Hwang, G., Mathis, J., Nair, V., Rozman, M., McMillan, T., Forseth, C., Almane, D., Hermann, B., Tellapragada, N., Nwoke, O., Cook, C., Nencka, A., Birn, R., Felton, E., Struck, A., Maganti, R., Conant, L., Humphries, C., DeYoe, E., Raghavan, M., Prabhakaran, V., Binder, J., & Meyerand, M. (2018). Impact of seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy on cognitive functions and imaging features (P2. 265). Neurology, 90(15 Supplement), P2.265. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
104. Espana, L. Y., Nader, A. M., Furger, R. E., Nencka, A. S., Mayer, A. R., Nelson, L. D., Walter, K. D., & Meier, T. B. (2018). Altered amygdala activity during emotional processing in concussed adolescents with and without persistent symptoms. Journal of Neurotrauma, 35(16), A81–A82.
105. Brett, B., Bobholz, S., Espana, L., Nencka, A., Giza, C., Mayer, A., Harezlak, J., Saykin, A., Duma, S., Mihalik, J., McAllister, T., Broglio, S., McCrea, M., & Meier, T. (2019). The effects of concussion history and cumulative contact sport exposure on brain morphometry in collegiate athletes. Journal of Neurotrauma, 36(13), A63.
106. Cook, C. J., Hwang, G., Nair, V. A., Pasquesi, M. E., Alexander, A. L., Antuono, P. G., Asthana, S., Birn, R., Carlsson, C., Chen, G., Farrar Edwards, D., Franczak, M., Goveas, J. S., Johnson, S. C., Kecskemeti, S., Kulkarni, A. P., Mohanty, R., Moreno, B., Nencka, A. S., Okonkwo, O. C., Rivera-Bonet, C. N., Spees, M., Taylor, I. K., Tellapragada, N., Williams, L. M., Li, S. J., Bendlin, B. B., & Prabhakaran, V. (2019). IC‐P‐024: Effective connectivity within the left and right executive control networks in MCI and AD. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 15, P31–P32.
107. Ibrahim, E.-S. H., Arpinar, V. E., Muftuler, L. T., Nencka, A. S., & Koch, K. M. (2020). Optimized ultra-high-field cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #2174).
108. Koch, K. M., Zarenia, M., Arpinar, V. E., Muftuler, L. T., Schnorenberg, A. J., Leonardis, J., Slavens, B., & Nencka, A. S. (2021). Assessing the viability of carpal bone kinematic profiles extracted from 4D MRI. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #0523).
109. Koch, K. M., & Nencka, A. S. (2021). Morphological assessment of the instrumented spinal cord using isotropic 3D-MSI MRI. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #3474).
110. Arpinar, V. E., Muftuler, L. T., Nencka, A. S., Koch, K. M., & Ibrahim, E. H. (2021). Optimized fast strain-encoding MRI with echo-planar readout. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #2881).
111. Zarenia, M., Arpinar, V. E., Nencka, A. S., Muftuler, L. T., & Koch, K. M. (2021). Kinematic MRI tracking of wrist carpal bones. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #4237).
112. Nencka, A. S., Johnson, P. S., & Koch, K. M. (2021). A multi-spectral imaging template of hip arthroplasty showing distribution of 3T vs. 1.5T artifacts in the acetabulum of varying implants. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #4217).
113. Murphy, S., Furger, R., Kurpad, S., Arpinar, V., Nencka, A., Koch, K., & Budde, M. (2021). Evaluation of axonal injury for acute spinal cord injury using filtered diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of Neurotrauma, 38(14), A49.
114. Muftuler, L. T., Nencka, A. S., Arpinar, V. E., Shin, J., Yang, B., McKinnon, G., Banerjee, S., & Koch, K. M. (2022). MAP-MRI diffusion estimates are biased by simultaneous multi-slice acceleration. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #3489). London, UK.
115. Peterson, K. J., Simpson, M. T., Drezdzon, M. K., Szabo, A., Ausman, R. A., Nencka, A. S., Peterson, C. Y., Ludwig, K. A., & Ridolfi, T. J. (2022). Predicting neoadjuvant response in rectal cancer: Evaluation of MRI-radiomic and clinical models. Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, 65(5), 12–13.
116. Nutta-on, P. B., Ward, B. D., Cohen, A. D., Claesges, S. A., Bohorquez-Montoya, L., Agarwal, M., Nencka, A. S., Reynolds, C. F., Wang, Y., & Goveas, J. S. (2022). Reward processing brain network dysfunction in late-life grief: Relationship with yearning and depression. Biological Psychiatry, 91(9), S82. Elsevier.
117. Koch, K., Swearingen, B., & Nencka, A. S. (2022). Multi-spectral susceptibility-weighted imaging in the presence of metallic hardware. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #2460). London, UK.
118. Pahapill, P., Arocho-Quinones, E., Chen, G., Nencka, A., Swearingen, B., Weis, C., Koch, K., & Li, S. J. (2022). O059/#544: Altered functional connectivity patterns correlated with different chronic back pain phenotypes are predictive of spinal cord stimulation outcomes in failed back. Neuromodulation, 25(7), S89.
119. Lu, Y., Davis, A. M., Yuvan, S., Barnes, B., Ragan, D. K., Griffin, M., Crawford, T. M., Nencka, A., & Liu, Y. (2023). Feasibility study on identifying ferrous materials by using dual energy CT. In Proceedings of the 2023 Spring Clinical Meeting. AAPM.
120. Lu, Y., Yuvan, S., Lu, J., Barnes, B., Griffin, M., Ragan, D. K., Crawford, T. M., Liu, Y., & Nencka, A. (2023, July 23). An anthropomorphic CT/MRI pelvis phantom with implanted medical devices. AAPM 65th Annual Meeting & Exhibition.
121. Pommy, J., Conant, L., Butts, A., Wang, Y., Nencka, A., Franczak, M., & Umfleet, L. G. (2023). Detection of cognitive subtypes within cognitively normal older adults using hierarchical community detection. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 29(s1), 670–671.
122. Koch, K., & Nencka, A. S. (2023). A cohort study of spinal cord diffusivity after treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy with instrumented spinal fusion. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #1562). Toronto, Canada.
123. Nencka, A. S. (2023). GRAPPA interpolation with unity acceleration enhances signal-to-noise ratio in fully sampled acquisitions. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #4620).
124. Mickevicius, N. J., Nencka, A. S., & Koch, K. M. (2023). Accelerating multi-contrast imaging near metallic implants with variable resolution sampling and joint reconstruction. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #4959). Toronto, Canada.
125. Koch, K., Nencka, A. S., Zarenia, M., & Mannem, R. (2023). Development and analysis of MRI-derived carpal motion data elements. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #0099). Toronto, Canada.
126. Imhoff-Smith, T., Adluru, N., Nair, V. A., Adluru, A., Mathis, J., Nencka, A., Nacewicz, B., Rosenkranz, M., Binder, J., Meyerand, M., Hermann, B., Alexander, A. L., Struck, A. F., McMillan, A., & Prabhakaran, V. (2023). Quantifying the relationship between affect and connectome diffusion MRI-based connectivity in temporal lobe epilepsy. Biological Psychiatry, 93(9), S237.
127. Koch, K. M., & Nencka, A. S. (2023). Within patient contrast adjustment through a self-consistent deep learning model when imaging near metal: An example in angiography. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #2954). Toronto, Canada.
128. Koch, K., Mickevicius, N., Ausman, R., & Nencka, A. S. (2023). Deep-learning enhancement of 3D-MSI using conventional images as training targets. In Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (Abstract #0947). Toronto, Canada.
129. Sharafi, A., Nencka, A. S., & Koch, K. M. (2024). 4D MRI-based stability assessment of carpal kinematic metrics. In Proceedings of the Orthopaedic Research Society 2024 Annual Meeting (Abstract No. 1787).
130. Lu, Y., Yuvan, S., Barnes, B., Ragan, D. K., Crawford, T. M., Griffin, M., Nencka, A., & Liu, Y. (2024). Ferrous component identification of medical implants in patients with CT images. In Proceedings of the 2024 Spring Clinical Meeting. AAPM.
131. Roberts, J. W., Adluru, N., Nair, V. A., Adluru, A., Nencka, A. S., Li, S. J., Davidson, R. J., Okonkwo, O. C., Alexander, A. L., Bendlin, B. B., & Prabhakaran, V. (2024, July 28). White matter microstructure and cognition in the Alzheimer’s Disease Connectome Project (ADCP). Alzheimer's Association International Conference.
132. Haddad, M., Nencka, A., Pick, Z., Ausman, R., Ajala, C., Beres, R., & Smolock, A. (2024). Abstract No. 195: Adequacy of Oxipit ChestEye Queue AI algorithm at identifying central line placement. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 35(3), S88.
133. Sampada Bhave, Volkan E Arpinar, Nikolai Mickevicius, Kevin M. Koch, Andrew S Nencka. Just Another CNN in K-space to De-Alias N Individual Excited Locations Simultaneously (JACKDANIELS) Proc. ISMRM Data Sampling and Reconstruction Workshop. 53.
134. Johnson KA, Pawela CP, Nencka AS, Sidabras JW. Asymmetric spin echo multi-echo echo planar imaging (ASEME-EPI) sequence for pre-clinical high-field fMRI. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 13. PMCID: PMC11482890
135. Roberts JW, Adluru N, Nair VA, Adluru A, Nencka AS, Li SJ, Davidson RJ, Okonkwo OC, Alexander AL, Bendlin BB, Prabhakaran V. Biomarkers. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Dec;20 Suppl 2:e088285.
 
Non-Peer Reviewed Educational Products
1. MRI Safety for First Responders. https://youtu.be/4-HssTy0Qgo. 10 Aug. 2023
2. MRI Safety for General Medical Staff. https://youtu.be/ikWINMHTve0 10 Aug 2023
3. Level MRI Safety. https://youtu.be/VdS6qK58qP4 10 Aug. 2023
 
Database, Video, or Other Research/Clinical Contributions
1. Nencka: MCW XNAT image repository system: tbixnat.mcw.edu:8080, cirxnat1.rcc.mcw.edu, cirxnat2.rcc.mcw.edu, gwxnat.rcc.mcw.edu, 2014-Present
 
Software, Software Modules
1. Nencka, Swearingen, Karr, Espana, Meier, Wang, Koch: XNAT Processing Pipelines for Advanced Neuroimaging, 2013-Present. Used with all studies in the MCW XNATsystem.
2. Nencka: Simultaneous Multi-Slice Echo Planar Imaging Pulse Sequence for fMRI, 2014-Present. Used in at least 5 ongoing studies at MCW and UW
3. Nencka: Simultaneous Multi-Slice Echo Planar Imaging Pulse Sequence for Diffusion MRI, 2014-Present. Used in at least 4 ongoing studies at MCW and UW
4. Nencka: Orchestra MATLAB Reconstruction for Simultaneous Multi-Slice Echo Planar Imaging, 2014-Present. Used in at least 5 ongoing studies at MCW and UW
5. Nencka: Orchestra C++ Reconstruction for Simultaneous Multi-Slice Echo Planar Imaging, 2014-Present. Used in at least 3 ongoing studies at MCW and UW
6. Nencka: Clustered Echo Planar Imaging for Silent Periods in fMRI acquisitions, 2015-Present. Used in 1 ongoing study at UW-Milwaukee
7. Nencka: 3D Multi-Spectral Imaging. 2021-Present. Basis for work in progress pulse sequence distributed by Siemens to at least 2 sites.
 
Patents
1. Koch KM, Nencka AS. US10478090B2 Spectral bin un-aliasing for reduced field-of-view magnetic resonance imaging near metal implants 23 May 2019
2. Koch KM, Nencka AS, Liu J. US11372066B2 Multi-resolution quantitative susceptibility mapping with magnetic resonance imaging 28 June 2022
3. Nencka AS, Jesmanowicz A, Hyde JS, Paulson ES, Muftuler LT, Daniel Shefchik DL. US20170185072A1: System and method for fabricating electromagnetic field enhancing objects for magnetic resonance imaging. 3 January 2023
4. Bakhshinejad, A., Koch, K. M., & Nencka, A. S. (2023). Systems and methods for generating classifying and quantitative analysis reports of aneurysms from medical image data. U.S. Patent No. 11,600,379. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 7 March 2023
5. Nencka, A. S., Jesmanowicz, A., Hyde, J. S., Paulson, E. S., Muftuler, L. T., & Shefchik, D. (2023). System and method for fabricating electromagnetic field enhancing objects for magnetic resonance imaging. U.S. Patent No. 11,540,740. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
6. Koch, K. M., Nencka, A. S., Swearingen, B. J., Potter, H., & Koff, M. F. (2024). Neural network classification of osteolysis and synovitis near metal implants. U.S. Patent No. 11,969,265. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.