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CURRICULUM VITAE

Nikolai J. Mickevicius PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biophysics

OFFICE ADDRESS:
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
09/01/2009 - 05/01/2013 B.S., Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI
07/01/2013 - 05/01/2018 Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
02/01/2018 - 01/10/2021 Research Scientist I, Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
01/11/2021 - 01/31/2022 Bentson Translational Research Fellow, Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
02/01/2022 - 10/01/2023 Assistant Professor, Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
10/01/2023 - Present Assistant Professor, Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226

AWARDS AND HONORS:
10/01/2013 - Present Poster Award, MCW Graduate Student Research Day
07/01/2015 - Present Young Investigator Award, International Symposium on MRI in Radiation Therapy
09/01/2019 - Present Best of Physics, American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
01/01/2020 - Present 1st Place Research Poster Award, ISMRM Workshop on Data Sampling and Image Reconstruction
10/01/2021 AAPM Abstract Selected as Cancer Breakthrough, American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
04/01/2013 - Present International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) (Member)
02/01/2021 - 02/01/2022 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (Member)
02/01/2021 - 02/01/2022 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) (Member)

EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS:
Journal Review
04/01/2019 - Present Physics in Medicine and Biology
05/01/2019 - Present Radiotherapy and Oncology
01/01/2020 - Present Medical Physics
02/01/2021 - Present Advances in Radiation Oncology
12/01/2022 - Present Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
National
Nikolai Mickevicius, Quantitative imagine on low-field MR-guided radiotherapy systems, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Virtual, 07/01/2021 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, MR fingerprinting and multi-parametric MRI, Multiparametric MRI in Radiotherapy AAPM Webinar, Virtual, 02/25/2022 - Present
 
Local
Nikolai Mickevicius, Magnetic resonance fingerprinting for low-field MR-guided radiation therapy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical Physics Seminar, Madison, WI, 04/01/2021 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, MRI developments for motion management in radiation therapy, University of Wisconsin-Madison MRI Group Seminar, Madison, WI, 06/01/2021 - Present
 

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
International
Nikolai Mickevicius, Elizabeth Cochran, Scott Rand, Jennifer Connelly, Mona Al-Gizawiy, Kathleen Schmainda, Peter LaViolette, Brain tumor hypercellularity detected in diffusion restricted voxels outside contrast enhancement in six human brains examined ex-vivo, Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Milan, Italy, 05/01/2014 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, Eric Paulson, HENSIR: Hadamard encoded simultaneous image refocusing, Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Toronto, Canada, 05/01/2015 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, Eric Paulson, Toward clinically realizable 4D-MRI for MRI-guided radiation therapy, International Symposium on MRI in Radiation Therapy, Ann Arbor, MI, 07/01/2016 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, Eric Paulson, Multiplexed simultaneous orthogonal plane imaging (mSOPI) for intrafraction motion monitoring in MRI-guided radiation therapy, International Symposium on MRI in Radiation Therapy, Ann Arbor, MI, 07/01/2016 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, Eric Paulson, Simultaneous orthogonal plane imaging with balanced SSFP contrast using k-t GRAPPA, International Symposium on MRI in Radiation Therapy, Sydney, Australia, 07/01/2017 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, Eric Paulson, Blipped radial CAIPIRINHA for simultaneous multislice pseudo steady-state free-precession magnetic resonance fingerprinting, Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Chicago, IL, 12/01/2017 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, Eric Paulson, Andrew Nencka, Application of a k-space interpolating artificial neural network to in-plane accelerated simultaneous multislice imaging for motion monitoring, Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Montreal, Canada, 04/01/2019 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, Eric Paulson, Magnetic resonance coherence pathway unraveling, Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Virtual, 05/01/2021 - Present
 
National
Nikolai Mickevicius, Fabienne Lathuiliere, Martin Lachaine, Eric Paulson, Effect of multi band RF pulse duration on cine MRI tracking accuracy for MRI-gRT, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Anaheim, CA, 07/01/2015 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, Xinfeng Chen, Zachary Boyd, Hanna Lee, Geoffrey Abbott, Eric Paulson, Simultaneous motion monitoring and truth-in-delivery analysis framework for MR-guided radiotherapy, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Nashville, TN, 07/01/2018 - Present
Nikolai Mickevicius, Zachary Morris, Carri Glide-Hurst, Toward magnetic resonance fingerprinting for low-field MR-guided radiation therapy, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Virtual, 07/01/2022 - Present
 

COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Medical College of Wisconsin
08/01/2024 - Present Faculty Information Technology Committee
08/01/2024 - Present Graduate Studies Council Curriculum and Programs Committee
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. LaViolette PS, Mickevicius NJ, Cochran EJ, Rand SD, Connelly J, Bovi JA, Malkin MG, Mueller WM, Schmainda KM. Precise ex vivo histological validation of heightened cellularity and diffusion-restricted necrosis in regions of dark apparent diffusion coefficient in 7 cases of high-grade glioma. Neuro Oncol. 2014 Dec;16(12):1599-606. PMCID: PMC4232087
2. Mickevicius NJ, Carle AB, Bluemel T, Santarriaga S, Schloemer F, Shumate D, Connelly J, Schmainda KM, LaViolette PS. Location of brain tumor intersecting white matter tracts predicts patient prognosis. J Neurooncol. 2015 Nov;125(2):393-400. PMCID: PMC6094943
3. Huettner AM, Mickevicius NJ, Ersoz A, Koch KM, Muftuler LT, Nencka AS. Wavelet Domain Radiofrequency Pulse Design Applied to Magnetic Resonance Imaging. PLoS One. 2015;10(10):e0141151. PMCID: PMC4627821
4. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Simultaneous orthogonal plane imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2017 Nov;78(5):1700-1710.
5. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Investigation of undersampling and reconstruction algorithm dependence on respiratory correlated 4D-MRI for online MR-guided radiation therapy. Phys Med Biol. 2017 Apr 21;62(8):2910-2921.
6. Bourque AE, Bedwani S, Carrier JF, Ménard C, Borman P, Bos C, Raaymakers BW, Mickevicius N, Paulson E, Tijssen RHN. Particle Filter-Based Target Tracking Algorithm for Magnetic Resonance-Guided Respiratory Compensation: Robustness and Accuracy Assessment. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2018 Feb 01;100(2):325-334.
7. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Simultaneous orthogonal plane cine imaging with balanced steady-state free-precession contrast using k-t GRAPPA. Phys Med Biol. 2018 Jul 24;63(15):15NT02.
8. Mickevicius NJ, Chen X, Boyd Z, Lee HJ, Ibbott GS, Paulson ES. Simultaneous motion monitoring and truth-in-delivery analysis imaging framework for MR-guided radiotherapy. Phys Med Biol. 2018 Nov 26;63(23):235014.
9. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Simultaneous acquisition of orthogonal plane cine imaging and isotropic 4D-MRI using super-resolution. Radiother Oncol. 2019 Jul;136:121-129.
10. Mickevicius NJ, Nencka AS, Paulson ES. Generalized simultaneous multi-orientation 2D imaging. Magn Reson Med. 2020 Aug;84(2):847-856.
11. Paulson ES, Ahunbay E, Chen X, Mickevicius NJ, Chen GP, Schultz C, Erickson B, Straza M, Hall WA, Li XA. 4D-MRI driven MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy for abdominal stereotactic body radiation therapy on a high field MR-Linac: Implementation and initial clinical experience. Clin Transl Radiat Oncol. 2020 Jul;23:72-79. PMCID: PMC7256110
12. Zhang Y, Paulson E, Lim S, Hall WA, Ahunbay E, Mickevicius NJ, Straza MW, Erickson B, Li XA. A Patient-Specific Autosegmentation Strategy Using Multi-Input Deformable Image Registration for Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy: A Feasibility Study. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2020;5(6):1350-1358. PMCID: PMC7718500
13. Hall WA, Straza MW, Chen X, Mickevicius N, Erickson B, Schultz C, Awan M, Ahunbay E, Li XA, Paulson ES. Initial clinical experience of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) for liver metastases, primary liver malignancy, and pancreatic cancer with 4D-MRI based online adaptation and real-time MRI monitoring using a 1.5 Tesla MR-Linac. PLoS One. 2020;15(8):e0236570. PMCID: PMC7413561
14. Nencka AS, Arpinar VE, Bhave S, Yang B, Banerjee S, McCrea M, Mickevicius NJ, Muftuler LT, Koch KM. Split-slice training and hyperparameter tuning of RAKI networks for simultaneous multi-slice reconstruction. Magn Reson Med. 2021 Jun;85(6):3272-3280.
15. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. On the use of low-dimensional temporal subspace constraints to reduce reconstruction time and improve image quality of accelerated 4D-MRI. Radiother Oncol. 2021 May;158:215-223.
16. Mickevicius NJ, Kim JP, Zhao J, Morris ZS, Hurst NJ Jr, Glide-Hurst CK. Toward magnetic resonance fingerprinting for low-field MR-guided radiation therapy. Med Phys. 2021 Nov;48(11):6930-6940. PMCID: PMC8733901
17. Mickevicius NJ, Glide-Hurst CK. Low-rank inversion reconstruction for through-plane accelerated radial MR fingerprinting applied to relaxometry at 0.35 T. Magn. Reson. Med. 2022 (In press).
18. Mickevicius NJ. Magnetic resonance coherence pathway unraveling."Journal of Magnetic Resonance 358 (2024): 107613.
 
Abstracts
1. Mickevicius NJ, Morris ZM, Glide-Hurst CK. Toward magnetic resonance fingerprinting for low-field MR-guided radiation therapy Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. .
2. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Magnetic resonance coherence pathway unraveling Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
3. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Target-driven and super-resolved parallel imaging reconstruction directly from under sampled k-space measurements Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Workshop on Data Sampling and Image Reconstruction. .
4. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Self-supervised model-based deep learning reconstruction for under sampled free-breathing stack-of-stars acquisitions Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Workshop on Data Sampling and Image Reconstruction. .
5. Hall WA, Straza MW, Chen X, Mickevicius NJ, Erickson B, Schultz C, Awan M, Ahunbay E, Li XA, Paulson ES. Initial clinical experience of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for liver metastases, primary liver malignancy, and pancreatic abdominal nodal recurrence with 4D-MRI based online adaptation and real-time motion monitoring on a 1.5 Tesla MR-Linac Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology. .
6. Paulson ES, Ahunbay E, Chen X, Mickevicius NJ, Erickson B, Schultz C, Straza MW, Li XA, Hall WA. Initial clinical experience using 4D-MRI based MR-guided online adaptive SBRT on a high field MR-Linac Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology. .
7. Keiper T, Tai A, Mickevicius NJ, Lim S, Paulson ES, Klawikowski S, Zhong H, Li XA. Impact of intrafractional changes of abdominal gas cavities in MR-guided adaptive radiation therapy: Is real-time adaptation necessary? Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology. .
8. Mickevicius NJ, Straza MW, Hall WA, Paulson ES. First clinical use of 4D-MRI for online adaptive MR-gRT on a high-field MR-Linac Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology. .
9. Mickevicius NJ, Nencka AS, Paulson ES. Pseudo-cartesian k-space interpolation using artificial neural networks Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
10. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES, Nencka AS. Application of k-space interpolating artificial neural network to in-plane accelerated simultaneous multislice imaging for motion monitoring Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
11. Mickevicius NJ, Muftuler LT, Nencka AS, Paulson ES. Highly accelerated simultaneous multislice projection imaging Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
12. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Simultaneous acquisition of orthogonal plane cine imaging and isotropic 4D-MRI using super-resolution Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
13. Muftuler LT, Mickevicius NJ, Nencka AS, Paulson ES. Rapid abdominal imaging using highly accelerated projection imaging (HAPI) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
14. Mickevicius NJ, Chen X, Boyd Z, Lee HJ, Ibbott GS, Paulson ES. Simultaneous motion monitoring and truth-in-delivery analysis framework for MR-guided radiotherapy Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. .
15. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Simultaneous orthogonal plane imaging with balanced SSFP contrast using k-t GRAPPA Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Symposium on MRI in Radiation Therapy. .
16. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Blipped radial CAIPIRINHA for simultaneous multislice pseudo steady-state free-precession magnetic resonance fingerprinting Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. .
17. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Improvements in simultaneous orthogonal plane imaging through the use of SPIRiT and virtual conjugate coils Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
18. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Multiplexed simultaneous orthogonal plane imaging (mSOPI) for intrafraction motion monitoring in MRI-guided radiation therapy Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Symposium on MRI in Radiation Therapy. .
19. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. Toward clinically realizable 4D-MRI for MRI-guided radiation therapy Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Symposium on MRI in Radiation Therapy. .
20. Huettner AM, Mickevicius NJ, Ersoz A, Koch KM, Muftuler LT, Nencka AS. A wavelet-based optimization for RF pulse design applied to multi band imaging at 7T Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
21. Salmon AE, Pellatt BJ, Mickevicius NJ, Cochran EJ, LaViolette PS. In vivo MRI-based 3D printed molds and individualized sectioning apparatuses improve MRI-histopathologic co-registration in brain cancer patients Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
22. Mickevicius NJ, Paulson ES. HENSIR: Hadamard encoded simultaneous image refocusing Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
23. LaViolette PS, Cochran EJ, Mickevicius NJ, Connelly J, Schmainda KM, Rand SD. Brain tumor imaging based histology trained maps (IBHTMs) of cellularity predict tumor presence in pathologically confirmed regions sampled ex vivo Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
24. Mickevicius Lathuiliere FE, Lachaine M, Paulson ES. Advantages of radial CAIPI for real-time motion management in MRI-gRT Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Symposium on MRI in Radiation Therapy. .
25. Mickevicius NJ, Lathuiliere F, Lachaine M, Paulson ES. Effect of multi band RF pulse duration on cine MRI tracking accuracy for MRI-gRT Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. .
26. Mickevicius NJ, Carle A, Santarriaga S, LaViolette PS. Location of brain tumor intersecting white matter tracts predicts survival prior to therapy Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .
27. Mickevicius NJ, Cochran EJ, Rand SD, Connelly J, Al-Gizawiy M, Schmainda KM, LaViolette PS. Brain tumor hypercellularity detected in diffusion restricted voxels outside contrast enhancement in six human brains examined ex vivo Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. .