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Curriculum Vitae (December 2015)
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Position : Assistant Professor
Address: Center of Neuroscience Imaging Research (CNIR), Institute for Basic Sciences, and
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066 Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu,
Suwon, South Korea
Phone : 031-299-4351
: 010-3131-3765 (mobile)
Email : [email protected]
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: Lee, Seung-Kyun (이승균)
EDUCATION
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03/1992~08/1997 : Bachelor in Physics, Seoul National University, South Korea. (Including military
service)
08/1997~07/1999 : Master in Physics (Biophysics), POSTECH, South Korea
08/1999~05/2005 : PhD in Physics (Condensed matter), University of California at Berkeley
Thesis title: Novel methods and phenomena in low-static field NMR and MRI detected with a
Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID)
PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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12/2008 ~ 12/2015 : Staff Scientist, MRI Laboratory, GE Global Research
08/2005 ~ 11/2008 : Postdoctoral research associate, Physics Department, Princeton University
05/2000 ~ 05/2005 : Graduate Student Researcher, Physics Department, UC Berkeley
08/1999 ~ 05/2000 : Graduate Student Instructor, Physics Department, UC Berkeley
HONORS & AWARDS
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09/1999 ~ 08/2004 : Overseas Graduate Student Fellow, Korea Foundation of Advanced Studies
08/1999 ~ 05/2000 : Department Fellowship, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
07/2003
: Best student poster at the International Superconducting Electronics
Conference (ISEC)
GE Global Research Diagnostics and Biomedical Technologies Early Career award (2013) and
Technical Achievement Award (2015)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
 International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM): 2009 ~ present
 IEEE: 2014 ~ present
RESEARCH TOPICS
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2011 ~ 2015 : Improving specificity of 3T breast MRI through diffusion weighted imaging
2010 ~ 2015 : High performance, highly deployable head-only MRI scanner
2009 ~ 2010 : Parallel transmit in high-field MRI
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2005 ~ 2008 : Low-field magnetic resonance with atomic/optical magnetometers
2002 ~ 2005 : Low-field magnetic resonance with superconducting sensors (PhD thesis)
2000 ~ 2002 : Magnetic bioassay sensor development
1997 ~ 1999 : Polymer biophysics (Master’s thesis)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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08/1999-05/2000 : Graduate Student Instructor, Introductory Physics (for pre-med students), UC
Berkeley
INVITED ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
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Abstract review for the Annual Meeting of ISMRM (2015, 2016)
Session co-moderator in the Annual Meeting of ISMRM (2015, 2016)
Manuscript review: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, NMR in Biomedicine, Journal of Magnetic
Resonance Imaging
PATENTS (Issued, most recent first)
[7] Co-inventor, US patent 9,069,998, “Determining electrical properties of tissue using magnetic
resonance imaging and least squared estimate” (2015)
[6] Lead inventor, US patent 8,981,778, “Method and apparatus for imaging a patient using local shim
coils” (2015)
[5] Co-inventor, US patent 8,942,931, “System and method for determining electrical properties using
magnetic resonance imaging” (2015)
[4] Co-inventor, Great Britain 2508061, “Warm bore cylinder assembly of cryostat” (2014)
[3] Sole inventor, US patent 8,237,439, “Composite pulse design method for large-tip-angle excitation in
high field magnetic resonance imaging” (2012)
[2] Co-inventor, US patent 7,521,928, “A subfemtotesla radio-frequency atomic magnetometer for
nuclear quadrupole resonance detection” (2009)
[1] Co-inventor, US patent 7,187,169, “NMR and MRI apparatus and method” (2007)
SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS (Recent)
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Measurement of Electrical Properties of Biological Tissue at Radio Frequencies Using Magnetic
Resonance Imaging
S.-K. Lee, S. Bulumulla, P. Lamb, I. Hancu, 9th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
(EUCAP), Lisbon, Portugal (April 2015), convened session talk
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Efficient Tissue Permittivity and Conductivity Mapping Using Standard MR Images
S.-K. Lee, S. Bulumulla, I. Hancu, 21th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in
Medicine (ISMRM), Salt Lake City, Utah (April 2013), oral presentation
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Analytical approach towards time-dependent gradient eddy current calculation in cylindrical
geometry
S.-K. Lee, J. Schenck, S. Lechner-Greite, J.-B. Mathieu, B. Amm, 29th Annual Scientific Meeting of European
Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB), Lisbon, Portugal (October 2012), oral
presentation
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Rapid Slice-By-Slice Calculation of Susceptibility-Induced B0 Map in the Fourier Domain
S.-K. Lee, I. Hancu, 20th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Melbourne, Australia (May 2012), accepted for oral
presentation
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B0 Shimming in 3T Bilateral Breast Imaging with Local Shim Coils
S.-K. Lee, L. Hoffstetter, I. Hancu,19th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Montreal, Canada (May 2011), oral
presentation
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In-Vivo RF Receiver Sensitivity Measurement using Phase-Based B1+ Mapping on a ReverseOriented Subject
S.-K. Lee, W. T. Dixon, 19th Annual Meeting of ISMRM, Montreal, Canada (May 2011), nominated for poster
award
BOOK CHAPTER PUBLICATION
[1] V. V. Yashchuk, S.-K. Lee and E. Paperno, Magnetic shielding, in Optical Magnetometry, edited by
Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Cambridge University Press (2013)
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (Most recent first)
Citation total > 660, h index = 12 (Thomson Reuters ResearcherID)
[26] Peripheral nerve stimulation properties of an asymmetric head-only gradient coil compatible with a
high-channel-count receiver array
S.-K. Lee, J.-B Mathieu, D. Graziani, J. Piel, E. Budesheim, E. Fiveland, C. J. Hardy, E. T. Tan, B. Amm, T. K.-F.
Foo, M. A. Bernstein, J. Huston III, Y. Shu, J. F. Schenck, Magn Res Med, DOI:10.1002/mrm.26044 (2015)
[25] Theoretical investigation of random noise-limited signal-to-noise ratio in MR-based electrical
properties tomography
S-K. Lee, S. Bulumulla, I. Hancu, IEEE Trans Med Imaging, 34: 2220-2232 (2015)
[24] Tissue electrical property mapping from zero echo-time magnetic resonance imaging
S-K. Lee, S. Bulumulla, F. Wiesinger, L. Sacolick, W. Sun, I. Hancu, IEEE Trans Med Imaging 34: 542-550 (2015)
[23] On conductivity, permittivity, apparent diffusion coefficient, and their usefulness as cancer markers
at MRI frequencies
I. Hancu, J. Christine, S. Bulumulla, S-K. Lee, Magn Res Med 73: 2025-2029 (2015)
[22] Multi-channel atomic magnetometer for magnetoencephalography: A configuration study
K. Kim, S. Begus, H. Xia, S-K. Lee, V. Jazbinsek, M. Romalis, Neuroimage 89:143-151 (2014)
[21] Dynamic slice-dependent shim and center frequency update in 3T breast diffusion weighted
imaging
S-K. Lee, E.T. Tan, A. Govenkar, I. Hancu, Magn Res Med 71: 1813-1818 (2014)
[20] On shimming approaches in 3T breast MRI
I. Hancu, A. Govenkar, R. E. Lenkinski, S-K. Lee, Magn Res Med, 69: 862-867 (2013)
[19] Patient-to-patient variation of susceptibility-induced B0 field in bilateral breast MRI
S-K. Lee, I. Hancu, J Magn Res Imaging, 36, 873 (2012)
[18] Field shaping arrays: A means to address shading in high field breast MRI
I. Hancu, S-K Lee, W.T. Dixon, L. Sacolick, R. Becerra, Z. Zhang, G. McKinnon, V. Alagappan, J Magn Res
Imaging, 36, 865 (2012)
[17] Conductivity and permittivity imaging at 3.0 T
S.B. Bulumulla, S.K. Lee, D.T.B. Yeo, Concepts Magn Reson, 41B, 13 (2012)
[16] Distortion-fee magnetic resonance imaging in the zero-field limit
N. Kelso, S.-K. Lee, L.-S. Bouchard, V. Demas, M. Mueck, A. Pines, J. Clarke, J Magn Res, 200, 285 (2009)
[15] Calculation of magnetic field noise from high-permeability magnetic shields and conducting objects
with simple geometry
S.-K. Lee, M. V. Romalis, J Appl Phys, 103, 084904 (2008)
[14] Low-noise ferrite magnetic shield
T. W. Kornack, S. J. Smullin, S.-K. Lee, and M. V. Romalis, Appl Phys Lett 90, 223501 (2007)
[13] Subfemtotesla radio-frequency atomic magnetometer for detection of nuclear quadrupole
resonance
S. -K. Lee, K. L. Sauer, S. J. Seltzer, O. Alem, M. V. Romalis, Appl Phys Lett 89, 214106 (2006)
[12] Optical detection of liquid state NMR
I. M. Savukov, S. -K. Lee, M. V. Romalis, Nature 442, 1021-1024 (2006)
[11] Static nuclear spin polarization induced in a liquid by a rotating magnetic field.
S.-K. Lee, E. L. Hahn, J. Clarke, Phys Rev Lett 96, 257601 (2006)
[10] SQUID-detected microtesla MRI in the presence of metal
M. Moessle, S.-I. Han, W. R. Myers, S.-K. Lee, N. Kelso, M. Hatridge, A. Pines and J. Clarke, J Magn Res 179
(2006) pp. 146-151
[9] SQUID-detected in vivo MRI at microtesla magnetic fields
M. Moessle, W. Myers, S.-K. Lee, N. Kelso, M. Hatridge, A. Pines, J. Clarke, IEEE Trans Appl Supercon, 15
(2005) pp. 757-760
[8] SQUID-detected MRI at 132 uT with T_1 weighted contrast established at 10 uT - 300 mT
S. K. Lee, M. Moessle, W. Myers, N. Kelso, A. H. Trabesinger, A. Pines, J. Clarke, Magn Res Med 53 (2005),
pp.9-14
[7] SQUID-detected liquid state NMR in microtesla fields
A. H. Trabesinger, R. McDermott, S. K. Lee, M. Mueck, J. Clarke, A. Pines, J Phys Chem 108 (2004), pp. 957 963
[6] Microtesla magnetic resonance imaging with a superconducting quantum interference device
R. McDermott, S. K. Lee, B. ten Haken, A. H. Trabesinger, A. Pines, John Clarke, Proc Natl Acad Sci 101 (2004),
pp. 7857-7861
[5] SQUID-detected magnetic resonance imaging in microtesla magnetic fields
R. McDermott, N. Kelso, S-K. Lee, M. Moessle, M. Mueck, W. Myers, B. ten Haken, H.C. Seton, A. Trabesinger,
A. Pines, J. Clarke, J Low Temp Phys 135 (2004), pp. 793-821
[4] Magnetic gradiometer based on a high-transition temperature superconducting quantum
interference device for improved sensitivity of a biosensor
S. K. Lee, W. R. Myers, H. L. Grossman, H.-M. Cho, Y. R. Chemla, John Clarke, Appl Phys Lett 81 (2002), 3094
[3] Effect of surface undulation on polymer adsorption
W. Sung, J. Sung, S. Lee, Phys Rev E 71, 031805 (2005)
[2] The soft-mode instability of a membrane induced by strong polymer adsorption
W. Sung, S. K. Lee, Europhys Lett 68 (2004), pp. 596-602
[1] Coil-to-stretch transition, kink formation, and efficient barrier crossing of a flexible chain
S. K. Lee, W. Sung, Phys Rev E. 63 (Jan 2001), 021115