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Keith D. Paulsen

Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Radiology, Dartmouth Medical School
Director, Dartmouth Advanced Imaging Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Co-Director, Cancer Imaging and Radiobiology Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
603/646-2695
Keith.Paulsen@Dartmouth.edu

Education

• B.Sc., Biomedical Engineering, Duke University 1981
• M.S., Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College 1984
• Ph.D., Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College 1986

Research Interests

Biomedical engineering; numerical methods in electromagnetics; cancer therapeutics; medical imaging methodologies; bioelectromagnetics.

Current Research Projects

• Fluorescence-guided neurosurgery
• Image-guided neurosurgery
• Near-infrared imaging
• Non-linear image reconstruction techniques
• Therapy monitoring
• Microwave imaging spectroscopy
• Magnetic resonance elastography

Teaching, 2008-2010

• ENGS 7 Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Medical Imaging (course description)
• ENGM 189 Topics in Engineering Management: Medical Device Development (course description)
• ENGS 205 Computational Methods for Partial Differential Equations II (course description)

Selected Publication

• Paulsen, Keith, Meaney Paul M., Gilman, Larry (Eds.), Alternative Breast Imaging: Four Model-Based Approaches. The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Vol. 778. 2005

Press Releases

• Keith Paulsen Awarded Robert A. Pritzker Chair in Biomedical Engineering (posted 11/14/08)

• Dartmouth's alternative breast imaging techniques sort abnormal from normal tissue
  (posted 6/5/07)

• Dartmouth researchers test new technique to examine breast tissue (posted 5/22/06)

• Alternative / supplemental breast imaging methods tested (posted 5/3/04)

• Research Reveals a More Complete Picture of Breast Tissue (posted 9/25/02)

In Dartmouth Engineer Magazine

• Endowed Chair: Robert A. Pritzker Professorship
  Winter 2009
• Kudos
  Summer 2008
• Lab Reports: Advances in Breast Cancer Detection
  Spring/Summer 2007
• Tribute: The Ultimate Mentor
  Spring/Summer 2007
• Kudos
  Fall 2006

In the News

• Dartmouth Medicine
  Winter 2008
  "A blue-light special—in the brain"
  By Amos Esty

• Dartmouth Medicine
  Winter 2007
  "All Together Now"
  By Jennifer Durgin

• HealthNewsDigest.com
  June 5, 2007
  Professor Paulsen in "Dartmouth's Alternative Breast Imaging Techniques Sort Abnormal from Normal Tissue"
  Also in:
  ScienceDaily - 6/6/2007

• News-Medical.Net
  April 15, 2007
  Professor Paulsen in New, potentially more accurate method for diagnosing breast cancer
  Also in
  Huliq - 4/16/07
  Medical Design Online - 4/17/07
  Medical News Today - 4/18/07
  The Hindu - 4/18/07

• CREATE: Computing, Research and Teaching
  February 15, 2007
  "Discovering at Thayer School"

• Dartmouth Medicine
  Winter, 2006
  "Could function prove better than form?"
  By Lee McDavid

• Focus on Care
  Fall, 2006
  "Taking a Second Look: Collaboration Creates New Breast Imaging Techniques" (PDF)

• VOX of Dartmouth
  May 29, 2006
  "Deep vision"—Improved diagnostic tool is result of medical, engineering collaboration
  By Susan Knapp

• Dartmouth Medicine
  Winter, 2005
  "Early results on 3D breast imaging"
  By Jennifer Durgin

• Dartmouth Life
  October 2004
  "Cancer Center Sets Interdisciplinary Standard"
  By Susan Knapp

• Dartmouth Medicine
  Fall 2004
  "Study of innovative breast-imaging methods gathers benchmarks"
  By Jennifer Durgin

• Spectroscopy
  June 1, 2004
  "Spectroscopy Sheds a Whole New Light on Breast Cancer Screening" (PDF)
  By Joseph Walsh

• VOX of Dartmouth
  May 17, 2004
  "New ways of detecting breast tumors"—Physicians and engineers work together
  By Susan Knapp

• CNN.com
  May 3, 2004
  "New breast cancer detection method promising"

• Reuters
  May 3, 2004
  "New Methods to Detect Breast Cancer Show Promise"
  By Susan Heavey

• WEBMD.COM
  October 1, 2002
  "The Present and Future State of Breast Cancer Screening"
  By Dulce Zamora

• The Union Leader
  September 28, 2002
  "Dartmouth team studying breast imaging techniques"
  By Staff

• VOX of Dartmouth
  September 23, 2002
  "Images of health"—Combined technologies reveal a more complete picture of breast tissue
  By Susan Knapp

• VOX of Dartmouth
  September 23, 2002
  Keith Paulsen, Professor of Engineering, has joined the Diagnostic Imaging Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health

• The Union Leader
  September 18, 2002
  Thayer School and DMS in "Study seeks better breast cancer detection"
  By AP