Nikhil Phatak - Graduate Student, PhD. - MRL Lab

MEB 2460
phone (801) 587-7834
fax (801) 585-5361
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Background

• 2002- present: Ph.D. student, Bioengineering, University of Utah
• 1998-2001: Pre-clinical Medical School Curriculum, Rush Medical College
• 1993-1998: BS Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University
• 1997: Engineering Co-op Internship, Oregon Metallurgical Corp.
• 1996: Engineering Co-op Internship, Sequent Computer Systems

Current Responsibilities

Determine in vitro and in vivo mechanical properties of soft tissue using Hyperelastic Warping, a deformable image registration technique. The application of Hyperelastic Warping to medical image data extracts quantitative information from sequences of image data of deforming structures, and it will provide a method for non-invasive measurement of three-dimensional soft tissue strain.

Research Interests

• Soft Tissue Biomechanics
• Image Registration
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging